#jessica arndt

[kickbutts-singsongs]

Come watch Person of Interest! We have:

Mr. Bird

Say Goodbye To Your Kneecaps Man

Badass single mom

Grumpy teddy bear

de beste hond

Unhinged lesbian

Unhinged bisexual

Keith Mars

M o t h e r

Mr. Bird’s soulmate

Dead best friend

Dead girlfriend

HR

Control Freak

evil man. evil

Mike Wheeler’s mom

God

Evil God

Leslie Odom Jr.

[thedragonhermit]

More Person of Interest x Fallout AU!

I said in my previous art post that if I kept thinking about this AU I would post more about it, and guess what, I've been thinking about it :)))) So here's a summary of what I've currently got for it (I say "summary" but this ended up really long oops)

John Reese

His backstory is practically the same as PoI canon except it all happened in the pre-War Fallout universe, with the CIA National Clandestine Service: Special Activities Division under the control of the pre-War Enclave. Him, Staton, and Snow still had their final mission in China, but their infiltration was more high stakes as it was during the Sino-American War.

After surviving the missile strike, Reese manages to return to the States and works to track down Jessica just like in canon, only his search leads him to the community of Sanctuary Hills near Boston. By the time Reese gets there, she's already dead.

He learns her husband Peter abused her/disguised her cause of death as a car accident, and avenges her the night of October 22, 2077 by disposing of Peter. The following morning, Reese, still wallowing in his despair and rage over not being there for Jessica, is still in their house when a representative from Vault-Tec shows up at the door. He ends up answering and is signed up for Vault 111 under Peter Arndt's name.

Just like in Fallout 4, the representative's timing couldn't be more perfect as the bombs start falling not long after. Although Reese is in a state where he wouldn't mind going out with nuclear fire, he's whisked off to Vault 111 with the other residents who've applied, enters just as Boston is hit, is provided a vault suit to change into, and is directed into a "decontamination" pod-- aka a cryopod meant for testing the affects of long term stasis.

Reese doesn't wake up until 210 years later when the Vault's life support systems are beginning to crash, and exits to find a bespectacled man claiming to have just saved his life and somehow knows his name is John Reese; not Peter Arndt as Vault-Tec's records claim. He also manages to convince Reese not to kill him over knowing all this and to instead join the cause he woke him up for.

Harold Finch

A researcher for the Advanced Systems division of the Institute, though oddly not everyone can agree whether he was brought into their fold from the outside, or if he's always been there. Despite being in Advanced Systems, his work is primarily for the Synth Retention Bureau as the sophisticated Machine he built and maintains provides them their mass surveillance of the Commonwealth, while also predicting potential threats and locating runaway synths with incredible accuracy.

Finch is also seemingly the only one in the Institute who has a modicum of sympathy for the "uncouth, unclean, and uneducated" masses above ground, considering he's secretly using his Machine to try and help the people of the Commonwealth-- even if those efforts conflict with the Institute's plans.

He's a very mysterious and private man; the more you learn about him, the less you seem to really know him. Finch will talk about places and factions outside the Commonwealth as if he's seen them with his own eyes/interacted with them himself, and yet will deny having done so. He'll even talk that way about pre-War events, unnerving Reese with implications that Finch is from his time.

The Truth: he was born around 2234 and raised Harold Wren in the Enclave alongside his best friend, Nathan Ingram, with the two building the Machine together at Raven Rock. When their creation (mostly Harold's creation as Nathan would admit) neared it's official completion in 2276, Nathan confided in Harold that he'd overheard the Enclave higher ups' true intent for it-- to merge it's surveillance and predictive capabilities into President Eden; effectively erasing the Machine's emerging identity and just making it a part of the pre-War ZAX unit.

