#DecRecs: this is tagged alternate universe but its more of a different first meeting style canon divergence — everyone still has the same skillsets and life circumstances you’d expect for something set shortly pre-canon (which is to say, Eliot doesn’t have Stockholm syndrome, he’s just unexpectedly charmed by the full force of Hardison and Parker’s Hardison and Parker-ness)
If you haven’t watched Leverage, its a show about a bunch of thieves deciding to run ridiculous heists to get back at capitalists on behalf of the people screwed over by capitalism. its a little dated at this point (it ran like 2008-2012) but v fun & one takes ones very nearly canon poly triads where one can them
Lucky numbers (10745 words) by Silence89
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alec Hardison/Parker, Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Wrong Number AU, First Meetings, Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort
Summary:
“You got a wrong number, so you went to the park in the middle of the night, found a guy in a pool of blood, and brought him to your apartment,” Eliot says, filling in the blanks. Maybe, he considers, he’s still hallucinating. Or just delirious.
In which Hardison can't resist a stray, Eliot has Stockholm syndrome, and Parker is Parker.
Scott and Hoffman are doing comparative tasting here where they're comparing multiple drinks side by side which i personally mostly don't do but is pretty common -- eg beer flights are a style of comparative tasting
with tea you get an additional factor in that teas can be steeped multiple times, so you're more likely to see tea tastings where you drink the same leaves through multiple steepings but, unless you have a much more complicated setup than i do, that basically means that you can't go back and try the thing you tasted first a second time to see how it compares
@Satsuma oooo have you watched the new sequel series?
@Satsuma oooo enticing!
also a bonus non-fic rec, if you're curious about tastings (either alcohol, tea, coffee, etc) this video where James Hoffman introduces Tom Scott to coffee is a very solid introduction to the basic approaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iNAyu-ejo