As Eliot stated, they arrived in Oklahoma City about an hour later, with Parker winning the race. Parker had a wide grin on her face, and Eliot rode up beside her a few seconds later. They were in the small town where Eliot had grown up, and they were in the suburbs of the small town.
"Come on," Eliot revved his bike and sped off, with Parker in tow, following him around the town. Eliot pulled into a plaza, a supermarket appearing into Parker's view.
"We need to stock up on some food if were staying here a few weeks." Eliot explained. He hopped off his bike and waited for Parker to do the same. She followed suit and they both walked into the supermarket. They bought some fresh fruit, cereal, milk, and everything else that Eliot would need in the kitchen at his disposal. They paid for the groceries and placed them gingerly in the duffle bags, and soon sped off to Eliot's parent's house.
"This is?" Parker motioned to a small ranch that Eliot pulled into. He nodded his head and parked his Ducati. Parker parked hers and she hopped off and helped Eliot with the duffle bags and groceries, and paused before staring at Eliot.
"What if they don't like me?" Parker mumbled, glancing down at her shoes. Eliot sighed and hugged her, well attempted to hug, and pecked her cheek.
"They're gonna love you darlin', trust me," A small smile graced Parker's face and she followed Eliot to the front porch. Eliot knocked lightly, and the door swung open.
"Hey, boy! Come on in," The older man welcomed Eliot in, and his eyes widened slightly as he saw Parker.
"Ah, so you must be Parker. Nice to meet ya, I've heard quite a bit 'bout ya," The man held out his hand for Parker, who shook it awkwardly and followed behind Eliot.
"Uhm…." Parker trailed off as she glanced around the living room of the house, stopping at Eliot's form. Eliot cleared his throat and walked up to Parker.
"Uh, Parker, this is my Mom and Dad." Eliot motioned to his parents and Parker nodded her head awkwardly.
"Hi Parker, I'm Sally, and this is my husband Johnny, It's nice to meet you. We have heard so many good things about you." Sally smiled widely and Parker shifted towards Eliot with a frown on her face. Eliot hugged her close, and she began to calm down.
"Yea. I'm Parker. Uhmmm… Eliot's girlfriend." Parker bobbed her head up and down awkwardly.
"Well, let me show you to the kitchen so we can start on cookin' dinner," Eliot broke the silence and he stepped away from Parker, grabbed the groceries that he set on the couch and went into the room, which Parker presumed was the beloved kitchen. Parker followed him and hopped on the stool that was by the counter and watched as Eliot began to get everything out. He pulled his hair back into a low ponytail and washed his hands before beginning.
"Whatchya makin?" Parker questioned as she stared at Eliot with curious eyes.
"Bought some steaks, some taters and I plan on cookin' them up on the grill out there," Eliot motioned to the smoker sitting on the back porch of his parent's backyard. Parker noticed the play gym and swing set in the yard and glanced at Eliot with an arched eyebrow.
"Uh, it's for when Linds and Carrie come up. He brings his daughter and son with, they're 5 and 6. And Carrie, she brings the twins down." Parker nodded her head and turned back to Eliot.
"So when do we get to see Lindsey and Carrie again?" Eliot shrugged.
"Don't know. I haven't talked to them in a couple weeks. I don't think they know that I'm here. I did tell Linds that were in Portland though. He's lived there a couple years. We'll probably see 'em over our vacation though," Parker bobbed her head up and down excitedly.
"Hey Eliot, I just thought of something. I mean since Soph kinda figured out that we're a couple, don'tcha think that we should just let the whole team know I mean, it's kinda pointless now that Sophie knows, and you know how she loves messing with us," Eliot stayed quiet for a moment shrugging.
"It doesn't matter to me anymore. I mean Sophie does know now, and well Nate was right there when it happened so… I guess we should tell them…" Eliot gave Parker a small smile. Parker's head snapped towards the door as she heard a couple of knocks. Eliot glanced at the door and waited as his parents let the person in. A couple of familiar faces greeted Eliot and Parker.
"Hey Bro!" Lindsey exclaimed, fist bumping with Eliot. He gave Parker a small hug and let go of her. Sally and Johnny were looking at them surprised.
"You've met Parker before?" Sally said incredulously, and crossed her arms as she glared at Eliot pointedly. Eliot set his knife down and held his hands up in defense.
"Trust me, they didn't meet in the most ideal way… When Sammy was born, he wanted me to come up and help him out with some things and well, Parker ended up coming too, to put it simply," Lindsey started chuckling and crossed his arms while trying to contain his laughter. Sammy and Ben rushed towards Parker who picked them up effortlessly and held each in one of her arms as they hugged her tightly.
"Auntie Parker!" Two shrill voices squealed excitedly.
"Hey guys!" Parker hugged them back tightly and set them down. They rushed towards Eliot for a hug. He crouched down and hugged them both.
"Hey Kiddos," Eliot ruffled their hair as he stood back up.
