Cupid has his sights trained on the NCIS: Los Angeles office. It's a little sniper version of Cupid, of course, and his meddling will have two OSP 'ships vying for your attention. Densi is no longer the only office romance on the books - Neric is quickly gaining ground.

Nell (Renee Felice Smith) and Eric (Barrett Foa) kept their budding romance under wraps throughout season 7, only inadvertently revealing their connection in the finale. Now that the meerkat is out of the bag, however, fans should expect to see the Ops couple come out into open.

"They talk about that," Eric Christian Olsen (Deeks) revealed at San Diego Comic-Con. "They talk about that in the first two episodes. Those characters are also together. It's all covert. They're so good together."

Neric's journey took a backseat to the Densi storyline last season, leaving fans wondering if the techies would ever capitalize on their chemistry.

"With Kensi (Daniela Ruah) and Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen), it's kind of tough to have two couples that are actually together at the same time and to show all of that," Smith explained last summer, according to Connected Digital World. "We've kind of taken a break from the Eric and Nell story while Kensi and Deeks are kind of in the heat of their relationship."

Now that Deeks and Kensi (Daniela Ruah) are on track (there's even a proposal coming down the pipe!), it's high time Nell and Eric have their chance to shine.

Click the video below to go behind the scenes with Foa and Smith.

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NCIS: LA will return to CBS on Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. ET.

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