A/N I don't know why I made this a team fic… must have some reason that I can't remember. Anyway, this is a really long "drabble" because this has been on my mind forever. Anyway, the speech that Sophie gives at the end of this is how I think of the Leverage team. P.S. I've been writing ahead and I have almost all of them saved on my computer, so I'll try to upload one a day until I get to 10. Hope that you like it!

Disclaimer: These are NOT my characters

Warnings: None… I haven't had one yet!

Pairings: None… it's a team fic though

Prompt: Sophie thinks that the team needs more bonding time. But everyone soon realizes how close they already are.

#3: One Love – Bob Marley

Sophie had suggested. It was all her idea. Nate went along with it just because he didn't want Sophie to get mad. Parker was excited. She liked the idea of the team spending time together. Hardison didn't like the idea but was suckered into it by Parker and Sophie. Eliot had grumbled and growled but finally gave in saying that he wouldn't like it but he'd do it.

Sophie called it a "team bonding campfire". She had found a park and little way outside of the city and thought that the team needed to spend more time together to build communication skills with each other and what-not. So, on that happy note, she had decide that that Saturday night, the team would be forced to cancel their plans and spend the night together in a park, around a campfire.

Eventually, Saturday rolled around and they all piled into the van with Nate and Sophie up front.

"I don't see why we're doing this," Hardison grumbled a few minutes into the drive.

"We need to spend more time with each other and build better communication between each other," Sophie scolded.

"If anything, we spend too much time together, and if we didn't have fine communication, someone'd have bit the dust already," Eliot added.

"Well you do have to admit that all of us – namely you, Eliot – have come pretty close to it," Parker said cheerfully.

No one argued with that, not even Eliot. The rest of the ten minute drive was pretty quiet except for the occasional thump as a foldable chair slid across the floor and hit the wall.

When they finally got to the park, they unloaded the campfire stuff from the back of the van. They placed rocks around the small pile of logs so that the flames wouldn't ignite the grass. Once the fire was set, they pulled their chairs around the fire.

Parker bounced back over to the team, marshmallows in hand. They passed them around the campfire, skewing each one with a sharp stick that they had found. A few minutes passed in silence, but soon the conversation started up. It started with Parker saying that she should've brought stuff to make s'mores with and it gradually turned into a jumble of words and laughter.

At one point in the night, Hardison had started bickering Eliot about burning his marshmallow.

"Dude, you can't cook a marshmallow for your life!" the hacker teased.

"Yeah, you may be able to cook a marshmallow, but I could snap your neck in half in like two seconds. What do you have to say about that?" the hitter asked, trying to keep a serious face.

Hardison had put his hands up in surrender and said, "Alright, alright, you win."

Towards the end of the little outing, Sophie stood up and announced, "We should be getting back soon. It's getting really dark." There were an assortment of nods and uh-huh's. Then, Sophie added, "But I have one more thing to add, I think that this gathering taught me something. I arranged this because I thought that we needed to get together more often, but what I understand now is that we're a family. We have Nate, the father figure of the family." Nate looked up, confused. Sophie continued, "He acts as the planner and he's the one that pretends not to care, but really, he does.

"There's me, I know that everyone thinks of me as the mother in this dysfunctional family. That's only because I care way too much and I like taking care of the 'family'.

"We have Hardison, the – no offense – geeky, middle sibling." Hardison tried to interject, but Sophie didn't allow it. "He's the one that everyone picks on, and he tries to speak out, but ultimately looses. We love him anyway though.

"There's Parker, the little sister." Parker looked excited to hear what there was to say about her. "She's annoying and a little bit crazy at times, but she cares about us and we would not be complete without her.

"And last, but certainly not least, we've got our big, protective brother, Eliot. I know that at times, he can be grumpy and annoying, but there's nothing that he wouldn't do for us and we'd probably all be dead by now if it wasn't for him."

As Sophie finished her speech, everyone looked at each other. Each was at a loss for words. But, inside they all knew that what she had just said was true.

Inside, they were all family. One, big, dysfunctional, deformed family, but a family, nonetheless.