here’s a list of current leverage fic recs (so far! still working through the fics on AO3). they’re all completed, have happy endings, and focus on hardison, eliot and parker (in an OT3 or various combinations therein), or are gen. let me know if you’re interested in more recs, or if you find one you like from this list.
( ♥ ) indicates personal favorites of the bunch
http://archiveofourown.org/works/2873798
♥ Pouring Raindrops Back into a Cloud by bricoleur10
Summary: In the wake of an injury that leaves him missing memories, Eliot has to decide whether he wants to stay with these people who are calling themselves his family, these people he trusts without understanding why. And if he does stay, will his broken brain be enough to get him through?
Notes: gen, classic, well-made amnesia fic
http://archiveofourown.org/works/6830476
I was in the middle before I knew I had begun by fromanoldwoman
Summary: Hardison and Parker are working at a coffee shop. Eliot is the customer who keeps coming back in spite of the coffee being terrible, for reasons even he doesn't know.
Notes: OT3, requisite coffeeshop!AU
http://archiveofourown.org/works/6549481
Right Round by letsgostealafandom
Summary: It's the Thursday that never ends.
Notes: OT3, time loop!
http://archiveofourown.org/works/4542576
♥ Guard Your Eggshell Heart by letsgostealafandom
Summary: Parker had a theory, and her theory was this: it made Eliot really happy when they noticed the things he did for them. It made Eliot happy when they made sure he knew they noticed the things he did for them. And when Eliot thought they didn't notice, it made him- not unhappy, but something worse, something like he knew that was all he could expect from anyone and he'd resigned himself to it a while back. Once she'd noticed it, she couldn't stop, and the realization of how often they took Eliot for granted made her stomach twist uncomfortably.
Notes: OT3, insecure eliot and misunderstandings (happy ending though!)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/3861028
♥ like a map of a place you've never been by bydaybreak
Summary: He knows it’d be so fucking easy, if he’d let himself. Because he’s easy for them, has been since that first job, since the day he hauled Hardison’s ass out of a building about to explode. It’d be so easy.
So he won’t.
Notes: eliot/parker fake relationship for a con turns OT3; more insecure eliot and misunderstandings
http://archiveofourown.org/works/4913125
The Helpful Hacker's Guide to Gummies, Geekery, Grifting, Guys and Good Teamwork (or the Alec Hardison Doesn't Panic (Much) Job) by poppetawoppet
Summary: Hardison and Eliot have to pretend to be in a relationship for a con.
Alec doesn't panic about it (much), Eliot may not be pretending after all, and Parker works it all out
Notes: eliot/hardison fake relationship for a con turns OT3; sneaky seductive eliot wooing hardison
http://archiveofourown.org/series/244756
♥ This Time (series) by waterbird13
Summary: Eliot's past with Damien Moreau is even more complicated than most people know about, and of course that would come up again when dealing with his incredibly complicated present feelings for Parker and Hardison. Eliot isn't a hundred percent sure how love works, but he's pretty positive it exists only to bite him in the ass.
Notes: starts with building of OT3, deals intensely with his previous complicated relationship with moreau, and explains eliot's habit of wearing things on his wrist; long fic with emotional eliot whump, but happy ending
http://archiveofourown.org/works/583427
The Immersion Therapy Job by CatKing_Catkin
Summary: Everyone had to do some bad things to take down Damien Moreau. Everyone had to go further than they'd ever gone before. But Hardison and Eliot found themselves the worst off afterwards - Eliot for compromising so many of his morals, and Hardison for being on the receiving end of it. He knows, rationally, that Eliot had always been planning to get him out of the pool before he drowned, no matter the cost. That doesn't mean he came out of his near-death experience without a few psychological scars.
Now that the dust has settled, it's time to attend to those scars. With Nate's blessing, Parker and Eliot agree to accompany Hardison on a bit of immersion therapy, to get him over his fear of water. Parker being Parker, she chooses to set the scene at a water park. Eliot being Eliot, he tags along to ensure nothing goes wrong and maybe, just maybe, to make amends.
Notes: (mostly) gen; working on helping hardison face his fears of water after the big bang job
http://archiveofourown.org/works/3720895
Winter Song (To You) by letsgostealafandom
Summary: Eliot sat up straight when the lights went out throughout the apartment.
Notes: hardison/parker turns OT3; huddling for warmth trope
http://archiveofourown.org/works/2031423
First on the List by thingswithwings
Summary: While he's waiting for the men with the guns to decide what to do with him, Alec thinks about what he'll do if he gets home.
Notes: OT3 development; hardison whump and protective trope
http://archiveofourown.org/works/698156
♥ something good can work (and it can work for you) by queenklu
Summary: "When you say ‘we’re making dinner,'" Eliot finally says, "do you really mean ‘Hey you should come over and cook dinner for us so we don’t burn down the apartment?’"
Notes: hardison/parker turns OT3; adorable attempts by hardison and parker to be domestic
http://archiveofourown.org/works/835577
The Tangled Web Job by ScoutLover, Telaryn
Summary: The threat issued by CIA Director Conrad at the end of The Experimental Job proves to be anything but idle. The team is blackmailed into working for the CIA to help gain control of the major nuclear pipeline into Iran. To accomplish this and keep their loved ones safe, they are forced to work with an old enemy towards a common goal.
What the CIA fails to realize is that catching the Leverage team and holding them are usually two different things.
What Nate fails to realize is that the price for squirming free of the government's grasp is likely to be higher than he expected.
Notes: hardison/parker (mostly gen); emotionally wrenching and plots within plots
http://archiveofourown.org/works/839377
Not That Man by ScoutLover
Summary: After the events of "The Big Bang Job," Eliot and Hardison have a few things to clear up
Notes: gen; episode coda and some much-needed resolution
http://theroadhouse.dreamwidth.org/107807.html
Days of Past Returning by telaryn
Summary: Two men entered Damien Moreau's private pool that day in Washington. How differently would things have gone for the team if only Hardison had walked out?
Notes: gen (i think?), good emotional whump and a fun whatif scenario (i find the moreau storyline fascinating)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/546971
♥ No Robots Were Harmed In The Making Of This Story by sunspot (unavoidedcrisis)
Summary: Hardison built a robot to fight, but he gave it artificial intelligence to win. He didn’t expect it to come to life and for it to become such a big part of his life.
Notes: OT3, hilarious and fun plot (very inventive)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/364703
♥ I Less Than Three You by james
Summary: Eliot has to go undercover as a computer student and his only contact is Hardison. One of them has the short end of this deal.
Notes: eliot/hardison, funny and fluffy
http://archiveofourown.org/works/132599
♥ Man I Used to Be by jendavis
Summary: The present's a mess, and the past isn't helping.
Notes: eliot/hardison; long fic!; a very believable slow build to a relationship
http://archiveofourown.org/works/223204
Maṭṭaltu by LithiumDoll
Summary: Things are going pretty well for the Leverage crew until Lindsey McDonald shows up on their doorstep. Then, not so much.
Notes: gen, crossover with angel, eliot has an evil twin!, fun eliot whump
edit (sep 06 2016):
want more? here’s a link to part 2!
