With their anniversary drawing close, Parker learns about the birthday of sex, finds an apprentice and stumbles into a job for the team. Also wherein Eliot is growly and awesome, Alec is a genius, Sophie is the fastest con in the west… or anywhere, and Nate puts up with all of them. ** Winner of Best Case Fic 2011 Fulcrum Award **

“Make me a sandwich,” Parker says, so he does. “Cut the damn wire,” says Hardison, so he does. “Jump,” says Parker, says Hardison, and he never needs to ask, “How high?”

Sometimes, old warriors do get to retire.

Four times they worshipped each other, and one time someone else did.

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"We should talk about Eliot," Alec says, at the same time Parker says, "We should have sex in a hammock."

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.

Eliot's their hitter, and taking on any physical threats to the team is his job, but there's something beyond professionalism – even beyond the obvious fact that Eliot relishes the fight itself – in the way he puts his body between Parker or Alec and any potential threat. Alec has a good view of Eliot's back on a lot of jobs, and he reads something in the tight line of Eliot's shoulder, in the slow turn of his foot as he steps into a fighting stance. Something possessive. Series

Eliot watches, fascinated, as Hardison brings the joint to his lips and inhales, making the lit end burn bright and cherry-red for several long seconds.

"For this prompt at comment-fic on lj: Iron Man/Leverage, Parker+JARVIS, Breaking into the Stark Mansion is a real challenge."

Parker doesn't understand why it has to be more complicated than: "I want to be with you, I just don't want to sleep with you." It's everyone else who has the problem. (Parker as a biromantic asexual.)

Eliot is baking pies. Alec and Parker are hoping to eat pies.

Everyone thinks Parker is severed when they first meet her.

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.

Eliot tries to get to sleep with one too many body parts digging into him.

The documentation of the fall of a BNF, as told by LJ user ageofthegeekbaby. A fandom AU set in the heyday of LJ fandom.

See title.

Later, Hardison tried to blame it on the gorilla.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. (An Alec Hardison character study.)

The Leverage crew run into a new friend, find some buried treasure, and fight some Nazis. It's a pretty good day.

Sometimes you just have to go out for doughnuts in the early morning hours. If you're one the the baddest crews this side of the Atlantic this means you also save a wedding and spoil a terrorist plot.

Creative solutions for Seasonal Affective Disorder, Leverage style. (So. Much. Fluff.)

In which Cordelia is rescued by team Leverage instead of team Angel.

He had a sniper rifle scoping the girl’s bright eyes and the guy’s smile.

Five times Parker, Hardison, and Eliot lived out romcom tropes for a con, and one time they found themselves in one for real.

Eliot technically stole a baby, which is actually the least of Leverage's problems.

A year later, Sophie and Nate finally remember to get married. Looks like Eliot beat them to the punch.

She leans over the railing, her fingers snug around the metal out of experience, not of fear. She leans over further, feeling the wind scrape against her bare face. Her hair is safely tucked away, and she leans over a little more, looking at the sprawling world below. She always has loved skyscrapers. It’s not even the thrill - it’s the freedom.

Eliot watches, fascinated, as Hardison brings the joint to his lips and inhales, making the lit end burn bright and cherry-red for several long seconds.

A collection of some of waterbird13's Leverage ficlets.

Alec Hardison had given a lot of thought to how he would die. Death by cop. Thrown into the darkest hole Guantanamo Bay possessed. Heart attack from a lifetime diet of hot pockets and orange-colored chemicals. He hadn't considered adding death by weather-inflicted man-eating-sharks to the list. (Or: Interspersed by media accounts of the incident, the tale of the Leverage team vs. Sharknado.)

What starts out as a routine con for the Leverage crew takes a turn for the worse when Eliot, in a case of mistaken identity, is kidnapped by the BPO. To rescue him, Parker and Hardison will have to team up with a hacker named Nomi Marks and venture into a world stranger than anything they've ever imagined.

The thing about magic is that you can’t do it by yourself. No one person has enough magic in them to do even a minor casting – you need a coven. Parker knew that about magic, which was why she couldn’t trust it.

Nomi wants help from a team of criminals to bring down BPO, Amanita isn't sure she trusts them, Hardison is impressed by Nomi's hacking skills, Parker comes to the rescue, and Eliot notices some very distinctive fighting styles. [Podfic + Text]

Parker and Hardison figure out how to take their relationship to the next level, with occasional input from Eliot.