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Sophie sighed. She wanted to tell Nate of course, but she was afraid of how he was going to react. This was a big thing, something that she had been hiding for a long time.
She felt a tug on her pant leg, bringing her out of her thoughts. Michael stood at her feet, looking at her with his big sleepy eyes. With everything that was going on she forgot that Michael's nap was ending about now, and he would probably want food.
The conversation will have to wait, she thought. Oh well.
As she bent to pick up the little boy, she heard the click of the sliding door, indicating that Nate had come inside.
"Hi sweetie!" Sophie cooed. "How was your nap?"
"It was good," he replied, sleepily.
"Oh, look who's up!" Nate said excitedly. "Can I get a hug from my big boy?"
"Daddy!" Michael exclaimed, running over to his father. "I am hungry!"
Nate let out a chuckle. "Of course you are."
"How about I fix you something and you go show Daddy what you did with your cars?" Sophie said to the boy, then whispering in Nate's ear, "We will talk later."
"You got it," he whispered back, placing a small kiss to her cheek as she left for the kitchen.
"You hungry, kid?" Eliot asked Leah who was now seated at their eat-in bar area around the island in the kitchen.
"I really shouldn't intrude..."
"It'll be done in fifteen," Eliot said with a wink. "So what grade are you in?"
Parker, Hardison and Tara could hear Eliot and Leah's laugh drift from the kitchen to the 'briefing room'. The three were all staring at the screens that lined the wall in front of them. Hardison was clicking away on his keyboard on the couch, with Parker curled up at his side. Tara sat in the chair to their right, watching the documents that came across the screen.
Nate's picture was in the top right corner, Sophie's underneath. Hardison hated doing it, but he was trying to dig up whatever he could on Nate, both before and after Leverage consulting. Financial and phone records, workplaces, everything.
"I got nothing that is standing out, nothing we didn't already know," he finally said.
"Check out Leah," Tara said. "Let's make sure we check out her story and see if she can help us con the mastermind."
The clicking continued, more fiercely than before.
"Ok here is her background:
"She was given to the state by her single mother at the age of 13 months. Her older brother, Luca went into the system the same day she did, but he was nine years old at the time. It says in the file that he remembered his mother telling him that she would be back for him and his sister. She had been jumping from foster home to foster home until four years ago. Then a couple under the name Tom and Sarah Jane Baker."
"Oh! Oh! That is aliases Sophie and Nate used when they were on cons right?" Parker interjected excitedly.
"Yes babe, that's right. Anyways, Tom and Sarah Jane went through six months of trials and courts before they were granted custody of the then six year old Leah and 15 year old Luca. They have been together ever since."
"Do we have access to the mother's record?" Tara asked.
"Access isn't the problem girl. The problem may be that there is no record of the mother. But I'll check."
"Hey Parker! Tara! Do you guys want some?" Eliot's voice rang out across the small area.
"It's a smoothie! And it's very good!" added Leah.
"Oo! Me me! I want some!" Parker yelled back as she jumped off the couch, Tara and Hardison following behind her.
"I didn't call you Hardison," Eliot said as soon as the trio come into view.
"Man, I want some! You better have saved me some."
"Dude, does it look liked I saved you some? There are two extra glasses here, one for Parker, one for Tara."
Leah giggled holding her glass close to her chest with one hand, the other behind her back.
"You have it don't you?" Hardison said, using the voice he reserved for kids.
"I don't know what you are talking about," Leah replied, trying to keep the smile off of her face.
"Don't make me tickle you for it!"
"Ok ok! Here!" Leah said, laughing. "Eliot told me to do it."
"Of course he did. He'll pay for that later," Hardison replied with a wink.
"Boys..." Tara started before the group burst into laughter, even Eliot.
"I think he is asleep now."
"Good, now we can talk," Nate replied, a little scared of what Sophie wanted to tell him. She seemed a little nervous, and she was really quiet at dinner. Over the past few years she had become easier for Nate to read, finally letting her guard down.
The duo sat next to each other on the old brown leather couch, Nate wrapping his arm around Sophie's shoulders.
"Please don't be mad at me," she started.
"Darling, as long as you are honest with me I won't get mad at you ok? Now tell me, what is going on?"
"Remember the first time we meet?"
"Yeah it was Paris right? When you were trying to steal that statute."
"The first David, yes. That is it."
"Ok what about it?" Nate questioned.
"Well remember how this was long before you got married and you and I had sex?"
"Realy? Do you have to use that word? And yes I remember."
"Nate are you that much of a child? It is just a word. Sex, sex, sex, s-"
"Ok that's enough. What does that wonderful night have to do with anything?"
"Well I, uh, realized a few weeks later that I-"
Sophie was interrupted by the phone ringing in the kitchen. Nate got up reluctantly got up to answer it.
"Hello?" he said.
"Hey, uh, Nate? I think we have someone you may be looking for," Eliot said through the phone.