“Look, they say that it’s better to be lucky than it is to be good. But in my experience, anyone who has ever said that has wound up dead. So far, I think you’ve been really lucky. I don’t want to be watching on a monitor the day your luck runs out.”
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Matty Webber to Mac in MacGyver, episode 114
This quote, especially now that we know that Matty has known Mac for 15+ years, is all the more touching. Because she’s not talking to an agent here, she’s talking to the boy she’s watched grow up from afar, being his father’s handler.
After finding out about Mac’s dad, I took that period of time when Mattie finally met Mac, interacted with him personally, and acted so wary of his process, his paperclip sculptures, his relationship with Jack - just constantly on the look out - to be concern on her part as to how much Mac is like his father now that he’s an adult.
As much as she respects and admires James, I don’t get the sense that she trusts him. His manipulations of Mac would certainly prove to her that while he can be trusted to keep someone alive, even help them succeed, he can’t necessarily be trusted past that.
Then then got to know Mac and began to lighten up because she realized that Mac may have his father’s brain, but he has his own heart, and won’t lead someone somewhere via his own personal plans that they don’t want to be, nevermind where he’s determined that they should be like James would.
Anonymous asked: Prompt: Mac and Jack have to pretend to be a couple for a mission and have do cute things a couple would do and kiss
O M G , Nonnie… THIS prompt - this one may be the actual death of me 😂
I am sucker for a fake relationship fic, and now that I’ve started this one, the idea just keeps GROWING in my head, oh dear.
A couple of lines I know will be in my fic:
Mac (responding to questions about Mac flirting with a woman, to someone who believes he and Jack are together and Jack must be cheating): “That’s…not important. I mean. That’s not what’s important between us. I don’t have to have Jack all to myself to know how he feels about me.”
Other person: “But?”
Mac (struggling with the feelings he’s just now coming to terms with): “But… maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s not enough to make me happy.”
And:
Jack: (in a similar conversation) “Look… Mac and I are close, alright. We’re. We’re almost as close as two people can be. He’s let me farther into his life than honestly I deserve to be, and I’m thankful for that. I’m not gonna go messing it up by trying to shove my big, greedy nose into places I’m not welcome, sniffing around for more. I’ve got as much of him as he wants to give me, and I count myself lucky that I’ve got that much. It’s a damned sight more than any man could ask for.”
😯
Anonymous asked: do you like whump? love your stories!!!
I would have to say the level of whump in a lot of my stories says yes 😂 Yes, I do. Thank you, sweet anon, for the message 😊
