Alec Hardison - Blog Posts

why does this feel like it would fit for parker and elliot with hardison as spotter?

anyone else see it?

Hardison: Don’t worry. We’ll watch your back.

Client: Oh yeah? Who watches yours?

Parker: *smiles*

Eliot: *appearing out of the shadows*

Eliot: *hair flip*

Eliot: *looks really cool*

Eliot: *another hair flip*

Eliot: That… would be me.

Flight Attendant: Please make sure all small items are secure!

Hardison: *grabs Eliot next to him and holds him tightly against his chest*

Hardison: Do you feel secure?

Eliot: I will hit you.

The Greatest Showman AU (I might write this)

Characters/Who's who:

Flynn- PT Barnum

Eve- Charity Barnum

Jacob- Phillip Carlyle

Ezekiel- Anne Wheeler

Cassandra- Lettie Lutz (bearded lady)

Jenkins- Constantine (the man with 1000 tattoos)

Nicole- Jenny Lind

Songs:

A million dreams: As kidsFlynn talks to Eve about all the dreams he has about their future. He shows her an abandoned house and they play around in it. Flash forward, Flynn comes to admit his love to her and she's done with finishing school. They get a home together in the city. He continues to talk to her about the future they'll have.

In between that and come alive, he looses his job, buys a museum and ends up turning it into a house of curiosities.

Come Alive: He's encouraging these people to be proud of their oddities. Charles Stratton is the first, followed by Cassandra, the bearded lady and the Lord of Leeds. Then that night during the show, there are a couple more acts. The trapeze artists, Ezekiel and a close friend Alec Hardison (this is foreshadowing for a oneshot I'm gonna write) soar through the air.

The other side: Flynn meets Jacob Stone, a rich man who writes plays and has his fathers inheritance. He offers him a drink and Jacob doesn't refuse. Flynn offers him a job, "take the key and see the other side." Jacob turns him down. "I'm okay with the uptown part I get to play. I don't need to see the other side." Flynn watches him go and stands to follow. "Is this how you spend your days, whiskey, misery, a lifetime of plays? No joy or laughter? I guess I'll lab it up to you~" Jacob joins him on the other side.

In between other side and never enough. He goes with Flynn to the circus and they end up in a boothe and comes fave of face wit a gorgeous, exotic man has he is flying on the trapeze. "Who is he?" "That's Ezekiel Jones, one of many trapeze artists. Though he is the best."

Still dumbstruck, he follows Flynn down the stairs and comes face to face with Ezekiel again. "Ezekiel, Alec, meet Jacob Stone. Hell be joining us from now on."

Ezekiel steps towards him, but Alec is staring him down. "What's your act, Mr. Stone?" His accent has Jacob even more dazed.

"I uh... Don't have an act." "Everyone's got an act."

Jacob manages to get the entire troupe to London to meet the queen. He still has connections even though he lost all his inheritance.

They met Nicole Noone and Flynn is awestruck by her. And maybe she can sing.

Never Enough- Nicole sings her opera about nothing being enough for her. Jacob stands with the troupe because he's come to respect them. During the part where she days take my hand. Share this moment with me, Jacob take Ezekiel's hand but drops it when people look back at them. Ezekiel walks away. (FYI they're back in America)

Before This is Me, Flynn I'd introducing Nicole to Eve. Then he brags to Eve's old family about being successful like her dad said he wouldn't. Then he leaves the troupe in the back hallways.

This is Me- Cassandra lifts everyone's spirits. They go into the room anyways. Then they go past the protesters outside the circus. The whole group going "I'm not scared to be seen, I make no apologies. This is me" At the protestors. Then it's showtime. They're singing. Ezekiel makes eye contact with Jacob in one of the rooms above the seats. "I make no apologies. This is me" And that's stomped into the ground.

Before rewrite the stars, Jacob goes to meet Ezekiel at the playhouse. Ezekiel us trying to refuse the two tickets. Jacob shows up. "I wasn't sure you'd show up if I had asked." They go in and are walking up the stairs, arm in arm. "Jacob?" It's his dad. He insults Ezekiel and caused him to run off. Jacob tells off his dad before going after Ezekiel.

"Who cares what they think?"

"You don't get it." Ezekiel looks ready to cry. "You've never been looked at they way your dad looked at me."

Rewrite the stars: Jacob talks about rewriting the stars. Ezekiel and him are meant to be. "You're my destiny." He's trying to keep Ezekiel down at his level as they talk, but he keeps going up into the air in the trapeze. Ezekiel talks about how it's not easy. How they can't be together. "No one can rewrite the stars." They both begin to do the trapeze together, but at the end, they're nearing a kiss and Ezekiel pulls away. "You know I want you, but we're bound to break and my hands are tied. "

Before tightrope: Jacob is trying to talk sense into Flynn about staying and not going on tour with Nicole. He's not listening. He never listens. Flynn is staying goodbye before climbing into a carriage with Nicole to go on tour.

