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Finch still gets hurt, but Nathan doesn't die. Other than that the plan goes ahead, but with a Finch who might still be distrustful but isn't so brutally damaged. They track down and recruit Reese, who unfortunately is still as damaged as his canon counterpart. Very quickly they bring him into their relationship, spotting that left without someone to ground him, someone for him to belong to, he will not manage on his own. Loving, protective Nathan and Finch please, taking good care of their asset.

For reasons, Finch has to hold Reese down. Maybe he's hurt and trying to move, maybe's he tied up again and blindfolded and panicked, and if he'll just hold still Finch will be able to untie him. Maybe's he's fevered and weak but trying to get up.

Bonus if Fusco then comes to help, but John only struggles harder until it's just Finch.

The latest number works in a lab and a fight / accident there means Reese gets covered in some sort of chemical. It's not lethal but it does cause confusion and disorientation. Reese makes it back to the library, and Finch hurriedly strips him and pushes him into the shower, has to get in with him to make sure he is ok. And Reese is bewildered, a little scared, because he's not exactly sure who this other man is, but he seems to be genuinely worried about Reese so he relents to his care.

1. Either Finch or Reese discovers the other has a tattoo (while performing first aid for some injury?)

2. ????

3. Sex!!!

Remember when Carter said she'd imagined Reese in the back seat of her cruiser but in handcuffs? And Reese replied each to their own....

Well, somehow Carter finds Reese in just such a situation...all helpless... and she gets him a little flustered by taunting him about all the things she could do to him and he couldn't do a thing about it.

Of course she's just messing with him, getting a little of her own back after all the stress he's caused her.

Bonus if she ends up stealing a kiss, and then Reese just slips out of the handcuffs and disappears into the night all smug (but privately a little mortified because it's Carter).

Now Carter's the one who's flustered because actually - yeah, she'd totally do him.

So everything's the same except that Finch is a techno-mage. He needs a familiar, and finds Reese - alone, on the run. Up to you if Reese can shift to an animal form or not...

So maybe Finch forgets about that pile of books he left on the floor, and in the dark (up to writer!nonny why John would be walking around the library at night...in the dark...) and he trips right over them. It's not a serious hurt but still, ow.

Or maybe Finch gives John the wrong direction over the comms and John ends up stumbling down some steps when he's chasing someone (or running from someone).

I just want to see guilty Finch and reassuring John.

Of course if the hurt is from something Finch says offhand that cuts John deep, it might take Finch a while to realise what he did. But either way I'd like to see him put it right and take care of Reese.

John either is hurt or gets sick (nothing life threatening but it does need dealt with - maybe a separated shoulder or stomach flu), and has to be hospitalised. Finch sets him up a cover identity - the disgraced son of a reclusive billionaire - and has him admitted and treated at a very private hospital. While's he's sedated and recovering, Carter keeps watch over him, which leaves Finch and Bear at the library.

But long before Finch ever bought over the library, someone hid something there of immense value...and now they'd like it back. They lay siege to the library, forcing Finch to come up with increasingly resourceful ideas at first to keep them out, and then to hide from them and hamper their progress as he tries to figure out what they want and whether it is safe to give it to them. Basically Finch and Bear doing Die Hard.

And once it's all resolved, John waking up to see them both there, and asking how they are and Finch totally glossing over it because he doesn't want John to feel guilty about not being there when they needed him and he needs John to concentrate on getting better.

John is the new guy working in the office at the limo company. He helps Zoe get a car in a rush, and she warms to him. He seems a little under the weight of everything, though, and they start an careful friendship. Finally she learns that he is being stalked - by someone becoming increasingly intrusive. Zoe can do many things, but dealing with this is beyond her skills. But she knows someone who can help - Harold Finch and his team of 'handlers' (Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco - Bear is Harold's assistance / guard dog). She foots Harold's bill and encourages a reluctant John to take their help. Gradually they learn to trust and like each other and well, things go from there. Up to nonny who the stalker is (could be Elias, maybe Logan). But John tried to tough it out at first before admitting he did need help.

Remember the scene in T2 where the T1000 stabs Sarah in the shoulder and tells her "I know this hurts, call to John." Someone does something similiar to Harold, but he won't do it. And then, finally, he tells the bad guy 'I don't have to,' because John is now standing behind him.

Somehow, John and Harold end up swapping bodies. While they try to figure out how to get the situation reversed, it presents several logistical problems. As Finch said, the numbers never stop coming...but John with his knowledge of combat and tactics is now in a body not equipped to use those skills; and Finch is in a body that is physically capable of all of those things but in the hands of something lacking the knowledge to do them. How do they manage?

