Fic: The Surprise Job 3 and 4
Title: The Surprise Job
Author: acquariusgb
Characters: The team
Parings:Nate/Sophie
Spoilers: The Inside Job/ The Scheherazade Job
Rating: k+
Word Count: in progress
Summary: I don't know if you remember this old fic of mine. I finally decided to finished and I've written 2 new chapters.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Nate smiled and gave her a quick peck on the lips. "You can count on it"
Nate and Sophie went downstairs with Junior giggling happily in Nate's arms.
"Oh good, you're here!" Hardison took a big piece of pizza from the box. It looked like it had any imaginable topping on it. "The pizza is getting cold, but Eliot insisted that we waited for you, I don't know why" he shrugged.
Eliot slapped him at the back of his head "I meant to wait that they were sitting at the table because that's what civilized people do!" and Hardison spat the bite he just took. He frowned disgusted. "Really?"
Sophie chuckled at their antics. "You can go ahead and start eating, Hardison"
"Told you they wouldn't mind" and he picked up the previous spitted bite and throw it in his mouth.
"Oh, that's disgusting!" Eliot shouted. "I've nearly lost my appetite!"
"Good, more pizza for me!"
While the "children" were bickering, Nate put Junior in his carrier who wasn't too happy about it, but he had to go and prepare his bottle.
Sophie walked closer to the carrier and she stroked the baby's head."Shh, he will be back soon"
Junior turned his head and looked curiously at the woman and for a moment their eyes met. Sophie realized that was the first time that her and the baby were left alone and she started getting nervous about it. She rarely had any interaction with kids, let alone babies. But his cute chubby face and his small smile gave her comfort and when Junior lifted his arms telling her to pick him up she easily lifted him in her arms.
Junior smiled and patted her cheeks with his chubby hands.
"Don't you worry, Uncle Nate is just preparing you dinner. He will be back soon!"
Nate watched them from the kitchen counter and smiled at the scene, he couldn't help it! She was a vision! He just loved how her smile blighted up when Junior nearly poked her eyes or how delicately her hand ran through his brown curls.
The beeping from the microwave startled him and reluctantly he had to turn around. He picked the bottle and after checking the temperature he went towards them.
"Do you want to give it to him?" he softly asked her.
Sophie shook her head panicking. "Oh, I wouldn't know where to start!"
"I will show you. Come!"
He led her to the sofa and they sat next to each other, hips to hips.
Junior sat on Sophie's lap and his hands were already reaching for the bottle.
"Here" Nate put the bottle's nipple next to his mouth and Junior soon started drinking the warm milk. "Hold this end" He said to Sophie who did what he showed her. "That's it. He's big enough to hold the bottle on his own, you've just got to help him"
"That's all?" She asked incredulously.
"That's all! Don't worry, you're doing great" he smiled.
So they sat silently and watched the baby drink.
"This is nice" she whispered.
"Yeah, it is"
Sophie noticed that his eyes were on her more than the baby and she looked up to him, her eyebrow raised.
"Nate?"
"Hmm...?"
"Guys, you know your pizza is cold now, right?" Hardison interrupted them.
"Leave them alone" Parker scolded him. "They're babysitting! Can I babysit too later, I would like to show the baby how to pick a lock!"
"We'll see!" Nate diplomatically replied.
Then a sound came from Hardison's computer. "We've got something!"
The hacker quickly got up from his chair. "A street surveillance camera picked up how mysterious woman a couple of blocks from here. There" he pointed at the screen "She is getting out of a car. I'll ran the plates so we can have a name."
"Here are the men following her." Eliot pointed out.
"How do you know?" Parker asked.
"They are mercenaries."
"Let me guess, " Hardison turned around with a smirk. "They have very distinctive haircuts!"
"No, you idiot. I know one of them. The one on the right is Mike Taylor. He does odd jobs now and then. I haven't seen him for a while."
"What can of mercenary is he?" Nate joined them at the table leaving Sophie with Junior.
"The one that kill if they have to" Eliot seriously added.
"I finally have an ID on our vic. Her name is Sarah Spade. She is an elementary teacher. Her husband was a policeman. He died a couple of months ago in the line of duty. Apparently a robbery gone bad."
"I remember the article" Nate said thinking out loud. "They never clarified what happened that day"
"Well, if the motive is the robbery why go after the wife?" Sophie inquired from the couch. Junior had now finished drinking from the bottle and was starting to fall asleep on her shoulder.
