Callen woke up, he figured it was maybe around midnight, he could feel Nell's eyes on him even without looking at her.
"Why are you staring" He asked his voice thick with sleep
"I'm not staring, I'm gazing" Nell replied he wasn't looking at her but he could hear the smile
"Well you have to get up in the morning, so stop gazing and go to sleep" Callen said turning over to look at her. Looking at her made him think about that afternoon; they had made love twice, both times quite fiery and passionately. He brushed his thumb across her cheek.
"I was thinking about what's going to happen when this is over" Nell said
"We happened before this mission Nell, but let's not think about it just now, we need to focus on the job ,when this is all over we can't talk about the future" Callen said
"You promise" Nell asked
"Yeah, I promise" Callen answered smiling he leaned over and kissed her. He never felt the way about any woman the way he felt about Nell, it confused him a lot but he pushed it to one side and this time when they made love it was slow, sweet and loving.
Nell woke him up when she kissed him on the forehead.
"You off to work, honey" Callen said sleepy
"Yeah honey, I didn't mean to wake you" Nell giggled
"It's okay; I'll walk you to your car"
"Won't that be putting on a show for the neighbours?"
" Yeah but it's not the same kind of show they almost got yesterday afternoon, this show will be a loving husband seeing his wife off to work"
"Well if you're coming out to see me off, you might want to put some clothes on" Nell giggled Callen then realised he was naked
"Well that's kind of embarrassing" Callen groaned he got and dressed and walked her out to the car and kissed her goodbye.
He went and did a few laps of the swimming pool before going to have a shower and then making him some breakfast then he had no clue what to do, so he picked up the book he had tried to read yesterday and stated again. He had fallen asleep and was woken when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Bairstow.
"Hey Elijah" Richard said
"Hey Richard" Callen replied
"Just call me Richie, can you babysit Finn and Jasmine for me please, I know we barely know each other but after seeing you yesterday with them, I need a favour, I've got some errands to run for a party we're having tonight, which of course you and Emmeline are invited to"
"Babysitter still sick"
"Yeah, she called this morning she got tonsillitis so she won't be working for a while, so could you come over and watch them for me, they're asleep at the moment" Richie asked Callen felt for the guy he looked like he was making excuses to maybe get out of the house for a few hours kid free
"Sure" Callen replied grabbing his phone was shocked he'd been asleep for 3 hours.
Callen waited until he knew for sure that Richie had gone before getting on to their computer and copying their hard drive to a flash drive for Eric. He was quite lucky that Finn woke up and stopped him from searching around the house because he hadn't expected Whitney home early.
"Richie said he'd got you to babysit for a couple of hours, not having the babysitter has left us both a little scattered" Whitney almost cooed. Great Callen thought she's trying to flirt with just great
"Are you home for lunch or did you finish the day early" Callen replied a little annoyed he had to put the baby down because he lost his barrier
"I finished early, Richie said he told you, we're having a little gathering tonight, it's really all his mother and because he doesn't want to lose his inheritance, he does almost anything his mother says, he doesn't want to rely on my money he wants his own" Whitney said in the same seductive voice
"Well if your home it means I can go, sorry but I'm expecting a call from a friend overseas" Callen replied backing out of the room
"Okay then if you're sure I could make you a coffee or something"
"Sorry that would be nice, but it's kind of an important phone call"
"Okay well I expect you and Emmeline at 7 sharp"
"We'll be here" Callen said before letting himself out. He made sure he stayed in control as he walked out he could feel her eyes on him. Nell pulled in behind him as he walked in the drive
"Hey" She said happily getting out
"Hi" he replied walking back to her and pulling her into a hard kiss
"Wow a girl could get used to being greeted like this" Nell said a little breathless
"Get used to it" he replied kissing her forehead
When they got inside, Nell emailed all the data to Eric while Callen explained what had happened today and how he spent most of the afternoon babysitting the twins, he wasn't going to tell her about Whitney trying to hit on him but it was out of his mouth before he could stop himself.
"She what" Nell said her mouth hanging open slightly
"I ignored it" Callen replied hoping it was steer her away from the subject, Nell got up and started to pace.
"Now I really don't like her, she expects her husband to stay home and look after the children she left at two weeks old to return to work, and she flirts with another person's husband" Nell said still pacing rambling about Whitney and the stupid party that she didn't really want to go to, Callen pulled her to him and silenced her with a kiss
"That wasn't fair" Nell said with a pout
"Life's not fair" Callen replied cupping her face and kissing her again, midway through the kiss, Eric popped up on the laptop
"Hello" Eric said they broke apart and Callen was glad to know that the laptop was facing the other way. Nell went back to the laptop
"Hey Eric, what's up" Nell said
"Hetty wants you here at ops pronto" Eric said
"Why Eric" Callen asked joining Nell at the computer
"She didn't say, just said she wants you two here ASAP"
