I woke up curled against Callen's chest. I thought back on last night smiling at the memories. I remembered Paige and the way she had been with Dom. I slid out from under his arm and grabbed his shirt.

I walked out into the living room grabbing the unopened beers and putting them in the fridge. Then I walked back and grabbed the food throwing it in the thrash. The garbage was full so I took it out still wearing just his shirt which came down to just over my butt. I walked inside and collected all of my clothes.

I went back into his bedroom and climbed onto the bed. I kissed him until he started to move. He wrapped his arm around my waist pulling me down on top of him. I grabbed his arm and pulled him up off the bed toward the shower. I kissed him again before pushing him into the bathroom.

Hey I'm going to get home to check on Paige and also get some clothes kay" I said thinking of how Paige would flip out when I didn't come home.

"Kay see you at work" he said before starting the shower. I threw my clothes on leaving his shirt on the floor. I walked to my car turning my phone on to find 7 voicemails. I listened to them most were from Paige but one was from Hetty. Hetty needed Paige and me to stay late tonight. Hmm wonder why I thought to myself before starting my car pulling out of the driveway.

*****Thirty Minutes Later*****

I parked in the parking lot of the supermarket. I walked in getting milk and cereal for the house and I bought two smoothies for breakfast. I pulled out of the parking lot and drove to my apartment. I walked up the flight of stairs and opened the door slowly and disconnected the wire from the door. I walked into the kitchen to find no one there. I walked to Paige's bedroom and knocked on the door.

"Hey are you awake I got breakfast" I said through the door.

"Come in" I heard Paige say in an irritated voice. I opened the door cautiously holding the smoothie in front of me. I walked over and set it on her bedside table. She looked over as me smiling for a second then looking confused.

"Where were you last night and why are you wearing the same clothes from yesterday" she said looking closer "and where's your bra?"

I looked down realizing my mistake to late. I got up turning to her smiling "Ohh I cam in late cause I heard it was supposed to be a good night for surfing and the clothes were the first thing I grabbed when I woke up and realized we didn't have any Breakfast Ohh and I had a sweatshirt on so I didn't need a bra." She snorted before grabbing the smoothie off of the table and walking to her bathroom. I turned releasing a sigh of relief. I walked out to the kitchen and put everything away. I walked to my bathroom and took all my clothes off. I looked to make sure my bullet holes were still looking okay. I turned in the shower before looking at my back in the mirror. I saw my tattoo that Paige called a tramp stamp. It was a tiger crouched down ready to spring. It was looking a little faded so I made a mental note to go get it touched up and maybe get a new one.

***** Three Hours Later*****

I sat at my desk waiting for anything to happen a murder or a kidnapping anything to get me out of this building. I got up and walked around my desk heading up to the kitchen. I walked over to the fridge looking through it trying to find something to eat. I closed the door and went to the cupboards and searched for anything. I found a thing that looked like a bag of cookies but had probably not been touched since World War Two. I sighed tossing it into the garbage and going back to scavenging. Once I had gone through everything finding nothing to eat but a lot of shit to throw out. I slammed the cabinet door before hearing someone come in behind me.

I turned slowly seeing Deeks standing there smiling. I looked at him noticing the bag from a fast food joint. He was also carrying a six pack of Berry Lemonade Jones soda. He held out one of them and set the rest on the table. He pulled two tacos out of the bag handing one to me.

"Thanks but you know nothing is ever going to happen between us right" I said making the end rhetorical.

"Yeah yeah I know but I can still be a friend right" he said phrasing his sentence the way I had said mine.

"Good as long as you understand" I said sitting down to eat.

"I do I promise" he said all of the sudden going serious. I looked at him smiling grabbing a Jones and twisting the cap off. I raised my bottle as thanks before eating my taco. Later we walked along the upstairs corridor that was open to the main area. I laughed at a joke he made and pulled him into the Tech. room. I looked at Erik and saw the question in his eyes.

"Please tell me you have anything a fist fight at a bar, a murder, a kidnapping, a sailor missing anything" I said begging at the end.

"Well since you are so desperate I can send you to patrol the base" he said grinning thinking that I wouldn't accept such a lame job.

"Okay we'll do it" I said pulling my keys out of my pocket. I started to walk down the stairs noting that Dom and Paige were both gone. I walked past G and Sam talking in the hall. I came close enough to G for him to wrap his arm around my waist. Instead he put his arm around my shoulder kissing me on the top of the head almost like a brother would do. I ducked under his arm pulling my keys out of my pocket.

"Nice car by the way" he said turning to go into the bullpen.

"Thanks I thought you might admire it" I said smiling. Deeks came over to me with a sullen look on his face. I walked to my car with him trailing behind me.

"Get over it Deeks at least we have something to do" I said.

***********That Night**********

"God there was nothing not even a fist fight all day I mean come on it's a Navy base" I said complaining to Paige who was cooking dinner.

"Well my day was a little more eventful but not much" she said with a sigh.

"Really well do tell because I got nothing interesting to tell you" I said not mentioning the fact that I slept with our team leader.

"Well," she started talking "Dom and I are really hitting it off I think he's going to ask me out soon."

"No way" I said with fake enthusiasm.

"Yes way I really like him and I think he likes me" she said taking a pan off of the stove dividing the food onto two plates. My mouth was watering when I smelled the air. Spaghetti and meatballs god I love when she cooks I thought to myself.

After dinner I washed the dishes and went to go to bed. Paige turned to me smiling. She had her jacket in one of her hands and in the other she was holding her keys.

"Dom asked me to meat him in the park how cute is that" she said. Of course she was still a hopeless romantic even after everything we had gone through.

"See you later then" I said reaching for my ringing phone. I heard the door shut behind me as I answered the call.

"Christel" I said simply noticing it was Erik.

"There's someone who needs you to come to a meeting in MTAC and he's higher than both of our pay grades so if you could come in that would be awesome" he said sounding a little annoyed.

"I'll be there in ten minutes or less kay" I said.

"Fine but I want to go home so hurry please" he said sullenly. I walked into my room grabbing my khaki cargo pants and my strapless black shirt. I headed for the door grabbing my leather jacket and hooking up my defenses.

*****Five minutes later*******

I walked up the stairs toward the MTAC room. I walked in nodding to Erik and walking in front of the screen to see a man I knew well. I smiled saluting.