Nate and Eliot exchanged a worried look.
"I don't know. Hardison, find everything there is about Sarah Spade and the robbery. See if there is something suspicious. Eliot…"
"I'll call my contacts and see what the bay guys are up to" he finished for him.
"Right. Parker, go with Eliot."
"Oh," Hardison exclaimed. "Junior's name is Matthew by the way. He is 14 months old."
"Well, it's nice to have finally a name" Sophie smiled at the now sleeping baby. "Nate.." she whispered.
The mastermind smiled. "Let's go put him to bed."
Part 4
The mastermind smiled. "Let's go put him to bed."
"Where are we going to put him? We don't have a crib." Sophie gently passed the sleeping Matthew to Nate. The baby whimpered but Nate smoothed him back to sleep.
"He will have to sleep in the spare bed. The carrier is too uncomfortable for a long sleep. Check in the bags if they bought him a pair of PJs."
Nate went upstairs while Sophie looked through the bags and started putting some things away.
"Look at you being all so motherly." Hardison teased her from his post.
"Shut up" she scolded him blushing.
"Just saying!"
After she got everything away she went up the stairs too. Nate had already set up some cushions going around the edge of the bed and some others on the floor.
"This will keep him safe if the rolls over during the night. Did you find something?"
"Here is a nice pair of PJs" she smiled handing them to him.
"Spiderman? Really? Let me guess, Parker chose them?"
"Probably! There was also a monitor so we can hear him when he wakes up. I bet this was all Eliot doing"
She set it up.
Together they changed Matthew trying not to wake him but failed miserably when the baby started to cry.
"No, no buddy. It's okay." Nate picked him up and bounced him around trying to rock him back to sleep. Matthew quieted down but his eyes were now open.
"You have try to sleep for a bit so we can go back looking for your mommy." Nate talked quietly. The one year old seemed rather engrossed with his voice, so he had an idea.
He laid on the bed and placed the baby on his chest laying him on his stomach. With a nod he mentioned Sophie to lie next to him so she went on the other side of bed and laid down.
"So with which story should I start?" He asked. " Oh, I know, how about when the noble insurance investigator Nathan Ford met the temptress thief Sophie Devereaux."
Sophie cleared her throat "Noble? Oh, this I want to hear all about. Will you get the facts right this time?"
"Ah, ah, very funny. So, Nathan Ford was not new at the insurance business. He made some good recoveries in the U.S. , so his bosses decided that he should spend more time in Europe, famous for its beautiful art and of course thieves. There was one in particular that was causing trouble to IYS, stealing a lot of the insured properties and nobody knew who she was."
Sophie was now running a hand up and down the baby's back.
"Something you should know Matthew is that she was so good that nobody could catch her and when she heard that a new agent was trying to arrest she wasn't all that worried sure that he was going to be another idiot..." she smiled teasingly "…and she was right"
"Hey, this is my story. So the noble Nate Ford went to Prague because that's where a certain painting was going to be exposed in a museum and he was sure that it was going to attract the mysterious thief."
"Like she didn't know there was going to be a trap" she snorted.
"All was set, Nate kept his eyes open waiting for the thief to make its move. What he didn't know was that this was no ordinary thief."
"Ordinary isn't an adjective that I would associated with Sophie Devereaux. More like extraordinary, brilliant, intelligent..."
"Still my story here. So she was no ordinary thief. She had been in the room all along playing what is called a long con. She was a guest at the party organized by the museum and she was wearing a long red dress and..."
"How do you remember what dress I was wearing?" she curiously interrupted him.
"What she didn't know was that unconsciously she had distracted the noble Nate all evening" He looked straight in her eyes. " She was a vision. That long red dressed sculptured her body in all the right places, her dark hair gathered up in a bun and on her long neck there was a beautiful necklace that sparkled in the light, but not as much as her deep brown eyes. He was so mesmerized by her."
Sophie looked down blushing.
"So of course he soon recognized her when at the end of the party he saw her running away in the night with the painting secure under her arm. He later became so obsessed with her and he didn't even know her name His heart leaped when he saw her again two years later."
The room feel in silence.
"That worked, he has gone back to sleep." Sophie whispered and rolled out the bed smoothing her shirt back in place.
"I used to do this with Sam" he sighed. He then got up and the baby was soon comfortable sleeping in bed like an angel.
"He looks so peaceful" Sophie smiled.
"He sure is. He doesn't know that his mother is in danger." Nate whispered a gloomy look in his eyes.