"Your pops treatin ya good?" Sammy and Ben bobbed their heads excitedly.
"That's good, but tomorrow, Me and Parks here, plan on takin y'all out tomorrow. Give your old man a day off." Lindsey gaped at him for a moment before smiling softly. Lindsey hasn't had a day to himself in months, and was thankful that Eliot had brought that up.
"Oooooh Auntie Parker, can we watch a movie? Can we? Can we?" Parker laughed and nodded her head.
"Sure. Hey Eliot, where did you put my bag?" Eliot pointed towards the end of the hall.
"Last door on the left." Parker walked off into the bedroom and grabbed her laptop, from Hardison of course, only the best for the team, he would always say, and pulled up a Netflix account. She returned to the living room to find her niece and nephew sitting on the couch. She down between the two of them.
"What do you guys wanna watch? We can watch anything that you want to." Parker brought up the search box and waited as two children tried to decide on what movie. Parker pulled up a movie and glanced at the kids.
"Whats Axe Ventera?" Parker snorted and shook her head.
"Its pronounced Ace Ventura, it's a pretty cool movie." The two kids snuggled into Parker and Eliot dimmed the lights in the living room as he saw them on the couch watching a movie. Parker turned to look at Eliot and smiled as she glanced back at the laptop screen. As soon as Eliot finished cooking the dinner, he excused himself from the kitchen and silently joined Parker, Sammy, and Ben on the couch.
The following morning, Sally was taken to surprise at the scene on her couch. She silently went back to her room to get Johnny. He followed her and glanced at the scene. Parker was sleeping in Eliot's arms, who happened to be passed out on the couch. Sammy and Ben were hugging Parker tightly in their sleep. Eliot and Parker had content smiles on their faces.
"He deserves her, it's time we see him happy again. He looks so much older than he should be…" Sally frowned and crossed her arms.
"True. She seems to keep him in one piece, knows how to keep him rooted, and just from studying them in the past couple hours, he seems to be doing that for her too. If he proposes anytime soon, I wouldn't mind, I like her. She suits him," Johnny leant across the doorframe and watched the couple. It's been years since Johnny's seen his boy, and even then he wasn't real happy. Now, he's smilin' more in the past few days then he has in the last years he saw him before he left for the army. For that he, he's thankful that he met Parker.
AND I NOW RANT BEWARE.
Author's Note:…. Okie, so I'm finishing this chapter up, and I decide to watch the DB COOPER episode to cheer me up. I check my facebook. Notification from Christian Kane (Im a kaniac, not afraid to admit it) and I see a letter as follows: Attention #Leverage #Grifters. Please see the special letter below from the Executive Producer of Leverage, Dean Devlin:
The Long Goodbye is our final goodbye.
It has been decided today that this Tuesday's episode of Leverage "The Long Goodbye Job" will be the series finale as TNT has decided not to renew the show for a sixth season.
I want to take the opportunity to thank TNT for five amazing seasons and 77 episodes of a show that has been so good to me. I'm incredibly proud of the show and what we've accomplished. Throughout this journey TNT have been the most amazing partners. Their support and collaboration I will cherish forever.
I also want to thank everyone involved in making the show. Tim, Gina, Beth, Christian and Aldis are the finest ensemble of actors I've ever worked with. They've become our partners, our friends and our family.
The amazing crew who pulled off miracles every day on our show. Thank you for everything you've contributed. Your blood and sweat is in every frame of our series and I'm eternally in your debt.
And, of course, on behalf of everyone involved in the show, thank you to all the fans who've supported us and the show. You have amazed us all. We love you and thank you all.
I'm so happy we were able to film the series finale we had always envisioned and I'm happy we're able to present it on Christmas as our gift to you. It's a bittersweet goodbye.
Gratefully yours,
Dean Devlin\
Executive Producer/Director LEVERAGE
Well anywho, I read it. THEY FUCKING CANCELED LEVERAGE! AFTER ALL THE WORK US FANS HAVE DONE, WANTING THEM TO RENEW THEY FUCKING CANCELED IT. There are only so few things that can get me to cry and this was one of them. I nearly started sobbing as I read it. I fuckin chocked back sobs and had to run into my room. A lot of people loved the show, and I hope that all goes well to Christian, Beth, Aldis, Tim, and Gina afterwards, and maybe hopefully, but this is highly unlikely, it may be switched to a different TV network, but I wish them all best wishes for the holiday season, even though they decided to give us the news 3 or so days before Christmas. On another note, I hope that they work together in the future, because Leverage was, and is one of the most, Unique, wonderfully written, smart, and awesome shows that people love, that got canceled and replaced with some shitty ass show. Anyways read this and cry your eye out like a do, and rant to TNT like I did, begging them along with their other of millions of followers to renew it or change to a different TV Network. An another note, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and Sorry for the long rant. I always get like that if something of this nature happened.