"I'm going to kill him!" Sophie huffed out between gasps.
"He'll be back in an hour," Eliot said, helping Sophie down the front steps and into the car.
"Plus, you told him it was fine," Parker pointed out.
"I wasn't in labor then! And I didn't tell him it was fine to forget his bloody phone!" Sophie growled. She gasped and let out a pained moan, clutching her round stomach.
Eliot, eyes wide, started the car and backed out of the drive. "Parker--"
"Call Hardison, make him find Nate and bring him to the hospital?" Parker interrupted.
"You got it."
Prompt: 028. Birth Word Count: 162 Pairing/Rating: implied Nate/Sophie, G Warnings: ---
"Wow, you look terrible."
After a stunned second of silence, Sophie chuckled. "Thank you, Parker. I feel somewhat terrible, too."
"Did it hurt a lot?"
"Like you wouldn't believe," Sophie said.
Parker winced in sympathy.
"But," Sophie added, "they've got nice drugs that make all the pain go away. The downside is that you feel absolutely exhausted after you're done."
Parker reached out an patted Sophie's arm. Sophie felt rather proud - ten years ago, Parker probably wouldn't have realized there was a need to comfort Sophie at all.
"Where are the boys?"
"Oh, Nate's showing off the baby. They've got their noses pressed to the glass and coo at every move she makes."
Sophie laughed.
"But I wanted to see you first," Parker said. "You're my best friend; her I don't even know yet."
Sophie leaned back against her pillow and smiled. It was nice to know that underneath all the progress she'd made over the years, Parker was still Parker.
Prompt: 029. Medicated Word Count: 123 Pairing/Rating: no pairing, PG Notes: Set right after The 12 Step Job.
Eliot didn't like the way Parker smiled while she was on these pills the hospital gave her. It just wasn't her.
To be honest, the pills didn't do much to change Parker. She already behaved like a little kid hyped up on sugar on most days anyway. All the pills did was make her a little more trusting. Less suspicious of people. It wasn't a good thing in Eliot's book. Trust made you vulnerable. None of them trusted easily. They trusted Nate because he was too honest to screw them over and they were starting to trust each other more and more, but this? This wasn't safe. Not for Parker, and not for the rest of them. Eliot didn't like it one bit.
Prompt: 030. Poor Word Count: 109 Pairing/Rating: Hardison/Parker, G Warnings: ---
One of the reasons why Parker liked money more than anything was because she didn't want to be like her parents. Foster parents. Whatever. The people who raised her until she ran away. They'd constantly complained about money. Field trip? No, costs too much money. Birthday cake? Costs money. New pair of jeans? Cost money. All she ever heard was that she cost too much, that she wasn't worth it.
Ever since the thing with Hardison had turned more serious and they'd actually, seriously thought about children, Parker knew she'd be different. They'd be different. She would never, ever tell her child that it wasn't worth spending money on.
Word Count: 101
Pairing/Rating: implied Nate/Sophie, PG
Warnings: ---
"I'm going to kill him!" Sophie huffed out between gasps.
"He'll be back in an hour," Eliot said, helping Sophie down the front steps and into the car.
"Plus, you told him it was fine," Parker pointed out.
"I wasn't in labor then! And I didn't tell him it was fine to forget his bloody phone!" Sophie growled. She gasped and let out a pained moan, clutching her round stomach.
Eliot, eyes wide, started the car and backed out of the drive. "Parker--"
"Call Hardison, make him find Nate and bring him to the hospital?" Parker interrupted.
"You got it."
Prompt: 028. Birth
Word Count: 162
Pairing/Rating: implied Nate/Sophie, G
Warnings: ---
"Wow, you look terrible."
After a stunned second of silence, Sophie chuckled. "Thank you, Parker. I feel somewhat terrible, too."
"Did it hurt a lot?"
"Like you wouldn't believe," Sophie said.
Parker winced in sympathy.
"But," Sophie added, "they've got nice drugs that make all the pain go away. The downside is that you feel absolutely exhausted after you're done."
Parker reached out an patted Sophie's arm. Sophie felt rather proud - ten years ago, Parker probably wouldn't have realized there was a need to comfort Sophie at all.
"Where are the boys?"
"Oh, Nate's showing off the baby. They've got their noses pressed to the glass and coo at every move she makes."
Sophie laughed.
"But I wanted to see you first," Parker said. "You're my best friend; her I don't even know yet."
Sophie leaned back against her pillow and smiled. It was nice to know that underneath all the progress she'd made over the years, Parker was still Parker.
Prompt: 029. Medicated
Word Count: 123
Pairing/Rating: no pairing, PG
Notes: Set right after The 12 Step Job.
Eliot didn't like the way Parker smiled while she was on these pills the hospital gave her. It just wasn't her.
To be honest, the pills didn't do much to change Parker. She already behaved like a little kid hyped up on sugar on most days anyway. All the pills did was make her a little more trusting. Less suspicious of people. It wasn't a good thing in Eliot's book. Trust made you vulnerable. None of them trusted easily. They trusted Nate because he was too honest to screw them over and they were starting to trust each other more and more, but this? This wasn't safe. Not for Parker, and not for the rest of them. Eliot didn't like it one bit.
Prompt: 030. Poor
Word Count: 109
Pairing/Rating: Hardison/Parker, G
Warnings: ---
One of the reasons why Parker liked money more than anything was because she didn't want to be like her parents. Foster parents. Whatever. The people who raised her until she ran away. They'd constantly complained about money. Field trip? No, costs too much money. Birthday cake? Costs money. New pair of jeans? Cost money. All she ever heard was that she cost too much, that she wasn't worth it.
Ever since the thing with Hardison had turned more serious and they'd actually, seriously thought about children, Parker knew she'd be different. They'd be different. She would never, ever tell her child that it wasn't worth spending money on.
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