Chapter 11

Nell surveyed Eric without wanting him to notice it and deep down she had a gut feeling that something was really bothering right now and of course she asked herself, if she should try to get him to open to her. The two continued to eat in silence, Nell finally deciding not to talk about whatever was on his mind right now because she really didn't want to force him to reveal anything of his inner thoughts to her.

He will certainly come and talk to me when he thinks that the time is right, I totally respect that because we just have to build the trust in each other because of his memory loss.

One Week later

Eric was now at least psychically back to a hundred percent and it definitely made him very to finally get rid of the crutches. Some more memories would come back over the week, like the first day of Nell at NCIS and that the two had their difficulties at the beginning because of Nell's little personality flaws. Deeks was also happy to hear, that Eric now finally remembered him again and as the whole team sat together in their favorite bar one evening Deeks asks: "I guess I can speak for everybody in the team that we are really happy to see you walking without that ugly crutches, how are feeling right now buddy?" The tech had smile on his face, yes it really was a great thing to finally get rid of the crutches and now he just wanted one thing: Get back the rest of his memories, especially those that involved Nell.

He finally then replied: "I'm feeling better than after the first day of the accident but I just wish that I would also get back the rest of my memories, because as I looked through the various photos of events that I don't remember yet, I feel somehow very incomplete." In the end was very glad for the support of all his colleagues and before he had been released out of hospital, he had and Doctor Myers had made an appointment for a check- up back at the hospital in three weeks so that the Doctor could check how good the injuries had healed since his release from the hospital.

Eric would of course be happy to report the great progress that he made with the help of Nell to get back so much wonderful memories, even if there was still some surely memorable moments that he had with Nell that he wasn't able to remember just yet. "Yeah I can't how hard this must be, but I promise you one thing: The whole team will be there for you to support you and together we will get through this difficult time buddy." The LAPD Liaison Officer said and patted his colleague shortly on the back. "Very well said Deeks, I didn't know that you could say such insightful things and now a toast to Eric." Callen and the others lifted their glasses on by one and deep down Eric was kind of touched a little bit by this very nice gesture from his teammates.

Nell smiled at Eric as the their two glasses touched shortly, the two of them had grown a lot closer the past week and he said after both of them had shortly sipped on their glasses, Eric said: "Thank you…Nell for everything." Nell shortly blushed because of that, even if she didn't know why she was acting like some freshly in love teenager again but then she finally replied: "You're welcome Eric, besides my family and the rest of the team you have become such an important person to me and I'm so glad that I could be such of great help for you the past week. " The two then shortly hugged each other, Eric didn't feel a bit uncomfortable as he did at the beginning, and he felt very secure in her arms and enjoyed every minute of it.

Unnoticed to the two techs, the rest of the team watched them interact with each other and all of them were really happy to see things between the two geeks were slowly but surely going back to normal. The team kept on talking for quite some time, till the most of them except of Nell and Eric parted ways and Nell said as they were finally alone at table: "This was a really nice evening; I love just hanging out with the team outside of the work environment."

"I can't wait to get back to work and of course I missed it a lot to spend some time with the team outside of work." Eric replied and even spending time with Nell at home was great, he had missed work very much from the first day he had finally left the hospital. The two finally then emptied their drinks, together they walked to Nell's red mini cooper and on the drive Eric was very much busy with thinking about the one question, that bugging him for quite some time: When would he finally get back the rest of his memory?

They didn't stay awake for that long on that evening because both of them got tired really quick, Nell being the first falling asleep on Eric's shoulder, he smiled shortly as he looked at her sleeping peaceful looking form and went through her hair with one hand. Finally his eyes also closed even if he had tried very hard to fight against it but his dream wasn't that peaceful as he had wanted.

Flashback

He was walking down a street with coffees in his hands, as he looked down to his shoes he realized that the shoe lace of his right shoe was open. A car was nowhere to be seen so he reached down to his shoes quickly to take of the little problem, but before he could get up he just felt a huge pain and quickly all around him went black, the last picture he saw was coffee being spilled all over the street.

End Flashback

Now also some other short sequences kept flashing back in his mind, all that happened at this one catastrophic day but one picture scaring him the most: He practically flying through the air for a few seconds and as he landed on the floor he had a big wound at his forehead. With a scream he jolted awake, what made Nell wake up immediately and so she quickly came into the living room where Eric slept on the couch and asked him: "What happened Eric?

"I remember everything…what happened at the day of the accident!" Eric blurted out and Nell could see the disturbed look on his face and just tightly hugged him.

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