"Drop 'em."

Deeks curled his lips and furrowed his brow. "Um, I'm sorry but what am I dropping?"

"Your pants," Kensi replied calmly.

"At work?"

"Yes, at work."

Deeks unfastened the button of his jeans and held his zipper between his thumb and forefinger. "Okay, but there are cameras everywhere you know."

Kensi sighed and started walking towards the gym. "Not here. Locker room."

Following behind, Deeks continued to hold his zipper up, pants hanging a lot looser with the button undone. "Can you tell me what the hell is going on? Last time I checked we were no longer in the pants dropping, sneaking away to do dirty things phase of our relationship. Okay I don't think we were ever in that phase of our relationship. What the hell is going on?"

Kensi dragged him into the dressing area of the locker room and nodded to his pants. "We're about to go undercover as a married couple again. We didn't prepare as well as we should have last time. I need to know where your tattoo is."

"Um..." Deeks dropped his pants. "You've uh, yeah, you've seen...all of...this yeah? Did I imagine that?"

"It was dark, and I wasn't looking."

"Thanks."

"You know what I mean," Kensi growled. "And like you said, I've seen it before so what's the big deal. Show me."

Deeks licked his lips and tugged the band of his boxers down slightly, revealing a small tattoo in the curve of his hip. "There. It's not much."

Squinting, Kensi ran her fingers over the characters. "What does it mean?"

"Okay, yeah, you, no touchy," Deeks flicked her hand away. "And it's the Japanese symbol for strength. I got it in college." He motioned to her pants. "Your turn. Don't even act like you don't have a Hello Kitty tattoo somewhere down there."

"Wrong," Kensi responded with a smile as she turned her back to him. She wrapped her long, loose curls around one of her hands and pulled her hair up, revealing a heart tattoo on her neck just below the hairline.

"A heart? Really?" Deeks asked, running a finger around the edge of it. "How have I never noticed this?"

"Maybe you weren't looking," Kensi answered coyly.

"Fair enough." Deeks smiled at her as she turned back towards him. "So we're good? We know everything we need to know about each other now?"

Kensi tilted her head and offered a tight smile. "Nobody ever really knows everything, Deeks. But yeah, we're good."

"Good. So we're ready for this."

"We're ready for this," she repeated. "One thing though."

"Yeah?"

Kensi smirked and pointed to the floor. "You can pull your pants up now."