Title : Cure for the soul.
By : GirlOfSpring
Pairing : Nell/Callen
Summary: It all started with a certain intelligence analyst who needed her music and a certain special agent who was disturbed by the noise. A Nallen story
Disclaimer : Don't own, don't own, don't own.
Note: So, as I had promised, here is Nell's dream. The party is going to happen soon and I am quite looking forward to writing that part! And has everybody seen the new episode? Woohoo, it's back!
And thank you to everybody who was so kind to leave a review and all the other people who read and like my story! (I am still aiming for the 100-review-milestone!)
Novelnerd97: He will get another chance to being jealous, but he isn't really in this chapter. Until the next chapter!
StoryAficiondo9712: Thank you! I do enjoy writing the team banters and Deeks who just goes and says something weird. The party isn't here yet but it's going to get started in the next chapter!
Desnouer: Thank you for the review! And that's what he should do, but if he is going to actually do it is something else.. But I have a plan for the party. Until the next chapter!
Angelscatie: I don't think I can promise that. But, on the bright side, you get to enjoy jealous Callen for a while longer. Thank you for the review!
Stargazer22123: And you are completely right! We'll just have to wait and see what is going to happen at the party, I guess. Thank you for the review!
DarkDivine131: Haha thank you for the review! And here is the next chapter, even if Callen isn't actually featured in it. I still hope you like it and in the next chapter, he will be back and have another chance to be jealous. Until the next chapter!
Shestarsky: He should yes, but he doesn't and that's a bit of a problem for him. We'll see how this all is going to end! Thank you for the review and until the next chapter!
Titoune1206: Thank you for the review! I hope you enjoy the rest as well.
~~~|G|O|S|~~~
Nell had gone back to staring at her own screen, but even though she seemed to be working, her thoughts were far away.
To be more specifically, her thoughts had walked out the sliding doors, with G.
She didn't know what it had been, but somehow he hadn't seemed himself.
She furrowed her brow in thought, recalling his face from just mere seconds ago.
He had had a slight scowl on his face for some reason while giving the files to Eric. He hadn't glanced sideways once during his brief entrance.
Well, something had made him grumpy and this must have happened in the last few minutes because earlier, while walking up the stairs, he had still been smiling while they had a conversation based purely on facial expressions.
But what had happened?
"So, Nell, what do you think?"
The analyst looked up from her screen, disturbed from her thoughts. Eric was still sitting in his chair, looking down at his files.
"Because I think it would be quite useful. We could take a cab together, so we can have a few drinks each and don't have to worry about the driving home."
"I'll let you know."
~~~|G|O|S|~~~
Nell was walking on campus, having just left her last class for the day and on her way back to her dorm.
A heavy bag with her books was slung over her shoulder and even then she had to carry another book in her arms because the bag was simply so full.
By the end of the year, her arms will have grown a few feet.
She sighed and entered her building and climbing the stairs to the first floor, where her room was.
In front of the door, she was posed with another challenge, this being the fact that her keys were in her bag and her arms were full.
It made it quite impossible for her to get the key to open the door. And her roommate wasn't in either, since she still had another class to go.
Nell grumbled in annoyance and tried to balance the thick book in one arm while sliding the bag from her shoulder to she could put it on the ground.
Somewhere in that process though, something went wrong and before she knew what was happening, the book in her arms was flying through the air as she had lost her balance.
With a silent 'ump' she fell to the floor, the bag next to her and the book a few feet further, open and with a few crooked pages.
Nell cursed profusely and pushed herself up again, leaving everything else on the floor. For a few seconds, she rubbed her painful butt before bending over to take the keys from her bag.
When she had finally found them, she stood up again and turned around to go and pick up her book.
She froze when she saw a person standing behind her, leaning against the wall across the hall with her book in his hands. It was open as if he had been looking at some pages, yet the book lay forgotten in his hands as G Callen smirked at her.
