Chapter 8

It was another regular morning in the operation's center. Callen and Sam were sitting on their desks talking about last night's basketball game, Nate was reading a magazine and Eric was showing one of his new toys to Hetty.

Callen looked over at the door once again. Kensi was late and that wasn't normal. She was always one of the first ones to get there, even though she normally took forever to get ready. He picked up his cell phone to call her but as soon as he did she walked through the doors and he had to contain his laughter.

Kensi was wearing the same clothes she had worn the night before, on their first kind-of date, a black mini dress and a pair of high heels.

They had decided to go to a bar together the night before because they both desperately needed to forget the hard day at work. After that, they had returned to his apartment.

At first, Callen was going to pretend that he hadn't seen her and distract the guys so she could go change without drawing to much attention, but then he remembered that she hadn't defended him in that talk with Sam. Instead, he smirked and turned to her.

"Kenz…Late night, huh?"

As soon as the words left his mouth, everyone turned to her.

Hetty smiled and came to her rescue.

"Miss Blye had a very important assignment last night! How did it go dearie?"

Kensi played along but they weren't fooling anyone, much less Callen who knew what had really happened and just stood there, trying to hide his smile.

"It went very well. We gathered some very important intel…"

"Very well then. Please return your outfit to the wardrobe and put on the clothes that are waiting for you at your locker."

Kensi smiled at the older woman and mouthed a "thank you" before going to her locker.

Callen smirked and turned to Hetty.

"Nice try, Hetty!"

Hetty just turned around and went back to her desk while the guys just stood there looking at each other and thinking about what had just happened.

Kensi was never going to see the end of it.

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Callen walked into the locker area with a coffee in his hands, ready to protect himself if the situation required him to do so. Facing an angry Kensi was something that he never looked forward to. He had seen her anger a couple of times before and it was a truly scary thing to watch.

He was slowly moving forward, afraid of what could happen to him.

Turned out, he had a right to be scared.

As soon as she saw him, Kensi turned bright red with anger and shut her locker with a little too much strength, turning her back to him.

Callen walked to her and tried to hand her the coffee but she wouldn't turn around. He smiled.

"Kensi, come on. Are you going to be mad at me because of this?"

She turned back to him and whispered, afraid to be heard.

"You did this on purpose, didn't you? You wanted to humiliate me on purpose so your turned off your alarm clock…"

"No way. I did not turn off that alarm clock…"

"Then why didn't it go off?"

"Because I never use it and last night I had other things on my mind, as you know so I didn't even remember to turn it on!"

"You could have woken me up, then!"

"I left very early to go meet Sam. Every morning, we go for a run and donuts. When I left you were sleeping very peacefully and I couldn't bring myself to wake you up. I thought that you would wake up on time. I'm sorry!"

"Fine, I forgive you for that but what about just a few minutes ago? You could have distracted the guys so they wouldn't see me…you didn't need to call their attention to me!"

Callen looked around and after making sure that there was no one in sight, he got closer to her and kissed her lightly on the lips while handing her the coffee.

"That was payback for what you did the other day." He explained

Kensi smiled at him.

"Okay, then. If that's the way you want to play, we'll play it! Remember, there's no going back now."

And with that she left to her desk, leaving Callen slightly scared. Whenever Kensi played something, it meant trouble. He was pretty sure that this time, he would be the one in trouble.

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Callen went to his desk and sat down. Sam was staring at Kensi, waiting for her to say something but she just kept staring at the computer in front of her. After a couple of seconds she lost it and turned to Sam.

"Is there something on my face?"

Sam laughed but shook his head.

"Let me guess: first date. Am I right?"

"No."

Sam frowned.

"You went on a second date?"

"No."

Sam was even more confused.

"Then why did you walk in like that?"

"You heard Hetty, didn't you?"

"Yes, I did but I also know that was a very lousy way to cover for you. What happened last night?"

"Okay, you want the truth?"

"Yes, I want the whole truth."

"Okay, then. I was sitting on the bar and this very hot guy walks up to me and says something like 'I noticed your boots. It takes a girl with an unique style for me to notice. Can I offer you a drink?' So I let him buy me that drink."

"Are you kidding me? A guy walks up to you with that cheesy pick-up line and you let him buy you a drink?" Sam asked incredulously.

Kensi turned to Callen who was trying hard not to laugh and then turned back at Sam.

"Why wouldn't I? He was kind of cute!"

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So? What do you think?

Xoxo Sarah