Okay, wow. Sorry. I feel kind of embarrased that it's been so long since my last update, so I'll try to get some more chapters out today.

If this little drabble isn't up to par with my normal writing, I can just say that my skills are a bit rusty.

A/N: Someone asked where I learned the info about Parker and Eliot for their What Do We Know chapters. To answer that, Leverage Wiki is a wonderful source of information, and anything that couldn't be found there or on Wikipedia I probably just made up.

A/N2: Sorry for taking so long on this one, but someone asked where I found Parker's sleep talking. Answer: Sleep Talkin' Man Adam on .com

Because of You – Kelly Clarkson

I watched you die, I heard you cry,
Every night in your sleep
I was so young, you should have known
Better than to lean on me

And now I cry
In the middle of the night
For the same damn thing

Because of you
I tried my hardest just to forget everything
Because of you
I don't know how to let anyone else in

Because of you
I'm ashamed of my life because it's empty
Because of you
I am afraid

Parker clutched a handful of Eliot's second-favorite blue shirt and pressed it against her face to smell him to smell his warm cinnamon fire smell – it was her favorite smell and she loved to smell it even more than she like to smell money which was a lot. Parker broke into bank vaults all the time just to smell the money because she loved it so much (Nate said she wasn't supposed to steal the money anymore eve n though she really really wanted to You're the good guys now, remember? You help people. He'd say and then she would feel guilty so now she just smells the money and sometimes left little notes to say, hi, this is Parker. The 80's told me to tell you that they wanted their security system back ;))

But she like how Eliot smelled even more so she slept in his bed and smelled his shirts and used his shampoo because until he got back -

"Parker, sweetheart," Sophie said, knocking on the door, "You can't stay in there forever, love. I know you miss him, we all do, and I know that this is hard for you but we really need your help on this job –"

Parker felt afraid for a minute because what if she stepped out to help the team with this one job and even if she was really really quick about it she still missed Eliot coming home and what if he thought that she had left him or run off with Hardison or something - she didn't like to think about that. She didn't like to think about how angry he might be. So no, she would stay right here until he got back home and kissed her and called her darlin' and said he was sorry for taking so long.

"He isn't gone," Parker told Sophie. She felt bad that Sophie was so worried about Eliot when really he had just stepped out for a minute to get her some more milk from the grocery store. He would be back soon and she told Sophie that because Parker didn't like it when Sophie worried because then Nate got angry and yelled at Hardison and that made Hardison sad so Parker tried to keep Sophie from worrying. "He'll be back soon, Sophie. You don't have to worry." Then, quieter, she whispered into his shirt, "He always comes back for me."

"Parker," Sophie said, but now she sounded defeated. "Parker it's been three months. You were at the funeral – "

but if Sophie was going to lie to Parker then Parker wasn't going to listen to her because Parker knew Eliot better than anyone and if Eliot told Parker that he would be back in a minute he would be because Eliot didn't lie; Sophie was the liar it was her job.

So Parker threw the blue shirt into the hamper and grabbed his red one out of the drawer.

She hoped that Eliot made it back soon; the laundry needed to be done, and this was his last clean shirt.