Title: 5 times Eliot was jealous over Parker

Author: AyLee Cambell

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: Not yet beta'd, when it is I'll re-post it.

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1. Punching your problems

"What the hell did you do that for?" Parker demands as they come into the office. She pulls off her coat and throws in onto one of the chairs before turning to look at Eliot. "I was handling it, so why did you interfere like that?"

"You were handling it? He was all over you Parker!"

"So? Why do you care? I was distracting him. I would have lost him in a moment if you hadn't come over and punched him!"

"Hold up, Eliot punched him? That was what all the commotion was about?" Nate asked.

"What did you think it was?" Parker demanded, turning to look at the others for a moment.

"We thought you did it. You know stabbed someone again or something." Hardison said, not see the look or shut up motions Sophie was making.

"Gee thanks guys, glad to know that's going to be held against me forever! Well guess what? This time Eliot screwed it up, not me!" Parker said and stormed into her office and slamming the door behind her.

"Great thanks for the help there guys. Can't you just butt out of it!" Eliot growled and stomped over to Parker's door. Trying the knob he found it was locked.

"Parker! Either let me in or I'll kick it down!" He demanded, and waited until he heard the click of it unlocking before shooting the others a look. "Stay out of this!" He told them before going into Parker's office and closing the door behind him.

"Well that's just great." Hardison said.

Parker glared at Eliot as he came into her office. The whole point of a lock is so that other people, who weren't her, wouldn't be able to get in.

Threats of being kicked down weren't supposed to be involved. It wasn't right. He pissed her off and should give her time to deal with it alone. The others wouldn't like it if she stabbed him with her letter opener and if what he said didn't make her happy that was probably what she was going to do. It wasn't her fault that her body sometimes reacted before she could think. It was all a reflex.

Still, explaining that to the others would be a bitch.

Eliot looked at Parker, who was glaring at him. It was slightly adorable in that 'my kitten has claws' way. It hurt, but was too damn cute for you to really care.

He sighed. He knew Parker was a whole lot more dangerous than a kitten and had to be taken seriously.

"I'm sorry." He muttered, knowing he was wrong. But he didn't have to like admitting it.

"Why?" Parker asked, trying not to let her anger control her. Sophie told her most people tried to talk it out rather than throw things on the person who pissed you off and than later get even by getting revenge.

So, she'd try it this way first, but if he made her any angrier she was going to start chucking things at him until he left then she'd put Nair in his shampoo. What he said better be good.

"I know you could have handled it, but I don't know, I really just wanted to punch the guy." Eliot growled, clenching his fists as if he wished he could punch the guy again.

Parker smirked, anger forgotten as she realized what was happening. She had read it in some book.

"You're jealous." She told him and smirked.

Eliot growled at her. "No I'm not." He said, just a little too quickly than thought about it.

"Maybe." He added than shook his head and started for the door. "Damnit."

Parker watched him leave, a small smile coming to her lips.

This could be a lot of fun.

2. My date and her dress

He'd seen the guy spot Parker as soon as they entered the room and the guy had waited until she had been alone to make his move. He didn't like it, not one bit. What kind of man hit on a woman who was with someone else? Alright, so he'd done it himself a few times, but that didn't mean that other guys got to hit on Parker. They were together now, and this little idiot wasn't going to be hitting on her while he was around.

"She's my date." Eliot drawled out from behind the guy currently hitting on Parker. "Why don't you go find a woman of your own and leave her alone?"

"Oh! Um, I wasn't-" The guy started to say but stopped trying to explain when Eliot growled at him. "I'll just be going now." He said and left very quickly. He had probably realized there was pain in his future if he didn't move fast enough.

Parker looked at Eliot with a exasperated look. She was pretty sure he hadn't been flirting with her, so she told him so. "Eliot, he wasn't flirting with me, he was just saying he liked my dress."

"That's flirting, darlin' and he can do it somewhere else." He told her. As much as he lov- liked, really, really liked, Parker, she could be a little clueless about these things.

"Oh. Then why was he asking where I got it so he could get one?" Parker asked, confused. Maybe she had gotten it wrong…

3. Wishes

"What the hell do you think you're wearing?" Eliot demanded as soon as Parker came into sight.

All of them had decided to celebrate a job well done by going out on the town before they had to leave to go back home. They were currently in Mexico and trying to have a good time.