Sophie ran a hand down his arm. "Nate, everything is going to be okay. We will find her."
Nate gave her a sad smile. "Yeah"
She leaned over and kissed him gently on the lips. She knew that probably it wasn't a good idea. They still had to talk about their previous kiss, but it felt so good and she couldn't stop herself, especially after that story.
Nate was at first surprised and it took him a moment to realize what was happening, but he soon responded to the kiss. His tongue brushed her lips asking entrance and which was granted. She ran her right hand over his cheek while the other was sneaked in his brown curls. Nate's hands were busy too, one found its way behind her neck holding her place, while the other one slipped in her lower back and was trying to reach her behind.
When the finally separated, more for lack of oxygen other than anything else, they leaned over each other. Their foreheads touching while thin air was forming between them because of their heavy breathing.
"That was…" Nate tried to speak.
"…amazing" she finished for him.
"Yeah!"
"We should talk about it" she tried to rationalize.
"Don't you know that talking is overrated." And he captured her lips again for another amazing kiss.
This time, after they separated, Sophie put some distance between them.
"Nate" she ran her hands through her hair and started pacing. "we should really talk about… well, us. What are we doing? Are we finally together or is it just temporary? What about the team? Are we going to tell them?"
Nate just stood there and grinned at her rambling. -Damn, she is sexy- he thought.
She suddenly stopped and looked at him. "Well, say something!"
"You're beautiful when you're angry!"
"Nate, seriously!"
He sighed, moved closer to her and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Sophie, relax. We don't have to figure out everything in one evening. We will just let this… thing make its course. But nothing between us will ever be only temporary." He looked down embarrassed. " I… care for you. More than care, actually"
"I think the word you are looking for, Nate, is love." She teased him.
He blushed. "Yes, that. You know… me… as for the team, we don't have to tell them anything."
"Like Eliot won't notice something the moment he sees us."
"If he does, he won't say anything. Let's finish this job, then we can discuss this somewhere more quietly."
"Are you asking me out on a date?" she flirted.
He smiled back. "Maybe. One step at a time"
She nodded. "One step at a time"
"Okay" He picked up the baby monitor and started going out of the door.
"By the way Nate," she stopped him and he turned around. " I love you too"
Author: acquariusgb
Characters: The team
Parings:Nate/Sophie
Spoilers: The Inside Job/ The Scheherazade Job
Rating: k+
Word Count: in progress
Summary: I don't know if you remember this old fic of mine. I finally decided to finished and I've written 2 new chapters.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Nate smiled and gave her a quick peck on the lips. "You can count on it"
Nate and Sophie went downstairs with Junior giggling happily in Nate's arms.
"Oh good, you're here!" Hardison took a big piece of pizza from the box. It looked like it had any imaginable topping on it. "The pizza is getting cold, but Eliot insisted that we waited for you, I don't know why" he shrugged.
Eliot slapped him at the back of his head "I meant to wait that they were sitting at the table because that's what civilized people do!" and Hardison spat the bite he just took. He frowned disgusted. "Really?"
Sophie chuckled at their antics. "You can go ahead and start eating, Hardison"
"Told you they wouldn't mind" and he picked up the previous spitted bite and throw it in his mouth.
"Oh, that's disgusting!" Eliot shouted. "I've nearly lost my appetite!"
"Good, more pizza for me!"
While the "children" were bickering, Nate put Junior in his carrier who wasn't too happy about it, but he had to go and prepare his bottle.
Sophie walked closer to the carrier and she stroked the baby's head."Shh, he will be back soon"
Junior turned his head and looked curiously at the woman and for a moment their eyes met. Sophie realized that was the first time that her and the baby were left alone and she started getting nervous about it. She rarely had any interaction with kids, let alone babies. But his cute chubby face and his small smile gave her comfort and when Junior lifted his arms telling her to pick him up she easily lifted him in her arms.
Junior smiled and patted her cheeks with his chubby hands.
"Don't you worry, Uncle Nate is just preparing you dinner. He will be back soon!"
Nate watched them from the kitchen counter and smiled at the scene, he couldn't help it! She was a vision! He just loved how her smile blighted up when Junior nearly poked her eyes or how delicately her hand ran through his brown curls.
The beeping from the microwave startled him and reluctantly he had to turn around. He picked the bottle and after checking the temperature he went towards them.
"Do you want to give it to him?" he softly asked her.
