Callen and Sam were sitting at their desks waiting for Kensi and Deeks to return.
"You don't think that Kensi has killed Deeks by now do you?" Callen asked his partner.
Sam was about to reply when he heard Kensi and Deeks coming down the corridor.
"Oh my god. You take so long in the shower" Deeks told Kensi as they headed to their desks.
"Me? I'm not the one who fusses over his hair every two seconds while standing in front of the mirror," Kensi replied as they sat down.
"No they haven't yet, but Kensi eventually will," Sam whispered back to his partner so only one of them could hear.
" Oh haha. Very funny Kenz," Deeks replied back to her.
"Are you two ever going to have a day without one of you trying to kill each other?" Callen asked them both but directing the question mainly to Kensi.
"Hey what are you looking at me for?" Kensi asked Callen.
"He's looking at you because you're normally the one who is trying to kill me," Deeks said, "besides Sam," he added as Sam gave him an evilly mischievous look.
"You really get on my nerves," Sam said as Callen rolled his eyes.
…
Since returning back up to the lab, Eric had been not his usual self. He was slightly jumpy and keeping his space from Nell. He hadn't said a single word to the little pixie.
Nell had noticed this and was very curious on why he was acting so distant.
"Eric, are you okay?" Nell asked, conserved at what was wrong with him.
Eric looked up from the computer and spun around on his chair to face her.
"Mmmh yeah…of course… I'm fine," he replied to her.
"Is something wrong? Did I do something?" Nell asked quietly.
" No, no, not at all," he told her with a smile.
"Oh okay," Nell replied smiling back.
"Ummm, why do you think something's wrong?" Eric asked her with shifty eyes as he went back to his computer.
"Well ever since you came back from the change rooms you've been acting sort of wired. You haven't said a word to me which is not like you.
"Don't worry Nell," Eric sighed, " Something's defiantly wrong but believe me, you had nothing to do with it," Eric added under his breath.
Eric turned back to Nell. The pair of techs just looked at each other for a minute but what felt like longer to them.
It was that stare made Eric Beal break.
" Ahh I can't do it," he said face palming himself.
"Can't do what?" Nell asked him curiously.
"I can't keep it secret any longer," he said as he looked up at her.
They stared at each other again. Eric composed himself and did the thing to make Kensi and Deeks hate him forever.
" Nell, I found something out," he told her quietly.
"Okay, what is it? " Nell asked curiously, sitting down on her chair.
"Arghhhh, Kensi and Deeks are going to kill me," Eric said to himself.
Nell waited patiently.
"Okay," Eric started. " When I went to go find Deeks and Kensi I went into the gym, right" Eric told her.
"Right" Nell replied back to him.
" I heard noises coming from the girls change room so I headed in there and when I walked in there I caught..." Eric told her.
"Caught what Eric?" Nell asked him.
"I caught…I caught… I caught Deeks and Kensi having sex," Eric finished.
Nell's jaw dropped.
"WHAT?" she shrieked.
"Oh please don't get me to say it again," Eric pleaded as he placed his head in his hands and leaned his legs.
"Let me get this right. You caught Deeks and Kensi having sex?" Nell asked just to clarify if she had heard right.
Eric sat up from leaning on his elbows and looked at his friend sitting in front of him.
He nodded his head in agreement as he also added...
"In the shower."
Nell nodded her head as she tried to get a grip on the latest information that she had just been told.
"Nell they are together and have been for the past month or so," he told her.
"As in a relationship?" Nell asked him as Eric again nodded his head in agreement.
"Wow. Does Hetty or Sam or Callen know about any of this?" she asked him.
This made Eric's eyes widen just slightly.
"No Nell, you have to promise me, promise me that you will keep this a secret?" Eric asked her.
Nell just looked at him.
" Eric..." she said as before she could continue with what she was saying, Eric cut her off.
"Please Nell?" he pleaded with her.
Nell thought for a bit. After what seemed like five minutes for Eric but was only a minute or so, Nell replied to him.
"Fine Eric. I will keep your secret," she told him as just then Eric was jumping out if his seat.
"Thank you Nell," he told her hugging the red headed pixie analysis.
"Um that's okay Eric," Nell replied to her tech operator friend as he pulled away from her and went back to his seat.
With a smile he then returned back to his work.