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Falling
By : FemmeBono
Category: G through L > Leverage
Views: 1543 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0Disclaimer: I do not own Leverage and will not capitalize from this work. - Chapter List
There was nothing attractive about Jim Sterling. He was pompous and just so…so…samey, Parker thought. Average looks, average hair. Average. She snapped her line and double checked her harness. Not special. Except for his smirk. And except when he was annoying. Annoyingly clever, but annoying anyway. Parker had met so many cops like him in all her run-ins with his type. Hearing his smug voice in her ear only made her eyes narrow that much more in irritation, her mouth set in a grim line before she dropped into a graceful rappel down the sheer face of the building.
“Like clockwork,” he had promised. “This should all go like clockwork.” Annoying cliché, if there ever was one.
Yet when she slanted her legs into an L to stop the momentum of the rappel, Hardison was not there in the van. He should have been waiting, was the one thought she had before a blow struck her in the head and she blacked out.
When she woke it was in a dark room in a strange place and she at once started struggling to rise, only to wince and hiss in pain when she moved.
“Parker?” Sophie’s voice came from her right. It sounded gravelly and a slight rustling told Parker that she had likely been sleeping in a chair by the bed.
“Sophie?! Where am I? This is not a hospital. Is it?” she said, panic leaking into her voice.
Just then a slice of light pierced the darkness as a door cracked open.
“Is she awake?” Sterling said from the hall.
“What’s going on?” she cried, still struggling to move and wincing again as a sharp pain left her gasping and clutching her head.
A light switched on beside her and she covered her eyes, groaning.
“You, it seems got the brunt of the attack when everything went tits up at the Mercer building,” said Sterling as he sidled in, his hand in one pocket while he raised a glass of scotch to his lips with the other. Sterling placed the glass on a mantel in front of the bed and gazed at the fire for a moment while Sophie caught Parker up on what went down while she had blacked out. Everything about their latest heist had gone sideways from the jump.
As it turned out, the mark they were after knew they were coming and no one knew why or who had tipped him. Parker watched Sterling as Sophie filled her in on what happened. His jaw grated and clenched as she watched his profile, while Sophie talked about the security guards that blocked off the alley where Parker should have been able to make her escape. Sterling himself was the one who waded in and came upon one of them knocking Parker unconscious after she dropped into her exit point.
When Sophie finished, she rose to get a glass of water for Parker and to tell the others that Parker was awake. Sterling turned at last. It seemed to take forever for his gaze to move up from the foot of the bed and finally meet hers. When he looked at her at last, there was no trace of a smirk, no smugness. He looked naked somehow, and Parker could not place just why she felt that way.
“Parker…,” he began. After what seemed like ages he struggled with the words. “I’m sorry. This was my cock-up, it wasn’t supposed to go this way. Believe me. I will found who did this, and I’ll bring the bugger in.”
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