Masterpost: No Robots Were Harmed In The Making Of This Story

No Robots Were Harmed In The Making Of This Story

By sunspot, aka: unavoidedcrisis.
With artwork by deadflowers5.
Beta'd by clex_monkie89.

Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Hardison/Parker, Hardison/Parker/Eliot
Rating: R
Word Count: 24,200
Warnings: strong language, mild robot-on-robot violence, mild sexuality
Author's Notes: Written for polybigbang. Thanks to my last minute beta, clex_monkie89, and shining light of helpfulness and geekery, brynspikess, who provided some helpful info about the Young Hercules wiki she's writing, in addition to being all around fantastic. Major thanks to deadflowers5 for the awesome collaboration. <3

And uh, just for the record, I've been writing this since way before The Girl's Night Out Job aired. Just in case that question comes up.

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Hardison built a robot to fight, but he gave it artificial intelligence to win. He didn’t expect it to come to life and for it to become such a big part of his life.

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Fic: No Robots Were Harmed in the Making of This Story

It started with a late night, a two litre bottle of orange soda, and a garage full of scrap metal.

Alec Hardison built a prototype of what he called 'Mister Leverage'; a fighting robot with a lever for flipping and a large spike on a downward swinging arm for stabbing. He hid the robot under the work bench and draped a tarp over the whole thing in case his girlfriend came into the garage and wanted to know what was going on. He would find a more secure place to keep it in the next few days.

( 'You didn't come to bed last night,' Parker said carefully at breakfast the next morning. )