Volume 1
Edition 6
Our readers have voted for their favorite Haiku and congratulations go out to @OSPliasion! Here’s the winning Haiku:
What is in the box?
Love, sunshine and gunpowder.
My favorite things.
@OSPliasion wins an autograph picture of Eric Christian Olsen in Fired Up! Thanks go out to everyone who participated and to all of our five finalists: Callen 37, Alex Noble, AJ, Elizabeth Turner. You did a great job! We’ll have more contests in the future…be sure to stay tuned!
Mini FanFic:
Partners for the Evening
by Sweet Lu
“Don’t move, Mr. Deeks.”
“No problem there, Hetty,” he replied, gritting out the words as he tried to stop the bleeding from the bullet wound in his leg.
“I think I hit one of them,” she whispered, taking a quick look around the darkened living room of the safe house from her position on the floor beside her wounded agent.
“So, not as friendly as you thought, yeah?” he said, his voice weaker than just a minute ago.
She turned to him then, able to see the pallor of his skin, even in the dim light. Her anger almost got the better of her as she recalled her invitation to the young man to join her for a meeting with a couple of former Russian agents with sensitive information to sell. She thought it would give him a bit more experience to watch how she handled negotiations. She had known the men years ago, when she was with the CIA, and had always gotten useful information from them after the fall of the Soviet Union. The meeting had started cordially, but it was the woman that came with them that had worried her almost immediately. She had never met her before and her instincts flared a warning when they shook hands. She had noticed the same wariness from Deeks and had felt a tinge of pride. His acute awareness had saved her life when the woman pulled a gun and began shooting. Deeks had pushed her out of the line of fire, and the bullet meant for her was now lodged in his thigh.
“Did you send an agent in distress signal?” he asked.
She nodded as a quick movement to their left had them both turning and firing and the grunt they heard let them know they had hit their target.
“You cannot escape, Henrietta,” a voice called out.
The loud explosion of gunfire from two directions caught them in a crossfire. Deeks managed to cover Hetty with his body as he fired back, but his energy was soon gone and she could hear his labored breathing from the blood loss and pain.
“Don’t pass out on me, Mr. Deeks,” she said softly as the firing stopped.
“Wouldn’t leave a lady in distress, Hetty,” he managed to say.
“The team should be here shortly,” she said, trying to comfort them both.
“They’re gonna be mad at us, aren’t they?” he said, and then hissed in pain.
“Mr. Deeks?”
“I’m still with you,” he whispered.
“Mr. Callen will have some choice words, I’m sure,” she grumbled and heard the detective snort out a laugh.
Shouts of NCIS and gunshots suddenly filled the room and the lights came on, illuminating the blood that saturated the floor and the ragged jeans on Deeks’ unconscious body. She reached out and touched him and he stirred and struggled to sit up.
“You okay, Hetty?” he asked, his blue eyes flashing as he brought his weapon up.
“Thanks to you, I am, Mr. Deeks.”
That was a great mini fic, Lindy! Deeks, such a gentleman to save Hetty’s life and then still doing his best to protect her even while injured. And it was nice to see inside Hetty’s thoughts towards Deeks.
Hermosa historia !!! felicidades a Sweet Lu es una gran escritora “PURO TALENTO”, demas esta decir que amo a Deeks ! besos desde argentina!
A mini fic very pretty.
Hetty & Martin.
They are a bit partners, a bit mom and son. Great chemistry.
I’d like to see them in one episode.
Hi from Roma.
Monty
fantastic mini fic
Thanks for all your kind words in response to this tiny little story. I love Hetty and Deeks together. I translated the spanish comment and graciously accept the kisses from Argentina. Gracias.
Good story as always – not that I’m surprised.
Thanks go out to all who participated in the contest. Another great story from Sweet
Lu and big thanks to Mr. Olsen who gave us a thumbs up yesterday onTwitter!
I really liked OSPliasion’s winning Haiku – well done!!
And kudos to Sweet Lu for an excellent mini fic!! I just love Deeks and Hetty scenes on the show and would pay good money to have an episode devoted to just Hetty and Deeks with a side helping of a certain G Callen for good measure!! Thanks for the great fic!!
That would be an awesome episode too!!
I think Sweet Lu is my fave fanfic writer in this genre!! Great story and I always love Hetty and Deeks partner fics.
I am so bad at remembering names of the stories she writes, but the one where Deeks and Hetty team up while Deeks is injured is my second favorite of her stories! My first fave is Going Dark 🙂
Thank you Carrie. I appreciate your kind words. The story I wrote about Hetty and Deeks is called “Treasures”.
Kudos to the awesome haiku writers! Lots of creativity there.
And, Sweet Lu? I want to be able to write like you when I grow up.
So good of you to say, Keviana, but I think you are doing just fine, considering you’re on my favorites list and you are writing one of my favorite stories..”Pure Agony”. That is one amazing story!
Yes! I love that story! we need some updates 🙂
Wow, thank you!
Doing my best to get you some updates, you can be sure. (;
I’m really sorry that I haven’t said thank you here on the mag yet but only on Twitter.
Thank you all who participated for your lovely Haiku.
Thank you all who have voted.
Thank you all who have voted for me. I still have no idea why you liked mine so much 😉
And also thank you @ncislamagazine for writing this tweet that made ECO himself answer. Boom!
It was a great Haiku!! Thank you for writing it!