GUESS WHO GOT ART FROM THE INCREDIBLE @gracefuldisasters
I commissioned her to draw something, and she picked out this soft scene from my story "The Retrieval Job", and I've stared at it for hours.
They've had a bit of a rough week, but they're on their way home now.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
A job goes wrong, and Parker disappears into the deeps of the Brazilian rainforest. Eliot tries to hunt her down with help from the team, but the jungle is a dangerous place at the best of times.
One thing about Eliot is he's gonna go so in on a grift. A wedding caterer? Get the fuck outta his way he's got two hundred guests to cook for and these canapes aren't gonna plate themselves. A baseball player? Fuck the con he gets a damn sandwich named after him. A supermarket worker? He's doing his full day of work AND THEN starting a union uprising first chance he gets. Sophie is "the grifter" but Eliot is the one who can match and beat her freak for commiting to a character so hard it becomes your new personality for the next week
How much of the stuff that Eliot says is just him rage baiting?? Mf says “i dont own a tv,” “i only sleep 90 minutes a day,” and like. When there was a BOMB under the car and Hardison said they need to reboot it, eliot fucking saying “do i kick it??” ELIOT. YOU KNOW NOT TO KICK A BOMB???? ELIOT SPENCER??? HELLO??
Absolutely STEAMING hot Leverage take that some people probably won't like
I genuinely, full heartedly believe that at least a quarter of the people whose favorite character is Eliot WOULDN'T like him as much if he wasn't objectively attractive
Okay, what if there is a 9-1-1 Leverage cross over with the 118 as the Leverage crew, who would we cast as who? I'd say:
Bobby Nash -> Nate Ford
Hen Wilson -> Sophie Devereaux
Chimney Han -> Alec Hardison
Buck -> Parker
Eddie Diaz -> Eliot Spencer
I know it won't work if you insist on being shippy about it and configuring big ships in either fandom to the other, but I feel like this might fit best?
Like clearly Bobby and Nate have a lot of overlap in backstory and are the leaders, so I feel pretty confident in that one.
And I thought Hen as Sophie, because she is very much a second leader and the person others turn to with their troubles, plus she has the potential to be a grifter, like remember her confidencing herself into an OR and catching a thief lmao. Like she could.
Then I thought Chimney as Hardison, because he is kind of the heart of the operation and gets played as comic relief, even if he has a lot of emotional depth. I think he might be a bit too repressed to be Hardison though, but most are lmao, but due to that Buck was my alternate here (also because the baby of the crew vibes that grow into their own even if they don't grow into being a leader that Buck and Hardison both have).
Buck as Parker stems from the young wild card that blossoms under mentorship of Nate/Bobby, you know, need a gentler hand and care to get them on the rails of becoming a normal person after a reckless childhood. I do think that Buck is a bit too self aware and people pleaser-y for the full Parker experience, but it's broad translation. But name vibes match xp
And then Eddie as Eliot was mostly due to background similarities and their in depth relationship with violence, even if their relationship to violence is pretty different. However, they have that rough exterior, gentle soul thing going for them and are both country boys.
Anyway, I'm not entirely sure this is exactly what I feel, but upon first thought it is. But I'd love to hear what other people think! :D
This list will include all ratings and tags, so read at your own discretion! :)
a change of pace by idkimoutofideas - Rated G
“Why would Dubenich lie to us?” Hardison asked.
“Because you’re thieves.” Eliot was getting real tired of the way Nate kept saying “you”. As if he hadn’t been a part of the team that stole the information from Pierson.
Eliot worked alone for a long time. Why would he change that now?
cut and glue by lobsterthermidor - Rated G
cutscene from the nigerian job, whilst getting sophie.
or -- nathan ford got three kids and was like. alright. lets get mom now. he literally FOUND the family.
The Trusting a Shifter Job by AlannaofRoses - Rated G
Nate Ford knows a Shifter when he sees one. Eliot Spencer sets off all his warning bells. Can Nate learn to trust a Shifter, or will his first job on the wrong side of the law fall apart?
This is a bit of a rambly, almost stream-of-consciousness retelling of the Nigerian Job from Nate's POV as he decides whether Eliot Spencer is someone he wants on his team. Not my best work ever, but I really want to play in this AU and I needed to jump start my creative brain with all the mess going on right now. Hope you still enjoy if Shifter!Eliot is your cup of tea.
We'll Always Have Paris by elysiumwaits - Rated G
He told her about his family, and what was left of her heart broke a little.
Sophie is a lot of things. In fact, the list of what she isn't is a lot shorter than the list of what she is. But on that shorter list in her mind, at the very top, it states that she is not a homewrecker. Not really.
Nate is a good man. An honest man. He should stay that way.
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Episode Coda for The Nigerian Job, with a little bit of backstory between Sophie and Nate.
Nigerian Job by treefrogie84 - Rated G
The Nigerian Job from Eliot's PoV
Lets Begin With Nigerians by storywriter8 - Rated T
What happens when you try and blow up a sporadic psychic mastermind, a electro-wizard hacker, a wind elemental thief and a werewolf hitter?
Revenge.
Before the Beginning by PseudoLeigha - Not Rated
When Victor Dubenich showed up in that hotel bar, he had already hired Eliot, Hardison and Parker for his little "retrieval" job. Now a 5-part series explaining how such a situation may have occurred.
