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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Leverage Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer Characters: Parker (Leverage), Alec Hardison, Eliot Spencer (Leverage) Additional Tags: Vibrators, Threesome - F/M/M, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Spanking, ace-spec Parker Series: Part 5 of Gratuitously Sexy Summary: Hardison puts the sex yelling to good use by programming Parker's vibrator to sync with Eliot's voice.
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The Omega Job, part 15: Good Enough To Eat
When the team come across an omega having an unexpected heat in the middle of Boston, of course they aren’t just going to leave her to fend for herself! But just as they think they’ve got her out of trouble, she starts scenting on the hitter’s jacket…and that turns out to be just the start of the job.
This is an A/B/O fic that is mostly just pure filthy smut. A sort of plot crept in when I wasn’t looking.
Rating: E (oh god srsly so much) Fandom: Leverage (Eliot Spencer x OFC) Warnings: AU A/B/O-verse, with everything that implies; nothing overtly too horrible happens in the fic itself but there is exploration around the idea of heats and consent. Read the rest via my masterlist because Tumblr is bum about in-post links.
The next few days were borderline interminable. Eliot hated to admit it, even to himself, but not having Callie around positively set his teeth on edge. He was self-aware enough to recognise the extra shortness to his temper, which wasn’t in any way aided by an entirely unexpected bout of insomnia that could only be caused by not having his omega in his bed, but couldn’t seem to get on top of it. Worse, when he tried texting Callie to check in on her, the only response he got was from Sophie, firmly instructing him to back off, we’re working on things, which nearly made him hurl his phone at the wall in frustration.
If anything the ambient bad mood helped sell the misanthropic alpha executive chef persona he was working with the mark alongside Nate, but privately he still felt more outright miserable than he could remember in quite a while, and although he did his best not to let it affect his professionalism he still knew he was noticeably crabbier than was really fair on the kitchen staff or the rest of the team.
Hardison’s quips about him being extra-cranky and in withdrawal didn’t do anything to improve his mood either.
Finally Le Saule’s opening night rolled around, and he at least was able to keep himself occupied with some unnecessarily forceful prep work while the junior cooks did their best to give him a wide berth. Then orders started coming in and he was able to take a little frustration out by bellowing at the runners, who seemed to be in a state of perpetually flustered incompetence. Where the hell had Sophie found these idiots? And more importantly where was Callie?
‘Chef, Mister Kent’s table is asking for you,’ one of the bussers called, not even waiting for a response before fleeing the kitchen for the relative safety of the main dining area.
Muttering to himself, as was only to be expected for a chef de cuisine being disturbed by something as lowly as a mere owner, Eliot shoved the velouté he’d been working on in the direction of the junior saucier and stalked for the service doors.
His progress was arrested briefly by one of the tables stopping him to ask if he was the head chef, purely so they could compliment the Kurobuta pork, which was mildly gratifying, but he finally found Kent sitting with Nate and a rather shrill, overly made-up looking woman who was presumably his wife.
‘Chef Barnett!’ Kent was up and shaking him warmly by the hand, god help him. ‘This is everything I hoped and more, thank you – oh, have you met my wife, Nancy? She’s a beta,’ he added sotto voce, ‘But keeps me on my toes!’
Feeling his other hand curl up into a fist on reflex, Eliot managed to nod and grind out a semi-civilised greeting as the woman batted her eyes at him. They’d established earlier in the job that Nancy Kent was in every way a delightful compliment to her husband – Hardison had several recordings of her commenting that omegas were good only as breeding bitches or domestic help – which made it even harder to be civil, but it played into the gruff alpha chef so at least he didn’t need to try to be charming. How Nate was doing it was honestly beyond him.
‘Delighted, chef,’ Nancy said in, with she probably thought was a coquettish little simper. ‘The salmon was divine.’
‘Appreciate it, ma’am. The caramelised lemon does wonders.’
‘You see why I got him on speed dial, right?’ Nate put in with a grin, clapping Kent on the shoulder like they’d been pals for decades as both of them laughed.
Eliot completely missed whatever was said by whoever spoke next, though, because he’d just spotted Callie and his awareness of anything else had faded instantly into the background like some stupid Hollywood flick moment. It took everything in him not to do an outright double-take; from the exquisitely form-fitting little black dress to the seamed stockings and elegantly-heeled pumps, she was a positive vision. Not that he hadn’t wondered before about seeing her in a more sophisticated and less second-hand wardrobe, but this was…something else.
The juncture of her neck and shoulder was only partially revealed by the cut of the dress, but it looked clean, which irrationally made his hackles go up. Concealer makeup, that’s all. She was playing the hostess role and playing it to the hilt; moving about with graceful but confident steps, even the way she carried herself seemed different, and she was definitely getting some attention from the male guests as a result. It took a conscious application of real willpower not to walk over there and pull her to him, scrub that damn makeup off and scent her, assert his claim right then and there to the entire place. Mine. MINE.
‘Lovely little thing, isn’t she?’ Kent said, which was enough to make him switch attention back to the odious mark. ‘I was astonished when Miz Lampon-‘ nodding to Sophie, who was sitting at another table working her charms on some bunch of bigwigs ‘-produced her, but having an omega like that on meet and greet…well. That delicious smell, fresh peaches and vanilla, and that’s before you even get near the food, eh?’
‘…yeah.’ Even hearing the scumbag talking about Callie made him angrier, but Eliot managed to keep his expression in the vague neighbourhood of neutrality.
‘They’re on suppressants but – ah-ha – you know what omegas are like.’ A wink, that made the asshole’s face look even more punchable. ‘Consider it an…extra job perk.’
‘I gotta get back to the kitchen,’ Eliot ground out, turning away. He barely even heard Nate swoop in with some pithy remark, smoothly covering with the grumpy chef angle, but even with rage boiling in his bones he couldn’t resist another discreet glance over at Callie.
Then he stopped short, because she’d just stumbled, and was leaning against one of the waitstaff podiums like she was in vague pain. A hand came up to wipe at her forehead.
Shit.
Surely not…unless being on suppressants, and crappy ones at that, had thrown her heat cycle off that much…
‘She’s fine, Eliot, it’s all part of the plan,’ Sophie murmured over the comms. ‘In fact she’s right on cue.’
On cue? But before he could properly compute that, Kent stood up and dinged his spoon against his glass, getting the entire dining hall’s attention, launching into some obviously pre-prepared speech thanking everyone for their support and for coming to opening night and so on-
-which was when Callie cried out and kneeled over, clutching at her stomach, loudly enough that the whole room’s attention shifted, albeit in a rather mortified sort of manner.
‘Oh!’ Several of the runners and a nearby waitress converged on her, followed rapidly by Sophie, and in the midst of the various alarmed noises and Callie’s whimpers one of them piped up
‘She’s in a heat!’
‘That can’t be right!’ Sophie sounded aghast, looking over at Nate and Kent. ‘She’s on the suppressants! I watched her take the dose just before we opened!’
‘They don’t work,’ one of the waitresses exclaimed – it was Parker, in a brunette wig, in fact. ‘That’s why Lindsey isn’t here and I had to cover, she went into a heat last night and she’s been taking them every day!’
Several of the others chimed in agreement and suddenly there was a lot of shouting, several badges had appeared, and a broad-shouldered man who identified himself as an FDA investigator was striding into the middle of everything demanding to see samples of the tablets and eyewitness details.
‘Crap, I lost Kent,’ Nate said suddenly. ‘He’s running for it.’
‘Won’t do him any good,’ Hardison said smugly. ‘I just emailed all those dirty-ass pharma files to FDA man’s phone and Kent’s fingerprints are all over them.’
‘I see him.’ Ignoring the hacker’s gloating, Eliot ducked past a pot of ferns and grabbed a tray from a busser’s station, skidding it down along the carpeted floor so that it hit the back of Kent’s foot and sent him flying onto his ass as surely as a well-placed banana skin in a kids’ cartoon.
‘Barnett!’ The idiot actually seemed relieved to see his supposed executive chef looming above him. ‘This is a – a frame-up! Moss and Lampon, they set it all up – wait, you’re-‘
Eliot punched him hard in the nose, for maximum pain rather than unconsciousness, then yanked him upright and into the most unpleasant arm lock he could think of, wrestling him back towards the main restaurant and away from the side exit he’d been about to flee through.
‘…interested in speaking to your husband, Mrs Kent-‘ the FDA guy was saying to a now hand-wringing Nancy ‘-ah, speak of the devil.’
