I finally managed to post the ninth chapter, because I followed a review advice and will be one more chapter. Just one more! Maybe I may think of a sequel, but that's a very remote idea for now, and if you really want it, you'll have to give me alot of reviews! Just kidding (or maybe not!) and, by the way, I want to thank all the reviews I've been getting. You don't know how happy I get.

"How are feeling?" – Deeks asked stroking Alex's cheek with his thumb.

"I've been better. This of being stapled in cold blooded it's not the best feeling."

"But you want good news? Doctors said you' have discharged tomorrow."

"That's not good news!"

"It isn't?"

"No! Good news would be me having discharged right now!"

"Oh, glad you're here!" – Alex said seeing Kensi entering.

"I just came to see how you are."

"I'm good, but don't you two think" – Alex pointed both of them. – "I've forgotten that "family" story…"

"I think I can make you be discharged today." – Deeks said walking away.

"Avoiding the talking?"

"No. Looking for a better place to tell it to you."

"You're right on this one! But just on this one."

Deeks laughed heartily claiming:

"I'm always right, shorty! Always!"

Alex kicked back the sheet with her feet and having the arm across the chest and belly jumped off bed and asked Kensi:

"Where are my clothes?"

"I'm getting them, and a nurse to help you."

"Thanks…And Kensi?" – She turned before the agent leave. – "Don't forget what I told you about him last night."

"I won't." – She said smiling broadly.

Deeks and Kensi met outside the room and the woman takes the speech:

"I think I should leave now. You and she need to talk seriously about this and I don't want to be-"

"I'm going to need you there. I'm frightened to death. I don't know how she'll react."

"She'll react just fine; you two have that brothers thing."

"Kens...? About last night-"

"It's ok, we were both very tense."

"Ok." - He proffered on a sigh.

"What did your father tell you yesterday?"

"I'm a meaningless person, without feelings, without compassion for the others, a selfish man who will never be something good in life."

"But don't believe him."

"Why not? Isn't it everything what he said truth?" – Deeks looked desperately to Kensi, waiting for her to refute what he just said.

"No; not a single word of it is true. And I don't need to tell you the situations that prove that because you know them very well, there are too many I don't even know about, and besides it, I would take days to enumerate all the good you've done. Anyone who wears this kind of job, even if it becomes corrupt later, at the beginning, has always had the spirit of help and justice. Is always a good person." - Kensi entered the room to hand the clothes to Alex, while he smiled broadly in relief.

Driving back to 'their place on the beach' and after Deeks take their usual meal, the trio sat near the sea, watching the surfers. Each one of them had a burger in hands, the agent and the detective had a beer and Alex had a soda.

"Ok, tell me now, I'm ready." – Alex said impatient.

After telling her the whole story in how he and her were really brothers, sharing blood ties, Alex was went dead for a while.

"You're alright?" – Deeks was concerned because she had been staring to the skyline for a long time.

"Yeah, I'm going to need a little time to assimilate all this but…was this fate, coincidence, randomness? How did we met and discover we're brothers?"

"I rather not think about the 'how' or the 'why' but on the 'what happens next'. And that has to be you giving me an answer."

"Well that depends… Have you bought a bed for the guest room?"

Deeks laughed, only she could make him stay on a cliffhanger until the end.

"No, but I can buy one."

"You HAVE TO buy one!"

"Alex!" – Someone called her. She looked back and her pain seemed to be gone because she got up quickly and ran towards the teenage boy that called her.

"Boyfriend?" – Kensi asked, looking back, seeing both of them hugging tightly.

"Only best friend, but I'm pretty sure they'll end up dating! And speaking of it," – Deeks stared at the skyline, avoiding look directly into Kensi. – "last night I didn't kiss you because… I think we should be like normal people, and…and go on a date."

Kensi remained on silence, and Deeks looked at her trying to understand what that would mean.

"So…You're free tomorrow night?"

"Hypothetically. It depends on work."

"But, hypothetically speaking, would you be free tomorrow night?"

"I think I'd be hypothetically available."

"Can I pick you at eight?"

"At eight then…Well," – Kensi looked at the wristwatch and got up. – "I think it's time to go check how is work."

"Ok, brief me in about it, but I think I'll be back in two days." – Deeks looked back and Alex seemed to be already recovered, even knowing she wasn't. – "And I'll go too, I have to buy a bed!"

Kensi leaned down and placed a kiss on his cheek and left. Deeks took his hand to his face and looked back, completely jaw dropped. He got up after a while and decided to intrude on Alex's conversation.

"Hey Dave." – He gave the teenager a handshake. – "How you're doing?"

"I'm doing fine. And you?"

"I'm great."

"I asked Dave to keep something yours, and now I'm returning it back to his owner."

"Something mine?"

"Yes," – She took from David the sunglasses he had and put them on Deeks. – "your sunglasses. Remember? You gave them to me so I had a guarantee that we'd met again."

"Oh yeah, I remember! But come on now Alex, if you want to sleep on bed you have to come with me or I won't let you choose it."

"We talk later, ok Dave?"

"Alright. Bye then. And see you soon Marty." – Dave said.

"Bye." – Both Alex and Deeks answered at the same time.

Alex was being followed by Deeks and they were both heading to the car when Deeks walked back.

"Yo, Dave? You know what I'm, don't you?"

"What you mean?" – Dave replied getting scared.

"I'm a cop with a gun. You're aware of that."

"I didn't ask her out! Yet! How did you know I was going to?"

"I've been watching you two for four years; I know you and I know her. I probably already said this but," – Deeks approached the boy and whispered. – "if you break her heart, I break your everything! Got it?"

"Got it!" – Dave nodded and started walking out there.

"But, hey Dave, don't feel intimidated! We're still friends!"

"Marty, stop threatening him!" – Alex yelled from distance.

"I'm not! I'm just ensuring the best for you!" – He ran into her direction. – "I'm just warning him, shorty."

"And is he trustworthy?"

"He is a great guy!"

"Even if you said he isn't a great guy, I wouldn't let you cross in the way and make me lose a friend like him." – Deeks looked at her sideways in a playfully way. – "Don't give me that look, you know I'm serious, even knowing that you're joking right now! But…did Kensi and you speak about something, I don't know-"

"I asked her out…Wait a minute, was you who told her not to be angry with me."

"I told her no matter it may seem you were not doing the right thing, you always end up doing it right. You should be thanking me!"

"And I'm thankful!" – He grabs her in arms. – "You're the best, shorty!"

"Only because you and my mother did taught me that way. Ok, but now put me down, please! The staples, the staples!"

"Oops, sorry!"

"Yeah, I don't want to be stapled in cold blood again!" – She put the hand over the wound and opened the car's door, asking. - "Oh, can we stop by my place; I want to pick some stuff."

"Alright."

"You know Marty," – She starts to sing. –

"Whatever tomorrow bring us

I'll be there"

Deeks continues:

He continues:

"With open arms and open eyes yeah

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there"

And she finished the chorus along with him:

"I'll be there."

"You can always count on me sister. Whatever it is Alex, I'll be there."

"I know you will….Thanks…for everything you ever done for me."

"I was never obliged; it was a pleasure to help." – He winked and smiled at her, who smiled back. They enter and close the door, driving to a bed store.

Last chapter is coming. :c Leave a review on this poor penultimate chapter.