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LAKE COMO, ITALY
The first thing Mac realized was that he was being carried, the second thing he realized was that he’d died.
Death left a very specific taste in his mouth, ashy, like he’d taken a big mouthful of a burned out campfire.
In addition to the taste — though that was always the most distinctive sign — was the bitter cold. Even being soaked in freezing water, as he also happened to be, failed to elicit the depths of cold that haunted him after a revival. It felt like his heart was pumping ice-water instead of blood.
Suddenly he was being lowered, a hand cupping the back of his head on the way down to keep it from knocking against the ground. That alone was enough to cue Mac in on who’d been carrying him. In the list of people who cared about him, he didn’t know anyone else who was strong enough and stubborn enough to lug around his frozen corpse. -
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A weekend pass to relaxation is interrupted, and Mac’s not sure if he can handle the aftermath
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Mac gets a weekend pass
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- Part 37 of What If: Army Days
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Army Days 49 & 50: Everything Changes by angelita-MacGyver2016 (angel)
Fandoms: MacGyver (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2025
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Private First Class Will Smith, known to the other guys in the unit as Bel Air because of his name and his obsession with 90s rap, kicked his feet up on his bunk and avidly watched the latest dust-up between Angus MacGyver and Jack Dalton.
Outsider POV of Mac and Jack's 49th and 50th days being partners in the Army. Takes place before and after the Mr. Jack Careful Careful scene in which Jack kneels on a bomb and Mac defuses it.
Written for Rosie's Writealong Prompt Set 4: Outsider POV
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- Part 3 of Rosie's Writealong Feb/Mar 2025
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The choice of going to the army was one Mac didn’t regret, even though he knew the ending of it would be more trouble than it was worth
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James arrives in Afghanistan to bring Mac home
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- Part 36 of What If: Army Days
- Part 1 of What If: Ranch Days
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Colonel Martinez always put thought into every decision he made, and then Macgyver arrived
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Mac and Jack through the eyes of their CO
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- Part 35 of What If: Army Days
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Their relationship had been a rollercoaster up until that point, and Mac was sure that they split off for the last time, because he’d never be able to regain whatever trust Jack had given him
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Mac shoots Jack
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- Part 34 of What If: Army Days
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3 Times Mac Didn't Drive + 3 Times He Did by Rosamund_Calais
Fandoms: MacGyver (TV 2016)
30 Dec 2024
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Why is it that Mac (almost) never drives the car?
6 anecdotes about Mac and driving. It's like a 5+1 story, except with more creative numbering. For the Cairo Day Reprise 2024. The original prompt was: 2024 Day 2: Crash Course
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- Part 1 of Rosie's Sandbox Stories
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The Art of Showing Up (And Staying) by TheLupineScribe for Lilituism
Fandoms: MacGyver (TV 2016)
19 Dec 2024
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“Hey! This is Jack the Dalton speaking. Probably couldn’t catch your call due to doing cool… bathroom tile salesman… stuff. Leave a message and I’ll hit you back up. Ciao!”
“I don’t know where I am right now.” Mac mumbled. He was aware he was slurring, slightly. He felt like he weighed a million pounds, or maybe like he’d been welded in place into his car. Immovable. Lethargic. His skin felt damp, he didn’t know if he was sweating or bleeding. He felt too cold to be sweating. “But I need help. Can you…”
Mac closed his eyes. Can you what? Find me? Not leave me? Just talk to me?
The voicemail beeped, marking an end to the message.
Mac redialed.
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- Part 1 of The Art of Showing Up (And Staying)
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44 days after meeting, Mac and Jack get called in by another team to check out a suspicious box, only to have tragedy strike.
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- Part 2 of Rosie's Sandbox Stories
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No one expected Mac and Jack to work so well together after their unruly first meeting. Doc Roe knew better than to believe with the masses
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Jack gets caught in an explosion
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- Part 33 of What If: Army Days
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Trapped under a collapsed building with a ticking bomb, Mac must find a way to save himself with nothing but a dead flashlight and his wits.
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There’s a half-second of silence before Jack starts yelling. “No-no-no-no. Mac, get out of there, there’s another bomb and it’s about to—”The explosion is so loud that later he’s not sure if he heard it as much as he felt it, the enormous wave of pressure that makes the building seem to jump off its foundation. Then everything goes dark as the building comes down on top of him.
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- Part 5 of Rosie's Sandbox Stories
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Mac didn’t get sick often, and usually ignored when he did. That time he really should’ve told someone he wasn’t feeling well
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Mac gets appendicitis
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- Part 32 of What If: Army Days
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Maybe Mac should have said something about the concussion. But there was so much to do. What could possibly go wrong?
05 SUNBURN
healing salve ǀ heatstroke ǀ “if my pain will stretch that far”Series
- Part 5 of Whumptober 2024
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It was a mundane job, so it should’ve been a mundane day, so Mac had the right to be surprised when there was suddenly a gun in his face
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Mac gets held hostage
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- Part 31 of What If: Army Days
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Jack knew Mac had an issue with the med tent, he just didn’t know what it was until then
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Mac gets stitches
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- Part 30 of What If: Army Days
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There are certain sounds that indicate safety, and certain sounds that indicate danger. In the Sandbox, the safety is the consistency and presence of certain sounds. Danger is heralded by a siren, a whistling sound, and the sound of a sudden impact.
Mac has to deal with a rocket that failed to explode on impact.
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The first time it happened, they were in the Sandbox. One minute, his bomb nerd was there in the passenger seat, albeit hanging out the window; the next, he wasn’t.
And as Jack Dalton picked Afghan sand and gravel out of his idiot-genius technician, all the while hollering about ‘what in the hell kinda mule-brained move that was,’ some small part of him was foolish enough to believe that maybe the warning would be taken to heart, and it wouldn’t happen again.
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How Jack learned that the Belt Grab needed to be a thing.
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Jack notices some guys picking on his bomb nerd and does something about it.
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It was a dumb thing that everyone was arguing about. There couldn’t be one natural disaster that was worse than all the rest
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Mac and Jack experience an earthquake
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- Part 29 of What If: Army Days
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Mac wasn’t one to outwardly admit his feelings. He’d been taught that showing emotions was useless and a waste of time. Everything started to change when he met Jack
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Jack disappears during an outing
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- Part 28 of What If: Army Days