A/N: Thanks for all the reviews guys! I'm glad you like it so far :) It took a while to update because I got stuck on it halfway through. I don't own Leverage, obviously
Trust No One
Previously:
"You know who she is don't you" Eliot said calmly. Sophie just turned to face Eliot still in extreme shock.
"She-she-she's my niece!" Sophie cried out in horror
"WHAT!" The team cried out in unison. Even Eliot was slightly surprised.
"You mean your niece killed Hugo?" Hardison asked bewildered
"I don't know maybe she did! Let's just hear what Eliot has to say" Sophie screeched
"Ok she's 14 years old and her nickname is Blood Hands. She lives in Rhode Island and attempted to murder her teacher last year. The city tried to keep the thing confidential but when a child pushes a teacher out a three story building everyone knows. She rips her victims to death with her bare hands and occasionally has a knife on her. She got the name because she puts her hands in the blood of her victims so she has blood hands. The she presses both hands to her face so she has blood hands on her face."
"She tried to kill Crackers Crowndal?" Sophie muttered to herself
"Did you say she tried to kill cracks crows?" Eliot asked confused
"No, she has a teacher she hates called Mrs. Crowndal and she nicknamed her Crackers Crowndal. I'm guessing that's the teacher she pushed out a window" Sophie said blandly
"You say it so casually" Eliot muttered
"How do we know it was her! I mean Jamie could've seen someone that just looked young." Parker asked confused
"Sophie you go talk to Liza, I'll try to get more info on Jamie. Hardison you try to find anything about the murder and Eliot and Parker you go do some investigating at the school. Let's go steal a ...go steal a...Umm" Nate trailed off
"Let's go steal my niece" Sophie corrected grabbing her purse and walking to the door.
"Uh yeah! Let's go steal Sophies niece!" Nate said clapping his hands and following Sophie.
~Later when Sophie is with Liza (Jenna)~
"So why is red your favorite color?" Sophie asked casually. She was sitting at her house with Liza and luckily her sister wasn't there so she could interrogate at free will.
"Honestly, because it's the color of love and the color of blood" Liza replied smiling a bit
"You don't mind blood?" Sophie asked slightly nervous
"No I actually laugh when they take my blood, you know how it tickles?" Liza asked laughing
"No..." Sophie shook her head slightly. "It feels like someone injected led into my arm"
"Whatever" Liza waved the subject off. "You like horror movies?"
Sophie shuddered at the thought replying smoothly, "No too gory"
"Aw c'mon that's the best part though" Liza almost coaxed
Sophie tried to keep her eyes from widening so she changed the subject. "Do you want some tea?"
"Nah I'm good" She replied blandly. Sophie hurried over to the kitchen muttering to the team over the coms.
"She likes blood I can tell you that"
"We need more Sophie" Nate demanded
"I'm trying! I can't act like I know everything"
"Ask her if she's heard about the murder on 16th avenue" Nate suggested
"But no one has"
"That's the point" She heard Eliot mumble
"Right, got it" Sophie confirmed before focusing on the tea.
"Who are these people?" She heard Liza call across the room holding her picture of the team in her hands.
"That's my team" Sophie replied honestly
"Which one's Nate?" Liza asked innocently
"Guess" Sophie replied simply now sitting next to Liza
"That one!" She Liza asked jabbing a finger at Eliot
"No..."
"This one" She tried again pointing to Hardison
"No..."
"This one?" She asked surprised
"Yeah that's Nate" Sophie replied taking the frame from her and hugging it to her chest.
She scrunched her nose in disgust of her Aunts choice in men. "Why do you like him?"
"Long story that I really don't feel like explaining right now." Sophie insisted getting up and checking on the tea. "I know you've only been in town for a little bit but have you heard about the murder on 16th Avenue?"
"A murder? On 16th Avenue that street we went to go have coffee at?" Liza asked in shock
"That would be the one" Sophie replied gravely
"No I hadn't heard. Who was murdered?"
"Hugo Canalis" Sophie almost spat
"Never heard of him. Well I'm sorry for him I'm sure he had no reason to be murdered. You only deserve to be killed for a crime of respectable portions. So if you kill some one then you deserve to be killed." Liza said like it was the most simple obvious solution to problems.
"I guess..." Sophie replied uneasily heading over to finish making her tea.
"Did you get that" Sophie hissed
"Oh yeah" Nate breathed
~On the other side of coms~
"Jamie can you please tell me everything you remember about the place where Hugo was killed" Nate asked
Jamie scowled at the thought. "Umm wavy red hair brown or black eyes. She was probably 5 foot 4 and had a jacket on I think it was leather, I don't remember though." She closed her eyes trying to think, "Someone else was there! Probably 5 foot 2 wavy hair but that's all I could tell from the faint outline of the streetlight. My husband stomach didn't look like it had been cut open though almost ripped open." She fought back a sob at the memory.
"Do you know of anyone that would have motivation to do it?" Nate asked quickly
"No he was just a good normal person had a day job at an office" Jamie replied simply
"Did he know about you being a..." Nate trailed off
"Oh me being a grifter...no" She hung her head in shame
"Was anyone trying to target you maybe it was payback" Nate suggested
"I bury anyone that's gone after me in a shallow grave" She growled
"Then why am I still here?"
"You were different Nate, you had something, some one, I was gone by the time it was taken away from you" She almost hissed evilly
Nate swallowed hard. "Ok so no one was targeting you or your husband. Got that. I will go talk to my team and get to work"
"Thanks Nate" Jamie smiled and walked out of the bar. Suddenly he heard a crash over the com.
