So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns

Disclaimer: I own nothing here and am just doing this to pass the time until Season 3 starts.

 

Spoilers: None. Set pre-series, about three years. Nate is married to Maggie, Sam is unwell.

 

Painting: Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape 1 (Landscape No. 1), 1963, Oil on canvas, 60 1/4 x 50 1/2 in

 

 

A/N: Part three in a five-part series of one-shots focused on three of my favorite things: Nate, Sophie, and art. Special thanks to my brother, an art school graduate, for helping me pick this painting and for supplying the excellent description of Diebenkorn’s style. Any mistakes are my own, because as the older sister, it’s my birth-right to ignore him sometimes. :) 

 

 

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Sophie’s entire dating career had been something of a nightmare, which she attributed wholly to her pitiful selection of choices. As she saw it, she could either date a fellow grifter or date an honest citizen. The pitfalls of dating a fellow grifter were obvious: trust issues, paranoia, possible law enforcement investigations, double-crosses, and difficult schedules.

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer: I own nothing here and am just doing this to pass the time until Season 3 starts.

 

Spoilers: None. Set pre-series, about seven or eight years. Nate is married to Maggie and Sam is healthy.

 

 

A/N: Part one in a five-part series of one-shots focused on three of my favorite things: Nate, Sophie, and art. Special thanks to my brother, an art school graduate, for patiently answering all my questions and helping me select the perfect paintings for this series. Any mistakes are my own, because as the older sister, it’s my birth-right to ignore him sometimes. :) 

 

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Nate walked through the corridors of the museum administration building, greeting the familiar faces and commiserating with them over the broken air conditioning. Nate had always hated this modern monstrosity, condemning it as a blight on an otherwise perfectly respectable urban landscape. But since Maggie started working here as a freelance art authenticator a few weeks ago, he’d visited it often enough to develop a true loathing based on its many quirks and flaws.