The thing about magic is that you can’t do it by yourself. No one person has enough magic in them to do even a minor casting – you need a coven. Parker knew that about magic, which was why she couldn’t trust it.

Parker is a Red Room escapee. Years later, she and the team encounter Natasha Romanov on a job.

Her face softens into something he can’t read. “We stole you, you see, and we’re not going to give you back.”

Eliot has policies about fucking coworkers, fucking crazy, and interfering in Hardison and Parker’s relationship. Policies that are strongly tested and maybe aren’t as hard and fast as he intended.

Parker doesn’t have manners; she has mannerisms, some of them disturbing, some of them endearing, most of them strange.

The brewpub’s got an interesting reputation, even by Portland standards.

Alec wants something, but he’s not sure what it is. Eliot figures it out.

Eliot has to go undercover as a computer student and his only contact is Hardison. One of them has the short end of this deal.

None of them have ever been very tactile people. Hardison will hug, but that’s about it; Parker’s never really been exposed to a touchy-feely environment; and Eliot is, well, Eliot.

But somehow, that changes when they’re together.

In which Eliot, Parker and Hardison are monster killers.

Parker is pretty sure there are rules, or at least guidelines for this kind of thing, whatever this is.

It’s time, probably past time, that Eliot needs to leave. His lovers view things differently.

The inhabitants of the tiny island of Rousay have never experienced anything quite like the Leverage crew before.

Hardison will never stop being surprised by the things his girl comes up with. Like a cunning plan to keep the hitter close to home. With lots of sex. Because Parker sees everything like a puzzle piece and rotates it until it fits. Preferably between her and Hardison, in bed.

“When you say ‘we’re making dinner,’” Eliot finally says, “do you really mean ‘Hey you should come over and cook dinner for us so we don’t burn down the apartment?’”

Eliot was not surprised by what happened.

In which there are cookies.

Hardison and Parker are “out” with their romance, so we thought it a good time to chat up Aldis Hodge about that fun dynamic. Plus: Why Leverage‘s master hacker wants to suit up as a certain Marvel hero.

So then, because he’s Hardison, he created a fandom.