ellieandnick

his little surprised smile when she asks him to come with her - boy he did not expect that

her hopeful face while waiting for his answer

her shiny eyes and the understanding between them that it’s still not their time 😭

the way he takes a step towards her

his knowing smile when she starts kissing his right cheek - like he knows what she’s gonna do - because he knows her

the nose touch and the way he swallows hard because he knows it’s their last kiss (for now)

the way she has to push herself away from him and keeps herself connected to him as long as possible

CBS Warning: This post contains spoilers for Tuesday’s “NCIS.” Ellie Bishop was back working with the “NCIS” team this week… and she had some unfinished business with Nick Torres. In Tuesday’s winter premiere, Emily Wickersham returned to reprise her role as former team member Bishop, who’s been deep undercover saving lives around the world. But she became a target for Jess and NCIS Elite after…

NCIS fans waited years for Nick Torres and Ellie Bishop to reunite and one thing is certain, their chemistry is still intact. Warning: Spoilers below from season 23, episode 10 of NCIS. “The connection between these two just doesn’t go away,” Emily Wickershamwho plays Bishop, exclusively told Us Weekly of her character’s bond with Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) ahead of her return to the CBS series…

I just realized that in those photos, the space Ellie and Nick are in, that’s his apartment. In S18E7 they show his place and it’s an exact match for the bg in those photos. Currently spiraling over that because THE IMPLICATIONS

TODAYS THE DAY THE SUN IS SHINING (in germany at least which is a small miracle in it of itself and im taking this as a good omen)

side note my apologies for taking forever to respond, work & life have been insane to say the least recently.

since you’ve written this we’ve gotten confirmation she is in fact in his apartment!!! and he knows without even seeing her??? hc it’s bc of her smell 🤭 but YES god there was so much to analyze and i never got the time to properly do as such which makes me incredibly sad so instead you will just get incoherent and unorganized ramblings!

i did try and go back to look through outfits and time of day (there were sadly no timestamps in any sneak peek or promo or last ep) to see timeline as best i could. ellie says she’ll do it tonight which of course leads you to believe it’s the apartment scene but then they’re in completely different outfits and presumably the funeral was already later in the day AND we’ve seen several clips of both the team fighting dudes and nick in vance’s office etc in the same outfit ellie is in nicks apartment in. so like??? idk i go back and forth but current theory is the “do it tonight” ends up being whatever picture ellie sends nick (anonymously? but also something he’d immediately recognize as her from an inside thing?) and the decoy file. hence nick in Vance’s office questioning if he’d been in contact bc like technically speaking he hasn’t but he suspects it’s her etc. jess is told maybe the night before (funeral night) about the decoy file? and that’s the whole explosion clip and her in full tactical gear we see in the promo. then vance calls in nick next day to ask him but is then also just given the news? idk could be same day but like jess’ CO references tonight and it is very clearly day in vance’s office. anyways the outfit nick is in matches with him and McGee going to some random office (presumably the “location” they think ellie is in) and then team in the bullpen that evening debriefing bc wtf is happening where is ellie (she outsmarted us bc that’s my genius girl who is absolutely ten steps ahead and didn’t like whatever rogue mission/target they put her on- nick’s undercover past colliding with her undercover present anyone??? and decided she would intentionally get the teams attention with tiny breadcrumbs aka mistakes she’d never actually make but she only trusts nick and nick’s ability to convince the team for help)

anyways flash forward to nick going home, sensing ellie in his apartment, he closes off those walls so fast tries to store his old feelings in his mental backpack and says he has to call it in like his insides aren’t in complete butterfly knots at the sight of her. ellie tactfully inches toward him while keeping him distracted and talking (and he! doesn’t! back! away!!! that’s my loverboy i knew you never left) so that when he does try to call she is within arms reach of expertly disarming (not literally but can’t think of a better word) him and cuffing him to the chair so that she can in fact explain herself. personally i think she gets enough time to quickly explain the shit that went down, beg for his trust, etc before jess comes knocking bc she’s worried about nick having to hunt for his old partner aka lover. to her surprise ellie is there and nick is still handcuffed and they fistfight (preferably with nick watching and getting a little turned on by his “little badass” being so skilled). ellie better, and im looking at the writers bc of what SHOULD be her development in the 4.5 years we haven’t seen her, win technically and then explain to jess what’s happening. jess will look to nick to see if he trusts ellie and we’ll get this huge tense moment but in the end he does still love her trust her.

they concoct the autopsy plan to get ellie inside so kasie can help prove whatever she needs in the lab and jess tries to go skirt the truth and give a somewhat falsified update to keep her CO happy. from there we get angsty reunions and eventually they work together to fix this rogue mission or whatever and absolve ellie of the fugitive status. i think nick and ellie will have some alone time at some point to talk through what happened to them (after everything is done) and i HOPE they come to some agreement of there was love there and there still is but anything is going to take a lot of time for healing. im guessing ellie will decide to take time off and go off grid or something? maybe we’ll get a callout to her family in oklahoma??? (a girl can dream). and they say goodbye the night before but then nick still rides out to the airport to see her one last time (& maybe try to stop her???? that one may have to be for fics). I’d love to see her realize he still came in the morning and look back as she boards the tiny plane both with small, tentative smiles on their faces bc they got a second chance.

ok that ending is VERY fanfic/fanservice coded but like. they did say her ending was open and she could easily return if they want to write a storyline for her. PLUS i feel like in one of the many articles emily says it’s a love letter to the fans? anyways here’s my delusional hope rambled theory. i didn’t mention that scene of them hooking up in the promo- i go back and forth on it. the rational part of me says it’s probably going to be a flashback of them in ellie’s apartment (it’s not nicks bed frame). but then the delusional part of me is like maybe they hook up one more time the night before she leaves again bc close calls make you love live harder and they’d both rather have something than nothing in the end. idk!!!

ncis season 23 episode 10 promo (without audio, sorry!)