Hardison stood on the rooftop, pulling the harness straps cautiously, testing their strength.
"Will you leave them alone?" Gwen said exasperatedly, "Seriously what is up with you tonight?"
He looked over at her with an 'are you insane?' look on his face. " I ain't so sure about this now, Gwen."
She arches an eyebrow. "How many years have you known me, Alec? Have you ever known me to fall? Like, ever?"
"No.." He replied, sighing.
"So what's the problem?" She was arranging her own harness as she spoke to him and fed the cable through the rig.
Hardison folded his arms across his chest leaning over a little to look over the edge of the skyscraper. "I remembered gravity and the squishiness of my manly parts."
Gwen rolled her eyes and put her hand on his back in comfort "Don't sweat it you big baby." She said mockingly as she pushed him off the building, angel diving down after him, the controls for the rig in her hand.
Hardison squealed like a girl as he fell the ten storeys he passed before Gwen halted his feed of cable when he reached the floor they wanted. "Dammit Gwen! Why'd you do that!" He was panting, half from the shock of free falling that far and half from the adrenaline rush.
"'Cause it was funny." She laughed, pulling the glass cutter out of the bag on her shoulder and starting to cut a hole in the glass.
"No it wasn't. I could have died!" He put his hand on his chest over his heart.
She rolled her eyes, "Don't be such a drama queen, Alec. You're perfectly safe, I made the rig myself."
"My point exactly! It hasn't had quality testing."
"Yes it has... Just now." She smirked, now halfway through cutting the neat round hole.
Hardison's eyes widened in shock. "You hadn't tested it? Are you trying to kill me?"
"Relax, I knew it was at least 95% okay to go."
"Ni- ninety-five? Just ninety-five?" He was starting to freak out now. He was on an untested rig, hanging another 40 storeys from the ground.
"Alec. Calm down. You designed the rig yourself, you dolt." She finished cutting the glass and leaned over to get the suction cup out of Hardison's bag, attaching it to the window.
"I-I did?... When was this?"
She laughed pulling lightly on the suction cup and pulling the piece of glass away from the rest of the window, attaching a second suction cup to the rest of the window and hooking the cut piece to it.
"About two months ago. I made you do it while you were watching Naruto."
Hardison frowned at her. "You did? That's cheating Gwen, you can't ask me to do anything while I'm watching Naruto." He folded his arms again, looking a little ridiculous hanging in mid-air.
She shrugged at him, looking in the window checking for motion detectors, she spots one on the window sill and slowly pulls her sleek long glove of one hand.
Seeing what she was doing, Hardison tried to move away. "Hey now, Sparky. Chill and put your glove back on."
She laughed again, slipping her arm through the hole and frying the detector, subsequently causing the entire network to shut down. "Do you wanna get caught? I'm pretty sure you don't want to have jumped ten storeys just to get arrested?"
"Okay, you have a point. Just, next time, warn me when you do that."
Gwen smirks as she slips her glove back on, "Where's the fun in that?"
Leaning forward, Gwen puts her hands through the hole and onto the inner windowsill, leans in more into a forward rolling somersault and hitting a button on her harness, unclipping her harness from the cable.
Hardison watches her, intrigued, he'd been her tech guy on the job for a few years but had never actually seen her work.
After having to ask her to help him this time, she'd insisted that he accompany her while she did it.
She called from inside, "You coming?"
Hardison took a deep breath and leaned into the hole, attempting to slip through the window in a front roll but misjudges it falling through the window and landing on the floor in a heap at Gwen's feet.
Gwen looked down at him laughing, "You okay, Alec?"
He looked up at her and glared a little, "Just peachy." He stood up slowly and rubbed his elbow. "I think I hit something."
"As long as it's not your head, I'm not interested." She turned away from him and started towards the door of the office they had dropped into.
"So I get no sympathy either?" He whined as he followed after her.
"Nope, I told you this is a dangerous job. I'm not gonna rub your elbow better." Gwen had reached the door and cracked it open a little as two armed guards passed by. She silently closed the door and placed a hand over Hardison's mouth as he started answering her back.
Hardison glared down at her and she pointed to the door. He pulled her hand off his mouth and whispered "You could have just said 'shhh'."
Gwen gave him a 'Really?' look and pulls the door open again. The guards had gone, and she opened the door completely. "Okay, we need to go down the service elevator shaft on the other side of the building."
He looked at her like she was insane, "On the other side of the building? If it's on the other side of the building why didn't we jump down the other side of the building?"
"Because, there's a meeting on the other side of the building. Even I can't get past a room full of suits." Gwen rolls her eyes and leaves the room stealthily, keeping to the walls and checking for more guards.
It took Hardison a few moment to realise he was standing in the office alone and he quickly followed Gwen, who was now nearly at the end of the corridor, and hisses in her ear when he reaches her. " You could have told me move, you know."
She snorts as they reach the service elevator, "Nah, it's more entertaining to see you panic."
"You're evil, that's what you are. Evil." He pointed to her as he spoke.
"Yeah, yeah. I've heard it all before." She smiled as she pointed to the elevator doors. "You, need to pull those open."
Hardison looked from her to the doors and back at her and laughed until he saw the serious look on her face. "Y-you're serious? Gwen, I'm nowhere near strong enough to pull those things open."
She arched a brow at him, "Oh, really? So why was it that, that one time I broke into your apartment because you didn't answer the door. I saw some massive guns on you as you walked out of the shower?"
Hardison opens his mouth to say something than shuts it, glaring at her and steps in front of the elevator, placing his hands where the doors met and getting a firm grip before starting to pull them apart.
Leaning back against the wall, Gwen watches Hardison's arms bulge under his shirt from the strain and smirks. She could have just fried the door controls but this way she got a nice view too.
Once the doors were open Hardison looked down the elevator shaft. "We're not going down that, Gwen. Nu-uh, I refuse."
Gwen pushed herself off the wall and stood next to him, "We kinda are. You have no say in the matter." As she spoke she attached them to the cable quickly and pushed him out.
Hardison, cried out in surprise then looked around confused when he didn't go anywhere, just hanging from the elevator cable.
Gwen jumps out after him and grins at the look of confusion on his face. "Something the matter, Alec? I thought you wanted warning before I drop you anywhere?"
He narrowed his eyes at her but nodded, "Fine, but I still think you're doing this on purpose."
She smirked at him and tried to look innocent, "I have no idea what you're talking about." She pushed a button on the controls and started lowering them slowly. "Going down..."