Chapter 11

With a weapon in hand always ready to fire Nell made her way through corridors, which seemed to be endless and even made her worry a little right now. I can do this! I need to get out of here fast because Marks will surely do anything he can to stop my escape. She thought as tried to concentrate very hard on finding a way out of this little labyrinth and also asked herself when the team would finally arrive to back her up.

She passed another empty that apparently used to be some kind of production chamber for whatever was produced her as she was suddenly hit hard by something definitely very hard. She very dizzy as opened her eyes again, the first thing she saw was a gun being pointed at her and man saying: "The boss says you can't go, because he's not done with you yet." But Nell was ready to give up, so she suppressed the enormous headache the best she could and said: "You can't stop me from me escaping trust me."

The man just laughed clearly not taking Nell's threat seriously and before he could get out his phone to tell his boss of the success she swept his legs away making him fall to the ground like a stone. She ran as fast she could across the corridor, doing the best she could to dodge the bullets that flew directly into her direction and as she was in a safe distance she thought: Shoot that was close, never thought I would be in a life threatening situation like this anytime soon as Callen, Sam and the rest of the field agents are every day. As Deeks and Kensi heard shots being fired, they immediately quickened their pace and both of them surely knew that this didn't mean anything good most of the times. Without looking back Nell ran through the next flight of corridors, hoping that she would reach an exit of the factory building very soon, only had to take cover behind a wall as another gunman started firing at her. Quickly she became that gut feeling, to not get out that easily out of this predicament as another gunman was added into the mix, but she was determined to not go down without a fight: The team is probably on their way here already and the only thing I need to do, is hold my position just a little bit longer. She thought as she quickly got out of her cover to fire some shots at her attackers. Just a few feet away from her the bullets out of the two machine guns hit the wall right next to her and some kind of circle thing was now going on as she kept firing some shots in return at the two gunman.

At first she couldn't really believe what was happening: Here she was an NCIS tech out in the field having her first real shoot out with some merciless criminals and for her first one she had to say that she did pretty well right now. After another round from shooting from the bad guys, Nell thought that It almost was a little bit too quiet right at this moment, so she quickly left her cover and shot the one gunman before he could get too close.

She quickly went back into her cover position behind the wall, as the remaining gunman fired at her and was able to escape the shots at the last second. Then she heard some shouting from the other side of the corridor: "Federal Agents drop your weapon now!" Then shots were fired, the one remaining attacker fell to the ground and as Nell emerged again from out of her cover she said: "Let's get out of here guys and it's so good to see you."

Kensi and Deeks shortly hugged her and then the LAPD Liasion Officer said: "It looks like you really stood your ground little pixie and I have to say that I'm impressed. " While Kensi secured their backs they hurried down the second corridor on the right to finally get out of here.

Meanwhile Marks was of course livid when he heard, that his men hadn't been able to stop Nell from escaping because he surely wasn't done with her just yet.

"I lost contact with Rodriguez and Sanchez Sir; do you have any new orders?" One of his men asked, a definitely so much angry man that he couldn't think probably for a moment. After doing some thinking he finally said: "She probably has help, so make sure that she and her company won't be able to leave! Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes sir, crystal clear." The man shortly answered and then disappeared out of the room to prepare everything. As the three finally got into the car, Nell asked: "How is Eric doing?"

"The surgery went very well but he's still unconscious and we surely drive you to the hospital after we are out of here." Kensi assured her before she finally turned on the Ignition of the car and they all hoped that this last part of getting away from here would run smoothly without any more problems. They had almost reached the exit before Kensi spotted a black van in the back mirror that was hell bent on stopping them.

Back at the OSP, Hetty finally went upstairs and wanted to get a status on the current situation and so Darren Dawson finally pulled up some satellite footage of the area where Kensi and Deeks where right now and as she saw all the enemy forces that were gathered around the car of their agents she just thought: Oh bugger that doesn't look good for them. When they realized that they had bigger problems than just that one van behind them Deeks phone rang and Callen was on the other side of the line: "Were you able to get Nell out safely?"

"Not yet Callen, we going to need back up because Marks was apparently able to mobilize something like a big army." Deeks said while Kensi tried her best to shield them from the bullets that were flying around them as one by one the windows of the car were completely destroyed.

"Okay just try to hold your ground a little bit longer; back up is on the way as fast as possible." Callen replied before he ended the call. Deeks and Nell were actually able to take out some of Marks men before they were able to finally force them to stop by destroying both of their front wheels. The three quickly got out of the car, taking cover behind it as good as that was possible because of the fact that the silver Honda was already hit by so much bullets that it looked like a swiss cheese.

Five Hours later

After an enormous shoot out with Marks private army Callen, Sam, Deeks, Kensi and Nell were finally back from out of the field. Back at the office, Sam, Kensi and Nell drove to the hospital together to see Eric in Sam's Challenger after Hetty had announced the good news to Nell: "Miss Jones, while you were away Mister Beale regained conscious and he definitely would be very happy to see you."

In her usual commanding tone she had assured Nell, that her report could wait and she was clearly happy to hear that. Later Nell sat at Eric's bedside, which was apparently sleeping right now but as she softly stroke his right hand Eric's eyes slowly flickered open and he immediately had a little smile on his face. They just looked into each other's eyes for a while before Nell finally asked: "How are you feeling Wolfram?"

"My head still hurts a little bit but now that I know that you're safe, that doesn't really bother me so much anymore Rockstar." He replied and that made her smile to and she said: "This day was surely very eventful, I'm so happy that you're okay because I think that I couldn't live without you Eric Beale."

Eric was clearly so touched by this words from her, that he didn't know what to respond at first but then he replied: "Yes it surely was and I surely couldn't live without you too Nell Jones." Instead of saying anything else Nell closed the little distance between them, kissing Eric directly on the mouth and for a couple of minutes time became irrelevant to them as they just got lost in a very passionate kiss.

AN: That's it guys, Thanks to- bjq for reviewing this story, Thanks to- FaerieGirl0987 for adding this story to her favorite stories list. I hope you liked the story and I certainly appreciate your thoughts and suggestions to the last chapter of this story. Thank U very much to all others that have read and reviewed the previous chapters.