Finch is a victim of non-con. Reese is there to deal with the aftermath. I will love you forever if there's loads of hurt/comfort and a tender/protective!Reese.

Reese, Finch, or Reese/Finch, either is equally wonderful.

Reese is in a bad mood, either over a case that's gone bad, or he's reminded of something in his past, any reason that gets him down is good.
His way of dealing with it is to let off some steam. He gets drunk and gets into a fight on purpose, holding back because he 'deserves the pain'. He gets arrested.

It's a Friday night so he'll have to stay in jail for the weekend if nobody comes to bail him out. He knows that Finch would come for him in a heartbeat but doesn't want to call him and would rather stay in jail for the time being so he won't have the chance to hurt anyone else. He figures he can still think about it on Monday.

Little does he know that Finch was worried about him already so he knows exactly where Reese is and comes to get him anyway. Reese is surprised and doesn't want to talk about it, Finch thinks that's not healthy, yadda yadda.

I'd prefer Reese/Finch friendship.

Finch is going to have to speak to John about not telling him everything - because it's Fusco who reports the state he found John in, tied to a chair, post torture, towel around his neck.

Finch ends up feeding John pain killers and cleaning up everywhere the needles were inserted and sending John off to bed because he still hurts.

And John is still angry with himself for making that mistake and allowing himself to get close enough to his opponent for pressure points to be used on him.

I want, really quite badly, a fainting Finch. Reese on hand to make sure he was alright would just about leave me kissing your feet...

Fusco's willing to do anything if Reese will only help him stay out of prison. Anything.

Finch's injuries make treading water and swimming very difficult.

Because Reese would absolutely enjoy being Finch's sub.

Carter mistakenly thinks Finch has taken up with Fusco and gets pissed with Finch and/or Fusco on Reese's behalf.

When Finch tells Reese about it as a "funny story" (like Reese would ever be interested in him), the truth comes out.

When Finch is forced to stay over at Reese's apartment Reese discovers Finch is a somnambulist with very strong feelings about Reese.

Somehow, Reese gets turned into a cat, but still has to save the Number and be a badass. :3

John really likes the tech support guy, Harold. He only sees Harold when something breaks, but John is very good at breaking things. Harold figures it out, but he lets John play hid game until one day, he's very abruptly sick of seeing good tech broken. Pissy Harold, fascinated (turned on) John.

Fusco gets captured. He's not really expecting anyone to come for him. Meanwhile, Reese, Finch and Carter are tearing the city apart trying to get him back.

Reese starts rubbing Finch's back for him, and Finch both loves it (because Reese is so good at it, and Finch needs it so badly, because he should be getting regular massages with his fucked-up back but he's not because trust issues) and hates it (because it's embarrassing and kind of humiliating and sometimes he can't help making noises and he's perfectly aware that Reese is using this to fuck with their power balance) but for Reese it's really just about the fact that no one ever touches him, and he's completely starved for touch.

Link to fic: http://archiveofourown.org/works/964057

Reese undercover as a hooker, attempted non-con/drugging, violence

It's just chance, but Elias is in a bar watching to see if one of his lieutenants is on the take (because sometimes you just have to see to things yourself) when he sees Reese. He knows something is wrong with him straight off - looking like he's drunk but not really, and the guy he's with is practically pawing him in a private booth. Despite their opposite paths, Elias respects Reese and he can't stand there and watch this. So he intervenes, forcing the stranger to admit to drugging Reese. Elias drags Reese out of there, and puts him in a hotel room. He stays long enough to make sure Reece is out of danger, and then calls Finch to come and get him.

And then sends two of his guys to go after Reese's would be rapist.

Finch in not so many words, and without telling Reese, promise Elias a get of out jail free card in thanks for saving John.

The trope where Finch is poisoned by a substance that will be fatal if he doesn't get the the antidote. Maybe the "bad guys" injected him to get Reese to do something for them (i.e., give up damaging documents or the location of a safe house where Reese or Finch took a number to keep them safe).
Just anything that involves Reese being worried/anxious/competent/afraid-for-Finch, and Finch in desperate need of saving. Bonus points for hurt/comfort aftermath. <3

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.

After eliminating a target in a mission, Kara urged John to have sex with her.

So at the beginning of 2x17 Proteus, Finch & Reese have gone to the movies together... which is about the most adorable thing that has EVER happened. Can I have like fifty stories of HOW that happened? Was it an actual planned thing, or did Finch just try to go the movies by himself and Reese stalked him there? If it was planned, whose idea was it? Who paid? Did Reese tease about it being a date-like activity? Just, tell me more about the movie date plz.

While Reese is undercover with the bad guys, Finch is captured. Reese is commanded to interrogate him. Reese must torture Finch, or appear to do so, else he'll be outed and they'll both be killed.

