Completely useless Leverage question I get distracted wondering about:
Does Hardison run like a giant group chat of Nana’s former foster kids where they coordinate who gets her what for Mother’s Day and her birthday? Is there like a spreadsheet involved? Are there arguments at 0:01 on the day after her birthday that NO, DARRYL, YOU CANNOT SIGN UP TO BE THE ONE TO GET HER FLOWERS AGAIN THAT IS CHEATING.
(Obviously any current foster kids who want to participate get first pick and a budget Hardison sets aside for each of them. He also gives them like a spreadsheet of ‘a heartfelt card has a 99.3% success rate of making her tear up, if you wanna ensure 100%, draw her a card yourself.’)
I think about this constantly. Like maybe it isn’t just Nana’s birthday, it’s holidays, everyone else’s birthdays, life events like high school graduations, college graduations, weddings, whatever, any day that’s important to any of them, Hardison has it on his calendar, he knows about it, there is a group chat about it, and you will get a present even if he can’t be there in person and he runs a weekly video chat for anybody who can join where they just check in, make fun of each other, talk about life, or whatever. (”Okay, okay, Darryl, I think we’ve heard enough about your Star Wars fanfiction, I’m not– Darryl. DARRYL. I’m not judging you, man, I’m glad you have the joy of fanfiction in your life, I’m just saying, that isn’t my ship, and I KNOW it’s not anybody else’s, and I don’t think everybody wants to hear about your ninety chapter WIP– look, can we put this to a vote and move on, people? Because somebody brought it to my attention that it’s Tasha’s high school graduation next month and we need to talk about presents before she gets back from quiz bowl practice and jumps on the call.”)
The calls have always been fun but they get a lot more interesting over the years, sometimes there’s this blonde lady who like, rappels down from the ceiling behind Alec, and like, what is that about, but he doesn’t even turn around he just smiles and says “Hey Parker, everybody, this is Parker, Parker, this is everybody,” and the lady gives them a little wave and a smile before doing something with her gear and disappearing out of the frame again, and Alec just seems to think this is totally normal and if it works for him it’s normal and that’s that, just like Nana says, so nobody says anything about it. And everybody like, low-key knows Hardison’s not really a computer tech for some international IT company like he says he is, because he calls them from a lot of interesting places (what’s a computer tech doing on a mountain in Alaska???) but nobody calls him on it because the whole time he’s had this “computer tech” gig the presents he sends them have been getting like, increasingly cooler. Also a couple of years ago they all started getting what are obviously homemade baked goods in the mail and many of them know from experience that big brother Alec Hardison makes a mean pan of scrambled eggs but they’re pretty sure his culinary skillset does not include the delicately flavored confections they’ve been gifted recently, so they have a separate group chat without Hardison in it where they’re discussing which one of the many other random people who have wandered through the background of the video calls over the years might be the person who makes this food. Maybe they have a bet on it. Everybody says smart money’s on the lady with the accent and most of them mock Darryl for his decision to stick with that grumpy white guy with the good hair but what do you know, Alec moves to Portland and that guy’s around in the background a lot more, usually with a towel slung over his shoulder, and Darryl can’t take it anymore so he says “Hey, tell your friend those scones were really fucking good,” and the guy stops on his way out of the room and actually smiles, and Alec says, “Everything Eliot makes is really fucking good,” and Eliot’s still smiling but it’s definitely a different smile when he’s looking at their brother, and half the kids on the call are like Dammit Darryl, and anyway I think about this a lot.
Hardison wonders why half the people on the screen suddenly take out their phone. They’re venmo-ing each other money to settle bets. Darryl makes a killing.
Wait until canon OT3 is confirmed. Darryl keeps taking sips out of a very bright mug that says I TOLD YOU SO during their weekly videochat.
YES and eventually the other kids are like TELL DARRYL TO STOP GLOATING but Alec Hardison, who is part of a crew that literally structures time for gloating into every job they do, cannot and will not deny anyone their well-earned right to gloat, and the next week on the video call he’s drinking out of an equally brightly colored mug that says DARRYL TOLD YOU SO, and everyone just groans
(via knitmeapony)
