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Title: Light Becomes What it Touches
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: Teen (except for Chapter Three, which is NSFW/Explicit)
Words: 22,785
Characters/Pairings: Harold/John, Root/Shaw, Harold/John/Grace

Summary:
When Grace's number comes up, Harold asks John to take her out of the city and keep her safe. On the road trip upstate, John and Grace must work around the secrets between them to stay alive.

Notes:
This was written for the Person of Interest Big Bang 2018.

It's a road-trip AU set during S3 Ep21 Beta (the one where Samaritan comes after Grace) and ending with Harold/John/Grace.

Thank you to lilacsigil for the betaing, talkingtothesky for cheerleading, and mulasawala for her art.

Title is from the poem "Monet Refuses the Operation" by Lisel Mueller:
The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.
(Monet Refuses the Operation)

Embedded art is by MulaSaWala, you can see her art post here: Light Becomes What it Touches Fanart

Chapter One (Rated Teen)
Chapter Two (Rated Teen)
Chapter Three (Rated Explicit)

Or read at the Archive: Light Becomes What it Touches

Title: Light Becomes What it Touches, Chapter Two
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating for this Chapter: Teen
Words: 9,336

Embedded art is by MulaSaWala, you can see her art post here: Light Becomes What it Touches Fanart

Also at the Archive

( That evening, Harold directs them to the safehouse )