Fic: These Things That Were

[scout_lover]

Title: These Things That Were
Author: scout_lover
Characters: Eliot Spencer, Damien Moreau, Chapman (whom I’ve named Myles), Nate Ford (briefly)
Rating: PG-13 (implied, very implied, consensual m/m relationship)
Warnings: None … except maybe for Eliot as a stone-cold killer
Word count: 4,985
A/N: This was written for arabwel for the Leverage Secret Santa Exchange. The

Comments

[telaryn]

All your stress about this, sweetheart?

Take my word for it - you got over whatever was holding you back.

Wow. *bookmarks*

[scout_lover]

*heaves huge sigh of relief* Thank you, sweetie! You have no idea how much that means to me. Maybe I was just over-thinking this.

Seriously, it means the world that you like this. Thank you!

[telaryn]

Believe me - I don't just "like" this. Until Rogers & Downey et al tell us otherwise, far as I'm concerned this is canon.

[jesco0307]

Wow, that's just...yeah, I don't even have words...brilliant? It's not that they'll ever be giving us a fill back-story of what Eliot had with Moreau, but in my mind this is it.

This is beautiful written and absolutely fantastic. *bows head*

*walks of to bookmark*.

[scout_lover]

Thanks, hon. I'm delighted you like it so.

Goran Visnjic made Damien such a compelling character, and, in just that one poolside scene, he and Christian turned Eliot/Damien into a HUGE kink for me. I may even be slightly obsessed … *looks shifty*

Thank you again.

[arabwel]

Thank you so much! :D this is gorgeous. What fgois undais issaying so much and the way they just fit and poor chapman alwaynd and and ... *flails* thank you! <3

I wish I had more coherent things to say but all I can do is squeak happily XD

[scout_lover]

YIPPPPEEEEEEE!!!!! *does ugly but enthusiastic happy dance*

I'm thrilled to pieces that you like this so! When I read what you wanted, I was ecstatic. I seem to have a slight (!!!) thing for Eliot/Damien, so your prompt was like chocolate.

Of course, then I began to overthink it and got myself all stressed out and convinced it was horrible. You can thank telarynyou for the prompt that gave me an excuse to think about their early days. I loved sketching out their relationship.

And, yeah, I even kind of felt sorry for Chapman. Always in Eliot's shadow.

Thank you again, so much!

[arabwel]

It is a glorious gift! :D *joins in dancing*

I am honestly surprise that the fandom hasn't put Damien in leather pants and shipped the hell out of him and Eliot :P I am always gla to inspire more numminess and If I was able to characterize any of the Leverage characters at all, I'd totally write the hell out of them!

Poor chhapman. I admit I am sort of tempted tto write gen about him and Eliot int he satyle of the Bastard operator From Hell, because let's face it, chapman totally was a Pimply Faced Youth :P

[scout_lover]

Eliot and Damien have taken over large chunks of my brain. ;) And I have visions of Damien always having to referee arguments between Eliot and Chapman, who have a serious case of sibling rivalry (with Eliot, of course, always being the favorite).

And I do like the idea of Eliot as the BOFH and Chapman as PFY, lol.

If you're interested, I've got another Eliot-Damien story here, called Jupiter and Mars. Like I said, I might have a thing for these two. ;)

[scout_lover]

Thank you so much! I'm delighted you liked it so. I loved "building" their relationship, and I'm thrilled it resonated with you. That means so much to me, especially considering how badly I managed to freak myself out over this.

Incredibly wordy reply, part The First

[scout_lover]

(You may want to get some coffe; this could take a while, lol. And I seem to have exceeded my character count.)

Oh, thank you, thank you! I'm thrilled to pieces that this affected you so. Honestly, I had worked myself into such a state over this that I was *thisclose* to just trashing it. Luckily, telaryn and sheryden settled my butt down, talked me off my ledge and gave me the little kick I needed to finish it.

Chapman, to me, seemed the obvious choice as an "observer." There was such a wonderful undercurrent of tension, hostility and contention between them, from Eliot's vaguely contemptuous, "He gave you the job?" to Chapman's sneering "I heard you'd gone soft," that, clearly (at least to me, lol) there were long-standing issues between them. I just sort of latched onto that and spun it out as a sibling rivalry … on steroids, and with guns. *g* But when they faced each other by that pool, there was obviously no love lost between them

Incredibly wordy reply, part The Second

[scout_lover]

I adore the Eliot-Damien dynamic. Goran Visnjic made Damien such a charismatic, seductive, commanding figure, and he and Christian played that poolside encounter with such a quiet intensity that I just went, "Guh!" There was obviously something there between their characters. For all the people in that scene, they really were the only ones there. They kind of took over my brain, lol.

Damien obviously had a deep fondness for Eliot (I love his smile during the "dog fighting" scene, while he's watching Eliot on TV; it's very much a "that's my boy!" look, even as he's watching Eliot undermining his power). He knows Eliot ("he prefers beer"), and obviously trusts him … up until the moment he learns Eliot has betrayed him (and, yeah, I may actually have to write that scene; it's sort of eating at my brain now, lol). But there's also just a little hint of, what? anger? resentment? when he asks, "Is this another retrieval job, Eliot? Tell me, whose Snoopy lunchbox do I have?" Just that little bit of bitchiness, belittling him in front of his