My favourite thing about Leverage (other than all of it) is the fact that Alec Hardison, cinnamon roll, gentleman, and all around ray of sunshine, took one look at a human Gordian knot and the living embodiment of the raincloud emoji and said, “Yes, these ones.”
Tag: parker
See, this kills me because it’s a pretty fucking fundamental driving force in Eliot Spencer’s character – “you can’t make that promise to more than one person.” And yet he ends the series doing exactly that.
The evil writerly part of my brain wants to know what happens when he can’t be there for Parker and Hardison both at the same moment. Whether it’s a heist gone wrong and he has to choose who to protect, or they’re in conflict with each other and he can’t avoid taking sides – what happens?
Hardison. (At least for the job gone wrong, and assuming nothing in the job fundamentally supercedes it by putting other’s lives in danger.) Parker would tell him to get Hardison out and he’d do it, because that’s what makes them…them.
And when Hardison demands why, Eliot tells him, “she said to say, there’s never a plan M.”
i feel personally attacked by this headcanon
“I think I’m getting better at this. I didn’t even stab him! “
-Parker Aesthetic
#the fact that eliot #who always moves carefully knows where to put his feet where to rest his weight how to move regardless of the situation #goes skidding to get to Hardison that much faster #and that Hardison who’s so careful with how he touches and when #never demanding #unless it’s to give Eliot shit #is just openly clinging #…this entire scene hurts my heart so bad but I love it #and that’s not even talking about Hardison and Parker here holy hell (via distinctivelibrarians)
You know man, when I was a kid, I was like 8 years old, I had a foster mom who was a Jehovah’s witness. She used to dress me up in a
suit and a bowtie and take me door-to-door to spread the word. Black
neighborhoods, white neighborhoods, didn’t matter. I would kick, I’d
scream, or whatever, but she would say “Alec, you need to learn how to
talk to people.” See, everything I learned about people, I learned
ringing doorbells and being in a bowtie. Parker never had that.
I mean, jumping from a skyscraper, she’s cool. But making small talk?
It’s like pure terror. Just cut her some slack.
#remember when eliot said this actual dialogue to hardison and expected us to believe him lmfao??? #anyway exposeddd
liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike. let’s talk about their reactions here? because i 100% believe in my filthy trash bin of a heart that this episode was the point of no return for parker and eliot both, the point at which they both realised holy shit i am in way over my head.
look at those reactions. like, it’s not simple relief, it’s relief and *total fucking whelm*. and neither eliot nor parker has–allowed themselves, maybe, the relative luxury of just thinking about what someone means to them. because it’s always been a liability. for eliot, caring too much about people would just be something that someone could use against him; for parker, it’s what archie’s cautioned her against a million times: we don’t get involved.
and worse for both of them, really, is that they’re not–not too caught up in a job, not too wrapped up in their own reputations or…or things that could be forgivable, really. things that they could realise and chide themselves for and then pull back from, do better. no, instead they’re both of them way overinvested in another person, in a person who could be hurt, who could be taken from them because they weren’t good enough or fast enough or–or just because sometimes you lose.
parker and eliot have always been aware of when they should cut their losses and get out. but this–this isn’t an acceptable loss. maybe neither of them can say the word love just yet, even to themselves, but this is where they realise it.
hardison doesn’t die, but he comes back to life anyhow, and when he does, the whole world changes.
#alec hardison#leverage#parker#eliot spencer#the grave danger job#leverage 4×07#my gifs#ugh i just have so many feelings about this episode#how it’s the tipping point for eliot and parker#but not for alec#because he’s known for ages#he’s known for ages that he was in this for better or for worse#and that maybe not everyone else was#and he’s ok with that#because he’s never going to ask people for more than they can give#because he figures that every day of this is a gift#even if they’re only ever teammates#even if they’re only ever friends#because he still gets to be there#and that’s what matters#alec marshmallow heart hardison#loving people they way they need to be loved#UGH FEELINGS
knitting in the dark 