flinthamilton:

Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton, Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton
Characters: Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow
Additional Tags: Whitechapel AU, Alternate Universe – Reincarnation, Alternate Universe – Modern Setting, Alternate Universe – Bodyguard, Police/Criminal AU, Angst, Mutual Pining, Enemies to Lovers, Paranormal, Mental Illness, Mental Breakdown, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Leading up to Sexual Content, A darker shade of James/Thomas, Slow Burn, In which Miranda is still the only one trying to keep them all from drowning
Summary:

DI Thomas Hamilton is the Whitechapel police’s fastest rising star, until he finds his career supernova after his decision to save the life of his partner, rather than making the arrest of the Ripper copycat killer, costs him nearly everything. Ever since then, a disturbing pattern has begun to emerge; everyone involved in Thomas’ cases, victim and criminal alike, always die before he can resolve anything.

He finally gets a spark of hope when a case comes across his desk; James Flint, the legendary crime lord, one of the most powerful men in Europe, and said to be able to bend anyone he chooses to his will, is rumored to be the origin of the incited violence in Whitechapel and beyond into London.

There’s only one problem- James Flint might as well be a ghost.

No one has ever seen him, or even knowingly met him. The only traces of him exist in whispers of fear of him, people too scared to talk, and an old map, found pinned amongst several articles and leaflets- all speaking of Thomas and his various cases. Flint is making it clear from the start- he isn’t the hunted; he does the hunting and is provoking a war with Thomas. What Thomas doesn’t realize is the enemy may have been beside him all along.

folie à deux ( the madness of lovers ) – siirensong – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]