When the two young agents arrived at Lee-Robert's house, the place was trashed. Either he was taken from his home, or someone had gone there looking for something that much was clear. They put their gloves on and began searching for clues.
"Deeks, I think I got something…" Kensi called out from the bedroom.
Deeks followed the sound of her sweet voice where he found Kensi rummaging through Lee-Roberts closet. "What've you got Kens?"
"Check this out" she said as she chucked a small black duffel back to him.
"Wow… well clearly he knew he was in some kind of trouble. Normal people don't have a stash of guns, money and fake passports in their closet".
Any sign of a computer?" Kensi asked.
"No, his attackers must've taken it" he told her.
They continued to search the house but found no evidence that would be of use to the case. Just as they were about to leave for the mission Kensi got a call from Callen.
"Callen, what's up?"
"Nothing useful at the crime scene, these guys were careful and thorough. You and Deeks find anything?" Callen asked.
"Only a bag full of guns, money and fake passports. Lee-Roberts obviously knew someone was coming for him and had to disappear."
"Yeah, question is why.. See you back at Ops, hopefully Eric has some new leads for us" and with that Callen hung up.
On the drive back to the mission, Deeks was uncharacteristically quiet. Kensi turned off her techno music and looked over at him. He was totally lost in his thoughts. "Deeks, everything okay?" she asked softly.
"What?... Oh yeah Kens, everything's fine" he answered with a sweet smile, staring at her with his amazing ocean blue eyes.
"What were you thinking about? Or do I even want to know?" she laughed.
"Mind out of the gutter Kens" he chuckled. "I was actually thinking about us"
"What about us…?" she asked hesitantly. A million thoughts raced through her mind at once. Had he changed his mind, did he not want to be with her now. Were they taking it too fast. Oh god had she scared him away. She was starting to get a little panicky.
"I feel like we kinda went about this the wrong way"
"You want to end it?" she asked, the hurt clear in her voice.
"God! No! Kens, no I don't. What I'm saying is I want a chance to show you how special you are, that this is not just some fling. I want to take you on a date. A real date" he smiled.
"A… a date?"
"Yes Kens, a date. Take you out to dinner, maybe a walk on the beach. Something special, just you and me. A night where we can forget about all that has been going on and just focus on us. Kens, I wanna do this thing right okay, I don't wanna mess this up"
"You're so sweet Marty, I like the sound of that" she smiled back at him, that sweet gorgeous smile that melted his heart.
"So it's settled then. You and I are going on a date tonight" Deeks said with the hugest of grins on his face. He loved it when she called him Marty.
"Tonight!?" Kensi asked quickly.
"Yes tonight Kens, just relax. I will organise anything. All you have to do it look beautiful, which is not hard for you coz you look beautiful 24/7 and I will pick you up from your place at 7"
"Ok Deeks" she smiled. At that point the butterflies in her stomach had gone into over drive, not that she would ever tell him that. The jokes would be never ending, Deeks took every opportunity he could to tease her, really she liked it a little.
When they arrived back in the ops centre, Sam and Callen were already waiting for them. Eric and Nell were both furiously typing away on their computers as usual.
"Eric and Nell are working on a couple of new leads" Callen spoke up.
"Got it!" Eric near shouted in triumph. " Lee Roberts received a phone call last night, probably only a few hours before his death. The number is listed as belonging to a man named Jonathan Cook, no criminal record. Sending the address to your phones now".
"Shortly after he received that phone call, there was an outgoing call from Lee-Roberts land line" Nell added in. "That call was made to a Lieutenant Jeffrey Brooks, possibly Lee-Roberts C.O, also sending his address to your phones".
"Kens, you and Deeks take Cook, Sam and I will pay Lieutenant Brooks a visit" Callen told the agents as they all headed for the door.
Cook's place was smack bang in the centre of a rough neighbourhood, and it certainly looked like it had seen better days.
"Ugh, this place is a dump" Kensi groaned.
"You don't wanna settle down in a place like this princess?" Deeks asked jokingly.
"I don't think I'd like our 'little mutant ninja assassins' running around playing in wrecked cars, finding dirty diseased needles to play with" Kensi told him.
"Wait what…?"
"What?"
"Kens, you said our mutant ninja assassins" Deeks repeated with a massive goofy smile on his face.
"No… no I didn't" Kensi denied.
"Oh yes you did, I heard it with my own ears, you Kensi Marie Blye… want to have my babies" he laughed.
"Okay… okay. Hypothetically, if I were going to have kids, and I'm not saying that I do want to, I wouldn't want to have them with anyone else Deeks. I know you, and I trust you. You always have my back, you are there to protect me, even though I don't need it most of the time. I can't think of anyone who would make a better father than you" she admitted, quickly realising what she had said her cheeks turned a bright shade of red.
"I, I didn't know you felt that way" he said softly, still trying to wipe the stunned look from his scruffy yet gorgeous face.
"Well, now you do. Can we please get back to work now?" she said, still slightly embarrassed that she had just blurted all that out.
"Sure Kens" he replied as they both jumped out of the car and headed across the street toward the dodgy looking house belonging to Jonathan Cook. As they approached the door, Kensi knocked a couple of times and followed up by yelling "Jonathan Cook, NCIS, we need to talk to you open up".
No sooner had the words left her lips, loud rustling noises came from inside the house, followed by the distinct sound of someone loading a shotgun.
"Gun! Take cover" Deeks yelled as he dove away from the door and crawled behind the wreckage of an old car. Kensi took cover on the other side of the yard behind a stack of barrels as the perp blasted through the front door with the shotgun.
"Get the hell off my property pigs!" the man yelled, firing a shot at the car Deeks was crouched behind.
"LAPD! Drop your weapon!" Deeks yelled. Of course this only made the man fire off another shot in Deeks' direction.
It was time for a different approach. Deeks got Kensi's attention and signalled his plan to her, although she didn't agree with the idea, they didn't have much of a choice if the wanted to get out of it unharmed.
Deeks raised his hand, counting down from three on his fingers. On three Deeks jumped up, grabbing the man's attention and ran across the yard to the side of the house, while focused on shooting at Deeks, he had his back turned to Kensi and she snuck up behind him. Pointing her gun right at him she said "You fire another shot at my partner and I will end you, drop it now!"
Cook was anything but co-operative as they tried to get him in the car to go to the boatshed for interrogation. Yelling 'police brutality' and saying he will have revenge. Clearly he was an angry man. Sam and Callen handled the questioning while Kensi and Deeks watched on the monitor outside. Kensi couldn't help but notice the small smile that had graced Deeks lips since they had got back.
"Why are you so happy?"
"Why wouldn't I be happy Kens, I get to take an amazing girl out tonight.
"So you have a plan then?" she asked.
"Don't I always?"
"Yeah, you do… but most of the time they suck" Kensi laughed.
Deeks couldn't help but laugh at that, she was kind of right. He didn't always think his plans through, they were a spur of the moment kind of thing. But this he had put much thought and planning into. "Oh just you wait Kensi Marie Blye, tonight will blow your mind"…
Sorry this chapter took me so long guys, hope you enjoyed it. Stay on the look out for the next chapter involving the date.
And please keep the reviews coming they are very encouraging!