#leverage prompt

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E/Q prompt: at some point Eliot accidentally screws up on a job that they brought Quinn in for and as a result Quinn gets captured and tortured.

After Eliot rescues him, Quinn immediately confesses to every time he had stolen/messed with Eliot's things, (eg the time he ate all of Eliot's tiramisu and Eliot was so sure it was Parker and Hardison who had stolen and eaten it) in hopes that Eliot will feel so bad for getting him captured that he'd let it slide.

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“Eliot… in which countries didn’t you serve official militaries?”

Eliot: “Uh… those where I served as a PMC or a mercenary.”

“So you served for almost every military there is even if it was as a private military contractor?”

Eliot: “Actually, for some countries I worked twice. Officially and privately. Sometimes on opposing sides.”

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Okay so I’ve been thinking back to season 5’s episode, the corkscrew job, and I realized. I need a fic of Eliot slowly suffering from oxygen deprivation and the team scrambling to find a way to give him oxygen while in a completely different area, hearing him wheeze over the comms. And the aftercare. Yummy.

[cabin-fever-bang]

Maybe some fluffy smutty Eliot Spencer? With some cooking? And maybe Eliot beats up some bad guys??

BRING IT ON, ELIOT SPENCER FANS!

@cracksinthewalls @itmighthavebeenintentional @fangirlxwritesx67 @stusbunker @there-must-be-a-lock @justcallmeasmodeus

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I’ve read some fic where Quinn (kind of) joins the team, but it’s implied that sometimes he still kills people, and now I want a fic that really explores this angle.

Like maybe there’s a job with the team and it’s a situation that’s a “kill box” as Leverage calls it, and if he doesn’t kill the bad guy, that bad guy will with near 100% certainty kill someone on the team or the client’s kids or something, and so Quinn takes the shot. And then afterwards Nate flips out about it and Quinn is just like “whatever, man, I did what I had to do, if you want to fire me, then fire me, but I don’t have to listen to this,” and storms out.

And, since Eliot is usually the only one capable of reining Quinn in when he gets like this, Nate’s like “Eliot, talk to him!”

But Eliot actually agreed with Quinn’s assessment and would probably have killed the guy, too, if he were in that position. So he goes and finds Quinn (which is an adventure and a half, because Quinn’s not in a mood to be found, not even by Eliot) only to be like, “Nice shot. Not sure I could have made it.″

And Quinn, despite having never once doubted that Eliot would have his back on the job, actually cannot believe that Eliot would have his back on this one.

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so my fic when you move, i'm moved about Eliot and Quinn grappling and Quinn trying to pass Eliot's closed guard ends with (Spoilers!) Quinn passing Eliot's guard... in an unconventional way (aka by cheating)

however i am now convinced that quinn would actually (after cheating) forgo the guard pass and just submit eliot from inside his closed guard... or, even worse, quinn lets eliot break his posture and sweep him and then submits eliot from bottom mount

new head-canon brought to you by the fact that this recently happened to a friend of mine at my mma gym (in sparring, not competition)

the worst part was the asshole (affectionate) was nice about it; all "hey, don't feel bad, i've done this to really advanced guys, too; submitting from bottom mount almost never works so nobody tries it, but the flip side of that is that nobody ever tries it so nobody sees it coming. Next time, you'll see it coming <3 <3 <3"

while my friend was trying to figure out wtf just happened

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Anyway, leverage prompt: quinn successfully submits eliot from bottom mount once while sparring (possibly after cheating/ distracting him) and subsequently whenever he does this to another hitter, he's like, "don't feel bad, it happens, i've even done this to eliot spencer once when we were sparring <3 <3 <3"

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(explanation of positions (with pictures of shirtless dudes) below cut)

bottom mount is the position that blue shorts guy is in here:

one of the weakest positions to be in in a fight.

(not to be confused with bottom guard, the position blue-shirt guy is in here:

which is a decently strong position, because blue-shirt can use his legs to control the other guy's torso)

Instructors drill into your head that if you're in bottom mount you don't think about winning, you just focus on getting out of this position and/or not getting immediately submitted

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btw submission from bottom mount (the 0% of the time that it happens) looks like this:

(guy on top is getting submitted in the first successful submission by ezekiel choke in UFC history)

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E/Q alternate meet-cute concept/prompt:

Quinn (who's from the US for the sake of this prompt but moved away before age 13) is working out of somewhere in Europe. Thanksgiving is coming up, which was his favourite childhood holiday, and he has decided that if he's going to do Thanksgiving alone in a country where it's not a thing, at least he's going to make himself some pumpkin pie.

Unfortunately, he quickly discovers that they don't sell (canned) pumpkin in the country he's living in.

One day, after he's almost given up on his pumpkin search, he's walking by the post office when he sees a man pulling a few cans of it out of a USPS box.

Good news: there are at least three cans of pumpkin in Budapest.

Bad news: it seems that the only person in Budapest who owns any canned pumpkin is unexpectedly, unreasonably hard to steal from.

(Shelley paid $50 to ship $5 worth of canned pumpkin and Eliot is not gonna let that precious pumpkin get taken.)