Chapter 4
The two geeks had finally reached the OSP building an old condemned house on the other side of LA, with no immediate neighbors around them. Hand in hand the two stepped inside and were immediately greeted by Callen, who sat at his desk right next to Sam's right now and was finishing up the report of the last mission for Hetty, their mighty little leader: "Good morning Mister and Misses Beale." It had clearly become a habit of G Callen to great the two techs every morning like that, because he and probably the rest of the team also thought that it really was just a matter of time before those finally would marry.
"Good Morning Callen." The two geeks replied in unison, what made them laugh a little bit for a short moment and then they finally went upstairs to OPS finally letting go of each other's hands. The two then sat down at their respective workstations giving each other one last look before they completely concentrated on the work of the day. Meanwhile Steve was very busy with preparing everything to put his plan in motion, he was right in the middle of putting some supplies that he bought onto a shelf in an building that he had chosen to bring Nell to as his mobile phone vibrated in his pocket: "What do you have for me Joe?"
"We have successfully located your target; she apparently lives with another man in an apartment in west LA and works for the undercover branch of NCIS according to one of my sources in the Navy Intelligence Office." Steve smiled to himself for a short moment and thought: *Perfect everything is going according to my plan and I knew that I could count on Joe to make a good surveillance job.*
"Those are good news Joe; continue to watch her and her friend and your men should be ready to get in action when the right moment comes."
"I assure that my men will be ready when you give the order to grab her, you can surely count on that my old friend." Joe then hung up the phone and Steve continued to put the finishing touches on the room where he would finally get his revenge on Nell Jones.
He had another look at the shrine for the woman that he now was only connected to in a love/hate relationship and softly touched the cheek of a close up photo from the face of her. *Soon we will stay together forever and NO ONE will get between us.* Meanwhile as the whole team was out in the field, the two techs were getting a little bit carried away from work making out in the middle of OPS for a couple of minutes as they felt unwatched. She playfully hit him on the shoulder, he just having a big smirk on his face now and saying: "Admit Rockstar, you can't escape the magical Beale Charm."
*No way Beale, I'm not making it that easy for you* She thought as she had a very determinate look on her face and finally replied: "You have to tickle me to death before I admit that Wolfram. "
"So be it annaoctium but don't say that I didn't warn you." Eric answered but before he could start his big tickle attack, he heard one very familiar person clearing her throat and say: "Mister Beale how is the search for James Edwood's IP Adress going?" Totally embarrassed for one little moment, the two geeks quickly recollected themselves to switch back into work mode. Eric grabbed his tablet and quickly said: "The search is still going but I'm really confident that I will catch him very soon, because sooner or later he will make a mistake and then my little spy program will catch him."
"Good to know Mister Beale and keep me posted." Hetty replied with a menacing look on her face, which definitely said: I'm watching you and don't make me separate you two for real this time. The Operations Manager they turned around and made her way back downstairs into her office. When the two techs were finally alone again Nell said: "That was really….awkward."
"Yes it was we should really get back to work now." Eric said in a very serious tone and both of them now were back on totally focusing on their respective assignments they were on right now for the team. Meanwhile Sam and Callen were really surprised to find some prints on the dead body of the Marine Sargent: Former Navy Officer Steve Marks. Of course Callen was the first one to ask: "This is really weird, why the hell didn't Marks wear any gloves?" Sam thought about that for a moment and then replied: "Maybe this is some kind of message, maybe he throws us that bone just to let us know that we won't find him anyway." Callen then got his mobile phone out, dialed Nell's number and said: "Hey Nell search us everything you can find about Steve Marks, we found his prints on the scene where the dead body lays."
Nell froze for a minute, because she hadn't heard that name in quite a while and of course she asked herself: Why does appear now again out of the blue? This surely doesn't mean anything good! She finally recollected herself and said: "Will do that Callen and will mail you the information on your phone once I've got it."
Eric of course noticed the sudden change in behavior really fast and asked in a concerned tone: "Hey Rockstar….is everything alright?" Nell tried her very best to put on total normal look again and debated with herself: Should I tell him about my crazy stalker ex-boyfriend? She finally decided against it and said: "Yes everything is fine but thanks for worrying so much about me." Then she shortly kissed him on the lips and really hoped that she had been able to fool him with this nice little charade that she had quickly improvised.
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