Tightrope- Eve sings about everything she's ever done, she's done it to be with Flynn. "Life's an adventure with a breath taking view. Walking a tightrope with you."

Before from now on, Flynn almost kisses Nicole, then he does and reporters catch pictures of it. There's a fire when Flynn gets back. Jacob is helping the troupe out, but realizes Ezekiel isn't with them and runs back into the burning building. Ezekiel comes back out another way. Everyone is frozen in place. Flynn goes running into the building and Eve screams for him to come back. The building collapses. Then, Flynn emerges from the fire, dragging Jacob with him. He's badly burnt and wheezing.

Ezekiel sits with him in the hospital.

Eve finds out about the kiss and their marriage is ruined.

From now on: The troupe finds Flynn in a bar. "If you've come to get paid, it won't happen." "Mr Carson," Cassandra says. "You've brought happiness into our lives... What more could we want?"

They sing about how they'll be a family from now on. Flynn goes to make things right with Eve.

Before the greatest show, Jacob wakes up and Ezekiel finally kisses him. "You're here."

Flynn makes up with Eve. It was hard for her, but she truly loved him.

Flynn comes back from the bank. They won't loan him anymore. Jacob laughs. "You being who you are, I asked for my pay weekly. I put it aside."

"I can't take your money, Jacob." Flynn now tries to be humble. Ezekiel sees through it.

"Why now are you being humble, Mr. Carson?"

They talk about it, but they won't be able to get another building.

"I can get us some land by the docks. All we need is a tent."

They greatest show: They sing about how it's the greatest show. First it'd Flynn as the ringmaster, but half way through, he turns it over to Jacob. He runs into the ring. "This is the greatest show!"

Flynn runs home to be with Eve.

That's it. That's my au.

Leverage Redemption Season 3 Trailer!

Premiering 17th April

You’re insane, I love you

LEVERAGE GRIFT TRACKER

I FINISHED SEASON 1! Shoutout to @grandma-waldo for the idea

Extra details in the parameters and the job list. I kept a list of all grifts in order they occur through season 1. If I thought about it before hand I would have draw a line between each episode but oh well hindsight and all that.

Any questions? Yes I welcome them and I'll try to answer them. Want to know why I split something? Just ask - there was definitely an overthought process to my madness. Any ideas on adjusting job titles? I want to hear it please. I invested too much in this lol but it's been fun.

Season 1 was tough in trying to decide what the jobs would be while trying to keep them broad and trying to think so I wouldn't need to add anymore come later seasons . Also me and excel nearly got into a fight.

I'm going to do the rest of the show but that will be slow coming. When I figure out how to make a master list with links, I'll make one. Since this is like my 4th post on the topic and there will be a bunch more to come

Surprises and Revelations

- Hardison grifts in intense spurts

- there was only 1 real royalty grift in season 1??? And it was hardison?? But there were 5 Southern Belle/Beau grifts

- Sophie was the first athelete?? Ik I already posted that but it still shocked me (Olympic luge)

- Parker interacts with people more than most of the team - she thieves in the shadows but she talks to people often as a misdirection

- FBI and just an ordinary person (Civilian) were the most common grifts of season 1 > not surprised since everyone played FBI in pilot part 2

- runner up was The Damsel. Plenty of times the team did the Damsel and Damsel's Knight grift together as a misdirection. But going "oh no I need help" to a stranger/mark was more popular

- Hardison and Parker were the most likely to play the Damsel card

(Sidenote: i thought about wanting to know all the scams the team calls out in the show. "Burn scam" "the cherry pie" etc. But I think someone has already made a list but I can't find it. Also my family might kill me if I restart the show - again. I was already getting side eyes for skipping back a few seconds to check out who was grifting when I wasn't paying attention)

If you've read this far! Thank you! Hope you have a great week!

First off, I didn’t realize that this didn’t get posted last Monday (woops), so it's late but hey, why not?

This week I moved away from MDZS and TGCF and got hooked on a few different fandoms. I was browsing and found someone recommending this Good Omens fic and I’m so glad I read it and am reall surprised I hadn’t heard/read it before! It is for sure a new all time favorite. Overall, I jumped around a few fandoms and I’m ending the week by (once again) becoming obsessed with Star Trek TOS/AOS fics (a.k.a spirk) and managed to find some new favorites (one of which I already recommended to my best friend). 

GOOD OMENS

🔹️ 𝙊𝙉 𝙀𝙎𝙋𝙄𝙊𝙉𝘼𝙂𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙃𝙀𝘾𝙔 (𝙊𝙍 𝙃𝙊𝙒 𝙏𝙊 𝘼𝘾𝘾𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙇𝙔, 𝘽𝙐𝙏 𝙒𝙃𝙊𝙇𝙇𝙔, 𝙁𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝙄𝙉 𝙇𝙊𝙑𝙀 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝘼 𝙎𝙊𝙃𝙊 𝘽𝙊𝙊𝙆𝙎𝙀𝙇𝙇𝙀𝙍) [AO3] by 𝙍𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙩𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙡 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Aziraphale x Crowley 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Explicit | 21 Chapters | 133.4K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: 1941 is the London Blitz and the year that MI5 really comes into its own with the new infamous ‘double cross’ system. The service keep tabs on suspects, root out enemy agents and try to turn them into doubles.

