Fic: An Afternoon Mess

Aug 29, 2010 22:00

Title: An Afternoon Mess
Fandom: Leverage
Character/Pairing: Parker, Eliot
Rating: G
Word Count: ~360
Summary: Eliot tries to rescue the kitchen from Parker’s baking skills.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Authors Notes: Written for petunia846  for the caperland small acts of kindness gift exchange

Eliot walked into the kitchen to find Parker cover in what looked like an entire bag of flour with a cookbook shoved up close to her face.

Walking up to her and pulling the book down so he could see her he couldn’t help but laugh. “Sheesh Parker what did you do? Decide to dump all the flour on you?”

“I’m baking brownies or at least I was trying to. I just don’t understand the manual thing.”

Deciding that he would never hear the end of it if Nate knew that he didn’t try and help Parker get things cleaned up he decided to the only thing to do to cheer her up was to teach her some baking basics.

Picking up the cookbook he said, “First off this is called a cookbook and it lists all the ingredients and how much of each to add and in what order.”

“Well I got some of that, but what about the cup part? Is it a coffee cup, a paper cup, or a chalice-sized cup like one I have in storage because those are all very different sizes?”

“None of the above Parker. This,” pulling something out of a drawer, “is a measuring cup and we can use it to measure out the flour, sugar, and other ingredients.”

Looking up to meet his eyes Parker smiled and said, “We. You said we, so does that mean you’re going to help me bake them?”

“Of course I’ll help you Parker. If I left you alone to actually use the oven you’d probably burn Nate’s place to the ground.”

“Good. I always like it when you teach me things.”

Seeing her enthusiasm as he went over how to break the eggs right and how to mix everything together distracted him from the sound of the door opening.

“What in the world happened in here?” Nate’s loud voice rang out.

“Well you see Parker was trying to bake, but she made a mess so now I’m helping…”

“What are you talking about? Parker’s not even in here Eliot and you better clean all this up.”

Muttering to himself, “Crazy girl and her vanishing acts. She so owes me now.”

character: parker, rating: g, character: eliot, land: caperland, fic: leverage, series: lessons learned

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