Wait, Leverage/Old Gaurd crossover.
Is this one of those where, like, Eliot, or maybe the whole team (maybe except for Nate. XD) secretly totally know about tOG? One of those underground rumors, Brit each has a story about a time they worked with them?
And maybe they all, or just Eliot, totally have contact info for them?? Crossover job!!! Everyone respects each other, maybe Eliot has a long chat with Nile about what it means to be doing this kind of work when you thought you'd married the US military...
Or. Or Eliot IS an immortal, but was exiled... No, that's too sad for me, to have Eliott be the only one who's immortal.
Oh! But wait, what if Booker, when exiled, running into Elliott again, and Elliott pulls him into the leverage team for a while?? Some potential, some potential. Helping Booker ReDiscover the will to do good in the world, inspired by the way that the leverage team conducts themselves, even as they only have but a single human life span to do it.
discussion at some point about Elliot, really most of the team but him in particular, who throws himself into dangerous if he was an immortal, when he very definitely is not.
Or the AU that inspired this post, The leverage team AS immortals.
Maybe they're the only ones, or maybe im mortal clusters are kind of like sense8 clusters, maybe there can be multiple.
So Andromache/Quyn/Nicolo/Yusuf/Booker/Nile is one group, but the leverage crew is another.
Nate is the tricky one here, because it's story I like being a contemporary story, but I don't see the team needing him the same way they did if the team is all comprised of 200 + year olds, and Nate is the new one.
I think they only works if that father figure if he and Sophie are the oldest. I think Elliot is next oldest after that, and then Parker, and then Hardison is the youngest. Maybe Hardison came on in 60s? Maybe Hardison died in the Vietnam war. I dunno, I like him no older than computing, so the oldest would be like that he died in WW2, maybe he was part of the group that broke the enigma code/machine, Bletchly park, or whatever that was, but totally got killed in one of the bombings of London or something, and it was kind of weird for the group, because they were all warriors in some way, even if Sophie prefered to lie her way in, and Parker prefered to jump in... Harrison was the first one with no combat skills. Or they thought no combat skills, because technology was going to rise, and that was going to be Hardison's weapon.
I feel a vibe like, Sophie Nate and Elliott all spent quite a bit of time by themselves, Nate obviously the longest time, since he was online before they were. And maybe his son was also an immortal? And it was his loss? Which Nate does not understand... Or his sons just mortal, and lived a decently long life, but died cursing and that's where his angst comes from, like Booker.
but anyway eventually Nate finds Sophie, and they travel together for a while, and at some point they both find Elliot who's been on his own for a long time, too.
And it's a long time that the three of them are alone.
And then, some point fairly recently... Within the last couple hundred years? Parker comes online. And it's kind of a relief to Elliott, and he has a different bond with Parker... nate and Sophie are together, and it's been a long time of Eliot by himself with them. So it's nice to have a friend who's not coupled up.
And then Hardison comes online, and Hardison and Parker hit it off pretty rapidly, and then here's where you get a standard Elliott plotline, where he decides, these two are my people. I'm looking after them no matter what. Even if I want to be part of what they have and I don't think I can be...
And then maybe the plot of a Fic would be the get-together, how Parker and Hardison extend that invitation to Elliott, and he lets himself have something for the first time in a thousand years.
Also, Elliott not liking guns and being from a time before guns were invented? I'd like this.