Bonus if Finch's back seizes badly at one point, and Harold (in John's body) has to help John deal with it. When they get things sorted, John asks Harold if there have been times he's been in that much pain and not said, and makes Harold promise not to do that again.

Reese is seriously injured and the bloodloss is making him dopey. He doesn't think it's too bad, it can't be when it doesn't hurt all that much, right?

He doesn't want Finch's help and perhaps struggles against him, just generally acts really stupid.

I'd love if it started with Reese out on his own and Finch at the library trying to reason with him over the comm and finally realizing that he needs to go and get John to safety because he won't do so on his won.

FBI Agent John Reese is rarely suprised, but he can't help it when his life is saved by stranger Harold Finch. Finch claims to be psychic and offers to help Reese on the quiet. Reese's time in the army taught him to keep an open mind, but he doesn't exactly believe in psychic powers. All the same, Finch's information is...uncanny. So either he is psychic or he has access to some unbelievably accurate source of intelligence. While accepting Harold's help, John resolves to find out the truth about him. While Finch wants him to or not.

Elias is the traumatised son of a murdered woman, using a network of informants throughout the city to provide him with the information he and his associate need to protect people.

Harold Finch is the billionaire genius determined to avenge the people who took his friend Nathan from him, tried to kill him, and condemned his bodyguard/assassin John Reese to a life of cruelty and deprivation until Harold rescued him.

They have a grudging respect for each other, but still - they are both in each other's way.

Finch has himself an obsessive admirer (or rather one of his personas does). He wants to emulate Finch in all respects; he's rich enough, he dresses like him, eats at the same restaurants. But to really carry it off, he needs John. He can obtain copies of everything else Finch has but John is unique.

OMC doesn't know anything about the machine, or what the boys are involved in, he's just in the type of places that Finch typically goes to and John sometimes ends up at too. (He can either think John is Finch's trophy boyfriend, or PA, etc)

Finch can put up with the rest of it, but when he realises that John is at risk, he very quickly takes steps to deal with that. Up to writer what he does, but bonus if John never realises the danger he's in (maybe just thinks that Finch is being even more paranoid about him than usual).

And for a while after that Finch is ultra possessive of Reese.

Finch's abusive father, who he hasn't seen since he ranaway from home (you can change the details) comes up as a number. Cue to moral angst for Finch as he wars with the desire to help save him or let him blow in the wind. Reese, after and/or while, helping the father, finds out about the abuse. Up to you to decide how he reacts.
Kudos for hurt/comfort from Reese.

So...
I'm thinking of a You've Got Mail AU with Reese and Finch (and Bear, of course!). Obviously, they both have to be using some kind of online chat, perhaps even online dating, but without giving away who they are. Maybe they have become curious after protecting Maxine...

They are still working the numbers together and at some point one of them picks up on the other's identity.

I would love if it's not all lovey-dovey. Their work may become a problem, like Reese won't answer mails for a few days when he's out on a stake-out, or it's just that they have to make up things and don't keep track of what they said or something like that.

I think it would work with both of them as the one who finds out about the other's true identity:
a) Finch finds out and thinks that he can't actually have feelings for Reese and doesn't reply anymore at first, or
b) Reese finds out and thinks that he can't ever tell Finch because he wouldn't want him anyway...

That's basically it. I'm absolutely open for different ideas though :)

Reese ends up tied by somebody with less than noble intentions. Finch knows his asset is in trouble and arrives in time to see the guy stroking his hand down Reese's chest, kissing his throat, everything to try and make Reese feel vulnerable.

And Finch goes nuts in a typically Finch like manner. But it's afterwards, not just that day or the next, that has Reese looking at Finch funny. Because all of a sudden he is ultra possessive. To the point where it's starting to get awkward. Clearly, he and Finch need to have a talk...

Where that leads is up to nonny!

John gets sick and Finch refuses to let him run around chasing people and fighting with a high temperature. But they have a number, so Finch persuades Fusco to step up. And Carter to keep an eye on John and make sure he doesn't try to get involved anyway. Fusco ends up having to play the rich playboy and he is so awful at it that John and Carter watch the video feed and listen in with increasing horror. Finch's suggestions aren't helping, and it's no surprise when it all goes wrong and John has to go save them anyway.

And no they are never letting Fusco live this down.

Finch is the most overworked ADA in the prosecutors' department, and the most successful although he always manages to keep anybody from noticing. He prefers to keep to the shadows.

