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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 10:20am on 05/05/2010 under , , ,
Title: Blood Rising
Fandom/Character: NCIS: LA/Kensi Blye
Rating: Teen
Words: 450
Spoilers/Warnings: This is… not merry. Spoilers for the episode first aired May 4th 2010.
Summary: Kensi's punching bag is in her apartment.



Sam would be using the bag at the office, Kensi knew, Callum sitting somewhere nearby, watching, feeling helpless. Helpless to do anything more for Sam than he'd done, helpless to do anything at all for Dom. They'd found him—finally found him—and now he was gone again. No hope this time of getting him back.

Sam would be using the bag at the office, but Kensi had a bag of her own.

She didn't wrap her hands or put on her gloves—reckless, but not careless or forgetful—she wanted to feel every strike.

The first blow was a jolt, the second a slap, but by the third, each one was a balm. Sound, sensation, shock, muscles moving, jab jab, jab jab, kick. Over and over until she wasn't anything but the puffy, aching skin over her knuckles and the bruises on her shin bones waiting to rise to the surface. Over and over until she could no longer see the pool of red spreading under Dom's head.

When she couldn't stand anymore, Kensi sat, all at once, hugging the bag to her chest, letting it hold her weight. Her phone rang six times and went to voice mail. Her cell beeped. Sometime later, it beeped again.

When she couldn't sit anymore, Kensi dragged herself upright, praying she'd set the bolts deep enough in the ceiling beam, praying Dom hadn't suff—just praying.

It hurt to walk, hurt to breathe, but she walked, and she dragged air into her lungs and let it out again and she didn't let herself see the headscarf soaked in Dom's blood in the red-checked dish towel hanging on the stove when she walked past the kitchen.

A shower seemed impossible, so Kensi filled the bath, standing with her back to the mirror watching it fill, seeing nothing but the shadows the water's turbulence cast on the bottom of the tub. At some point between when it was empty and when it was full, Kensi peeled off her clothes and climbed in. The water stung her shins and turned her hands into throbbing agony. She let them soak.

When the water went cold, Kensi turned on the shower and opened the drain. The jets landed on her belly and her pubic bone, tickly-tingly heat. Unbidden, her hips shifted, her legs spread, just enough that the water fell on her clit. A different kind of jolt. More blood rising to the surface.

It wasn't what she wanted, didn't feel right or even good, but Kensi didn't move and didn't shut off the water. She breathed, and rocked her hips, and stared at the cracked tile next to her shower caddy, and let her body have its physiological response to the stimulation.

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posted by [personal profile] sylvanwitch at 05:41pm on 05/05/2010
This is dark, hon, but also really vivid and evocative of Kensi's likely response to grief, the urge to isolate herself, to be strong and powerful, and to work out her helplessness until she was physically exhausted. The final punishment of unwanted orgasm is so fitting, too.

Bravo!
 
posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 06:11pm on 05/05/2010
I just... When she sat down on the steps after G shook his head at her, I knew I had to write this for today. Sam has no room in his rage and grief for anyone but G, G has no room in his anything for anyone but Sam, even himself, most of the time, and the others had to watch on the screen, sure, but they weren't there and they aren't field agents, and yeah. I needed to write this. I wasn't really sure how I felt about taking it to the MMoM place, but in the end, even that seemed how it should go.

Thank you for reading! and your lovely (as always) comment <33
 
posted by [identity profile] ceares.livejournal.com at 07:20am on 09/05/2010
this is terrific. heartbreaking and very much in character and the perfect coda for the episode. (um sort of wandered here from several places by the by)
 
posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 07:51am on 09/05/2010
Thank you so much, both for reading and for your lovely comment. I needed more for all of them after that episode, but especially for Kensi.
 
posted by [identity profile] alizarin-nyc.livejournal.com at 09:33pm on 11/06/2010
Nice work on Kensi. I have really come to like this character and I can totally see the dark underneath.
 
posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 03:47am on 12/06/2010
I wasn't sure about her when they first had her; they seemed to be treating her a little like the "little girl" but she soon totally came into her own and became the kick-ass agent that I thought she could be. I really needed to see more of her from this episode. Thank you so much for reading!

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