Eliot, Hardison, and Nate had gotten to the restaurant a little earlier than the girls. Mostly because Sophie had seen what Parker was planning to wear and had decided it was time to play dress up instead.

Now, here they were and Eliot was irritated and slightly angry. Some assholes in the corner wouldn't take their eyes off Parker and looked to be about two seconds from coming over to talk to her. He had to stop glaring at Sophie for dressing her like that so he could glare at the two idiots who had just stood up. They paled a little and sat back down once they noticed the look that promised a slow painful death if they came over.

Seeing they got his message he looked back at Parker and asked again, since he never got an answer from before.

"What the hell are you wearing?" He demanded.

"Relax Eliot, it's just a dress." Sophie told him and had the gall to smirk at him. As if she knew what he was thinking.

Of course, if she really knew what he was thinking she wouldn't be smirking at him, instead she might be booking the next flight out of Mexico. Still, she probably knew his secret, though how much of it was a secret anymore was debatable.

His reaction had probably just confirmed his attraction for Parker to everyone at this table. Well, almost everyone.

Parker, who had been ignoring everyone and instead going between pouting for being stuffed into an outfit she wouldn't be able to repel in and glaring at Sophie for being the one to stuff her into it, hadn't seemed to realize anything odd was going on. She hadn't even seemed to hear the question.

The dress, if it could be called that, was a backless halter type dress with a low cut front and a short and puffed out skirt. It hid very little and made him want to start knocking people unconscious so they wouldn't look at her.

He didn't know how much longer he'd be able to hide how he felt from Parker but he didn't think he'd be able to do it much longer.

"Ma'am? This is from the two guys at the table by the door." The waitress said, coming over and placing a drink down in front of Parker.

Eliot growled and memorized their faces as he glared at them. If they had such a big death wish, he would be happy to help them out. He'd find them later on.

4. Good talk

"Hardison, I like you, you don't bother me, most of the time. So I'll give you a warning instead of just popping your legs off like one of your action figures." Eliot starts but Hardison gasps at him like he just killed his Momma or something.

"So you're the one who killed Donna! She didn't do anything to you, why would you do that to her!" He demanded and Eliot stared at him.

"What? I don't know what you're talking about. I was just using it as an example. God Hardison, will you just listen?" He asked.

Hardison looked at him through narrowed eyes. "I don't know if I want to, I mean whose next? Rose, or Jack? If you touch the Doctor I will have to kill you." He said than seemed to think about it, or his chances of actually being able to take Eliot down. "Or well, I'll register you as a sex offender. See how you like that."

Eliot rolled his eyes. "I didn't touch your dolls. Now will you just listen. I needed to tell you something. It's about me and Parker."

It was Hardison's turn to roll his eyes. "Dude, bro, if this is about the two of you, well, we all know. Don't worry about it, I ain't mad. Things happen. It's cool that you wanted to check with me though." Hardison told him and held out a fist for a fist bump.

Eliot looked at it for a moment before slowly bumping his fist with his own. "I'm glad that you don't have any problems with it, but I really came here to make sure you take out any of the camera's from her office. We all know they're there and it's a little weird man." He said, trying not to say things like 'slightly stalker-ish' and 'creepy.'

"Oh, and bro." Eliot said, putting the emphasis on bro. "If Parker has to change in front of you again, or for any reason is taking off clothes, make sure you don't look, I'm sure you'd hate to loose your eyes." He said, in a cheerful voice and patted him "gently" on the back.

"Good talk." Eliot said and turned to walk away, smirking as soon as he knew Hardison couldn't see.

Really, he was a lot nicer than he could have been. Parker wasn't one to be shy and had changed in her office regardless of the camera's before, so really, he was being really nice.

Cause, no one but him got to see Parker naked, especially not Hardison.

5. Date night

When Parker comes in one day and announces that she has a date they are all more than a little startled and surprised.

Sophie is the first one to recover though and starts asking a whole bunch of questions. Then she demands that they go shopping to pick out the perfect outfit to wear.

Nate takes another drink and smiles at them before turning to Hardison and telling him to start looking up everything on this guy as soon as the girls leave.

Hardison nods and get's busy pulling up everything, even what the guy had to eat for the last month.

