Crossover: BtVS / NCIS: Los Angeles / minor Stargate SG-1.
Timeline: BtVS: Post-Chosen & NCIS: LA: S10. (10x01: To Live & Die in Mexico).
Disclaimer: Nothing copyrighted belongs to yours truly.
Author's Note: Written for Day 19 of the 2020 August Fic-A-Day.

"I'm sorry about the loss of your teammate."

It had been months since Buffy and Kensi had been able to meet up. Cases, personal things, and the supernatural had kept Buffy away from LA for close to six months. There had been a few phone calls, mainly just to say 'hello', but no face to face meetings.

"Thank you."

"How's your fiance and your other teammates?"

Kensi closed her eyes for a moment, "Do I even want to know how you got access to that information?"

Buffy smiled. "My organization is pretty powerful and influential, but to be honest, I'm not entirely sure why I got it. I had to ask around when I began receiving some very short and dry reports from your cases once a month since I didn't recognize the sender." She reviewed what little she knew. "That particular case got a lot of attention though. Those high up doesn't usually go rogue, drag their teams into it, and then kill their baby daddy."

Kensi's eyes widened, but then she just shook her head and decided to let it go. She could see Kensi's thought process on her face, including when she decided it would be pointless to ask what she wanted to know. "Deeks is doing good, he's been back at work for a few weeks. Same with Sam. Callen just got cleared for active duty."

"That's good." Buffy's smile was genuine. Team Kensi was by all accounts a tight one, she was lucky like that. Her former best friends were trying to hide behind a veneer of a friendship that was barely there anymore. Truthfully, she had more honest conversations with Faith than Willow and Xander. It hurt.

"To steal your line to move on from a bad subject; What's new with you?"

"I have a new boyfriend. It's pretty new so we'll see where it goes." She had run every check she could on him, and even got one of their tech people, a woman she got along with fairly well, to do a thorough background check, and he had come up clean. A few strange things, but nothing that couldn't be rationalized away by a good explanation. Hopefully. He was even fully human, much to most people's surprise.

Kensi gave an exaggerated wag of her eyebrows, "Do tell! And what about the mysterious ex you've been kissing on when you've been here?"

"No kissing the sexy ex when I have a current beau." It didn't matter how tempting it was, either. She loved Angel and he loved her, but they both knew it wasn't going anywhere. It couldn't.

"And what about Mr. Maybe? What's his name? What does he do?" Kensi was leaning forward a little, curiosity alight in her brown eyes.

"Dr. Maybe's name is Daniel and he's an archeologist." When Giles had heard the name of her new boyfriend, he'd gotten excited and tried to convince her to talk him into joining the Defender's Council as a researcher. She wasn't so sure it was a good idea.

Kensi nodded, "A good, solid profession if he has either good funding/grants or works as a teacher somewhere."

"We haven't gotten to the financial deep dive yet, so I'm not entirely sure." Her friend's snooping had revealed he had been employed by the Air Force at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex for years, but who knew why they needed an archeologist/linguist. "Right now we're just going on dates and trying to get to know each other when we're both at the same place at the same time."

"Still doing a lot of traveling then?"

"Yes, I can't decide if I love it or if I never want to get on an airplane ever again." She laughed a little. "Seeing so much of America and Europe is fun, but I don't always get a lot of time in each place. So it's often; plane, airport, hotel, meeting place, other work-related places, meeting place, hotel, airport, plane. Repeat. Not much sight-seeing or sampling the local cuisine."

"I wish I got to travel more." Buffy winced at the second word, but her sort-of friend misunderstood. "Not like my last trip out of the country," she hastened to add. "But a vacation with Deeks or my friends to somewhere fun and relaxing."

"A sunny vacation does sound good." It did. When she got time off it was usually only for a few days at the most and then it was back to Slaying vamps, or stopping something or other. Or fielding calls from whoever.

And speaking of which, her phone rang. She gave the display a cursory look to find out who it was and if she needed to answer. The name in the small display was one of the Watchers currently studying a possible apocalypse. It prompted her to apologetically say, "I need to take this. Excuse me."

Soon after she was apologizing to Kensi again for having to leave, and then she was power-walking to her rental car.