Magnum PI 2018 Whump Recs
Magnum’s clients and acquaintances expect him to be invincible, and he does his best to oblige, but once in a while life catches up with him. A whumpy extended ending to 1x07 “The Cat Who Cried Wolf” wrapped in a sick fic.
“I’m fine.” Thomas seized the scales and hoisted himself up with a barely stifled groan that had Rick almost yelling for another harness before the other was pushing at his ass, hurrying him up. If it weren’t for the fact that Magnum would surely lose his white-knuckled grip until the harness was lowered, Rick would have remained firmly where he was.
Rick didn’t even manage to towel his face dry before all the warning bells went off in his head even louder than before. The warning gave him just enough time to turn and witness Thomas swaying before his knees buckled.
Tag to 1x05: After the case was wrapped up, Rick and T.C. notice that Magnum was hurt a bit more than he actually let on and it is up to them to nurse their friend so that he can make it to Mak’s game.
Also, Magnum and T.C. actually talk.
““I bet you just grumpily walked up to him, and then grabbed him around his middle and gave him this massive bear hug and swooped him right off his feet, didn’t you?” Rick walked up to Magnum, demonstrating exactly what he had just explained (much to T.C.’s humour and Tom’s almost petrified look), and was utterly unprepared for the strangled scream that Magnum let loose before going utterly limp in his arms.”
Later, when she looks back on it, Juliet Higgins is going to agonize over every single moment leading up to that one horrifying second, and pick apart each little thing she could’ve done to avoid it. But the truth of the matter is, that’s going to do her no good in the end. And it doesn’t even matter right now. Because right now, the only thing that matters is that Thomas Magnum is bleeding out onto Robin Masters’ floor, and it’s entirely her fault.
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What if Higgins had noticed it was Thomas much too late??
{AU tag to 1x11, Nowhere to Hide}
Rick and TC find out that Juliet has been training the dogs to attack using Thomas’s clothes after he’s accidentally bitten when she’s not around to call them off.
Katsumoto and Magnum crash in the mountains on their way back from scoping out a drug ring. Katsumoto thinks concussed Magnum won’t be too much trouble, and is so very, very wrong.
Juliet spots something odd while waiting in Magnum’s living room. Perhaps she doesn’t know Thomas Magnum as well as she thinks she does.
After an anything but run of the mill convoy run, Magnum, Rick, TC, and Nuzo find themselves on the hunt for an elusive and possibly fabled terrorist known only as Jahangir - World Conqueror, or by his CIA alias, the Jinn, a terrorist who is rumored to be behind some of the most devastating attacks in the Kunar province. Command doesn’t believe one man could be responsible for everything attributed to him, but the guys find out that evil rarely has its limits.
Prequel to the series, dealing with how the guys were captured and imprisoned by the Taliban for their year and a half, and how they wound up having to save themselves. Warning for future chapters: descriptions of violence inherent with being a POW for over a year by terrorists.
The collection of my Bad Things Happen Bingo card on Tumblr. Every chapter will be the fulfillment of a prompt/square. Parts may wind up incorporated into other, longer fics, depending on when they happen. Every chapter is a complete story though, so it’s posted as a complete work despite me adding to it on a regular basis.
Chapter 1: Wound that Would Not Heal
Chapter 2: Locked in a cage
Chapter 3: Withholding Medical Treatment