#Mac and Desi

[dinosaurswant2rule]

Mac deals with the aftermath of Desi being charged with domestic terrorism

Or should I say Jack deals with it

I love this couple, why do i like seeing them suffer? Got me....

[ao3feed-macdesi]

by Anonymous

Post 4x08, Mac slips away during Oversight’s wake. Desi does her best to be there for him.

Words: 1492, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 8 of A Tender Touch, A Silent Word

Fandoms: MacGyver (TV 2016)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Desiree "Desi" Nguyen, Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016)

Relationships: Angus MacGyver/Desiree "Desi" Nguyen

Additional Tags: Wakes & Funerals, Grief/Mourning, James is mentioned (and dead), Jack is mentioned (and alive!), Post-Episode: s04e08 Father + Son + Father + Matriarch, Episode: s04e08 Father + Son + Father + Matriarch

[tvshowscouples]

If you love Mac&Desi (MacGyver) and you want reblog or like,this is the link of my reblog couples :)

thank you!

[ughsahira]

Too nice, had to pay the price.

[1njjrd]

saving what's still sweet

i worry about the rotten apples

the ones left too long ,IGNORED

hidden beneath the surface

waiting to spoil what’s good

how do you stop the damage once it’s started?

can you fix what’s already started to go bad?

sometimes i wonder if it’s too late

if what’s been lost can be brought back

but maybe it’s about knowing

when to let go

to cut away what’s gone wrong

and keep what’s still sweet

trusting there’s more to SAVE than to lose

[macgyver2016-bracket]

Season 4, Episode 7: Mac + Desi + Riley + Aubrey

A double date descends into chaos when Mac and Desi witness a murder in the back of the restaurant, and as they work to find the killer, Riley tries to keep the secret about about their "day jobs" from her boyfriend, Aubrey.

Season 5, Episode 13: Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer

Mac and Desi trace a rare car to Italy, hoping it leads them to the criminal who used to own it.

[purrgilpawkins]

Slime + Ink

Summary: Jack realized pretty early on that Mac always needed something. Whether it be something to distract him or something he needed to help finish his projects. (Or 5 times Jack is there to give Mac something he needs and 1 time he isn’t.) (Also available on AO3)

Pairings: Jack Dalton & Angus MacGyver

Part of the Comfortember 2020 series Prompt: Fidgeting / Jacket

Warnings: n/a

Notable tags: fluff, light angst, 5+1 things, caring Jack

Twenty-three hours into this surveillance mission, Mac had run out of paper clips and, unfortunately for Jack, found a pen and immediately started clicking it.

Jack was a very patient person (even if he liked others to think he wasn’t), you gotta be in order to be a truly professional sniper. That being said, he snapped after about three minutes.

“Mac, I am this close to smackin’ you upside the head.”

Mac stopped at Jack’s statement and glared at him before flipping the pen in his hand…and biting the tip. Jack sighed, glad he was no longer hearing the clicking (even if Mac’s pen chewing is still a little noisy).

They sat in (mostly) silence for the next few minutes, Jack trying to do his job and Mac still eating his pen. That didn’t last too long either, seeing as the pen Mac was chewing on burst and filled his mouth ink. Jack looked at him in amusement as Mac sputtered, reaching for one of the water bottles in the cup holders.

“Jesus, kid. I know you’re bored outta your mind but do you really need to poison yourself?”

Mac opened the door to the car and spat out his watery-ink mixture and closed the door. He glanced at Jack and wiped his mouth, which was still black. “Sorry. Guess I’m going a little stir crazy.”

“No shit.”

Jack sighed once more before reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out a packet of tissues that he handed to Mac. The ink-stained blond took it and wiped at the ink he just painted his hand with.

“Sorry. For blowin’ up at ya. We’ve been here for a day, I’m tired, and our intel must’ve been wrong cause the guy didn’t even show up!” Jack sighed yet again as Mac dabbed at his mouth, “How mad you think Patty’ll be if we left?”

