Marty Deeks has been on this journey for several years now. The journey of discovering every single thing that he can about Kensi Marie Blye. To tear down her walls. To fall in love with her.
On days, days like today, he realizes that his journey is sometimes a struggle, but always worth it.
The day after her DOJ interview that she collapsed into his arms and even shed a tear should have been an indication that this day was coming, but it wasn't. They were living in a parallel universe, one in which they're game of back and forth didn't mean anything. It wasn't until she pulled him aside at the ice rink did it all make sense. They put that parallel universe to sleep. They started living.
And didn't they start living.
He started counting all the places he could kiss her, the ice, then the car, her house, his house, Mammoth, then back home, in the kitchen, on the couch, in the bathroom, in bed…
And it snapped, just like on the ice that day.
She let her guard down. How else would she have admitted those things? Have said exactly what she wanted, to be bold with him? This is Kensi Blye. It doesn't just happen like this.
He's uncovered her most pure and most deep string of emotions and not even realized that he did it.
And at the same time that that's sad, its sweet. Its sweet because he's so in love, so desperate to envelope her in love that he missed that detail.
Kensi Blye let her guard down to fall in love with him. Maybe he's worth a lot more than he gives himself credit for.