#macgyver ask

[impossiblepluto]

look, you've put out three SPECTACULAR fainting one shots so far, and as much as I'd love another one (seriously!! they're so good!!), I'm putting in a vote for stabbing.

there isn't as much variety, and you've gotta be a bit bendy with them, but you've got accidental (falling, getting hit by debris in an explosion, hit by a car accidentally and driven into something etc etc) and purposeful (mugging, someone desperate to get away, mistaken identity, stabbing to help ala mac with the gas etc) - seriously, take your pick of literally any interpretation of stabbing, and absolutely no pressure whatsoever to put something out, you've given us such delights already!!

A soft scraping sound has Jack's eyes flying open. He lays there in the comfortable darkness of his bedroom, tucked between luxurious sheets of an origin he won’t mention and waits for the noise to repeat. Confirm it wasn’t a dream so vivid he woke himself up. Or that he’s been in LA so long that the sound of mist on the window is foreign enough to be deemed a threat. 

Rain continues to patter. Any other time he’d enjoy laying here, listening to the seldom heard sound

After another few seconds his patience is rewarded. 

It’s coming from the living room. 

He pulls his t-shirt on and his gun out of the bedside table and moves silently through the darkness, listening. 

Something skiffs across the wooden door to his apartment. 

Jack gives himself a silent “three-two-one” countdown before throwing the door open.

Squinting into the hallway light, he has less than a second to make an identification and conduct a threat assessment before he finds himself catching an armful of dripping Mac. Jack fumbles for the light switch, pulling Mac into his apartment, gaze sweeping up and down the hallways before slamming the door shut and flipping the lock. 

“What happened? Are you okay?”

“Sorry. Sorry,” Mac mumbles. “Was just resting. Didn’t hear you. I can-” he grunts and straightens, pulling away from Jack and pushing his hair from his eyes. “I’m okay.”

Jack raises an eyebrow taking in the bedraggled sight.

“Was just resting,” Mac repeats. 

“You said that.” A tendril of worry coils through Jack. “Why?”

“Um…” Mac blinks. “I guess I went farther than I planned.”

“You went for a run?” Jack guesses. 

“It was raining,” Mac gives a crooked half-smile. “Doesn’t happen often. Wanted to take advantage of it.” His clothes and hair drip. His smile turns into an apologetic wince. “Sorry about your floor.”

Jack waves it off. Not the worst thing that’s dripped on his floor by  a long shot. “How long were you out there? Why didn’t you knock?”

“Didn’t want to wake you. Just–” Mac winces, his breathing still seems unduly labored. He leans back against the closed door. “Just needed a minute.”

“Let me get you a towel. And some water,” Jack says, setting his gun on the counter before heading up the hall toward the linen closet. “Then I can drive you home.”

“You don’t have to.”

Jack shakes his head though he knows Mac can’t see it. “If you ran long enough that you needed to stop and rest I think I should probably drive you home.”

“Just have a stitch in my side. It’ll pass.” Mac closes his eyes, pressing a hand against the muscles cramping just above his hip. 

Jack stops short on his return trek to Mac, staring at the puddle growing beneath Mac’s feet.

“What the hell-” Jack crosses the remaining distance. “Why didn’t you say anything?” 

Mac’s eyes blink open in confusion. 

“Mac, you’re bleeding!” 

“What?” Mac pulls his hand away from his side, his fingers coated in blood. “Oh.” He looks down at the tear in his moisture wicking t-shirt. Blood drips onto the floor. “Here, let me.” Mac reaches for the towel, and makes a move to squat.

“No,” Jack buzzes, snatching the towel back and pressing it to Mac’s side. 

Mac hisses. His head clunks back against the door behind him as he squirms. 

“Come on, sit down.” Jack’s mind races. 

“Are you sure,” Mac resists Jack’s insistent tugging on his arm. “It’s kind of a lot of blood.”

“That’s the point. Sit down.”Jack pushes Mac into a chair. 

“But it’ll get everywhere.” 

