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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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keeping score by phouseinnebraska
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
07 Feb 2026
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Phil has loved film for his whole life. He loves the idea of making anything beautiful in the right light, from the right angle. He is finally getting ready for his first major movie, when just before filming begins, his film scorer drops out of the project. Scrambling to find a new musician who will be willing to work for such little pay on his low budget film, Phil finds Dan Howell, a talented aspiring musician in need of work with a complicated past and beautiful brown eyes.
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Pick your poison, babe (I'm poison either way) by Ren_Saxon
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (Video Blogging RPF)
07 Feb 2026
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Phil sighs, and does what every sensible person would do, after being abandoned by their partner of thirteen years because it’s “the best for him”.
He opens Grindr.
He finds some buff guy named Hank who put in a selfie in a fitness studio, posing in front of a mirror to show off sweaty biceps. His bio says “I don’t do that pronoun shit, I do protein”, and Phil knows he’s perfect.
Dan breaks up with Phil. Phil decides to try and get him back the unconventional, yet effective route (Rage-Baiting).
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08 Feb 2026
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Lester Family Hospitality by yikesola for dizzy
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF)
17 May 2019
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The morning’s misty rain has turned into a genuine Manchester autumn downpour. As Kath walks past a novelty shop, she spots a young man facing the brick wall of the building. His arm is bent against the wall, and he’s leaning his forehead against his arm, and the poor thing is shaking with what Kath fears might be sobs.
An au fic about hot meals and serendipity.Series
- Part 5 of giving the people what they want
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04 Feb 2026
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Moving Day by yikesola for Rawritsamehh
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF)
24 Jun 2021
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Little looks into the many different times Phil Lester has moved house.
A fic about boxes and change.Series
- Part 40 of giving the people what they want
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04 Feb 2026
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“I want to paint my nails,” he blurts out.
He says it without thinking. It doesn’t really make any sense, not in general and certainly not as a response to violent hatred going viral. But when he’s finished saying it, he doesn’t wonder why he said it. He wonders, instead, why he never fought back against any of the kids who made his life hell when he was in school.
Maybe things could have been different.
Maybe things could still be different.
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or: Dan announces that he wants to paint his nails. Phil helps him follow through.
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03 Feb 2026