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The Marine Wesley Adams served with gave no new information to Kensi and Deeks. All he said was that Adams was a friendly guy, but kept to himself most of the time. He also said the only person he ever heard him talk about was his sister.

Callen and Sam had asked Lauren Adams a few more questions after Kensi and Deeks left, then let her go. After finding out that Adams' fellow Marines thought he was close with his sister, it became more suspicious that she wasn't even the slightest bit upset that he was dead.

After every member of the team had gotten into work that morning, they headed up to Ops to decide how to proceed with this case.

Kensi and Deeks were the last ones to make it up to Ops. "Nice of you to finally join us." Callen said in a snarky tone.

"What do we have?" Kensi wasn't messing around this morning.

"Killer left behind no fingerprints or shell casings. No signs of forced entry. Neighbors didn't see or hear anything, so they used a silencer. Killer was most likely a pro." Sam said.

"So, he knew the killer and let him in." Deeks was the next to speak up.

"Or, they had a key. Adams was found on his bed, he never got up to answer the door." Kensi said.

Then Callen got an idea. "If the only person he ever talked about was his sister, she is probably the only person he ever gave a spare key to his apartment to. Eric, where is Lauren Adams now?"

"Her cell is at her apartment, give me a second to pull up traffic cams. Her car is right outside. She's there."

"Let's go pay Ms. Adams another visit."

Sam pulled the Challenger right in front of the building, and Kensi and Deeks covered the back. Sam and Callen knocked on the door, and as soon as she saw who it was Lauren bolted. She ran out the back door of the building and right into the path of Kensi and Deeks. She then made the worst mistake of her life, she tried to run past Kensi Blye.

Kensi took her down in a split second and cuffed her. Deeks helped Kensi pick her up off of the ground and said: "That's my girl."

He walked Lauren back to the car and said "I tell you she can take down men twice her size and you try to get past her? You had a better chance of getting away from me." Kensi watched him proudly. She looked back at Sam and Callen. "Meet you guys at the boatshed."

If there was doubt in anyone's mind that Kensi and Deeks could be together and still work together, there wasn't after that.

Lauren quickly revealed that she and Wesley Adams didn't have a great relationship. Their parents both passed away when they were young, and Wesley grew to be very protective of Lauren. He disapproved of a guy Lauren was dating, and the dissension that caused was enough that Lauren paid someone to kill Wesley. She gave up his name too, and the task of finding him was left up to LAPD. Kensi and Deeks passed the task of taking Lauren Adams to the LAPD station onto Sam and Callen, Deeks didn't really trust Kensi to be around her.

So, Kensi and Deeks headed back to the mission. Deeks had paperwork to do, and Kensi had an overly suspicious Intelligence Analyst to talk to. Since no one else was around, she let Deeks drive. She sent Nell a text. On our way back. Meet me in the Armory?

Her reply was instantaneous. Meet you there.

Kensi laughed. "What's so funny, Princess?"

"I told Nell to meet me in the Armory, and she texted back in a fraction of a second. She's probably up in Ops right now with Eric considering every logical possibility of why I need to talk to her alone."

"That should be a fun conversation."

"I will bet you $10 she's going to scream, jump up and down, and then say it took us long enough."

Deeks laughed. "Tell her it's taken her and Eric longer to admit that they love each other."

"No way in hell I'm mentioning that. But I will hint around that we should have been honest with ourselves a long time ago. She's a smart girl, she'll get the point."

Deeks pulled into the parking space at the mission. He quickly got out and went to the passenger side and opened Kensi's door. "Good luck, Fern. I love you." He gave her a quick kiss.

They walked into the mission, him going to his desk and her rounding the corner to the armory.

She walked in and Nell began speaking immediately. "What's going on, Kens?"

"I need to tell you something." Kensi was nervous, but she couldn't place why.

"What is it? Is it bad?"

"No, No, it isn't bad. It's just that… Um.. Well…"

"Kensi, Spit it out."

"Deeks and I are… like together."

"Oh that. You scared me. I knew that."

"How did you know that?"

"Eric and I were watching the feed from the boatshed when you told Sam and Callen. We also don't appreciate being the last to know." Nell said in a joking tone.

Kensi laughed, relieved. "Well, you and Eric are the only people we could count on not to kill us."

"I can't believe you hid it from everyone for over two months. I had my suspicions, but never proof. You guys are good, and Eric and I are really happy for you guys. Like Sam said, if anyone can make this work, it's you and Deeks.

"Thanks, Nell. Did Sam really say that?"

"Oh, I forgot you guys didn't hear that. He did, he really has faith in you two. We all do."

Kensi hugged Nell and made her way back to the bullpen.

She walked up to Deeks desk. "I owe you $10."

"What? No jumping up and down?"

"Nope. They knew already."

"How? There's no way."

"Her and Eric were watching the feed from the boatshed when we told G and Sam."

"Wow. She's been taking ninja lessons from Hetty."

"You ready to go?" She walked to her own desk and grabbed her bag.

"Let's go, Fern."

It had been a long week, full of dramatic conversations. At the end of the day, the Wesley Adams case established the fact that two people can be partners and be together, and those two people's names are Marty Deeks and Kensi Blye.

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