Chapter 1

"Deeks, baby, stay awake. Look at me. Don't close your eyes." Kensi said, as she frantically tried to keep Deeks conscious.

"So cold." He mumbled.

"I know, but just focus on my voice. I love you so much and everything is gonna be ok. Just stay awake."

Deeks eyelids started growing heavier and they started to close.

"Dammit! Eric, where is that ambulance?" Kensi said frustratedly into the com.

"They're still 5 minutes out."

"He doesn't have 5 minutes. He's already lost a lot of blood." Even with Kensi holding pressure, he'd still lost about 4 units at least.

6 hours earlier

It'd been a fairly normal day in the Deeks household. Kensi was woken up by an energetic toddler, and Deeks made breakfast for said toddler while Kensi got said toddler ready. After the toddler was ready, she ate the breakfast that Deeks made her, and then was picked up by the babysitter and taken to daycare.

Kensi and Deeks got nearly two hours of peace and quiet the morning. The were able to take their sweet time getting ready and they were even doing something else.

They'd been trying for another baby for a few months now, and they had sex anywhere they could. There was no exception for that morning. They'd actually been about 15 minutes late because they'd had steamy shower sex.

"Case on deck." Eric called down from the balcony.

The team went upstairs to Ops and waited to be briefed.

"Meet Petty Officer 1st Class June Carson. She was sadly killed in her home around 4 this morning."

"Does she have any family?" Callen asked.

"She's been married to fellow Petty Officer 1st class Michael Carson. They have 3 children together. Michael just got home deployment last week."

"Is LAPD with him?" Deeks asked.

"Yeah, he's pretty distraught and he's also the prime suspect. He was the only one at home other than the children at the time of the murder."

"How old are the kids?" Sam asked.

"2, 5, and 14. One boy and two girls."

"Do they own any guns, assuming that was the murder weapon?" Kensi spoke up.

"That was the murder weapon and I'm not sure. Do you and Deeks want to go question the husband?"

"Callen?" Deeks asked, looking for approval.

"Yeah. You and Kensi take the crime scene. Sam and I will stay here with Eric and see what we can find out about Petty Officer Carson."

"Ok."

Kensi and Deeks headed over to the crime scene, to speak with the husband.

"We're so sorry for your loss, Officer Carson." Kensi said, sympathetically.

"Mike, please. And thank you."

"I know this is hard, but is there anyway you can think of that would've wanted to kill your wife?" Deeks asked.

"No. June was a loving, caring person. She didn't have any enemies."

"Can you tell us what your remember about this morning?"

"June had gotten up to check on our two year old son, Tate. I heard what sounded like the front door creek open. I didn't think anything off it because sometimes June would take Tate outside for some fresh air. Then I heard a bang that I knew was a gunshot. I ran out to the living room and I found her laying on the floor, with a bullet hole in her head."

"Did you see the shooter?"

"No. They'd already left by the time I got to her."

"Did they leave anything behind?"

"No. Not that I know of."

"Ok, thank you so much. You were a big help." Kensi said, as they left the house.

"So, what're you thinking?" Deeks asked Kensi as they sat in the car.

"I think he did it. What about you?"

"Same. I think he's the murderer."

The couple drove back to Ops and relayed the information to the rest of the team.

"Did you guys find anything?" Kensi asked.

"We sure did. June has been sending encrypted messages to a John Doe via Email. These messages are pretty steamy once they're decrypted. It seems as though she was having a super secret affair with a super secret someone." Jill, the new Intel operator, said. Jill was standing in for Nell while she was on maternity leave.

"And we don't know who this dude is?" Deeks asked.

"Nope. He's running under an anonymous username. We'll figure it out." Eric announced.

And sure enough, they did. Eric was able to get a name in an hour.

"Meet one Oliver Brown. He's married, no kids, and he's a cardiac surgeon at Pacific Beach Medical. This is the John Doe who was having an affair with June Carson."

"We'll go pick him up. You two can question him in the boat shed." Callen said.

Kensi and Deeks headed over to the boat shed to wait for Sam and Callen to bring in the suspect.

"That sex this morning was something else. It was crazy. You haven't been that passionate in a long time." Deeks said, out of the blue.

"Yeah, that's because I'm usually too tired. Hopefully the passion made a difference though. I kind of feel like all of this sex is for nothing." Kensi replied.

"For nothing?" Deeks asked, sounding a little hurt.

"Not for nothing, necessarily. I just mean that I'm frustrated. We've been having sex almost every other day for over four months and I'm still not pregnant. I'm starting to think maybe something's wrong." She explained.

"Kensi, you're past 40. The doctor said it could take time to get pregnant." He rationalized.

"I know, but still. Maybe we should look into IVF or even adoption. Maybe we just waited too late to have another baby naturally."

"It's only been 4 months, let's give it some more time."

"We're not getting any younger."

"I know. Let's give it until the 6 month mark. Then we can get some professional help. Ok?"

"Ok." She sighed.

The couple continued to chat about random things until Sam and Callen finally arrived with the suspect.

"He's all yours'."

Kensi and Deeks went into the interrogation room. Kensi took a seat across from the suspect, while Deeks took his usual spot by the door.

"So, let's cut straight to the chase. We know you've been having an affair with June Carson." Kensi said.

"I don't know what you're talking about." The suspect said, lying though his yellow teeth.

"Really? That's funny because we found dozens of emails to her tracing back to you and vise versa. These emails have been going on for months. So you want to try that again?" Deeks said.

"Alright, fine. June and I have been having affair. We met when her father went in for open heart surgery about 5 months ago. It's against policy to date your patients, but not your patients' families. It was just talking at first, but then it went to more."

"Did you know that she's a married mother of three?"

"Yeah, she told me. She said she was gonna leave her husband within a year. Said things had been over for a long time. Said their long distance marriage wasn't working. She was gonna take the kids, and come live with me."

"She confessed all of that too you, and you didn't even protest?"

"Why would I? I was in love with her."

"Were? What happened?"

"She told her husband she wanted a divorce and he went crazy. He requested leave from the military and then once he got home, he started being very suspicious of everything she did. He didn't trust her anymore. The last time I saw her was 2 days ago. She told me she was gonna stay with her husband, and that we couldn't keep having an affair."

"June was found dead in her home early this morning, around 4. Where were you at 4am?"

"I was at home, in bed with my wife."

"Can she attest to that?"

"Yeah."

Kensi and Deeks left him in the room, and went to talk to Callen and Sam.

"Do you think he's telling the truth?" Sam asked.

"There's only one way to find out." Deeks said.

"We'll go talk to the wife. You bring in Michael Carson. He is now the prime suspect." Callen said.

"On it." Kensi said, as he and Deeks left the boat shed.

Kensi and Deeks drove back over to the Carson house and were surprised at what happened next.

"Deeks." Kensi whispered. The front door was slightly open and there was sign of forced entry. Kensi and Deeks whipped out their guns, and slowly opened the door.

"Federal agents! Freeze!" Kensi yelled. Before them was the Carsons' eldest child, 14 year old Carly, standing over her father with a gun in her hand. Michael had a bullet hole in his head.

Of course, Carly started running as soon and Kensi and Deeks walked in.

What happened next was unexpected to say the least.

Carly shot at Deeks, and Deeks went down instantly. Kensi dropped down with him and immediately told Eric to send an ambulance and get Sam and Callen to find Carly.