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The car trip home from Gillon, Louisiana
“Fine,” Eliot snaps, “but no more stops after this. I just wanna get home so I can finally sleep.”
“Just sleep in the car after we eat,” Parker says, “I’m driving, so you got nothing to worry about.” She smiles innocently.
“You driving is exactly why I gotta be worried, and you know I can never sleep in a moving car.”
“And the food-truck check-up 3 years ago when I drove the entire length of Nebraska while you lay with your eyes closed was what? Practicing your astral projection?”A small coda to the Shakedown in Clone-Town Job.
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How the daughter of an undead spy became the back-up, back-up Sophie by MeanderingStream
Fandoms: Leverage, Burn Notice
16 Apr 2021
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From the time Charlie was 13, he heard many stories about his uncle, Michael Westen, and how he used to be a spy. Michael and Fiona's daughter, Claire, also grew up with those stories. Raised in that household, they learned tradecraft practically at their mother's knee, so it's no surprise that they want to go into the family business of taking on jobs to help people, even if sometimes the methods get a little outside the law.
Charlie prefers to do his work from behind the safety of a screen, and he becomes an expert hacker. He happens to make an online friend, who happens to be in a similar line of work, providing people with Leverage to help take down big companies that are screwing people over. Hardison and Charlie become friends, and then start helping each other with jobs.
One day, the leverage crew need an extra grifter, and Charlie suggests Claire. The meeting starts out well until Eliot gets suspicious that there's something off about the two, and he's determined to protect his family from the potential threat.
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Josh and a sleeping Donna are driving home from a weekend getaway, when two hours of Christmas music, mixed with alone time with his thoughts, is catalyzed by passing ambulance sirens into a sudden panic attack. He hasn't had one in years, but he still remembers what it's like, and thankfully Donna is there to hold his hand through it.
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Josh sees Donna on the primary's campaign trail and misses her desperately. She looks so much better than he had once feared she ever would again during those long hours in Germany.
And he knows he'd promised anything if only she’d live. Anything at all. And there she is: Alive. So maybe this is the price.
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“For a man formidable and even equal to Yusef himself in battle, the frank sure seemed hopeless at everything else.
Again, habibi, really?”
ElephantOfAfrica pointed out that (paraphrased):
Habibi does indeed mean ‘My Love’ and grammatically it's being used correctly, but the reality of day to day life for Arabic speakers is a little bit different. It’s very, very casual and very versatile; it's not special. Some people use it when they're gearing up for a fight 😂 like "oh yeah Habibi?!" Fists up a-hole!!! Like it can mean babe, or honey, or you fucker, or are-you-trying-to-charge-me-extra-for-2-kilos-of-tomato?-fuck-you, or what-do-mean-your-mom-sent-us-dinner-again?-are-you-complaining-about-my-cooking-to-her? 👀👀 In general, there’s an incredibly passive aggressive energy it holds.
So this language plot-hole fixit got stuck in my head and wouldn’t leave. This is how Joe started calling Nicky “habibi,” and how the word became theirs.
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Charlie and Claire (Westen) O'Donnell: Terrors of Limerick by MeanderingStream
Fandom: Burn Notice, Leverage
16 Apr 2021
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Merry and Bright by Celeste (artificialmac), peachlessroomba
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
23 Dec 2025
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Dan Howell, a semi-successful contributor and one-time model for Attitude magazine is, by all accounts, struggling. So when one of his oldest friends calls with a promise of familiarity and warmth in exchange for help running their hometown community theater’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life, Dan agrees without a second thought. But the past has a way of resurfacing, and it seems like everywhere Dan turns, there is Phil Lester—his old almost-lover, now the local weatherman.
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Let's Think of Something Better by EverythingIsAsItWas
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF)
18 Feb 2025
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Dan Howell has no direction in life. No real friends, a job he hates, and suppressing a huge part of his identity, the end of summer 2009 is looming.
Then, he begins to see a boy in reflections, a boy with black hair and blue eyes he swears he could swim in. And then his entire world falls apart at the seams.Bookmarked by MeanderingStream
20 Dec 2025
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It's a cold August morning, and Phil is waking up alone again.
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20 Dec 2025
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I love you intentionally by Yuina_Himoo
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
18 Dec 2025
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Daniel Howell survived the fire meant to end him and has spent centuries existing between restraint and hunger. Now a museum curator, he preserves the remnants of the past while hiding his own.
Phil Lester is a linguist drawn to old texts, forgotten meanings, and a history he cannot quite explain. When their paths cross, memory, love, and time begin to unravel, and Daniel is confronted with a love he thought he already lost, and a devotion that has never learned how to end. -
Dan and Phil: Lords of the Internet, Masters of Ambiguity by islet
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF)
18 Oct 2015
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A version of this article appears in print on May 22, 2016, on page MM22 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: The Curious Case of Dan and Phil.
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14 Dec 2025