Sophie shook her head panicking. "Oh, I wouldn't know where to start!"
"I will show you. Come!"
He led her to the sofa and they sat next to each other, hips to hips.
Junior sat on Sophie's lap and his hands were already reaching for the bottle.
"Here" Nate put the bottle's nipple next to his mouth and Junior soon started drinking the warm milk. "Hold this end" He said to Sophie who did what he showed her. "That's it. He's big enough to hold the bottle on his own, you've just got to help him"
"That's all?" She asked incredulously.
"That's all! Don't worry, you're doing great" he smiled.
So they sat silently and watched the baby drink.
"This is nice" she whispered.
"Yeah, it is"
Sophie noticed that his eyes were on her more than the baby and she looked up to him, her eyebrow raised.
"Nate?"
"Hmm...?"
"Guys, you know your pizza is cold now, right?" Hardison interrupted them.
"Leave them alone" Parker scolded him. "They're babysitting! Can I babysit too later, I would like to show the baby how to pick a lock!"
"We'll see!" Nate diplomatically replied.
Then a sound came from Hardison's computer. "We've got something!"
The hacker quickly got up from his chair. "A street surveillance camera picked up how mysterious woman a couple of blocks from here. There" he pointed at the screen "She is getting out of a car. I'll ran the plates so we can have a name."
"Here are the men following her." Eliot pointed out.
"How do you know?" Parker asked.
"They are mercenaries."
"Let me guess, " Hardison turned around with a smirk. "They have very distinctive haircuts!"
"No, you idiot. I know one of them. The one on the right is Mike Taylor. He does odd jobs now and then. I haven't seen him for a while."
"What can of mercenary is he?" Nate joined them at the table leaving Sophie with Junior.
"The one that kill if they have to" Eliot seriously added.
"I finally have an ID on our vic. Her name is Sarah Spade. She is an elementary teacher. Her husband was a policeman. He died a couple of months ago in the line of duty. Apparently a robbery gone bad."
"I remember the article" Nate said thinking out loud. "They never clarified what happened that day"
"Well, if the motive is the robbery why go after the wife?" Sophie inquired from the couch. Junior had now finished drinking from the bottle and was starting to fall asleep on her shoulder.
Nate and Eliot exchanged a worried look.
"I don't know. Hardison, find everything there is about Sarah Spade and the robbery. See if there is something suspicious. Eliot…"
"I'll call my contacts and see what the bay guys are up to" he finished for him.
"Right. Parker, go with Eliot."
"Oh," Hardison exclaimed. "Junior's name is Matthew by the way. He is 14 months old."
"Well, it's nice to have finally a name" Sophie smiled at the now sleeping baby. "Nate.." she whispered.
The mastermind smiled. "Let's go put him to bed."
Part 4
The mastermind smiled. "Let's go put him to bed."
"Where are we going to put him? We don't have a crib." Sophie gently passed the sleeping Matthew to Nate. The baby whimpered but Nate smoothed him back to sleep.
"He will have to sleep in the spare bed. The carrier is too uncomfortable for a long sleep. Check in the bags if they bought him a pair of PJs."
Nate went upstairs while Sophie looked through the bags and started putting some things away.
"Look at you being all so motherly." Hardison teased her from his post.
"Shut up" she scolded him blushing.
"Just saying!"
After she got everything away she went up the stairs too. Nate had already set up some cushions going around the edge of the bed and some others on the floor.
"This will keep him safe if the rolls over during the night. Did you find something?"
"Here is a nice pair of PJs" she smiled handing them to him.
"Spiderman? Really? Let me guess, Parker chose them?"
"Probably! There was also a monitor so we can hear him when he wakes up. I bet this was all Eliot doing"
She set it up.
Together they changed Matthew trying not to wake him but failed miserably when the baby started to cry.
"No, no buddy. It's okay." Nate picked him up and bounced him around trying to rock him back to sleep. Matthew quieted down but his eyes were now open.
"You have try to sleep for a bit so we can go back looking for your mommy." Nate talked quietly. The one year old seemed rather engrossed with his voice, so he had an idea.
He laid on the bed and placed the baby on his chest laying him on his stomach. With a nod he mentioned Sophie to lie next to him so she went on the other side of bed and laid down.
"So with which story should I start?" He asked. " Oh, I know, how about when the noble insurance investigator Nathan Ford met the temptress thief Sophie Devereaux."
Sophie cleared her throat "Noble? Oh, this I want to hear all about. Will you get the facts right this time?"
