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iluvroadrunner6) wrote2010-05-12 01:21 pm
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Parker - Starting Over
Fandom: In Plain Sight/Leverage
Title: Starting Over
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iluvroadrunner6
Rating: PG-13 // FRT
Characters: Marshall Mann, Mary Shannon and Parker
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xoverland Challenge: Crime State
Content Warning: Implied character death.
Summary: Parker, Mary and Marshall go over the rules of Witness Protection.
Author’s Note: Characters suggested bylollobrigida. I did not mean for this to get angsty. But … it did. Sorry.
Disclaimer: I don’t own. They belong to USA and TNT. I’m just borrowing and will put everything back where I found it.
“So I can’t steal things.”
“No.”
“Or con people.”
“No.”
“Or crack safes or hack security systems or repel from the tops of buildings?”
“No, no, and no. You want to throw yourself from a great height, try bungee jumping.” Mary gave Parker a look. “The point of Witness Protection is to protect. And that involves giving up all markers of your old life.”
Parker huffed, crossing her arms in front of her chest. “It’s stupid, if you ask me. It’s not like you change what I look like. Like any of this will change anything.”
Marshall sighed from where he was standing in the far corner of the room. Marshall was an old friend, so he wasn’t allowed to be her Marshall, but she supposed she should be grateful that she was at least in the same town of someone she knew. “It’ll keep you safe, Parker. That’s the important thing.”
Parker knew that that wasn’t the important thing. The important thing was that she was testifying against a man who had taken away her family. She hated him. She wanted to shoot him herself, but that wasn’t allowed. She was told that him being in jail would be better. She wasn’t sure she believed it.
“What about when Eliot wakes up?” Parker stated. “Will he come here, or go to Sophie, or … ”
The end of that question was implicit, the simple ‘Will I ever see him again?’ but she couldn’t actually bring herself to say it. Probably because she didn’t want to hear if the answer to that question was no or not. She had lost so many of them already—Nate was dead, Hardison was missing and probably dead, Sophie was somewhere else, supposedly for her own protection. Putting them too close to each other was a liability, and while Parker consciously understood that, she knew that families had been moved together in Witness Protection before. She didn’t understand why she couldn’t have her family too.
Mary sighed again. “Parker, you know that the odds of Eliot waking up—”
“He’ll wake up.” This was Eliot. She’d seen him take hits from fourteen different guys, take them down and keep walking, even if he looked like hell afterwards. She knew that he would wake up, it was just a matter of when. “What’ll happen?”
Mary looked exasperated. “He’ll probably be sent somewhere else.”
“So I’ll never see him again.”
“Probably not.”
“This sucks,” Parker shoved the contract away from her, back across the table at Mary. “Can’t believe I’m doing this.”
“Parker.”
Her eyes drifted up from where she was sitting to where Marshall was standing and she knew. She knew why she was doing it and for what reasons, and she didn’t like it, but she had to. She didn’t have a choice. She turned back to Mary, staring at her for a long minute before reaching for the contract again.
“Where do I sign?”
Title: Starting Over
Author:
iluvroadrunner6Rating: PG-13 // FRT
Characters: Marshall Mann, Mary Shannon and Parker
xoverland Challenge: Crime StateContent Warning: Implied character death.
Summary: Parker, Mary and Marshall go over the rules of Witness Protection.
Author’s Note: Characters suggested by
lollobrigida. I did not mean for this to get angsty. But … it did. Sorry.Disclaimer: I don’t own. They belong to USA and TNT. I’m just borrowing and will put everything back where I found it.
“So I can’t steal things.”
“No.”
“Or con people.”
“No.”
“Or crack safes or hack security systems or repel from the tops of buildings?”
“No, no, and no. You want to throw yourself from a great height, try bungee jumping.” Mary gave Parker a look. “The point of Witness Protection is to protect. And that involves giving up all markers of your old life.”
Parker huffed, crossing her arms in front of her chest. “It’s stupid, if you ask me. It’s not like you change what I look like. Like any of this will change anything.”
Marshall sighed from where he was standing in the far corner of the room. Marshall was an old friend, so he wasn’t allowed to be her Marshall, but she supposed she should be grateful that she was at least in the same town of someone she knew. “It’ll keep you safe, Parker. That’s the important thing.”
Parker knew that that wasn’t the important thing. The important thing was that she was testifying against a man who had taken away her family. She hated him. She wanted to shoot him herself, but that wasn’t allowed. She was told that him being in jail would be better. She wasn’t sure she believed it.
“What about when Eliot wakes up?” Parker stated. “Will he come here, or go to Sophie, or … ”
The end of that question was implicit, the simple ‘Will I ever see him again?’ but she couldn’t actually bring herself to say it. Probably because she didn’t want to hear if the answer to that question was no or not. She had lost so many of them already—Nate was dead, Hardison was missing and probably dead, Sophie was somewhere else, supposedly for her own protection. Putting them too close to each other was a liability, and while Parker consciously understood that, she knew that families had been moved together in Witness Protection before. She didn’t understand why she couldn’t have her family too.
Mary sighed again. “Parker, you know that the odds of Eliot waking up—”
“He’ll wake up.” This was Eliot. She’d seen him take hits from fourteen different guys, take them down and keep walking, even if he looked like hell afterwards. She knew that he would wake up, it was just a matter of when. “What’ll happen?”
Mary looked exasperated. “He’ll probably be sent somewhere else.”
“So I’ll never see him again.”
“Probably not.”
“This sucks,” Parker shoved the contract away from her, back across the table at Mary. “Can’t believe I’m doing this.”
“Parker.”
Her eyes drifted up from where she was sitting to where Marshall was standing and she knew. She knew why she was doing it and for what reasons, and she didn’t like it, but she had to. She didn’t have a choice. She turned back to Mary, staring at her for a long minute before reaching for the contract again.
“Where do I sign?”