Category Archives: Marty Deeks
My Decidedly Deeks’ Wish List for Season Five by @Phillydi
Decidedly Deeks Mini Fan Fic by Kadiedid
A Hazard of the Job
by Kadiedid
(Editors Note: This story takes place right before Deeks goes undercover as Max Gentry in Parley)
“Really Kens, I’m fine,” Deeks insisted as he sat on his couch and stared at the blank TV.
Kensi had turned it off in frustration when she couldn’t get him to talk. Deeks not talking. It was a strange concept to say the least.
“If I said I was ‘fine’ there is no way you would let it go and you know it. Talk to me, Deeks,” she said softly, in hopes he would finally open up about what was bothering him. He had been distant and quiet for a few weeks and she was going to get to the bottom of it one way or another.
“Kens, there’s nothing to tell. I’m fine… I mean good. Why do you keep asking what’s wrong?”
“Because you don’t talk anymore. Because you avoid me after work and because you look at me like you’re in trouble,” she said worried.
She had barged into his apartment when he had declined to join her for a burger after work for the umpteenth time to find him drinking a beer on his couch, staring at the ceiling.
“I can’t take this anymore, Deeks. You’re keeping something from me and I can’t help you if you won’t let me.”
“Who says I need your help? I told you to drop it, Kens,” he said angrily.
“Fine. You don’t need my help. I can deal with that. What I can’t deal with is the loss of my best friend,” she spat. “I’ll leave you to do whatever it is you were doing. I have to go.” She stood quickly and stalked toward the door, hoping to get out before her emotions took total control of her heart.
“Kensi, wait!” he said as he jumped up and followed her to the door.
She stopped but wouldn’t turn to face him. She waited for him to speak.
“I’m sorry,” he said quietly.
“Sorry for what?” she whispered.
He reached for her arm and turned her to face him. He was surprised to see what could only be described as tears in her eyes.
“I’m sorry for putting you through this.” He reached up as if he was about to brush her cheek but suddenly stopped and dropped his hands. “I wish I could tell you but I can’t.”
“Why not? I don’t understand.”
“Do you trust me, Kens?” he asked softly.
“You know I do, Deeks but evidently you don’t trust me,” she said sadly.
“That’s not true,” he said as he sighed. “I trust you with my life, Kens. With… with everything.” He looked at her worried face and slowly put his hands in his pockets as if he was afraid he might touch her. “I’ve been asked to work on an undercover assignment for Granger and he told me not to tell anyone about anything, especially you. I don’t like it, but just telling you what I have could get me fired and I don’t want to give Granger an excuse to split us up. Please, please trust me. I’ll tell you about it when I can, OK?”
Kensi felt as if a knife had been shoved into her heart. ‘What kind of undercover assignment?’ ‘Why had Granger left her out?’ ‘Was it dangerous?’
Suddenly she understood.
There was a woman involved.
Instinctively she had known but didn’t want to acknowledge the signs. It unfortunately explained his strange behavior of late. But why did it bother her? She had no claim to him or what he did in his spare time. Or did she?
There was nothing she could do but nod her head in agreement. He reached over to open the door and waited for her to walk through it. He closed it behind them then walked with her to her car.
“See you tomorrow,” she said flatly.
He hesitated for a moment as if he had more to say, then looked away and sighed.
“I’ve got to go to work. Goodnight, Kens.”
She watched with a heavy heart as he trudged toward his car and drove off into the night.
@DeeksFreak
Welcome to Karen, aka Katiedid as a new member of Team Deeks! We hope to see a lot more of her work on the pages of Decidedly Deeks in the future!
Congratulations to Evi! She is our winner of What Was in the BOX Contest! We agree there doesn’t need to be anything in the box! Obviously Deeks doesn’t care anyway or he would have opened it by now. It was all in the game! Although, Eric Christian Olsen revealed this week that he actually knows what is in the box and that it will be revealed sometime this season!
Evi: Please send your name and address to diane@ncislamagazine.com and we’ll send a Decidedly Deeks wrist band out to you!
Decidedly Deeks: The Birthday That Kensi Forgot
@DeeksFreak
The Birthday That Kensi Forgot
by @Phillydi
For Marty Deeks, this year was the birthday celebration that never was. While on a mission with Kensi, he hinted and danced around the fact that January 8th was a special day! As usual, Kensi wasn’t paying Deeks’ ramblings too much attention and she certainly wasn’t picking up on any birthday hints he was lobbing from the passenger side of the car:
Deeks: They found the key to the evidence they were looking for in a birthday card! Isn’t that amazing?
Kensi barely raised an eyebrow.
After a long day of chasing down bad guys, Deeks overhears Kensi making reservations for dinner that evening. Of course, Deeks is thinking…. She remembered!….Happy birthday to me! He even disappears to put on a clean shirt in anticipation of his birthday celebration date with Kensi. Unfortunately, an intimate birthday dinner was not in the cards for Marty Deeks because Kensi made plans to go out to dinner instead with her partner in crime, Jaime! As Hetty asks Sam to open up a bottle of campaign in celebration of Deeks’ birthday, Kensi is surprisingly embarrassed:
Kensi: I thought it was January 18!
Deeks: Are you serious? But it’s my birthday!?
The expression on Deeks face was heart breaking when he finally realizes Kensi really did forget his birthday and had made plans to go out with someone else. He still doesn’t believe it when he asks:
Deeks: “Hey! I’m the one that’s going to dinner, right?”
Well, at least Hetty remembered his special day and Deeks would have to be satisfied with the bubbly and a quiet night at home alone.
@DeeksFreak
Marty Deeks is a typical Capricorn and despite being disappointed by Kensi’s inattentiveness, he’s a patient man and knows that eventually time is on his side. He’s finally rewarded when a box shows up one day on Kensi’s desk. The infamous box has gone down in NCISLA lore to become a metaphor for the Densi relationship. When Kensi finally gives him the belated birthday present, Deeks decides not to open the box because the gift was in the giving. He doesn’t need to know what was in the container nor does he want to know. It was given to him by Kensi and that would be enough for him. According to Shane Brennan the box will remain where Deeks left it in plain sight, in every episode until he opens it… if at all.
In the spirit of NCISLA Magazine’s birthday celebration we want to know what do you think Kensi bought Deeks for his birthday? The most original idea will get a Decidedly Deeks wrist band! So in the words of Marty Deeks:
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
Please leave your birthday present ideas in the comments below or click on the word comments….
