crack_van | Leverage/The Hunger Games (Mature)

Title: Apparent ('Homesick' Re-dub)
Pairing: pre-Cinna/Alec Hardison
Author on LJ:

hegemony
Author Website: Her AO3 page
Why this must be read:

Despite loving both fandoms, I would never have said, "I know! A Leverage/HG xover!" But more than just coming up with the idea, this author makes both fan texts just a little something MORE by bringing them together. The underlying theme here is loss, and moving on from loss, creating ourselves anew from it, and Cinna's POV is fresh and interesting, his insight in Alec particularly telling for an audience who has always seen Alec with his team. It's just really, damn, good.

In the days after, Cinna spends a lot of time wondering what happened to Hardison's friends that made him want to run away to a place like Panem. People don't run to the Capitol, they don't magically appear in unless they're attempting to bury the things they once were: poor, hungry, without direction. Even worse, he wonders how many people Alec ruined in the name of finding someone worth his time. Every time he's even attempted asking about anything, be it the very real sword in their closet or the ragged stuffed bunny shoved into the corner in Alec's sliver of a bedroom, Hardison just shrugs it off with a cocksure smile that never reaches his eyes.

Apparent ('Homesick' re-dub)