Harold was seemingly unbothered, having suspected this was going to happen and already accepted it, but Nathan was less accepting. Vowing to save the "life" Harold had inadvertently created, he downloaded the Machine's code from Raven Rock's servers and split it between two portable devices -- a modified Pip-Boy and an eyebot -- so he could run away from the Enclave with it. Harold learned of this plan when Nathan gave him one last chance to join him, only for Harold to try and talk him out of it. His friend's mind was stubbornly made up, however.

Harold didn't let Nathan get too far from Raven Rock before finally going after him, unable to abandon (or be abandoned) by his childhood best friend. Nathan was so pleased, he immediately handed over the Pip-Boy, claiming Harold technically held more custody over the Machine, then took a few unfortunate steps right into a hidden landmine.

Harold woke up, head pounding and the back of his neck bleeding, with the eyebot beeping frantically over him. When he sat up, he saw that Nathan was dead and that the Machine was somehow still functioning despite the haphazard way it's code had been cut in half, warning him of imminent danger on the Pip-Boy's screen. The Enclave was already coming after them.

Though it was extremely hard to leave his best friend, let alone how painful it was to move, Harold got to his feet with the eyebot's help and limped to the closest settlement to get quickly patched up before leaving the Capital Wasteland altogether.

He spent the next few years wandering the greater Wasteland with the Machine as his only companion; getting the Enclave off their trail with a convincing dead body double, trying not to attract the attention of the Brotherhood of Steel or more deadly factions like Caesar's Legion, all the while coming to better understand the very thing he'd built.

When Harold learned of the Institute in the Commonwealth, he convinced their Director into letting him join, then uploaded most of the Machine into their servers to hide it from Enclave and BoS searching-- though he kept the most vital code on the eyebot and a back door in his Pip-Boy to shield it from the Institute themselves (all parts of the Machine communicate remotely via an encrypted radio station).

Having seen the greater Wasteland for what it was, Harold gained a sympathy he hadn't been raised with while in the Enclave; a sympathy he could see the Institute also lacked. So he elected to take matters into his own hands and improve it with the Machine. But they couldn't do it alone.

Thankfully, he had happened to read an old, pre-War Enclave record when he was younger about an exceptional agent named John Reese who'd allegedly ended up in Boston despite being pronounced dead on mission in China...

The Machine

Considered a "miracle" as it's the first AI of it's scale to be successfully created post-War.

It's eyebot hides in plain sight among the eyebots that patrol Diamond City when it's not with Finch.

In PoI canon, the Machine provides it's "irrelevant" numbers by listing letters that match up to authors on books in Finch's library, with the dewey decimal system becoming the target's social security number. That system is flipped in this AU; the Machine gives numbers that match up with books in the Boston Public Library (Finch and Reese's hideout, tho I can't decide if they left the super mutants in it to help with their cover lol) that spell out their target's name.

Okay great, they have a name, now how do they track them down without the internet? Well, the Institute with all its surveillance of the Commonwealth has a large database of "persons of interest" that Finch just so happens to be able to access (I think in F4 it's just lists their secret synth agents?? But I feel like they also listed off people they felt may cause issues... idk, if that's not canon, it is canon for this AU!)

There are names they receive that don't appear in that database however, meaning the boys have to track them down the old fashion way-- asking around until someone who knows the target tells them where they are. The Machine will help sometimes by providing a time and place where the target is most likely to appear next.

Obvs the names of every Fallout 4 companion comes up, either their own name or someone related to them. They also get all the names related to F4's main and side quests (as well as some PoI characters like Shaw).

Technically there already is a threat predicting AI in Fallout 4 (Predictive Analytic Machine aka P.A.M.) which the Railroad can gain access to. It's purpose pre-War was to predict when the bombs were going to fall, but it's more like a complex algorithm that requires human input to operate-- whereas the Machine is a proper thinking AI that takes in it's own input via surveillance in order to make it's decisions.

I like the idea of Finch becoming aware of P.A.M.'s existence when the Railroad is suddenly out predicting the Machine, and though the Machine is ultimately capable of out thinking P.A.M., Finch ends up "crippling" the Machine in such a way that it can only out predict P.A.M. so much to allow the Railroad to continue evading the Institute.

