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Chapter 30

Within a blink it was all over. Kensi stood frozen in her spot, looking directly into the leader's eyes, taunting him to pull the trigger. She saw the eagerness in his eyes. Ready to take the shot. In her ear she heard Callen's 'go' and she ducked as the leader pulled the trigger and SWAT breached. Within a blink it was over.

'Kensi?' She felt Callen's hand grabbing her arm and gently pulling her up. She looked at his worried face and she took a shaky breath. Around her the hostages were rushed out of the building and the gunmen were taken into custody. Sam joined them not long after.

'Are you okay, Kensi?' he asked worried and Kensi nodded.

'I'm fine...just wanting to get out of here...' she answered and Callen and Sam smiled. The three of them walked outside. Just two steps out of the building, two arms wrapped Kensi into a hug. Kensi smiled and kissed the top of Narah's head.

'What are you doing here?' she asked after realizing the teenager was at a hostage situation and she turned to Callen and Sam.

'She insisted on being here,' Callen answered. 'It was either Sam picking her up or she would have come by herself.'

'I needed to know if you were okay,' Narah mumbled and Kensi gave her another hug.

'I'm so glad you understood,' she smiled.

'You said you were fine when you called,' Narah said. 'But you're never fine when you say you are...Deeks told me that...'

'Besides, the uncle G made it a little strange as well,' Callen added and Kensi laughed.

'It worked,' she said. 'That is what counts. Now tell me...how is it possible that Eric and Nell couldn't find William Aberdeen?' Callen and Sam glanced at each other and Kensi raised her eyebrows. 'What is going on? Why aren't we looking for Aberdeen?'

'LAPD has the lead in this case,' Callen answered. 'We're called off the case.' An uneasy feeling settled down and she turned to Narah.

'Could you wait in the car?' she asked the teenager, who nodded after a moment of hesitation. As Narah walked away, Kensi turned back to Callen and Sam.

'Tell me what's going on,' she told them.

'LAPD is taking over because Aberdeen is their case to handle,' Callen started to explain. 'Kensi...William Aberdeen is Deeks' alias... he is working in the restaurant for his cover.' Kensi gasped and glanced at the restaurant.

'They were looking for Deeks?' she stumbled. 'Is he okay?'

'He called in sick because something he had to do for his cover,' Callen answered. 'He is okay as far as we know.'

'We need to contact him!' Kensi said and she reached for her phone, which wasn't there. 'I need to know...'

'Nell is already working on getting into contact with him,' Sam told her. 'She will call as soon as she has reached him.'

Kensi was sitting on the couch, taking slow breaths and stroking Monty's head. Nell had been able to reach Deeks. He was okay. But Kensi needed to hear it from Deeks himself to know for sure. To make it the truth. The leader wanted to find Aberdeen...Deeks...so badly, he took an entire restaurant hostage just to find him. What if Deeks had been working? Would she have lost him? She looked up when she heard Narah walk into the living room.

'Hey,' she said softly. 'What are you doing still up? You should get some sleep...'

'So should you,' Narah noted and Kensi nodded.

'Well, it seems like we're both not that sleepy,' she said and Narah sat down on the couch, turning her attention to Monty.

'Deeks was involved, wasn't he?' Narah asked while keeping her gaze on the dog. Kensi took a deep breath.

'Yes he was,' she answered, deciding to be honest with her. 'But he is okay...he was away and didn't even know what was happening.' She gently stroked Narah's head. 'Don't worry about it now...' As she looked at Narah, she realized how stupid she had been stepping in front of the gun. Narah could have lost her this evening...and she was worrying about Deeks. She could have died in that restaurant if SWAT had not breached when they did. Then Narah would have been alone...without a way to reach Deeks. She was stupid for risking her life just like that.

'Maybe we should watch a movie,' Kensi said and Narah finally looked at her. 'A simple comedy...with some popcorn.' With a weak smile, Narah nodded.

Julia en Kensi watched Narah set the table for them and running back into the kitchen, checking on the dinner she had prepared. Julia had been cooking with Narah a lot last couple of weeks and now Narah insisted on doing it herself.

'You know, you're never allowed to get the take-out yourself,' Julia told Kensi and she stroked her arm. 'Next time if you don't want to cook, you call me and I will bring over some food.' Kensi smiled at her mother.

'I will, mom,' she promised. 'I don't think I will getting take-out myself anytime soon...Being in danger while on the job is okay...but not when I'm trying to feed my daughter...that reminds me...' Kensi shifted uncomfortably, no longer knowing how to continue. Her mother glanced patiently at her.

'What is it, Kensi?' she asked. Kensi took a deep breath.

'Can you promise me that you will take care of Narah...if something would happen to me or Deeks?' she asked carefully and before she knew it, her mother had pulled her into a hug.

'Of course I will take care of Narah,' she answered. 'But nothing is going to happen to you or Marty that makes you unable to take care of Narah. You protect each other...'

'Well, not right now,' Kensi slowly replied and Julia pulled away, holding Kensi's face between her hands.

'Kensi Marie Blye, do not worry about Deeks,' she slowly said. 'I might not know Marty that well, but I know he will do whatever to come back home safely...come back to you and Narah.' Kensi smiled at her mother.

'Thank you, mom,' she said and Julia pulled her close again, laughing this time.

'Worrying so much causes grey hairs,' she joked, making Kensi laugh as well. When Narah walked into the living room to announce dinner was ready, she looked confused at the two women hugging and laughing.

'We found this perfect house,' Narah told her friends enthusiastically. 'Three bedrooms, awesome kitchen, a garden...with a pool! Perfect state, as the realtor told us...but of course, we already had so much luck in life...the house was a little too perfect and is already sold!'

