"Deeks," Callen said when Deeks answered he had gone into the hallway so he wouldn't disturb Kensi's rest.
"Yeah, what 'cha need?'
"When is Kensi being released from the hospital?"
"Couple of days, why?" Deeks asked sounding a little worried. He figured he knew exactly what Callen was going to say.
"Kensi can't go home. We think Hazar knows she survived the blast and is plotting to finish what he started." Deeks' mind wrapped around these words. He wasn't going to let anything happen to Kensi. He would never live it down if he did. He was already feeling a touch of guilt for sending her into a house that was trigger to explode by the one who owned it.
"Ok, I'll take her to a safe house after she's released," Deeks said hanging up the phone. He slowly walked back in to the room. Kensi was sleeping facing away from the chair he would be sitting down in. She still didn't seem like herself. She seemed so helpless and weak. But he knew she was so much more than that.
Everything that they had been through, every case that they had worked made Deeks realized that she was so much stronger than he ever knew. She was so quick to take over the protective assignment for when he was in the hospital for getting shot and she was nearly kidnapped 'cause he had just been a way to get to Kensi.
He laughed once. Getting shot to get to the one you love, how ironic. He looked at her. For the millionth time since they had both been here, he thought about what she was thinking. He never knew what drew him to this thought he didn't care though. He could usually tell what she was thinking, but ever since she was brought here it was hard to tell. He couldn't take it!
He didn't know what to make of all this. This was just mind blowing. He loved her, nothing that happened could change that, even if one of them died.
Kensi just stayed the way she was. As long as Deeks thought she was sleeping everything was fine. She just needed to think. She loved him, but him loving her was as big of a shocker as the Titanic sinking had been. Deeks had always been a ladies man. She didn't believe he could ever tie himself down to one woman. She thought he'd go nuts if he ever did.
But Deeks was unpredictable. You never knew what he was going to say, think, or do next. But that was a reason she fell for him in the first place. Not that she'd ever tell him this. She personally had even thought of the terrorist since Sam's visit. She decided it was as good a time as any to wake up. She sat up and pretended to yawn.
"Good morning sleepy head," Deeks said joke fully.
"Hey you don't look that great yourself," she said with a smirk on her face. "So any news?"
"Just that they are still trying to track him and that…" he hesitated in saying the last part out of fear of her reaction.
"And what?" Kensi asked curious of what he had to say.
He remained quiet for what seemed several minutes before he finally told her the part that would most likely scare her the most.
"…That it might not be safe for you to go home. They think that Hazar knows that you didn't survive the blast and might be going after you now." Everything in the room went quiet. It stayed that way for several seconds.
"It's that bad, huh?" she said. You could hear the hint of fear mixed in with concern. She knew someone was going to have to die. It wasn't going to be Deeks, Sam, or Callen; it was going to be either her or Hazar. But no matter how this ended, one of them would not make it through the battle.