Title: Be wary when seeking revenge
Author: DarkRose1902
Fandom: Leverage
Genre: Angst
Rating: M
Warning: heavy Eliot angst including past non-con
Spoilers: General
Summery: Alec finds something unexpected online and uses it to upset Eliot. It does more harm than he intended though.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters you recognise but do own the ones you don't. This is my way of loving them.
Story
Alec Hardison was bored – and that was never a good thing. The team's hitter, Eliot Spencer, had been more seriously injured than usual so the boss, Nathan Ford, had decided they would have a break. Give him time to recover from four broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder and a broken wrist. The thief, Parker, and grifter, Sophie Devereaux, had been pleased (well not that Eliot was hurt but) with the holiday. They each disappeared doing their own things around the country while the boys stayed in town. In fact the lads often popped into the office to get together and watch sports on Alec's awesome technological set up.
Alec was bored so he resorted to doing his two favourite things with a computer – searching for porn and investigating his team. The first needed no justification and the second . . . well Hardison liked a challenge and tracking down his mysterious teams' pasts' was no small-time hack.
This day was different because the two searches merged together and Alec was suddenly watching a video of Eliot; naked and kneeling, a well-dressed young man was ordering a half-dressed brute to whip him. The hacker was transfixed until a sinful groan from Eliot brought him to his senses. He paused the vid, covered it with another program then froze, listening intently to hear if anyone … if Eliot had heard. When there was no thundering feet or cries for his blood Alec looked at it again – still paused, examining the expression on Eliot's' face. Where the video was paused whatever the man was using to hit Eliot was blurred but everything else was crystal clear.
The muscle man had a large section of Eliot's hair wrapped around his hand and was using it to push Eliot's head sideways, angled down and away from him. A portion of hair fell over Eliot's face, hiding an eye and going down to his chest, which was red and bruised. His mouth had fallen open slightly and sweat beaded on his top lip. A fragile tear was caught in the crease of his nose.
"Eliot will kill you if he sees you looking at that," said a voice suddenly in the doorway causing Alec to jump almost out of his chair.
"Wha … Jeeeezus … Do Not Do That!" Alec said a hand over his heart, staring up at Nathan.
"Eliot's in the kitchen making . . . Oh My God!" Parker suddenly appeared next to Nathan.
"What!" Eliot called and there was rapid movement. Alec panicked and couldn't move leaving Nate to rush forward and close the video. He ended up putting a pornographic picture on top instead and Alec stopped breathing as Eliot appeared in the doorway knife already in his hand,
"Hardison, you wanna keep that sort of thing out the office," he said and Alec looked through black spotted vision to the screen where a large breasted woman was posed between two hairy men. He let out his breath slowly and said shakily,
"Yea, Yea I err will," Eliot frowned but left,
"Yummy!" Parker had moved to hover by Alec and put the stilled video on top again. She was staring at it intently, Alec would had been jealous but all he could feel was fear,
"Parker," Nathan warned moving back to the doorway and stared at her carefully avoiding the computer screen.
"Yea Nate?" she answered without taking her eyes off the screen.
"Wow does Eliot know you're all looking at that?" Sophie said standing next to Nate in the doorway. Alec groaned and stood, ready to run certain any minute Eliot would appear knife in hand,
"No look … Parker! Come away from there," the blond had moved in closer and her face was barely an inch away from the screen.
"I swear I was just … you know looking for stuff about his past, like I do all you guys. I don't watch guy . . . you know um," Alec tried to explain,
"Are you still trying to find out all our secrets?" Sophie said with a patronising smile. Alec grimaced as he closed the video (and all the other stuff he had running).
"You know me,"
"Oh," Parker sighed disappointed she did so very much like pretty things.
"Do you think Eliot would pose for me like that?" she stepped back and clasped her hand around an imaginary bit of hair,
"No! No! Parker you can NOT tell Eliot about this!"
"Tell Eliot about what?" Eliot asked, again standing in the doorway,
"No … nothing man I don't know what she's talking about!" Alec stuttered. Eliot looked at each of his team fiercely before giving up,
"Food's ready," was all he said. Nathan and Sophie exchanged a look and followed. Alec grabbed Parker's arm and held her back,
"Food, Hardison," she complained,
"Parker seriously, he'll kill me if he finds out about that . . ." Alec cut himself off,
"Eliot wouldn't kill you; he wouldn't kill any of us. He told me,"
"He threatens you an' me all the time," Alec said and Parker leant in closer and said in his ear,
"He just says that cause he likes watching you freak out," she said grinning and hurried for food. Alec sat slumped in his chair. As he felt his heart rate slow down his blood began to boil. Eliot thought it was … funny to scare him like a hundred and one bullies from Alec's school years. His eyes moved to his empty computer desktop.
'Funny' yea … Alec could do 'funny' too.