"Oh, come on Kens!"

"No."

"Just a little bit?"

"I told you to get your own."

"I don't want my own. I just want one little lick."

Sam's eyebrows shot up at that statement as Callen raised an eyebrow. The two other members of their team had yet to make it to their seats but they could hear them. As usual.

"No way! It's mine."

"Okay, then just let me put my tongue to it."

"I don't want to know," Sam muttered, shaking his head.

He never wanted to know. Who knew that their flirting would get worse when they got together?

"No."

"Aw, Kensi!"

On that indignant note, their two junior members appeared. In their usual state of bickering. Because of course they were. How else would they start the day?

What made it different than usual was that Deeks lunged at Kensi who, of course, dodged him.

"Come on!"

"Ha!" She crowed, sticking her tongue out.

Okay, Sam couldn't hack it any more.

"What on earth are you two doing?" he demanded.

Normally a dangerous question to ask but it was too early for this ridiculousness. It was always too early for their ridiculousness.

"Kensi's not sharing!" Deeks immediately accused, even pointing a finger at his partner.

"What are you, five?" was her retort.

"No, obviously you are because you haven't learnt to shared yet."

"Pretty sure five-year-olds know how to share," Callen commented.

Sam shot him a look. He was not helping. Callen just smirked back at him. Yep, definitely no help coming from that corner.

There was a dangerous look in Kensi's eye that Sam did not want to deal with. See aforementioned comment about it being too early.

"What exactly is Kensi not sharing?"

Seriously, he was meant to be working with adults here. His kids were much better behaved than this. Not that it took much to be better behaved than this team.

"Go on, show him, Kens," Deeks goaded.

Kensi rolled her eyes. "You're making this into way too big a deal," she told him, bringing her hand up to show them what this was all about.

Sam looked down and made a disbelieving noise at what he saw. Seriously?

"A caramel apple? All this is over a caramel apple?" Sam asked in disbelief.

"A really good one," Kensi assured him, as if that made it any better.

"Not that I would know," Deeks said loudly. "Because she won't let me taste it."

Kensi decided that she had to rub this in his face and gave her apple a long lick.

"Mmm, that tastes good."

Deeks crossed him arms and looked away, one of those pouts of his on his face that Sam found ridiculous. Grown men should not pout. Though Eric and Deeks never seemed to get that memo.

"Oh, come on."

"No."

"Just a little bit?"

Kensi replied by licking all around it. "Want some now?"

"Yes."

They all gave him a weird look.

"She's just licked all of it," Callen pointe don't unnecessarily.

"Yeah, and?"

"It's covered in my spit."

Deeks shrugged at her. "What's a little saliva between partners?"

Kensi scrunched up her nose. "Ew."

"Does that mean I can have some now?"

"No."

"Why didn't you just get your own?" Callen asked.

Deeks hot him a look of disgust. "Who can eat a whole caramel apple? They're disgustingly sweet."

"I can," Kensi informed him, pointedly biting into her apple.

"Yeah, well you're a sugar fiend. That's different."

Kensi rolled her eyes. "You're not making me want to share this with you."

That made him pout. "I don't want to share it with you. I just want a lick!"

"Well, tough. You aren't getting any."

Predictably, this led to Deeks trying to snatch it off her. Obviously, this didn't work because Kensi really did have the reflexes of a ninja sometimes. However, it did give Callen and Sam a few minutes of entertainment as Deeks tried to chase Kensi around the bullpen and corner her. It did work and all that happened that Deeks was panting from the exertion and Kensi was still licking her apple. With am extremely smug look on her face, of course. Whatever, Sam was just surprised that Deeks didn't end up injured. Not many people got between Kensi and her sugar and lived.

"What about you, Sam? Do you like caramel apples?" Deeks asked.

"Who doesn't like caramel apples?" Kensi asked in an offended tone.

"I don't," Sam informed them to get looks of horror from his teammates. He folded his arms and gave them a look. "It isn't that big of a deal," he said before they could get dramatic about it.

It didn't work.

"You don't like caramel apples?"

"What are you, not human?"

Sam rolled his eyes. He didn't know why he thought they would be normal, mature adults about this. That was his bad.

"Do you know how bad those things are for you? For your teeth?"

Yeah, no. He wasn't putting one of those things anywhere near his body, thank you very much.

"They're bad," Sam reiterated. "They're basically sugar on a stick."

They weren't even comfortable or pleasant to eat in his opinion. If he was going to eat something unhealthy, he'd go for something with a better flavour.

"Hey, it's an apple," Callen defended. "Can't be that unhealthy."

"It's covered in sugar."

"Still an apple."

Sam shook his head, knowing that he wasn't going to get through his partner. As much as they liked to call Kensi a sugar fiend (and she was, don't get him wrong), Callen was also more than partial to the stuff. Especially those lollipops of his. Which was probably why he liked caramel apples. He probably thought they were just a bigger version of his lollipops.

That's been turned into candy," Callen added.

"That's the problem."

"That's the best thing about Hallowe'en," Kensi said happily. "All the candy you can eat."

"You do that anyway," Deeks pointed out.

"Yeah, but this way I don't look weird for buying loads of candy."