Inside Voices

Title: All That's Left is Revenge
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 593
Fandom: Leverage
Characters: Nate/Sophie
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Nate discovers that an enemy has been playing a long game on him - and the price is his life.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "poisoning".


( Once he’d signed everything they wanted him to sign, Sophie had at least agreed to drive him back to the loft. )

Title: God's Mercy
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 602
Fandom: Leverage
Characters: Nate, Eliot
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Off-screen character death (gently handled).
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Coming to the end of his 28 Days of rehab, Nate considers his failings and his regrets.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "recovery".


( Flashbacks and hallucinations still occasionally troubled him at this time of day – even when he could totally trust his mind to be straight with him, there were too many shadows surrounding him; too many demons he’d never quite been able to shake. )

Title: Prioritizing
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 795
Fandom: Leverage/Supernatural
Characters: Eliot/Ellen, Sam, Dean
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Ellen is injured on a demon hunt. When Sam and Dean rescue her, she's forced to remind them that she's still a force to be reckoned with.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "broken bones".

( It was one of those moments where Dean would have happily traded everything he knew about the man in Ellen’s life for a little of that blissful ignorance normal people always liked to talk about. )

Title: No Choice
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 2026
Fandom: Leverage/Supernatural
Characters: Eliot/Ellen
Rating: R
Warnings: Only what's implied by the prompt.
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: A mentally ill young man comes into the Roadhouse one night. When the voices in his head convince him to attack one of the Roadhouse waitresses, Ellen is forced to intervene with tragic consequences.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "schizophrenia". I am not a medical professional - I have tried my best to be respectful of the disease, but this is a tragic story.


( Once she'd committed to firing, there’d been no doubt Ellen was going to take the kid down. )

Title: A Calculated Risk
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 943
Fandom: Leverage/Supernatural
Characters: Eliot/Ellen, Nate
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mild spoiler for SPN S2 finale.
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: When a job takes them through Nebraska, Nate suggests that Eliot look in on Ellen.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "just this once".


( It left Eliot with too much time to think; something he tried very hard not to do when it came to Ellen. )

Title: Changing Course
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 685
Fandom: Leverage/BTVS
Characters: Faith/Eliot, Nate
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: After Faith is injured on patrol, Eliot ruminates on the evolving nature of their relationship.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "injury".


( He’d always intended to keep her at arm’s length, but the more time they spent together, and the more invested he became in helping her learn how to navigate having a family, the more she’d gotten under his skin. )

Title: Raising the Stakes
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 959
Fandom: Leverage/BTVS
Characters: Sophie, Hardison, Parker, OMC
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: When Nate, Eliot and Faith are kidnapped, it falls to Sophie to mastermind a rescue.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "combat scenarios". errant_evermore requested Sophie as the focus of this prompt. I'm not sure what resulted is anywhere near what she was anticipating, but hopefully it works nonetheless.


( Her mind was racing. Ordinarily she would have quailed at the idea of brainstorming an operation like this on the fly, but there was too much at stake. )

Title: Both Ends Against the Middle
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 1050
Fandom: Leverage/Once Upon A Time
Characters: Emma/Eliot Spencer, Regina, Gold, Henry
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Regina hires a new security expert - somebody with a connection to Emma and Henry's past.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "hostages".

( The longer he lived, the more Gold was coming to despise Regina’s ‘I know something you don’t know’ games. Since she was offering to put him on an equal footing this time, however, he dutifully flipped through the file of information on Eliot Spencer. )

Title: Father's Day x 2
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 1785
Fandom: Leverage/BTVS
Characters: Team + Faith
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Faith picks up a stalker, who turns out to be the last person she'd ever expected to see back in her life.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "stalkers". I was going to go with yeahlev's idea, but then I read a summary of "Daddy Issues", the current story arc in the Angel & Faith comic books. Like many I assumed that George Lehane had died in prison - but if the comics are now saying he didn't...how am I supposed to pass up the opportunity?


( As soon as he’d seen the stocky man in the battered leather jacket who was following his daughter, Nate had immediately begun formulating a plan. )

Title: Fading Away
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 633
Fandom: Angel the Series
Characters: Faith, Angel
Rating: PG
Warnings: Depression, Minor Spoilers for S3 Angel
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Set during Season 3, following Connor's birth. Character study of Faith at this point during her incarceration.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 3, for the prompt "disappearing".

( The problem now was that the very thing that had initially brought her peace was now dragging her down into depression. )