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(Day 10)

Kensi was outside the room, walking side by side. She ran her hands through her hair, she bent down and doing the same on her thighs. She was desperate to know if she would enter or if she'd go away again. When she got up from bed that morning she was hundred per cent sure that she'd get in the room, tell him everything and just like that, all would be fine. But now she was freaking out, she wasn't feeling ready to even look him in the eye. Kensi was feeling the throat dry, her brain had blocked any possible speech and she was shaking.

"You should go in there." Kensi grinned and looked back. It had been ten days; she could already recognize Dr. Harrison's old soothing voice. "He hasn't stop looking at the door ever since you left." He looked better at her and affirmed. "And it would be good for you too." Kensi stared at the floor; even a stranger could see how affected she was. "It's pretty obvious, young lady." He laughed.

That Dr. Harrison's laugh made her smile and she felt she had to do it; she felt confident in walking in the room. But before, she had just one more question. "How's gonna be from now on, doctor?"

"From tomorrow morning until the end of the week, he'll be out bed and we'll be running some more tests and exams and we'll start with physiotherapy. I have confidence on discharging him by the end of this week. Then we'll continue with the sessions for more 4 to 7 weeks and he'll be able then to do field work. Now, and that's a matter of discussion with your boss, he can already do desk work by next week without any problem…But let me tell you this much: he had a hell of luck. Not many go through what he went and be as good as he is." The man walked away quietly in slow steps.

Kensi opened the door and froze.

"You're back." He said. She couldn't know what the feeling on his tone of voice was. He seemed happy and confused, a bit angry even.

Kensi sighed and closed the door, resting on hand on it and staring it. "Yeah…I am." She turned around to face him who had sat on the edge of the bed. "Why wouldn't I?"

"I don't know." He sighed. "You're Kensi…"

She walked to him and surprised him by hugging him tightly. She supported her forehead on the crook of his neck and exhaled against it. "Don't you ever do that stupidity again. I don't deserve that much."

He pulled her away in that same second and held her face on his hands. "That was the silliest thing that ever came out of your mouth." His thumbs stroke her cheek and the left one rubbed her lower lip. Her eyes blinked and shut. His hands slid down her bare arms and when he grabbed her hand, she opened them but looked down. He jumped off bed and took his forefinger to her chin, making her eyes met his. "Look at me; if you don't deserve it then I'm just an idiot doing stupid stuff…"

"Maybe you are just an idiot doing stupid stuff." She said grinning and avoiding the warmth and blush that had taken over her cheeks. "And maybe I'm even more idiot for liking it…"

"Oh well, considering the fact that it's me we're talking about, it's good to like it."

"You are so-" Kensi's sentence was interrupted by Deeks' kiss.

Her eyes closed in a flash, absorbing every second of it like if they were the last of her life; like if a fulminating heart attack was about to struck her at any second and she'd never have the chance to ever feel him again. The kiss grew in intensity but slowed down. He walked back, leaning against the bed, pulling and pressing her body next to his. His hand traveled up her back and reached her hair, straight and messy. Her hands were still holding his face. They caught a breath every time their mouths grew apart even less than just an inch and none of them wanted to end it. Kensi didn't want neither Deeks, but his breath wanted. His still sore lung needed more air than that. His chest pain, increasing and burning made them stop.

Deeks coughed hoarsely and deeply, and Kensi forced him to lie down on bed. He seemed desperate to even cough, taking the hand to the wound. Not again seemed to be the words running her mind over and over at that time. It all made her flashback to the moment he got shot, to the moment he died in front of her. Deeks started to return to normal but Kensi was taken back to the moments when the vulnerability took control of her, and she cried, scared like hell.

"I'm gonna be okay, angel." He looked into her eyes while cleaning the tears from her face. "Actually, I'm gonna be more than just okay." Deeks didn't know quite well how to react. He had his partner, the toughest woman he has ever met crying over him, literal and figuratively. "It's okay." He pulled her for his lap, holding her head tightly against his chest, caressing her hair. "Shh…it's okay." Kensi didn't mind feeling weak right now. He was holding her and that seemed to be all it mattered. Kensi sniffed and wiped away the tears, now feeling embarrassed for having cried.

"I'm sorry." She said, smiling to disguise the discomfiture.

"Crying actually makes you look human, you know?" He affirmed, gazing her face.

"I wasn't human up until now, is that you're saying?"

"You never were, and you never will be." Deeks expression changed from the playfully smile he had to a serious attitude, a heartfelt one. "You're that kind of person who is out of this world, Kens…" She lowered the eyes to her hands but looked at him again when his hand reached hers. "Believe me." The smile was back on his face and she blushed. She let go his hand and took them both to his face, putting a peck on his lips.

"What do we do now? Where does this leaves us?"

"I don't know." He whispered, cupping her cheek. "Our thing is hard to explain. I think we should forget what ever happened yesterday and just keep growing closer …even closer, get to know each other even more until we reach the moment when…it simply happens."

"What…what if we never reach that point?"

"Then why are we even talking about it?" He grinned at her and pulled her for a kiss. "We'll get to it in a week, a month, a year…when it's the right time. But, no matter how long it takes, I won't be giving up."

"Then I'm not giving up either." She leaned over him, pecking him again. She then rolled over and lied down next to him, supporting her head over his chest. She was doing what she wanted to do for the last 10 days: holding tight to him. Deeks embraced his arms around her, to make sure she was really there, and to assure her he was going to hold and shelter her all the time. The two of them didn't speak anymore. She fell asleep first than him but he didn't last much longer awake after her. Deeks sighed deeply in fulfillment and put a kiss upon her head. He had her head under his chin and her arm across his chest; she had her hand over his wound and the head over his chest; the two of them were more than fine…

THE END

I know Kensi may look a bit too opened up but understand, she's been through a lot...