little highway girl

The sun was rising over the walls around the city, lighting up the rooftops and making all the tiled ones shine like everything was on fire. It was just another beautiful sight that Sophie had never noticed before. She'd seen so many sunrises and sunsets from inside the city walls, but she'd never really considered how lovely it was.

( It took sitting alone in the prison tower, waiting for her sentence to be handed down, for her to really appreciate it. )

Title: No Regrets, No Looking Back
Fandom: Leverage
Relationship(s)/Character(s): Alec Hardison/Eliot Spencer
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 270
Warnings: none
Summary: Hardison gets a letter he doesn't want.

The letter wasn't postmarked, which set off a thousand alarm bells in Hardison's head.

( There were two people in the world that knew where his brownstone was, and neither were people who would ever send a letter.  )

For as long as Alec could remember the first day of school was one he looked forward to for weeks. New shoes, new pencils, new friends to make, and Nana saying how proud she was of him.

( This year was different though. He couldn't feel less excited if he tried. The first day of college was three weeks away and his stomach was a knot of dread. )

Title: Conversations Brief or Long
Fandom: Leverage
Relationship(s)/Character(s): Parker/Hardison/Eliot
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 970
Warnings: Sexual content
Summary: It doesn't matter what words they pick when they're together because everything gets said just the way it needs to.
Author's Notes: Written for Round 13 @ Porn Battle based on prompts "hair", "left out", and "trio". Beta'd by maskedfangirl. <3


( Parker tucked her feet up underneath herself, perching on the pillow and watching intently... )

Twenty-two months ago, when Parker was just a regular girl, things were a lot more simple. She was still a girl now, of course (though there were tabloids out there that were convinced otherwise), but now she was also the number one selling, chart topping, most talked about pop star of the decade. That complicated things considerably.

( It started with a stranger in a bar. She met a man who said he could make her a star and she'd signed all the paperwork he put in front of her right then. )

Part Two

Things were better after that. Parker was pretty sure it was better, anyway. She was spending time with Eliot and it wasn't weird. It was like old times. Almost constant laughter and hijinks and easy, comfortable companionship.

It helped that Spain was the most beautiful place Parker had ever seen. She was absolutely going to come back when she had more time to spend, but as it was, she had to settle for filling disposable cameras with photo after photo. Nate kept trying to buy her a digital camera, but she liked it impermanence behind a disposable. She wanted to take the colours and feelings of the city and keep them inside her forever, memories remaining long after the place and the camera were gone.

( After the afternoon concert in Barcelona, she tricked Nate into distracting the front desk staff at the hotel while she and Eliot snuck through the fire escape onto the roof to watch the sunset. )

Part Four

Title: Memories In Permanent Ink
Fandom: Leverage
Relationship(s)/Character(s): Alec/Eliot
Rating: R
Word Count: 2,500
Warnings: References to Eliot's dark and violent past
Summary: Alec finds out why Eliot's been so secretive and what he's been hiding.
Author's Notes: Thanks to sparrowshellcat and maskedfangirl for the beta. Written for Round 13 @ Porn Battle, for the prompt "undercover". No, I'm not sure how it related in my mind, but there you go.

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At first, Alec just plain doesn't get why it's always lights off with Eliot.

( Eliot never gets undressed in front of him and he's always up and gone before Alec wakes up, and they never, ever shower together, no matter how messy and sweaty they've gotten. )

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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Title: Hold Tight and Pretend It's The Plan
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Hardison/Eliot
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 4500
Warnings: rough sex, sex pollen (so kind of dub-con, depending on how you want to read it)
Summary: Eliot goes temporarily missing on a job in a greenhouse and Hardison goes to find him.
Author's Notes: For my darling scorpiod1. <3 thanks to xsnarkasaurus and bessyboo for the speedy and excellent beta.


"Check the security feed, Hardison. Find out where Eliot was before he dropped off the comm, Hardison. How did you manage to lose a grown man, Hardison," Hardison muttered under his breath while he scrolled through the ninety-one security cameras he was currently linked into at Scorpiod Scientific Unlimited. Eliot wasn't readily apparent on any of them, so he set up a triangulation on the last time Eliot's ear bud had sent or received a signal so he could try narrowing it down.

( 'I can hear you. Have you found him?' Nate said, unimpressed with Hardison's imitation of him. )