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"Damaged" by Katica Locke (mature)
Hi, I'm April, back to rec for a new fandom this time. Person of Interest is well into its second exciting season and the fandom is growing with new authors, new fics and vids and art showing up every day. There are plenty of genres of fic in this fandom, but as I'm primarily a slasher, I'll mostly be recc'ing slash fic, with some gen friendship thrown in.
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: John Reese/Harold Finch
word count: 107,661
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katicalocke
Author Website: http://katicalockefanfic.wordpress.com/
Why this must be read:
This is one of the longest POI fics out there and it's one that propelled me headlong into the fandom. I discovered the show in July last summer and went searching for fic right away. I found this story being posted as a WIP on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pofinterest_fic. I soon got caught up in it, then waited with everyone else as the author posted a new chapter each Friday. I hated to see it end, but now that it's finished, it can be recc'ed as one of the best POI fics out there.
Tags on AO3 list it as containing angst, romance, torture, psychological trauma, and drama. For me, it has everything: physical and psychological torture, hurt/comfort and sex. Both main characters are abducted, one after the other, by nemesis Mark Snow who wants information about what they are doing. Finch won't give up Reese's whereabouts and Reese won't divulge information about Finch's Machine and what they do. Following Snow's painful persuasive measures, there's lovely hurt/comfort and their relationship grows as they get past Finch's paranoia and Reese's darkness. The Machine is a major character and the direction the author takes that aspect of the story is just as fascinating.
Mark Snow was Reese's boss in the CIA and started looking for him during the show's first season. In the episode "Number Crunch" Snow found him, only to have his operative shoot Reese with a high powered rifle. Finch came to the rescue and Reese survived to help the irrelevants another day and only the viewers knew what happened to Snow after that. Recently, we saw what "really" happened to Snow in canon, but while this novel diverges from the events of second season, it holds up wonderfully as an alternate way things could have gone.
The characters of Fusco and Carter are present, as well as Dr. Megan Tillman from the well-loved episode, "Cura Te Ipsum."
The writing is excellent, the plot thorough and convincing and overall, the story is just plain satisfying, especially when the relationship between Reese and Finch is finally consumated.
Finch looked like he wanted to say something at that, but he just gathered up the medical supplies and levered himself up off the bed, hobbling around to sit on Reese’s other side so he could reach the wounds on his arm easier. Reese watched him for a moment.
“I knew I was going to die,” he said softly, “and my biggest regret, the only thing that I wished I had done differently, was not making love to you when I had the chance. I’m not going to let that happen again.”
“If by that you mean you’re going to stop almost getting yourself killed, then I couldn’t agree more,” Finch said, smoothing down the edges of the bandage on Reese’s arm.
“That’s not what I meant,” Reese replied, reaching over and placing his hand on Finch’s bare knee. Finch stared down at it, a shiver running through him as Reese began to slide his hand up under the damp towel, his fingertips grazing the soft skin of Finch’s inner thigh.
“I know that’s not what you meant,” Finch said suddenly, sounding out of breath as he put his hand on Reese’s, stopping him from going any higher. “I just don’t know if this is a good idea right now. While I’m sure you’re more than capable of engaging in a marathon session of vigorous and athletic sex right after being tortured and r- drugged, I can hardly move. Now hold still.”
Damaged
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: John Reese/Harold Finch
word count: 107,661
Author on LJ:
katicalockeAuthor Website: http://katicalockefanfic.wordpress.com/
Why this must be read:
This is one of the longest POI fics out there and it's one that propelled me headlong into the fandom. I discovered the show in July last summer and went searching for fic right away. I found this story being posted as a WIP on
pofinterest_fic. I soon got caught up in it, then waited with everyone else as the author posted a new chapter each Friday. I hated to see it end, but now that it's finished, it can be recc'ed as one of the best POI fics out there. Tags on AO3 list it as containing angst, romance, torture, psychological trauma, and drama. For me, it has everything: physical and psychological torture, hurt/comfort and sex. Both main characters are abducted, one after the other, by nemesis Mark Snow who wants information about what they are doing. Finch won't give up Reese's whereabouts and Reese won't divulge information about Finch's Machine and what they do. Following Snow's painful persuasive measures, there's lovely hurt/comfort and their relationship grows as they get past Finch's paranoia and Reese's darkness. The Machine is a major character and the direction the author takes that aspect of the story is just as fascinating.
Mark Snow was Reese's boss in the CIA and started looking for him during the show's first season. In the episode "Number Crunch" Snow found him, only to have his operative shoot Reese with a high powered rifle. Finch came to the rescue and Reese survived to help the irrelevants another day and only the viewers knew what happened to Snow after that. Recently, we saw what "really" happened to Snow in canon, but while this novel diverges from the events of second season, it holds up wonderfully as an alternate way things could have gone.
The characters of Fusco and Carter are present, as well as Dr. Megan Tillman from the well-loved episode, "Cura Te Ipsum."
The writing is excellent, the plot thorough and convincing and overall, the story is just plain satisfying, especially when the relationship between Reese and Finch is finally consumated.
Finch looked like he wanted to say something at that, but he just gathered up the medical supplies and levered himself up off the bed, hobbling around to sit on Reese’s other side so he could reach the wounds on his arm easier. Reese watched him for a moment.
“I knew I was going to die,” he said softly, “and my biggest regret, the only thing that I wished I had done differently, was not making love to you when I had the chance. I’m not going to let that happen again.”
“If by that you mean you’re going to stop almost getting yourself killed, then I couldn’t agree more,” Finch said, smoothing down the edges of the bandage on Reese’s arm.
“That’s not what I meant,” Reese replied, reaching over and placing his hand on Finch’s bare knee. Finch stared down at it, a shiver running through him as Reese began to slide his hand up under the damp towel, his fingertips grazing the soft skin of Finch’s inner thigh.
“I know that’s not what you meant,” Finch said suddenly, sounding out of breath as he put his hand on Reese’s, stopping him from going any higher. “I just don’t know if this is a good idea right now. While I’m sure you’re more than capable of engaging in a marathon session of vigorous and athletic sex right after being tortured and r- drugged, I can hardly move. Now hold still.”
Damaged