Disclaimer: I don't own any part or person of Leverage. I'm just playing with the characters for entertainment purposes.

Coincidence is a bitch.

It makes the wrong person look in the wrong direction at the wrong time.

An accident. A boy, knocked off his bike by a car.

He was going to be okay.

But Parker had seen it all from her position at the table in the restaurant.

Eliot, the first to grasp the situation, embraced her firmly before she could run off. He carried her to the car and later up the stairs, till he lowered her onto the sofa, into Hardison's arms.

Sophie covered them both with a blanket while Nate, slightly trembling himself, made tea.