The girls and Beale showed up a few minutes later. Callen and Deeks were inside. The box sat on the top shelf behind a few bottles of recently stocked liquor.

"The infamous box!" Nell huffed as she entered Deeks and Kensi's bar.

"Indeed" Deeks responded. "What's in the box, Kens?"

"I guess it's time you open it and find out."

"Your not gonna snatch it from me, are you?"

"I did give it to you," she shrugged.

"You're freaking me out, baby. Are you going to murder me in my sleep tonight. You've reminded me several times that you can slit my jugular in 11 different ways and still keep calm."

"It's your box, Deeks. You got to it first, even if you did bribe Nell! So open it."

Deeks looked around at his friends. His family, a dysfunctional one, but a family who took him in, the best they could do, obviously. His nervous tick crept up as he shuffled his hair.

"What are you waiting for?" Callen queried.

"Alright, here goes nothing." Kensi handed him her knife and he cut open the box. He laughed nervously as he pulled out another smaller box. "Touché," he repeated looking at his beautiful ladybird.

Callen let out a cackle. "You're good, Kens."

She glared over at Callen.

"And I am not better," he admitted. "So are you going to open that one too? Or are you planning on waiting five more years."

"I don't know. I mean, what's in the box isn't going to change things now, all these years later. What's another five years. But," he let out a frustrated sigh.

"But what if I got it wrong?" Kensi asked putting her hand on Deeks', which was on holding the smaller box."

"I like thinking you have always known me better than I've known myself."

"Then open the box, baby," she caressed his hand lightly.

"Well, I'm gonna call it a night" Callen Nodded cuing Nell and Beale to leave the couple alone. "I can wait another day to find out the suspense of this box!"

Kensi smiled at Callen's thoughtfulness.

"Yeah, tell us about it later," Nell said motioning Eric.

"But I want to see what's it the box!" Eric whined.

"Beale," Nell fiercely grabbed his hand. "Let them have their moment, let's go home."

"Aw," Eric's disappointment overcame him. "I hope it's a puppy!"

Nell eyed him oddly.

"Oh, I guess it can't be a puppy, it's been in a box too long, and that box is waaay too small. Unless it's a mini stuffed puppy, which would be sooo cute and sooo much less work."

"Let's go Beale!"

The couple remained alone in their bar.

"So are you going to open this box?"

"Should I?"

"If you want to. It is your box."

Deeks gave Kensi his sexy toothy grin. "My box?"

"Mmhmm."

Again nervously running fingers through hair, he leaned down slightly to kiss her. "I love you."

"I love you, so much," she smiled as big back at him.

Deeks used the knife to open the second smaller box. His heart was racing. He didn't know why. The build up was almost as bad as their previous thing, which would be a permanent thing soon with the wedding around the corner. He looked up at her and shook his head. Another small box was inside. "I can honestly say, I've always wanted a box inside a box," he laughed.

"You're such an idiot."

He smiled again pulling out the smaller box. The box was not cardboard this time; however, it was a small velvet box.

"I feel like this is Deja vou. Are you proposing again, Fern? One yes wasn't enough?"

"Seriously Deeks?" She laughed.

"Ok ok," he opened the box. Inside was two wedding bands. He looked at his already bride to be perplexed. He picked up the rings examining them. "Are these?"

She shook her head with a smaller grin wanting him to know the meaning and hoping it would have meant the same to him all those years ago.

"Justin and Melissa? I knew it wasn't a cover kiss!"

"Shut up!" She punched him and he in return grabbed the back of her locks pulling her into a deep passionate kiss.

When the passion broke for air, he spoke, "How did you swipe these. Better yet does the munchkin know, although she is missing, so I'm not sure it matters."

"Deeks!"

"Seriously though?"

"I felt awful about forgetting your birthday. I was so wrapped up in the case and owing Jaime for helping us," she shuttered at remembering meeting his mother and having to pretend she was on a date with him, when truthfully she wished she was with Deeks celebrating his birthday. "I couldn't shake the look in your eyes. The sadness I saw, I was stuck." She winked. "I thought back and I know how happy you were the week we were undercover, married. Waking up every morning together, I was happy too. Honestly, I didn't want that week to end. I thought, I guess I know for sure now, what you wanted and want more than anything else is a family. A real family. I wanted you to know you had that here with us. With all of us, with me. I went to Hetty and explained it to her. She was so on board, which shocked me a bit because I'm sure she realized there was more beneath it for me, which I didn't want anyone to see back then, I was afraid to admit it myself as well." She sighed. "but nonetheless, that's what's in the box. A symbol of the family you've had ever since you joined NCIS."

"I need to kiss you again." He pulled her into a deep embrace. Wrapping his arms around her tightly that she couldn't breathe. She didn't care. She got lost in his kiss, deeply heated full of love and desire for his fiancé. "You were absolutely right."

"I usually am." She smirked.

"Touché," he paused. "Truth be told, I'm not sure what I would have done with that years ago."

"I'm not sure what I wanted you to do with it."

"I guess it played out the way it was supposed to."

"I guess so"

"I love you, Kensi Marie Blye."

"I love you too, Martin Deeks."

"So what do we do with these? We already bought our real set?"

"We keep them safe, as a memory of what we worked and fought so hard to actually have, together and with our team."

"I like that." He smiled. "Now," he pulled her close again, "can we work on making our family bigger? Since I did win."

"By cheating," she grinned. "Let's go home. I don't think our customers or Callen would appreciate us working on a little mutant ninja assassin right here."

"Oh girl! Shotgun!"

"Guess I'm driving then, since your the only other one getting in the car." She shrugged following her fiancé.