Bear/Dogmeat

Instead of finding him at the Red Rocket gas station between Sanctuary and Concord, he's been confined to the life of a Gunners dog. When Reese sees him, he can tell he doesn't like his "owners" considering he's acting stressed and is kept on a leash unlike this gang of Gunners' other dogs. Reese also finds the name "Dogmeat" mean (like how he didn't like canon Bear's former name, Butcher) and that's why he renames him when he frees him from the Gunners.

Bear answers to both Bear and Dogmeat, but Reese is convinced he's happier when called by his new name.

Root

A Wastelander originally from the Texas area named Samantha Groves. When she was very young, her and her mom were picked up by Caesar's Legion and were stuck with them for a time, until a moment for escape opened up. Her mom urged her to run west towards NCR territory, which Root did and allowed her to be rescued by the Followers of the Apocalypse.

Under their care and tutelage, she proved herself naturally talented when it came to computers and started coming into her own as an impressive hacker. She befriended an older girl named Hanna who was also under the FoA's care, but sadly she was abducted and killed by an NCR officer, with Root the only witness.

No one believed her when she said what had happened to Hanna, leading to her taking matters into her own hands and luring a gang of Fiends into killing her friend's murderer before leaving.

For some time after, Root traversed the Wasteland, earning caps mostly by being a shadowy assassin who made use of hacking computers whenever they were available. The further east she traveled, the more she heard rumours about the Institute, peaking her curiosity and leading her to the Commonwealth. Where she eventually learns of the most incredible thing she's ever heard of: a miracle of a god-like Machine watching over everyone in the area...

S2-16 aka Shaw

An elite SRB Courser who was personally trained by Conrad Kellogg (for those who don't know Fallout 4, he's basically Hersh and provided the special combat training used by the Courser synths of the Institute. If Hersh were in this AU, he'd just replace Kellogg, but I've decided to keep Kellogg instead).

Like I said in my art post, her partner M4-39 becomes a bit too infatuated with the Railroad (whom they're supposed to be enemies with) and goes so far as to give himself the name Michael before trying to defect to them. He tries to convince S2-16 to go with him -- who he had started calling Shaw instead of her designation -- but he's ambushed and gunned down by X6-88. Shaw is considered also compromised just by having been his partner, even though she wasn't into the idea of joining the Railroad, but X6-88 doesn't believe her.

Just like in season 2 episode 16 (see where I got her designation from haha), while Reese and Finch are trying to help her out, Shaw gets captured by Root who's wanting more information on the Machine-- though in this AU she's wanting a way into the Institute so she can get at it directly. But the only known way in is via teleportation. Each Courser has a relay chip in their brain that allows them to be teleported back, which Root threatens to cut out of Shaw if she doesn't give her another way in. Shaw's freed before that can happen, but later agrees to Finch's proposition that she have her chip removed (in a safe manner) to prevent the SRB from tracking her down.

The job of a Courser, for those unaware, is to hunt down and bring back escaped synths. In order to ensure they follow through with their orders, they are installed with emotional dampening programming to prevent them from sympathizing with their targets. Although Dr. Amari is able to remove her relay chip, she's unable to remove this programming, leaving Shaw just like she is in canon: mostly devoid of emotion (besides rage).

Free of the Institute, she officially starts going by Shaw in honour of Michael and turns to focusing on tracking down Root (in a toxic yuri way).

Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco

Both were members of Diamond City Security until Carter's display of detective work during one case impressed the Great Green Jewel's only detective, Nick Valentine, so much that he offered her a job as his partner. Ever since, she's worked as a part of the Valentine Detective Agency alongside the old synth sleuth and his assistant, Ellie Perkins.

She's drawn into working with Reese and Finch after Valentine's name is given by the Machine when he's locked up by Skinny Malone in Vault 114.