‘It’s a mistake! It’s lies!’ Kent protested as Eliot deposited him firmly back into his vacated chair. ‘They set me up, they all set me up-‘
‘But you’re the one who supplied the contact information and the supply contract with Dubeck Pharma, which I notice you actually own, via some shell company arrangements that the IRS will probably be very keen to hear about, and…’ the FDA agent squinted at his phone ‘…some very interesting correspondence about active ingredient lists including less than ten percent of the required norethisterone dose needed to qualify as any kind of suppressant medication for omega heat cycles…’
‘Did you even look at them?’ Nate asked pointedly as the agent cuffed Kent.
‘Look at who?’
‘The omegas.’ Nate indicated the little clusters of servers and waitresses, all of whom were now glaring daggers at Kent to a woman. ‘All former employees of Keynesian. All fired for having heats despite taking the company-mandated suppressants prescribed and supplied by Keynesian.’
‘And all more than willing to act as witnesses, right down to blood testing to verify medication compliance – well, if you could call it medication,’ Sophie added, ‘Which personally I wouldn’t.’
‘Nor would the FDA,’ the agent said wryly. ‘Ladies, if I could have your contact details, please…?’
Satisfied that Kent wasn’t going anywhere, Eliot cast about urgently for Callie but couldn’t see her in the hubbub. As Sophie started gently herding the omegas – whose origins at least explained their collective ineptitude as food runners – towards the FDA agent, he realised she wasn’t amongst them either. A more careful scan of the dining area confirmed her as missing, but on a quick glance through the service doors he exhaled in relief.
She looked up as he came in and then broke into a little laugh when he shifted to a quick jog to get to her side and pulled her into his arms, turning to bury his nose into the side of her throat. Sweet vanilla and peaches flooded his senses and he let himself relax for a moment to just enjoy it.
When his eyes opened again they immediately fell onto her seemingly bare shoulder and he didn’t even bother to try holding back the growl that welled up. Grabbing out for a nearby towel, he rubbed it over her skin and smiled in satisfaction as the makeup came off to reveal the claim bite – or rather the silvery scar, as it had almost completely healed over since the last time he’d seen her. Mouthing at the spot, ignoring the slightly acrid taste of the remaining concealer, he finally lifted his head and kissed her deeply.
‘All done,’ Nate said over comms. ‘Let’s disappear.’
‘We gotta go,’ Eliot said to Callie, reluctantly breaking off.
‘I know.’ She tapped her ear with a wink and then fingered his lapel with a small grin. ‘The chef getup suits you very well, by the way.’
‘Yeah?’ Looping an arm around her waist, he steered them towards the back door. ‘Well you’re the one looks good enough to eat right now, darlin.’ Could barely keep my eyes off you.’
‘Sophie was very…specific.’ Another chuckle. ‘The way that woman treats money…well, she’s clearly never wanted for it, let’s put it that way. She insisted I needed to be the part, all over, and – oh!’ This was as he flipped them, pinning her to the wall outside the back alley behind the restaurant to slide one hand down the back of her thigh and then up again under the dress. ‘Eliot, not here!’
‘Wanna feel you,’ he murmured, and felt another growl slip out when his questing fingers found the garters hooked over her thighs. ‘Son of a-‘
‘Take your damn comm out dude, you NASTY!’
Hardison’s exclamation in his ear did the job of a bucket of ice water and Eliot swore, letting go of Callie to pluck out his earbud. His truck wasn’t parked far away but the fifteen minute drive home seemed to take hours, and he could have sworn the damn hacker had done something to the traffic lights just to mess with him, too.
‘Sophie says everything went off perfectly,’ Callie said, examining a very new – and presumably Hardison-treated – cellphone that she’d plucked from a clutch he hadn’t even noticed she was carrying. ‘The FDA agent got everything, and with that and the misappropriated grant…well…’
‘He’s not gonna be bothering any omegas again,’ Eliot confirmed with a grin, parking the truck up with rather more dispatch than care and coming around to open the passenger side door before Callie could do it herself, pulling her out into his arms and pushing her up against the side of the hood to kiss her again while his hands went under the skirt of her dress. The contrast between the softness of her skin and the silk of the stockings had his pulse speeding up, not to mention his cock’s rising attention.
‘Eliot-‘ suddenly she turned her head and buried her face into the side of his neck, inhaling deeply and giving a full-body shudder ‘-oh, I missed you. My alpha.’
Just like that his hindbrain snapped into full control, and with a low growl – or possibly it came out more as a snarl – Eliot spun her around and pressed up against her, pushing the dress up over her hips with one hand while using the other to get the button of his pants undone. She made a little keening noise, bending forward to brace both hands against the truck so her ass jutted out in the most delectable way.
Rumbling approval deep in his chest, he reached to part her thighs and yank her underwear aside, probing with his first two fingers and feeling a surge of heat in his belly at how wet she was already. The slick of it put paid to any semblance of patience and he thrust forward into her with a grunt, throwing his head back with a low groan as the feel of her velvet walls gripping his cock almost had him coming undone right there and then. It had been – what – a week, slightly less, and he was about ready to pop already just from being back inside her.
‘Please,’ she whimpered, rolling her ass back against him. ‘Missed you. Need you.’
That did it; he drove into her again and fell instantly into an almost vicious pace that had her gasping, clenching and squeezing around him, pushing back every time he thrust forward so the sounds of skin clapping together filled the small room. It seemed to take only moments before the exquisite knot of pleasure wound up tight enough to snap but he somehow found the presence of mind to snake a hand down and roll his thumb over her clit. Two, three quick strokes and she came with a cry, gripping him like a vise as he slammed into her to chase his own release.
After a few seconds her knees wobbled, but thankfully his reflexes kicked in even in the post-orgasmic haze and he caught her deftly, pulling her back up against his chest while trying not to stagger too much himself. They stood for a moment, his arms wrapped around her and both her hands resting on his wrists, both now sweaty and gasping, until she seemed confident enough to stand unaided and turned around, cupping his face in one hand for a long kiss while the fingers of the other carded up through his hair.
Smiling against her lips, he touched the tip of his nose to hers and then leaned back to catch her eye with a wink.
‘Shower?’
‘Oh, god, yes please.’
She paused to take off the pumps before tackling the stairs, making him chuckle and earning him a light swat to the arm with the clutch, but in short order they were back in the loft and he could finally peel off the damn chef’s tunic with its plethora of restaurant kitchen aromas.
‘Here,’ he offered, gesturing when she reached for the zipper on the dress, and with a smile she turned to let him draw it down her back. Sliding the garment off so it pooled at her feet revealed clearly new underwear; more functional than fancy, admittedly, but he wasn’t that fussy and the garters and hose still made for a very enjoyable visual. He took his time with unclipping them and sliding each stocking down her leg with painstaking slowness, batting her hands away with a low tutting noise when she tried to wriggle free to speed things up.
‘Hold still, or I’ll go slower.’
That got an unhappy little sound that made him chuckle, but he kept the same pace as he peeled the underwear off her and unclipped the bra, tossing it behind him before ducking his head to kiss her nipples, teasing them to hardness with the tip of his tongue before closing his mouth over each in turn with a gentle suck. She was positively writhing now, the fingers of one hand laced through his hair while the other was pawing at the bottom edge of his vest in between fiddling with the button on his slacks.
Still chortling, he sat back up and took a moment to admire her nakedness beneath him, then turned away and stripped his beater before getting out of pants and boots with the same deliberate unhurriedness. He felt rather than saw her get up and move, catching only a brief glimpse of the little smirk on her face before she vanished through the door to the bathroom.
The shower came on and he broke into a grin. Oh, she wanted to play? He could definitely accommodate that.
She gave a little start when he slipped into the walk-in behind her but immediately relaxed back against him when he pulled her hair aside to nuzzle the back of her neck. Turning to face him when he put his arms around her, she cupped his face in her hands and leaned up to kiss him deeply, letting him crowd her back against one wall while the water poured down over the both of them.
Although there was an undeniably sensuous edge to the touches and caresses of soaping each other down, things stayed languishing and leisurely until they were done, dried and back in the bedroom, where she waited until he was looking at her properly and then, rather purposefully, dropped her towel.
With another growl he lunged for her, and that definitely upped the pace until they both collapsed, exhausted and finally sated, into a sweaty mess under the duvet. Wrapping his arms around her tightly, Eliot relaxed into the scent of me-her-mate-mine permeating the room and, for the first time in days, finally sank into proper sleep.
The Omega Job, part 14: A Better Idea
When the team come across an omega having an unexpected heat in the middle of Boston, of course they aren’t just going to leave her to fend for herself! But just as they think they’ve got her out of trouble, she starts scenting on the hitter’s jacket…and that turns out to be just the start of the job.
