Chapter 7

With an enormous headache Nell finally woke up again, she took in her surroundings and quickly realized that she wasn't in the car with Eric anymore. "Hello is anybody here? Where I am here and what do you want from me? She screamed into a very dark room with not much lightning in it, probably just to intimidate her. Meanwhile on the other side of the city, Eric's eyes slowly flickered open again and he quickly noticed that there was blood on his forehead as he had carefully touched with the one hand that didn't hurt so much as he lifted it. Eric's glasses were heavily damaged during the crash; he quickly got out his mobile phone and hit the number one on his phone's speed dial to reach Callen.

Anxiously he waited for G to pick up and was so much relieved as he heard the familiar voice of him on the other end of the line: "Eric what has happened?" Callen said into the phone, getting a little bit worried as his colleague called him and there was a long silence on the other end. It took quite a while for the tech to block out the huge headache, that was caused because of the hard impact of the car into a power pole but he finally replied: "Nell…..has been taken…..we…..have….to….find….her." That was all the techie could get out of his mouth before he finally ended the call and lost consciousness again. Callen quickly notified Sam of the situation, after his next call went directly to OPS: "Darren I need a trace on Eric Beale's mobile phone, send me the location on my phone." Darren Parker, one of the other techs that worked in the large OPS quickly got to work on the trace and he knew that time was up the essence, because two of their own agents were probably in immediate danger. With a sick smile on his face Steve Marks finally entered the room, looking at Nell with great pleasure in his eyes as she was totally at the mercy of him bound to a wooden chair and her eyes were covered with a blindfold.

As he stepped nearer to her, he softly caressed her cheek for a moment and then said: "Finally we see each other again after all these years, you that I still love you Nell, I never stopped loving you even after you were the reason I was sent to that mental institution." In that moment a strong shiver ran all over her body, Steve Marks was really back, that one person that had stalked her for so long that she didn't feel save in her own home anymore and even left the city just because of him. All these years she had been away from Seattle she really had thought, that all this was over forever but now here she was trapped in the middle of nowhere and totally helpless. "What do you want from me Steve?"

"I just to want to be with you, say that I'm sorry that I've scared you and I really mean that. From the beginning I felt that there was some kind of special connection between us and this time I want to make it right but that other guy isn't right for you, whoever he is! Only we belong together, don't you feel the same way now two?" Nell was clearly totally disgusted by her stalker ex-boyfriend and right now she got only one thought on her mind:* I really hope that the team finds me soon and please let Eric be okay.* She finally took all her courage and replied: "Get in your head Steve, I don't love you anymore because you started to stalk all day long all over sudden as I said, that I also wanted to meet with other people."

"Your friends wanted to tear us apart again from the very beginning and you've never acknowledged all the present that I've made you!" Steve said obviously getting angrier by the minute and he really didn't how long he could contain this anger inside of him anymore.

Nell wasn't really sure if provoking him was the right thing to do right now, but on the other side she didn't want to be the weak victim.

"Stop talking like that Nell, I don't want to hear those lies anymore!" Steve finally said in a threatening tone and hit her hard into her stomach. She tried her very best to block out the enormous pain in her stomach, even if it wasn't such an easy thing to do right at this moment. Back at Ops Hetty now stood right next to the one analyst that had finally traced the cell phone of Nell.

"I've traced her phone to an address three blocks away from the incident site, but I assume that someone has dumped it there because the signal hasn't moved for quite some time and is not very strong." Darren told Callen, while he mailed the address on his phone and waited for the agent's response. "Okay good job anyways Darren."

"Get Miss Jones back, no matter what it takes Mister Callen and time is not on our side in this case."

Hetty injected herself into the conversation and she really wished that Nell would be able to put her field training to the test under different circumstances.

Nell had finally decided that it was the best for her not to let the situation escalade any further, but at same time she had to somehow work on an escape plan because she didn't want to know what hideous things Steve would do to her if she stayed just even a little longer with him in one room. "I'm sorry I really didn't want to upset you, can you forgive for my behavior this one time?"

Marks face now changed from angry to a very charming smile and then he replied: "Of course I can sweetie; it's really good that you've admitted your mistake."

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