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Prompt #28: Pride - He'd been watching on the boathouse cameras, so when he saw Nell cross verbal swords with Chambers' director, he had to grin as she outlined the problems with the Captain overlooking Medina's intel.
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Eric had plenty of reasons to be proud of his partner.
There were the obvious reasons, of course. Intelligent, great at intelligence gathering, and easy to depend on. She could stand her ground against some pretty interesting folks (like an intelligence overseer) and come up with great ideas (like how Nelson managed to paint a giant multi-cultural bulls-eye on Ray's back from prison) on the fly.
And he wasn't the only one who thought that way.
Hetty was always proud of Nell. Closer in more than just their shared height deficiency, the OSP head and the analyst were all about intel. They reminded people of a foxhunt - Hetty pointed her in the direction she wanted, and Nell would hunt down that foxy information until she had it in her jaws to deliver to Hetty. Not only that, but Hetty trusted Nell with certain things, secret things, and everyone knows that Hetty doesn't trust many people very easily.
The team was proud of Nell at certain times. Not only did she bring something new to the table, but she was a competent analyst who never let them down. No matter what it was about, from hidden bank accounts to secret meetings recorded from surveillence missions, if there was a hidden scrap of information crucial to the case, Nell could and would find it.
And, of course, they were proud of how she never, ever, backed down from something she felt strongly about.
One of the best moments had to be when she talked circles around Chambers's commander during the Medina affair. They had to fight their smirks when she took Medina's so-called "extreme" intel and outlined all the points of concern in clear, concise terms. Even afterwards, when he should have scolded her for the tongue-lashing she delivered, Callen could only say, "Pick on somebody your own size."
But there was something else, something more, that made Eric feel that warm, fuzzy shot of pride whenever she did something incredibly awesome.
He guessed because she was just an incredible rock star like that.
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