When I get the invitation to go to Sophie's play, I'm so excited. I've missed everyone and it's the first time anyone ever took the time to locate me and invite me to something non-job related. I suspect that if Sophie invited me, she has invited everyone else and I really hope they all show up. Life just hasn't been the same since our last job six months ago. I've been so bored. I can't really help people by myself very well and I have enough money to pretty much do anything I ever wanted, but what I really want is to just see my friends. I trust Sophie to make that happen.
Everyone acts surprised to see everyone else, but I know we all knew Sophie would invite everyone to come together. It's her style. As usual, Sophie's acting leaves something to be desired, but I find it very entertaining. I want to say something to make her feel better about the reviews, but don't really know what that would be. I mean she has to know by this point that she really is a terrible actress on stage even though we all know that offstage she is amazing. I offer the one thing that always makes me feel better, theft. Stealing something together would be a blast. It doesn't even have to be a job, but Nate says no. Then again, he also says no to working together as a team again, so technically he doesn't really get a say in what we do, I think smirking a little to myself, which new Nate oddly doesn't notice.
Hardison and I decide to dress up as missionaries to break into the safety deposit box. I was surprised when he agree to it because it wasn't really a necessary thing to do, but I wanted to wear the habit I had picked up on my travels and dressing up is fun. Plus, a habit leaves a lot of room to hide things and people don't look very closely at you. It's a good disguise.
This is the first time I've been alone with Hardison since we all came back. I'm not surprised when he tries to talk about looking for me, but even after 6 months apart, I'm not ready to jump into anything with him. If anything, I'm more hesitant because he couldn't find me and I was fine with that for the most part. I mean, I thought about him and I figured we would see each other again, but I never came to any conclusions about anything. Then again, this isn't a topic I have much experience with so I just didn't think about it very hard. I did know that he looked for me the entire time before he told me because he came pretty close a few times. Even so, I got that fluttery feeling in my stomach like I always did when he said something nice to me. I had just managed to avoid him because I wasn't ready to deal with what happened if he caught me. I'm still not. So, I tell him what comes to mind. I need time to figure things out. If something is supposed to be, it will be. There is no reason to rush into anything and even if we did, he would really need patience to deal with my figuring things out. I didn't exactly say it in those words, but I'm sure Hardison knew what I meant. He always did before. I have no reason to think that has changed. It's one of the things I like about him. That and he let me take all the money we could find in the safety deposit boxes.
This is the best con ever. Hardison and I got to dress up again, this time as law enforcement. It was fun to play off each other again. Stupid man didn't get my air quotes that Hardison taught me. I knew I was doing it right. I worked on that one because I liked it. I don't like everything the team tries to teach me about what other people do, but air quotes were cool and it seemed like the right time to use them, but the man ruined it by not getting what I was doing. At least Hardison liked it. Then we got to mess with Eliot telling him his 'pants' might explode. It was pretty funny.
When the girl hugs Nate, I know everything is going to be ok. He can't resist helping people and he just got the best confirmation that he helped someone. So, I go with Eliot and Hardison to do a little remodeling on our new office. I can't wait for the next case.