Although Reese becomes known as "the Man in the Vault Suit," he also becomes a suspect in Valentine's ongoing Mysterious Stranger case, leaving Carter to try and keep him off Reese's trail.

Meanwhile, just like in canon, Fusco is stuck on the opposite side of things as he's a part of this AU's version of HR; a collection of corrupt DCS officers (which is most of them) who work back door deals with Gunners and Raiders for chems and caps, while pulling all sorts of strings in Mayor McDonough's favour.

He's dragged into Reese and Finch's operations when the Machine gives them Piper Wright's name, as HR is obvs not a fan of Diamond City's famous nosey reporter. With Fusco under Reese's thumb, he manages to get HR off her case as best as he can, but it's tricky work with Piper not being one to give up a story that easily, danger be dammed.

A Few PoI Baddies

Speaking of HR, Alonzo Quinn is still it's secret leader, being both an Upper Stands resident and Mayor McDonough's advisor. HR is ultimately in McDonough's pocket and takes a fair amount of commands from him, so long as Quinn agrees to them as well.

Patrick Simmons, HR's second in command, is the head of Diamond City Security instead of just being an officer.

Elias operates out of Goodneighbor and gradually takes control of most of it's gangs, including the Triggermen. He has a deal with Mayor Hancock that allows him to operate on the promise he won't pose a threat to Hancock's rule, though who knows how long that will last. I kinda want to make him a ghoul just for fun... that and/or go really wild and make him the son of Eddie Winters...... idk

Control would be the head of the SRB, potentially having replaced Zimmer after he went off to the Capital Wasteland.

Samaritan would be an Enclave creation, likely built from pieces of the Machine's own code that may have lingered after Nathan and Harold escaped.

Annnnnnnd that's basically the framework of what I've got!

[ao3feed-reesefinch]

Nesting for Fugitives

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/isP4XJ1

by ArgylePirateWD

Recently divorced John Riley is struggling to adapt to single fatherhood and fighting a losing battle with his six-year-old son over math homework. Harold Sparrow is trying his best to recover from severe injuries and avoid forging new relationships of any kind with anyone. But John's son needs a tutor, and when he learns that his reclusive downstairs neighbor is a tech genius, he knows exactly who to ask.

Can Harold resist a handsome man bearing baked goods? Can John resist an enigma with a soft smile and a sharp brain? And do the two of them have a lot more in common than they might think—including secrets that could tear their budding relationship apart?

Words: 6232, Chapters: 1/13, Language: English

Fandoms: Person of Interest (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harold Finch, John Reese, Jessica Arndt, Lionel Fusco, Nathan Ingram, Rick Dillinger, The Machine (Person of Interest), Bear (Person of Interest), Will Ingram, Joseph "Joey" Durban, Shayne Coleman, Original Child Character(s)

Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese, Harold Finch & Nathan Ingram, Harold Finch & The Machine, past Jessica Arndt/John Reese, past Harold Finch/Grace Hendricks - Relationship, pre-Grace Hendricks/Nathan Ingram

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Single Parents, Disability, Falling In Love, Baked Goods, Food as a Metaphor for Love, internalized ableism, Domestic, Knitting, Fatherhood, Fluff and Angst

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/isP4XJ1

[due4amiracle]

BOOKS.

Alright so. Wow this is just gonna be books. There's everything i read in September, and everything i've read so far in October. i'm not putting all these in the tags. Suffer. ♡

Zhara (Guardians of Dawn #1) by S. Jae-Jones 4/5 - i adored this book, it was so good. It was so anime and i really loved that. Very excited for the next book!

The Vermilion Emporium by Jamie Pacton 1.5/5 - Just... didn't feel this one.

Crown of Moonlight (Court of Midnight and Deception #2) by K.M. Shea 4/5 - Doot doot KU UF? Yesss~

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 5/5 (Probable BotY!!) - OH FUCK. This book saw me, saw right into my deep dark dirty secrets and ripped them out into the light and oh shit this was good. i love AJW, i really do, and i'm excited for more!

