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Eliot, Parker, and Alec learn a few new tricks.
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- Part 2 of Shelter Me
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16 Apr 2026
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"What does Nyi Aung want?"
The other three exhaled sharply, in mutual frustration. Sophie voiced it. "What he wants is to make Eliot suffer, isn't that clear by now, Nate?"
"No, that's what he's doing. What does he want?" Nate sat back and raised both eyebrows as though this were an academic question. It wasn't, he felt time slipping away as acutely as the others, but they needed to answer this, and they needed to answer it right. This was worth the time.
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When James Sterling said he planned to deliver Eliot Spencer to Myanmar, it wasn't an idle threat, it was a plan he'd already executed. Now the team has to do what it can to get Eliot back.
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15 Apr 2026
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"What do you mean, Eliot? We just saw you make contact."
"That wasn't our guy." The tiny Eliot on the screen quickly scratched behind his neck. He was fidgeting.
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Five short scenes on Eliot Spencer getting outed on a job.
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15 Apr 2026
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Eliot was usually so solid that it was easy to forget that, in his own way, he had been as broken as Parker.
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15 Apr 2026
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"Okay, so we are never doing a con like that again," Quinn said, after a successful artifact retrieval.
The job had involved a three-week con with Quinn playing a mysterious crime boss and Eliot playing his violent enforcer.
"You don't think I played the role well?" Eliot asked. The job had gone off without a hitch and he, for one, thought they had both played their roles perfectly.
It was an easy space to slip into. It reminded him of how simple things were back in the military and the PMCs, where he could let someone else call all the shots. All he had to do was unleash his violence as directed and trust whoever was directing to take care of everything else.
Of course, with the PMCs, well. He'd learned the hard way never to trust himself to a corporation, no matter what patriotic values they may have been founded on.
With Quinn, though. Quinn had played the boss flawlessly--the man with a plan, to whom you could trust every aspect of your being.
"No, you were perfect," Quinn said. He paused, then added, "It was terrifying."
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(AU where Eliot encountered Quinn fresh out of his PMCs, and they'd been working together on and off for years when Team Leverage called Quinn in.)
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- Part 1 of notbeloved07's leverage fan things
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15 Apr 2026