An answer to the age old Criminal Minds question - who is flying the plane? And the story of a pilot and a profiler. || "She knows it's dangerous to care about them. Their job puts them directly in harm's way. As pilots, it's their duty to bring the...
"Who's flying the plane?" The story of the BAU jet pilots has always been one that gets tossed around in the fandom from time to time, and it's a question I often think about as well. So I thought, why not write a fic about it? Though this is a reader-insert, it's written in the third person. Our story begins just before Season 10. I hope you enjoy it and I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments!
{Heavily influenced by the song "Me and the Sky" from Come From Away, a surprising number of airline pilot forums I researched on,and BBC's Cabin Pressure!}
☆CAST OF CHARACTERS☆
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Y/N, The Pilot
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Spencer Reid, The Profiler
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Arthur Dobson, The Captain
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The BAU, The Dream Team
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Yeeqin Wu, The Roommate
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and of course, Amelia Earhart, The Cat
☆Playlist☆
Parallel Lives - Lily Kershaw
"Well our worlds didn't collide / we lived parallel lives"
Pilot With a Fear of Heights - Felicity "Been steering clear of your face and the old days / hoping they'll turn into ghosts / I've been thinking 'bout you all night like a pilot with a fear of heights"
Literature Lovers - Jose Vanders "I'll never wait for a person to genuinely find / something deep inside myself / something more than just the books on my shelf / Oh what will you do? With these hopeless two / Both pretending to be literature lovers instead"
Red Eye - Vance Joy "Think that it's worth it? / Well I hope that you're right / You're falling asleep on the red eye tonight / and you know that you're looking well"
Backpack Song - Bear Attack! "It won't be long till I see you / Why do I always have to leave the only one I'll ever need? / Now hold me close while I breathe you / There's no way I could let you go"
flying - Wrabel "I don't wanna need someone / But you make me need someone / One touch and I'm fucked up, one touch think I'm in love / You send my flying"
Wings - Birdy "In the moment we're lost and found / And I just wanna be by your side / Oh if these wings could fly / for the rest of our lives"
Gamble for a Rose - King Charles "Oh did you see the lie in my eyes? / Were you gazing through my disguise? / I guess you could call this song my gamble for a rose"
Traveling Song - Ryn Weaver "So till I meet you there I'm singing / a traveling song to ease the ride and so you know / Everywhere I roam / I'll see you on the road"
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel "What a beautiful place I have found in this place / that is circling all 'round the sun"
Fly Me to the Moon - Imaginary Future "Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars / let me see what spring is like on Jupiter or Mars"
