Title: Europe
Rating: Mature
Persons involved: Emily Prentiss (CM) en Sophie Devereaux (Leverage).
Spoilers: For Criminal Minds: this drabble plays before the Doyle episodes (but with knowledge of 'Lauren'). No spoilers for Leverage, set somewhere in the first season.
Author's Notes: Trying my hand at drabbles. An excellent way to learn how to cut excess words and fun to get out some of my ideas on paper instead of letting them marinate in dust inside my brain... 200 words!
Most days she tries to forget living in Europe.
In the US she's Agent Prentiss. FBI. BAU. Professional.
There she was little Emmy, later Lauren and in between everyone she needed to be.
But her mother asked sincerely, so she's at her house for a fundraiser, debating in French and laughing in Italian. She's rather good at being the charming daughter of Ambassador Prentiss. On the inside however she's dying for smoke.
And then she spots her: Sophie Devereaux, con-artiste extraordinaire, hanging on the arm of one of the benefactors of tonight. The man is an ass, Emily knows, known for ruining more than one of his female interns' lives. Unfortunately the agent in her can't just look the other side.
Arm firmly stuck in Prentiss' grip, Sophie still manages to exhume confidence.
'Agent, long time no see,' she teased, leaving Emily to wonder why Sophie used her title –with emphasis - instead of using her name.
A name she had screamed… she firmly pushed the memories of that one night in Bratislava aside.
Her blush betrayed her thoughts however and so did her feet. Instead of escorting the thief out, she led her upstairs.
Some memories could be revisited.