“Probably pissed,” Mac said before attempting to remove the ink from his tongue.

“Yeah, well,” Jack sighed (yes, again) and dropped his head onto the steering wheel before quickly bringing it back up with a look of determination on his face, “She’ll just have to send somebody else out here to waste their time.”

Jack started the car and took off while Mac protested with a tissue in his mouth.

—

Jack saw that look in Mac’s eye. The one he got when he was about to run off and start making something out of random junk. And that was exactly what he did.

Mac ran out the back door of the restaurant and Jack followed him, not surprised to see the younger man digging around in one of the dumpsters.

“If you’re that hungry, they got fresh food inside the place, hoss.”

Mac ignored Jack and continued rummaging in the dumpster, throwing things back just as much as he was keeping them. He looked to his partner and Jack got the idea just before Mac started tossing him some of the things he’d dug out.

“You mind telling me what your plan here is?”

“Would you listen if I told you?”

Jack shook his head, “Probably not, no.”

Mac gave Jack a look and carried on with excavating. He stopped for a moment and jumped out to the next dumpster before he started his digging again.

“Jack.”

“Huh?”

“I need something to, uh, to inflate. Kinda like a balloon but it doesn’t have to be exactly like it. Just, something to blow air into and tie off at the end.”

“Right, yeah. I know how a balloon functions.”

Mac ignored Jack’s snark and the older agent turned to search for the requested item in the restaurant itself when an idea struck him.

“Would a condom work?”

Mac paused, “Yeah, that’d work.”

Jack moved the junk to his other hand and reached into his back pocket and pulled out the aforementioned condom, handing it to Mac. Mac looked at the condom and then at Jack. “Why…?”

Jack smirked and raised his eyebrows suggestively.

Mac shook his head, “Never mind. Don’t need to know.”

—

Mac still had a few more weeks of recovery ahead of him. The PT was going well and the burns on his hands seemed like they wouldn't scar too bad, if at all.

Despite all the progress he’d made, it was still a struggle to move his hands. And for Mac, that was torture.

Bending his fingers too quickly was painful and some objects were rough against his still healing skin. It all made Mac upset and Jack saw just how upsetting it was.

They were sitting on Mac’s couch, Jack pretending to watch a movie while he sneakily eyed Mac as the man in question got lost in his own head. His fingers seemed to twitch even more now that they were hurting and Jack knew Mac would do anything for some kind of distraction.

So, the delta reached into his pocket and pulled out a mesh stress ball. He’d put it in there while at the store, completely forgetting about it, and ended up stealing it; he’d picked it up in the first place with the intent of giving it to Mac at some point anyway.

Jack reached over for Mac’s hand and gently turned it over to place the ball in his palm. Mac gave him a tired look but started squeezing the ball. He continued squeezing after several moments and once Jack realized he’d done good, he turned back to the movie, glancing at Mac occasionally, seeing him still slowly squishing the ball.

Not even thirty minutes go by before a faint pop! sounded from the general area of Mac and something warm and slimy smacked Jack in the face. Jack looked over to his partner and saw a trail of green slime inching down his face from his hair, his eyes squeezed shut, and a now deflated stress ball in his hands.

“Mac.”

“Sorry.”

—

Jack popped out of cover, getting three shots off before the guys on the other side of the warehouse got a few shots off themselves and he fell back behind the box he and Mac were using for protection.

“Anytime now, Mac!”

“Working on it!” Mac was very clearly working on it. Jack wasn’t sure the exact details of what “it” was but he was promised something explosive and that was all he needed.

The firefight continued as Mac took his time building his makeshift bomb. He looked up at hearing the click of Jack’s now empty gun. That was the last clip too.

“Mac!”

“Just another second!”

The goons were still firing their weapons from their places scattered about the “abandoned” building but they were likely to realize soon that the dudes who interrupted their illegal activities had stopped firing back.

“Okay, okay. Done!” Mac said as a bullet ricocheted past his head. He reached behind him to the matchbook he planned to use to light. “Oh, dammit.”

