Y/N Y/L/N is someone who has never felt true welcomeness. She's been unwelcome since she was a child, even in her own family.
When she moves to Virginia and starts her new job with the BAU, she starts to learn what being welcome is really like. Espe...
This took so so much longer than I intended and wanted it to take. The truth is, in June of 2021, I just fell out of love with Criminal Minds and with that, Spencer Reid. It felt impossible to want to write this story. I never ever wanted it to feel like it was a chore, and that's exactly how it felt. I didn't write anything for so long. Then I finally updated, because I felt motivated again.
I fell out of the writing routine again. But now, it's finally complete.
If anyone feels like the ending was rushed, it was. I had so many other better ideas for this story, and it definitely wasn't gonna be only 25 chapters. It was going to be a lot more conclusive and you were supposed to actually see Spencer and Y/N in a genuine relationship. But that was no longer realistic for me. Unless everyone wanted to wait until 2045 for the final chapter. Because at this rate, that is a realistic timeline...
My point in saying all that is to explain why it took so long and to explain its conclusion. I wish that wasn't the case. I truly had a really amazing time creating this story and writing 90% of it, but unfortunately, I couldn't control the way I no longer loved Criminal Minds and its characters anymore.
In the (hopefully) near future, I will be starting a new story, but it won't include any Criminal Minds characters or anything like that. It's not going to be a fanfic. Just an original story with original characters. I already have the synopsis, characters, and storyline written and planned out. I have so many ideas for it. I just don't know when I will start it, so I'm not gonna promise a specific time frame. I will tell you it is professor and student, but it's not a crazy age gap. She's 22 and he's 30-32 (haven't decided just yet). I do want to write the first few chapters before I publish it, so I can publish multiple chapters at once, instead of just one.
Anyways, back to this story. It will forever hold such a special place in my heart. I can't lie and say I'm not sad to conclude this. Even if I can't read most of it myself because I get cringed out LMAO. Oh well...
Truly though, it will. It was my first time ever writing something that I cared about.
And even though I highly doubt anyone who read this story when I first started it is still around, I still want to say thank you.
Thank you to them. Thank you to you.
This story got more feedback than I ever thought it could. Most of all, it was an outlet for me when I so desperately needed an escape. So, thank you to everyone who took the time to read Take Over Me. I'll forever appreciate each person, no matter how many or how little. :)
- J <3
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