"Ah, ah, very funny. So, Nathan Ford was not new at the insurance business. He made some good recoveries in the U.S. , so his bosses decided that he should spend more time in Europe, famous for its beautiful art and of course thieves. There was one in particular that was causing trouble to IYS, stealing a lot of the insured properties and nobody knew who she was."
Sophie was now running a hand up and down the baby's back.
"Something you should know Matthew is that she was so good that nobody could catch her and when she heard that a new agent was trying to arrest she wasn't all that worried sure that he was going to be another idiot..." she smiled teasingly "…and she was right"
"Hey, this is my story. So the noble Nate Ford went to Prague because that's where a certain painting was going to be exposed in a museum and he was sure that it was going to attract the mysterious thief."
"Like she didn't know there was going to be a trap" she snorted.
"All was set, Nate kept his eyes open waiting for the thief to make its move. What he didn't know was that this was no ordinary thief."
"Ordinary isn't an adjective that I would associated with Sophie Devereaux. More like extraordinary, brilliant, intelligent..."
"Still my story here. So she was no ordinary thief. She had been in the room all along playing what is called a long con. She was a guest at the party organized by the museum and she was wearing a long red dress and..."
"How do you remember what dress I was wearing?" she curiously interrupted him.
"What she didn't know was that unconsciously she had distracted the noble Nate all evening" He looked straight in her eyes. " She was a vision. That long red dressed sculptured her body in all the right places, her dark hair gathered up in a bun and on her long neck there was a beautiful necklace that sparkled in the light, but not as much as her deep brown eyes. He was so mesmerized by her."
Sophie looked down blushing.
"So of course he soon recognized her when at the end of the party he saw her running away in the night with the painting secure under her arm. He later became so obsessed with her and he didn't even know her name His heart leaped when he saw her again two years later."
The room feel in silence.
"That worked, he has gone back to sleep." Sophie whispered and rolled out the bed smoothing her shirt back in place.
"I used to do this with Sam" he sighed. He then got up and the baby was soon comfortable sleeping in bed like an angel.
"He looks so peaceful" Sophie smiled.
"He sure is. He doesn't know that his mother is in danger." Nate whispered a gloomy look in his eyes.
Sophie ran a hand down his arm. "Nate, everything is going to be okay. We will find her."
Nate gave her a sad smile. "Yeah"
She leaned over and kissed him gently on the lips. She knew that probably it wasn't a good idea. They still had to talk about their previous kiss, but it felt so good and she couldn't stop herself, especially after that story.
Nate was at first surprised and it took him a moment to realize what was happening, but he soon responded to the kiss. His tongue brushed her lips asking entrance and which was granted. She ran her right hand over his cheek while the other was sneaked in his brown curls. Nate's hands were busy too, one found its way behind her neck holding her place, while the other one slipped in her lower back and was trying to reach her behind.
When the finally separated, more for lack of oxygen other than anything else, they leaned over each other. Their foreheads touching while thin air was forming between them because of their heavy breathing.
"That was…" Nate tried to speak.
"…amazing" she finished for him.
"Yeah!"
"We should talk about it" she tried to rationalize.
"Don't you know that talking is overrated." And he captured her lips again for another amazing kiss.
This time, after they separated, Sophie put some distance between them.
"Nate" she ran her hands through her hair and started pacing. "we should really talk about… well, us. What are we doing? Are we finally together or is it just temporary? What about the team? Are we going to tell them?"
Nate just stood there and grinned at her rambling. -Damn, she is sexy- he thought.
She suddenly stopped and looked at him. "Well, say something!"
"You're beautiful when you're angry!"
"Nate, seriously!"
He sighed, moved closer to her and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Sophie, relax. We don't have to figure out everything in one evening. We will just let this… thing make its course. But nothing between us will ever be only temporary." He looked down embarrassed. " I… care for you. More than care, actually"
"I think the word you are looking for, Nate, is love." She teased him.
He blushed. "Yes, that. You know… me… as for the team, we don't have to tell them anything."
"Like Eliot won't notice something the moment he sees us."
"If he does, he won't say anything. Let's finish this job, then we can discuss this somewhere more quietly."
"Are you asking me out on a date?" she flirted.
He smiled back. "Maybe. One step at a time"
She nodded. "One step at a time"
"Okay" He picked up the baby monitor and started going out of the door.
"By the way Nate," she stopped him and he turned around. " I love you too"