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

2. ????

3. Sex!!!

Reese ends up hooded and restrained in a abandoned building somewhere - for once he can't free himself. It's getting hard to breathe, his mouth is duct taped under the hood and he's pretty sure this could be it. But he still his ear piece and Finch manages to figure out he is in dire need of help. He keeps talking to Reese, keeping him calm, while he uses the GPS in his phone to track John down and then comes for him. Reese won't admit how badly shaken he is, but waking from a nightmare at the library he finds Finch has sat up watching him, despite how sore it's made his back, as if he was expecting the nightmare. But Finch is having his nightmare while awake, imagining if Reese had suffocated before he got there.

Can be slash if writer wishes!

Logan Pierce/John (whether as John Warren or as himself).

Pierce is reckless and arrogant and smug; there's no love there, but there's lust and a play for dominance - that Pierce ends up on the bottom of, and loving it.

Consensual, please.

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.

Someone pushes Reese into the water while his hands are tied, stopping him swimming to safety. Finch doesn't hesitate - he jumps in right after him, and saves him, just as Fusco arrives and hauls the two of them out. John had just assumed Finch either didn't know how to swim or wouldn't be able to, and Harold tells him the story he told Carter, while John dries off.

// Link to fic down the thread.

Reese and Finch have to share a hotel room and a bed.

1. Awkward, unacknowledged humping in the night
2. They throw off all pretense in the morning and fuck face to face while Reese cries with happiness

JUST SAYIN

// Link at the bottom of page.

In which Harold Finch is a ten year old genius (or whatever age you want him to be) who hired Reese to work the numbers with him as well as protecting him from government agents who will do anything to capture him and handed him to CIA or Division.

Reese is understandably confused and a bit reluctant at first to accept a job offer from a ten year old billionaire with thick glasses. The boy is too mature for his age and Reese get protective of him eventually.

Finch fixed Reese with a look that was equal parts helplessness and incredulity.

"You can't possibly mean *that* thing."

Reese's answering expression was a combination of smirk and scowl.

"Oh, dear."

(Art, fic, whatever works! I just want to see what you guys come up with ;D )

(I made myself sad thinking about Finch and the bomb in the stroller (Number Crunch) and then Reese in the bomb vest on the roof in context with Nathan's death.)
Finch doesn't handle people he loves being put in soon-i'll-explode-and-you'll-be-left-alone situations. Go

SHAW AND LEON AS B-TEAM, SOLVING A NUMBER. IN DUBIOUSLY LEGAL WAYS. With Bear. And Leon deeply disturbed(/strangely turned on) re: Shaw and Root's sexy antagonism.

Basically I would watch this spinoff show. The Shaw and Leon and Bear show.

Can we get an outsider POV from Finch's security guys in the pilot, who clearly were the ones who had to drag passed-out-drunk Reese from his motel and zip tie him to a headboard for Finch? Because really. What were they *thinking* was going on?

There are some lovely stories out there where our heroes acknowledge that their relationship is not a one time thing, but because I love bittersweet downer endings, I'd also like to see a story where they only get one night together.

So, perhaps Reese finally gets his suicide mission, and this gives him the courage to confess and ask Finch as a last request? Or vice versa? Bonus points for the other not guessing, not even imagining that there was mutual attraction until the very end, and one or both of them facing their death with a laugh and a smile.

The Machine(or Finch) offers Shaw the dubious choice of either Leon or Root as her new tech support?

I just want to read the one about the NYC hospital and their ongoing pool as to how many people will come in that day because of a gunshot to the knee. And maybe their competition with that cross town hospital as to who will get more.

The one where Harold willingly lets John implant a subdermal tracker in him so he never has to lose him again (because this is how these crazies say I<3u).

I know it's an old and overused trope but I love it.

I'd love it if they both get dosed, rampant sex ensues and then we get to see the fall out afterward. Lots of angst with a happy ending please.

(Tags are for first part.)

In 2x21 Root said to Harold she wished she had a pet like John.
Somehow she gets to 'borrow' him (by threatening to harm Grace for example). John is unwilling but has to comply anyway, hoping he can go back to Harold soon.

Wouldn't mind dub-con/non-con Root/Reese, or Finch/Reese at the end.

Reese and Finch, holed up somewhere with Reese hallucinating his past and no way for Finch to leave or not notice.

Still emoting here after 2.21, but I so badly want the children's book written by Root and illustrated by Grace. About a little bird named Harold. With a HAT.

Or anything about Root and Grace, really.

In 2.21 we learn that Reese has a tracking device in Finch's glasses. How did he manage that one? Generally people only take off their glasses when they sleep...

Reese suspects past Finch/Nathan Ingram.

