I like to think that the Leverage crew doesn't ALWAYS have a job on/around Christmas, in fact several years they actively try to avoid it, but the truth is they've visited Nana a bit after or on New Years more often than not cause things just keep popping up. And at a certain point, you start expecting something to go down.
One year, sometime after Nate and Sophie retire, Parker, Eliot, and Hardison are all so twitchy in November expecting a Christmas job that Parker suggests they deliberately take a job about 2 weeks before. Then they'll have already done a Christmas time job and they can have fun the actual day of! Trick the universe!
Eliot and Hardison both know that's not how the laws of chance work but their lives are weird and also what's the harm in trying? So they take what looks like a nice easy job 2 weeks in advance.
They spend the next two weeks going all over the country because that conspiracy turned out to be WAY larger than it should have been.
Eliot has to fight so many people. Some of them are actually really good. Parker makes off with emeralds at some point and no one's sure how. She also tazes so many people. Hardison had to grift and hack at the same time it was stressful. He nearly got a haircut with a cleaver at one point.
They stagger, bruised and exhausted but victorious, back into Portland Christmas afternoon. They buy a crap ton of take out, throw at least half of Eliot's frozen cookie dough stash into the oven, and spend the rest of the night watching the Home Alones so they can laugh at thieves getting their asses kicked by a kid and the Muppet Christmas Carol because I refuse to believe that Parker would not love the Muppets. They're puppets!
Parker remembers like halfway through that she did in fact grab a cool knickknack for Hardison and they have an impromptu "I saw this on the job and thought of you so I stole it" gift exchange in the middle of a movie surrounded by takeout containers, cookies, and all the pillows in the building.
Plot: After a stressful con, Y/n decides the best way to relieve some stress, is a good ol' snowball fight.
A/n: Christmas is not mentioned in this drabble, so out of 5, it is a 0 on the Christmas scale.
Pairing: Eliot Spencer x Gn!Reader + Crew Shenanigans
Warnings: A brief kiss, but that's all :)
Words: 909
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As your feet crunched through the snow underfoot, you buried your hands in your pockets to keep them warm.
The others marched in front of you, bickering with each other about nothing as the stress of the con finally sank in. Most everything went wrong and everyone was tired and ready to fly home.
"Look look-" Sophie began, stopping as she lifted her hands up "The con is done, it may have gone wrong in a lot of ways, but it's done. We won, I know we are all tired, but let's stop bickering please."
As Sophie talked, attempting to calm the team down, you looked down at the snow. Sliding your foot around in it, an idea popped into your head as you looked back up at the stressed faces of the others. It could go very wrong, or exactly right.
"Well what do you want us to do Sophie?" Parker asked, her voice on edge.
"We just need to find something to do that will relieve some of this stress we've built up from the con."
Finally speaking up, you kept your eyes locked on Sophie. "I couldn't agree more!"
As Sophie spun around, a smile on her face as she began to thank you for agreeing with her, her face quickly morphed into that of surprise when a wad of snow smashed against her chest.
You saw the other's faces twist with surprise as some of them held back startled laughs.
Sophie stared at you for a moment, stunned. Quickly, she reached down and began grabbing a handful of snow
"How dare you!" She began, though you saw the smile she was attempting to hide.
Grinning as you stepped back, dodging the poorly formed snowball she threw at you.
"Snowball fight!" Parker suddenly yelled as he began scooping up snow.
"Oh, oh, we doin' this?" Hardison asked before he quickly scooped up some snow as well.
Seeing the stress immedietely disperse from their faces, Sophie looked back at you and smiled with a soft nod of her head. You smiled in return, noticing Harry winding up his arm behind her.
"Uh oh.' You muttered out.
As a snowball hit the back of her head, she turned around with a gasp.
"Oop-" Harry mumbled out, quickly running as Sophie began to chase him.
"Dammit Hardison!" Eliot yelled as Hardison dumped an armful of snow onto Eliot's back.
You let out a yelp of alarm as a snowball hit you in the arm as Parker ran towards you. You couldn't hold back your laugh as you quickly ran away, grabbing snow in the process.
Retaliating with a snowball, Parker yelled in glee as the snowball hit her square in the stomach, followed by one hitting her back from Breanna.
Throwing a snowball at Breanna, she pointed at you, with a challenging glare as she threw her own.
Just dodging the snowball that glided past your head, you ran around to a bench, using it as a shield. Being preoccupied with Breanna's assault on you, you failed to notice Hardison joining the fray, and Eliot nowhere to be seen.
As you arched your arm back to throw a snowball, arms looped around your waist, followed by a yell. You yelped in surprise, recognizing Eliot's presence, you laughed as he pulled you into the air.
"Trying to hide huh?" He asked, amusement lacing his voice.
"Hey!" You laughed out as you threw back the snow that had been in your hand.
You heard Eliot sputter out as the snow spread across his face.
"You little-" Bringing you down to the ground with a thud, you let out an alarmed laugh as Eliot began piling snow on top of you.
"No, Eliot!" You yelled out between laughs as you attempted to retaliate by throwing the snow back at Eliot.
He chuckled as he tried pinning your arms down. Both of you flinched as a bombardment of snowballs came flying at you.
"Hey!" Eliot yelled as he looked over, seeing all of the others peppering the two of you with snowballs.
"That's not fair!" You yelled, rising from the ground as Eliot let you go.
Eliot shifted from trying to drown you in snow, to holding out his arm to smack the snow away as it flew towards you.
Quickly, the two of you started grabbing snow, quickly firing at the others, making them laugh and run away.
As they fled, continuing their attacks on one another, Eliot looked back at you, a smile stretched along his face.
"Snowball fight was a smart distraction."
You shrugged with a smile "Seemed like a good idea in the moment."
Reaching his hand up, he brushed snow from your head before he gently grabbed your scarf and pulled you closer to him.
"It was." He said softly before pressing a soft kiss to your lips.
Pulling away, he smirked and motioned his head towards the others as he spoke "Now, what do you say we teach these punks a lesson."
You grinned and nodded "Sound's good to me."
As you and Eliot loaded up your arms with snowballs, you ran towards the others. Spotting you, they all yelled in surprise, and turned their attention to you as they attempted to dodge your attacks.
None of you cared about the looks and attention you got from passerby's, as the tension and stress from the con melted away, and was replaced by joy and fun.
xx End xx
Short but sweet!
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