This is an A/B/O fic that is mostly just pure filthy smut. A sort of plot crept in when I wasn’t looking.
Rating: E (oh god srsly so much) Fandom: Leverage (Eliot Spencer x OFC) Warnings: AU A/B/O-verse, with everything that implies; nothing overtly too horrible happens in the fic itself but there is exploration around the idea of heats and consent. Read the rest via my masterlist because Tumblr is bum about in-post links.
The next handful of days passed relatively peacefully, with only a few updates from the rest of the team as Nate and Sophie went to work on Kent. Eliot found excuses to lurk nearby the Keynesian building whenever either – or both – of them were inside with the mark, just in case, but Sophie already had the asshole wrapped around her little finger and he was positively lapping up Nate’s fine dining investment group persona, too.
‘You know I got more’n enough now to clean him out,’ Hardison remarked over comms near the end of the week. ‘If y’all wanted. Just saying.’
‘Except we don’t just want to clean him out,’ Nate reminded the hacker pointedly. ‘We still need the information on the dodgy suppressant supplier so we can take them down, too, or this’ll just happen again somewhere else.’
‘He’s on the hook for sure,’ Sophie said, almost a little too gleefully, ‘At least for the restaurant. Just need to work around to the staffing...’
‘I still vote we stab him with something,’ Parker put in.
‘No stabbing, Parker,’ Nate replied, but it was easy to hear the grin in his voice. ‘Trust me, this’ll hurt far more.’
They decided to rendezvous at the condo the following day for a little joint strategizing, and almost on reflex Eliot found himself glancing over to Callie as he laced his boots up by the door. She seemed to have become steadily more at home in the last few days, to the point that she was now perched haphazardly on one of the bar stools with a mug of coffee in one hand and a newspaper, of all things, in another. She was barefoot and wearing nothing but one of his t-shirts at present, which pleased him immensely, but not as much as the evident lack of tension in the set of her shoulders or the general air of comfortable ease that now hung about her.
Already he realised he couldn’t imagine the loft without her in it; waking to her curled up against his side or back, the gentle clatter of her making use of the kitchen, or the way she hummed quietly to herself while pottering about in the garden. He’d taken her to the nice coffee place down on the river, and the farmer’s market – although he still couldn’t convince her to go clothes shopping – and was trying not to get weirded out by how right it felt to just have her around. Her soft skin always in easy reach, whether to just slide his hand down her arm or pull her to him properly to kiss and scent her, the delicious sweetness of peaches and vanilla…
‘Meeting the team for an update,’ he said, if nothing else to distract himself from the urge to just stride over there, haul the shirt off her and bend her over the table. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time. In fact the first time she’d started it, climbing him like a god damned tree just as he’d been about to make them some lunch one day. ‘You wanna come with?’
‘Oh! I won’t be in the way?’
‘Course not. Although you might need some more clothes,’ he added with a wink. ‘So I don’t gotta kill anyone on the way there for eyeing you up.’
Laughing, she downed the last of the coffee, rinsed the mug, folded the newspaper and then vanished into the bedroom. It took a conscious effort of will for him not to pursue her but thankfully she took less than a minute so his resolve held. Downstairs, he turned from opening the garage door to see her once again admiring the Challenger, and felt a grin slip out before he could censor it.
‘We’ll take her for a run another day, yeah?’
That got a beaming smile in return as she hopped up into the passenger seat of the truck. It was certainly a lot simpler getting over to McRory’s without having to worry about asshole nosy alphas on the T, and as they headed up the condo stairs Eliot found himself looping an arm around Callie’s waist without really thinking about it. Even better, she leaned into his touch and sat down nestled against his side on the couch without needing any encouragement this time. Nate’s eyebrows raised a fraction but this time he declined to comment on the omega’s presence, shifting talk quickly to the matter at hand.
‘…all lined up with the paper trail and the supply chain info from Dubeck Pharma.’ Hardison had been busy, burrowing into the information Nate and Sophie had uncovered from the mark to crack open the series of shell companies and dubious other legal entities behind the criminally ineffective heat suppressants. ‘We just gotta hit him with the grand finale and that’s all she wrote.’
‘But we can’t exactly hire a bunch of omegas for the restaurant wait staff and give them the bad suppressants,’ Sophie said. ‘That’d be cruel. And we don’t want to risk not giving them anything, but if we don’t have at least one visible staff member who’s obviously…well…obviously an omega, at least to Kent-‘
Nate suddenly shifted to a calculating expression, and it was aimed in Callie’s direction. Eliot put an arm around her shoulders in alarm, realising what the older man was thinking.
‘No! Absolutely not! You’re not putting her anywhere near that – besides, he’d recognise her!’
‘Not a chance.’ Sophie cocked her head. ‘Kent doesn’t do faces, especially on women, and especially omegas.’
‘No!’
‘What do you mean?’ Callie asked, looking from Eliot to Sophie and back. ‘You want me to pretend to be a waiter in the restaurant so Kent thinks the staff are-‘
‘You ain’t going back into the same building as that piece of crap-‘
‘We’ve got to get at least one omega from somewhere,’ Nate pointed out. ‘And at least we know she’s not due another heat for a while.’
‘But if it’s for Kent it wouldn’t work, surely?’ Callie glanced at him and then back at Eliot. ‘Wouldn’t it? I mean he’d see the…’ she trailed off, one hand self-consciously gesturing towards her shoulder where the claim bite was hidden beneath the collar of her blouse.
There was a slightly stunned silence.
‘Oh my god,’ Sophie murmured. ‘Do – do you mean-‘
‘Oh.’ Callie’s face visibly fell, and she hurriedly folded both hands back in her lap with a contrite look at Eliot. ‘I’m sorry, I – I thought you’d have told them.’
‘Uh. No, it never really came up.‘ Eliot abruptly recognised the hunch to her shoulders and felt a surge of guilt well up. She thought he was ashamed of her. ‘Not exactly a casual conversation thing, and it doesn’t – hey-‘ he nudged her chin and made her look at him ‘-it doesn’t change anything.’
‘I told you that if you didn’t want-‘
‘It’s not that! I just – I just never brought it up, that’s all.’ He pecked her forehead and nosed at her cheek, cursing his own thoughtlessness. ‘Besides, not like it’s any of their business anyway.’ Softening his voice, he leaned in to give her a gentle kiss. ‘I told you. You’re my omega. I’m your alpha. And I ain’t never letting you go now I got you.’
She dropped her eyes again but did lean back into him, although he didn’t have much time to be relieved when Nate exclaimed, rather loudly
‘Are you out of your damned mind?’
‘What?’ Eliot glared at him, not much caring for that tone of address regardless of the context.
‘You’re leaving the team?’
‘What? No!’
‘Oh, so you’re going to, what, have a mate stashed in a safehouse nest somewhere, all pupped up, while you disappear at random intervals to work jobs?’
Eliot stood and took a heavy step towards the older man, hackles up and hands curling into fists.
‘What the hell do you-‘
‘Or you planning to drag her around with you, huh? Sure that’ll work out fine, not like it’d be a huge liability-‘
‘Hey!’ Suddenly Callie stood, stepping literally around Eliot to put herself between the two. ‘I’m not pupped up, I’m not a liability, and there happen to be plenty of omegas who have aspirations that go a lot further than just getting knotted and nested like a brood mare!’ She actually wagged a furious finger under Nate’s nose, which under other circumstances would have been almost comical given the enormous height difference. ‘If that’s how you think omegas are, mated or not, then how are you any better than that jerkoff Kent?’
Though still barely controlling the urge to ram Nate’s head repeatedly into his knee, Eliot couldn’t help the swell of impossible warmth that rose in his chest at seeing her fearless dressing-down of the older alpha.
…well, maybe not quite fearless – she was visibly trembling, and not just in anger – but certainly brave, and far bolder than he’d ever have expected from her when they’d first met. He stepped up behind her so she could feel him at her back, but before he could think of something to say Nate broke into a smug grin.
‘Perfect. You’ll do fine.’
‘-what?’ Callie exclaimed, dropping her hand in bewilderment.
‘Do what?’ Eliot echoed, then saw Nate’s glance at Sophie and barely resisted the urge to clock him. ‘Hey!’
‘Scent could be a problem,’ Sophie said to Nate, as though they were the only two in the room. ‘Need a good scrub down, concealer for the mark, maybe some blockers, but that’s all doable.’
‘Nate,’ Eliot barked. ‘I said no! If you think-‘
‘I want to help.’ Callie put a hand on his arm. ‘I’ll be fine. It isn’t like I’ll be alone with him, and you’ll be close.’
‘She’ll be fine.’ Nate waved off that consideration. ‘Sophie’ll prep her.’
