A/N I'm back from my holidays! Sorry it took me so long to update. I loved London and The Harry Potter Studios are incredible!

Here's a new chapter, I hope you enjoy it!

The next morning Nate woke up with a terrible backache after spending the night sleeping on the couch. He groaned as he stretched his arms over his head trying to loosen the aching muscles.

"I'm too old for this" he mumbled and he slowly stood up. If this was going to be something that was going to occur, he might need to consider investing on a new couch or maybe on a new place where Amy could have her own room.

He quietly made his way upstairs to check on his daughter. He still couldn't believe it and the world felt strange in his mind.

Amy was still sound asleep in his big bed. She was curled up, her knees nearly touching her chin, making her seem even smaller that she was. During the night some of the covers had fallen over and Nate picked them up and covered her again and he tucker her in smiling. He quietly made his outside carefully closing the door behind him.

When he got back downstairs he found Sophie in his kitchen making herself some tea.

"Hey," he joined her behind the counter and put on the pot for some coffee.

" 'morning" she greeted him. "How is she?"

"She's still asleep." He answered while opening the cupboards to get the ingredients to make some pancakes for breakfast. He winced when he bent down to get the frying pan from the bottom shelf.

Sophie noticed his grimace. "What's wrong?"

"The couch is not very comfy to sleep on" he massaged the back of his neck "I definitely need to find a new solution" he jumped startled when he suddenly felt Sophie's hand on him.

"Or you're simply getting older." She teased "Remember when we had to sleep in that barn in Ukraine" she kept working on his knotted muscles "That was certainly worse"

He chuckled. "I remember finding hay in all sorts of places for days"

"Well if only you hadn't ruined my plan"

"I still think we should have gone with mine"

She rolled her eyes and stopped massaging him and she leaned against the counter. "Amy would have been two years old" she sighed. "I still can't believe it that nothing happened between us that night. "

He leaned beside her. "I don't know. I told you when I saw you in Tuscany and you never mentioned our night together in Paris, I didn't know where we stood. We both went on like nothing happened."

"It was raining" she remembered "Our clothes were completely drenched . I was practically half-naked" she shouted the last part. "and you didn't make a move, Nate"

"Neither did you" he defended himself.

"I just…" she sighed. "I can't believe it than in 8 years we only had one night"

"Just enough to create a child" he joked. Then he got serious. "What do you want me to say, Sophie? What do you want from me?"

"I've already told you a year ago. Are you willing to fight for us?" she looked into his eyes.

"I'm not the one with a boyfriend." He reminded her. The sore subject between that they never talked about.

"If I knew there was an alternative…"

Before he had the chance to answer the front door opened.

"Hey Mama and Papa" Hardison smirked as he walked in followed by Eliot and Parker.

"Do you three organize getting here? How come you always arrive together?"

The hacker shrugged. "Meet at Nate's place at 8" He opened the fridge and got a bottle of orange juice. "Haven't you ever notice?"

"Is everything okay?" Eliot asked, his eyes landing on the grifter. He could sense that they had inadvertently interrupted another moment between Sophie and the mastermind.

"Sure" she nodded. Her gaze still on Nate, but she noticed that he was doing everything in his power to avoid his eyes. She sighed resigned. She lost him again.

"Where's the girl?" Parker asked, a bowl of cereals already in her hands. "You didn't send her away, did you?" her voice accusing.

"Of course not, Parker! She's our daughter" Nate exclaimed back. "She's still sleeping upstairs, so all three of you" he pointed a finger at them. "Keep it down!"

"I'm going to make breakfast" Eliot took Nate's place and the mastermind felt like he had been kicked out from in his own kitchen.

"Hardison" he decided he could use the opportunity. "I need you to find everything you can about Amy"

The young man looked confused. "Didn't Sophie tell you everything?"

"I mean what happened to her after her adoptive parents died in the car crash. She's hiding something from us and I'd like to be prepared."

"And of course just asking her would mean dong the normal thing" that comment earned him one of Nate's famous glare. Hardison lifted his hands in surrender. "Okay, okay, one detailed research coming up, but it's going to take at least 24 hours"

Just before Eliot was about to put the pancakes on the table, Ay timidly walked down the stairs.

"Good morning" she said to everyone rubbing her eye with her fist.

"Hey!" Nate smiled at her. "Take a place at the table, there's pancakes for everyone" he took a seat a Amy sat next to him. Sophie took the place on her left and they all ate together.

"Hmm… Nate?" Hardison said between bites. "What are we going to do about our client meeting?"

"When's that? Early this evening?"

"Yeah."

"I'll be there" he nodded.

"Client?" Amy asked. "What are lawyers? PIs?" she was curious about them.

"Something like that" Nate kept it vague.

"We're thieves" Parker exclaimed.

"Parker!" Eliot shook his head.

"Thieves? Like you steal things?" Amy eyes grew in size.

"Not really," Nate scratched the back of his head nervously. "We help people. People who have been ripped off and the police can't help or don't care"

"Like Robin Hood!" she exclaimed happily.

Sophie chuckled. "I can't really see Nate in green tights," she eyed the mastermind with a mischief look "but yeah, the idea is that" she laid a hand on her daughter shoulder.

"So, what do you want to do today?" Nate asked the girl.

She shrugged "I don't know" she looked down at her now empty plate. She was afraid to tell them she would love to spend the day with her parents.

"How about you get ready and then we can go to the park" Nate suggested.

Amy nodded and quickly got up to rush to the stairs.

"And we can also go to the mall" Sophie told her before she disappeared. "Go shopping and buy new clothes"

Amy nodded again and ran up the stairs.

"Shopping?" Nate raised an eyebrow at her.

"What?"

I know it's a bit short but I wanted to write Nate, Sophie and Amy's day together in a separate chapter. How will it go? Thanks for reading and reviewing :D