Parker's Problem

Parker glanced around anxiously. "Sophie?" she mumbled.  "Why do I have to be the one in the dress?"

She could hear Sophie sigh on the other side of the ear bud and looked across the room at her. "We've discussed this Parker. I have already met the mark as a business associate and you are the only one left to put him on the hook, unless you wanted to try dressing up Eliot or Hardison."

Parker thought about how funny Hardison would look in a dress and suppressed a snort.

"Yeah, I'm sure y'all would find that very funny but it might be a good idea to get back to the job at hand," Hardison's irritated voice rang through Parker's ears. Parker nodded a little before she remembered that Hardison couldn't see her through the ear bud and said, "yeah." Then she fixed her gaze on the mark who just happened to be making his way over to her.

"Hello, my name is George. And who might you be?" the mark asked smirking at her.

Parker swallowed her anxiety and offered a tentative smile. "I'm Lila."

George's smirk widened and he put his hand on Parker's arm. She looked down at his hand before fingering the metal implement in her hand. What happened next seemed to be in slow motion for her. She raised the fork and stabbed it into George's shoulder before glancing around frantically for an escape route. Four voices echoed the same thought in her head.  "Parker, what are you doing?!" The adrenaline pumping through her body drowned out these voices as she focused on her chosen exit: the open window. Parker dove through the window without a second thought. She flipped through the air, basking in the exhilarating feeling she got from falling before she opened her eyes and took out the rope from her clutch bag, dropping the bag and tying a knot to make a lasso and tossing the looped end. It caught on a piece of the building that was sticking out and there was a tug before Parker was suspended in the air. Parker went over what had happened in her mind and frowned guiltily. She glanced around her before sighing. She would just have to hang here until either Nate, Eliot, Sophie, or Hardison came to get her down. That was okay with her though, she liked the view.