‘Ever done any waitressing?’ Sophie asked Callie directly.
‘Um. A little. Diner stuff, in my home town…’
‘Might be a little tricky to go Michelin star but-‘ suddenly stepping back and looking the omega up and down, Sophie nodded as if to herself ‘-you know what, I have a better idea-‘
‘You don’t gotta do this,’ Eliot said urgently, tugging Callie back to face him. ‘We can figure something out and you ain’t – hey-‘ as she dropped her eyes ‘-you ain’t got nothing to prove, okay?’
‘I want to,’ she said, quiet but firm, then unexpectedly reached to cup his cheeks in her hands and kissed him. ‘I got so, so lucky, but those other omegas…’
Abruptly he realised that her sudden urge to participate actively in the job came from somewhere far deeper than just wanting to somehow demonstrate her worth, and mentally smacked himself for not getting it sooner. Huffing a little, he leaned down to touch his forehead to hers.
‘Be careful, yeah? Do what Sophie says.’
‘I will.’ She kissed him again, more softly. ‘You be careful, too.’
‘Well, we should get going,’ Sophie put in, not doing a very good job of hiding the smirk on her face. ‘Long overdue us getting properly acquainted anyway, Callie.’
‘I’ll just need to grab some things from-‘
‘Oh, no, don’t bother, we’ll get you kitted out properly-‘ had Eliot just imagined the glance and wink Sophie shot him? He was never sure, with her ‘-you know, for the part, to help you get into character…’
‘But I-‘
‘Nonsense, it’s for the job, don’t worry about it. We’ll see you on opening night!’ Sophie added cheerily as she all but hustled a still-protesting Callie out of the condo, leaving behind a slightly awkward silence as the door closed.
Eliot ground his jaw for a moment and shot Nate a glare.
‘You ever talk to her like that again-‘
‘Just wanted to check her reaction.’ The older man held his hands up with a small and not even remotely apologetic grin. ‘Sophie thought she had potential. I think she’s right. Although did you have to-‘
‘That ain’t your business, Nate,’ Eliot growled warningly.
‘If it compromises the efficiency of the team-‘
‘It won’t.’
‘Did you seriously bite her?’ Parker asked, eyes wide and guileless as ever. ‘Like chomp?’
Resisting the urge to facepalm, Eliot shot her an only marginally milder scowl.
‘It’s a mating claim mark, Parker, not a burger.’
‘I think it’s beautiful,’ Hardison suddenly declared, beaming like all his Christmasses had come at once. ‘A chance meeting in an unexpected heat, rescuing the damsel – with help, I guess, but still – and then claiming her and oh, damn, man-‘ he bit at his knuckle as though holding back melodramatic tears ‘-talk about a Hallmark moment. They could make a movie outta this!’
‘Shut up, Hardison,’ Eliot snapped, which of course did nothing to even slightly dampen that irrepressible grin, and grabbed his coat to stalk out. The brief was done anyway and nothing else for him to think on until opening night at Le Saule in two days.
‘Still,’ he heard Parker say just before he slammed the door behind himself, ‘I mean…chomp. Ouch.’
The Omega Job, part 13: Old Scars
When the team come across an omega having an unexpected heat in the middle of Boston, of course they aren’t just going to leave her to fend for herself! But just as they think they’ve got her out of trouble, she starts scenting on the hitter’s jacket…and that turns out to be just the start of the job.
This is an A/B/O fic that is mostly just pure filthy smut. A sort of plot crept in when I wasn’t looking.
Rating: E (oh god srsly so much) Fandom: Leverage (Eliot Spencer x OFC) Warnings: AU A/B/O-verse, with everything that implies; nothing overtly too horrible happens in the fic itself but there is exploration around the idea of heats and consent. Read the rest via my masterlist because Tumblr is bum about in-post links.
It was annoyingly crowded on the T. Several of the other occupants of the carriage kept sneaking long looks at Callie, including one especially obnoxious guy in white jeans who seemed barely able to take his eyes off her, and kept discreetly shifting about to keep her in his line of sight at every stop. It wasn’t exactly helping Eliot to get that upwelling of possessiveness under control, and he felt both his fists clench even as he stepped up closer to Callie and put an arm around her. Thank god she was wearing his coat or the asshole would probably have tried something on by now.
‘I see him too,’ she said very quietly, nestling into his chest and tucking her head under his chin. ‘And I can smell him from here…ugh.’ Turning her nose into his shirt, she inhaled deeply.
‘I gotcha,’ he murmured. ‘It’s okay. He won’t get near you.’ An unpleasant thought occurred and he frowned. ‘Is it always this bad?’
‘On the T it is. I normally take buses or walk. Not as…close above ground. Plus I’m not on suppressants any more now, so…’
‘Right.’ He wanted to smack himself for not thinking. ‘Well, we’ll drive in future, okay?’
‘Truck or the Dodge?’ she asked with a little grin.
‘Lady’s choice,’ he shot back, chuckling now, and trying to fight down the mental image of her sprawled in the Challenger’s passenger seat, or perhaps over the front hood, very possibly with little to nothing on…that pleasant rumination came to an abrupt halt when he realised that mister-white-jeans had followed them off the train at Copley and was only a handful of steps behind. Six two at least, built, but in a way that suggested muscle for vanity purposes rather than utility, and the obvious swagger to the stride just reinforced that verdict.
‘He’s still behind us, isn’t he?’ Callie said in a worried whisper.
‘Uh-huh. Just a sec.’ Eliot turned, keeping himself bodily between her and the other alpha, and folded his arms. ‘Hey, buddy. You got a problem?’
‘Wondering what a short-ass hippie like you’s doing with a fine piece of omega ass.’ The alpha snorted and craned his neck as if trying to catch Callie’s eye. ‘You want a real alpha, sweet stuff?’
‘Hey!’ Eliot moved to keep blocking line of sight. ‘Back off, man.’
‘Or what, pipsqueak?’ A snort, and the bastard actually shoved past him, reaching towards Callie’s arm.
Eliot floored him with one hard punch to the solar plexus, feeling the furious snarl burst out of him before he could censor it.
‘Mine.’
‘Son of a-‘ the other alpha staggered back upright and lunged, but Eliot was faster and had him down into a choke-hold before the attempted swing even connected.
‘Mine,’ he growled again, right into the asshole’s ear, feeling the fight in the other man fading rapidly. Gritting his teeth, he found himself consciously battling against the urge to push down just that extra inch, to feel the crack…
‘Eliot!’
Callie’s voice broke the spell and he looked up, a trifle surprised when she locked gazes with him more emphatically than he ever would have expected.
‘Let’s go. Leave him.’ A cock of her head. ‘Take me home, alpha.’
The jerkoff in his grip was barely conscious now, emitting only the occasional gurgling noise, but the gentle request – or was it an instruction? – from his omega somehow cleared the fog from Eliot’s head. Shoving the spluttering form of the other alpha onto the sidewalk, he scrambled up and looped an arm around Callie to pull her tightly against his side, setting off back towards the loft at a trot.
A few wary glances confirmed no signs of any other pursuers, and at a brisk pace it took only a couple more minutes to get home. As soon as the door was closed he whirled and pulled her close, dropping his head and turning his face into her throat to inhale deeply. Moving one hand up to her blouse, he unfastened the topmost few buttons so he could pull the neck down and expose the claim bite to nose at it.
She didn’t resist, tangling one hand up through his hair while the other settled on his shoulder with a squeeze, her head lolling to one side to give him easier access. After a moment the adrenalin finally ebbed and he recognised the flaring of his own idiot territoriality, not to mention the ridiculous excess of force he’d just used out in the middle of the damned street, and made himself let go to back away from her.
‘…I’m sorry.’
‘You haven’t got anything to be sorry for,’ she said firmly, closing the distance in one quick step and nosing at his cheek. ‘Thank you. For protecting me. For…being my alpha.’
‘I didn’t mean-‘ he couldn’t meet her eyes ‘-I didn’t want to – I mean he just went for you and-‘
‘It’s okay.’ Stroking gently down the front of his shirt, she toyed with one button for a moment and then laid one palm flat over his heart. ‘It’s still new. The hurt to his pride’ll last longer than what you did to him.’
‘But I wanted to-’ he ground out, ashamed to even admit it out loud ‘-I wanted to-‘ then he clamped his mouth tightly shut, ducking his head and clenching his fists as the all-too-familiar sense of self-disgust started to rise with how easily that darker instinct came flooding back.
