A Neric Love Story 👩🏻‍🦰💗👨🏼

A Hospital Trip

Nell's POV:

After arriving at the hospital, I cautiously waited in the waiting room for news on Eric. I had tears in my eyes and I was shaking all over, god I really hope he's okay. I looked down at my phone; it was 5pm, I'd been waiting here for two hours, but I wasn't going to give up yet. I put my phone in my bag and as I looked up, a nurse came.

"Family of Eric Beale?" She asked, and I stood up. "Here." I walked over slowly, shaking.

"How is he?" I asked, my voice crackling nervously.

"Well, because of the extent of his injury, it was touch and go for a while as he'd lost a lot of blood, however he pulled through eventually. He is currently on an IV drip to get his fluids up, but I can assure you he's going to make a full recovery very soon"

Thank god I thought. I was so relieved, I couldn't lose Eric just yet.

"Thank you so much, nurse.... uhhh....." I replied, a smile growing on my face as I'm reading her name tag.

"Nurse Caldwell"

"Thank you Nurse Caldwell" I replied in a British accent. She looked at me confused and turned away, but she remembered something and turned back.

"Oh, uhh, may I ask, is he your brother? Boyfriend? Husband?"

"Fiancé actually, from last week" Nell replied, giving a small smirk beside me.

"Well congratulations! Anyway, uhh he kept referring to himself as bulletproof under anaesthesia, should we be concerned? Has this happened before?"

I looked quite concerned for a second, trying not to reveal our real identities of being federal agents. "Umm... no, no he does that a lot, but I guess this time he means it" I replied.

"Oh right, well you've got a strong one, you should be proud. I'll take you to his room"

Nurse Caldwell began to walk off with me following behind, as we walked past some hospital rooms. "That's my boy" I muttered under my breath smiling.

Eric's POV:

I sat up in my bed as I saw someone familiar walk past, two girls in particular. My eyes were a blur, I grabbed my glasses from the side table and focused to see my beautiful Nell, just as I remembered, walk up.

"Hey, baby" I heard Nell say as she came up to me, kissing me on the forehead.

"Hey" I whispered. Nell sat down on the chair next to my bed and put her hand on mine, smiling with a tear in her eye.

"I guess you really are bulletproof, huh" she asked, trying to crack a smile.

"Yeah, you could say that for sure" I smiled.

"How are you feeling?"

"Like crap, honestly, but don't worry my lady, I'll be back in ops before you know it" I said as we both giggled. Then, I saw Callen and Sam walk in, followed by Kensi, Deeks, Fatima, Rountree and last of all, our little lady Hetty.

"Hows our favourite tech dude doing?" Sam asked as he stood up next to me.

"Favourite? Well, thank you, I'm doing fine"

"Bulletproof Beale huh? I guess your fantasies really did come true then!" I heard Deeks say laughing. "What?" He said as there was silence. "We all have fantasies, right?" Beale?"

"Stop saying fantasies, it's creeping me out" I said, as I pulled a backfire on him.

"Well, we're glad to see you're doing better," Callen said.