2. I love that I can lie to anyone but you

It's on the beginning of their partnership when he realizes that she has some sort of power over him. It scares him, as it should. He's a damn good detective and not an easy to manipulate guy. He has never met a woman who has been able to do the things she does to him. It's like he forgets who he is when she looks at him with those big mismatched brown eyes. Deeks doesn't know if she does it on purpose or not.

The first time they meet, back in that smelly gym, he's not the only one that sees right through a lie. He feels tempted to talk to her after she leaves that day, to tell her the whole truth. That feeling alone is enough to scare him. He shouldn't feel like that. It's dangerous territory and it brings him way too close to a line he cannot cross. There's something in her eyes when she leaves…he has the feeling that she's not buying his lie either. That is not only dangerous but scary as hell.

Later on, when he finds her in the house, he makes an effort to lie to her. She makes it extremely hard and tries to keep eye-contact the whole time. That's why he turns his back to her and goes to close the kitchen window. Sure, he could have found a better way to avoid looking at her but that one seemed to be the less suspicious one at the time. He has no idea why he feels like that, why he feels like her eyes alone are enough to make him want to spill all his secrets to her.

When they meet again in the boathouse, she's wearing a sort of smug look on her face when she looks at the guy by her side, Callen. It's almost like she knew it all along. It's almost like she saw right through his lie since the first time they met. Callen just shakes his head at her and Kensi turns to him. It's like he's seeing her for the first time. She's not just a girl who has a scary sort of power over him. She's a whole lot more than that.

For the next couple of days he convinces himself that the only reason why she had that effect of making him want to tell her the truth is only because she's a very well trained federal agent. He keeps telling himself that that is the only reason why he reacted like that to her mere presence. He should have been honest with himself right from the very start, now that he thinks about it. It would have saved them both a lot of trouble.

Days later, when they meet again, everything changes. When he sees her in her work place he feels that there is nothing to fear there. She has no effect over him. They work well together, despite their constant banter. Maybe they're too alike, or maybe they're just too different. He can't really tell…doesn't know her that well. Then he gets a call from LAPD. They tell him he has to go undercover and panic rushes through his entire body when he hears that.

It doesn't happen very often but there are certain jobs that have a level of danger that manage to scare him. This one just happens to be like that. But he tries not to let it show. He can't allow these federal agents, that seem to fear nothing, see just how much this scares him. He knows he might not come back this time. It's only the second time in his entire career that he feels like that and the previous time he was locked in a dark basement for three whole days with nothing but water and tied to a chair.

Then he realizes that maybe the only person he doesn't want to tell the truth is the only person who seems to read him like an open book. He still tries, though, because he needs to convince himself that everything will be okay as much as he needs to convince her of the same. There's a part of him that hopes that she will believe him because that would mean that he's not exactly lying and that deep down he believes everything will be okay.

Deeks tells her that she'll get him back and she doesn't budge this time. Kensi believes him and he's not sure why. It's such a bug lie that he doesn't believe it himself. Maybe she doesn't know how to read him as well as he though she did.

When he comes back, months later, he knows he had a reason to be that scared. But it doesn't change the fact that he truly believes she's not capable of reading through his lies. However, a part of him is curious. He sees the change in her. She's different from the last time he saw her. So he sits next to her after everyone leaves, on his first day back. Deeks is almost sure he doesn't have the right to ask but he still does.

"What happened while I was gone?"

Kensi looks away from him but answers him anyway after taking a deep breath. "The day you told me I'd get you back I saw that you were lying. I pretended to believe you because the truth is that I'd get you back. I would go there and help you if I knew you were in trouble. I can't lose another partner, Deeks."

He doesn't know why but he feels sort of relieved when she tells him she saw he was lying. Maybe it's because the thought of someone reading him that well is comforting. He has never met anyone who could do that as well as she does.

He knows what happened to her previous partner so he doesn't ask her anything about it. He figures they didn't manage to save him, after all. Deeks nods and tries to lighten up the mood. "Hey, I'm starving. I need to eat. Do you feel like keeping me company?"

Kensi nods and they both walk out of the OPS center.

He has never been able to lie to her.

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