Detective John Reese in homicide notices, though, when Finch helps him save one of his cases after a dirty cop almost ruins it. It's the start of a friendship that could be more if they can both get over their trust issues.

Bonus if Reese gets hurt on a case and Finch goes to pick him up from the ER which surprise Reese because he hadn't expected anybody to come for him.

Finch can't get to the safehouse where Fusco has Reese, who seems to have been drugged. Finch tries to give Fusco instructions over the comm, but Fusco knows what he's doing thank you very much. He strips Reese, firstly checking for an injection site which he finds and then so he can get him into a cold bath to bring his temperature down. Reese fights him on instinct (maybe letting slip in his delirium that the last time someone shoved him into a cold bath it was not with the best of intentions) but Fusco can handle him when he's hurt like this. Reese eventually comes around having been dried off, put in sleep pants and tucked in bed. Fusco puts it down to Reese still being out of it that he sees him there, and still goes back to sleep.

Reese is turned on by Finch's big ... brain. (Yeah, okay, that's the show, but still.)

Root will never be done playing games with them. She has information they need, and in order to get it all John has to do is a trust fall. He is forced to put himself in a situation where he could get really hurt if Finch doesn't get there (handcuffed to something in a rough area of town, locked up in an abandoned building, made to take a sedative that will ultimately arrest his breathing, etc). Root thinks there's no way Harold will get there in time to rescue him so she gives John the information.

John thinks that despite everything, Root really doesn't know Harold if she thinks that. And Harold thinks Root must not know by now that anyone who poses a threat to John will be dealt with, by the machine if not by him.

I'd just like to see Harold threatening someone over John - maybe someone has hold of him, has got in his space, maybe it's Logan Pierce becoming a stalking pain in the ass. Just Harold totally making them respect and fear the the small guy in the suit and glasses because he will destroy your world.

Finch gets hurt - minor but he's out of commission for a few days and he asks Fusco to take on a special mission.

He wants him to follow John.

Fusco is reluctant - Wonder Boy practically has eyes in the back of his head and if he catches him on his tail, Lionel expects to get thrown through a wall. But he can tell Finch is worried, so he agrees.

What he finds horrifies him - Reese tied up, thick length of material tied over his mouth, while some guy basically molests him. Fusco jumps in to save him and beats the guy up. It's only when he threatens to call Finch that Reese snaps out of it and tells him it's not what it looks like, and Finch is not going to know anything about this.

Fusco avoids them for a few days, realising that Reese let himself be put in that situation. Then after a close call John shows up at his door, desperate and Fusco can't turn him away. Fusco basically dominating John but in a caring way, determined to show him he can get what he needs without putting himself in the dubious care of strangers. He forces a promise from John that he won't go to anyone else for this from now on.

Finch doesn't find out what was going on but accepts Fusco's assurance that it's dealt with.

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Prompt Post 01 is open!

Finch/Nathan, eventual Finch/Nathan/Reese, POI AU, Nathan doesn't die, bottom!Reese

Finch, Reese or Finch+Reese - held down

Finch, Reese, caretaking, Finch has to give Reese a shower

Finch/Reese - tattoos

Carter/Reese, threatened dub-con, handcuffs, mischevious!Carter

Finch, Reese - magical AU, Reese is Finch's familiar

Finch, Reese, friendly fire, accidental injury, H/C

Finch, Reese, Carter, Bear, hurt!John, badass!Finch, (library siege)

Finch, Reese, Reese/male eventual Finch/Reese, POI AU, stalked!John

Finch, Reese, using Finch to lure Reese out, h/c

Reese, Finch, body swap

Reese/ Finch: bloodloss making Reese dopey/stupid

Finch/Reese, POI AU, psychic!Finch, FBI!Reese, pre slash to slash

Elias/Scarface, Finch/Reese, character swap

Reese, any, Finch's obssessive admire targets John

Finch has abusive father, Tender!Reese, hurt/comfort

Reese/Finch: You've Got Mail AU

Reese/Finch or Reese + Finch, protective!Finch to the rescue (attempted non con)

Finch, Fusco - working a case without John, hurt!John has to rescue them anyway

Finch/Reese, POI AU, first time, hurt!Boys

Fusco, Reese, hurt/comfort, Fusco caring for Reese

Finch/Reese - competence kink

Finch/Reese, Root, forced trust fall, Reese in danger

Finch/Reese or Finch and Reese, protective BAMF Finch

Fusco/Reese, PTSD, angry protective!Fusco, dub-con, needy!Reese