I do not own Leverage. This is just to break writers block!
The con wasn't going well. But that, was the usual for Leverage Inc. when a case hit home for Nate Ford, The Team Master Mind. This case was far to close to home for him. The Mark, Nicholas Tagger a highly successful bank manager who was increasing interest rate on charitable accounts. Only thing is the bank he worked for didn't know the interest was going up. And the money made wasn't going to the Bank. It was going towards Mr. Taggers beach house's and sport cars.
This particular scam wasn't uncommon. The only reason Leverage took the case on was because one of the Charity's crippled by interest rates was a small youth Cancer one that had helped with his son. His fingers itched to take him down.
Part one of the plan involved Harrison's cross-examination of the man, his scam, his personal life and the best way to take him down. It went well, Hardison was as though as ever and had discovered 3 main weaknesses:
1) He was Greedy, he wanted everything and he would do anything to get it. Sometimes stupidly.
2) He believed he was untouchable, he kept everything to do with him in a Glencover R class volt with Motion and heat sensors, silver-ball coder and laser enforcing(Parker practically drooled over it). His Apartment in Manhattan, was protected by the Sterenko Home Division. Not as good as the entire building system but still effective.
3) He had a weakness for pretty girls. He had invested a sizable chunk into a modelling agency and was rarely seen without a girl on his arm. Sophie would slip right in here.
Nate was so busy plotting the take down he didn't notice Parkers very strange behaviour. More strange than normal. And that's saying something.
Sophie was busy picking out the outfit she would wear to the modelling agency. She was thinking Business with a luxurious twist.
Eliot was off to pick up chicks. Or so he said, he was really of to do some extra investigations on the building Parker was supposed to break in with no com, no camera, and no Intel whilst Nate and Sophie shmussed with Models and Hardison and He sat nervously in Lucille.
Hardison, whilst being Parkers boyfriend (Which still gave him a pang of happiness mixed with pride to say, even though it had been three months) was also distracted by the fact that Colin (Known only by himself as Cha0s) might be in town. And being rivals, he was taking all of his spare to time find a way to publicly mortify him in the Hacker world.
So it was safe to say Parkers Odd behaviours went unnoticed by her entire team. Sitting and staring into the distance while eating some Coco Rockets, not focusing on the team brief, only breaking out of her retrieve to admire what's-his-name taste in security.
The thing that was bothering Parker was something that happened last week. She was standing there in the line for a pretzel from one of the vendor carts, and then she saw him.
He wasn't somebody she'd seen for 5 years. Since she was 18. Since the job where...
No. He can't be here. He isn't here. It's been 5 years, it could be anyone. Just a resemblance to him. Thats it, just a look-alike. Thats all.