Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to any of the characters used from The Vampire Diaries or Leverage. They are only borrowed for my own musings. I do not make any kind of monetary profit from these writings.
A/N: This is a continuation of Secrets my one shot of Katherine and Eliot.
Security was easy to get passed with a quick compel, a fake identity with a newly made badge, and some luck. Katherine quickly scanned the hallway that led to the store room that held the file folders she desired. The security camera was high and to right of the door she wanted access to. Sensing a few heartbeats in the area and a fast heartbeat quickly approaching she pulled out a stapler she stole from one of the offices and with a quick flick of the wrist tossed it at the camera breaking it off it's mount into a crumbled pile of scrap on the floor.
"Shit." Hardison cursed.
Eliot who was on fast approach to the access door of the store room stopped suddenly. "What?" He asked as he scanned the hall to see if someone was coming.
"I just lost feed to the camera in front of the door. I can't tell ya man if anyone is coming when you get in there." Hardison explained from his spot in the van with the laptop in front of him.
"Then I'll just have to do it the old fashioned way." Eliot grumbled into the ear piece as he shot down the hall to the store room.
Katherine acted quickly after she took the camera out. She came up to the key pad, ripped it from the wall, and interchanged some of the wires and the door unlocked. She stepped inside and quickly scanned over the boxes of files looking for the number she needed.
That fast paced heartbeat was closer now and she feared it was a guard who caught on to her plan. Security wasn't due for a shift change for another hour but she couldn't rule out an early one.
"I think someone else is after something here too." Eliot gasped in surprise as he came upon the door and the ripped out security pass code key pad.
"What makes you think that?" Nate said back while he was in his office planning the next move.
"Broken security feed camera and now broken keypad." He explained as he opened the door.
"Proceed with caution." Nate said.
"No shit Sherlock." Eliot said into the ear piece in a low tone but Katherine caught it.
She had found the box, but had yet to find the file. She wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for this company not believing in computers and everything still being in paper format. Fuck, she cursed under her breath as she saw a man emerge from the doorway. She put her mask on, didn't want to muss her hair up, but apparently she had no choice in the matter.
She was already in her get away outfit of black. Black pants slim fit, black boots, black turtle neck, and now black ski mask. She kept looking through the files praying she could find what she wanted, knock this guy out, and then return home.
Fate was not in her favor. Eliot heard someone going through a box and heard them curse. He put his mask on, didn't want to, but didn't want who ever was able to get in here to know who he was.
He squared his shoulders as he came upon the scene of a thin form searching a box. It was the same box he needed.
"Hey." He said and watched as a female form stood with a file in her hands.
"Hey." She smiled with ruby red lips.
Well he's not a guard. That was a small relief but by the way he held himself he was more trouble. She watched his gaze go to the folder and then snap back up to her.
"Don't tell me you want this one?" Katherine said.
"Looks like it." Eliot said.
"Not happening." She said and watched him smile.
"Was hopin' you'd say that." He grinned and stepped up to her in a fighting stance.
Katherine slid the folder in between some other boxes and stood before this guy. She didn't take a fighting stance, didn't need to. She watched him go for a simple move and she blocked it seeing it coming a mile away. She grabbed his arm, twisted it to almost breaking, and threw him into a wall.
He recovered quicker than Katherine expected and nodded her respect. With a flurry of movement he attacked her and she blocked or took the shot with little damage and again caught him but instead of using his arm as the leverage she kicked his feet out from under him.
She moved faster than anyone Eliot has ever faced. He tried his hardest to keep her in one corner of the room while Parker was hanging from the ceiling trying to get that folder from between the boxes.
Mr. Good fighter wasn't alone Katherine mused as she heard the steady heartbeat enter the room from the ceiling. While she distracted the masked wonder with a quick jab to his head and hit him hard enough knock his head sideways, she pulled out a ninja star and threw it slicing the rope the other one was hanging from clean through making her fall on the other side of the boxes far enough away from the folder that she had to make extra effort to get there.
Eliot looked over his shoulder to see Parker frowning before she hit the floor. Katherine took that moment to run to the folder, pull it from the boxes, and jump to the piece of rope dangling from the ceiling. She climbed out of the room and found that this nice piece of equipment was rigged to the roof of the building and she climbed all the way to the top.
Both Eliot and Parker looked at each other, then to the rope that was a good 10 feet from the floor, back to each other.
"Fuck." Eliot swore, "Hardison she's on the roof, with the folder."
"What, who?" Hardison said confused.
"The person who got in here just before me." Eliot said as he and Parker scrambled to get to the roof.
"You got beat by a girl?" Hardison joked.
"Damnit Hardison, just see if you can see her from the roof cameras." Eliot barked.
Katherine made it to the top of the 20 floors of the building. She had rolled the folder up stuck it in her pants while she scanned the rooftop for the side she was going to jump from. The building had a side building 10 floors high. She was going to jump onto it and then to the ground. Twenty floors was pushing her jumping skills.
