A/N: So this is my first Leverage fanfic and I got my idea just wanting to see what would happen if Eliot was taken during a Con gone wrong. This first chapter is just to show what the Con is all about. The next will get more into things.
Synopsis: When a con goes wrong, Eliot is taken and the team has no choice but to stop where they are and race to save Eliot before its to late.
(Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters that I use in my story. I only write fanfiction and that's it.)
"Miss Katie Labelle," Hardison grinned widely from where he stood in front of the six TV screens that stood behind him. He glanced over his shoulder, pressing a button and at once a picture of a lady in her late twenties with wavy dark-brown hair appeared on the screen. She was grinning at the team as if she had gotten away with something, her bright blue eyes shining. Hardison had stopped as soon the name of their mark left his lips.
"Hardison," Nate said, his voice a little irritated.
"Oh right," Hardison said, bringing his attention back to his team who had all different looks on their faces. Eliot was smirking as if he found something funny, Parker had a confused look on her face as if she didn't quite understand what was wrong and Sophie looked not so surprised by Hardison's reaction. "As stunning as Katie Labelle might look she is just like any of our other marks we have dealt with," he said.
"So what is it she has done?" Eliot questioned.
"Hold your horses, I'm getting to that right now," Hardison said, shaking his head. He pressed another button and another picture appeared, this one was of a lady in her late thirties with red hair. "Our client, Mrs. Rachel Jacobs tells us that her husband," he paused, pressing another button so another picture appeared on the screen behind him but this time it was of a male with short black hair, holding his wife in his arms, smiling. He looked as if he would never do anything that was remotely wrong, "Kale Jacob who is a doctor at the local hospital was falsely accused and put in jail."
"Falsely accused of what?" Sophie questioned.
"Harassment, you know the usual. We probably wouldn't have bothered to look into this case if it hadn't been for Nate who believes that Kale is innocent," he said, pointing at Nate before resuming his presentation
"Okay, so we get that this Katie is bringing men in on false accusations," said Eliot, looking bored, "What's in it for us besides bringing a criminal down?"
"Doesn't seem like they have anything for us to steal," Parker agreed with the Hitter.
This was where Nate stood up and walked over to stand beside Hardison, "You're only partly correct. Its seems that Katie is suing the families of these men for thousands of dollars." Parker grinned widely at that. "So to put things simple our job will be to get close to Katie and find evidence, proof that she is falsely accusing these men, getting the money she has taken from these families back to them."
After seeing the several confused faces at the table, Hardison turned slightly to look up at the TV screen, bringing the picture of Katie back to the front. "I also found information on the trial that put Rachel's husband in jail. It seems that Katie's brother was the judge of the trial and put Kale in jail no questions asked," he said, bringing up another picture of Katie's brother and a couple of photos of trial papers. "And get this, this isn't the first time that Katie brought men in on accusations of harassment."
"So Katie picks her targets, accuses them, sues them then sends them to her brother to put them in jail so they have no say in what really happened," Parker said, ticking off her fingers as she spoke, trying to make sure she had everything right.
"So they're making money on the accusation then they make money on the trial," Sophie added.
Nate nodded his head, "And to make matters worse, these people Katie and her brother pray upon barely have enough money to pay off the sue charges and end up losing almost everything they own."
That was all the team needed to raise their hate towards these two people. All that was left was to exact revenge on them and return the money and the men that were stolen from these families while also making a little bit of cash on the side.
"So what's the plan?" Eliot questioned, leaning forward in his seat at the table, wanting to get started right away.
"First we're going to need evidence against Katie and the only way we can get that is if we can close enough to her," Sophie said. "So our best bet is to have either Eliot or Hardison pose as a male interested in starting a relationship with her," she suggested.
At this Eliot and Hardison cocked their eyebrows at her but Hardison's softened quickly. "I have no problem with that," he said, smirking.
Nate shook his head, "Hardison will be staying here. We'll need your hacking abilities to get information on Katie while we're under cover. Eliot will be the interested one," he said.
Hardison groaned his protest loudly. Eliot, however, shrugged his shoulders, having no problem with it as long as it got the job done and if he was lucky enough he might be able to smack a few heads in while he was at it. "So what's the second part?"
"Well, we'll also need evidence against the judge and that'll be mine, Parkers and Sophie's job," Nate explained.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed things so far. It took me a while to come up with a con and though its not much of one, I thought I did pretty good for my first try. :3 Tell me what you think. Leave a comment.