Humanity; Leverage FanFiction

The Two-Horse Job ~ pt 2

*Disclaimer, I do not own Leverage all of that belongs to TNT, I, however, own Blair and her little storyline*

Season 1, Episode 3 ~ Pt. 2
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Blair was not fully awake when they all met the next morning at the race track, though she was all done up pretending to be Amber Millington once again as they didn't know who would see her around so it was better she was dressed and ready to go. Hardison had promised to bring her a coffee so she stood in silence with Sophie and her dad, she knew they were discussing something but she wasn't paying attention to anything either of them were saying. Parker was asking about Sterling and they had all come to the agreement that he was better than Nate, much to her dad's stuttering displeasure. Hardison approached them and handed Blair, who was acting as if she was not with them, a large coffee. Smirking as he watched her sniff the air before turning to face him as if she could smell the liquid she was addicted too. "Blair?" Nate asked, turning to look at her just as she grabbed the coffee from Hardison and took a sip gratefully, causing the man to laugh loudly.

"Too much Monday, not enough coffee" Blair muttered, but they were all silent enough to hear the comment, causing a smile to break out on all of their faces. Blair had a one track mind, even with the looming threat of both Sterling men she was confident enough in the team to not worry about it, her priority being her Coffee. Blinking Blair seemed to realise all eyes were still on her, "what did you say again?" she asked, trying to recall at all what her dad had supposedly asked her.

"Elliot said something about James Sterling not being our only problem?" Nate prompted, knowing Blair was involved and Elliot was trying to protect her from something. He was the one to take her back to the hotel last night.

Blair shot Elliot a grateful smile, glad he hadn't told her dad about Zach Sterling's appearance. It was easier they were in public to tell him about Sterling's mini-me waltzing around, "So, you know how I'm kinda helping you out. Dad and daughter style" she started, taking a sip of her coffee as her dad nodded his eyebrows scrunching together as he tried to figure out where Blair was going with her sentence, "well... Zach Sterling is here, doing the same thing with his dad. But father and son bonding, not father and daughter. Duh."

"Oh, okay." Was all Nate said, before turning to the team, Blair held up her hand behind him and slowly dropped her fingers in a count down from 5. Just as she had dropped her last finger Nate turned back to face her as he finally computed what she had said. "Wait, What? That boy is around and knows you are here!" he all but exploded. He was protective of Blair around boys, but there was something about Zach that had always made him keep a close eye on him. Probably because he knew the boy was one of the few people in the world who could keep up with Blair mentally as well as push her to her limits. If anyone could even possibly be her so called 'perfect match' Zach was a close as it got.

Blair groaned at his response and nodded her head, "so whatever we are dealing with, I will say I need to be a Zach distraction pawn. His dad will ask him to do that anyway, so we may as well use that to our advantage." Blair looked at Sophie and begged her with her eyes to distract her father, and the woman smiled and quickly brought the conversation back to the task at hand, but Blair knew the moment they could be alone she would be asking her about Zach Sterling and everything that involved.

"What we need to do," Sophie said, causing everyone to look at her, "is get Willie that horse back and then get out of here, very, very quickly"

"it's too late for that" Blair commented before she could stop herself, and quickly covered her mouth as she got looks from Elliot and Parker. Nate, however, understood what Blair was talking about. She knew Sterling almost as well as he did, now not one but two of them knew they were here they were going to go out their way to try to mess up their plans.