‘But you didn’t,’ she said, soft but still firm. ‘You controlled it. It didn’t control you. Eliot.’ Crooking a finger under his chin, she made him look at her, and he felt something twist deep in his chest at the completely open warmth in her gaze. No trace of fear or wariness or anything other than complete trust, even after that…
‘You don’t know what I am,’ he managed to say. ‘The things I’ve done. What I was, before-‘
‘I know what you are now.’ She cupped his face in her palms and gave him a long, heartbreakingly sweet kiss. ‘You’re my alpha. Mine. Do you have any idea how lucky that makes me? How glad I feel every time I look at you, and remember who claimed me?’
‘But-‘
‘You said it. You said I was yours, and that you wanted to be mine. If I wanted to…and I do.’ Leaning up, she planted a string of featherlight kisses down his cheeks and along his jawline. ‘Mine.’ Then, with the merest hint of an impish little smile, she nosed at the side of his throat. ‘Say it.’
He chewed at his bottom lip for a moment, then gave a small start when she nipped sharply at his collarbone as if prompting him – or perhaps warning him – not to fall into his own doubts again.
‘Say it.’ This time it came out on a little whispered growl of her own and before he could register conscious decision he felt himself break out into a grin, bending his neck to murmur back to her.
‘Yours.’
‘Louder,’ she purred.
‘Yours.’ Then he pulled her back into his arms and kissed her properly, thoroughly, mouthing at the claim bite again and giving a couple of small nips of his own into her skin…an instinctual reminder of which of them had the bigger teeth. The little noise she made very definitely confirmed her approval of that, as did the grind of her hips into his, which made him chuckle.
‘Dinner first, ‘mega.’
‘Hmm.’ She made a small show of huffing disappointment, then smiled up at him. ‘I know a pretty good chowder recipe. Could I…I mean, I’d like to cook for you.’
‘Chowder, huh?’ Catching her hand, he lifted it up and kissed the back. ‘Sounds good.’
That thankfully seemed to put those darker concerns to bed, even if just for now, but what Eliot absolutely hadn’t expected was the ripple low in his gut at the sight of Callie using his kitchen. She knew her way around the place by now, of course, but for some reason seeing her so at home, getting utensils from drawers or plucking things from the shelves so nonchalantly…
Before making any conscious decision he found himself crossing the room and slipping his arms around her waist, pressing up against her back so he could lean down to nuzzle at her neck. She hummed, an undeniably happy sound, and tipped her head on one side to give him easier access as he mouthed softly over the bite. The scab was healing up fast and the outer edges already showed traces of the inevitable scar it would leave, irrevocably marking her as his. The thought had that possessive edge rising again but since they were alone this time he let it, holding her close and nosing at her cheeks, her hair, behind her ears, inhaling and letting the already familiar sweetness of her scent wash over him.
Somehow dinner still got made – and consumed, with plenty of lingering glances across the tabletop – but he pulled her pointedly away from the sink when she was clearly about to start washing the dishes.
‘I’ll do ‘em tomorrow.’ When she was back in his arms and once more pliant against him, he dipped his head and gave her a long, deep kiss. ‘Bed?’
‘Sure.’ The playful edge to her smile did nothing to lessen its warmth, and he felt a mirror of it sneak onto his own face as he tugged her into the bedroom. ‘Was dinner okay?’
‘Delicious, darlin’, but I got a taste for something else right now.’ Kissing her again, he undid her blouse button by button and pushed it back off her shoulders, then popped the clasp on her pants and loosened them enough that they dropped down her legs to puddle at her feet. The bra and underwear she had on were mismatched and worn, obviously hand-repaired, but he made himself push aside the irrational anger that provoked, the knowledge that his omega hadn’t been well cared-for, and focused on getting everything off so he could touch her bare skin unhampered.
She was already starting to fill out a little more, he was pleased to notice, running his hands around the slightly more obvious curve of her hips and making no attempt to hide the grin that snuck out when she wriggled.
‘Ticklish?’ he teased, running his fingertips along her sides.
‘A little.’ Smiling, she tugged pointedly at the lapel of his shirt. ‘May I?’
‘Sure.’ Sitting back on his haunches, he expected her to reach up but instead she took his forearms and tugged, putting one palm onto his chest with a soft push. Realising what she wanted, he chuckled and lay down on his back, struggling to resist the urge to squirm a bit himself when she shifted to straddle his waist. ‘Feel like toppin’, huh?’
‘Don’t like it?’
‘Didn’t say that.’ He made no attempt to hide the smirk he knew was on his face as she leaned forward and down a little, framing her naked cleavage in a very noticeable manner. ‘Didn’t say that at all.’
‘Good.’ She kissed the end of his nose and gave a giggle. ‘You’re still overdressed.’
‘Yeah?’
‘Yeah.’ Reaching for his collar, she unbuttoned his shirt from top to bottom with obviously deliberate slowness, spreading the two halves open to expose the grey beater beneath. He moved his arms to let her peel the flannel back off them but she seemed to want to take her time, running her palms leisurely up from his forearms to his biceps, lingering for a moment before sliding around his deltoids to rest on the front of his shoulders, then stroking smoothly back down his sides to catch the bottom of the vest.
Smiling, he lifted his arms to let her pull it off him and grinned when she hurled it away over her shoulder, but then she leaned down and abruptly ducked her head, burrowing her face into the side of his neck. The sudden proximity, the unexpectedly heady flush of peaches and vanilla, made his head swim, and it was all he could do to make himself lie still. She was definitely in no hurry, scenting lazily down both sides of his throat and up to behind each ear, with a little nip of her teeth that made him draw his breath in on a surprised hiss. That got another giggle out of her as she drew back, giving another tiny nibble on one side of his collarbone before starting to trail her mouth gradually down his bare chest.
He hid a grimace when she reached the first scar - an old knife wound from a job gone bad in Kharkiv – but she barely paused, pressing a soft kiss to the mark before resuming her path southwards. An unexpectedly hard swallow forced its way down his throat when she took a brief detour to do the same on the smatter of burns under the left of his ribcage, from Moscow, and then the puckered blemish just above his right kidney from a stray gunshot he’d taken back in the day in Benghazi. The trio barely even scraped the surface of his catalogue of knocks over the years but still Callie didn’t say anything, shuffling back so she was straddling his upper legs and then, to his lasting surprise, dipping her tongue into his belly button.
An almost embarrassingly boyish chuckle escaped before he could censor it – god, he couldn’t even remember the last time he’d laughed quite like that – and he cracked another smile when she flicked her gaze up briefly to his face with an impish sort of expression. Then she popped the top button on his jeans, drawing down the zipper and hooking her fingers under the hem of his boxers to pull both downward. He groaned as his cock sprang free, fully at attention and already weeping from the tip.
Pausing just long enough to tug off his socks, she had him naked in short order but then resumed a more languid pace, kissing slowly back up his legs to his thighs before detouring around his groin to his left hip. Groaning again, he wound his fingers into the bedsheets in an effort to stop himself from grabbing out, wanting to let her keep exploring at her own pace, even if it was the most deliciously exquisite torture he’d ever suffered through. He tried closing his eyes but then thought better of it as his whole body jerked; she’d turned her head and mouthed up the underside of his cock before giving a couple of kitten licks to the head – getting a gasp out of him – and then resuming her path slowly back up his torso. She bit down softly on one nipple before laving it with her tongue and then blowing softly, repeating the treatment on the other side of his chest before straightening to kiss him properly, one hand tangling through his hair and the other-
-oh god she had his cock in her other fist and was stroking up and down with agonisingly feather-light touches. Pushing into her grip, he let go of the sheets and cupped her face in both palms to intensify the kiss, catching her lower lip between his teeth and tugging on it not-quite-painfully with a low growl of warning.
She giggled again and then sat up to kneel over him, keeping their eyes locked as she slid herself down onto his cock until her ass was firmly against his upper thighs. He groaned, long and low, reaching out to caress her as she began to move against him. Just like everything else it started slow, almost too slow, but when he settled his hands on her waist she let him guide the pace, breaking off every third or fourth stroke to grind herself in a slow circle that made him throw his head back with a pleasured snarl.
Spreading one hand over the small of her back while bracing his other arm behind him for leverage, he sat upright and pitched up into her hard, feeling a grin split his face when she cried out and grabbed at his shoulders. Deepening the snap of his hips, he began to piston up into her with hard, deliberate strokes that soon had them both breathless.
‘C’mon.’ Moving the hand from her back to between their bodies, he found her clit and began to rub his thumb over it in time with each thrust. ‘Come for me, ‘mega. Let me feel it.’
The only response she gave was to bury her face in his shoulder with a whimper, but the vicious clench of her pussy and the strangled noise she made was more than sufficient answer. He pushed up into her once more and moaned as the peak flooded his senses, drowning out the world in the sweet scent of sun-ripened peach and vanilla. As it ebbed he let himself fall back onto the bed, pulling her with him and wrapping his arms tightly around her.