'No way!' Ivan said. 'That really sucks, Narah!'

'Also not being able to show it to Deeks doesn't make the search any easier,' Narah noted.

'How long is his trip?' Ming asked. 'He has been gone since like...forever!'

'Almost three weeks now...' Narah said and she shrugged. 'He will come back whenever he comes back. Depending on how the course goes, I guess. So until then we will not buy a house...'

'Ah, you will get a house eventually,' Ivan said. 'A great house with enough space for us to hang out all day.' Narah started to laugh.

'Yeah, Kensi and Deeks will like that,' she said. 'Three extra teenagers in the house.' Ivan, Emily and Ming started to laugh as well. 'Well, if you could share, there is enough space.'

'Oh, I am not sharing a room,' Emily objected. 'I had to fight off my brothers and sisters to have my own room in our home...so I'm keeping it that way. I will not go down...sorry Narah, doesn't seem like I will be moving in with you anytime soon.'

'Well, we would have to find a house first,' Narah said. 'And Miss Rooney has to approve the house as well for the adoption.'

'How is that going?' Emily asked and Narah shrugged.

'I guess it is going,' she elaborated. 'After the house visit, we heard nothing...'

A hurried Nell came closer to Kensi's desk, but never reached it. She signaled Kensi to come with her, which Kensi immediately did. They hurried to the ladies' bathroom. Nell checked if they were alone and she handed Kensi a piece of paper.

'If you log in tonight...there will be an e-mail from Deeks,' she said hurried. 'The e-mails are secured and unreadable for others who do not have the right e-mail addresses or passwords.' Kensi stared at the piece of paper, at the letters that formed her connection to Deeks. Finally she would be able to speak to him.

'Thanks, Nell,' she mumbled and the tech smiled.

'Being the messenger is not what I imagined,' Nell said. 'So this way, you no longer need to use me to contact Deeks...oh...you can only log in at eight o'clock pm...and only for an hour. It was the only way to secure it. It gets shutdown by itself after an hour.'

'An hour is much better than no contact at all,' Kensi smiled and she hugged Nell. 'Again, thank you so much!' She folded the paper and placed it in her pocket. They walked out of the bathroom and near the desks, they split ways. As Kensi sat down, she couldn't help but to smile. Her hand slowly went to her pocket and rested on top of it. Finally after two weeks and four days she could speak to him. And it made her feel better than she had felt in a long time. She missed him. It had become so much quieter at Ops.

'Kensi, wipe that smile of your face before people start thinking something is off,' Callen told her, breaking the chain of thoughts and Kensi looked up. Both Callen and Sam were looking at her. She took a deep breath and grabbed the files that were resting on her desk.

Fern,

I was so glad to hear that you are okay and I'm sorry you had to find out like

that. I hope our little girl is doing well. I don't know when you get to read this,

and if you have the chance to reply, but just know I love you two. More than

anything in the world. And I miss you two every day.

Fern, please go dance with our girl in the morning (like I used to do with her),

take her to the beach, let Julia cook for you and tell her I will come home as soon

as possible.

I love you so much!

Kensi could feel the tears well up in her eyes as she read his short but sweet message to them. She read the message over and over till it was burned into her memory. When she realized she had only thirty minutes to reply to him, she quickly started to write. But the right words were hard to find. She did not want him to worry about them, but she also wanted to tell him how much they missed him. Missed his jokes, his love...everything. As the time passed, she had only written half of the thing she wanted to say. And not even given Narah the chance to see what Deeks had wrote to them.

'Narah!' she shouted and the teenager came hurried out of her room, looking questioningly at her. Kensi pointed at the screen. 'Deeks send us a message...' She had not finished the sentence and Narah was already standing next to her, eyes glued on the screen.

'He called me "his little girl",' Narah beamed up and Kensi put her arm around the girl's waist.

'Well you are our little girl,' Kensi said and Narah's smile grew bigger. 'But tell me, what kind of traditions did you and Deeks behind my back? Your secret little time together.' Narah laughed and turned to her.

'Secrets got to stay secret, right?' she joked and Kensi shook her head laughing. Then she noticed the time.

'Oh, we only have till nine o'clock,' she told Narah. 'So if you want to write something to Deeks, you better do it now.' Kensi gave Narah the chance to sit down and she headed to the kitchen. To give Narah some privacy writing to Deeks. And to get some leverage to get Narah spill about the secret traditions she had with Deeks. She smiled. Deeks and Narah had their own things...like she used to have with her dad. They were truly turning into a little family of their own. As Kensi walked to Narah, carrying two bowls of ice cream, Narah turned around, with a big smile when she noticed the ice cream.

'Why does everybody think ice cream is good leverage?' she asked smiling and Kensi gestured to sit down on the couch.

'It's not leverage,' she lied and Narah laughed while taking one of the bowls. 'I was just curious about it...because I never noticed.' The girl shrugged.

'Maybe you're not that good at detecting,' she joked and Kensi raised her eyebrows.

'You definitely spend plenty of time with Deeks,' she said. 'Though I'm not a detective so I do not really need to detect...'

'You're a special agent,' Narah replied. 'You're an agent who is special...you would expect them to be good at detecting.' Kensi shook her head laughing and she stroked Narah's hair.

'What is the story behind that name...Fern?' Narah asked curiously after eating ice cream in silence. Kensi smiled.

'Well, that was one undercover night when Deeks decided to come up with a name for me...to give me a reason to go after a girl,' she started to tell.

TBC.