Jack peels back Mac’s shirt to get a better look at the wound. “How did this happen? Did you fall or…” 

Mac shakes his head before looking down, blocking Jack’s view. “I don’t– oh, I wonder if it was that guy.”

Jack gives a manic laugh as he gently pushes Mac’s head back so he can see better. “Somebody stabbed you?”

“No. I mean, I didn’t think so. He ran into me. I thought he was just a jerk.” Mac’s voice breaks off with a groan of pain as Jack puts pressure on the wound again. “

“You didn’t notice?”

“To be honest, this hurts a whole lot worse than that did.” Mac grinds out between clenched teeth. “Damn it, Jack.”

“Gotta put pressure on it.” Jack doesn’t look up. Hardens his heart against the pain in Mac’s voice. The way the muscles of Mac’s abdomen roil under his touch. The blood seeping through the towel to warm his hands. 

“I know but–” Mac twists. 

“Breathe, breathe through it. That’s it. You’re doing good.” Jack praises, watching the lines on Mac's face ease. "You think he stabbed you on purpose?"

"I think it would be weirder if he did it on accident." The sharp edge of pain in Mac's voice is softer.

“Okay. Hold this for me while I get something to secure that–”

Jack waits until Mac’s hands replace his own before he moves. Rummaging through the drawer in the kitchen until he finds a roll of duct tape.

“We’ll get this secured and then we’ll go.”

“Jack…” Mac whines.

“Hey! What’s the rule? Stab wounds, accidental or not, go to the hospital, right?”

Mac’s lips fold into a pout. “Right.” 

[aceofwhump]

Hey Ace! I am looking for specific examples of whump and I was wondering if you knew any. I just watched a movie called October Gale where a stranger was shot and in danger and a woman had to help him and protect him from the guys trying to kill him. Any scenario where a woman has to protect a man who is hurt or unable to protect himself. Bonus if they are strangers.

Thanks!

Hi nonny!!! OOOh yes. Yes I can help you here. I love that trope/plot so much. There's some good movies with it.

The Outsider (2002)

Witness (1985)

The Angel and the Badman

The Bourne Identity

MacGyver 1x17 "To Be A Man"

The Beguiled (2017)

Civil Love

Silent Night (2002)

[mayfieldss]

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[alongtidesoflight]

i swear my stepdad is so illogical AND stubborn it hurts

[artaintfartwarriors]

Have you done bellaleaf or leafstar or macgyver ??

[buzzybeexoxo]

Someone please please PLEASE talk to me abt the Macgyver reboot I'm literally so brainrotted it's insane 😭 all I talk abt deadass

[lailuhhh]

okay but you got me thinking so much about how young Mac looks when they're in the Sandbox. Like. Mac looks like a kid, he's baby faced anyway (tell us your secrets Lucas Till, I'm begging you), but something about the long hair from the original 2016 pilot is just. Ingrained into my brain and is NOT letting my brain worms escape.

I need Jack half teetering on the edge when he realizes just how young his EOD is; yeah he's gonna have to be somewhat competant bc he isn't dead yet, y'know? But Jack had never thought he'd be partnered up with a baby faced know it all that looks even younger than he actually is, like is he old enough to drink? Old enough to drive?

Jack is about to actually have a fucking aneurysm everytime he looks at the damn kid and the big bruise on his face, spreading across his temple. Looks like a damn smacked puppy, Jack grumbles to himself, and has to resolutely shove thoughts of Riley out his mind, but then the worst happens.

Mac and Jack bond and Jack is just confronted with the fact that this baby faced know it all is his responsibility and Jack did that. Jack did that himself and he might as well through himself a baby shower with a sign yelling congratulations its a twenty plus year old baby and he just has to scream into his helmet for a few seconds every day to try and work on his PTSD and the absolute anxiety attack this damn kid gives him.

Meanwhile Mac is happily playing with bombs and thinks his overwatch is a weird weird man that desperately needs to fucking chill, and this is Mac thinking that so he definitely needs to.

Right???

