Part I (and on LJ), Part II (and on LJ), Part III (and on LJ), Part IV (and on LJ), Part V (and on LJ), Part VI (and on LJ), Part VII (and on LJ), Part VIII (and on LJ), Part IX (and on LJ), Part X (and on LJ), Part XI (and on LJ), Deleted Scene (and on LJ)
Part XII (and on LJ)
This is … *cough* Tír na Cali/Leverage fanfiction crossover.
It’s been over a month since I wrote on this, but now it’s back!!
Fade in from commercial. Eliot and the lady Anastasia are naked in bed; Eliot is in the process of untying himself and Ana appears to be asleep.
It doesn’t take long, longer than it would normally because he’s trying not to wake her. She stirs at one point; he freezes. She moans quietly and rolls over, and Eliot waits, counting silently but his lips moving, for a count of twenty.
When she makes no more noise, he finishes getting his last ankle and then, moving very slowly and a bit unevenly, he hurries to the bathroom.
Ana’s eyes open as the bathroom door shuts. She stays where she is, as if she hasn’t woken. When the bathroom door opens again, she closes her eyes and stirs, just a bit.
Eliot pauses at the door. He looks at the “sleeping” Lady, and then at the exit. His hand goes to the collar, just brushing it. His sigh is a full-body thing, frustrated and sad.
He lays back in bed as carefully as he got out of it, and begins tying his ankles as they had been.
“Don’t bother.”
Ana’s voice freezes Eliot. “How long have you been awake?”
“Woke up while you were in the bathroom. You could’ve gotten out of the ropes at any point?”
“Well, not during…” He lays down, carefully, next to her, not quite touching her. “Not when you were watching.”
“Not a very good restraint system then, is it?” She rolls over to look at him; if he was looking at her, he’d see that she was smiling.
His eyes are closed, though, and his body tense. “You could use steel.”
“I could. But you came back. Why?”
He touches the collar, carefully, as if afraid it will bite him. “There’s a tracker in here, and I don’t know how to get the thing off without killing myself.”
“A good reason,” she agrees, although her voice is rather flat. “Well, then. If you’re not going to run away – or kill me – and I’m not going to tie you up, we might as well do something entertaining.”
Now, Eliot turns to look at her. “Like what?”
Duchess Charlotte Prentiss’s rooms
“It’s going to take us a few days. This Barony – Baronessy? – they’re not exactly known for being friendly. Not surprising, with the way they’re dropping like flies. I’m working on building everything we need, but it’s not like we can slip in as slaves. They do everything in-house.” Hardison runs a hand over his short-cropped hair. “Still working, Nate.”
“Anything I can help with?” Lord Lorcan walks into the room, all five foot six and one hundred three exquisitely-dressed pounds of him. “It seems like you’re having some trouble with the Alpha Sisters.”
Cut to commercial.
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moving very slowly and a bit unevenly, he hurries to the bathroom. Errr? One can hurry slowly — if one is injured or disabled soas to make moving difficult, for instance — but I wasn’t under the impression that Eliot had taken that level of damage.
Whoops! No, just been tied up all night. Things are asleep. Silly phrasing, will fix.
Ah. Stiff limbs and pins and needles would do it. 🙂
Yeah, pretty much. Ana did not bind him with an eye towards that much comfort.