Disclaimer: I do not own Leverage nor am I making any money off of this.
Pairing: Nate/Parker
A/N: Well here's chapter 2. Thanks to everyone who reviewed because you guys definitely inspire me to continue writing. Enjoy.
To ClaudiaRain I think I am going to write a sort of happy ending well maybe more like an assurance ending I suppose is what you could call it because I don't think I could write a story with a totally unhappy ending anyway but there are definitely going to still be sad parts.
Nate woke up to an absolutely remarkable site that morning and knew that he could definitely get used to waking up next to Parker everyday of his life. Usually he got out of bed as soon as he woke up but this morning he just wrapped his arms around the most astonishing and loving (at least towards him)woman he knew waiting for her to wake up. Nate didn't have to wait too long though because maybe ten minutes later he felt her stretch up against him and knew she was waking up; he propped himself on his elbow and gave her a little kiss on her cheek whispering, "Morning beautiful. I love you."
Parker smiled and rolled over giving him a proper good morning kiss, "Mmm. Morning and I love you. How did you sleep?" a little concern in her voice because she knew he sometimes had some pretty bad nightmares and after the previous job was wondering if it brought the terrible memories of his son dying back to the forefront of his mind.
"Wonderful," he assured her.
She gave him a little smile as she straddled him, "Glad to hear it."
"How about you?" he asked looking up at her.
"Like a rock," she laughed as she leaned down about to give him a kiss when she yelled, "It's 2 o'clock!"
"Thanks for the informing me of the time, but I really don't care, I want my kiss," Nate told her, about to reach up for her to get the kiss he so desperately wanted only to be denied.
"I've got to go. Sophie is going to kill me!" she exclaimed as she got off Nate who moaned his disappointment.
"Why, may I ask, are you meeting Sophie on our one year anniversary? I don't remember asking her to date me too."
"Because she's making me go dress shopping so I can impress you or something like that and before you say I should just stand her up I can't because she threatened to come and drag me off which you know she'll do; I have no choice in the matter because I can't hurt Sophie like I do Eliot, that would just be mean."
"Ugh. That women still knows how to frustrate me even though we're on the same team," he complained as he got out of bed to give Parker a proper goodbye.
"Although I wish I could stay because you are looking extremely stunning in your boxers," she smiled devilishly.
"Don't make me kidnap you," Nate whispered in her ear causing a shiver to run down her back, "Well I guess you better go before Sophie comes stampeding in and sees me like this. I love you and I'll pick you up around eight," giving her one last kiss.
"Okay. Well if I don't die of shear boredom first that is," Parker stated in a way that made it sound like that was something that would probably happen, as she walked out of the bedroom completely dreading her day with Sophie because even though she loved the woman she can put you through some of the most torturous things. 'And everyone thinks I inflict pain. Being tasered is nothing compared to trying on a million pieces of clothing,' she thought to herself as she left Nate's to go meet up with the shopaholic.
"There you are Parker," Sophie said with relief getting off of her couch to greet her, "I was just about to go over to Nate's to see if you were there because I called with no answer and I went to your place and found it empty. What took you so long?"
"Um we kinda overslept."
"Nevermind," Sophie discarded and walked towards Parker and linked arms with the thief knowing she would probably have to literally drag her to all the shops and led her downstairs and to her car so they could get started on their big outing, "Well we probably won't be able to visit all the places I wanted.."
"Thank God," Parker breathed out looking at the buildings they were passing by wondering where they were headed to first.
"..What was that? Did you say something?" Sophie asked looking over at Parker who was vigorously shaking her head 'no'. "Well like I was saying we'll probably only be able to visit about half the shops since someone overslept."
"Well I was tired. So we're going to like two shops then?"
"Haha. Two? Goodness no. Ten," Sophie informed the now horrified woman next to her.
"Ten? That's half of what you wanted to originally do? Geez what are you trying to do kill me?" Parker asked thinking the Grifter was completely insane.
"No I'm trying to make this night a wonderful one for you and Nate and the first step is to make you even more stunning than you already are," she informed the other woman as they pulled into the parking lot of one of her favorite dress shops, "Well here's stop number one."
"Yay," Parker exclaimed sarcastically as they got out of the car and entered into the extremely large dress outlet. Parker just looked around and wondered how in the hell they were supposed to find anything; the place was huge and there were dresses everywhere. 'Where do we even start?' she thought to herself glad that she was a simple woman, well simple enough.
"Parker, over here!" Sophie called out not wanting to lose the petite thief in such a large place.
"I'm not a child Sophie….Ooh shiny!" Parker exclaimed walking over to a dress covered in sequins.
"Riiight. Let's start on this side and we'll work our way down," Sophie said as she began to look at dresses on a rack beside her. "What about this one?" she asked holding up a red dress for Parker to see.
"Ew gross. No way," Parker said sticking her tongue out in disgust.
Sophie rolled her eyes and put the dress up and held up another five dresses which were all denied by Parker. "I'm just going to stop asking. You're worse than shopping with a child," Sophie muttered shaking her head and just began holding onto dresses that she thought Parker would look great in.
"Do you know what Nate's going to be wearing tonight?" the Grifter asked.
"Um…probably something blue," Parker answered as she looked through another rack of dresses not finding anything on that one either, "Can't we just go to one of your other nine stores?"
"I suppose but first you're going to try these on," she told her, "And no buts," she included as she saw Parker about to complain, "Plus if we find one here we can skip the next five stores."
Parker perked up at that and decided to look a little harder and actually found a couple of dresses that weren't so gross on their way over to the dressing rooms.
