Fic: KtS: The Mile High Job
TItle: Keeping the Secret: The Mile High Job
Author: AyLee Cambell
Rating: T
Pairing: Parker/Eliot
Disclaimer: I don't own it.
The Mile High Job
AN: sorry it took me so long to write another chapter. I bought the episodes off of iTunes when they first came out then put them on a DVD somewhere and was too lazy to go looking for them… so today I dug them out and started going through them since I really want to write the rest of this season and start on season 2. So here is this chapter, hope you enjoy it and hopefully I’ll have a few more out soon. Thank you for your patience!
Getting into the building had been easy. Getting to the office they needed was a little more difficult.
“Target’s on the thirtieth floor, you don’t really expect us to-” Parker asked but stopped talking when Nate pushed open the doors to the stairs and started up.
Eliot and Parker exchanged a look and followed with a sigh.
The first ten to fifteen floors weren’t so bad but by the twenty-third floor they were all walking slowly up the stairs, too tired to run.
“I got my workout earlier.” Parker mumbled, complaining. She hadn’t meant to be heard but both men turned their heads slightly to look at her.
Nate just shook it off and continued while Eliot threw her a small grin. He knew exactly what her workout had been, since he’d been the one “working out” with her.
By the twenty-seventh floor they were all getting ready to kill Hardison but none of them said it out loud. You could tell just from the looks on their faces.
When they reached the thirtieth floor though and saw the key lock Parker couldn’t help it.
“I’m gonna kill him.” Parker said.
“Not if I get to him first.” Nate added and Parker looked at him for a moment.
She wasn’t above making Eliot hold Nate back while she pummeled on Hardison. She’d leave the hacker alive, then Nate could do what ever he wanted. Hardison would have to hope she forgot her irritation with him by the time she saw him, or do something to make up for it. (Hopefully for Hardison the making it up part wouldn’t annoy Eliot.)
Hardison not being there did mean that she got to blow something up.
So maybe she would let Nate get the first punch in.
Breaking into the office was easy. Looking for where he stashed the evidence they needed was a little harder.
Having the CEO walk in wasn’t all that fun either, but getting out of his office and surprising Nate and Eliot was a little fun. Especially when she saw the looks on their faces and their reactions. She kept her face blank though and only smirked a little when she knew they couldn’t see her.
Eliot still sometimes didn’t know how she disappeared and reappeared and sometimes it drove him crazy. (Mostly when she snuck up on him)
But now they were trying to catch a plane so they could get the evidence they needed.
When Nate told her she was going to be playing an flight attendant she made sure she kept her face blank and made sure she didn’t look at Eliot. This wasn’t the first time she had ever acted like a flight attendant. This wasn’t even the first time she had been a flight attendant while Eliot was a air marshal. (That had been a fun and interesting flight, and one of the reasons they couldn’t fly that airline anymore.)
But none of the others needed to know that.
Eliot smirked at Parker as soon as he stood up from his “fall.” The uniform she would have to wear was only slightly similar to the one she had worn that one time he had been on the flight with her. But it was similar enough to brink the memories back and they had been pretty good ones. Unfortunately though, this time there would be no time for any of that, and even if there was they wouldn’t be able to do anything with Sophie and Nate on the same flight and Hardison in their ears.
(And didn’t Hardison realize he’d been talking out loud while wearing his com when he went searching through Nate’s computer? Idiot.)
Still this flight was bound to be interesting. He wanted to warn the others about Parker but he wasn’t supposed to know so there was no way he could tell them that Parker like to have fun when playing a flight attendant. (When she could slightly freak people out or make them uncomfortable and they couldn’t run away. She got a little thrill from pointing out the risks.)
So he knew it was coming but had to act like he didn’t. So when her voice came over the intercom and he heard what she was saying he covered the lower half of his face and tried to look annoyed so now one would see the small smirk. That was his girl.
About an half and hour to an hour later and he was no longer in a good mood. The guy next to him was cuddled into his side and trying to use him as a pillow. He could hear Nate and Sophie’s squabbles and he had just heard some guy try to hit on Parker. She blew off the guy though, saying she had to start taking drink orders.
With an hard shrug and an elbow, he jerked the guy off him and the idiot didn’t even wake up, just started snoring on the other chair next to him.
He hated coach.
The others were up in first class talking while he tried whispering so no one would look at him funny. Last thing they needed was for everyone to decide that there was a problem on the plane. He hated when people panicked in a closed off area. It reminds him of when he used to be claustrophobic.
He hears what Parker says and can’t help but snap. “What’s it gonna be Parker? Gold bars? They don’t exactly travel well.”
But when he hears Nate say that Parker is right it could be something else he winces slightly. He’s going to have to say sorry later. But his excuse is that they all expect him to be grumpy, might find it a little odd if he was always in a good mood around Parker so he has to pretend to be grumpy and irritated with her sometimes. She understands, but it doesn’t always make him feel better about doing it. (Except when he is grumpy or irritated with her, then it’s just another part of being in the relationship. She has her moments with him as well.)
So they all start searching the plane and people’s luggage. Later he hears Parker’s list of things and can’t help but smirk. There may not have been gold bars but uncut diamonds and some of the other things on this plane worth a lot of money. Too bad none of it seemed to belong to the GenoGrow.
Talking to Parker’s problem flyer hadn’t been fun, but it had answered most of their questions. Unfortunately breaking the news for her hadn’t been easy. Well, it had been for Parker, but her reaction to the news hadn’t been good. Which was normal, but something he didn’t want to have to deal with so Sophie tried to handle her while he talked to Nate.
