After bringing Kensi back to his place Deeks he fed her and then took her to his bedroom where he explained to her just how every one of her body parts fully captivated his attention for the last five years. After a particularly energetic joining Deeks and Kensi lay in bed cuddling and chatting.

"You know that there is no one on this earth that you need to be jealous of, right? You are the most amazing woman on this planet and, I know this may be too soon to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway because it's how I feel, I love you Kensi. I have for quite a while now."

Kensi couldn't help but get glassy eyed. She looked Deeks in the eyes, smiled, and said "I love you too Deeks." I didn't even know it was possible to love someone as much as I do you.

Deeks understood what she wasn't saying. That this 'thing' of theirs was more than she ever had with Jack. Deeks leaned down and kissed Kensi, pouring out all the love he had for her, and she did the same in return. When they broke the kiss Kensi tucked her head into Deeks' neck, gave him a squeeze, and settled in to go to sleep.

Kensi woke up the next morning alone. She was disappointed until she realized that it was the smell of coffee and something yummy cooking that brought her to consciousness in the first place. Kensi grabbed Deeks shirt off the ground on her way out of the bedroom and slipped it on over her head and walked out into the kitchen.

"Good morning Deeks. Something smells delicious"

"Good morning sunshine. Someone looks rather delicious this morning." Deeks said as he leered at her.

"Well thank you. Now, are you going to feed me or what?"

"Haha! It's all about the food for you isn't it?"

"A girl has to have her priorities." She said as she sat down at the table that already had silverware, a glass of orange juice, and syrup sitting on it.

"Well, I think yours might be a little out of order, but we'll work on that another day." Deeks said as he brought Kensi a plate of chocolate chip pancakes and bacon and a mug full of steaming coffee made just the way she likes it. After setting the mug and plate down Deeks leaned over and gave Kensi a tender good morning kiss. He then brought his own plate and mug to the table and they ate together in companionable silence.

"Thanks for breakfast." Kensi said as she took her dishes to the sink. "I'm going to go get in the shower." Then as she walked back by the table she realized she had dropped her napkin so she bent over to pick it up. When she did so the shirt she was wearing rode up to give Deeks quite the view, making him realize that she hadn't bothered to put any panties on.

Deeks jumped up, put his dishes in the sink as well and then rushed off to join Kensi in the shower.

Once clean and dressed, Kensi and Deeks headed to the car. Deeks had decided that it would be best to drop Kensi off at the boat shed this morning and hopefully get a chance to talk to Sabatino and make sure he wasn't going to be pulling anything or making Kensi's day any harder. While he was driving Deeks reached over and grabbed Kensi's hand.

"You feeling ok?"

"Yeah."

"Just remember that in a few hours time this will all be over and you'll be back in the mission giving Sam and Callen a bad time."

That got a little smile out of her. "Thanks Deeks. I feel a lot better about this than I did yesterday, but I can't help but stress about it a little bit."

"Ok, just know that no matter what, when this is all over I'll still be here loving you."

"Wow, that was really cheesy, but really sweet." She said before leaning over and kissing him on the cheek.

A few minutes later Deeks pulled up outside of the boat house and saw the entire team, except Granger, standing outside chatting.

The team saw Deeks and Kensi approaching them and the fact that they were riding in together wasn't lost on the team.

As Kensi and Deeks approached the team she greeted them. "Hey guys. What's going on?"

"Granger got a call and asked us all to wait out here." Sabatino replied. "Um, listen guys." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck and looked up rather sheepishly. " I owe you an apology for yesterday. What I did was wrong. I never should have put you in that situation Kensi. I came clean to the team last night about where I was the night before last and that I basically blackmailed you into going along with everything yesterday. I hope you can eventually forgive me. I know it won't be easy."

Did you tell them what you used to blackmail me?

"No, he didn't." Booker said. "But I think we already knew. That hickey on your neck confirms it though."

"WHAT?!" Kensi yelled as her hand flew up to her neck to try to figure out where there might be a mark as her head whipped around to Deeks looking at him accusingly.

The team burst into laughter. "Don't worry, there isn't a mark. But now we know we were right."