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss 5/5 (reread) - Auri is love, Auri is life!

The Queen's Crown (Court of Midnight and Deception #3) by K.M. Shea 4/5 Yep yep yep. This is probably my favorite of the trilogies so far?

Hunted (Pack of Dawn and Destiny #1) by K.M. Shea 3/5 - Fun fun~

United (Pack of Dawn and Destiny #2) by K.M. Shea 3/5 - Book two of a cute grumpy romance~

Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt 2/5 - Argh i wanted so much more from this. >_>

Godkiller (Godkiller #1) by Hannah Kaner 4/5 - AHH! This was so good, i really enjoyed it and i really need the second one!

Monstrous by Jessica Lewis 3/5 - This was pretty decent. It kinda made me crave a second book, but i'm fine without.

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell 4/5 - Eek, another book that ripped me open! This was so good, i love it!

Fated (Pack of Dawn and Destiny #3) by K.M. Shea 3/5 - Finish off this trilogy!

Starter Villain by John Scalzi 4.5/5 - The bloody madlad did it again. i love Scalzi, i really do, and this book was no different. It was so much fun and had me yelling multiple times. (And come on, the cover is a cat in a business suit, how do you not love that!)

A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2) by V.E. Schwab 3/5 - The very slow progression of my reading of this series. It's aight. Am actually kinda intrigued as to what's coming up next.

Fireborne (The Aurelian Cycle #1) by Rosaria Munda 4/5 - THIS. This is what i wanted Fourth Wing to be!! Very good, very spicy.

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea 4/5 - Oh i do love a villain origin story. This was vicious and darkly thrilling and so so beautiful. It had light brushes of romance, strong platonic connections, a deep pool of mystery that reveled in horror and delighted in misdirection, the deep underbelly of ballet, and a young woman tearing her way through it all by teeth and claw and sheer force of will. And a little bit of eldritch horror-y magical machinations thrown in.

Shadow Coven (The Witchery #2) by S. Isabelle 2/5 - This one is sad. i really loved the first one, but oh no this one… had so much bouncing around. So many PoV's so many different places so much happening - it was so hard to keep track of anything. i kinda don't really know what all went on. Overwhelming. But what i could keep track of, i did enjoy quite a bit.

What Became of Magic by Paige Crutcher 3/5 - i have a love/dislike relationship with Paige Crutcher. The Orphan Witch i absolutely adored, it was such a good book, it really hit me in a lot of heart places, i absolutely adore a found family chaos adventure! Then came The Lost Witch which was… bland. Convoluted. Lackluster. Sad. And now we have What Became of Magic. It lands kind of in the middle between the two. Often enough, it hit, and oh did it hit good. But otherwise it was… i found myself skimming to get to the next 'hit'. It was kinda disappointing. Maybe next time, Paige!

Cage of Dreams (City of Nightmares #2) by Rebecca Schaeffer 4/5 - WHAT A GOOD BOOK ahhh what a good duology what a good ending. That ending! How dare. i want more. i crave more. Gimmie!

Hex of the Witch (The Other Witch #1) by Heather G. Harris 4/5 - i love Harris' The Other Realm books, and this one is fantastic. AmberxBastion is my OTP! Can't wait for book 2 next month.

Dire Straits (The Austin Wolves #3) by C.P. Rider 3/5 - i really love this UF KU series, the whole extended universe. It's very good.

Gray Days (Black Hat Bureau #9) by Hailey Edwards 4/5 - i have read and will continue to read everything Hailey Edwards has put out. This book -- THE ENDING uuughhhh how dare, so cruel, so evil! So excited for more!

What i've read through October thus far! - The King's Captive (Gates of Myth and Power #1) by K.M. Shea 3/5 - Book 1 of a pretty good trilogy.

