Tag: whitechapel

flintxhamilton:

a·gent pro·vo·ca·teur
äZHän(t) prəˌvôkəˈtər /noun
one employed to associate with suspected persons and by pretending sympathy with their aims to incite them to some incriminating action

‘ the devil is real. and he isn’t some little red man with horns and a tail. he can be beautiful, because he’s a fallen angel, and he was once god’s favorite. ‘

( whitechapel / reincarnation / police x criminal au )

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, DS Miranda Barlow, 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, earning him the moniker of ‘the angel of death.’

Try as hard as he may, it continues on, and months later, Thomas has begun to lose hope. He begins to wonder if this was ever his path at all, his father having wanted him to become a lord, but Thomas refused, unwilling to continue his family’s legacy of political corruption in favor of a life of public service. But for all of his heart, he might as well be Midas, everything he loves turning to gold and ash despite good intentions.

At long last, he finally gets a spark of hope when a new 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. Taking down James Flint is exactly what Thomas needs to begin piecing his career and life back together.

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. Even more startlingly, the map is marked with all of the sites of every case he’s had, a pattern with Thomas clearly at the heart of it. 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.

James McGraw is the newest member of Thomas’ team, a former MI-6 operative with a stoic, cold stance on the world and human nature, which instantly clashes with Thomas’ more idealistic, forgiving nature. It’s almost too easy, like leading a lamb to the slaughter; incite the crime, then come to the rescue. But even as he has Thomas right where he wants him, James finds himself unable to move against him and breaking all of his own rules- never get involved in something you can’t walk away from.

Adding even more gravity to the situation, both men have been plagued with dreams of one another, warnings from the distant past- if they continue down this road, one where they blindly ignore the warning signs, the past will only repeat itself again. An endless cycle of love and loss.