Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS LA or the characters.
Author's Note: Sorry this has taken so long; spring semester is never nice, basketball, robotics, weather issues, and what not. This is not what I had hoped for in the way of work but hopefully it will hold everyone over until I have time to work on the next chapter.
"Why are you so damned cheerful today?" asked Sam over the comm. system as he was making his way towards their target.
Deeks had been happy go lucky since they had left ops, far more than usual. It was like someone had put something in his coffee. Sam and Callen couldn't help but notice. Deeks was annoying at the best of times, and was tolerable when Kensi was there to keep him reined in. Today was just intolerable; it would take a great deal of control for Sam and Callen not to shoot him just to shut him up for a few minutes.
"I asked Kensi to marry me." Said Deeks flatly, he was concentrating on something. "Sam, your two o'clock in the orange cap."
"Got him." said Sam.
"Did she say yes?" asked Callen as he casually walked down the sidewalk on the other side of the street.
There was no answer, Deeks would have just given him a dumb look but he was two stories up in a vacant building keeping watch as Sam and Callen making their way to the deal.
"Damn, Nell wins the pool." Said Sam slowly making his way down the alley.
"What?" said Deeks suddenly pulled out of his trance.
"Eric was running a pool to see when you would ask her." Said Sam.
"And if she would say yes." Added Callen.
"When we get back to OPS would someone please remind Eric that I carry a gun and I know how to use it." Said Deeks.
"I know." Interrupted Eric over the comms system.
"Damn, I forgot you could hear." Said Deeks trying to be funny, he knew full well that Eric could hear what they were saying.
They continued working their way towards the target.
"So when are you guys gonna tie the knot?" asked Sam after a few minutes.
"I don't know, I asked her like five minutes before we left." Replied Deeks still looking through his binoculars.
"How long have you had the ring?" asked Callen.
"I don't."
"You don't have a ring?" chimed in Sam.
"Let's see here, I spent four months trapped in a root cellar with some Mexican drug dealers trying to torture me for information, only to come back to discover my girl friend is pregnant with twins, and then this case comes up, do you think I have had the time to go shopping? " he paused. "I am still back at the "shit, I'm going to be a father.""
"But you have been living with Kensi?" asked Callen.
"Can we talk about this when aren't trying to work?" asked Deeks.
"Sure." said Sam.
"Although from what I was reading in your personal file you and Kensi got married about six months back." said Eric.
"What?" said Deeks.
"Hetti." said Callen,
The operation continued without a hitch, Sam made the deal and took down the buyers. Everything had gone by the books and everyone was back at the office doing paper work by the end of the day. It was another successful operation for the books.
Deeks was helping Kensi into her coat as they were getting ready to leave for the day. She was actually wearing one of his, few of her cloths fit these days.
"Can I have a word?" asked Hetti.
Deeks and Kensi were both taken off guard, Hetti turned and returned to her desk, they followed. Kensi took the lone chair, Deeks stood behind her.
"I believe congratulations are on in order." said Hetti
They didn't expect her not to know, probably the whole building knew by now. Kensi looked up to Deeks, looking for what to say.
"Thank you." Was all Deeks could managed to come up with.
In the conversation that followed they learned that Hetti had a marriage certificate made up and filed with state when Kensi has announced she was pregnant, she felt that if anything happened to Deeks the least she could do was make sure that Kensi would get his death benefits to help raise his child.