Author's note: all the usual disclaimers about not owning the Leverage characters/concept and not making any money from this apply.
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Vance followed the FBI agents taking Udall custody down into the subway, and stayed long enough to inspect Spencer's work. By the time he left, Udall was starting to come round and was being checked over by the paramedics, and the agents were bagging up both Udall's gun and the briefcase containing the defused bomb. Back above ground, he found Spencer sitting on the back of an ambulance with a paramedic who, to judge by the mixture of fear and frustration on his face had already lost the argument about the need to transport the victim of multiple gunshot wounds to hospital, trying to fix dressings at an awkward angle over the shoulder wound. The agent Vance had sent to retrieve the vaccine from Udall's house intercepted him as he headed in that direction, handing over a small case. Vance took it, checked the contents and then handed it off to the paramedic treating Spencer.
"One dose each for him and him," Vance said, nodding at Spencer and the hacker standing nearby, "and one for ..."
Vance looked around for the blonde thief, startling slightly as she appeared seemingly from nowhere beside him, thrusting a crutch at Spencer.
"...her," he finished.
Spencer took the crutch but laid it to one side and made a quick grab for the girl as she seemed about to melt away again.
"Hey," he said. "Flu shot time. Hardison, get over here."
Watching the three interact as the vaccines were administered, Vance didn't think much of his chances of getting Spencer back on government payroll as a regular. Still he had to try. And the man had, historically, worked alone, so the idea that he would be so firmly tied into a team as to refuse all future employment didn't seem likely. If an ad hoc basis was all he could get, he'd take it. As much of it and as many of them as he could talk into it, he thought, watching the three "bad guys" walk away. Spencer had been very circumspect about his recent activities during their last job together, but now Vance was wondering just what kind of havoc he and his friends had been wreaking or averting where. A team as effective as that was worth keeping under the radar... but on speed dial.