Just another random short piece that I thought I'd share, hope you like it. Maybe one for the coming season...
Many thanks to anyone and everyone who takes the time to read and perhaps even review.


A nod. That is what they've managed to condense it into. There always was a nod, but now it seems to convey so much more.

Before it meant, "Are you okay?" or, "Are you ready, Partner?" It was a reassurance that the other was right there, both before and after.

Now the look, the locking of eyes seems to last for just a second longer. Not always, but particularly when they know what evils they might be facing, when they know the outcome could bring them a reality neither would ever wish for.

No-one else sees it. The nod, the extra second of eye contact. Why would they?

But to Kensi and Deeks it means everything. It tells the other what they need to say and sometimes what they maybe need to hear. Yet words are never spoken. And in those moments, those precious final seconds before they breech into the unknown, an 'I love you' is passed from one to the other and back again, and then they have nothing left unsaid.

Sam and Callen seem to notice no difference. Perhaps they even have their own version encapsulated within the nod they also seem to share at these moments. Who knows?

But Kensi and Deeks have their nod, and for them it means the world.

Fin