"Alright Parker try these ones first," Sophie handed over about eight dresses and pushed her into one of the rooms and about three minutes late Parker came back out with a simple black dress on, "Uh no. Too plain. Next," another three minutes revealed Parker with a dark green dress, "Ugh. Definitely not. I didn't realize the bow would be that ugly. Next." Five dresses later found Parker in a dark blue dress that wasn't too dressy nor too casual, "Perfect," Sophie smiled, "You look absolutely stunning."
"So we're getting this one and skipping the next five stores?" the thief asked with a little hope in her voice.
"Yes," Sophie answered and Parker started to do a little dance as she turned around to go back into the room, "Although if you thought this was difficult then you apparently have never looked for accessories or shoes," Sophie informed laughing at how Parker went from dancing to slumping in a second.
A few minutes later found the women checking out and heading back to the car to head over to one of Sophie's favorite shoe stores. "You are going to look fantastic on this date tonight Parker," Sophie was saying to her even though she wasn't really listening; she was too busy thinking about Nate and wondering what he was doing to pass the time. "Parker? Parker!" Sophie yelled getting her attention. "Were you even listening to me?"
"Yeah of course!"
"Well then you would realize that we are here," Sophie stated knowing she didn't hear a word she was saying to her before.
"Huh. Fine but I'm only trying on like ten pairs of shoes so choose wisely," Parker said as they headed into the building to find the pair of perfect shoes for her dress.
"Only ten? Well that's no fun at all," Sophie said disappointed but already heading over to the high heels. "Ooh look at these. Oh and these. I love shoes."
Parker just shook her head and chose a pair that didn't look too bad so she decided to try them on. "What about these Soph?"
"Oh Parker no, absolutely not. Here try these."
Parker grabbed them and slipped them on, "Ugh no. They're uncomfortable."
"You're not going for comfort Parker. You're going for sexy but you're right those don't work either," she said as she picked out another three pairs for her to try on.
"Remember only ten and I've already tried on two."
"Your choices don't count," Sophie dismissed handing over her other choices, "Don't just stand there! Try them on. We only have another two hours before we have to go to your place to begin getting you ready and we haven't even looked at accessories."
"Bossy," Parker stated trying the three pairs on in which two were denied by Parker and one by Sophie.
"Here try this one. I have a feeling these are going to be the ones."
"Whatever. Hand 'em over," Parker said tired of trying on shoes but slipped them on only to discover that they weren't too uncomfortable, "So what do ya think?"
"Stunning," she said simply, "Do you like them?"
"They actually aren't bad. So does that mean we're done?"
"With shoes yes, but we still have to find you a little hand purse."
"Ugh you are trying to kill me!" Parker complained walking to the register to check out and then followed Sophie back to the car so they could head over to the mall for the purse.
"This the last place?"
"Only if we find something," Sophie told her pulling into a parking spot, "So let's go we only have about an hour left."
"Do I even need a purse? I'm not going to carry anything with me," she told Sophie as they entered one of the stores in the mall.
"Yes. It completes the outfit. Now you look here and I'll look over there," Sophie told her walking over to look at all the purses.
"Wow look at this one Sophie! I could fit all of you guys in here and take you on the date with us," Parker laughed holding up a huge purse; Sophie just shook her head and kept looking. Parker gave up about twenty minutes later and decided to just follow Sophie around knowing she would find the 'perfect' one to match anyway.
"Okay I think I found the perfect one Parker. What do you think?" she asked holding it out for her to see.
"Yep looks great. Now let's go already. I'm tired and I haven't even been on the date yet," she complained just wanting to get to her house to rest before Nate picked her up.
"I told you we should have gone shopping two days ago, but someone was too tired after finishing up the job."
"I had to run about a mile and climb through about two miles of ventilation shafts! We all don't have the luxury of following the mark around telling them how wonderful they are," Parker informed her.
"Well my job is mentally tiring," Sophie defended as they bought the purse so they could head to Parker's place to get her ready.
"Finally! Home sweet home," Parker exclaimed as she fell down on her bed with a smile on her face.
"What do you think you're doing? Go get in the shower; we only have a mere hour and a half before Nate arrives to pick you up," Sophie demanded pulling Parker off of her bed and pushing her towards the bathroom.
"Fine," Parker mumbled.
"Parker what are you doing in there? It's been thirty minutes," Sophie informed her.
"Hiding from you!"
"Ugh. Here put your dress on," Sophie said as she opened the door and handed her the clothes she'd be wearing that night, "And let me know when you're through so I can apply the makeup."
"I'm dressed," Parker said as she opened the door five minutes later dreading the next step as Sophie entered and began to put makeup on her, but not over doing it because too much was never a good thing.
"Quite squiming Parker or I'm going to end up poking you in the eye," Sophie complained trying to put eye liner on the thief.
"Well if you weren't so invasive, I wouldn't be obligated to protect myself," Parker defended.
Sophie just rolled her eyes and continued to hold her still and apply the rest of the makeup, "There I think that should do. Take a look Parker."
"Not too bad I guess. I was worried I'd look like a clown the way you attacked me and I hate clowns."
"Well I guess you're ready and with ten minutes to spare. Damn I'm good," Sophie bragged.
"Thanks Sophie even though it was mostly filled with torture I still had fun hanging with you," Parker told her with a smile.
"Aw thanks Parker. Well I guess I'll go before Nate gets here. Call me tomorrow and tell me how everything went," she said giving her a hug. "And you look amazing by the way," she included as she left the apartment waving goodbye.
"Bye," Parker said looking at her clock realizing Nate would be there any minute.
Knock, knock
A/N: Well that's chapter 2 done. Hope you like it and continue to read because I promise there is more to come. And as always please tell me what you thought that way I know what you guys like and do not like and so I can fix any problems. :)