"Ghosts in the Machine," Saiyuki, Gojyo/Hakkai

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Title: Ghosts in the Machine
Author: lady_ganesh
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Adult language, offscreen mass murder, implied incest...you know. Saiyuki.
Word Count: 6842
Summary: John re-enters society and the Stream, and meets a cop, his sort-of boyfriend, and a new employer.
Prompt: Gojyo/Hakkai: Futuristic AU/VR kink - "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
Author's Notes: This was due June 20! (Is there a 'hopelessly overdue' tag?) There's more to come, too, but I thought I should post a chapter once I'd completed it, so here it is! I owe emungere and andmydog a thousand thanks for betaing.

( He pulled up the man's picture. He was far more attractive outside the Stream than within it, dark skin, sharp, lean features, bright eyes, sardonic, almost feral grin. Bonaparte hissed air between his teeth for a moment. )