Going Undercover

Chapter 1

As on every morning, the alarm clock on their night stand woke up the two lovebirds out of a very deep sleep. Deeply cuddled into Eric's warm body, Nell was the first to slowly but surely open her eyes and couldn't help but let her right hand gently roam through her boyfriend's hair for a minute as she waited for him to open his eyes too. As Eric's eyes finally opened, he smiled shortly at her before he said: "Good morning Rockstar, I hope that you have slept well last night." She couldn't but think to herself: How I could not sleep well in these muscular arms of yours silly?

Then she finally replied: "Yes I slept very well last night and I think that I won't be able to sleep that good without you lying next to me." He softly caressed her cheek for a moment, getting lost in that wonderful looking hazel eyes of hers as he thought: If we didn't have to get up now and go to work, I would probably lay in bed most of the day with this amazing woman. As he tried to close the little distance between us and kiss her, she surprised him by laying a finger on his mouth: "No No, we have to get up now or else we're going to be late for work." Of course Nell was always the rational one in the relationship, slowly Eric got up into a sitting position, Nell pressed a short kiss on Eric's forehead after she sat next to him on the edge of the bed and then she said: "Did I ever mentioned that you look totally adorable that sleepily ?"

In return he softly started to tickle Nell, at first the Intelligence Analyst could contain herself pretty good but as Eric intensified his little tickle attack she barely could suppress her laughter. She couldn't believe how easy he could lure her in every time, Nell finally couldn't help but let out some fits of laughter and said in between laughter's: "Hey stop it Eric, that's not fair how you exploit my weaknesses." Then Nell was finally able to hit Eric's weak point, pinned him down on the bed and said with a smirk on her face: "Are you ready to give up no Beale?"

He hesitated for quite a while, thinking about the best thing to do right at this moment before he finally said: "Okay I give up, you've got me Rockstar." But as Nell extended her hand to help him up, he turned things around again and hovered over her as he started to make her laugh a lot again as he tickled her again. After a couple of tears out of pure joy had cascaded down she said, being totally out of breath: "Okay I give up, you win Beale this time." Eric couldn't help but grin in triumph, and then he finally helped her up back into a sitting position and said before she left to go into the kitchen: "Now I get some nice breakfast ready for us okay?"

He kissed her on the forehead and said: "Sounds good to me Rockstar, I'll see you in a minute." The Intelligence Analyst disappeared through the door, she finally entered the kitchen and got everything ready for some nice pancakes her favorite breakfast meal ever. Meanwhile Eric went into the bathroom, to get out some sleep out of his eyes and he couldn't but grin to himself a little as saw that picture in his head: Nell wearing one of his T-Shirts something that had surely become a habit of her since they had moved into one apartment.

Thinking about his past relationships with girls, he probably never ever had such great chemistry with any girl before Nell. Both of them exactly knew every time, when the other one needed some cheering up because did have the opportunity to get to know each other's personalities so good over the years.

Parker IT Solutions, the Office of Jennifer Parker

Being so nervous for the last couple of minutes, she had paced her office back and forth a couple of time anxiously waiting for her husband to finally arrive to their meeting. Two days ago, their suspicion that someone inside their firm was trying to sell government secrets to the highest bidder had proven to be true. The data thief had been found after a while, but a while later her husband came to her with some very shocking news to her: He had solid proof that someone from the board of directors was involved in the big data theft from the servers of their company, that was involved in some highly classified software projects for the US Navy and other government institutions. Ray Cardigan, the person that had been apprehended by the local police after the proof against him was very solid was only the fall guy so that the big number from the Board of Directors could keep his connection in the dark. Frantically she kept looking at her watch: Where the hell is he? He's already twenty minutes late and I really hope that nothing has happened to him.

She tried her best to scratch that one negative thought from her mind very quickly, because maybe she be a little bit more optimistic even if surely wasn't the easiest thing to do at this moment. To finally get her thoughts to rest for now at least, she sat back down behind her desk and tried to soothe her mind just a little bit by enjoying the wonderful view out of her office.

In the parking garage

Lying directly next to his car was the lifeless body of Jason Parker who had been surprised by the killer in the darkness of the parking garage. His boss surely had been very mad at him because of the fact, that Parker had been able to acquire the data that established the link between him and the big data theft: Ron Mason, who had always thought that the company would be better off with him as the CEO.

Back in Jennifer Parkers office she tried to call the cell phone of her husband but as she kept getting the mailbox she was getting pretty much worried about him.

AN: Since I love to write so much about this ship, I recently decided to write another Neric story and I hope you like the first chapter. Please read and review