"Sophie are you ok?" Nate asked quickly
"I'm fine Nate I just tripped and dropped my tea pot" Sophie whispered quickly
"Oh ok I thought she had attacked you" Nate breathed a sigh of relief
~Back on Sophies side of coms~
"Aunt Sophie are you alright?" Liza asked quickly rushing over to her
"Yeah li-" Sophie stopped "Jenna I'm fine"
Liza noticed her slip up and her eyes widened in anger. She slapped her hard across the face. "Who are you?"
"Shit!" Sophie cursed "That hurt!"
Liza smirked and reached over to her ear pulling out the com and putting it in hers. "Who is this?"
"Liza"
"You must be Nate"
"Yes and you're Blood Hands"
"So?"
"A man named Hugo Canalis was murdered just a fe-"
"Cut to the chase Ford I know what happened"
"I know who killed him"
"Who did?"
"Oh please don't even try to beat around the bush we both know that you did" Liza growled at the words and smashed the ear bud with her fingers.
"Liza please don't hurt me" Sophie whimpered backing away from her
"I won't hurt you Aunt Sophie unless you give me a reason too" Liza spat
"What would be a good reason?"
"Don't meddle in the business of the murder and we'll see who walks away alive" Liza nodded glaring at her before walking out the door. Sophie sputtered out the breath she was holding tight in her chest. It was official she could trust no one.
~At Nates~
"So I've hacked into the security footage from that night. Only one problem. The cameras were down during the murder and the time when Jamie picked up Hugos corpse. This is what happened after it, I haven't watched it yet so you might puke I'm not sure." Hardison and brought up the footage on the big screen. It showed the girl with the red curly hair leaning up against the wall looking over at Liza who was in the shadows.
~Flashback~
"I've killed him now where's my money you promised me Cora?" Liza spat
"It's in the trunk of my car don't worry" Cora assured
"I swear if you try to out con me of money I will rip your throat out and you know me" Liza hissed
"I'm aware" Core replied gravely
"I can't trust anyone around here these days you know" Liza gave a bitter laugh
"Yes well Johanna's dead we get you your money simple as that" Cora replied rolling her eyes
"Do you think his wife knew he was a thief?" Liza asked slowly inspecting the blood on her hands
"Probably not, she was a grifter herself I don't think he knew" Cora sighed
"Well Johanna should've know better then stealing from a Dinear."
"He should've known better that if he stole from a Dinear he'd hire a Crawford to kill him" Cora laughed at the joke
"Poor Johanna Felger should've known better" Liza replied with a nod
"C'mon let me get your money" Cora said walking out of the alley. They walked over to a black Honda and Cora opened the trunk and showed her suitcase with $50,000 in it.
"Thanks Cora we'll keep in touch" Liza thanked her, took the brief case and walked away.
~End of flashback~
"Hardison why isn't there any sound?" Nate asked quickly man
"I couldn't get any sound, it's a crappy traffic camera" Hardison raised his hands in defense
"Can you do facial recognition?" Parker asked sipping her drink
"I'll try" Hardison started typing on his key board little dots appeared on 'Coras' face and it came up with a box that said: Too blurry for facial recognition.
"What do we do now?" Sophie asked
"Parker, Hardison, and Eliot can go after her. She doesn't know them" Nate suggested
"She saw the picture I have of you guys and I told her it was my team" Sophie admitted
"Can't we just turn her over to the cops?" Parker asked
"She'll kill you before you even finish dialing the numbers" Eliot growled. Everyone turned to look at Eliot who had his arms crossed, scowling.
"How do you know?"
"Because Nate I've seen her kill people before. I've meet her before. She is not the sweet innocent little kid you think she is. She can rip someone's head off with her hands." Eliot glared at Nate
"That's impossi-"
Eliot scoffed at his naïvety. "No it's not I've seen it. We can't get into this murder Nate or she will kill us...in the worst way possible"
Sophie swallowed hard at the words. "After she crushed my com she said not to meddle in the murder and she wouldn't hurt me. She said if we did we'll see who walks away alive."
"But Jamie..."
"No Nate we can't get into this!" Eliot spat back
"I don't care!" Nate roared back
"We turn her over to the cops!" Eliot argued
"She'll go to jail!"
"I don't care I am not going to sacrifice me life for this person!"
"Then walk"
"I'm not gonna walk Nate. I'm not gonna let you die" Eliot hissed
"I'm not gonna die Eliot she's a kid"
"Didn't you hear what I said Nate she can rip your head off with her bare hands"
"I don't care! We are-"
"STOP!" Sophie screamed. Both of them shut their mouth to look at Sophie. She just stares at them her eyes red rimmed from them arguing. Nate and Eliot hung their heads in shame. "Now let's talk this over like civilized people or I will strangle you both!"
"Ok we're almost positive that Liza killed Hugo. Liza knows all our faces she knows we're trying to stop her. She will most likely kill us all if we meddle in the murder. Now some or one of us feels that she should go to jail. So let's take a vote who wants her to go to jail." Eliot and Sophie both raised their hands in agreement.
"Hey what was that?" Hardison asked
"What?" Nate furrowed his brow
"Did your furnace shut off?"
"It shouldn't have"
"It's happening" Eliot said wide-eyed
"What?" Sophie asked
"She's coming for us"
A/N 2: I love a good ending :)