‘You’ve got…scars,’ Callie said, very quietly, once their breathing had evened out.
‘Yeah.’ Eliot wasn’t sure how to respond to that. He swallowed, feeling a sense of self-consciousness well up that was as unusual as it was unwelcome. ‘Sorry there’s so many.’
‘I don’t like that you got hurt.’ She turned her head so her cheek rested over his heart. ‘But they’re part of you, so I can’t hate them. Is…that okay?’
‘More’n okay.’ That came out a little more gruff than he meant it to, and he kissed the top of her head. ‘It’s just part of the job. Sometimes.’
‘Only sometimes?’
‘Well the general plan is not to get new ones,’ he pointed out with a snort.
She smiled, leaning up to kiss him, and then burrowed back down against his side.
‘Sleep?’ he prompted, reaching out to find the bedside light and flick it off.
‘Please.’ Another kiss landed on his cheek in the dark. ‘And thank you. For letting me…explore.’
The laugh escaped before he could censor it, and he hugged her.
‘Darlin, you can take the full tour whenever you damn well want. I sure as hell ain’t complaining.’
She laughed properly at that and he smiled, irrationally pleased at being able to elicit the sound from her, but unable to really dwell on the feeling as his eyes slid inexorably closed.
The Omega Job, part 12: An Unnecessary Level Of Attention
When the team come across an omega having an unexpected heat in the middle of Boston, of course they aren’t just going to leave her to fend for herself! But just as they think they’ve got her out of trouble, she starts scenting on the hitter’s jacket…and that turns out to be just the start of the job.
This is an A/B/O fic that is mostly just pure filthy smut. A sort of plot crept in when I wasn’t looking.
Rating: E (oh god srsly so much) Fandom: Leverage (Eliot Spencer x OFC) Warnings: AU A/B/O-verse, with everything that implies; nothing overtly too horrible happens in the fic itself but there is exploration around the idea of heats and consent. Read the rest via my masterlist because Tumblr is bum about in-post links.
Callie was silent all the way back to the loft, sticking close to him on the T but seeming pensive. He didn’t pry, sensing somehow that she needed space to think and to process what she’d learned about Kent. She stayed quiet all evening, and after dinner he finally pulled her into his arms and touched his forehead to hers.
‘Hey. What’s up?’
‘Mmm.’ She leaned against him. ‘Sorry. Just…thinking about the other girls at the office. It just feels like I should do something. Warn them. I mean I had no idea, he never seemed like he was that bad, but-‘
‘It’ll be all right. Once we’re done with Kent he’ll pay for it. All of it.’
‘I know. I’m sure he will.’ Shaking her head, she gave a rueful little chuckle. ‘It’s so strange. Even while I’m worried about the other girls, and knowing what a monster that man is…I’m almost grateful to him.’
‘Grateful?’ He frowned. ‘For what?’
‘Well, if not for him being so despicable and loading me up on crappy suppressants…’ she turned a little shy ‘…I wouldn’t have met you.’ A sigh. ‘That seems wrong somehow, doesn’t it?’
‘Good things can come from bad things.’ He constructed a shrug. ‘Doesn’t make the good things bad…or the bad things good. Just how it is, sometimes.’
She looked up and smiled fondly at him.
‘You’re very wise.’
‘Nah. Just been round the block a few times.’ Smiling back, he put a hand on her shoulder. ‘Sure you’re okay?’
‘I will be.’ She nuzzled at his cheek. ‘Take me to bed?’
That soft but firm request went straight to his cock but he ignored it, scooping her up bridal-style to carry her to the bedroom. Once he’d laid her gently on the bed he slowly peeled her clothes off piece by piece before stripping himself and laying down beside her, tugging the duvet up over them both. She nestled into him, planting soft kisses down his jawline onto his throat while he battled down the urge to just flip over, pin her down and take her again, his lovely omega who wrapped him in her scent of peaches and vanilla sunshine…
Eliot was so distracted trying to keep himself under control that it took a moment to notice she’d gone still, and he felt a smile creep out unexpectedly as a glance down confirmed that Callie had fallen asleep in his arms. His cock twitched protest but he firmly told it to shut up and tucked her head under his chin, closing his eyes to lose himself in the scent and feel of her. Somehow the realisation that she trusted him unconditionally enough to just curl up and sleep while he held her made a sweet, warm glow surface deep in his chest. A glow he thought he’d long since abandoned all hope of feeling again.
He woke up the following morning without remembering falling asleep, which hadn’t happened in years, to find that he’d rolled over and pulled Callie against himself so her back was pressed to his chest. Of course his cock was already up too, traitorous bastard, but he ignored it for now and slid a hand up around to cradle her breast in his palm, gently pinching the nipple and grinning against her neck when it instantly peaked under his touch. She stirred slightly and made a sleepy noise, eyelids fluttering.
‘You awake, sweetheart?’ he murmured, sliding his palm down from her breast to her stomach, around her belly button and between her legs, chuckling when her thighs parted and she hooked one leg backwards over his to open herself up for him. ‘Atta girl. Fuck, you’re so wet and I’ve barely touched you…that all for me, huh?’
‘Mmm.’ Her arm came up and reached back, hand tangling sleepily through his hair. ‘All yours, alpha.’
‘Good little ‘mega.’ Shifting so that his cock came to rest in the slot between her ass cheeks, he nipped at her earlobe and then turned his head to mouth at the bite on her neck, scabbed over and soon to become a permanent scar that would advertise his claim to the world. He found her clit with his thumb and began to stroke it in slow, rhythmic circles while teasingly stroking around the nearby soft flesh. Almost immediately she started to roll her hips against him, making little whimpering noises, and the friction made him groan. Slipping two fingers inside her, he moved his other arm to wrap around her waist, pinning her more tightly against him.
‘Eliot – please-‘ she gasped, undulating, already breathless with want.
‘Needy l’il thing, huh?’
Her only response was an outright whine, which made him grin.
‘Easy, darlin, you’ll get what you want.’ Lifting the leg she’d already moved further up, he removed his hand and pushed in, taking a moment to marvel at how readily her body welcomed his even though she’d been sound asleep less than a minute ago. Then she clenched down on him and he groaned, sliding out and back in hard before settling into a slow rhythm that let them both feel every move and drag of his cock. He settled the fingers he’d been probing her with onto her clit, rolling and stroking with each leisurely thrust of his hips, and moved his other hand up from her waist to cradle her breast in his hand with a soft squeeze in the same tempo. She rocked back into him, reaching back to grab onto his shoulder with another little whimper.
‘Sssh. I gotcha, ‘mega.’
It seemed to take no time at all before she was writhing and gasping, pleading his name. Groaning, he fought to keep his strokes even as her pussy gripped tighter and tighter, then she arched her back with one last hard clench that took them both over the edge at almost the same instant, leaving the room silent except for mutually heavy gasps for a long few moments.
‘That’s…quite a way to wake up,’ Callie said breathlessly, turning over to nestle into his chest as he finally slipped from her body. ‘So…well, good morning!’
‘Has been so far.’ Grinning unashamedly, he dipped his chin to kiss her. ‘Sleep well?’
‘Very. Sorry I sort of dozed off on you last night.’
‘Not a problem.’ Realising that he’d shortly be all over her again unless he got his ass up and moving, he sat up and swung his legs off the bed. ‘Gonna hit the shower. Then it’s my turn to make breakfast.’
‘Not going to argue with that,’ she replied with a rather impish smile.
They were just done eating when his phone rang; Sophie had things moving with the mark and Nate wanted him to prep an exec chef cover story with Hardison for later, since the knowledge the hacker had about the world of haute cuisine could fit comfortably on the back of a sugar packet.
‘Wanna come see how the hacking happens?’ Eliot asked Callie, knowing he’d need to go to the condo to stop Hardison weaving some nonsense from a Disney movie but finding himself adverse to the idea of not having her close by. It was still a strange, foreign impulse, and he knew he’d have to get it under control eventually or risk compromising his function on the team, but for now there seemed no harm to indulging it.
‘I won’t be in the way, will I?’
‘Course not. Here, take the jacket again for the T.’ He’d need to figure out how to stop her constantly implying that she was an imposition simply by existing. Add that to the list of things to ask for Sophie’s help on…
Hardison registered mild though still evident surprise that the omega had shown up again, but settled for an amiable enough nod of greeting. Then Parker, bowl of some sugary excuse for cereal in hand, all but rounded on Callie and started peppering her with mostly nonsensical questions.