Reese doesn't have hard evidence, but he's pretty sure.

Could be unrequited Finch/Ingram -- up to the author. Reese/Finch preslash or first time is an added bonus!

The backwards remix of this (http://astolat.tumblr.com/post/48489637435/strange): When Harold asks John to have sex, he says yes even though he's not sexually interested in him, because it's Harold, and he wants Harold to have everything he needs or wants.

Up to the author whether John ends up liking it/falling in love with Harold or not.

Finch/Reese, coffee and/or bookshop AU

I just... I just really like coffeeshop AUs okay

am I kicked out of the fandom yet or

But what if Finch is a plant? A CIA plant or worse? I want that AU. Reese/Finch would be a bonus.

I guess Finch would have to be not "dead" for this to work, or I guess he could do it under one of his other identities... but, ok, the Machine gives him numbers, and to cover up that trail... he pretends to be psychic, and that's how he explains knowing things about people & being able to predict trouble. He has an office and a PI license and Reese is his partner, and Carter & Fusco are the long-suffering cops who put up with their shenanigans. :D

Basically Finchs gets super turned on when he hears or sees Reese fighting. He orchestrates situations wherein Reese will end up fighting (preferably to protect Finch), thentheydoitlikebunnies. I love Dom!Finch and a Reese that gets off on orders.

Brainship--anyone read Anne McCaffrery?

I was just struck with the idea of Finch's injuries we see in the show being such that he ends up a shellperson in a Brainship ... and of course Reese is his Brawn.

Drugged and Semi-Conscious

Finch or Reese, gen or slash

Someone is an elf. More than one someone! Go for it.

Finch/Reese, leg massage

wanted this since "Mission Creep" back in 1st season. and in "Booked solid" Finch had to stand still at the reception desk all day long, that must've been hell.

Reese bets Finch that he can make Finch come without touching him. Plus, Finch cannot touch himself. This is ONLY using Reese's voice. Or you could switch 'em up if you're feeling adventurous.

John is Harold's driver (could be an AU or could be on a case). They end up having sex in the back seat.

They fall in to a habit of having sex after certain numbers, sex that is never discussed and treated like it never happened.

Pile on the angst and pining on either side or both, as it gets to be too much for one of them who finally says no.

Reese is a hungry, greedy bottom and Finch gives him everything he needs.

Inspired by this awesome gifset by redfar:

John is Harold's driver (could be an AU or could be on a case). They end up having sex in the back seat.

so a number is going to be killed at Comic-Con or an anime convention or something, and some combination of the main characters have to dress up in order to infiltrate without being recognized.

omg I don't want to co-opt the ghost prompt but wouldn't it be awesome if Harold wrote a Nathan AI after his death (or wrote him into the Machine itself maybe). I just really want him to obsessively 'talk' to Nathan via terminal when no one else is around, please.

Greer's infiltrator AI (Decima) infects Finch's Machine (Aurora) but Greer and Decima Corp. don't gain control of the infected systems the way they expected to, and the Machine is known to be functioning as normal again. Did they acquire awareness of each other and make peace? Is the Machine an Observer-Infiltrator hybrid AI now? What happened?

This assumes A LOT about interpretation of current canon and future developments but I think it could be interesting for anyone who wants to attempt to write a little Machine luurrve story.

Bad guys force them to fuck.

So there was this great prompt on the Sherlock kink meme, "what if the show took place in YOUR area," and it resulted lots of cool little drabbles & ficlets. So, what would it be like if PoI wasn't in NYC, but in the place where you live?

(Sadly, no fun for actual New Yorkers.)

OK, look, I just want a story where Harold turns out to have a ludicrously large cock and Reese finds out and can't stop thinking about what it would feel like to have Harold fuck him with it. Bonus: Reese gets to find out!

Zoe Morgan is an inane lesser noblewoman by day, a dashing highwaywoman plying the kingdom's roads by night. Joss Carter is the guardswoman sent to hunt her down and bring her to justice.

Absolutely sure they're going to die, Reese confesses his feelings to a surprised Finch,feelings he never would have mentioned otherwise.

Before Finch can respond, they're rescued.

I basically want Reese in hardcore avoidance mode although a happy ending would be nice.

(Parent thread: http://meme-of-interest.dreamwidth.org/1507.html?thread=58339#cmt58339)

I'd also started a response to this prompt, so I thought I'd go ahead and post the completed fic. It's a different industry (kidnap and ransom insurance), and a different set of talents (war gaming), but you might enjoy it anyway?

Linked here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/754291

So I really just want Finch to kiss Reese and Reese be like, no, that's not what I want (it's totally what he wants) and then they try to work together but Reese is going crazy with how much he wants Harold and how much he wants Harold to just tell him to come home with him and he gets super weird and all "don't buy me stuff, don't dress me, don't create my entire world, that's not what I want" (it's totally what he wants!) And I want Harold to just FIX it somehow like a boss (fix it with his cock).

