Deeks woke, shortly after dozing off, to the feeling of being watched. He quickly looked down to see if Kensi still slept. Sure enough, her eyes were closed, her mouth was relaxed and hanging open a little, and there may or may not have been some drool leaking out. Deeks smiled at the beautifully woman snuggled against him and then looked up to see who had been staring at them.

There stood Sam and Callen, arms crossed and amused looks on their faces. Deeks simply rolled his eyes and carefully disentangled himself from Kensi.

"Well, aren't you two sweet", Callen whispered.

Be nice Callen. You forget that Nelly and I are tight. I don't think it would take too much talking to get some dirt on you.

"Haha! Yeah, you're probably right." Callen gestured toward Kensi, "How is she?"

"She's alright. She'll be bustin' my balls soon enough."

Sam laughed at that. "Well, we just wanted to come see for ourselves that she was ok. We have some time. We can stay with her if you want to go get something to eat or something."

"That would be great guys. I actually do have some phone calls to make and an errand to run. When do you need me back?

"We're good for about an hour." Sam answered

Deeks grabbed a pad of paper and pencil out of the side table drawer and quickly jotted down a quick note for Kensi, folded it, and put it in her hand. He then kissed her forehead and headed out the door.

On the way to his first stop he called Talia. "Hey, Talia"

"Marty, Hi!"

"Hey, I just wanted to call and check in. How are things going at the beach?"

"Well, you missed all the fun. The meet went down about half an hour after you left."

"Oh man, did it go alright? I'm sorry I wasn't there to back you up."

"Yeah, it was surprisingly easy. He didn't bring any back up or anything. You know how it is. Sometimes these guys get so full of themselves they really think they are untouchable. He got sloppy."

"Well, I'm glad things worked out."

"Yeah, me too. How is Kensi?"

"She'll be ok. They are keeping her in the hospital overnight. She'll have to take things slow for the next couple of weeks, which will be really hard for her, but she'll be alright."

"Oh, good, I'm glad to hear that." Talia said. The truth was that she really was glad. She knew that if anything serious really did happen to Kensi that Deeks would be really upset and emotionally unavailable.

"Well, I better let you go. I have some things I need to do before Kensi wakes up. Talk to you later?"

"Ok, I'll call you later."

"Sounds good." Deeks answered, not realizing the hope he just gave Talia. All he could think of was Kensi and what he planned to purchase for her in the shop he just parked in front of. "Bye."

"Bye." Talia replied. When she hung up the phone she couldn't help but squeal like a teenage girl who was just asked to prom by the boy she liked. 'He wants to talk to me again! The sting is over, there isn't a work related reason to get together, but he wants me to call him! This is it! He's finally going to be mine!' she thought.

Ok, I know this was short, but I wanted to update faster than I have been. Also, just a heads up, the next chapter will be the end of the story. I could probably be talked into an epilogue though.

I am now on Tumblr as crazystorychick. Still trying to figure that site out. I'm a technology idiot, so it's slow going.