We know drama. AKA meme time!
I hate drama. Not television drama, which I love, because it's not real and it's not happening to me and I can walk away from it at any time. I hate real-life drama, which is harder to escape and leaves me feeling drained and raw and unsteady. I've been dealing with personal drama on several fronts lately and it is exhausting. And what I really
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So, this whole fic was sort of an exploration of Parker as a more sexually self-aware and savvy person than she’s usually portrayed in fic. While the show makes a lot of her emotional immaturity, that doesn’t necessarily have to mean she’s also sexually immature, and I wanted to play around with the idea of her intentionally flirting with Eliot and how much that might fluster him. You’ll also note that, because I am such a canon whore and have a hard time writing non-canon relationships, I had to slip in a reference early on to the fact that Parker and Hardison had been together and then broken up, in order to justify all of this. Pathetic canon-whore is pathetic. But it also helps make things more interesting, because it adds yet another reason why Eliot would try to deny his attraction to Parker, on top of John Rogers’ assertion that Eliot doesn’t shit where he eats.
Anyway, this specific passage was inspired by the scene at the beginning of The Tap Out Job when Eliot has Parker demonstrate a some MMA moves on Hardison. More particularly, it was inspired by the way Eliot tells Parker, “Square up. Remember what I showed you?” Which means he has totally spent time teaching her fighting moves before at some point! Canon baby! Also? Hot.
So, by this point in the fic, Parker’s been sort pursuing/flirting with Eliot, and he’s trying not to notice because he’s a gentleman that way and also because he’s not really sure that’s what she’s doing. And they’re between jobs, and I don’t really imagine Eliot and Parker hang out all that much when they’re not on the job, not the way Eliot and Hardison and Nate probably do. So Eliot’s kind of torn between being relieved, because he doesn’t have to deal with how he’s feeling about Parker, and actually kind of missing her because he doesn’t have an excuse to be around her.
And then Parker just shows up, which takes him off guard. Not only is he figuratively exposed because he wasn’t expecting to see her, but he’s literally exposed because she’s caught him asleep and half-naked. (P.S. Eliot totally wears Levi’s button-fly 501s. In my head, anyway.) So he tries to act irritated to keep her at a distance, the way he always does, but secretly he’s glad she’s there and pleased she wants to learn from him and the truth is that he would do anything for her, even if he pretends like he doesn’t want to.
At this point I had to go and watch a shitload of YouTube videos of jiujitsu demonstrations so I could describe what Eliot would teach Parker to do. There’s a lot of touching involved, but I wanted Eliot to be very serious and business-like about this part, because I think when you do as much sparring and working out as he must do, you get accustomed to touching people in a coaching scenario and he would be extra careful not to let that become something suggestive. And one of the things I love about Parker is that as much as she’s the “crazy” one, she’s also crazy professional and good at what she does. She’s extremely serious about her craft and she’d take Eliot’s craft just as seriously. Which is part of why he’s totally drawn to her, because that’s something they have in common, in addition to having the most physical skills of anyone on the team.
Except Parker’s plan was totally to use this as an excuse to put the moves on Eliot all along, so pretty fast she goes from serious student to obvious flirting. As Eliot realizes what’s happening he feels a lot of guilt, because there is a bro code and he is not the kind of guy to violate it and he kind of knew this was where this might go and he agreed to it anyway. On the other hand, it turns out his high horse is not so high after all, because when it becomes clear that Parker knows exactly what she wants and what she wants is him, well, what’s a guy to do? Especially since it’s really what he’s wanted all along, too.
And OMG I think this is actually longer than the passage you just picked. LOL.
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