Chapter 14 : Niece

Hey everyone ! First of all, I don't really know if I'll be able to post a new chapter next sunday because I'm going to have a week full of exams and I truly want to have fucking good grades. But I'll do my best to finish writing it and then post it. So anyway, here's the new chapter. Tell me what you think about it as always because reviews truly make me happy. You don't know how much it's good to read one of your comments when you wrote a chapter for a whole week.

(don't forget that English isn't my first language :) ).

Have a good week from France!

When Deeks opened the door of his house Kensi saw the biggest mess of her life. There were toys and stuffed animals everywhere on the ground and on the coutch ! The TV was on and it seemed to be on Netflix with a child movie. He had blue and purple hair clips in his hair and a cute little girl clinging to his leg. She looked at him, sort of laughing, and saw the desperate look on his face.

"Hey !What's happening here ?" Kensi asked, totally not aware of who the little one was and why she was at Deeks' when they had planned a night in with movies and take-out.

"This is..."

"Lily !" The six years old girl stepped forward and shook her hands with Kensi's. "My name is Lily. And who are you ? Uncle Mart didn't tell me someone would come ! What's your name ?" Before Kensi could give any answer to these multiple questions, the child came back to her toys on the couch.

"Uncle Mart hum ?" She rested on the door, trying not to laugh too much despite that silly nickname. It was really cute in a way. You could say it fitted him perfectly !

" .Laugh." She put the hair clips away from his blond hair and burst out laughing in less than a second. He stepped away to let her come in and tried not to grin either.

"You never told me you had a niece. I thought it always had been just you and your mother." She layed the food down and turned towards them to look at Lily. She was so focussed on her book that she didn't notice them gazing at her.

"She's not really my niece. You know I would have presented you sooner so you could have had that cool hairstyle too !"

"You just wish to see me with it." She shrugged and smiled brightly. "Sooo, tell me who that little girl is."

"Her mom is a good friend of mine and she had an emergency at her job. She had no other choices so I took her for the night." And just at this moment he saw the take-out and closed his eyes, a hand in his hair. "Oh fuck ! I completely forgot you were coming. It's just that I don't know what to do with her and how to handle her. I'm sorry, I was overwhelmed by everything. I should have call you before Lily and her mom came."

"Hey, that's okay. I get it. You wanted to help her out, that's totally fine with me. Plus seeing you like this was so worth it, trust me !" She got closer to him and kissed him for the first time since the morning. They were just at the beginning of their relationship so they didn't have their own place because none of them wanted to rush things between them. For now, the couple wanted to take enough time to figure out their thing before telling the others at work. They kept going to the bullpen seperated and act as always. "I'll go home then. I don't want to bother you, I see you are in the middle of what seems to be a good book." She smiled gently at the girl who was now looking at them with her big brown eyes.

"You should stay. Uncle Mart doesn't do the different voices when he reads. That sucks. Maybe you can do it." She handed her the small book and smiled kindly.

"You heard the princess. You're stuck here now." Deeks made the biggest cute smile in hope that it would make her stay for the night. "And you bought food, that would be so dumb to go without eating it."

"You had me with the book. No need to smile like that." Kensi sat on the couch and started to read her the story. She smiled to Deeks softly.

Deeks headed towards the kitchen to unpack the food and heared Lily laughing at Kensi's voices; linked to the story's animals. He realised how much he cared about her and God, how much she was beautiful at his eyes. She was deeply breathtaking ! You couldn't not stare at her everytime she enters a room. That wasn't possible because she felt like fresh air everytime she came somewhere. It wasn't the first time he had noticed it and he cherished that. Kensi was frankly the prettiest woman he had ever seen. Even when it was 6am and she had tousled hair and was yawning. Or when it was late in the night and she was drunk. Saying silly things and not caring about others. She was pretty all the time. He loved staring at her because Kensi looked different every hour of the day. The first lights of the sun was always his favorite. He loved to see her sleep on her chest and have the sunlight on her back. Yeah, that was his favorite moment of the day because it was just them. No one would bother them and that felt like happiness !

And at that moment, Deeks realised that he fell in love with Kensi. Of course he knew long before that he had thing for her, that he cared way too much about her than a normal partner would. But he had never realised that he wanted to live with her, like in a real house not in two places at a time. He really wanted to wake up next to her every morning and end up with her at the end of the day.

He loved her so much.

He shook his head softly, smiling like an idiot. He couldn't help it actually. He brought the food to the living room and saw Lily fell asleep on Kensi's shoulder. She had no idea what to do. She did babysitt when she was younger to make some money and buy food but that doesn't mean she was great with kids. She didn't know if she liked them either. Sure she would protect them in case they needed to, or be nice and take that voice you have when you talk to them but she never knew if she would be a good mother. She never had a brilliant childhood and feared she would make too many mistakes with her child. Because well, she never had a role model. So when the little one started to sleep on her shoulder within a minute she felt kind of lost. She tried to pick her up to put her in a real bed and Deeks came at the same moment.

"Fuck ! How did you do that ? I tied to put her to sleep during the whole day ! I was starting to despair." He smiled at that vision and took the child in his arms. He noticed very well that she wasn't comfortable. "Start to eat Kens. I'll be back." He waited for her to nod and then put the child to bed ; kissing her on her forehead.

"You just saved my life ! I thought she would never rest and I would need to be up all night, playing with dolls and small cars !" He laughed a little bit and yawned at the same time. Deeks sat beside her and she put her head on the crook of his neck. It was like they supported each other no matter what.

"It's because you didn't do the different voices of the animals, that's all !" In turn, she slightly laughed and started to eat. "I'm glad I stayed. She's really lovely."

He nodded and grinned. "Yeah she is.. Can I ask you a question ? I know you, I know you're going to tense and start to act weird but I want to know. I need to know."

Kensi stopped eating quickly, afraid of what he was going to ask. She breathed slowly and tried to give her courage. "Go ahead."

"Do you want kids ? Not like right now but someday, you know." He asked even though he might have known the answer. He just wanted to hear it from her. To be sure.

"Do we really need to talk about this right now ?" She stood up and sighed.

And all over again, their bad communication skills reappeared.