Canonically, Mac’s around 21-22 when they actually meet, but with a face like that?? That screams 17-19. Like all my army days writing, it’s never really clicked that Mac is so much younger than what we see on the screen

Jack’s had younger guys as partners before, but they always looked their age. Last guy was early to mid twenties and he looked it, or more so, he looked aged. Everyone Jack had been partnered with either looked their age, or older than they were because of what war does to people

Mac was the first one that was young that looked young, despite him being captive for however long, and somehow that made it worse. Mac saw the horrors of war and had been living as a prisoner, yet he still looked his age

Ignoring canon though, Jack knows it’s a new guy messing with his stuff because he doesn’t recognize the back of his head and it just sets him off and he spins Mac around and just decks him

Then maybe later after everything happened and they go on their first outing, a good portion of Mac’s face his all bruised because of just how hard Jack got him, Jack does feel a bit guilty because maybe he did overreact and was having a bad day and he shouldn’t have taken out the anger on Mac, so it’s just—

“I’m sorry man; some shitbag up the ladder is ridin my ass and stressin me out. Ya didn’t deserve that and I’m sorry for takin my anger out on you. Looks like I messed up yer pretty boy face— how old are ya anyways?”

And when Mac says however old he is, that’s when it hits Jack of oh my god he’s a literal kid it’s not just a case of baby face

That’s when the panic sets in of Mac shouldn’t be there and shouldn’t be disarming bombs and should be at college and what the fuck was the military thinking of letting him enlist, and then Mac’s already been there two years, which makes him panic more because the realization of Mac enlisting at an even younger age was the aneurism inducing fact of he needs to get this fucking kid out of the army

And yeah Mac’s just over here like wow man I’ve never seen this kind of IED before and don’t know where to start. Let’s shake it and see what happens and Jack’s doing his best not to keel over from panic and heart attacks every time they go out

[sun-ni-day]

Lucas Till as Sam Dark Hearts (2014)

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[daltonsnightmare]

some things never change

[impossiblepluto]

I went with fainting because there are so many reasons it can happen, and it can come straight out of nowhere. Like, the other person is having a normal conversation and then the whumpee just drops. And then the sudden panic as their poor friend is trying to catch them and figure out what went wrong—are they hurt? Heat exhaustion? Does anybody remember the last time they ate?

There is such a nice variety with passing out. Do they know it's coming? Does the person they're with realize what's happening? Do they wait politely for a break in the conversation before dropping that little tidbit of info?

Mac stands, not quite at attention though the instinct and muscle memory is there. Warmth heats his cheeks as Jack paces in front of him. He feels stupid, standing here in the middle of the room that’s too big. Jack’s voice echoes off the far away walls. It’s only the two of them here, but he feels exposed. The too bright lights make him squint, his vision blurs. He feels like he’s being interrogated. 

He’s not. 

Interrogation would be easier. 

He hasn’t gotten a word in. Just standing here, listening to Jack ream him out 

Or trying to listen to Jack ream him out. 

He is actually trying to listen, not simply tune Jack out and float away with his own thoughts. Or lack of, for once his mind seems strangely quiet. It’s kind of nice. It would be easy to drift away but he respects Jack and their partnership too much to ignore him. 

Despite the way he feels nauseated and exposed and vulnerable, he recognizes that Jack’s rant comes from a place of concern. Of care. 

It’s… 

It’s not something he can try to process right now. Not with the way Jack is looking at him. Mac straightens up. Pay attention. 

The room really is huge. 

Mac blinks. 

The walls are really far away. It should take Jack longer to walk the length of the room. The average stride length for a man of Jack’s height is thirty-one inches so—

So Jack has plenty of space to lay out all the ways Mac failed today. Recap the danger he put himself in. The risks he forced the rest of the team to take to rescue him. 

Humiliation makes Mac’s ears buzz. 

Jack is upset. Scolding. But he made sure that he and Mac had privacy for this conversation. Humiliation is not the point of this lecture, not like it would have been with his dad. But then, Mac spent a whole childhood learning all of that, so he does a great job on his own. Heat builds in the back of his neck, then prickles along his scalp. 

Mac’s jaw tightens, breathing in through his nose. He narrows his eyes, trying to focus. 

“–Mac?” 

