Singapore
A/N: This might turn out to be a series, it might not. We'll see where the ever elusive muse takes me. I guess it is kind of a spin-off from my series called Luxuries & Loss. A damn good set of fics if I do say so myself. Yep, shameless self-promotion One last thing – I think this is the shortest thing I've ever posted.
Leverage – Eliot – Leverage - Eliot
Singapore, it wasn't a city that Eliot Spencer particularly cared for. Okay, the Asian Civilizations Museum was nice. There was some good food at the little food stalls in the back alley's; alright there was really good food. But, he still stood out like a sore thumb. Steve had phrased it best: A haole.
A haole. It was a word generally associated with Hawaii; but, it worked in Singapore too. In Hawaii it meant that he was white. It was pretty much a racial slur, kind of like nigger. Actually it wasn't like a racial slur – it was a racial slur. In Singapore it meant that he couldn't really find someplace to hole up. He'd stick out in the usual rat-holes where in western countries he could hole up for a few days and heal until he was well enough to travel home, and no one would notice if he was bruised and battered. Well, in Singapore the problem was he was the only round-eyed person in those places. And if he went to a nice hotel, one that had Michelin stars or something like that attached to the name he got really weird looks when he checked in and often a phone call or visit from the police asking what had happened to him.
That left out the rat-hole hotels because people could easily find him. So that meant he needed to check into nice hotels, with an elaborate cover story. Something that could be confirmed, which meant he needed to find out where the MMA matches were, or boxing and explain that to the cops that he was transiting back to the United States after a fight. Because, unlike cops in the United States: The Singapore police would actually check on his cover story. Damned annoying…
But, the upside of being in Singapore was that when he was healed there was some phenomenal food available! And after a few days of living on room-service food good local food was always a nice change.
E/N: The Asian Civilizations Museum is awesome; especially the Peranakan annex.