// Note: includes some references to self-destructive drinking and depression.

The one where Reese rescues Nathan from an eeevil faction of the government who faked his death and imprisoned him to get him to do something machiney.

And Finch is so happy! His friend is back! And look what I did Nathan, we're saving the irrelevants, just like you wanted aren't you proud of me Nathan come let's have dinner and I'll tell you about the time I stole a baby.

And Reese is happy! Because he made Finch happy by saving his friend and making Finch happy is the best thing in the world and he wants to be here with Finch and count how many types of smiles he shows and where are you going with Nathan, Finch? Sure, I'll look after Bear while you go to a baseball game with your new/old best friend. Again. I never see you anymore do you like him better than me my life is so hard.

And Nathan is happy! When he isn't PTSD-ing, anyway. And finally understands why Harold never gets involved with people, since he doesn't even notice his guard dog pining after him. And maybe he'll point that out eventually, but he spent two years in a windowless cell and a man's got to find his fun where he can.

When Finch and Reese go undercover in a club / at a resort / at a billionaire get-together, Reese is not cast as Finch's armcandy. It's the other way around, with Finch being the trophy boyfriend of millionaire Reese.

This takes a bit of set-up, but there are ways! For example, it could be a get-together of billionaire businessmen in the software industry, and Reese's cover identity is that of an IT tycoon who isn't actually good with the techy stuff, but did manage to woo the right boyfriend with his money and charms...? And of course, everyone at the conference ends up incredibly jealous (and lustful) after some demonstrations of Finch's mental acuity.

Or it could be some other situation entirely!

The dragons have always watched humanity, ever since the world began, and now the Last needs a little help to keep chaos at bay...

Definitely not a self-prompt to spur me into writing. Definitely not.

John/Zoe (friendship preferred): John is injured and because he doesn't want Harold to worry he goes to Zoe for help.

Finch backstory - anything would be great, though I'd really love to read about Finch as an undergrad.

Harold has Root as his counterpart/enemy, and Reese gets Stanton. Who does Bear get?

holding hands! can be platonic or slashy, either way

On a case, as part of a cover identity? Finch wears casual clothes or similar and Reese can't keep his eyes off him (or his hands to himself).

THE ONE WHERE REESE IS AN ESCAPED/DEFECTIVE GOVT-ENGINEERED AI BUT FINCH IS THE BETTER ROBOT. Human robot. Better at being a robot, even as a human. >___> I just want Finch to tinker with Reese's insides okay, and Reese to have so many feelings for his metallic soullll. [Kara is probably a robot, too! I love Kara! Go anywhere with pairings/ratings/etc. BE FREE, robot prompt!]

I honestly do not care how you manage it, or how you make the intervening 20-odd years of time go away, but the POI team meeting Robert McCall. Hell, maybe Reese plays chess with him in the park or something? I don't know.

// PoI/Equalizer crossover

From the FAQ:

...if a story begins, "On Monday, John went to the post office. On Tuesday, he shot some guys in the kneecaps and punched some guys in the face. On Wednesday, he bought cupcakes," and the rest of the story is about John picking out cupcakes, it would not require the [Graphic violence] label.

Now I must have the story where John buys cupcakes. Up to you whether the final story does or does not in fact require the graphic violence label. Pairing optional, would prefer Reese/Finch if you have one

In which Lord Harold Finch, the tragically crippled Count of York, seeks to avenge the death of his cousin and mentor Nathan Ingram using a vast and increasing network of commoner spies and the talents of swordsman John Reese, who he rescued as a derelict soldier and incipient alcoholic from the streets of Riverside.

This could also include Alec Campion and Richard St. Vier, or they could be generational precursors or successors to Alec/Richard. (Although I'm particularly fond of the thought of someone commenting that they hadn't seen talent with a sword like that since St. Vier!)

Different prompter from the one on the first page, but I came here with a similar idea: I'd love a story where Jim slowly comes to realize that John is in love with Harold. Like, not that directing choices are being imposed on him that might be interpreted that way -- that his *own* understanding of the character is heading in that direction, and he's torn between his authenticity as an actor and the stereotypes that his church has been selling him.

(Oh Jim, just come on over to the progressive end of Christianity, already. You can still love Jesus and not be a dick! You know you want to.)

Whatever reason comes to mind: a hastily improvised cover, Finch got roofied again, Fusco is semi-delirious after a rescue, whatever. Just Finch and Fusco and something clumsy and sort of sweet?

Reese in handcuffs

Any time, any place, any pairing!

There's only one bed in the hotel room (again). This time, it's really too cold not to share.