Marty Deeks - season 4
lulabo:#look #I didn’t want to queue this #because I’ve queued a lot of this #but then I’m looking at it #and there’s the contrast between hot for your bod and seducing you via tie #and finally able to be close to you and adoring you via tie #and it gives me too many feelings #also the repeated action of smoothing his tie down in the exact same way after kissing #and I’m just thinking of Lizzie getting home first #and getting in her jams and crashing on the couch #and he comes home #and he comes to sit with her #and they talk about their days #and she just plays with his tie #because that’s what she does #it’s this fond absent-minded thing she does #and he never tells her how much he loves it #because he doesn’t want to make her self-conscious#but he’s super into it #her hands #his tie #and it’s never not sexy when she takes off his ties for him #even when she’s doing it for non-sexy reasons #because it will always remind him of costume theatering Lizzie and their first week together and good things #SO OBVIOUSLY I HAVE TO QUEUE IT #fuckers #lizzie bennet diaries#lizzie x darcy #the tie thing
10 Day Shipping Challenge
Day Four - Favourite MomentThis was the hardest decision. Ever! There are so many wonderful moments, across every season. I almost went for their recent play fight, but in the end I settled on this. It’s such a perfect microcosm of their relationship; there is story, emotion, and - of course - laughs throughout the whole episode. I chose to gif this simply because a) the note he writes is fantastic, and perfect, and everything. And b) he doesn’t even let her finish asking if he thinks she is a murderer. Doesn’t even let the sentence finish. For everything that Kensi goes through in the two-parter, in this scene Deeks tells her that he’s got her back no matter what, but also manages to lighten the load just enough to not crush her spirit.
10 Day Shipping Challenge
Day Five - Sad MomentOh God, why? Why, God. why? Let’s split this down into why it’s sad:
KENSI
Kensi, especially back here in early season three, was never sure of her feelings for Deeks, they’ve always been conflicted. So when he gets fired for shooting an unarmed man, she figures “Hey, there’s something here. I’m not sure what, but we don’t have the pressure of being partners getting in the way any more. Let’s maybe see if there can be something more between us than the tension and the flirty banter.” So she goes for it… and he practically shoots her down cold. Hell, he even puts his box o’ stuff in front of him as a shield. And as the scene continues, it’s basically like he’s giving her one heck of a brush off; he’ll call her, that sort of thing. So poor Kensi, who didn’t know where she stood anyway, has gotta be questioning herself, thinking “Well, maybe I misread the signs? Maybe I just imagined the whole thing, and we’re nothing more than just partners.” And when he leaves, she’s still no closer to having a straight answer, which screws with her for the rest of the episode.
DEEKS
Dude. How awkward must that have been. Deeks is a pretty empathetic guy, and he can read Kensi pretty well. And he knows exactly what’s coming. Hell, he even tries to cut her off, hiding behind his box. Because he knows what she’s going to say, and he knows that he can’t let her finish it; he knows the truth, that he’s not fired, and that they’re having to play with Kensi’s reactions to get what they want. He tries, in so many tiny little subtle ways, to not give it away, but when she says “And it’s over now!” he almost breaks. He knows they’re on two vastly different places; she thinks he’s gone for good, while he knows he isn’t. And it hurts him that not only does he have to toy with her emotions to establish his cover, but he needs to close that door firmly. Not only deceive her about his status, but about any feelings he may have too. As hard as it is on her, it’s twice as hard on him, cause he can’t be honest.
BONUS COMMENTS
1) I love the choice of “hoped” here. They could have gone for any other word - thought, expected. But they didn’t. Kensi HOPED that something might happen.
2) Her face through the whole thing is… ugh. Why? Why, God, why?







