Hello my darlings, i got this prompt like a week or two ago from BlackBeltGirl67. I like really struggled with this one but i think i nailed it? Hah who am i kidding, i personally think it's a flop but let me know what you think!
The wedding was beautiful. Nobody could deny it. It wasn't a big gathering, just their close friends and family. The weather didn't allow it to be on the beach, like it was planned, so it was instead at a small private church. The dress for the bride was gorgeous, suiting her figure perfectly and making her look like she walked out of a fairy tale. Her husband's eyes never left her once. He also managed to keep his pants on all night.
Everyone was in good spirits, no cases and no problems. Everyone had been given the day off for the occassion, but work was still happening tomorrow. The groom looked dashing in his tuxedo, one that hadn't been worn in forever. Everyone was happy. Smiles and laughter, dances and cheers. The alcohol buzz was minimal, since most were trained not to get too wasted in case of situations. The dancing carried on till gone eleven before everyone threw rice at the newlyweds as they ran to their limousine, taking them to the airport for their honeymoon. One thing was for sure, Ops was going to be different without those two.
As the limousine drove away, Deeks held Kensi's hand and smiled at her. "About time they tied the knot, don't you think?" She nodded slowly, a small smile on her face but clearly distracted now that the bubbly bride who was Nell had left. "Kens, you okay?" She nodded again, turning her back to face him as she looked at a plate of food. He was going to ask her a question but was interrupted as Callen appeared with Sam.
"Dance with me Kensi?" Callen asked softly with a warm smile. Deeks watched as she quickly plastered a happy looking smile on her face before nodding and taking his hand, giggling as he pulled her onto the dancefloor and teasing her about something. Sam stayed with Deeks.
"You have to be there for her mate." Sam warned, not threateningly, just friendly. Deeks gave him a puzzled look and Sam sighed. "What is the one thing that Kensi's always wanted but never had?" Deeks opened his mouth to respond with a smartass comment but faltered. Today a wedding had happened. Kensi had never had her wedding.
"Oh." Deeks murmured, realisation setting in. "Jack thoughts are setting in." Sam nodded, looking at Michelle dance with Nate. "I'll be there for her, don't worry about it." Sam patted him on the shoulder.
"I never doubted you Deeks, we just wanted to warn you because we know how determined you are to break her walls." Sam commented before heading towards his wife and cutting in. His wife. Deeks sighed. In the past two years, Deeks hadn't really thought about taking that step with Kensi. Sure, thoughts of making her his for the rest of his life had come along, and often but he looked at the girl Kensi was now and he just couldn't see her doing that. Settling down and making a family. Even Kensi couldn't see herself with children. But she had at one point.
He was just going to have to make her see it again.
Kensi plopped onto the couch gratefully, finally letting her heeled feet take a break. Deeks chuckled before unbuckling her heels and massaging her battered feet, causing her to groan quietly. "Do you ever think about it?" He asked, breaking the silence. She frowned at the ceiling but didn't look at him.
"Think about what? Taking my heels off? All the time because Shaggy, they kill." He laughed unconvincingly before sighing.
"No Fern, i mean marriage." He felt her stiffen beneath his hands. "You know, a wedding with yours truly, getting to say 'i do' and knowing you'll have me for the rest of your lfe. Finally settling down and having our mini ninja assassins running around. Family BBQ's with the team as they spoil the kids. Days out to the zoo and the beach, teaching the kids to surf or pick locks. Having little girls with brown hair and your beautiful eyes to match or little boys with my charming locks and sparkling eyes. Do you ever think about it?" By the time he had finished, she had a dreamy smile on his face that she knew he couldn't see but his silence broke her out the trance and she tried to control her emotions.
"No, not really. I mean, we're happy as we are, right? Why go and change? Change is never really good." She sounded unconvincing to her own ears, but she didn't want to admit that she had been thinking about it for the past year, a good six months before Nell and Eric announced their own engagement. How clingy and desperate would she have sounded if she had begged him every night to make her his in the eyes of everyone and the law, making miniature Deeks and Blye's to run around and cause havoc on everyone. No, she thought it was best to lie about this.
She heard Deeks sigh and she cursed silently. "You never thought about us being together like that? Not at all?"
"I take it you have." She commented, lacking any emotion. If this conversation carried on any further then she was worried that she was going to go back to how she was years ago, struggling to communicate. But, to be fair, she had been struggling to communicate with him about this topic for a year.
"Only today really." He said, causing both hurt and hope to flare within her. "I just can't believe you've never thought about it at all. I mean, today at the wedding you seemed so happy and dreamy with it all but when you thought nobody was watching you then you'd almost break down, letting your face show every ounce of disappointment and heartbreak that you were feeling. But you've never thought about it all." She let the hurt fester inside of her until it burned a raging inferno before yanking her feet from his grasp and standing up, leaving him kneeling before her in shock.
Any other day and she'd think he was proposing to her.
"You want to know Deeks, do you really? How about for the past year i've been waiting for the day you be like this, on your knees and holding a ring out to me and declaring your undying love to me. For a year i've been dreaming that we'd get married, have something beautiful yet simple on the beach with our family there. For a whole goddamn year i've been having dreams of seeing mini Deeks running around in our garden or bouncing on our bed in the morning. Yes Deeks, i've been thinking about this for a whole year and i can't see it with anyone else." She took a deep breath as the tears flowed and barely registered when he stood in front of her, but when he raised his hand and touched her cheek, she stepped back.
"Kens-" He breathed before she interrupted.
