Rather a Story

Title: The Built in a Day Job
Summary: Written as a part of leveragexchange. Eliot takes refuge in his apartment in Rome after The San Lorenzo Job, only to be followed by the one person he thought no longer cared.
Characters: Eliot/Sophie
Rating: hard R
Wordcount: ~4,200
Warnings: Spoilers for the end of The San Lorenzo Job. Explicit sex. Overabundant attention to cooking and food.
Neurotic Author’s Note #1: Written for elzed, who wanted an Eliot-centric plot with a side-order of sex. I got the sex in, and sort of half of a plot. I hope you like it anyway!
Neurotic Author’s Note #2: So my knowledge of Rome is sketchy at best. I based myself partly on what I saw walking around there this spring and partly on Google, but I’m guessing there are massive inaccuracies. Please don’t hold them against me.

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( The Built in a Day Job )

Title: The Question Mark Job
Summary: Eliot comes down with the flu during a job.
Characters: Eliot, Nate, Sophie, Hardison, Parker
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 12,885
Disclaimer: Recognizable characters/plot elements/etc. don't belong to me, alas.
Warnings: Unrepentant h/c. Very mild swearing.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: This is a very late contribution of mine for helpbrazil2011. The auction was won by the lovely and very generous usakeh, so congratulations, babe! She requested sick!Eliot with the flu, and his team mates taking care of him. Unfortunately, Eliot decided to remain close-mouthed about his past, but at least I got the h/c part down. (I know, you are all astonished that I wrote h/c. I never, ever do that.)
Neurotic Author's Note #2: So this is me venturing back into Leverage territory, and the subject matter is very similar. It's a shocking turn of events, but what can I say? Eliot apparently begs to be whumped as far as I'm concerned.
Neurotic Author's Note #3: This ended up unbeta'd, for which I apologize. I have, however, tinkered with it to within an inch of its life, so hopefully it turned out okay.

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( The Question Mark Job )

Part 2

Title: And Rebuked the Fever
Summary: As it is, he could have wished for another six hours' respite, maybe twelve, but it's not like he has a say in the matter: these episodes always come at him like a goddamn tsunami, and all he can really do is put his head down and ride it out. Or, Eliot is sick and the team takes care of him.
Characters: Eliot, Nate, Sophie, Hardison, Parker
Rating: PG-13, gen
Wordcount: 3,509
Disclaimer: Just playing in other people's sandboxes. None of it is mine, please don't sue.
Warnings: None, unless you're not a fan of h/c.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: This is me, venturing out of the Supernatural fandom. *peers around* Huh.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: Shameless, shameless h/c. I may be outside my fandom, but definitely not outside my comfort zone. ;)
Neurotic Author's Note #3: Okay, yes, I have a 'thing' for malaria. At least I'm not alone in my obsession, okay? *cough*

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( And Rebuked the Fever )

Hey flist!

I know some of you must watch Leverage. Can someone point me in the direction of some good fanfic? I am looking for fic wherein the author really, but really gets the characters, especially Parker, Eliot and Hardison.

It's important, I swear! ;)

Anyone? Bueller?

Okay, I am falling a little bit in love with some new (to me) shows. Just made my way through the first two episodes of Leverage, and I am kind of all sorts of keen about this show. Although I can't look at Elliott without thinking of his hair mating with Sam's. Y'all can blame authoressnebula for that particular bit of crack.

Also? I got the first disc of Veronica Mars through Zip, and I am totally and completely smitten. I know it's off the air now, and I've only seen four episodes, but man. It was clever and well-written and well-paced and funny and touching and really freaking brave. Having your main character be the victim of a date rape at a party without sliding into the sordid or the overly corny or the cliché? That is a tour de force, and I am impressed. It's a topic that usually makes me want to throw things at the TV set, and the show handled it with grace and sensitivity. Like I said: colour me impressed.

Thirdly, although I'm not quite as in love with this show, is Burn Notice. Mostly I am enjoying Bruce Campbell.


Still thoroughly obsessed with SPN, but it's nice to know I can still have other interests. ;)