#he told him to call him eliot
@darkfinch I thought of a happier AU for you.
Everything is canon through Big Bang Job. The team arrive in San Lorenzo ready to hunt down Moreau, and track down his location…. only to bump into Quinn walking out of there cleaning blood off his hands. “Oh, were you looking for him? Oops. Sorry, he’s unavailable now.”
It’s just a completely unrelated job to kill Moreau he just finished (hired by a competitor or another old enemy who doesn’t care about taking him down legally; a big risk job but Quinn loves those). He didn’t even know they were involved at all. Eliot wouldn’t be anywhere they think Moreau is, so either he tracks him down later that day or the rest of the team basically gather him up to discuss this. And he’s just kinda bemused and goes with it.
Either way, Eliot gets the rundown over comms so he knows that Moreau is no more and Quinn did the deed. When he shows up, he is walking straight for Quinn with a very serious face and very purposeful stride. Either Quinn legit didn’t bother to remember anyone in Leverage other than Eliot so he doesn’t realize he would be here, or he just had a brain fart moment and didn’t consider the link until now. Anyway, seeing him come in like this Quinn remembers, “ oh right, Eliot Spencer used to work with Moreau. That was in my Eliot Spencer research. Dammit, now Eliot Spencer has extra reason to want revenge on me.”
It’s really sad for him because now his hitter crush hates him and this was gonna be a really good day but now he has to defend himself from a vengeful Eliot Spencer, dammit -
He readies himself, tries to remind Eliot that, “hey, it was just business, sorry if y-” but then Eliot cuts him off by kissing him directly on the mouth.
(he swoons a little and just goes with it.)
(they still save the election or whatever as long as they’re already there, but Sophie and Nate are not the only ones who get down in San Lorenzo in this verse.)
