Human Touch
Disclaimer: I neither own nor am associated with Leverage – the Show or the Physics applications. Human Touch belongs to the Boss, Bruce Springsteen.
Paring: Sophie/ Nate
Notes/ Explanation: A stanza from Bruce Springsteen's Human Touch along with a quote from the show that I thought went along with it, followed by a 100 word drabble of reflection.
You and me, we were the pretenders
We let it all slip away
In the end what you don't surrender
Well, the world just strips away
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"You were right, ten years ago I saw you for the first time. You were swiping a Degas from a collection in Prague. I saw you, you saw me."
"I ran, you chased."
"Then two years later I caught up with you in Damascus, caught you, I should say. You, uh, turned around, introduced yourself, and that's when I met Sophie Devereaux, It'll be eight years next month."
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In the beginning they were on opposite sides, both players, but of different games. They pretended, they lied, but in the end he was good, the white knight, and she was not, a black queen. He was a symbol of something she would strive for – but never quite reach. His world – to view life from the same side he did.
They played each other; they hurt each other – shot each other. But each time their paths crossed, each con, the cat revealed something to the mouse. The mouse revealed something to the cat. In a way the needed each other.