And blinks in surprise when Jack’s concerned face wavers in front of him. He gives a small nod. It must be the appropriate response because Jack seems to continue. 

His feet are numb. Like his shoes are too tight. And maybe his socks too. He didn’t notice that before. Too busy thinking about how big the room seems. 

Should he tell Jack?

No. He can't interrupt for something like that. Besides, why would he tell Jack about his shoes? 

Except Jack is looking at him expectantly, tipping his head in concern and taking a step closer. 

Mac’s eyes follow the path of Jack’s hand as it rises, reaches out, and slowly lands on his shoulder. 

Mac flinches. It’s several seconds after Jack’s touch, a delayed full body kick that he would have described as a hypnic jerk if he wasn’t wide awake, standing in the middle of a room. 

Jack’s mouth is moving. The sound hits Mac’s ears a moment later. “Mac?”

“Oh.” Mac blinks. Yeah, he probably should tell Jack. “I think I’m going to pass out.” 

He watches Jack's eyes widen as his own slip closed.

[brigitoshaughnessy]

MacGyver 1985 || Black Rhino

[rosieblogstuff]

Trick or treat!

It's a treat, I hope! Something like 2 years ago I wrote this drabble about Mac and Jack getting kidnapped and waking up in Murdoc's torture dungeon, which seems like such a fitting setting for Halloween. So here's a little follow-up. More than a line, but I doubt anyone's objecting.

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Before Mac could figure out how to get the cell door open, the outer door of the room opened. Murdoc was all smiles as he entered the room again. “How’s it going in here, friends? Made any decisions yet? Or do you need a little more time to talk it over?” He looked between them, raising his brows expectantly. “No? Well, I guess it’ll be surprise time for everyone, then! How fun.” Still smiling, he pulled a gun out of his jacket and aimed it toward them. “Who’s going to play my little game first?”

Mac gave him a hard stare, doing his best to look defiant and not at all concerned about what the psychopath with the gun would do if they didn’t volunteer themselves for a torture session. 

“Me.” 

Jack elbowed him aside, putting himself between Mac and the gun.

Mac's jaw dropped, not that Jack could see it now that his back was to Mac. “Jack?” he hissed. What happened to just waiting? What happened to not playing the game, like they'd just agreed would be their strategy? 

Jack ignored him and Murdoc opened the cell door, a grin on his face. “Very good, though I must say, a little expected. Step out and don’t try anything funny, or I’ll shoot Angus first.”

[aceofwhump]

You said you had some original MacGyver fic recs? 👀

I have a few! There are definitely not enough though. I'm in such desperate need for original MacGyver fanfics. Here are some I've enjoyed:

The Hermit, a MacGyver story By: judybear236 Summary: When our favorite troubleshooter is injured, who is this suspicious man who comes to his aid? Is he to be trusted?

Second Chance By: Lauren.MacFan Summary: Missing scene from "The Stringer". . . Mac has a restless night after being released from the hospital.

MacGyver-Style Napping by: GriffinStone Summary: Chaos tends to follow MacGyver wherever he goes. With the nonstop action, he sometimes has to get a little creative about how he gets his rest.

Breaking Point By: MacsBluegirl Summary: Original MacGyver - How much pressure is needed to tear a friendship apart - and what does it take to restore it? Takes place soon after "The Wasteland" - Be warned of some serious MacWhump, especially in the first chapters. I already published this story at the MacGyveronline library and the RDA-forum - this is a slightly revised version - only minor changes though

Sudden Silence By: Dana Knight (DanaKnight_memorial), DanaKnight_memorial Summary: MacGyver is deafened in an explosion. He has to figure out who's responsible and why, and stay alive. Is his deafness temporary or permanent?

[ash5monster01]

Random question…

Would you possibly like to be mutuals?👀 I need more who also like MacGyver😅

aghhh yes!! I don’t know how I missed this ask but I would be happy to be your mutual. It’s so hard finding people still active in the MacGyver fandom these days! Also I am working on your request, I loved the idea! ❤️

[paperclipped-mongoose]

He is my Roman Empire. I watch this probably twice a day or more.