Grifter
It seemed only natural to go back to acting. It was what she had been doing when Nathan found her. She had even briefly returned to it after the team broke up after the first "David" job. So when the team reluctantly went separate ways five months ago, Sophie made her way to Boston. She had done some acting at a theater there, and it was a town she knew. After a couple supporting roles, she landed the lead in "The Sound of Music."
Opening night was nearing dangerously close, and she was nervous. Not because of the acting, that she had absolute faith in. She was nervous because she wasn't sure if her plan would work. It had taken some doing, and if she had had Hardison's skills with a computer, she knew it would have been easier, but she had managed.
The first had been Hardison. She knew he took the time to go through spam, it being the only communication he had with several underworld contacts. The trick was trying to remember what email address to send the flyer to. It had been a shot in the dark, and she could only hope she got the right one.
Next had been Parker. The theft of the Hope Diamond may as well have been a blinking neon sign saying "Parker was here." Managing to get a couple days off from rehearsals, Sophie few to Paris, where she swiftly found the thief. Instead of making her presence known, Sophie simply slipped a flyer under Parker's door, adding a sticky note that said, "Ticket's at 'Will-Call,' S."
Eliot had probably been the hardest. The hitter could very easily be anywhere in the world. But she had a hunch, so she looked into it. She doubted he would go back to Kentucky, but would probably opt for a lower-profile area. It took some digging, and tracking that Hardison would have been proud of, but she eventually found Eliot working under one of his aliases in South Carolina.
So Sophie headed for Aiken; the apartment to hitter lived in was a far cry from the condo he'd had in LA. She taped a flyer for the show to his door with a brief note and left with no more indication she had ever been there. He would come if he could. You couldn't force the man to do anything he didn't want to do.
The only thing that disheartened her was her inability to find Nathan. Of all people, she had figured he would be the easiest. It was a week before opening night when, by freak coincidence, he happened to go to lunch at the café down the street from the theater that was frequented by actors. Nathan didn't see her, but she saw him. Knowing now where he was, Sophie managed to find his address and sent him a flyer from the theater.
Satisfied that she had done all she could, she threw herself into rehearsals. If the team was going to see her perform, she was going to make sure she did her best.