"I'm going to go and see my mum." She murmured, wary now of how deep and serious the conversation had got. Territory neither of them were comfortable with. She grabbed her heels and walked to the door, grabbing her bag from the rack.
"Kensi, please stay, we can talk-" She shook her head, causing him to stop.
"I'm going to go to my mum's and sleep this feeling off, i'll see you tomorrow at work." She opened the door and stepped out. "Don't worry Shaggy, i'll be back." He chuckled at her attempt to lighten the situation before letting her shut the door and leave. She was running away from her feelings again whilst he was left to wallow in them. Wallow? He shook his head and stood up. I don't need to wallow in her feelings, she just opened up and majorly, i need to act on them.
It was too late now, but he could do it. Soon.
Kensi walked into the bullpen the next day feeling better. She had tried to call Deeks that morning to apologise for her outburst last night but she figured that he was surfing when he didn't answer her call. Sam and Callen were both at their desks, cradling their heads and groaning. She smirked to herself before throwing her bag on her desk and calling, "Good morning gentlemen, isn't today lovely?" at the top of her voice. They both flinched and groaned louder, curling into a ball around the table as they tried to get rid of the pain which was a hangover. "Oh sorry guys, didn't realise you were in pain."
"And this is why you don't rely on the wife to take you guys home. You have to be more independent." Deeks added, waltzing in. He noticed Kensi stiffen subtly at the 'wife' comment but he ignored it, knowing it would all be okay soon. He hoped. He walked towards her and kissed her lightly on the lips, pulling back and smiling at her. He felt his smile grow when he saw her smile back. "Good morning darling." He murmured, before kissing her again. He only pulled back when he heard Sam and Callen's groans of disgust.
"Two years this has been happening and you still moan about it?" They nodded before wincing when their heads hurt even more and Deeks merely laughed. "Well close your eyes because things are about to get more sickly." They both looked up frowning but he was looking at Kensi.
"Sickly how Deeks?" She asked, a small frown puckering her brow. He smiled reassuringly before getting down on one knee. He heard her gasp and watched as she looked around, looking anywhere but at him. "Deeks, what are you doing?" She hissed. He smiled at her.
"I'm doing what i should have done a long time ago."
"Get up, you're making yourself look like a right idiot."
"I'll only look like an idiot if you say no Kensi." She looked down at him then and noticed the small black box in his hands. "I know that i should have done this ages ago. I mean, we've been together two years now but before that we had around five years of a 'thing' as well as our partnership. I just can't see myself with someone else. That's weird, isn't it though? You go into a relationship not knowing whether that person is going to be the one you spend the rest of your life with, and if they aren't then why waste all that time, effort and emotion on them? But it was different with you. Going into the relationship was the same, yeah but how was i going to know that two years down the line we'd still be together? Sure i'd hope it but i never knew for sure if we would or not, and i wondered the same thing at first. Am i going to be wasting time and emotion on her or is she the one? Monty barked at me then, telling me you were the one and i believed him. I should've listened to him then but i didn't." He took a deep breath before carrying on.
"You are the one. I want to attempt to share the bed with you for the rest of my life, maybe in a few years i'll get used to the starfish ways, maybe i won't. I want to eat doughnuts for breakfast with you and watch Titanic every night. I want to drink cheap beer and eat take away every night, if that's what you want. I want to have bruised arms from you punching me everytime i make an immature comment."
"Which is all the time." Sam murmured.
"And i want to hear your ridiculous laugh that gives me good dreams instead of nightmares." He said, carrying on and ignoring Sam. "I want to make our entwined future a competition and i want to watch you grow big with our babies. I want to have a little girl who will look like you and a little boy who will look like me, i want them to make their Uncle Sam and Uncle G's lives a living hell for the fun of it. I want us to teach them how to surf and how to shoot, we can teach them to defend themselves and pick locks too. We can teach them to hot wire cars and planes. I want to watch your hair turn grey and i want to watch your skin go wrinkly, showing your true age and knowing that i was there for each year from now. I want to die with you Kensi. I want to live the rest of my life with you before having it end with you. What we have Kensi, is a story, a love story. You're the beginning and the end for me."
She was going to cry. Okay, she was already crying but she was going to break down hysterically in a minute. And honestly, she was welcoming it.
He popped open the lid of the box and a small diamond winked up at her. The ring. Her engagement ring. It was simple but perfect, with a small diamond that was perched on a thin silver band. "Will you marry me Kensi Marie Blye?" There it was. The question that all that led up to, the question she had been waiting for, the question that caused her to sob loudly. She felt the eyes of everyone on her but she ignored them, focusing instead on the blue eyes staring up at her.
"Yes." She whispered, loud enough for only him to hear. She watched his face light up before he smirked at her.
"Sorry princess, i didn't quite catch that."
She rolled her eyes at him. "I said yes you idiot, i said yes." He laughed in delight before launching himself up and grabbing her to him, crushing her lips to his own. They heard the cheers and the whistles but chose to ignore them, focusing on each other. Eventually air became a necessity and they pulled apart, gasping for breath and grinning like idiots. Deeks slipped the ring on her finger, his eyes never leaving her own and finally making everyone know who she belonged to. Him. Just as he belonged to her. They belonged to each other and would do for the rest of their lives.
So there we go. What did we think? I personally don't think i'm cut out for all this fluffiness because sheesh was that last bit loaded with it. Anyways, reviews make me happy and alsoooooo if there are any other prompts you guys have, please don't be shyyyyy! I'd be happy to oblige.
Happy Valentine's Day you beautiful people, i love you all! - Alice xox