Fic Update: The 59-Thread Rule

[Mamorien]

money or music shows us the soft animal of your body (Leverage/HDM) from an outside perspective.

Tara Cole owes Sophie too much to give anything other than her absolute best to filling Sophie's spot on the team. But how can a fox ever work with a bloodhound?

Or, The Runway Job, with daemons.

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Notes:
According to my documents history, I have had the first two scenes of this written since May 2022. I hadn't realized people were still so invested in this AU, but since you seem to be... you've all inspired me to finish this up and get it posted. If you're not familiar with the episode, I recommend reading a brief plot summary before reading this since I don't explain much. I hope you enjoy.

Title is from "Tasting the Wild Grapes" by Mary Oliver:

The red beast
who lives in the side of these hills
won’t come out for anything you have:
money or music. Still, there are moments
heavy with light and good luck. Walk
quietly under these tangled vines
and pay attention, and one morning
something will explode underfoot
like a branch of fire; one afternoon
something will flow down the hill
in plain view, a muscled sleeve the color
of all October! And forgetting
everything you will leap to name it
as though for the first time, your lit blood
rushing not to a word but a sound
small-boned, thin-faced, in a hurry,
lively as the dark thorns of the wild grapes
on the unsuspecting tongue!
The fox! The fox!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/73561176