Fandom: Leverage (US TV 2008), Leverage: Redemption (US TV 2021)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sophie Devereaux/Harry Wilson (Leverage)
Characters: Sophie Devereaux (Leverage), Harry Wilson (Leverage)
Additional Tags: Smut, Art, Painting, Season/Series 03
Summary: “You’ve been keeping secrets, our Mr. Wilson.” (Set some time in S3, with spoilers up to Weekend in Paris Job.)
Would it make more sense to run these from the start to the end of the month? Probably. Am I impatient? Yes. Did I just look up when The Nigerian Job aired, intending to use whichever day of the month it was as our start date, only to find it's today? Also yes. So here we go!
Please do read and comment on other people's fics if you can, once you've popped yours up or if you don't want to write for this round - it keeps the energy up. This round officially lasts until the end of the 6th of August (in your timezone) but you can keep posting after that, there will just be another collection and new prompts as well.
Here's the vault collection. Your prompts, should you choose to accept any or all of them, are:
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THE NIGERIAN JOB
Start: I checked.
End: We provide... leverage.
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THE HOMECOMING JOB
Start: All right sweetheart, we are near Najaf, I’m not allowed to say exactly where.
End: Totally midlife crisis.
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THE WEDDING JOB
Start: Thanks, I'll see you.
End: Make a little room there.
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THE SNOW JOB
Start: No wait, you do not understand.
End: Give me a reason to stay.
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THE MILE HIGH JOB
Start: Al Haldeman laughed us out of his offices.
End: I still don't understand how you can mix up Paris and Tuscany.
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THE MIRACLE JOB
Start: Do you know the speech?
End: St. Nicholas… is the patron saint of thieves.
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THE TWO-HORSE JOB
Start: Dad!
End: Neither will I.
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We're doing 7/13 in the first round because some of them are hard, and we're going in the order on Leverage, Seriously because for our purposes the order doesn't matter and it makes it easier for me to keep track. Thanks to them for the scripts, I really didn't want to top and tail every episode via DVD myself.
I've already yelled about this at certain people, but I gotta yell again.
I'm working on a fic section that's set during Mastermind Job, and I've always loved that Harry of all people goes to talk to Sophie about the Mastermind book, where Sophie complains about not being important to the story, and I'm obsessed with the way he says "Now we KNOW this guy's a fake. There's no way Nate Ford felt that way."
That is SO romantic to me.
Harry's certainty that a man he's never even met would have felt that way about Sophie is so beautiful to me. He could have asked, "Do you really think your husband felt that way about you?" instead, or just hinted at it in some way so Sophie would come to the conclusion herself. But he's so sure a man he doesn't even know would never feel that Sophie Devereaux wasn't "important to the story" because she's so important to HIS story, right from the start.
Doooooes anyone want to have a go at Literary Taxidermy but Leverage? Happy to run it as a regular fandom game. Just running an interest check (non-binding).
Explanation below the cut.
Would you be interested in trying this out?
Yes - let's go steal a writing challenge
I don't want to write it but I'd read others' stories
No, this doesn't appeal to me
Voting ended onJul 7
For the uninitiated, Regulus Press run (ran?) a competition where they gave everyone the first and last lines of a well-known piece of writing (we'd be using Leverage episodes). For example, since I have The Boost Job script open:
THE BOOST JOB
Start: …and if you’re just joining us, we’re following New Hampshire police as they're in pursuit of a stolen vehicle.
End: No, it's my car.
Players then take those first and last lines and "stuff" them (hence the name) with a new story. It doesn't matter what goes in the middle as long as you leave the first and last lines as they are (punctuation and emphasis are fair game though).
A couple of short examples for the above:
"…and if you’re just joining us, we’re following New Hampshire police as they're in pursuit of a stolen vehicle," Hardison narrated gleefully.
"Dammit, Hardison!" Eliot slammed his hand on the dashboard of the police cruiser. "This is enough to make me miss that song you used to sing."
"Can't sing that. We're not in Lucille." Parker pointed out from the back seat, and Hardison nodded.
"Good point, mama. Besides, it would be rude to sing when you're so clearly having some kind of conniption. I'm just glad it's not my van we're chasing."
Eliot generally tried not to snarl at his crew, on account of knowing how terrifying he could be, but now he snarled and growled.
"No, it's my car."
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"…and if you’re just joining us, we’re following New Hampshire police as they're in pursuit of a stolen vehicle."
Sophie switched off the radio with a swift stab at the button and turned to Harry with a smile.
"Now where were we?" She pulled him into another deep kiss, and when they broke apart her eyes were sparkling. "Is this a rental? Do we need to worry about cleaning fees?"
Harry blinked at her, dazed and more than a little aroused.
parker and hardison pretending to be a couple on a con: we're newlyweds!! we just got married and we're so so so in love. she's the apple of my eye, the darling of my heart.... he's my very reason for being and my life has improved so much since meeting him ..... we're just so happy to be together <3
nate and sophie pretending to be a couple on a con: (screaming death threats at each other so loudly drunkenly and incoherently that everyone in the building is begging them to leave)
Adam Worth (The Jailhouse Job) VS Alexandra Bligh (The Harry Wilson Job)
Worst Mark?
Adam Worth
Alexandra Bligh
Voting ended onJul 8
Propaganda:
Adam Worth: Owner of a private prison that profits off of how many people are in jail at one time, giving him an incentive to frame innocent parties via a corrupt judge and a lot of spent cash. Also hires private security to kill off the people he's framed once they're on the inside.
Alexandra Bligh: Owner of a private security company responsible for multiple human rights violations. Threatened to shut off the power for an entire city just to prove she could. Kidnapped Sophie and ransomed her to pit Parker and Astrid against each other. Purposefully triggered Eliot's ptsd
Everyone vote for Alexandra Bligh right now. She absolutely did all of those horrible things (and more) and she's not sorry. A vote for Bligh is a vote for women's wrongs 🙏🎉
BETH I look at it as like she’s a big sister and a mother and a best friend and all that in one. The fact that, Sophie’s able to guide her and give her advice and help her with cons–my take on it anyway is I’m the other girl in there, so it’s kind of like [she] knows what I can sort of accept and process and the way I do it, but I look at it as her trying to help me understand relationships so she lets me in on some things.
GINA I’ve never had this conversation with Jon [Rogers], but I think um–I don’t have a sister, I’ve got two brothers. And Beth is like a sister to me and I– [Gina tears up].
CROWD Awwwww!
BETH Oh my god, I love you!
GINA I love her so much, and she’s allowed me to experience that feeling of having a sister, and Jon [Rogers] has been inspired by that a lot of times.
On Parker and Sophie’s relationship, The Girl’s Panel @ Con-Con
I'll admit I was suspicious at first and thought this might be an "it's the next day" situation but it's NOT. Literally the difference between 14:16-18 and 15:42. (They wear the same outfits for the first 14 minutes of the episode.)
Fandom: Leverage (US TV 2008), Leverage: Redemption (US TV 2021)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sophie Devereaux/Harry Wilson (Leverage), background Parker/Hardison, Parker & Harry Wilson (Leverage)
Characters: Parker (Leverage), Harry Wilson (Leverage), Sophie Devereaux (Leverage), Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Alec Hardison
Additional Tags: Inadvertent Matchmaking, she can act... when it's an act, robot bodies
Summary: “So who are you conning?” Parker makes a discovery. (Set circa S2, but no spoilers beyond vague ones for S1.)
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