Title: Finding Peace I

Prompt by: Leverageland Charming Bingo - sleep

Rating: PG

Setting: unknown

Word Count: 271

Parker couldn't sleep without Bunny. She had known this fact above all others since she was no more than six years old, and twenty years later she expected it to still be true. For as long as she lived, she never could see a day when she would fall into peaceful slumber without her beloved friend that was so much more than a toy, more than even a security blanket.

Everything changed one day in Chicago when Parker joined a team of thieves for what was supposed to be one night only. Later they would meet again, and again. Los Angeles and Boston, these places became homes of a kind but it was really the people that made her feel safe, and none more so than Eliot Spencer.

To the world he was dangerous; a retrieval specialist, a hitter, a killer even. To Parker he was just Eliot; a protector, a good cook, a friend, and later a lover. She hadn't seen it coming, never really considered she ever needed people, never mind a boyfriend, but it was nice to have one, nice to have Eliot being hers and her being his.

Parker couldn't sleep without Bunny. She had known this fact above all others since she was no more than six years old, and twenty years later she expected it to still be true. It wasn't. Now she had Eliot, and when they were curled up together on the couch watching a movie, or after they made love in bed together, she fell asleep quite happily, on her Eliot-shaped pillow, and enjoyed the most peaceful slumber she had ever known.