Character Fan Mix

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For my mix, I ran with an idea that the plot bunnies came up with. We don't know much of anything about what Nell did before she came to NCIS. Add to that the fact that she knows Nate from somewhere in her past, I've begun to fill in my own blanks.

This mix is based on a collection of songs that I imagine Nell listening to after her first week of NCIS. I picture her curled up on her sofa, laptop on her lap, a glass of wine beside her. She's alone, and doubting her decision to come the LA. On the bookshelf beside her she had a picture of her and her husband on their wedding day. Draped over it is a chain with two wedding rings on it. Beside the photo is a folded flag in a wood and glass case. It's all that she has left after bad intel got her husband killed a month after their wedding. They had been in Afghanistan together - and had met Nate there. She was working as an analysis, and he was in special ops. She thought the intel was bad, and they fought over him going out. But in the end she had let him go. She had let them all go. He was the only one that didn't come back. Nate helped her get the job in LA. Beside the ocean, the one thing that her husband had loved more that her - there she thought that she could heal. But instead she was as broken as ever, and still missing him. She wasn't sure that she would ever be more than a small town girl who had been knocked down by the world.







1. Always The Analyst by Delta Goodrem
2. Rewind by Paolo Nutini
3. In the Beginning by The Stills
4. Everything's Beautiful Once by Julian Sakata
5. Heartbeat by Scouting for Girls
6. Murder in my Heart by Sheryl Crow
7. I Won't Let Go by Rascal Flatts
8. The Last Day on Earth by Kate Miller-Heidke
9. Come on Get Higher by Matt Nathanson
10. Not Alone by Patty Griffin
11. Hometown Glory by Adele
12. Broken by Lifehouse

*All are YouTube videos except #4 - that's a link to the artist's myspace account ... I know, I know, but it's the only link I could find. And with my computer dying and being sent for repairs, I just haven't had a change to load my music to make and upload a mix.

Comments

[msdubstep]

This is very well put together. I'm listening to the songs as we speak. And your backstory of having Nell being a soldier's widow makes a lot of sense of her being wary of getting into another relationship in the future. I honestly never thought of that.

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I'm glad you like it. I just feel like she's got the potential to have a great back story that we don't know yet - and even thought she's young, doesn't mean that she's doesn't have a history.

[sticksades]

Love your theory, it's a beautiful fanmix!