eliot really had to stand there and stare down moreau and talk like a professional as if his best friend in the whole world wasn’t drowning a few feet behind him

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eliot really had to stand there and stare down moreau and talk like a professional as if his best friend in the whole world wasn’t drowning a few feet behind him
Leverage Inc. can commit some treason, as a treat.
Request by @quietstorm-thundathighs
the leverage writers really had moreau accusatorily say “you work alone” and eliot stand guard over hardison and say “things change” and expected me not to pause the episode and have an emotional breakdown
no one:
literally no one:
me: eliot said “I never told anyone about you” to moreau about how he takes client confidentiality seriously. but. also. he’s never talked about working for moreau because that was by far the darkest and bloodiest period of his life and the man he became haunts him forever. john rogers has said in the commentaries that eliot believes that he’s already going to hell, and undoubtedly this is a big reason why. the horrors he enacted and the crimes he committed made him into a man that he didn’t recognize. a bloody and soulless guard dog of a monster. even years after he broke free and made something new, something good for himself with his new family, he still hasn’t said a word about those times. a part of him just doesn’t want to confront those memories any more than he has to- he still thinks about it every time he looks in the mirror and swears he sees blood on his hands: talking about it with anyone would mean dredging even more horrors up to the surface that he much prefers stay locked away. another part is that his family is good. broken, flawed, but undeniably good. he refuses to taint these people he’s come to love. he has made a vow to protect them- that includes protecting them from even himself
dogfights? in my presidential palace?
right now in the leverage ‘verse, damien moreau is still rotting in jail and I love that
me, about to start the big bang job knowing full well what happens and how devastating it is:
it must have taken everything in eliot’s power not to jump in after hardison when moreau kicked his chair into the pool
he was calm and collected on the outside for the sake of the con but there is no doubt in my mind that he was, even having faith in hardison’s abilities to stay alive, worried about him downing