Leverage Central

bonus: #of course they love each other as well (▰˘◡˘▰)

parker + hats (requested by anon)

[id: a digital line drawing of parker, hardison, and eliot laying in bed together. hardison is in the middle, with eliot and parker on either side. they are all holding each other; everyone’s eyes are closed, and they look peaceful. end id]

I just wanted 2 draw them being soft

Sophie loves to go dancing, but she rarely goes with Nate. He takes it too seriously, and he always get involved in the dance hall politics. Plus, as technical and detail oriented as he is, he isn't really good at dancing. He can do the steps, but he doesn't understand how to let himself get swept away by the music.

The first time she asked Eliot, he laughed at her. Said there was no way he was going to spend his night off in some dusty ballroom when he could be at home relaxing. She'd shrugged it off, having anticipated his refusal, and had gone by herself, intending to find a partner when she got there.

Except when she showed up, she found Eliot dressed in jeans and a button-down shirt, his hair pulled back in a pony tail, mumbling something about not wanting her to have to go without a partner.

The next time she asked, he complained about how slippery his shoes were and how handsy Mrs. Gunderson had been during the open dance, but he picked Sophie up at 6 and dropped her off at 10 and smiled most of the time between.

A week after that, she found a flyer for a foxtrot competition slipped under her door, with the note "I'm free on Saturday" scrawled across the bottom.

(They won.)

They go several times a month now. Hardison laughs when he finds out, but Eliot says it's good exercise. Parker is very excited about their trophy but loses interest when she finds out it's plastic. Nate comes to watch sometimes, because as much as he dislikes dancing himself, he appreciates the skill involved.

(Maybe he's picking up pointers. He'll never tell.)

I feel like Sophie doesn’t get enough credit  for SINGLEHANDEDLY GETTING THE LEVERAGE TEAM BACKTOGETHER after season 1.  She basically conned them all into coming to her play without telling them the others were going to be there.  Because she knew the stubborn babies wouldn’t show if they knew the others were coming.  And then when she says, “We’re going to meet up afterwards” and then walks away before they have a chance to say no, SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS DOING AND I LOVE IT

#I really want to hear the phone calls she made to them to get them all there#Parker I think would have been easy to convince because it’s what normal friends do#And Nate was always supportive of her acting so after a few “uh I don’t knows” of course he’s going to say yes#I feel like Hardison would have been really touched that she asked him out of all of them but he would try to play it casual#And for Eliot Sophie probably had to whip out all her neuro-linguistic programming techniques to get him to think it was his idea all along#These stupid dumb babies and their reluctant affection for each other (via other-romantic-verbs)

Leverage 4x12- "The Office Job"

Quick sketch of Sophie Devereaux :)

↪The Three Strikes Job

Leverage S04E04 The Hot Potato Job.

I’m watching Leverage again and Alec Hardison is def my favorite character. He’s funny and gorgeous but my favorite thing about him is that he’s so emotionally perceptive. He’s kind.

He’s always dialed in to the mental state of his team, asking Eliot “are you ok?” when they finally get ready to take down Moreau, even though Alec has no idea they had a prior relationship. He just knows Eliot is quietly panicking.

He knew before she did that Sophie was struggling with her identity and he sat in the van with her and told her who she was to them. He could see her distress, could see her coming decision to leave. He subtly told her why they needed her, but also why it was OK to leave.

Anytime Parker starts to get excited it annoys everyone else but he just grins at her like look at this angel, do ya thang girl. She’s probably never seen that kind of acceptance. When she was upset about Sophie leaving bc it disturbed the seating order, he was the one to change his seat when everyone was yelling at her to get over it. Let’s not forget he patiently waited 4 yrs, no pushing, no ultimatums, no drama for her to be ready for him.

I just really wanna marry Alec Hardison.

Alright okay fine i did it i started watching leverage are you’re all so correct it is a beautiful sexy show about the most autistic people in the world doing robin hood crimes and flirting with each other. And i love it.