They wanted to make sure he was good enough for their girl, and wasn't going to be a threat, or someone just using her for some reason. They wanted to know if he was clean. God help him if they found something they didn't like or if he hurt her.

Eliot though, felt a burning feeling in his gut and his fingers curled into fists before he realized it. At first he thought it was just a protective feeling like Nate and Hardison. But as the day went on and it started to get closer to the time Parker would be leaving to go to dinner the burning feeling grew and he started to wish that it was him and not this Kurt Malcolm guy.

He spends most of the day locked in his office with a picture of "Kurt" on the wall. He's using it as a target for his throwing knives. He doesn't understand why he hates him so damn much but the sight of the guy makes him see red and makes him slightly sick.

They only way he feels even slightly better is when he's throwing the knives at the photo.

Still, he didn't figure it out until Sophie told him.

"You're jealous." She told him, smirking at him as soon as he finished telling her what he'd been feeling all day.

"No, no way." He denied. There was no way that he was jealous of this Kurt guy for going out on a date with Parker. It was Parker, for God's sake.

So that's what he told her, and she laughed at him.

"Well, you're either jealous because Kurt is going on a date with Parker." Sophie said, pausing for a moment because he had growled when she said his name. "Or, you're jealous of Parker because she's going out on a date with Kurt. But as she just met him and you didn't know him before today I'm thinking it's the first one." She told him.

"Alright, so I'm jealous. What am I supposed to do?" He asked.

"You're not going to like it." Sophie said than sighed. "Parker is going to go out on her date tonight and you are going to think about it. If you think you really do have feelings for her, than tell her. But you don't get to ruin tonight for her, no matter how much you may not like the idea of her out with someone else."

Eliot wants to protest but sees the logic behind it. Besides, Parker is excited for the date tonight and he doesn't want to mess with that. He'll just have to tell her how he feels as soon as he can, he's not sure he can handle seeing her with another guy now that he knows he has feelings for her.

The date goes terribly. They don't have that many common interests and they just aren't connecting. He doesn't get her, and Parker doesn't get normal so they both know it isn't going to work. He starts flirting with the waitress and making a couple snide comments and Parker looks ready to stab him with the steak knife they really shouldn't have given her.

Instead of stabbing him though Parker's eyes start to shift to the exists and she remembers just in time what Sophie told her before she entered the restaurant so instead of making a break for the door she calmly tells Kurt that she's going to the bathroom. From there she sneaks out the window and meets the others in the surveillance van.

While she's doing all of this they can see Kurt on the camera's paying for the meal and trying to leave before she get's back and he's slipping his number to the waitress before walking quickly to the exit.

The only good thing about that is that he had the decency to pay before he left. That didn't stop Eliot from breaking his nose as soon as he was outside and out of sight though.

As soon as he get's back into the van he looks at Parker and notices that she's trying not to cry and the others are pretending not to notice because she obviously doesn't want them to say anything about it.

When they get back to the office, Parker goes straight for hers and Sophie is right behind her.

Hardison goes for his computer, probably to do something that will make Kurt regret ever being born.

Nate pours himself a drink then drifts over to Hardison's corner, and makes a suggestion every now and then.

That leaves Eliot to stare at the closed door where the two girls are and he's not quite sure what to do. He's torn, he'd really like to track down Kurt and give him a few more broken bones but he's also slightly grateful to the guy for being scum. It means that he'll get his chance to make a move.

A few minutes later Sophie is coming out and heading towards the kitchen. She motions for him to follow her and nods at the other two to stay where they are and to continue what they are doing.

"How is she doing?" He asks as he watches her start the coffee machine.

"She's mostly fine. The date was a bad one but she'll get over it. She was just excited about it and it didn't go the way she planned, so she didn't know how to take it. Besides, you heard him, he wasn't too nice when he realized things weren't working out." Sophie said and shook her head.

She would make sure the guys got the appropriate amount of revenge for Parker, and if they didn't, then she knew a few people she could call to make his life miserable for a very long time.

"Anyway, maybe you should take her some coffee while I go talk to Nate and Hardison."

"You really think now is the best time to tell her?" He asks, confused.

Sophie rolls her eyes at him. "No, I really don't think right now is the right time. Right now you should take her coffee and be nice and supportive, and how her all guys aren't bad. Than give it a few days and ask her."

"Oh." Eliot says and grabs a couple cups and fills them with coffee.

He could do that.