The Daughter's Job
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Leverage characters, I just use their names with my ideals to create different stories.
Author note: This is my first published fan fiction, I hope you enjoy. This story is from the POV of Morgan Princeton which is a character that is made up from my mind. Enjoy :)
Story Setting: This story takes place during season 2 and gives an explanation to Sophie's absence from the show. Tara is on 'vacation' from the rest of the Leverage crew but they all still end up together.
Knock, Knock..ugh... go away I thought as I heard the pecking at the door, I was in no mood for company. Knock, Knock, again.
"Coming", I yelled out as I rolled myself off the couch, 7:00am, are you serious. It should be illegal to be knocking on someone's door this early in the morning. I knew better than mom being home to get the door, she was already out and about for the day. This better be worth it I thought as I opened the door to be greeted by 3 men and a woman.
"This can't be good" I thought out loud.
After releasing a little chuckle, the front man who seemed to be the leader said, "Hi, I'm Nathan Ford, we are looking for Sophie."
Hum, I thought to myself, mom didn't say anything about expecting any more company; better try to send them on their way.
"I'm sorry, she has already left for the day, if you would like to leave your number I will be more than glad to let her know you stopped by this evening." I had hoped that was enough to send them on their way but I wasn't that lucky.
"Do you know what time she is expected to be back?" The one that called himself Nathan asked.
He's definitely not reluctant. I just wish they would leave so I could try to get back to sleep. I was getting frustrated by now and my niceness was running out, so I replied in a little less than polite tone, "I don't know."
Everyone stood silent for a moment, ARE YOU SERIOUS, what are these people waiting on! Mom was not here and I didn't know when she would be here. I was about to break the silence with 'Thanks for stopping by, I'll give her you message, have a nice day, now get the hell out so I can go back to sleep' but the silence was interrupted by our expected house guest that had spent the night with us.
"Morgan who was at the, Oh. Nate, Parker, Eliot, Hardison. What are you doing here?" Ok so Tara knew these people, so they must not be too bad, but they did not appear to like her.
The others continued to remain silent, it was Nathan, or Nate, as Tara called him that simply answered with one word in an acknowledging tone. "Tara"
"You know them?" I groggily asked Tara. If Tara trust them then mom trust them, then I could trust them and can let them in to wait on mom and finally go back to bed.
"Yeah. Sophie worked with them before she came out here to stay with you. She sent me to work with them when she left." Tara had given me all the information that I needed to know.
"Any friend of my mother's is welcome here, come in and make yourself at home. There's food in the fridge, there's the TV, mom should be home later, I'm going to bed, if you need anything just ask Tara." I shut the door behind everyone and walked off toward my room.
I am generally a nicer person but I don't do nice until at least noon, and generally I wouldn't mind meeting new people, especially people that got to spend time with my mother and whom I knew my mother cared about deeply, but my body was screaming sleep or pass out, and I wanted to at least be comfortable when I was unconscious, the meet and greet would have to come later. Of course my plans never work out and my phone began to ring, so it looks like either way something was going to wake me up. I looked at my phone, mom, how ironic.
"Good morning mother" I said in a 'I'm so freaking happy to be up at this time of the morning' tone.
Mom was grocery shopping, why oh why doesn't she just let me do it instead of calling me when she can't find what she wants. "Mom the crackers are on aisle 5, on the right hand side. The right hand side if you are standing in the front of the store looking back, they are about half way down on the bottom, you see them? Good. No the regular ones will be fine. Just grab whatever mom, we will make it work. Oh by the way hurry up, you have company here, 4 people, one of them goes by the name Nathan Ford. Tara says that you used to work with him."
You would have thought I just told mom that I had ran away because there was nothing but silence.
"Mom, everything ok?" She responded very quickly. "Alright, I'll tell them, see you in a few." As I hung up the phone I relayed the message to everyone else. "Mom is finishing up at the store then she will be heading home, she should be about 30 minutes. In the mean time can I fix you all anything?" I might as well offer because whatever made mom go silent is cause for curiosity and I'm not going back to bed until I find out what is the cause of her odd behavior. All the guest silently let me know with a nod that they did not want anything.
"Tara you want some waffles." I asked, knowing the answer as I pulled out the frozen bag from my freezer.
"Sure." Tara responded and began her rambling with our guest questioning as to why they were here. I noticed that they just answered most of her questions with nods or short answers. The tension was beginning to build, you could feel it. Nate was the one that changed the topic by directing the conversation toward me as I handed Tara her waffles and sat down across the visitors and began eating my breakfast.
"So you are Sophie's daughter?" He questioned as if this news was a shock to him.
"Yes." Short and sweet, what else am I supposed to say, 'yes, I'm her only daughter, my father is William Princeton, I grew up travelling the world with him. We would meet up with mom every few months and we would spend the day shopping and what not. Dad always said that the reason she was always gone was because of work, but I did come to learn that she was just a thief, blah, blah' I don't think so. FINALLY, I thought as I heard something at the door, I sprang up to go help mom with the groceries. She greeted me by a kiss on the cheek and handed over a few bags. "Good morning darling, I noticed you fell asleep on the couch last night."
"Yeah, I fell asleep during a movie." Mom seemed very methodical, she placed the bags on the counter, but was quickly interrupted by the blonde visitor almost charging her to the floor.
"Oh Sophie, I've missed you!" the blonde exclaimed.
"Parker. Oh, I've miss you too." My mother hugged back, by this time the rest of the visitors were around her and all were exchanging hugs and greetings. Everyone pitched in and helped mom put everything away. It was weird, they just seemed like they belonged together, like a family. They were so happy, even mom. She hadn't seemed herself lately, but surrounded by her friends like that she had her glow back. But why did they like mom and not Tara. Sure, Tara is a little more eccentric and odd, but she's still a good person. Mom then proceeded to introduce me to her "other" family.
"Everyone, I would like for you to meet my daughter, Morgan Princeton. She's an art history major at the local college, final year. This is her place. I haven't got to see much of her over the past few years, so I decided, after I toured Europe, to come and spend some time with her. Before you know it she will be graduating college and getting on with her life and having a job and everything to keep her busy. Morgan, these are some very close friends of mine, this is Nate, Parker, Eliot, and Hardison." Mom introduced her friends one by one and we exchanged friendly smiles and the standard etiquette for introductions. I decided to be polite to these people, despite the fact that they woke me up so early, just because my mom seemed to be happy with them. Mom then began sharing with her guest about her travels; I decided that this was my chance to escape to the sweet peacefulness of my bed.
I leaned up against my mom from the back and whispered in her ear, "enjoy your company, they are welcome in my home as long as they want to stay, but I'm going to bed, I will see you when I get back up."
As I walked off toward my room I noticed Tara just sitting and smiling indifferently, clearly feeling left out. I know the feeling. As I surrendered to my pillow only one thought crossed my mind. 'Am I going to lose my mother again?'