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 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.