AN: Sorry it took ages for an update, I had exams then my computer broke for 43 days :/ anyway this story will pick up in the next few chapters. Also I'm thinking about doing the next chapter from Eric's point of view what do you think? I do not own the show or any of its characters. Please review if you want more. Thanks!
Nell drove with the radio blasting, to clear her mind before going under cover. After what seemed like ages she finally arrived at Hammer Security. She sat in the car for a few short minutes to prepare her ear piece and button cam before going inside.
"Just turned on the ear piece, can you hear me?" Nell said, talking to her ear piece to no one in particular.
"Yes, we can hear you" Natalie responded. Nell was slightly annoyed that it wasn't Eric's voice she heard on the other end.
"Alright I'm going in" She said as she made her way from the parking garage to the large building. It was 100 stories tall, with large windows covering the entire surface, showing the reflections of everything that surrounded the building. As she approached the door a tall man in a suit opened the door. He wore a name tag that read, Adam. She made a mental note of this; however she wasn't worried that the door man had much to do with the murders. Looking around she spotted a sign above a long desk that read information, she made her way over to the desk.
"Hello, my name is Maria Edwards, I am here to replace the head of computer software" Nell told the woman behind the desk. She looked in her mid-30's with long blonde hair.
"Hi, you're going to want to go up to the 30th floor, elevators on the left just there" She said pointing to the side. "There will be a secretary named Alice, ask for John, and she will lead the rest of the way" The lady smiled and Nell was on her way.
She stepped into the elevator thankful she was the only one inside; this gave her the chance to talk to Eric.
"Hey, I'm in the building. Can you see through my button cam?" Nell asked hoping Eric would be the one to answer.
"All good! Any troubles?" Eric responded quickly, Nell assumed it was because he wanted to respond faster than Natalie. Eric was always very competitive and had a tendency of being very jealous, especially when it came to Nell. She would never say it out loud, but she loved when Eric was jealous of her.
"No troubles yet, but I still have yet to arrive on my floor." Just as Nell said this the elevator dinged and the doors slid open.
"Good luck" This made Nell smile, but she was quick to hid it as right outside the elevator was a desk. Behind this desk sat a small woman, who she assumed was Alice. She approached the woman slowly, careful not to attract too much attention to herself, she didn't want to blow her cover this soon in the game.
"Hello, my name is Maria Edwards; I'm here to see John"
"Ah yes hello." She said as if she was expecting Nell to arrive. "I'm Alice by the way" she introduced herself, reaching out her small hand for Nell to shake. "If you would just follow me I can lead the way" Alice smiled standing up from her desk. Nell followed her for a few short minutes, making mental notes of the floor layout. She wanted to remember all exits and pathways just in case she needed to make a quick getaway. They reached a room near the back of the floor, it was an office. The door was a dark blue colour, and had had a sign that read John Wilson. Alice knocked on the door quietly. Nell wasn't sure if John was even able to hear the knocks, until a minute later the door handle turned and a man appeared in front of the two women.
"Hell John, this is Maria Edwards, she'll be taking over for the head of computer software." Alice said, directing her words towards John. She said a quiet goodbye and made her way back to her desk on the opposite side of where they were now.
"Hell Maria, I'm John." He said introducing himself "Come inside" he opened the door and made a gesture with his arm inviting her to come inside and take a seat. John was an attractive man, she wasn't going to lie. He was tall with medium length dark hair. He was also very muscular, not too muscular where it was gross, but just toned enough where it was very attractive. Nell swore she could here Eric scoff in her ear piece. He was probably just jealous of John's looks. Although she had to admit, as much as John was built and well dressed, she preferred Eric's dorky shirts and flip flops.
"So I'm going to go through the details pretty quickly here so you can get right to work" He said looking at Nell
"Your office is the one just to the left of mine. There are no difficult projects that are currently underway, so we can wait to discus that until tomorrow. Today I would just like you to get familiar with the building and also I have put a folder on your desk with a list of addresses, if you could just cross reference the addresses with their phone numbers and put them in the mapping software database that would be great." John smiled and looked at Nell waiting for a response.
"Alright, if that's everything I will be on my way now. Thank You" Nell stood up from the chair and made her way to one office over which now belonged to her. She entered her office making sure to close the door behind her, as she was hoping to video chat with Eric to find out any new information that may be available. She put her belongings down next to her desk, grabbed her laptop out of her bag and turned it on. While waiting for her computer to load she skimmed through the stack of addresses she would have to work with later. Looking through the papers she realized that anybody on this floor would have access to everyone's locations and information. Her computer beeped letting her know it was all loaded up, so she opened up her video chat.
"Hey Eric I'm going to video chat with you now are you busy?"
"Nope, it's all good. Natalie will be here with us" Eric informed Nell of Natalie's presence just so she would be surprised when she saw him.
Great, Nell thought sarcastically to herself. The video chat was up and running.
"Hey, guys so I'm up in my office now could you send me some blueprints of the 30th floor, just so I can be sure of the floor layout?" she asked to know one in particular.
"Of course. The blueprints have been sent and you should be receiving them electronically in a few short minutes" Natalie was the one who replied and was sending her the blueprints.
"Thanks." She responded dryly.
"I will go check in with the rest of the team, to see if we have any new information" Natalie stated as she stood up from Nell's swivel chair in OPS. Nell was happy to see her leave, since she was left with Eric.
"Hey rock star how's it going?" Eric made Nell smile. She loved when he called her rock star.
"Pretty good, John seems nice"
Eric scoffed proving to Nell that he was in fact jealous of John's good looks. "He seems like a douche to me" Eric was definitely jealous.
"Hey be nice" Nell laughed; if she had been with him she would have punched him on the arm. "So how is it working with Natalie?"
"Well she's nice, but…" His voice trailed off
"But what?"
"She's not you" Eric said shyly, looking down the entire time. Nell swore her skin turned 10 shades of red darker from blushing. What did he mean by that? She thought to herself, I'm sure he meant nothing by it, but she filled herself with courage and asked anyway.
"What do you mean, 'she's not me'?" Now Eric was the one getting all flustered
"Well…umm... I like you Nell, you know that" he said blushing, still feel shy, even behind a computer screen.
"I like you too, partner" she responded unsure of what he meant by 'like'.
"No, I mean I like, like you Nell" She was in shock. She would have never believed that her partner Eric could like her. Not in that way at least. She was unsure of how to respond leaving Eric all awkward on the other side of the screen, that's when she heard a knock on her door.
"Shoot, someone's here go to go bye" She slammed her computer shut not giving Eric a chance to respond. She took a deep breath to compose herself before she stood up and opened the door.
"Hello Maria"
AN: so what do you think? Is Nell going to admit that she has feelings for Eric? Or will she just forget about it? Who's behind the door? Should Nell be worried? I guess we will just have to wait and see ;)
Reviews would also be super helpful (and let me know if I made any mistakes)! The next chapter will be from Eric's point of view what do you think?