‘Does this smell funny to you? Like sweet? Or extra sweet?’
‘It’s just Lucky Charms, isn’t it?’
‘But does it smell funny?’
‘It smells like…cereal. With marshmallows.’
‘But-‘
‘Parker!’ Eliot barked. ‘She’s not a damned exhibit!’
‘It’s all right.’ Callie was laughing, which mollified him somewhat, but he still found himself holding a hand out to her in unspoken invitation, although he realised it came across vaguely peremptory even as he did it. Then he tried not to feel too gratified when she immediately came to his side, permitting him to pull her half onto his lap with an arm around her waist as he turned his attention back to the fake resume Hardison had on the screen.
‘Never really met an omega before.’ Parker of course remained undaunted, plopping herself onto the back of the sofa and continuing to munch on her cereal with a vaguely owlish expression in Callie’s direction. ‘Apart from Maggie, I guess. Is it true guys all smell really different? Does Hardison smell of anything? What about Eliot? Does home smell of anything specific?’
‘Sort of, I haven’t really – uh – smelled Hardison a lot, and…yes.’ That came out a tad shyly. ‘Wood smoke, fresh pine, and a forest just after rain.’
‘Huh.’ Hardison stopped at that and actually gave a little grin. ‘That’s kinda nice. Know what he stinks of to the rest of us? Stale beer, too much cologne, and sweat. Yeah. Suck on that,’ he added. Eliot snorted and thumped him on the arm, but didn’t put much force into it.
‘Shut up and do the thing, man.’
‘Yeah, yeah…’
‘Is that a news story?’ Callie asked curiously, leaning to see the screen. ‘Did you just – oh!’
‘Little background reading for Kent when he looks up the credentials of the chef his new consultant friend’s going to suggest hiring for Le Saule.’ Hardison grinned at her. ‘Age of the geek, know what I mean?’
‘That’s so clever!’ She was staring in unabashed fascination now, and Eliot had to consciously fight down the utterly ridiculous pang of covetous jealousy. That became steadily more difficult when she wound up sitting on the chair on Hardison’s other side, listening in eager interest as the hacker explained the various things he was doing to build up the identity of one Kevin Barnett, executive chef for hire.
Which was fine. Hardison was just naturally the sort of person who liked to share his enthusiasm with as much of his audience as would permit it, and he’d found a willing and inquisitive audience and now she had the laptop in front of her and he was walking her through something, which involved leaning in a bit closer and-
The growl escaped before Eliot could censor it, and in mortification he stood and stalked to the coffee machine, trying to ignore the mildly aghast silence that followed him.
‘Tell me your dumb alpha ass did not just make lawnmower noises at me,’ Hardison exclaimed in amused indignance, which of course set Parker grinning.
‘Shut up, Hardison,’ Eliot ground out, glaring fixedly at the light on the pot and fighting down the urge to just go and grab Callie, pull her to him and scent her and mouth at the mark on her neck for the both of them to see. Mine. It was absurd. The hacker was no threat, and a beta besides.
‘Hey, you shut up, huh?’ Hardison shot back with a snort, but further recrimination was thankfully not forthcoming as he suddenly had to pay attention to something Sophie and Nate were doing over comms. Callie left the seat and came to Eliot’s side, leaning up and pressing a kiss to his cheek.
‘Sorry,’ he muttered, more embarrassed on her behalf than for growling at Hardison.
‘It’s okay.’ A little smile. ‘Still new.’
‘Yeah.’ Forcing his breathing to slow, he half closed his eyes as the sweet scent of peaches and vanilla became obvious with her proximity. Turning, he nosed at her hair and took a deep inhale, willing himself to calm. ‘Still. Sorry.’
‘It’s okay,’ she said again, staying close as he poured the coffee. ‘Alec said he’s almost done, so after, unless they need you here for something else I mean…’
Eliot grinned at her, a little surprised at how completely and rapidly that lifted his mood.
‘Sounds like a plan.’ Giving her a quick kiss, he scooped the coffee up and looped his free arm around her waist, keeping her close to his side as he returned to the table. To his lasting irritation both Parker and Hardison had stopped whatever they were doing and appeared to have observed the interaction with an unnecessary level of attention.
Nosy bastards.
‘What?’ he snapped. Parker just grinned, unashamed and irrepressible, but Hardison at least had the common sense to turn back to his keyboard, even if his eyebrows were high enough that they were going to exit his forehead. Barely resisting the urge to throw something at the pair of them, Eliot sat back down and settled Callie on his lap, taking a sip of coffee as, thankfully, Hardison got back on task and started running him through the fine print of the persona he’d prepped. It took nearly an hour but finally they were both satisfied, then Sophie called and Hardison had to hop on with her to do some extra digital legwork, which seemed like an ideal time to take Callie and leave the building.
The Omega Job, part 11: An Upstanding Citizen
When the team come across an omega having an unexpected heat in the middle of Boston, of course they aren’t just going to leave her to fend for herself! But just as they think they’ve got her out of trouble, she starts scenting on the hitter’s jacket…and that turns out to be just the start of the job.
This is an A/B/O fic that is mostly just pure filthy smut. A sort of plot crept in when I wasn’t looking.
Rating: E (oh god srsly so much) Fandom: Leverage (Eliot Spencer x OFC) Warnings: AU A/B/O-verse, with everything that implies; nothing overtly too horrible happens in the fic itself but there is exploration around the idea of heats and consent. Read the rest via my masterlist because Tumblr is bum about in-post links.
The rather unexpected smell of orange juice had Eliot’s nose twitching as he drifted back into consciousness, and he was somewhat taken aback to see Callie perched next to him on the edge of the bed with a glass in her hand.
She was wearing nothing but one of his t-shirts, oversized enough on her slight frame but only reaching halfway down her thighs, which immediately had his cock waking up.
‘I raided the fridge,’ she said with a shy smile, holding the glass out. ‘Thought you might be…um…a little low on electrolytes.’
That made him laugh and he accepted it, taking a long and appreciative gulp before tugging her onto his lap for a lengthy kiss.
‘Thanks. Been up long?’
‘Not too long. You were out cold, I didn’t want to wake you.’
‘Wore me out pretty good.’ Grinning, he set the now-empty glass aside and flipped them over so she was on her back again beneath him. ‘Guess I didn’t tire you out enough, huh?’ Then an annoying recollection surfaced and he glanced over at the clock, smirking when it showed a little after seven. Plenty of time before the team meet.
Hauling the shirt off over her head, he bent back down to kiss her and laughed when she wriggled, squeaking a very half-hearted protest but instantly parting her legs to wrap them up and around his waist without so much as a moment’s hesitation.
‘Son of a-‘ he felt his whole body jerk without any conscious control. She was so wet, like the second he’d touched her she was completely ready for him. He slipped two fingers into her pussy and crooked them, grinning again when that elicited a little gasp, then drew his hand out and lifted it to her lips, feeling a delicious churn low in his stomach when she sucked both fingers into her mouth. Then she caught his gaze with a look that made him growl and he pushed inside her without a moment’s more hesitation.
Callie made a pleased noise around his fingers and he groaned, immediately setting a punishing rhythm to drive them both rapidly towards the inevitable conclusion. She writhed and clawed at his back, nails digging into his skin, so he slid his arm down under her lower back to adjust the angle of his thrusts and grinned wolfishly when his next hit into her made her cry out.
‘C’mon.’ Snaking a hand back down between their bodies, he found her clit and rolled his thumb over it. ‘Come for me, darlin.’ Let me hear you.’
‘Eliot-‘ she gasped, arching against him, and clutched at his biceps ‘-oh…oh…’
Two more pumps of his hips and she came hard, clenching tightly enough around his cock that he followed her right over the edge with a loud groan, still thrusting helplessly a handful more times until the oversensitivity became too much and he had to draw back. Slipping from her body, he rolled them over so she sprawled across his chest and held her tightly as their breathing evened out.
‘I think I need another shower now,’ she said after a couple of minutes, which made him chuckle.
‘You go ahead. I’m just waiting on the blood flow getting back to my legs.’
To his delight that got a peal of outright laughter from her but she stood up and padded around the end of the bed to head for the door, not making any attempt to cover herself up. Approvingly he braced himself up on his elbows and made a small show of leering at her, which provoked another laugh before she scampered into the bathroom.
When the water stopped running he followed her in and smiled at the sight of her towelling her hair off. She caught his eye in the mirror and smiled back.
‘I was thinking…I could make breakfast. If you want. I can do a pretty good omelette.’
‘Sounds good.’ Pleased at the way the suggestion shifted her from being some kind of house guest to actually seeing the loft as a home, he kissed her bare shoulder on his way to the shower. ‘Help yourself to the kitchen, yeah? I won’t be long.’