The King's Shadow (Gates of Myth and Power #2) by K.M. Shea 3/5 Doot doot KU UF gogo!

The King's Queen (Gates of Myth and Power #3) by K.M. Shea 3/5 - Alright and now we start the wait for More Magiford Gogo!

Flamefall (The Aurelian Cycle, #2) by Rosaria Munda 2.75/5 - i really struggled with the first, oh, 3/4 of this one. i understand the stakes, but oof, gritty abuse for abuse sake is a lot. i can't wait for Ixion's death, i hope it comes soon into book 3, what a pos i'm very interested to see where book 3 takes me!

Furysong (The Aurelian Cycle, #3) by Rosaria Munda 4/5 - HELL YES! That is how you fuckin' end it, i'm SO thrilled!

Beholder by Ryan La Sala 4.5/5 - This is going to be like, top 3 of the year, imo, this was so so so good, another one that ripped me open. So good. Whew. Loved it.

[poistills]

Stills of Interest

God Mode (2x22)

[aragarna]

One Path or The Other - new fanfic!

Title: One Path or The Other Author: Aragarna (a.k.a. Caviezel Daily, a.k.a. Stormy) Characters: John Reese, Jessica Arndt, Harold Finch, Kara Stanton, Mark Snow, (John/Jessica). Fandoms: Person of Interest, Counterpart. No knowledge of Counterpart is necessary. Genre, rating: Crossover, case fic, angst and feels. Lots of feels. Word count: 20 000 Spoilers, warnings: None. Set around S2 for POI. Vaguely pre-series for Counterpart.

Summary: When John Reese receives Jessica's number, Harold is forced to reveal him a tightly-kept secret: twenty-five years ago, the world split in two and things are a bit different on the other side. John and Harold never met, the Machine was never built, and Jessica didn't die. But now, she's in danger, and it's up to John Reese to cross over and save her. - Crossover with Counterpart. No knowledge of Counterpart is necessary.

Author’s Note: Many thanks to @bliphany, without whom that story wouldn’t exist. Thanks for our very inspiring chats! <3 And many thanks to @talking2thesky my faithful and so efficient beta! <3

The adventure starts here:  AO3 - FF.net

[ntamain]

That’s one of the things you learn over there. In the end, we’re all alone and no one’s coming to save you.

Be happy with Peter.

You don’t believe that. Not really. You wanna be brave?

Take a risk.

[gabrielokun]

[myfriendtheurbanlegend]

Chapters: 15/15 Fandom: Person of Interest (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: John Reese, Joan (Person of Interest) Summary:

What happened between New Rochelle and the subway scene on Person of Interest? A LOT. We know Reese spent time on the streets with Joan. I think she was a major influence in the man we came to know in Person of Interest. She saved him and took very good care of him. This is a backstory I wish we had gotten in the series, but we didn't. So I wrote one!

I have been working along SavhCaro as this wonderful story took form and it was an honour making cover art for it.

[bliphany]

5, 10, 11 (feel free to answer only one or all of them) for the fanfic meme thingy, with your JessiKara fic. :)

[from this ask]

!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS ARA

*****Long post alert*****

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

Actually, I came up with the pairing before the story. It was February 2017, and @talking2thesky​ made a Person of Interest Femslash Rarepair post for Femslash February. It was the first time I heard about the event, and I thought it was awesome. The post caused me to brainstorm at, if I don’t remember it wrong, 2 or 3 a.m. HAHA. My brain went through those ladies, and suddenly it occurred to me that Jessica/Kara could work in a canon divergent AU. It started like this:

“Kara is pissed because Reese gets distracted by his ex gf - the connection between him and the world they shouldn’t go back to anymore. On her R&R, Kara pays Jessica a visit, trying to gain some information so she can use it to annoy/control Reese, but instead, she finds Jessica’s husband is an asshole and that Jessica is in an abusive relationship. She kills Peter because that’s what she joined the CIA to do; kill bad people so the world will be safer. She should leave after that, but she keeps coming back…”

Then Sky and I talked about it. It was a wild and fab brainstorming, and then I found that once I touched the possibility of Jessica being alive, I wanted it to happen, so I took Femslash February as motivation and finished my first fanfiction. :D

The final product is a lot different from the premise I first came up with, which I’ll save to answer in 11 because those I changed along the way while writing it are those I like best about it.

