A Little Warning

A/N- I'm so sorry for not posting anything in a while, but I promise that I have a multi chapter story coming soon. Also I have a poll on my profile for your favourite character.

I wrote this in an hour and a half so please don't judge but I always love reviews.

TheAlphabetSong xx

She slammed the door in his face, "look, Eric I don't want to talk about it, it was a long time ago and it's over now, it was over long before I started at NCIS," Nell explained in a not so calm, very loud voice, not necessarily because she was angry becuase she had put a varnished piece of wood between them.

"Have you seen the way you look at him?" Eric questioned knowing he probably looked like an idiot shouting at someone through a door at eleven o'clock at night.

Eric heard a thump from the otherside of the door, either Nell had kicked it, which was highly unlikely or she had leaned her head back into it and slid to the bottom of the door so she was sitting on the floor.

"You don't understand," she said with a slightly softer tone but she was still yelling.

"What's not to understand? Four years, four years we have worked side-by-side and you never happened to tell me that he proposed?"

"Nate and I..." her voice had lowered so that he had to focus to actually understand what she was saying, "We only worked when we were in College, when we were still discovering ourselves, and it was just so out of the blue when he proposed... I didn't know what to say, and then a week later I decided not to go through with it," Nell explained with tears in her voice now.

"And I'm betting that you now regret it. I've seen you two, flirting away without a care of who's in the room," Eric argued, the hurt in his voice as clear as window pane.

"You still don't understand," she repeated in a small voice.

Hearing Nell like that broke Eric, it was like they were connected somehow. When Nell crumbled, Eric cracked too. He gave up on arguing, it was like a blunt pencil, useless and going nowhere.

"Then help me understand," Eric said softly.

He heard scuffing from the otherside of the door, and was surprised when the door opened to find Nell with a waterfall of tears down her face. She held the door open for him and lead him into her lounge room. She motioned for him to sit on the couch and she sat down next to him, crossing her legs and facing him.

"No one else in the team ever mentioned anything about you and Nate having a connection," Eric stated.

"Because you were the only one who saw it," Nell replied slowly.

Eric looked confused.

"Do I actually need to spell it out for you?" Nell asked rhetorically, " I only flirted with Nate in front of you, I only sent the flowers to myself to see how you would react. I only told you that I had been on a date to read your facial expression. I kissed you under the mistletoe to see if there was actually a connection."

Eric looked star-struck, "I-... how... Why did it take an argument for you to tell me?" Eric wondered aloud, before expanding, " Nell, you are the most beautiful, confident, intelligent person I have ever met and I know for a fact that I am not good at showing my feelings, but I can't believe I didn't catch on earlier," he said finally looking at her.

Watching her process the information and adding together everything. He could pinpoint the moment she figured everything out and her brain ticked to a halt.

She snaked her arm around his neck and pulled her lips to hers. The first time she kissed Eric she hadn't given him anytime to respond, nor act on her sudden bold movement. This time it was different, it was almost as if he was expecting her to kiss him. Having Eric actually move instead of stand there processing what was going on was one of the best experiences of her life, one question she still had; how was Eric this good at kissing and why had she put it off this long.

He pulled her closer to him with one hand and caressed her cheek with the other, his fingertips sliding slightly under her hair. Everything, every emotion, every argument, every professional opinion, every difference in methodologies; all the jealousy was worth the payout.

If Nell's mind hadn't been made up before it was now, kissing Eric was definitely the best decesion she'd made this week.

Breaking unwillingly apart from each other, still close enough that their noses were touching, they took a few moments to recover some air.

Nell was the first to break the silence, "wow," she breathed, "that was different to under the mistletoe."

"Well, it helps to have a couple seconds warning," Eric commented, with his usual tone of voice back.

"And now I wonder why we put this off."

"Well, let's not put it off any longer,"Eric said before dragging her lips back to his.

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