“What? What’s the problem?”

Mac picked up the matchbook, soaking wet after it had managed to land in a small puddle of water, now completely useless. The pair looked at each other and Jack was a little worried at the slight fear in Mac’s eyes. The bullet storm from the baddies had all but ended and then Jack remembered.

He frantically went for one of his inner jacket pockets and pulled out several loose matches, quickly handing them to Mac. A look of surprise replaced Mac’s scared one as he lit a match.

“The moment I throw this, run.”

“Don’t gotta tell me twice, hoss.”

—

It was unfortunate how used to the scents and sounds of a hospital they were. It practically came with the job, being in a hospital waiting room, if not the hospital bed itself.

Riley had been shot. She was currently in surgery and the doctor who’d talked to the two other agents had assured them that if all went well, she would be fine.

Jack remained worried, of course. It was his job to worry, after all. Mac was worried too but it was obvious by his pacing he was feeling guilty as well.

Riley had shielded him from the bullet. It was supposed to hit him. Now she was the one in surgery, getting a bullet removed from her back when it should’ve been him. She didn’t deserve this.

Jack had been watching him like a hawk the whole time. Mac knew he was making him worry, which just made him feel worse. He shouldn’t be making Jack worry about both his kids, especially when one was more deserving of that worry than the other. Mac's unhealthy train of thought came to a stop when Jack spoke up.

“Hey, Mac.” Jack motioned to the seat next to him and Mac sat down, avoiding eye contact.

They sat in silence for a moment before Jack reached into his front pocket and pulled out a paperclip. He moved it in front of Mac’s face, making sure he saw it, before he started talking again.

“I’m willing to bet that there’s no way in hell you can bend this into…the Eiffel Tower.”

Mac scoffed, “Jack, you’ve seen me do it before.”

“The hell I have!”

“You have! We were in Paris trying to take down that arms dealer, remember?”

“Nope. Not ringing any bells.”

Jack smiled and Mac smiled back. The younger agent knew what his partner was up to and Jack knew he knew. Mac took the paperclip, happy to be distracted, and started bending it.

—

It was their first mission without Jack.

If anyone had noticed that the jacket Mac was wearing was Jack’s, no one acknowledged it.

It was a little too big on him, but that was okay. It was comforting, in a way. It felt like Jack was still there. Still protecting him.

During their mission, Mac had made a mistake. He hadn’t been able to focus properly since…well. A man had come at him with a knife and Mac froze. Luckily for him, Desi actually took her job seriously.

A good helping of blood had landed on Mac and therefore also on the jacket.

Mac didn’t want to wash the jacket. It still smelled like gunpowder and leather. Like Jack. But it was also starting to smell like blood and Mac was sure Jack wouldn’t be too happy about a bloodied jacket when he came back.

If he came back.

He’d eventually made up his mind and decided to wash the jacket.

Mac knew from experience that putting something in the wash before checking the pockets could lead to some kind of catastrophe, so he decided to empty out the pockets. He opened the zipper of one of the inner pockets and pulled out a folded piece of paper, simply labeled Mac. The man in question looked at it curiously, flipping it over and back before he folded it open.

Hey Mac,

I’m sorry I broke my promise. You should know that I didn’t want to leave if I didn’t have to. I know this seems like something I don’t have to leave for but, trust me, I do. Irregardless, my place will always be by your side. And don’t you worry, I promise I’ll be back as quick as I can. If you’ll have me, of course. Tell the others I love them.

Love you kid,

Jack

Mac wondered if Jack had anticipated Mac taking his clothes or if this was something he was supposed to read at all.

Either way, the short note brought some comfort to Mac, like his partner was still checking up on him despite his absence.

Mac slipped the note in his back pocket and put the jacket in the wash, a smile of his face.

[anguishmacgyver]

[appalachianapologies]

Here’s a prompt for you! Torn stitches

could not tell you when this is set or what happened before or literally anything other than the fact that i had fun with it lol

“No more missions for the next two weeks. That’s what she said four days ago.”