‘Okay.’
The aromas filling the place once he emerged and went to get dressed were certainly promising, and in fact he’d barely stepped into the main room when she put two plates down on the table next to the steaming pot of fresh coffee. The omelette was indeed outstanding; light, fluffy, just the right amount of cheese, bulked out with red and green bell peppers that tasted like she’d seared them separately before folding them in.
He realised she was looking at him with a hint of anxiousness so swallowed his current mouthful and reached across to give her hand a squeeze while cracking a grin.
‘This is a helluva lot better’n pretty good, darlin. Have to let you loose in the kitchen more often.’
She seemed torn between gratified and relieved at that, flashing a hint of a shy but sunny little smile that somehow made something warm and unexpected swell in his chest. He was fairly sure that feeling was what prompted him to suddenly say
‘Why don’t you come with me, meet the rest of the team?’
‘Oh.’ Callie toyed with her fork for a moment. ‘I wouldn’t want to be in the way.’
‘You won’t be,’ he assured her firmly. ‘And you were in Keynesian, so might be you know more than you realise, maybe something that could help. Besides I – uh – I’d like for you to meet them all. Properly.’ That came out more than a little dopey-sounding, to his lasting chagrin, but she was smiling again.
‘Okay.’
‘Right. Good.’
She insisted on doing the cleanup herself but once she’d put on her shoes he caught her arm and pulled her back towards him, tucking one of his spare coats around her shoulders. It still dwarfed her of course, but it was warmer than just the flimsy blouse she had on.
‘Just wear it,’ he said when she began to protest, softening the order with a small smile and a kiss on the end of her nose. ‘It’ll stop anyone bothering you on the T.’
‘I guess.’ Slipping her arms into the sleeves, she turned and rubbed her cheek along one lapel. The action reminded him of the first time he’d laid eyes on her, deep in heat fever and scenting on his leather jacket, and he silently told his cock to calm the hell down when the memory registered a very distinct kind of interest.
They made it to McRory’s without incident this time and he led her up to the condo, seeing her biting back curiosity as he opened the door. Everyone else was already there and the reactions rolled out rather as he’d expected; mild surprise from Nate, both surprise and intrigue from Sophie, a rather failed attempt at nonchalance from Hardison and unabashed fascination from Parker.
‘Callie, you remember Nate and Sophie – this is Hardison, our tech guy, and that’s Parker.’ Eliot guided her gently to the couch and sat down next to her. Unfortunately he didn’t think to put himself between her and Parker, and the thief almost immediately leaned over to peer at Callie like she was some interesting new security system.
‘Does Eliot still smell like home to you? What does home even smell like? Is it like cookies? Or air freshener? Or-‘
‘Parker,’ Eliot ground out in a warning tone, barely resisting the urge to facepalm. He should have realised the oddball beta would start up something like this.
‘Why’s she here?’ Nate asked pointedly, which at least cut off Parker’s half-formed protest.
‘She worked at Keynesian. She might know something useful.’
‘Hmm.’ Nate looked at him for a beat, then huffed. ‘All right, Hardison, run it.’
‘Right.’ Hardison got to his feet, made a bit of a face, then tapped his laptop. ‘So, Keynesian Associates. Finance, banking, investments, all that stuff that rich people use to make themselves richer. Fifteen years ago when the state of Massachusetts brought in legislation to support the oh-so-charmingly-named Employable Minorities Act, Keynesian were one of the first locally-owned companies to sign up.’ The screens shifted to show a rather stolid-faced man with silvering hair. ‘Meet Dexter Kent, CEO and owner of Keynesian, alpha, married to a beta called Nancy for the last forty years, which is a little unusual because by all other accounts he’s what Fox News would call a proper alpha; vocal advocate for GRAFT, Gender Roles for American Family Traditions, and he’s been caught on record several times sharing his thoughts on what counts as a suitable vocation for omegas and beta women.’
‘Oh, lovely,’ Sophie said with a snort. ‘An old-fashioned equal opportunities chauvinist.’
‘If he’s so hot on traditional gender split why’s he married to a beta?’ Parker asked. ‘I thought guys like that were all rawr betas aren’t real girls or something.’
‘Nancy’s family’s old timber money might have something to do with it,’ Hardison supplied. ‘That and the rumours that during his – ah – more prime years, Kent had a habit of using the omega admin pool in the company as his own personal seraglio.’ Several very old-looking scans of typed forms took over the screens. ‘Keynesian has been employing omegas since long before there were grants for it, and Kent had quite the reputation for hassling his workforce, restricting standard break privileges, hell there’s even rumours he and his execs used to swing by departments to – ahem – take advantage of any of the girls they smelled coming into a heat. All of this is buried deep down thanks to a lot of greased palms with the PD and City Hall; not deep enough that I couldn’t dig it out, but deep enough that Kent’s last couple of decades as Mister Clean look believable to the rest of the world.’
‘Rapist bastard,’ Eliot growled, feeling his hackles go up, and unconsciously put an arm around Callie’s shoulders. The idea of her being in the same building as a piece of filth like that made his temper spike.
‘Except it doesn’t make the official designation as rape because federal law still counts an omega begging in heat fever as implied consent,’ Nate said, and scowled. ‘Largely thanks to lobbyist groups like GRAFT, in fact. All right, so he’s an asshole. Married a beta for the money, and to clean up his public act, then found a new way to exploit omegas that’s easier to handle on the PR front.’
‘That’s about the picture.’ Hardison sighed and shrugged. ‘Keynesian took some financial hits in the mid-seventies, couple of more interesting lawsuits around the time omega rights advocacy started really taking off in the state. Kent married Nancy about six weeks before he would’ve been staring down a bankruptcy court, then used a bunch of the money to put a spit-shine on his rep and bury the dirtier stuff.’
‘What kind of lawsuits?’ Sophie asked.
‘Harassment, maltreatment, everything you’d expect from such an upstanding citizen. The kicker was when he got taken to court by a Rosemarie Williams, an omega from the Keynesian pool who claimed he’d deliberately withheld her suppressants to bring on a heat, then took advantage of her in the downstairs conference room. She-‘ he made another face, clearly finding discussing the matter as awful as it sounded ‘-she had a miscarriage, and apparently that was his, too. Keynesian paid her off to shut her up and stop her making any more noise. Two months later Kent was walking down the aisle with Nancy.’
‘Can we just kill him?’ Parker asked, wrinkling her nose into one of her fiercer expressions. ‘Just…just bam. We can plant something into his office. Nerve gas. A bomb. A big cleaver over his desk. Whack.’
‘Death’s too good for someone like Dexter Kent,’ Nate said, but there was a strained quality to his voice that spoke to his agreement with the thief’s feelings on the matter. ‘We’re going to destroy him. Loudly, and in public.’
Eliot abruptly realised that Callie was trembling and tightened his arm around her.
‘You okay?’
‘I just-‘ she shook her head a little ‘-I can’t believe he’s so…so awful. I mean he was always a little old-fashioned, used to hang around the admin pool sometimes and he always called everyone sweetie or doll, but compared to what omegas get called in some jobs…and all this time he was…’
‘Hey. Hey.’ He took hold of chin with his other hand and made her look at him. ‘It’s okay. We’re gonna take him down, okay? He won’t hurt anyone again.’ Holding her close, he waited until she’d tucked her nose into his throat and then softly kissed her forehead. ‘Sssh.’ Then, registering the look on Hardison’s face – not to mention the expressions of the others – he scowled. ‘What?’
‘…uh. Nothing, man.’ The hacker cleared his throat and hurriedly got on with the rest of the briefing, finer print stuff about Kent’s hobbies and potential exploit points, which Sophie and Nate were all over, of course. There was a reference to the man’s obsession with haute cuisine, which made his ears prick up, but he still tuned out a little – it wasn’t like he didn’t have a lot of practice half-listening to superfluous briefing information – and kept the majority of his focus on Callie, holding both of her hands in one of his and stroking his thumb gently back and forth over her knuckles. Finally her breathing evened out and he felt her turn her head a little.
‘Okay?’ he murmured, and felt rather than saw her nod.
The briefing finally broke up with Sophie primed to start laying the groundwork with Kent for something involving getting him to sink a pile of money into a new restaurant enterprise and then tapping him for information on his dodgy HR practices and-or duff suppressant sources with the excuse of staffing challenges. Eliot suspected he’d be having to kitchen up before very long, but he could worry about that later; it was all Nate and Sophie until then and the pair would call him in when and if they needed him.
In the meantime, he had his omega to take care of.