Heat rose to her cheeks as she realised that she had given him what must have been the view of the day while bending over to get to her keys.
Why else could he be standing there with that god-forbidden smirk on his face, icy blue eyes twinkling with amusement.
"Looking for this?"
He held up her book, carrying an innocent expression on his face as if nothing had ever happened.
"G!" She barely kept quiet as she rushed forward to get her book back.
"Na-ah." Because he was so much taller than her, it was easy for him to hold the book high in the air where she couldn't reach it even when she jumped up and down.
"First, you have to say thank you for me picking it up."
She stopped jumping up and down and stared at him incredulously.
"And then, when I feel that you have shown your gratitude, I might consider giving you your book back."
She was silent for another second, before Nell started jumping up and down again, trying to get as high as possible so she could at least reach the book with her finger tips and tip it out of his steady hands.
"Come on, I don't have time for this."
Suddenly, she felt another, warm hand on her hip that turned her around in a brisk movement, pushing her against the wall he had been leaning up against just mere seconds ago.
G was leaning over her, effectively locking her in between his firm body and the even firmer wall.
The hand that was holding her book was leaning against the wall above her head, taunting her because she couldn't even bring her hands up now to reach it.
His other hand was still resting on her hip, but slowly it was sliding upwards until it rested on her now very hot cheek.
She must be bearing similarities to a tomato, if the heat on her face was any indication.
"First, you say thank you." He said softly, keeping his voice low and causing her heart to start beating quickly.
He came even closer and she felt his breath on her cheeks as he moved to her ear, almost touching it with his lips.
He was all strong and man, with the faint smell of leather from his jacket and something that reminded her of the sea.
"And then, you say please."
Her breath hitched. She would probably say anything if he would ask her to at this moment, feeling quite hot already from his proximity.
Slowly, she pushed herself up on her toes and, as far as it was possible for her, she leaned in closer to his ear.
"Thank you, G. And can I please have my book back?"
For a second he was quiet, before his body rumbled in a soft chuckle.
"Hmm, if you have to."
He brought his arm down and handed her the book, although he wasn't moving back.
"I'll be seeing you around then."
Suddenly, he was gone and she quickly moved to her door, opening it with the keys and taking her stuff inside.
The next moment she was standing in a field and her books and bag were gone.
The sun was shining and a fresh breeze ruffled the grass and flowers around her.
For a second, Nell looked around.
It all looked so, very beautiful. She started walking to have a look around. She was surrounded by hills, so she started climbing one of them to see if there was maybe something else around once she would reach the top of it.
The walk didn't take long and wasn't too hard either.
It was quite relaxing even.
Then, she reached the top and looked around, only to see more hills covered in flowers of all different colours. Only far away could she see some trees and even further mountains.
No sign of civilization.
Slowly, Nell turned around to get a good feel on everything, but her peace was suddenly disturbed.
In front of here was a wooden bench, with delicately carved decorations on the arms and back.
And sitting there was G Callen.
He looked at ease, wearing a pair of dark jeans, a blue shirt and his leather jacket. His arm was slung over the back of the bench, his legs stretched and crossed at the ankles.
He looked good, the way he always did and somehow his eyes had a shade of blue in them she had never seen before.
"Oh Nell.. It's almost funny."
He spoke up but his voice didn't sound normal. It had a sound of malice to it and his eyes were cool and distant.
"Wh- What is?" She was surprised by his words and an unsettling feeling came over her, as if she knew what he was going to say.
"The way you seem to think that I care, at all."
G shrugged his shoulders while talking and lifted his hand to scratch his chin.
"You know what I am talking about."
Dead weight had dropped in her stomach. His words seemed so familiar. She had heard them before, even if she couldn't exactly remember where and when she had.
"We are different people. I am this, a man who needs to live and you are.. Well, you are just you. For one thing, you are just some geek with absolutely no life experience. You are boring, obsessive and controlling and you really don't know how to have any kind of fun. You are just a girl, barely out of high school. What do you have that others don't have? I need a woman."