Deeks and Kensi's eyes got as big as saucers as they looked at each other and silently communicated their concern.

"It's all good Kensi. We won't say anything to Granger. We're just glad to see you so happy."

"Um, thanks. We really appreciate that."

"Wow, alrighty, I guess I had better take off." Deeks looked around at the entire team. "It was really nice to meet you all. Thanks for looking out for my girl for me. Sabatino, as long as you've learned your lesson and we don't have a repeat of any part of the last few days, we're cool." He then looked over at Kensi, put a hand on her lower back and said "See you this afternoon. Give me a call if you need a ride back to the mission."

"Ok, bye." Kensi said as she watched him run back to the car. As she turned around to face the team she heard her phone beep, alerting her to an incoming text message. She took out her phone and opened the message, seeing that it was from Deeks.

I love you. Xoxo

She quickly typed out her return message.

I love you too, babe. Xoxo

Just then Granger walked out of the boatshed and told the team "Hey, I have some interesting news for you guys. Come on in and we'll get down to business."

~~Densi~~

Talia was sitting at her desk in her office thinking. She wasn't thinking about her promotion, the paperwork that was piled up on the side of her desk, or the new case file she had been given that morning. She was thinking about Marty Deeks. He had monopolized her thoughts ever since she worked the case with him. You can learn a lot about a person from working with them. Marty had impressed her. He was good looking. There was no denying that. She was physically drawn to the stereotypical surfer type, but never pursued a relationship with one because usually they were as shallow as a kiddie pool. Not Marty though. He had a strength and depth of character she had rarely encountered. Combine that with a great sense of humor and the loyalty he showed for his team, and she was hooked.

He did seem a little too attached to his partner though. However, Marty was smart and everyone knows that becoming romantically entangled with your partner is at best a disaster and at worst career suicide. She had gently reminded him of that fact and she was sure he listened. No doubt he was just letting himself get carried away because she was gone and he was worried about her. She was sure the partner was nothing to worry about.

The woman who was at the beach though, she was a slight concern. Who was she? She was beautiful, that was for sure. Her complexion was too dark to be Marty's sister. A cousin maybe? No, there was definitely a bit of a flirty vibe there. They didn't touch though. Talia was sure that if Marty was in a relationship he would be very physically affectionate. Hell, he didn't even buy her any tacos and she knew he was too much of a gentleman to buy himself something and not his girlfriend. Friends, they must just be friends.

Talia felt like a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She had been so worried and tense ever since seeing Marty talking to that woman, leaving with that woman, but now she was sure that he wasn't in a relationship with her. Now, to figure out how to make him hers before that woman makes a move on him…..

~~Densi~~

Deeks, Sam, and Callen had been stuck at their desks all morning doing paperwork. About 1:00 they looked up to see Kensi, Granger, and Sabatino walk into the mission.

"Hey Granger." Sam greeted "What's he doing here?" gesturing to Sabatino, who up until that point had only been allowed into the boat shed.

"Agent Sabatino will be doing some liaising between us and the CIA for the next few days."

"Really?" Callen asked with a lift of his eyebrows and a quick glance toward Hetty.

"Really." Henrietta and I agreed that considering the circumstances, it would be for the best.

"And what circumstances would those be?"

"Classified circumstances, Agent Callen. Agent Blye, you may join your team, Sabatino, you're with me." Granger said as he walked up the stairs toward ops.

Deeks decided that with Granger gone it was now safe to enter the conversation. "Hey Kensalina, we were just talking about going to lunch at that new burger joint down the street. Do you want to join us?"

"Do you even have to ask?" She said as everyone headed out the door.

A/N: Ok, so I know this one wasn't quite as fun as the other chapters but you guys asked me to continue the story and to do that I have to build to the next part of the story line. The next chapter will include more Talia and Sam and Callen will hopefully be finding out about Kensi and Deeks' relationship. I haven't exactly figured out how I'm going to do that though so if anyone has an idea that hasn't already been done 10 times I would love to hear it. It will help get the next chapter up sooner. Thanks again for all your support. Hugs! Amy