“Contrary to popular belief, even Matty can’t control when a terror group is going to strike next,” Desi mutters back as some sort of poor attempt to defend herself.

“Medical didn’t even cleared you, did they?”

“Medical can’t control terror actions either.”

“You could’ve sat this one out,” Mac points out, glancing from the stitches in the side of Desi’s calf to her face, gauging her reactions. “Are you okay?”

“I’ve had worse.”

Mac sighs back.

“Don’t like it when you’re on the other side of it, do you?” Before he can answer, Desi continues, “Look, just put a couple back in. It’s only the stitches on the end that got torn.”

“We don’t really have a sterile theater here.”

“Does it matter?”

“It’d matter if it were me. Or Riley.”

With a surprising smile, Desi says, “Look at that- you are capable of thinking rational thoughts when it comes to your own safety! Here I was thinking it was literally impossible.”

“Des-”

“I’ll make a rational man out of you, yet.”

[wntersnow]

Mac calling Riley, Riles

2x08, 2x18, 2x19

3x02, 3x10, 3x14

4x01, 4x07

4x12

4x13

5x01, 5x06

[dinosaurswant2rule]

I updated this again with Mac/Desi day in mind @levy-tran

I thought I would give our hero and heroine in a moment of relief in their messed up world :)

Also I love nervous, nerdy Mac

@macdesiprompts

@macdesigifs

In this world Mac never joined the army, he spent his life at MIT and yeah I love me an AU

[ao3feed-macdesi]

by Anonymous

Mac finds Desi hiding out in the bedroom during their Christmas party.

Words: 1481, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of A Tender Touch, A Silent Word

Fandoms: MacGyver (TV 2016)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Desiree "Desi" Nguyen, Angus MacGyver (MacGyver TV 2016)

Relationships: Angus MacGyver/Desiree "Desi" Nguyen

Additional Tags: Christmas Party, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Fluff, Christmas Fluff, ALL THE FLUFF, food as a love language

[ariminiria]

AU where instead of Desi, Jack manages to get Cage to come back to fill in for him

[peachesingreece]

Every new episode of Macgyver I watch makes me hate desi more. I jumped on the Macgyver train late and I was sort of biased against desi from the beginning, having seen what other people said about her. But she just continues to exceed my expectations in the worst way possible.

The first time we see her, she breaks into his house when he’s vulnerable and practically naked. She spent a decent portion of the conversation looking up and down his body, which is weird. It’s not instant chemistry or early attraction because he looks annoyed at best. Then she commented on how much he’s wearing and like mocking him for being in a towel in his own house after a shower? He was clearly uncomfortable and it felt very much like sexual harassment.

In 3:16 they’re on a mission that’s emotional and personal for Mac. She asks him about his feelings, then immediately tells him to shove it in a box and stop being a baby. Because “needed him to get it out of his system.” She doesn’t care about his feelings, she was just asking because she felt he needed managing and she was the only one around. It feels very mocking, manipulative, condescending, and insensitive.

In 3:17 they need to act out a fight. He starts trying to actually ACT it out without hurting desi and she turns around and smacks him in the face. I’ve seen the fandom play it off as a feminist thing almost? Like “Mac doesn’t want to hurt fragile little desi and she sure shows him!” but there was no need for them to actually hurt each other. After like the 4th time she’s hit him, shoved him against the wall, let him smack into things dragging him etc, he starts hitting back and then they play it off as sexy banter. I don’t think lack of care for other people is cute or sexy. Sure he can take it, but he obviously doesn’t like it so why should he have to? He even comments on it, and she plays it off “little enthusiastic, don’t you think?/just getting into character.” He can’t stop everything and be like wait!!! I have a boo boo! That he’s mentioning it at all shows he doesn’t like it. She’s either just totally careless with him or she enjoys hurting him.

