Chapter 10

The idea of having a talk about their relationship with Callen had gone out the window a few hours ago. The moment they had entered the house, Callen had decided that he needed payback for what Kensi had done to him that morning. What Kensi didn't know was that his idea of revenge involved handcuffs and lots of chocolate spread all over her body.

After a very long shower to remove all the evidences of chocolate from their bodies, they sat on the couch just watching TV. Suddenly, Kensi remembered that they really needed to talk about their relationship. She turned to him and turned off the TV. Callen just looked at her, a bit shocked but smiling.

"We need to talk about something!" she told him

"Nothing good ever comes out of a sentence like that. What's wrong?"

"We need to talk about this."

"What exactly is 'this'?"

"That's what I want to know. What is this?"

"Kensi, that doesn't make any sense…What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about us. We have sex, we talk and we watch TV…What is this?"

Callen sighed and looked away for a few seconds before turning his gaze back at her.

"To be honest, I have no idea. You're the girl who doesn't do second dates and I'm the guy with tons of problems. I can't give you an answer to that question, at least not yet."

Kensi sighed and looked away.

"Then we have to stop this." she said

"Because I can't give you an answer yet?" he asked

"No, Callen. We need to end this because I can't keep doing something that can end up hurting me. I've been hurt one too many times."

"Look, for now this is just sex. We're two adults who find each other attractive. What's the problem with that?"

"There's no problem with that. I'm just afraid that if we keep doing this we'll get in it to deep and as I said already, I don't want to get hurt. And I don't want to lose you as a friend either."

Callen sighed and reached out to grab her chin, making her look directly at him.

"If that's what you want, I'm okay with it but please know that I would NEVER hurt you, Kensi. You're one of my best friends, you're the only one who actually understands me and you're the only one who's not afraid of my bad moods. I trust you with my life every single day when we're at work and I know that you trust me with yours too. I understand that you're afraid of getting hurt but when it comes to me, you don't need to be."

Kensi looked into his baby blue eyes and melted at the honesty and care she saw there. Everything he had said was true. She trusted him with her life and with her heart. She knew that if there was anyone who would never hurt her intentionally, it was Callen.

"I know that. I know that you wouldn't hurt me. I just want to know if this is going somewhere or if it is just sex."

Callen sighed and gave her one of his best smiles, one that he kept out of everyone's sight.

"I would never do that to you, Kensi. I would never start something with you just for the sex."

She gave him a very rare shy smile. She was never shy.

"So, you actually like me?" she asked him disbelievingly

"You actually thought I didn't? Because if you did, you're not as smart as I thought you were." He joked, "Besides, if I didn't like you, I would have never punished you so gently for what you did to me this morning!"

Kensi laughed and Callen kissed her. This time it was a very passionate kiss that showed just how much he liked her and Kensi responded to it much the same way.

Kensi pulled back and looked at him.

"So, if I asked you to come with me this weekend to visit my lunatic mother you would say yes?"

"I don't see why not. Just so you know, I'm not going to ask you to be my girlfriend because I think that that is the most childish thing ever."

"Fine by me. We're still keeping it a secret at work, anyways."

"Nate already knows about it."

"I know that. How did you find out?"

"It wasn't that hard. He spent the entire week looking at us, actually it was more like squinting at us. I figured that he had found out when I gave you my shirt. Am I right?"

"Yes, you are. I wanted to tell you but I wasn't sure if you would be okay with it."

"He would find out, sooner or later. Now, tell me exactly how lunatic is your mother."

"You'll see for yourself."

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Turns out that Callen didn't have to wait until the weekend to meet her mother. Next day, they drove all the way there. A man had been killed right next to her mother's house and she had been the one to find his body. Kensi had whispered something in Portuguese that sounded like 'De todos os sítios neste Mundo tinha que aparecer á porta daquela mulher. Vai andar a massacrar-me durante meses por causa disto. Era mesmo o que eu precisava…aturar mais loucuras da minha mãe. Não chegava já estar sempre a chatear-me para arranjar namorado, agora também me vai chatear por causa do meu trabalho. Boa!' (Of all the places in this world, it had to be at her door. Just what I needed…more craziness from my mother. She's going to be bugging me for months because of this. As if the constant talk about me getting a boyfriend wasn't enough now I'll have to listen to her talking about my job too. Great!)

Sam and Callen had just looked at each other. They both knew how to speak Portuguese so they understood everything that she had said.

When they finally reached the base where her mother lived, they parked just outside her house. Kensi sighed and Callen gave the orders:

"Sam, go talk to the responsible to see what he knows while Kensi and I go talk to her mother."

Kensi sighed again and looked at Callen with a pleading look, "Why don't you take Sam with you? I'll go talk to the responsible."

"No. She's your mother so you're coming with me. Come on, I'm sure that she won't bite."

Kensi looked away and whispered in Portuguese once again:

"E não apostava muito nisso!" (I wouldn't bet on that!)

Sam left and Callen walked to the door, followed by a very reluctant Kensi. He rang the doorbell and waited a couple of seconds before a woman answered the door. She had dark brown hair with curls and was dressed with black clothes from head to toe. Callen knew right away that that woman was Kensi's mother.

"How may I help you?"

The woman didn't notice that Kensi was right behind him, must likely because she was more like hiding behind him.

"I'm agent Callen and I'm sure that you know my partner, agent Blye."

With that he stepped aside so the woman could see Kensi.

"Please, come in."

Callen walked in followed by Kensi once again. The older version of Kensi, Elizabeth, sat on a couch and motioned for them to sit on the couch in front of her. Callen noticed that the house was beautifully decorated and that there were pictures of Kensi, her father and a man that he didn't know spread all over the hall and the living room.

"How can I help you, agent Callen?"

Elizabeth was smiling at him, ignoring Kensi. Callen frowned but decided that it was best if he just did his job.

"I need you to tell me everything you know about the man you found dead this morning."

"Well, his name was John. I'm not sure about the last name though. He was 34 years old and had a fiancé until the beginning of last year."

"What happened then?"

"He shipped off and she broke up with him. This is very hard on the ones who have to stay back home, wondering if their loved ones are alive or not, if they will ever come back home or not, if they will come back injured or not…Not many people can live like that. I learned to do it because I loved my husband very much but I never thought that I would have to worry the same way about my son and daughter."

She glared at Kensi and Callen looked at her too, shocked. He had no idea that Kensi had a brother.

He also noticed that the last sentence had been aimed directly at Kensi.

"It wouldn't kill them to call more often to let me know that they're alive."

Callen cleared his throat and Elizabeth looked at him once again, smiling.

"He was a very nice man. I've never seen him talk bad about someone or do something wrong. He was a gentleman and a very nice guy."

"So you have no idea of who could want to see him dead?"

"No, I don't."

Callen got up and Kensi did too, quickly.

"Thank you, then. We'll come back if we need to know anything else."

They went to the door and started to walk towards the car when Elizabeth called Kensi. They both turned back and the woman looked down in sadness before saying:

"He's coming back next week, Kensi!"

Kensi just sighed and turned back to the car. Callen did the same and they drove off to go find Sam.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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