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Tanya quickly entered Kensi's room. She wasn't sure what the problem was. But she was very pleased when she saw Kensi starting to stir.
Without having to be told Callen moved out of the way to let Tanya get close to Kensi. Thankfully, as per Hetty's wishes, Deeks was on the other side of the bed and could stay close to Kensi. Callen knew that maintaining a strong partnership was important and he had seen how close Kensi and Deeks had become over the last few months.
Even though the overhead lights had been dimmed, Kensi still struggled to open her eyes. After multiple tries her eyes finally stayed open. She couldn't figure out where she was; she started to frantically look around. Her eyes only briefly stayed on one item at a time. She looked at Deeks, Callen and Tanya with confusion.
"Good morning Ms. Blye. My name is Tanya and you are in the California Hospital Medical Center's ICU. You had brain surgery yesterday. . . ." Tanya continued telling Kensi in a soothing voice as she started her neurological assessment.
Deeks tuned out what Tanya was saying. He couldn't believe that Kensi was awake. But he was worried by her reaction. So far Kensi hadn't said a word.
Tanya first started her neurological exam by checking Kensi's pulse. Then she checked out Kensi's blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, and the number of breaths each minute, her reflexes and her pupil reactions.
Tanya was one of those nurses that explained everything as she was going along. Not only did she want to relieve Kensi's fears, but she also wanted to establish rapport with Kensi and her friends.
Tanya told Kensi and her friends that she would be coming into the room every 15 minutes for the next few hours to make sure that everything was ok.
The next thing Tanya did was check out the bandage on Kensi's head. Somehow it was a shock to Deeks when he saw the shaved area surrounding the stitches. Deeks wasn't sure how Kensi was going to react when she realized some of her beautiful hair was gone.
Kensi's other drains, tubes, wires and machines and monitors were checked out. During the whole time she kept quiet with a frightened and pained look on her face.
Callen looked at the time and realized that the others would probably want to know that Kensi was awake. He wanted to stay but knew he had already overstayed his turn.
As Callen was walking towards the waiting room he debated with himself how he should let the others know, but thought it best to come right out and tell the other, "Kensi's awake!"
Everyone couldn't help it but have a huge grin on their face. Kensi had finally woken up.
Like a little child at Christmas Sam stood up ready to go to Kensi, "yes, it is your turn Mr. Hanna to go to Kensi in room in 505."
Sam needed little prompting to go to Kensi's room. But when he got there Deeks was standing outside the curtain with his hands in his pockets.
Sam's grin started faltering "What is going on?"
"They are changing Kensi clothes and changing her bedding. I don't think that she would want us in with her."
Sam couldn't believe how Deek's humour had disappeared since they found Kensi lying in her bed.
"How is she?"
Deeks seemed to take a while to choose his words.
"She is frightened, confused and hasn't talked yet."
Sam didn't know how to take what Deeks had to say. Was Kensi out of the woods or not?
Sam and Deeks used the time waiting to talk about the latest case Callen and Sam had worked on.
It wasn't long before Tanya pulled the curtain aside and beckoned the two into Kensi's room. The guys didn't need any prompting to go to Kensi.
"Dr. Walter has been called and will be here any moment."
Sam just nodded at Tanya in acknowledgement. She could see how eager the guys were to be with Kensi.
Deeks was surprised to see Kensi sleeping again but thought she looked somewhat better. Sam on the other hand had last seen her in her room in her apartment. She had looked horrible then, but now she looked so much worse.
Sam was unprepared for the bruising and for all the tubes and wires coming from Kensi's body. He just stood at the side of Kensi's bed rail and willed her to wake up.
As if Kensi' could read his mind, she started to stir again. This time she moaned while trying to adjust her eyes to the light in the room.
When she glanced around this time, letting her eyes adjust to the light and trying to make sense of where she was, her eyes stayed on Sam and Deeks who were hovering over her.
With a slightly pained expression in her eyes Kensi whispered, "Where am I?", as she tried to sit up.
Tanya, who was hovering in the background, rushed over to Kensi and started to explain things to Kensi, while starting her neurological exam again. Dr. Walter took this time to enter Kensi's room and start his neurological exam.
Deeks wanted to stay with Kensi, but instead, beckoned to Sam for them both to leave the room. It seemed Deeks was the more mature one. Sam reluctantly took his hands off the bed rail and continued looking at Kensi as he started to follow Deeks out of the room.
Tanya glanced up, "You can probably come back in about an hour."
They could hear Tanya and Dr. Walter asking Kensi questions and Kensi answering them.
"We should probably meet up with Hetty and the others. We wouldn't want them to wait to long for news."
In no time they were all assembled in the waiting room. Hetty was drinking her special tea that Sam or Callen had brought to her, while the others were drinking coffee.
"Kensi woke up again and talked to us this time. I'm sure she is going to be okay."
The tension that everyone had been unaware of seemed to leave the room. Sam and Callen bumped each other's fist. Eric pumped his fist in the air, "Right on!"
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