Chapter 2 - Doesn't stay in ops

This is what I imaging would happen after they leave Granger and Hetty in the office.

Nell and Eric leaves the NCIS building very fast after their meeting with Granger and Hetty. Neither of them are saying anything until they get to their regular diner where they often have breakfast. After they have ordered their breakfast they are just looking at each other.

"that was awkward." Nell says.

"what do you think they are going to do?"

Nell look confused.

"I mean about us now" he clarifies. She chuckles.

"i think Hetty might just tell us to be professional and I mean it's not like we are going to start dating like Kensi and Deeks. I mean it was just something that happened in the moment. Right?"

"year, year... In the moment." Eric agrees. when they their food. After a while Nell says.

"I mean it was just an accident, right? We are still just friends right?" She says a little unsure about Eric's point of view on this "situation". Eric gives a little smile but she isn't sure that he actually agrees with her but she can't quiet tell.

When they leave the diner Nell just give him a very quick hug and then leave him in a hurry.

Kensi is still in bed. she isn't quit awake yet but the sound of the doorbell rips her out of her sleep. She gets up and walks to the door while she is trying to make her hair look less wild. She look through the spyhole and sees Nell. Kensi opes the door with avery surprised look.

"Nell, hey. Everything okay?"

"is Deeks home?"

"no, no. he went to get come breakfast for us. Come in."

"I need to talk to you. I mean girls talk. I did something terrible."

Kensi look very surprised and let Nell in and closes the door after her.

"Kens im in trouble. I did something really, really terrible."

"what did you do?"
Nell tries to come herself down before she explains.

"I kissed Eric." Kensi doesn't know what to say. She is just stirring at Nell. "And Hetty and Granger found out." Nell continues.

"wow, wow, wow. Where? When?"

"we came down from ops and Hetty so my lipstick on Eric's cheek."
"no I mean when did you guys kiss? In ops? Doing last night's operation?"

"yes in ops after the operation was over."

Kensi starts smiling.

"it's not funny Kens." Nell says serious. Kensi tries to stop smiling.

"did he kiss you too?"

Nell shakes her head. "no. I just want to kiss him on the cheek but he turned his head so I accidentally kissed him on the lips instead."

Kensi can't stop smiling. Nell look at her with a very annoyed look.

"I'm sorry Nell. You kissed Eric intentional? So you actually like him… I mean like more than your nerdy friend and partner?"

"I don't know. I'm confused. I can't figure out if it was just like in the heat of the battle or actually because I like him." Nell walks restless around in the living room before she stops and look at Kensi.

"how do I figure out if I like him more than friend?"

"spend more time with him." Kensi simply says. Nell look at her with disbelieve.

"I spend 18 hours at the with him. I spend more time with him that I have ever don with any boyfriend in my entire life."

Kensi laughs. "yes. Well come to being an Agent."

Nell nodes and smiles. "year. How did you and Deeks start… like going from being partners to being more than partners?"

"we were flirting a lot, but we had this communication problem that sort of complicated everything a lot. But he kissed me one time I got mad at him for never saying what he meant."

"so it was something that was going on for a while?"

Kensi nods. "year pretty much since the day he started at NCIS. Have you and Eric been flirting before?"

Nell doesn't know what to say about that.

"well… I kissed him under a mistletoe four years ago and a few times when I have been in the field and some nerd has been flirting with me or some guy have asked me out he has been pretty jealous… but not really flirting."

"it sounds to me like you both have some unexplained feelings about your partnership."

Nell nods. She kind of already knew that but she needed to hear it from someone else.

"do you think Hetty will split us up if it became serious?"

"maybe… its Hetty. You never know."