Anthony J Crowley is fucking great at this job. He can be sneaky, underhanded and damn ruthless but also charming and kind. It’s what makes him good at turning.

Aziraphale is just a regular Soho bookseller who loves his shop and books and good food and wine when he’s approached by a woman claiming to be MI5, wanting to recruit him for espionage. The poor man is too trusting and gets the shock of his life when he’s approached by a charming but dangerous-looking man also claiming to be MI5.

Crowley recruits Aziraphale to double cross a double crosser and Aziraphale takes to espionage like a duck to water.

Danger, hijinks, and sex ensue.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: A human au I didn’t know I needed! Somehow the author manages to blend everything really well into a human au while keeping everyone in character.

LEVERAGE

🔹️ 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙋𝙐𝙉𝘾𝙃𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝙏𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 [AO3] by 𝙗𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Alec Hardison x Parker x Eliot Spencer 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | General | 1 Chapter| 9.5K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: The woman laughs, her crinkling behind her silver cat-eye glasses. “You must be Eliot,” she says, cheerfully. “He warned me you were charming. Where is he?”

Eliot’s stomach drops as he realizes tat this a terrible fucking mistake, because this ain’t a random elderly woman showing up to collect cans or take up donations or whatever it is that elderly woman in weirdfucking places like Portland do. This is Hardison’s nana, and Eliot has just opened the door to the apartment--to Hardison and Parker’s apartment--like he lives there.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: When Hardison’s Nana visits Eliot ends up feeling like an outsider. This fic showed us Eliot’s insecurities and how he feels like he’s intruding but Parker and Hardison prove his isn’t true with the bonus of introducing us to Hardison’s Nana! (We need more fics with Nana.)

🔹️ 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙍𝙊𝙈𝘾𝙊𝙈 𝙅𝙊𝘽𝙎 [AO3] by 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙮𝙖𝙯𝙖𝙯 [Tumblr] [AO3] [LiveJournal]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: Alex Hardison x Parker x Eliot Spencer 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Teen | 1 Chapter | 4.7K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: Five times Parker, Harrison, and Eliot lived out romcom tropes for a con, and one time they found themselves in one for real.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: I love 5 + 1 fics and this was just so cute, especially because they don’t realize they are playing out romcom moments.

STAR TREK (TOS/AOS)

🔹️ 𝙒𝙀 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙈𝙀𝙀𝙏 𝘼𝙂𝘼𝙄𝙉 [AO3] by 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙨𝙠𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: James ‘Jim’ Kirk x Spock 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Teen | 13 Chapters | 123.4K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: For the first time in his life, things are going right for Jim Kirk. He’s been promoted to captain, he’s getting the flagship, and he gets to hand-pick most of his crew. When he’s sure that it’s bound to mess everything up. There’s a catch, though; even though no one (Jim included) knows it, this is the very same Spock that Jim was best friends with as a kid.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: An amazing fic about what it would have been like if Kirk and Spock were childhood friends. The author has an amazing talent of writing everyone in character and making sure that you get hooked and can’t put the story down. I knew by the second chapter this was going to be a new favorite and by the time I finished had already recommended to one of my besties.

🔹️ 𝘾𝙃𝙀𝘾𝙆 𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙀 [AO3] by 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙣 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: James ‘Jim’ Kirk x Spock 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Explicit | 5 Chapters | 24.7K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: What really happened on Ardana. It’s James Kirk, not Droxine, who Spock wants to woo.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: Basically, Spock tries to make Kirk jealous which may lead to them both finding out their attraction is more mutual than originally thought. 

🔹️ 𝘾𝘼𝙎𝙏 𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙁𝙀𝘼𝙍 [AO3] by 𝙨0𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙧0𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣 [AO3]

𝘗𝘈𝘐𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎: James ‘Jim’ Kirk x Spock 𝘛𝘈𝘎𝘚: Complete | Mature | 7 Chapters | 42.3K Words

𝘚𝘜𝘔𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘠: Kirk saves Vulcan from Nero at high cost to himself. It falls to Spock to pick up the pieces.

𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘚: I thought this fic was really interesting because I don’t recall ever reading anything like this before. It was a really awesome fix it 

My all time favorite quotes of Hardison and Elliot showing support for Parker (S02E13 - the Future Job)

Tara: “He is good.”

Hardison: “He should be shot.”

Parker: “…cut off his arms. And his head. Yeah, I wanna kill him. Can we make that happen?”

Elliot: “Yeah, I can. I mean, I could…” (heavily implies murder)