Always

Chapter 1

Four Years the two techs from the NCIS Office of Special Projects had been together and they still were freshly in love like it was at the start of their relationship. All their colleagues even Hetty were now greeting them with Miss and Mister Beale, like the two had already married but they surely had agreed to wait some more time because they didn't want to rush anything even if they were pretty sure that they wanted to spent the rest of their lives together.

The two had finally moved into one apartment, surely that didn't come without problems: like Eric didn't want to do any housework at first to help Nell out at least a little bit. That caused a long fight between the two, nobody wanting to make a compromise but in the end Eric finally relented because he really wanted this to work and it things shouldn't really end in a total disaster between them just because of the laziness he sometimes used to have. Even if their job was quite time consuming, Eric did his best to help Nell out with the housework like washing the dishes and she was very happy in the end that they finally agreed on this topic. The two were sitting at the breakfast table, enjoying this time in the morning they had to themselves very much and sometimes Nell had to be the one to remind him that they couldn't be late to work when Eric was sometimes getting a little too comfortable cuddling with her in bed. Nell softly wiped some marmalade off one side of Eric's lip with her thumb and as he wanted to softly grab her hand and kiss it, she immediately stopped him by saying: "No No! We don't have time for that Beale, finish your breakfast because we can't be late for work or else Hetty is going to kill us."

"Sorry for that Rockstar but sometimes I can't control myself, when you touch me that way." Eric replied and now had that puppy dog eyes look on his face where Nell just couldn't be so much mad at him anymore. Eric could be very silly sometimes, but he was also very good lightening up her when she had a bad day at work, when she felt that the stress was just too much for her. Finally the two left the apartment, got into the red Mini Cooper from Nell, on the drive they talked a little about the wonderful dinner they had at that new Italian Restaurant that had just opened near their apartment.

"Luigi's is definitely going to be our hangout because you can get the best Italian Food ever in LA." Nell said as she was busy with navigating through the slow morning traffic on the way to the NCIS OSP Office. "Yes, I definitely agree with you on that Rockstar and I really love Luigi's Salami Pizza."

Eric replied with a big smile on his face and was a little bit sad, that they didn't have so much time to eat at their new favorite Italian restaurant because of their pretty time consuming job at NCIS.

Nell then finally parked her red mini cooper near to the OSP, as they had finally arrived at their destination and Eric took Nell's hand into his as they walked together through the doors of the Mission. The first person who saw them was Sam, who was sitting at his desk right now next to others colleagues Deeks, his partner Callen and Kensi: "Good morning Mister and Misses Beale how is our dynamic geek duo from OPS today?"

Nell and Eric just laughed at this whole Mister and Misses Beale thing, because that's had been a kind of running gag under their colleagues since the two techs from OPS had officially started dating and then Eric finally replied first: "I'm doing very good today, thanks for asking Sam and how about you?"

"I'm doing fine also, me and Eric where having dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant near to our apartment." Nell then added and meanwhile let go off Eric's hand. All of their colleagues were totally happy for them because in the end, they had all thought that the two geeks from OPS would get together as a couple in the end and that they were definitely meant to be together.

"I hope that you have paid the bill at the restaurant like a real gentleman do for his lady?" Kensi asked with a grin on her face and thought to herself: *they just look so cute together*

"Of course I have done that like the true gentleman I am." Eric stated and then the two finally went up to OPS because their soon would be a new case and they didn't get paid for just standing at the bullpen and talking with their colleagues. As the two were finally alone in the big tech room, Nell got out the Oreos that were well hidden at OPS so Hetty wasn't able to find them and feed the first one to Eric.

She wiped a little crumb away from his mouth, because she didn't want anyone to notice that they were eating cookies next to all this sensitive equipment and then Eric also got one Oreo out of the box and softly placed it into her mouth. Nell then gave him a short kiss on his right cheek and then focused on getting some paperwork done. Later Eric then went on a coffee run, to the café just one block away from the OSP Office while Nell was busy with finishing her latest report for Hetty.

Eric thought a lot about the wonderful candle light dinner they had yesterday evening, as was walking on the sidewalk being on the way to his and Nell's favorite café where they got their coffee to go from every morning at work. He could still see a picture in his mind of that gorgeous red dress she wore on that day and that he had spaced for a couple of minutes, not knowing what to say for quite a while because he was just so much amazed of the fact how beautiful she looked on that evening. He then finally arrived at the Café, ordered the two coffees for him and his Rockstar and then anxiously waited to get his order.

AN: This is the first chapter of my newest Neric Story; I hope you like it, please read and review.