(But I just find out the original premise can produce a more angst one ahaha, so I’ll put it on my list. :p)

5: What part was hardest to write?

Jessica’s and Kara’s relationship itself is pretty hard to write tbh. Firstly, if she stays alive, Jessica is a victim of domestic violence/ abusive relationship, and we know Kara has that manipulative/abusive side from the show, which is enforced further in fanon, too. The last thing I want to do is to save Jessica from one abusive relationship just to put her into another, so I put a lot of effort into it. For example, my Kara has to care about Jessica a lot, but she probably shouldn’t be overprotective to the extent that it represses Jessica’s free will. The core reason they end up together can’t be “Kara saves Jessica’s life from Peter.” And it should be explainable that why the Kara Stanton who did manipulative things to Reese treats Jessica differently without making her a completely different character from who she was in the show. I gave myself a lot of restrictions XDXD I feel they turn out to be beneficial to the story though!

11: What do you like best about this fic?

It was my first time writing in English, so apparently, the prose isn’t super beautiful, and there are many grammar mistakes. But those I like best are the thoughts I put into the fic and what they grew up and became, which surprised me.  For example, different from the original premise, instead of killing Peter directly, the part Kara played in saving Jessica was to help her to help herself without Kara knowing it. A pro in this approach was that Jessica had more agency and played a more active role in her life. She did act stronger than I initially expected. I had so many scene plans where Jessica played a more passive role, and all of them didn’t live through the second drafts because they just didn’t work. As a result, I think I can say my Jessica is what I like best.

I also like that, although it was only briefly mentioned in the passing, Jessica has friends other than Kara in her life after getting rid of Peter. (Also, if we count the Jessica Lives AU series as a whole fic, she and John reunite and stay good friends. She plays a part in the story line after Ordos and where Dead Reckoning happens, too because she’s Jessica XD) I like that the fic probably can pass the Bechdel test LOL. They talked about things with each other, and their topic wasn’t mostly about men. Which seemed a bit hard to me at first since the primary mission was to save Jessica from Peter, and they both knew John. (Kara wouldn’t reveal it of course, but he’s still Jessica’s ex bf who she certainly thought of now and then, so I had to come up with plot or motivations that at least reasonable to me.) As a fic for femslash, I think it does a not bad job probably.

And finally, the totally unexpected part. I never planed it, but Kara’s and John’s partnership became softer at the end of the first fic, too. (It becomes not that soft when in the second fic after Kara abducted John and wanted to hurt Harold tho! AHASJSDKD but it’s another story.) I was totally in shock when I wrote to that part. I made a note in my diary: “who can expect that Kara’s and John’s relationship resolved earlier than hers and Jess’? Not me.”

Oh my, I have to stop LOLOLOLOL being too emo and talkative because of those girls XDXD. Sorry for the long post ahaha you can see how excited I am :P

[caviezeldaily]

Sometimes, to love someone, you got to be a stranger. - Blade Runner 2049

[luckythirteen45]

John Reese x Jessica Arndt Meta

So, this is a long as hell meta about John and Jessica’s relationship please read at your own risk and remember this is just my opinion.

So, this is how I think John and Jessica’s relationship went down. While it’s shown that John can “fall in love” quickly as seen with Iris, her departure hurt but didn’t cause the emotional turmoil I’ve come to associate with John when he loses a significant woman in his life (Jessica, Joss, and even to an extent Kara). What I think the different is, is time.

