i know you didn't list it buuuut hardison/parker/eliot + 🎵?
“Can You Feel The Love Tonight” - Elton John
There’s a time for everyone if they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn
There’s a rhyme and reason to the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours
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Eliot is used to Parker showing up on cat feet. There’s only one time she’s ever been able to startle him, and that was in Memphis; but it’s been a good three years since then, and a lot of the things that were messy then are tidy now. Not normal-person tidy – that ain’t the way Parker works, and it ain’t the way Hardison works – but tidy in a way that suits all three of them. An Arrangement with a capital letter.
So when Parker shows up on cat feet tonight while Eliot is in the middle of peeling potatoes for dinner, Eliot doesn’t grumble or snap. He only turns his head briefly to kiss her cheek.
“So if this is a parallel universe, what do you think it’s a parallel of?” says Parker.
Eliot finishes up his current potato and reaches for the next one. Just like he doesn’t startle when she pops up out of nowhere, he doesn’t protest her non sequitur of a question. “You and Hardison been watching more of that History Channel?”
“Just to yell at it.”
“You break the tv, I ain’t buying you a new one, Parker.”
Her nose scrunches. Even without looking, he knows the expression she’s got on right now. “Why would you ever buy a tv when you can steal it?”
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