Two Contradictory Ideas

Disclaimer:  I own nothing here and am just doing this for fun and to ease my new-found Leverage addiction. Pre-series, no real spoilers.

 

Written for: lovesrogue36’s prompt at leveragekink : ‘Nate/Sophie, fugitives on the run.’ Beside the prompt, this story is inspired by the video conversation between Tara and Sophie in “The Runway Job” where Sophie tells Tara to ask Nate about something that happened on the Russian border.

 

A/N: My motto is ‘never let the facts get in the way of a good story.’ I did a bit of research, but could only track down replicas of the Kandinsky painting, Mit und Gegen. For the purpose of this fic, the original is 20”x24” oil on canvas. 

 

I’ve also made up everything involving travel and the geography of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, so just go with it, please. :) 

 

As for where this fits in the Leverage-verse, it pre-dates the series by maybe six years. (i.e. Nate’s still married and his kid is still healthy.)

 

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When Nate heard that his client, the Volgograd Museum of Art, was going to host a Kandinsky retrospective, his stomach sank. No matter how much things had changed in Russia, assembling that much priceless artwork in one place was just asking for trouble. He convinced the museum to hire extra security and upgrade their electronic systems, but he still knew that at least one painting, maybe more, was going to take a walk.

 

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