[Leverage] - "Striking Hard" {Alec Hardison; Eliot Spencer}

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Title: Striking Hard
Author: kenzimone
Disclaimer: Don't own.
Fandom: Leverage
Characters: Alec Hardison, Eliot Spencer
Rating: R
Word count: 1,400
Summary: Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Note: For trziarre, because she helped push me into action. I wrote this last spring in an attempt

Comments

[lmx_v3point3]

Spot on. Left me shivery. Good job

[kenzimone]

Thank you!

[trziarre]

Eek! I love! Eliot being badass! Eliot angry cause people hurt Hardison! This is wonderful. And I'll leave a more coherent review when I'm...well, coherent. Anyways, thank you, darling. You have my adoration. :)

[kenzimone]

Haha, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! ♥

[deepbluemermaid]

Wow, this is powerful stuff. I especially love Hardison's descriptions of Eliot's movements (and comparing them to Parker and Sophie's talents), and his expressions (or lack thereof).

[kenzimone]

Thank you so much!

[celtic_flicka]

Fantastic. You totally captured the way Eliot would completely go off the rails if something like this happened to one of his teammates, without actually giving us any of Eliot's thoughts--well done!

[kenzimone]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[themonkeytwin]

Ooh, ouch ouch ouch. But, you know, good. There is definitely this scary potential in Eliot that the show has hinted at but never shown. And I like that it was Hardison - any reason why him and not another of the team, or was that part of the reason it was written?

The present tense gets abused a lot, so I tend to avoid reading it, but you made it work really well, and it definitely brings something to the tension and the action. Very nice.

[kenzimone]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. As to why I picked Hardison, I don't really know. He's young and I have a soft spot for him, and perhaps in some way I see him as one of the more vulnerable members of the team - Eliot would definitely have responded differently had it been Nate in that chair.

[themonkeytwin]

For sure. And if you're going to do that to them, it can't be Sophie or Parker, can it? That's a whole new level of squick. But I guess part of the reason I liked it was that (for an escape artist) Parker seems to get rescued a lot. Maybe that's just The Future Job and The Inside Job talking, though, I don't know. So it was nice to see that protective button pushed by Hardison instead.

[kenzimone]

Oh, definitely. That'd be so wrong I never even considered it in writing this! Besides, I have a hard time in general grasping Parker's character, so in my cowardice I usually avoid giving her much focus. Not that there's any need, since I love putting Hardison in an awkward situation and have a snarky, annoyed Eliot come to the rescue.