#Leverage Ot3

[charcubed]

niche post I’m making mostly for me but I need everyone to look at something that I’m very serious about

they ran

so they could fly

(gif sources: leverage / doctor odyssey)

[leverage-ot3]

@queenshammer: #is he… cutting the rope??

yes. yes he is

Elliot drawing him and Parker while scoping out a museum makes me happy 😍

[independent-fics]

Now, you can take that as a gift, or you can take it as a curse. And that's up to you.

Eliot Spencer and Parker Doing the Things Others Won’t

Leverage (2008-2012)

04x01 The Long Way Down Job

05x09 The Rundown Job

[littlesmartart]

DRAWTOBER #10 - don't let the madness change us by stardustandswimmingpools

“Parker,” Eliot hisses at the ceiling vent, “what the fuck?" Aw, shit. “Aw, shit.” Hardison grimaces, rubbing his head. In the…excitement of the night, he completely forgot about Parker. “Parker, why are you in the ceiling?” There's a long pause. “I don't understand the question,” Parker says.

this is essentially relationship negotiation: the fic, but it's also a lot more fun and cute and lovely than that sounds! Hardison and Eliot have a conversation trying to figure out what spending time together in the bedroom means for them, and uh. also Parker is there. in the ceiling. because of course she is.

[slythevillain27]

My favourite ship dynamic: straight passing bi couple, and their guy™️

[nomanitas]

Promise me you'll keep them safe.

Till my dying day.

[bisexualeliotspencer]

Eliot: I stay close to protect Hardison and Parker. I suppose I’m third wheeling but if that’s what it takes to keep them safe then so be it

Hardison: Eliot is our boyfriend. We take him on dates all the time

Parker: he hasn’t figured it out yet

Hardison: I suggested we tell him

Parker: but this is more fun

Hardison: yeah it is

[queenofglassbeliever]

The Rundown Job was really the OT3 episode, uh?

I knew they worked well together, that's been obvious for a while. But in an episode of just them, it really hits how in sinc they are.

Hardison and Eliot doing their little handshake after watching Parker do her acrobat thing through a lazer grid.

Eliot's first concern being to get Hardison and Parker to safety. Them refusing to let Eliot go up against a terrorist attack. Parker's line about how they change together, for better or worse.

Eliot not being scared of the terrorists attack because he has Hardison and Parker on his side and he believes in them more than anything.

Also when Eliot put his hand on the back of Hardison's neck and looked into his eyes? That was so intimate. The tension was serious with undertones of sexual. It had the same tension as Parker diffusing the bomb.

The silent communication. The celebrating each other's victories.

Eliot throwing down the crutch in favor of leaning on his partners.

I'm sure other stuff I missed, it being only my first watch through and all. But that's the stuff that stood out the most to me.

[kermit-coded]

okay i'm way late to the party but. the long goodbye job got me fucked up. eliot hardison and parker all holding hands as they die, mirroring sophie and nate holding hands. eliot's 'last words' being hardison's catchphrase. eliot being in the middle of parker and hardison. eliot being the one to initiate the hand holding. parker cradling hardison in her arms at the bottom of the elevator shaft. nate's monologue to the interpol agent. sterling's rage when he thought nate got the team killed. "eliot, i'd say call if you need anything but you never need anything." "take care of them." "til my dying day." parker being the mastermind in the final scene.

[faerieriddle]

There’s something very profound about Eliot “I refuse to verbally address my feelings or the elephant in the room” Spencer saying “until my dying day.” Like, a man who can’t and won’t talk about his past admitting he can’t see a future without Hardison and Parker in it.

[eg515]

I rewatched The Cross My Heart Job a few days ago and I keep thinking about one scene.

it's the episode that starts with the crew arriving at the airport after a long job, when Nate notices a dead-drop happening and they have a little over an hour to get back a donor heart and save a kid's life.

a main element of the episode is everyone improvising, since they have no equipment. Parker says her lockpicks are in customs. we see a flashback of Hardison's laptop sinking in the ocean. we get an explanation for everything. comms are water damaged. Sophie always travels with heels.

but then we get this scene:

and there are two things I keep thinking about.

