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geniuswithasmartphone ([personal profile] geniuswithasmartphone) wrote2018-06-11 03:05 am

75 Godiva Street, Monday Afternoon

Another weird weekend and Hardison wasn't entirely sure what to do with it. Being a teen seemed a lot more fraught than being a little kid and that wasn't even taking getting beaten up by a tiny version of his boyfriend into account.

But that wasn't the main issue on his mind right now. Hardison was looking at the howling wasteland that was their kitchen and shaking his head. Tiny!Parker had kindly left some of his sodas behind during her burglary spree, but not much else.

"How'm I supposed to get breakfast?" Hardison asked Val, who was sitting by his feet. "No bowls, no fridge--I'm pretty sure she even stripped the countertops!"

Hopefully she hadn't gotten very far with their belongings, or Eliot was going to have to remodel their kitchen. Again.

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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-11 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Hardison sounding that level and neutral was never a good sign. The man flipped out over the tiniest things -- he only went quiet like that when things were major. Eliot closed his eyes with a wince, wishing he could find his own teenage self and kick him in the ass.

"You want me to clear out for awhile," he said, his own voice just as even. "I'll understand."
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-11 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't a no, either.

Eliot was pretty sure trying to talk about anything else first would just make everything worse, but he didn't really feel like he was in any sort of position to turn Hardison down. So he just nodded, shoving his hands into his pockets as he came into the kitchen proper.

"Parker take all the food?" he asked. "Or just the stuff with processed sugar?"
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-11 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Eliot rubbed the back of his neck. "I, uh. Mighta encouraged her a little. She was stealin' from the diner, and teen-me kinda figured the big fancy house's kitchen was a better target."

Well. There. At least 'teen Eliot' had now been brought up.
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-11 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Was tryin' to protect small businesses," Eliot said. Because not everything he'd done as a teenager had been terrible.

Just most of it.

"One of the abandoned warehouses, I'd guess." Eliot was just going to follow Hardison's lead, here. "It'd take time to set up fences for all this stuff, and she wouldn't know what was on the other end of the causeway."
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Eliot stiffened automatically, but didn't pull away. He slowly relaxed as Hardison spoke, and wrapped his arms around Hardison in return.

"I'm so sorry." His voice broke, and he didn't even try to stop it. "I done some shitty things in my time but that --"

Well. It wasn't worst thing he'd done, but at the moment, it felt that way.
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't do that," Eliot said. "I wish that wasn't inside of me, but I can't -- denying it's there doesn't help."
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Eliot flinched away, stepping out of Hardison's arms to lean against the wall, facing away. He remembered Gaunt all too well, too.

"You're the one who's always there."
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"So . . . what're we gonna do?" Eliot asked. "I can't stop the island from turnin' me into a scared teenager."

Because that was the thing, what Caleb had hit nail on the head: teen!Eliot had been terrified. And even now, Eliot wasn't handling fear super well, when it came to his partners.
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, notes from his 'future self' were never going to be super reassuring for young Eliot. At least not after the age of about 13.

"I'da gone off on someone by the end of the week," Eliot said, hand coming up automatically and finding -- nothing. The wolf necklace, the one Hardison had given him to replace the long lost claw, was sitting safe and sound on his bedroom dresser. Assuming teen!Parker hadn't stolen it. "I could play polite around grown-ups alright, but I wasn't exactly known for my self control at that age."
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Gay porn," Eliot observed. "Jesus, my pop woulda died a good 20 years early if that'd happened."

Eliot would have been bounced off the football team, too. And he could have kissed his army career goodbye, which was what he'd really been afraid of, as a kid. DADT was well in force at the time, and the army was the only way he'd known of to get the hell out of town.

And, well. The path he'd ended up on thanks to Uncle Sam hadn't been straight and narrow in any sense of the word, but it was what had led him to the people he had now.

Teen Eliot had had plenty of reason to be terrified. He'd just been damned stupid about how he'd responded to it.
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Eliot's mouth quirked up faintly. "You got a vindictive streak a mile wide, you know that, right?"
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
“Now if we can just teach ya how to block.”

That wasn’t actually funny, was it.
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[personal profile] vdistinctive 2018-06-12 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuck.

"I don't know what else to do, man," Eliot admitted. "Other than --"

Other than him leaving for Hardison's protection.

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