They figured out that it was a hit, but they still needed some more answers, and only the hit mad would be able to give them to them so Eliot went into the bathroom between first and second class and waited.
Waiting in the bathroom to grab another man and pull him in there with him wasn’t something Eliot liked to do, but something he’d had to do more then once. At least every time he had to do it he got to beat the guy up so there was an upside to it. Still, he would have rather been pulling Parker in there for something else entirely.
But he heard the knock Sophie made when she passed by and waited a moment before opening the door and pulling the guy in. The fight started immediately after that.
Flushing the toilet after he left he opened the door and squeezed through, trying to make sure no one got a peek inside. Parker would make sure no one entered the bathroom after him and he made his way up to the bar in first class.
Nate took a look at him and saluted with his plastic cup and Parker came up behind him and walked around the bar and handed him a small towel a moment later that he used on his forehead.
They heard Hardison tell them there was some more news and they all listened, and it started sounding worse the more they heard.
“The easiest way? Take ‘em out in transit.” Eliot said, answering Nate’s question. Eliot could feel Parker’s eyes on him but he didn’t look at her.
“You mean bring down the plane their on. You mean bring down the plane we’re on.” Sophie said.
“Um, yeah.” Nate said and they had a moment where they all exchanged glances.
They took a moment to let it sink in before they started to react and come up with a plan to stop it from happening.
As soon as Eliot said cargo hold Parker started walking. She knew she was going to have to be the one to go down there. She was the smallest and could fit and probably the only one who knew how to get down there, or wouldn’t be stopped.
Once she got down there she looked through both Dan and Marissa’s luggage. Nothing was found in either of the two and Hardison’s voice came through the comms asking her if she saw anything.
Which is how they discovered the device that would crash the plane.
Luckily for them they made it out alive. Hardison was able to hack into the technology responsible for sabotaging the plane and reset it at the right moment. The landing had been the other scary part but they had made it through that as well.
Though Parker would be bruised the next few days from being thrown around down in the luggage area while the others got to strap in to their seats but they all made it out alive so she didn’t really mind it.
By the time they had gotten home, which meant jumping on a different plane almost as soon as they got off the last one, they weren’t in a very good mood. Parker and Eliot were tired, sore, and irritated.
Nate and Sophie seemed to be taking the whole thing better then they were but they weren’t the one’s who had to be thrown about or fight a trained killer. So they ignored Hardison when he started making light of the whole thing. But when he started saying he saved them all, they started to get a little annoyed with him. So instead of making a scene or getting mad they just left. Parker to her office, to get her things to leave while Eliot stopped by the kitchen to put his glass away before he left.
He knew Parker would met him at the house as soon as she could so he headed straight there. As soon as he got home he headed to the kitchen to start dinner. They hadn’t had anything to eat since earlier that day and he knew Parker would be hungry and he needed the distraction.
Parker got home right as he placed the main dish in the oven. Closing the oven door he walked over to the living room and sat down on the couch and waited. A moment later he heard the door open, then close, and her soft footfalls coming closer.
As soon as she was in sight he held his arms out and then she was plastered against them and he gripped her tight and just felt her. They could have died today, together but not together. Not able to say a word.
It was even worse to know that while the plane was going down, even if they landed there wasn’t a guarantee she would be safe. They were all strapped in but she had been below them in the cargo hold with no one there to make sure she didn’t get injured too badly. And afterwards when he had saw that she was fine he had wanted to just hold her and he hadn’t been able to, had to pretend that he didn’t even think about how dangerous it had been for her.
“Should we tell them?” He murmured into her hair.
Parker pulled back just enough to look at his face. “Tell them about us?” She asked.
“Yeah, about us. Why are we hiding it from them? Shouldn’t we trust them by now?” He asked her.
“I want to but-” Parker started then stopped. “You and I, that’s big, I can trust them with some things but I’m not sure I can trust them with us. You’re too important to me. What happens if it get’s out there that we’re together, what happens when people we’ve pissed off group together to come get us?” She asked.
“Do you think they’ll let it slip?” He asked, moving one hand up to cup her cheek.
“I think if we start acting like a couple in public it will get out. I think one comment in the wrong setting can be dangerous. I would love to be able to tell everyone you were mine and I was yours and not be cautious or afraid to act like I want to in public. I want to be able to kiss you or hug you or take your hand. But for us it’s too dangerous. If we want us to last and not have to go different ways we have to keep a low profile. We’ve both pissed off dangerous people. Thankfully we’re both hard to find, but our names are too recognizable. We could be linked as a team but as soon as people link it romantically they think it’s a weakness and they’ll come after us.” Parker said, leaning into his touch and looking into his eyes.
Eliot nodded. “I know, I just wish that things were different sometimes. But I wouldn’t change us for anything. I’d like to be able to touch you in public, to worry about you, to let every guy that hit’s on you know your off limit’s but I wouldn’t trade all that for you. If this is the only thing we can have then that’s fine, I like it when it’s just me and you, darlin’.” Eliot told her, then moved his hand to the back of her neck to tug her head down gently.
He kissed her and she responded eagerly. Eliot pulled his head back and rested his forehead against hers.
“Are you okay?” He asked, running his hands down her back. She hadn’t complained about anything earlier but he wanted to make sure she was okay.
“Just sore.” Parker whispered, then leaned down and rested her head under his chin and wrapped herself around him.
“I love you.” She told him in a quiet voice and Eliot smiled.
They didn’t say it all the time because they knew how the other felt, but it was always nice to hear.
“I love you too, Parker.” He told her, running a hand through her hair. “I love you too.”
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