Rating: Pg
Characters: Hardison/Eliot/Parker
Prompt/Prompter: The day he died for them


That Job


It was That Job, the one gone bad in the worst ways.

God knows sometimes Hardison feels like every job is That Job.

But That Day. April 13th 2011. That day.

It was The Day of That Job.

The Day when things went bad in ways no one had predicted, no one could imagine.

The Day everyone, even Nate, was freaking out but Eliot just stepped in and did his job and got them all out safely.

The Day the dust cleared and Eliot fell to the ground, not moving, not breathing.

The Day Eliot died.

The Day Parker and Hardison stepped in, moving past a hysteric Sophie and practically comatose Nate to start CPR and call 9-1-1.

The Day they worked together, using what Eliot had taught them to hold onto him just a little longer.

The Day they asked him not to leave them, to hold on for them, to live for them.

The Day his heart started again and the ambulance came and the paramedics saved his life and every medical professional they talked to couldn't hide their surprise that Eliot had survived.

Two days later was The Day Eliot woke up, alive, alert, himself, theirs.

That Day Hardison and Parker told the doctor who'd told them that Eliot would likely never wake up that he doesn't know everything.

April 13th was The Day Eliot died for them.

But he lived for them every day, and That Day was no exception.