I think John and Jess met young probably after the death of John’s father. He was an army brat that moved from base to base, so I would bet money that after the death of her husband John’s mother would need some help and support and want some stability for her son. So, she would most likely move them to be close to her family which was in Puyallup, Washington.

I know what you’re thinking there is no way Reese was actually telling the truth to Peter Arndt when he said he was from there too, but I have good reason to say this. There is no reason for John to tell Peter he is from a smallish town in Washington that so happened to match where his wife is from. John is a trained CIA agent he should know that Arndt would want to interduce him to Jessica after that reveal, so I can see no other reason than it was a slip of the truth.

So, I think Jess had a little circle of friends and they really didn’t interact till high school. They start talking when they get paired up as lab partners in biology class at about 16. John has had a crush on Jess for the last couple years and is a tongue tied and flustered around her and it doesn’t help that she is so good at biology. So, they start spending more time together and talking more in the one other class they share. And finally, after about 6 months of John almost asking her out and backing out last second Jessica just asks him out instead. About this time things start getting more difficult at home for the both of them. Jessica’s mom is pressuring her to settle down right after high school (like she did) while Jess wants to be a nurse. John wants to help people but not sure how, but his mom doesn’t want him dead, so he starts acting out. They end up the bright spots in each other’s lives. Jess wins the fight with her mother about school but now she is nagging about the delinquent she is seeing. After John’s mother and sister die and he must join the army to stay out of jail, they both decide its best if they split up.

After high school and john joining the military they aren’t together, but they stay in touch through letters because they were friends first and john has lost the rest of his family. Jessica hides the fact that see is in contact with John by telling her mother every couple of months that it’s a different soldier (hence the type comment she made when interviewing with carter in season one)

They restarted their romantic relationship about 6 months before their vacation in Mexico we see in the pilot. They agree to meet up in Mexico, Jessica telling her mother she is going with a female friend since they are still getting back into the swing of their relationship and her mother has started trying to set her up with boys she approves of and would never let Jess go if she knew just who was in Mexico. While John service is up and would love to start a life with Jessica and plans on talking about it with her that weekend. (Also, I think that is why Harold said three days of happiness, it was a weekend trip and the only one they were able to have as adults and as a couple)

I think that they break up again soon after and Jessica finally agrees to meet one of the boys her mother has been trying to set her up with, Peter Arndt. And we know what happened to John. And you have reached the end of why I think Jessica had such a significant impact on John in the beginning I think not only was he mourning a lost love but mourning the last connection he had to his family, his past, and normal was well. Which is why we see very similar reactions between her death and Carter’s death both had great influences over John and had time to do so.

Thank you for reading my long ass meta.

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Keep The Chance

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by AbAbsurdo

When John left three years ago, Harold was happy and thought nothing of it. When everything crashes around him he has to get him back with any way possible.

Words: 1339, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Person of Interest (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: John Reese, Harold Finch, Lionel Fusco, Nathan Ingram, Joss Carter, Zoe Morgan

Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese, Harold Finch/Grace Hendricks (past), Jessica Arndt/John Reese (past)

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Drama, Angst with a Happy Ending, Suicide Attempt, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Alternate Universe - 1950s, dark Harold in the beginning

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Holy CRAP Jessica/Kara is the crackship I didn't realize I needed in my life until this moment but now it seems so obvious

[poistills]

Stills of Interest

Mission Creep (1x03)

[aragarna]

One Path or the Other - epilogue

Title: One Path or The Other Author: Aragarna Characters: John Reese, Jessica Arndt, Harold Finch, Kara Stanton, Mark Snow, (John/Jessica). Fandoms: Person of Interest, Counterpart. No knowledge of Counterpart is necessary. Genre, rating: Crossover, case fic, angst and feels. Lots of feels. Word count: 20 000 Spoilers, warnings: None. Set around S2 for POI. Vaguely somewhere S1 for Counterpart.

Chapter summary: It’s the end of the journey my friends. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you all of you who read, reblogged, kudo’d and commented. <3

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