The next day was exactly like every other day that started with a meeting at Leverage Consulting and Assoc. Sophie was already sitting on the couch in front of the monitors, Eliot was making himself a sandwich and Nate just waited for Hardison to start his presentation about the new client, nothing special but with one exception.

"Where's Parker?" asked Nate and searched the room thinking she might have hidden somewhere in the room, which wouldn't be the first time.

"That's what I want to know." Eliot grumbled. "She better have a good explanation for not showin' up. She wanted to train with me before the meeting. She probably slept in an elevator again or something like that. You know what she's like!" Eliot ended and cut the bacon for his sandwich with a little too much force. Sophie just looked at the hitter and sent him a disapproving look.

"Parkers never late Eliot, you know that. She's like a Swiss watch." Sophie said and exchanged a worried look with Nate.

"Yeah, Sophie's right. Hardison track her phone or her ear-bud, just find her."

"I'm on it boss, just a second." The hacker said and typed some orders into the keyboard but instead of locating the missing thief the hacker got something else. "Oh no, that's not good. That can't.." Hardison mumbled but was interrupted by Nate immediately.

"Hardison, where is she?" Nate asked a little worried and louder than necessary.

"I don't know. I've tried to find her but I'm not getting a signal from any of the tracking devices." he answered but didn't stop typing.

"Maybe her batteries are out or she's in a dead zone? Could that be possible?" Sophie asked as calm as she could but Nate watched her and her hidden desperation just increased his own worries. They were in Boston, there were no Dead zones in the city and Parker wanted to be at the meeting so she wouldn't go out of the town. Hardison just shook his head.

"Even if the batteries were all out at the same time, I should be able to find her. This is bad, this is very bad."

"Why don't you try to find the last place she's been before you lost the signal?" Eliot asked alarmed. "We can search the cameras and follow her this way." Everyone turned to the hitter with a surprised expressions. "What? That's what he does, right? We did it before so stop looking at me like that!"

"I already tried that, it just takes a little time for the program to find the last place she was at. At the moment I'm searching for her credit-cards under every alias I made, if she's used any of them, but still nothing." They all knew Parker could disappear if she really wanted to, even from Hardison but there was no reason for that now. Parker could also mysteriously vanish due to one of their enemies or an enemy of her own. Parker had made a lot of people angry by beating the most expensive alarm systems and stealing countless amounts of money and diamonds from various mafia families. There were a lot of people out there who wanted her head and their valuables back, but mostly her head.

"I'll call a few contacts just in case." Eliot said and left his sandwich untouched on the table.

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Might be best if you call-" But the mastermind was interrupted by a little melody Sophie's cell phone made. Sophie picked it up fast and hoped Parker would be on the other side asking her to pick her up from somewhere.

"Hello? I'm calling from the St. Nicholas hospital. Do you know a young woman named Alice White?" Time stopped for Sophie, at least it felt that way for her. Alice White was an alias of Parkers. That meant Parker was in a hospital and obviously she was hurt and it had to be bad if they could take the wallet from the possessive blonde thief. A cold shudder came over the grifter and so her voice betrayed her clearly when she answered. "Yes, yes I know her. Did something happen to her? Is she okay?" Sophie's worried tone made the three man stop their activities immediately and they all turned expectantly to the grifter.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you much. It seems that she was hit by a car. She was brought here in an ambulance a few minutes ago and is now on her way in to surgery. You should get here as soon as possible." The woman on the other line explained and Sophie never hated her experience with humans more than now, as it told her that the woman stopped herself from saying: 'It doesn't look good.'

"I'll be there soon." Sophie answered mechanical and hold back the urge to threaten the woman that Parker had better be alive when she gets there, but there was nothing this woman could do to provide that.

"Okay. Thank you. Please don't drive by yourself." The woman said the standard sentence and hung up and left a confused Sophie alone who couldn't form a clear thought.

"Sophie?" Nate asked softly kneeling in front of her, his hands grasping at hers brought her back to reality.

"Parker she..." The woman struggled, her voice broke at the pure thought of the young thief's fate. But the three man didn't push her and waited patiently until Sophie took a deep breath and got herself under enough control to continue. "Parker was hit by a car. She's at St. Nicholas hospital, they're operating her now." Sophie ended sobbing. Nate took her in his arms and tried to comfort her.

"What? That's impossible! Parker is- she's Parker, she never gets hurt. That girl is invincible, there has to be a mistake." Hardison yelled frantically. "I have a program running, searching for any of our alias' in hospital and police reports. It would have told me by now." The hacker explained and opened the database of the St. Nicholas hospital to convince the team as well as himself. Parker just couldn't be hurt, it was impossible.

"There, you see? No patient named Alice White, it was probably some sort of mistake or a bad joke. I gotta say you had me worried for a minute Sophie." Hardison said relieved but the rest of the team just stared at the list of patients with shock.

"Maybe not Alice White but Alice Weiht is listed as a patient. It's a typing error Hardison so your program couldn't find her." Eliot said without any sarcastic remark about his mistake. Realization sank into the young man and he fell defeated into his seat.

"Okay, so she's probably there so I'll go to the hospital right now and you can do what you want." Sophie said determined and went to the door.

"I'll come with you!" All three man said simultaneously but Sophie ignored them and ran out of the door, not willing to waste a second.

"Great.. okay I'll go to the hospital you two stay here. As soon as I know anything about Parkers condition I'll inform you." Nate said and went to the door.

"What? There's no way that I'm gonna stay here while Parker is in that hospital and fights for her life! I'm going with you!" Hardison said angry and wanted to go to the door but was stopped by Elliot. The hitter understood Nate's fear but let the mastermind explain himself.

"You really don't get it, do you? If this wasn't an accident, if someone wanted Parker dead then she is still in danger at the hospital. A civilian hospital with basic security system and cameras, it wouldn't be too hard to finish the job. Hardison, you're the only one who can help her now and can make sure she stays safe." The young hacker nodded reluctant, then he took something out of his jacket and handed it to Nate.

"Mini-cameras. Place these at every entrance, exit, window and lift so I can watch over you guys from here. You'll call me on her condition as soon as you know something."

"Of course. Thank you. Eliot, you go to the place of the accident. See if there's something suspicious and whether someone hit the best thief in the world by accident or not." Eliot just nodded and got his jacket, he knew there was no need to tell Nate that he also wanted updates about Parker, Nate knew him well enough. His focus was now to find the person who hit his little crazy sister. Accident or not, they would regret it deeply.