Eliot's arm is bandaged, some blood even soaked through. and while he does mention fighting three ex-Brazilian combat divers with spearguns underwater (because of course he did that), it's just a passing comment in his bickering with Hardison. but I just really like this attention to detail. Eliot tending to his injuries is common to see, but we usually see him getting those injuries too. this time we fon't see the fight, not even in a short flashback, but we still see the aftermath.

just. how causally Parker and Eliot start undressing in front of each other? I'm sure by this point they are long used to having to share personal space and not always having privacy, but it's still a striking difference to the previous times when both Eliot and Hardison's reaction was to immediately turn away and give Parker space.

[ziorite]

oh my god season four of leverage is fucking DIABOLICAL. how the fuck are you gonna open with the long way down job, and then hit with the van gogh job carnival job AND the grave danger job in just the first half ??? i swear to god i was shaking out of my skin all through the second half of the grave danger job. and where is aldis hodge’s oscar ??? the shaky voice the constant tears the frantic ripping at the inside of the coffin ?? i was literally holding my phone at arm’s length trying not to cry for him i swear.

i have to appreciate the directors here because i think they did a fantastic job focusing on harrison’s situation and really emphasizing the peril and dread the whole team was working through. the fevered search of the city, the awful moment when parker and sophie have to abandon their shovels and duck for cover, and harrison is left panicked and alone— that shit HURT y’all. it HURT. (i will say that the way the coffin was apparently uncovered off screen was a bit off— they only got a few shovels in before the guy started shooting, i thought, but oh well)

and obviously the hugging at the end. fuck kissing on screen hugging is where it’s at. eliot literally diving over gravestones to get to the coffin and pull hardison out and then clutching him like he’s trying to absorb the poor guy into his bloodstream ??? i will simply never be the same. and the perfect touch of beth riesgraf looking absolutely fucking devastated before turning away because she’s so so so wrecked about this but she’s not ready for that hug…. leverage writers need to square up because that was one fucked up episode and it also delivered on every characterization front ever. leverage is the gift that fucking giving y’all

[independent-fics]

Like Father(s), Like Daughter

Leverage (2008-2012)

2x13 The Future Job

4x18 The Last Dam Job

3x13 The Morning After Job

[stalltherain]

Leverage is the only fandom where I've never seen any semblance of ship wars. Everybody is just like "yep, these 3 are together."

[flowersforvax]

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Is this not the Leverage trio

absolutely it is 😭

hardison drinking nothing but orange soda is bASICALLY already canon and it's just *chef's kiss* perfect that elliot is stressing about both of their health while simultaneously successfully taking out the mark (in two ways!) (let's say that was a tranquilizer dart💀)

Parker doesn't drink that much water btw she was just Lying

[schrijverr]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, as a fandom we don’t do enough with the fact that Hardison is canonically the forger and he made Old Nate. Like he is skilled. And I feel we can make cute OT3 fics with that.

Like Hardison needing to make a fake in a genre, not a specific painting and having Eliot and/or Parker pose for him.

Or make it sexy (semi-failed) where he’s like “pose naked for me” and his partners are like “sure weirdo (affectionate)” and he thinks it’s going to be sexy, but live nude drawing isn’t really sexy, but it can be very intimate, so it’s still nice and he gets emotional about how much they trust him and how they can be vulnerable with him.

Or Eliot has banned screens and Hardison is pouting about it, but then he finds a notepad, so he settles in on the couch and observes Eliot and Parker being domestic and starts sketching them. (Maybe Eliot later finds the drawing and gets emotional about it, because this is how Hardison sees him, not a murdering monster, but this soft, happy cook).

Or he makes a little drawing of Parker and gives it to her, because he’s sappy. And he doesn’t expect anything of it, because Parker is more of the money as a gift kind of person, but then they need emergency cash, so he goes into one of her safes and it’s in there on pillow in a nice frame surrounded by diamonds, because that little drawing he made her is as precious to her, like im crying that is so soft.

Anyways, Hardison is the forger! The possibilities are endless!!!