"Yeah I see her, in all black right?" Hardison said.
"That's her. What's she doing?" Eliot asked as him and Parker was on the 18th floor stairwell.
"She's running around the edge of the rooftop, I'm guessing looking for a way to climb down." Hardison informed Eliot.
Parker was faster up the stairs and she was the first to burst through the rooftop doors. She ran almost smack dab into Katherine. Katherine took her in a hold from behind and held her tight as she backed up to the side of the building she was going to jump from. Eliot came out, seeing the situation he put his hands up.
"Don't." Katherine yelled over the high winds to Eliot as she put a knife up to Parker's throat.
Parker let Eliot distract this woman while she picked the folder slowly from her pants.
"Where you gonna go?" Eliot said watching her inch closer to the edge.
"Down." Katherine smiled as she pushed Parker forward with Parker holding onto the folder and jumped.
Parker caught herself from hitting the rooftop hard, that push was that hard, and Eliot ran to the side of the rooftop and looked over to see the woman jump to the ground and land on her feet gracefully.
Hardison had trained the rooftop and parking lot cameras onto her fleeing form and started the facial recognition software. She took off in a golden Mercedes SLS with no license plates.
Back at the office of Leverage Inc. Portland branch Nate was rounding everyone up for a briefing on what transpired at the company. Eliot couldn't sit down. He paced with pent up anger and frustration fueling his energy.
"Who the hell was that?" Eliot began as he searched the faces of the people he called family.
Nate used the remote to pull up a picture on the big screen. "Her name is Katherine Pierce." He showed a current state driver's license. "Says she's 21, living in a home on the east side of Portland."
"Could be a fake ID." Hardison spoke up.
"Yeah she didn't move like a 21 year old." Parker said. She witnessed some of the fight with Eliot before she was spotted.
Eliot stared at the picture. Holy shit, no way. He ran his hand through his hair. It was the same hair, same mischievous smile, same chocolate brown eyes he lost him self in all those years ago. Now it all made sense. She could hear Parker's heartbeat, she heard his, she jumped to that rope with easy, and she landed ten stories down twice, that car. It all made sense except why did she want that folder too?
Nate saw Eliot's body language, he knew this woman. "Care to share Eliot?" Nate asked as he saw the confused looks on Eliot's face.
That wall went back up and Eliot sat down. He didn't know how much he should say about all this. He figured it was safe to say he knew her from the field.
"Yeah it's a fake ID, same name as I know her by, but that's not her age. I wonder if that's even her house." He said as all eyes landed on him.
"Dude she jumped from that rooftop, I have it on tape." Hardison pulled it up to show that she did indeed jump ten stories, twice.
"Yeah Katherine has skills. I met her a long time ago; she's good, like me." Eliot felt that was comfortable enough to reveal.
"Looks like she might be better." Sophie added.
"I just don't get what she'd want in this folder." Eliot said as he held it up.
"Same as us, would she want the patents?" Parker asked.
"There's more in the folder than patents." Hardison spoke up as he showed more numbers and the pages on the screen.
It was all mumbo jumbo to Eliot. It was chemical equations, addresses with locations for things that didn't make sense. Nate spoke, "Not sure, but when she figures out we have this I'm sure we will see her again."
"Shit fuck shit fuck." Katherine exclaimed after she found out they got the folder anyway.
They probably didn't even know what they had but all be damned if she was going to let them figure it out. Katherine put out a bounty on the heads of the duo and waited for any information to slide her way.
Almost within the hour of posting it on a secret forum she received valuable information about a group of people who worked for a corporation called Leverage Inc. This information included photos and a list of their skills. She thanked Sterling from Interpol with a handsome reward of half a million dollars and a promise he'd get that date with her he's been wanting for a few months now.
Humans, Katherine thought to herself as she rolled her eyes.
Nathan Ford was their fearless leader. He was a good guy gone bad and now led this riff raff. He was the Mastermind and came up with all kinds of schemes for this group who were a modern day Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
Sophie Deveroux, grifter could get them into anywhere with her manipulations. She was a looker and seemed to have the eye of Nathan Ford.
Alec Hardison, the technical geek. He could hack into anything she read down the list and swore when she saw he had facial recognition software from NSA.
Parker, just plain Parker, was best thief in the world. Katherine had to agree with that.
Eliot Spencer, hitter. Oh my God I beat up Eliot. Katherine giggled with glee but at the same time was worried. She hadn't seen Eliot for years. He used to come to her for that sense of adventure that could only come from being with a vampire both with sex and being fed from. She'd also feed him her blood. He had begged her to come with him, but it wasn't the time. Klaus was always after her but with him desiccated and not a bother to her she used this time to clean up her messes; one of which was this information that company had.
Well this would surely be interesting. Leverage Inc. was housed above a newly opened restaurant. She looked over the security of the building and the placement of the cameras. This was going to be no easy task. Her only way into this place and that information was through Eliot.