You Mean The World To Me
Rating : PG-13
Word Count : approx 390
Written for the prompt : Leverage, Eliot/any, he stole it to say I love you.
Fandom : Leverage
Character : Eliot (Eliot/Parker – although she doesn't directly appear)
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You Mean The World To Me
There's a metaphorical niggling feeling inside Eliot that's trying to scream at him; would be screaming at him if he didn't have an equally metaphorical hand clamped firmly over its mouth. It would be screaming, "Buy it, for God's sake, buy it. You have the money now, you don't need to steal like this!"
And that feeling would be exactly right, he doesn't 'need' to steal. He doesn't need to steal for himself or for anyone else. Sure he does it for Nate, for the clients but that's different . . . that's justified, almost legitimate . . . if he squints slightly about the illegal nature in which they go about it . . . he's pretty certain that any higher powers than the US judicial system would see his point and if he ends up serving time in the prison system, well, it's probably deserved, just not for what they'd be actually locking him up for.
So it doesn't stop him stealing the pretty little necklace, because it is pretty and it would look perfect with the little diamond drop at the end sitting against Parker's skin. He knows it's what Parker wants, she was the one who pointed it out to him and Hardison the other day. He wanted to rush into the store there and then, buy it and anything else that caught her eye because this thing between them is still new, it still needs work and he wants more than anything to get it right.
Parker needs him to prove just how much it means and that is why he's sneaking back into the store, after hours to steal the necklace because in some bizarre kooky way, he knows that stealing it for her would mean more to her than him buying out the whole store.
And he wants her to know she means the world to him.