Always Darkest Before Dawn by Sunspot (PG-13)
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Title: Always Darkest Before Dawn
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Gen
Categories: Angst, Dark, Family, Supernatural
Length: Long (30k)
Warnings: Religious issues, Death
Author on LJ:
Website: unavoidedcrisis Ao3
Summary: One of the mysteries of the universe is why Parker, of all people, gets the ability to see a soul after it departs the body of the recently deceased. They're glittery and she's Parker, so of course she starts picking them up, not knowing what they really are. Of course, she could just look in the instruction manual... but oh, no, Hardison's taken it.
Then the hellhound shows up and starts eating the doors off her cupboards, and Eliot is breaking into people's homes to threaten them with tape and knives. It's been a very stressful couple of weeks and all Parker wants is a vacation, or a nice, relaxing art theft, but now the forces of darkness (whatever that means) are bent on destroying the world. And then, if she somehow ever gets that mess sorted out, Hardison's been complaining that all his Hot Pockets taste like doom...
Review: This is an interesting twist on a case fic, mixed with a supernatural story in which Parker becomes the grim reaper.
Everybody somehow manages to stay very in character despite the strange circumstances, and the world building is very well rendered.
The only small comment I have is that I wish we could have seen more of Nate and Sophie in this one.
Always Darkest Before Dawn
Title: Always Darkest Before Dawn
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Gen
Categories: Angst, Dark, Family, Supernatural
Length: Long (30k)
Warnings: Religious issues, Death
Author on LJ:
Website: unavoidedcrisis Ao3
Summary: One of the mysteries of the universe is why Parker, of all people, gets the ability to see a soul after it departs the body of the recently deceased. They're glittery and she's Parker, so of course she starts picking them up, not knowing what they really are. Of course, she could just look in the instruction manual... but oh, no, Hardison's taken it.
Then the hellhound shows up and starts eating the doors off her cupboards, and Eliot is breaking into people's homes to threaten them with tape and knives. It's been a very stressful couple of weeks and all Parker wants is a vacation, or a nice, relaxing art theft, but now the forces of darkness (whatever that means) are bent on destroying the world. And then, if she somehow ever gets that mess sorted out, Hardison's been complaining that all his Hot Pockets taste like doom...
Review: This is an interesting twist on a case fic, mixed with a supernatural story in which Parker becomes the grim reaper.
Everybody somehow manages to stay very in character despite the strange circumstances, and the world building is very well rendered.
The only small comment I have is that I wish we could have seen more of Nate and Sophie in this one.
Always Darkest Before Dawn