The secret side I keep.
"Parker! Hardison! What's going on?"
It was a few hours after the duo left that the grifter and mastermind started to worry. They hadn't answered and Eliot, looking up from his spot on the sofa, cast a concerned glance at the two. Sophie was the first to speak.
"They must have got caught or stuck. We have to go help them!"
Nate seemed concerned but thinking at the same time.
"It was a simple recon. This must be deeper than we thought. We need a plan."
After what felt like hours of research that Eliot couldn't take, he noticed an erie coincidence. The picture of the man that the team was targeting. Smokey looking hair covered the mans head and the information Nate could pull up told him that the man had a recent eye injury. No. That's got to be a coincidence. Then Eliot looked at the eyes. No. There's no such things as coincidences. The hitter looked at the info then at his friends. He had to get Parker and Hardison out of there. Now. But Sophie thinks he's still too injured as he also assumed Nate thought too. Why did he even need to keep his recovery secret? The hitter could go and retrieve his friends now.
"I can go get them."
The room was deathly silent at his words. Sophie then opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by Eliot.
"I'm healed now. I feel fine, great actually. Now let me go get the two morons."
Sophie looked over to her lover for support.
"Nate, he can't go out there like that..."
Eliot, finally fed up with their doubts, walked right up to Sophie and Nate, pulling the collar of his shirt to show where there should be bandages covering his left shoulder. Instead, only scarred flesh remained to prove the hitters attack.
"Oh my god."
"What... How...?"
Eliot drew back and looked at them with eyes that didn't even know what to say themselves.
"I don't know, but that doesn't matter right now. We gotta go save Parker and Hardison."
Eliot started for the door but then turned back to face the still shocked grifter and mastermind.
"Don't tell Parker. Or Hardison for that matter." -