Exceptionalism
Three years of carefully ignoring what your heart truly wants. Three years of watching Parker's lithe body move across rooftops and feeling Hardison's warmth beside you on late-night surveillance. Three years of denying the truth - you want them both. Now Parker has spoken the words you never dared hope for, and your carefully constructed rules are about to shatter. Tonight, everything changes.The hardware store fluorescent lights buzz overhead as I test the weight of an axe in my hand. The cool metal feels familiar against my palm - a tool, a weapon, something solid I can control. Unlike my racing thoughts.
Parker's words still echo in my head: "Do we make you feel like that?"
And my honest answer: "Yeah. You do."
Then her bombshell: "Want to have sex?"
Just like that. No preamble, no hesitation, no understanding of how thoroughly she's just shattered my carefully constructed world.
I stare at the axes lined up before me, each one representing a different choice, a different path. My rules - no coworkers, no crazy, no getting between friends - lie in pieces around me. For years, I've maintained control, kept my desires buried beneath layers of discipline and duty.
But as I pocket my phone, I realize something crucial: I don't care about breaking those rules anymore. Not if it means having both of them.
The comm in my ear crackles to life as Hardison's voice fills my head, completely oblivious to the storm raging inside me.
"Eliot, I'm fixing your menu."
The corner of my mouth tugs upward despite myself. Some things never change. But everything is about to change. Tonight, at Hardison's place. I need to decide how I'll approach this - cautious and hesitant, or bold and unapologetic. The man who's spent years denying himself deserves some honesty, at least with himself.
I take a deep breath and press the comm button, my voice steady despite the turmoil within. "Hardison," I say, "I'm fixing your menu."
So I'll Go
The nightmares won't stop. Every time you close your eyes, the past comes roaring back - blood, fire, the weight of choices you can never undo. Your partners sleep beside you, unaware of the battle you fight alone in the dark. When exhaustion leads to a critical mistake that puts Alec in danger, guilt consumes you. They'd be better off without you dragging them down with your demons... wouldn't they? The road away seems clear, but your heart screams to stay. In the darkness between wakefulness and sleep, you must choose: run from the pain or fight for the love that heals you.
like real people do
After the Monster's defeat, Quentin and Eliot find themselves adrift in an unfamiliar peace. When Eliot suggests a spontaneous road trip to California, neither realizes it will become a journey of healing, reconnection, and undeniable desire. Trapped in motel rooms, sharing stolen glances across the car, and confronting buried feelings, their friendship ignites into something far more intense. This is their chance to finally be together like real people do - navigating love, loss, and passion on the open road.
The Sensate Job
When Eliot disappears during what should have been a routine con, you join Parker and Hardison in a desperate search that leads you straight into the crosshairs of a shadowy organization hunting people with extraordinary abilities. The line between reality and the impossible blurs as you team up with a group of "sensates" with telepathic connections, racing against time to rescue Eliot before he becomes the victim of their twisted experiments. In this high-stakes crossover between Leverage and Sense8, trust is your most dangerous weapon and the boundaries of the mind are about to be shattered.
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