Chapter 3
Flashback
A couple of years ago, long before Nell began her career at NCIS she worked for a software development firm in Seattle. In the past she had been a little bit troubled by some yet unknown person that was stalking her for a short while now. She had tried really hard not to worry about all this so much, just thinking to herself: Maybe he will give up on his own, if I don't pay him the attention which he desires so much to get from me.
Nell's train of thought was suddenly interrupted as her good friend and colleague Laura arrived at her desk with a little concerned look on her face: "Hey Nell is everything alright, because you seem...a little bit off today." Nell tried now her best to make her good friend from work forget about her worries with the best fake smile that she could do right now and finally replied: "I assure you that everything is totally fine but thanks for asking." Of course Laura didn't let her fool by this little scheme and replied: "Nell I just know you too well to say, that this is not the truth and you know that you can talk to me about everything." Nell sighed and like most of the time she really hated the fact that she was like an open book to Laura but she finally admitted: "Okay fine, I have the gut feeling that someone has started to stalk me just recently. For example: There has been a car standing near to my house that I've never seen before in my street and I think that I heard someone creeping around in front of my apartment."
"That's horrible Nell; I would go to police with this because you really have to do something." You could see from the look on her face that Nell wasn't so much a fan of that idea so she said: "But I practically haven nothing solid, the police are probably going to laugh at me."
"Yeah maybe you're right but please do me at least favor: take care of yourself and if you maybe have something solid then call me, don't be foolish and try to do something about it on your own okay?" Nell promised her friend to do that and then she finally got back to her work.
End Flashback
One day later, Nell and Eric sat together at the breakfast table both of them eating bread with butter and marmalade on it and drunk some coffee. Coffee was that second "addiction" that they both shared besides Oreos and right now both of them were really busy with reading some of the interesting articles in the daily newspaper, which they were sharing every morning at breakfast.
Meanwhile Steve Marks was on the phone with his good friend the former CIA Agent Joe Fredrickson: "Joe its Steve I need a little favor from you?" Joe of course now was very anxious to know what that would be and so he replied without much hesitation: "It will be my pleasure to be to your service my old friend, what can I do for you?"
"I need as much information as you can get about Nell Jones, where her lives now and if there's a man in her life right now." Steve really hoped that Joe could make of his still active informant net that he had at his disposal in retirement and he was confident that he could get him the information that he needed. Joe hadn't expected that Steve would require his services again and of course he would not ask why his old friend would want to find this person, because his primary rule was when doing business: Don't ask any questions.
"I will get right to it and call you again as soon as one of my sources has something for me." Joe replied and hoped that Steve was satisfied with this answer.
"Sounds good and thanks in advance for the help Joe." Steve answered back and then he finally ended the call with his old friend. Back at Nell's and Eric's shared apartment the two geeks were busy with getting ready for a new day at work in the NCIS OSP and like most of the time Nell had a hard time in choosing the outfit for the day. With Eric's help with she finally narrowed down to two nice looking dresses and decided to wear the brown outfit today.
Meanwhile Eric of course wear his usual outfit: some khaki shorts and a matching t-shirt and after it had been weird to see him walking around like that at work, she really had to admit that she had started to really love it after a while and even just maybe a little bit sexy. She finally turned around to face Eric, who clearly was speechless for a moment and then finally said: "You look amazing as always Rockstar."
"Thanks Wolfram and you look very….sexy too." Nell replied with a little grin on her face and then she left the room to put on her shoes for work with Eric following closely behind. Eric of course was the last to leave the apartment, holding the door for Nell as always and for a moment he was drooling a little bit over his girlfriend's outfit. But he quickly recollected himself as they had finally reached Nell's red mini cooper, he getting into the car at last and then the two began the drive to work. Nell of course switched on the radio, maybe singing along to a song that she liked and he really loved hearing her singing, even if she kept saying that was such a bad singer. Eric watched her for a little bit, singing along to a song on the radio while she was concentrating on the traffic on the road at the same like the perfect multi task person that she was.
Later that day Joe had finally heard back from one of his sources, receiving a first e-mail with some details on Nell Jones. The contact wrote that he had to dig for a while to find this, because she worked for the top secret NCIS Undercover Branch but knowing the right people with high positions didn't make that much of a difficulty. "Thanks to the first information on our newest target, we know that a red Mini Cooper is registered to her with this license plate." Joe said to one of his men, which did the dirty work for him most of the time and handed him a sheet of paper with the information that they had right now.
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