Nell kept staring at the person sitting in front of her and telling her these things, slowly feeling her heart breaking.
On her right, she could see something move from the corner of her eye and she glanced sideways.
Kensi, her roommate, walked past her.
She was wearing a simple but tightly fitting black dress and high-heeled leather boots.
With a delicate move, she swept her hair over her shoulder before sliding down next to G on the bench, laying herself against him.
Unevenly matching eyes looked back at Nell and for a second, Kensi smiled condescendingly.
"Aah. I think you hurt her feelings G. Be careful, she might run to her mummy to tell on you."
She laughed and Nell watched as their lips met. G's hand that had been resting on the back of the bench slid down to grip her hips and pull her closer to him, not once breaking their kiss.
Nell felt a sob come up and she stumbled back while trying not to make a noise.
That didn't really work out the way she wanted it to as she stumbled over her feet and feel. Flowers around her were crushed and started to wilt.
She looked around, horrified at what was happening, before turning back to the two on the bench.
They had stopped kissing and G was looking at her with a raised eyebrow, slightly mocking her with it at the same time. His hand that had been on Kensi's hip had slid down and fond the exposed skin underneath the very short skirt.
Her roommate however had her back to her and from where Nell was, she could see how the other woman was leaving a trail of kisses on the skin in his neck, sliding to his ear.
"I forgot to add one thing to that list, Nell."
She looked back into the blue eyes that had gone ice cold.
"You aren't even that beautiful or even pretty. You are just an ordinary girl trying to be the woman she will never be. It's obscene, sad and ridiculous."
For another second she stared at him.
Then, suddenly, she pushed herself up on her feet again, turned around and started running.
Behind her, she heard Kensi laugh once before silence followed her over the hills.
Tears had started streaming down her face, but she didn't bother to wipe them away. All she wanted to do was get away from them, to get away from everything.
She kept running but slowly, the hills started to change and before she knew what was happening, she was running downhill.
This was something entirely different from running over the hills and it didn't take long for her to stumble.
She screamed in fear when she felt the ground disappear from under her feat as she started falling.
~~~|G|O|S|~~~
Nell woke with the scream still on her lips.
She was sitting upright in her bed, breathing heavily. She was shaking and with uneven hands she reached for her duvet, pulling the warm and thick wall close around her.
It was cold in her room and when she looked up, she saw that her window was wide open.
For a second, she stared through it until a soft breeze came in and cooled the tears on her cheeks.
With a still shaky hand, she wiped them away.
It had just been a dream. Just a dream, she had them more often and normally she could just shake them off. This was different though.
Most of it had happened once, a long time ago. She had been in college and quite liked a guy that had been sleeping with her roommate from then.
He had just been four years older, but had said the exact same things as the G in her dream.
She squeezed her eyes shut with the memory and forced herself to breathe slowly.
So, she had developed quite the attraction to their senior agent and now she had to carry the consequences.
Somewhere deep inside her heart, there were still some parts of the naïve schoolgirl left, believing and dreaming that one day the jock would go for her. That one day, this amazing man would choose her over other women and say that he wanted her, her, and nobody else.
But that was all it was. A schoolgirl fantasy, one that was never going to come true. The dream had showed her that.
She had been burnt once and it wouldn't happen again.
Not because she didn't want it to, but because there was absolutely no way in hell that he would ever see her in another way than friendly or professional.
For a moment she thought back to everything that had been going on lately and shook her head with a sigh, before leaning back on the bed.
She was just imagining things.
Nell rolled herself on her side and curled up to a ball, closing her eyes again.
She was not going to cry about this. She was a woman now and how much it had hurt in college when she had been told these things, she was an adult now and could handle these things.
Yet, she cried herself back to sleep.
~~~|G|O|S|~~~
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