It’s hard to say because of high speed chases, but I feel like when she’s driving, we get lots of shots of Mac sliding around and crashing into things when she takes sharp turns then looking annoyed. I feel like we never had shots like that when Jack was driving. It’s just a little thing that bothers me but it feeds into my impression that she doesn’t care if he gets knocked around.

She also just like. Constantly criticizes, mocks, and berates him. In 4:2 post break up, Mac tries to be professional and she just takes every opportunity to dig at him. I hate that she ADMITS that she lied to him all through their relationship (“when we started dating you said you liked the body spray/I said a lot of things I didn’t mean”). He’ll dig back but he never starts it. She mocks his interests and is super dismissive when he starts geeking out over something.

During missions, she bitches at him to fix all the problems and puts so much pressure on him. Then he does come up with a miraculous solution and she’s so critical of his plan. Then she blames him for the problems caused by his absolute last resort do-it-or-we-die solution. Like wow desi, I’m sorry the sat phone is broken, he used it to make an electromagnetic to disarm a nuclear bomb (I made that up as an example). All the other team members tease Mac, but it feels way different and he looks upset after desi does it.

Also like. When his plan doesn’t make sense to her and she’s stressed, she says “don’t make me punch you, Mac!” that totally sounds like the start of physical abuse. If not a pattern. How often does she say that? Did she threaten to punch him when they were dating whenever he did something she didn’t like?

I haven’t gotten to the Mac’s secret project stuff yet, but I’ve seen enough posts to indicate stalking, emotional manipulation, physical abuse, and a complete lack of trust. That seems to me like a culmination of the behaviour we’ve seen from her since the beginning. It’s fine when she lies to Mac, withholds information to manipulate him, mocks his vulnerability but God Forbid he keep one thing from her or do something that doesn’t make perfect sense to her.

I hate in 5.3 when she is brings up knocking people unconscious, and he looks so devastated when he says “I thought you forgave me” and she assures him that she did. Except when you tell someone you forgive them, you don’t hold it over their heads.

Then during the quarantine episode, she goes “I got your very… VERY long apology for everything.” Like she criticizes him constantly for not apologizing enough then is weird and passive aggressive that he wrote out a thoughtful apology? Especially since she criticized him using Phil collins lyrics to apologize previously. Does she just not want to accept? Strikes me as a power thing to keep him constantly apologizing.

I hate that she bitches about not going on dates, not only rejects his ideas but belittles them all while refusing to suggest any of her own. Sounds like she doesn’t actually want to connect with him, just punish him and make it his fault.

She’s so mean to him ALL THE TIME but seems to constantly be mad about something that he’s supposedly done. I wouldn’t stay dating someone who I was constantly mad at or feeling betrayed by. It seems to me like she gives and withholds affection to keep Mac dependent on her and to punish him for bad behaviour, just like his dad!

She is definitely emotionally abusive and manipulative. I believe she’s physically abusive. We don’t see her hit to really hurt him on screen, but we’ve seen that she can take him in a fight so she could actually physically hurt him if she wanted to. Are all her smacks her reminding him of that?

I would tolerate desi as a character if it wasn’t for her wildly toxic relationship with Mac. It’s nice to see physically capable female characters, angry female characters, poc main characters, characters with tattoos that aren’t considered unprofessional, we love it. Her emotional callousness could be an opportunity for a character growth arc. But I just hate how she treats Mac being played off as sexy banter or romance!

[theeladymacbeth]

My prized vintage leather boots 🤞

[macgyver2016-bracket]

Season 1, Episode 5: Toothpick

Using only an armrest, a curtain rod and a toothpick, MacGyver must fix a sabotaged train in order to protect a whistleblower who has proof that her boss is selling weapons to U.S. enemies.

Season 4, Episode 7: Mac + Desi + Riley + Aubrey

A double date descends into chaos when Mac and Desi witness a murder in the back of the restaurant, and as they work to find the killer, Riley tries to keep the secret about about their "day jobs" from her boyfriend, Aubrey.