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vdistinctive) wrote2019-04-15 11:11 am
vdistinctive) wrote2019-04-15 11:11 am
75 Godiva, Monday
The Leverage team had been in Fandom more than long enough to know exactly what came after the school prom. Eliot's anticipation of seeing Spike and Gracie again had been tempered by his dread over whatever fresh hell of a revelation of his alternate selves' sex lives. He'd already met a daughter some version of him had had with Sterling, for chrissake, but he knew better to think the island couldn't somehow top that.
But Saturday morning had come and gone, and no "you don't get to be with your partners in my universe" child arrived to taunt him. And it turned out, spending time with a couple kids who belonged to all three of them was really nice.
He leaned back on the couch with his coffee, a giant spread of brunch foods arranged on the coffee table, the end tables, and pretty much every other flat surface not currently occupied by a piece of Hardison's tech (yeah, Eliot lost that battle before it ever began), and watched as Hardison finished setting up a video link to Kathy. Parker was perched on the back of the couch next to him, her knee touching his shoulder, looking about as happy and relaxed as he'd ever seen her, and not just because her mouth was full of chocolate cereal. The kids were sprawled on either side of them, teasing and poking each other in a way that reminded Eliot so much of himself and Trudy as kids it almost hurt. Somehow, after everything, he'd still managed to end up with a family. A large one, even. He could get used to this.
He bit his lip thoughtfully, and took a long sip of his coffee.
Maybe he should start taking steps to make sure he got the chance.
[for the fam, and slow play. AU KIDS!]
But Saturday morning had come and gone, and no "you don't get to be with your partners in my universe" child arrived to taunt him. And it turned out, spending time with a couple kids who belonged to all three of them was really nice.
He leaned back on the couch with his coffee, a giant spread of brunch foods arranged on the coffee table, the end tables, and pretty much every other flat surface not currently occupied by a piece of Hardison's tech (yeah, Eliot lost that battle before it ever began), and watched as Hardison finished setting up a video link to Kathy. Parker was perched on the back of the couch next to him, her knee touching his shoulder, looking about as happy and relaxed as he'd ever seen her, and not just because her mouth was full of chocolate cereal. The kids were sprawled on either side of them, teasing and poking each other in a way that reminded Eliot so much of himself and Trudy as kids it almost hurt. Somehow, after everything, he'd still managed to end up with a family. A large one, even. He could get used to this.
He bit his lip thoughtfully, and took a long sip of his coffee.
Maybe he should start taking steps to make sure he got the chance.
[for the fam, and slow play. AU KIDS!]
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Stop trolling your boyfriend, Hardison.
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It did. Just a little.
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God knows, Ada and Spike didn't have that. Wouldn't, probably, even if Eliot's father had still been alive.
"You ain't just their granddad cause you adopted their mom. You earned bein' their granddad."
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He took a moment to digest the idea. He really liked that, too.
"You know, we play our cards right, and you could get to be someone's grandpa someday, too."
Hardison was going to make an amazing grandpa.
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Just putting that out there.
His eyes were steady on where Ada and Spike were giggling at each other, over a decade between them but still close.
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This was the man who used to have near-panic attacks just at the mention of commitment.
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Well damn. He had a future.
"You know, instead of just lettin' it ambush us on the regular."
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Though his eyes strayed over to the kids again.
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"Tell ya one thing I've been thinking," he said, keeping his voice low and tilting his head a little towards Spike. "There's some weird stuff goin' on in the entertainment industry out west. . . ."
Somewhere in their world, there was a version of Spike waiting on them to come find him.
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He coulda left it there. He didn't though.
"So, Kathy's yours," he said slowly. "But Spike...Spike's gonna be all of ours. I was thinkin' we might wanna get ourselves settled before we go out and get 'im."
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Eliot wasn't necessarily disagreeing. But Hardison tended to go a little more . . . all in than was strictly necessary, and he didn't want to agree to something that resulted in them getting, like, some magical soul bond or something.
(He didn't need his partners ending up where he was pretty sure he was going, when he passed on.)
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Maybe this wasn't the right time to bring that all up.
"We're fine. We're better'n fine. S'all good."
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You know, eventually. Some day. In the distant future.
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"Yeah," Hardison said. "I mean, an' it only means as much as the folks involved want it to mean..."
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He and That Guy had issues these days, anyway. So many issues.
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"Ain't never have before," was all he said. "Can't see why we'd start now."
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Eliot wasn't entirely sure if they were agreeing to get married or not, actually. At least they'd started the conversation?
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