Miss_Angerfist
They met when they were too young to understand what forever really meant.
At fifteen, Harold Finch, a highly intelligent outsider was the little nerd everyone avoided or bullied in school. John Reese being seventeen at that time was the new boy everyone in class wanted to follow the wrong crowd to also bully Harold. Instead, John chose to protect him.
What began as protection slowly became something neither of them could live without. Protection became friendship, friendship became love.
Then, without warning, John was gone.
Years later, Harold builds a machine to save strangers. Officially, it's about protecting people. Unofficially, he has never stopped searching for one person.
John Reese is alive. He has a new name, a new life, and a past he buried long ago. He doesn't believe in the past anymore. New identities, new missions, new lives - that's how he survives.
They work side by side without recognizing each other first. Until the man who hired him begins to feel familiar...
A voice. A habit. A feeling he thought he'd lost forever.
Neither of them is sure.
Until a photograph.
Until a letter.
Until the past finds its way back.
And they realize the truth:
After all these years, they finally found the one they never stopped looking for. Because some promises don't end.