Leverage (fic!letts)

More Than I Deserve

A/N: this is a dumping ground for my leverage fics. It will be mostly Parker/Eliot so if you have any objections to that pairing please stop reading.

More Than I Deserve

Prompt: More Than I Deserve (Song by: Christian Kane)

Fandom: Leverage 

Characters: Eliot Spencer, Parker

Pairings: Eliot Spencer/Parker

Eliott knew that Parker was far too good for him. Sometimes he even took her kindness and unconditional love for granted. He couldn't possibly fathom why he had been blessed with the love of a woman like her, but he also didn't want to question it, for fear that it would simply disappear if he dared to do so. Sometimes he couldn't live with himself, yet she was always there, never giving up on the broken man. She was the only person on the team who didn't view him with fear. She was always trying to make him happy, afraid only of loosing him, or gaining any sort of disapproval from him. She was the one who had pushed him, and asked once again, when they got home, what he had done for Moreau that caused him so much pain.

She sat with him through the nightmares and the flashbacks. She stood by his side while he spent hours in a scalding hot shower or washing his hands, because he never felt clean. She always insisted on tending to his battle wounds, even though he growled about not needing help.

She always made the effort to trail her soft lips over each and every one of his scars, finding them beautiful reminders of who Eliot had been, and who he had become, rather than imperfections like other women did. She knew the stories behind each one of them. She knew which ones had come from his father, which ones from falling out of a tree at ten years old, which ones had come from battle, and which ones had been made by the hitter dragging a blade over his skin. She sat and listened for hours as he played around with cords and wrote songs on their days off, and she always had the biggest smile when he made her pancakes. Not the 'I've-got-a-stack-of-money' smile, or a 'I-put-a-razor-blade-in-that-apple" smile, but a smile of pure joy. While he was tending his vegetable garden, she would take care of the sunflowers she had planted. She never tried to but in in the kitchen, always let him have his space, and in return he let her eat fortune cookies and sugary cereal.

Sometimes he felt as though he took more than he should have from her... But he also felt so right around her that it didn't really matter. And he never told her exactly how much he loved her, or how much she meant to him. He knew it was more than he deserved.

Livin' with me, it ain't easy 

But I do it every day 

And sometimes even now 

I wanna run away. 

But there you are 

You're tryin' to please me,  

Darlin' you stand your ground 

It's more than I deserve.

I've taken more than I've been givin'. 

I've taken for granted this life I'm livin'. 

I don't know why heaven above 

Blessed me with your sweet love. 

Though I never tell you what you're worth 

It's more than I deserve.

It's just your style to wear a smile,  

Oh baby you wear it well,  

If I had my way I'd dress you in nothin' else. 

So come on here and lay down, a little while 

'Cause you right now 

You're more than I deserve 

I've taken more than I've been givin'. 

I've taken for granted this life I'm livin'. 

And I don't know why heaven above 

Blessed me with your sweet love. 

Though I never tell you what you're worth 

It's more than I deserve.

I've taken more than I've been givin' 

And I've taken for granted this life I'm livin'. 

And I don't know why heaven above 

Blessed me with your sweet love. 

I know I never tell you what you're worth 

That's 'cause it's more than I deserve.

Taken more than I've been givin' 

And I've taken for granted this life I'm livin'. 

And I don't know why heaven above 

Blessed me with your sweet love. 

I know I never tell you what you're worth 

It's more than I deserve.