"𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙨𝙝𝙚'𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙨. 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙡𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨." a story in which maeve didn't die, no matter how much y/n wishes she did. ♡

This is set in season 8. After a strange case having to do with the specific time of year, the BAU team finally gets home to celebrate. (I want to make this as realistic to the show as I possibly can, so I'm sorry if this isn't what you wanted!! I will hopefully be writing more fanfics in the future depending on how this goes!)

"𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚?" "𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮. 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙨." ... this fic is currently paused ~THERE IS A REASON it's written in lowercase, you'll see ;) ~trigger warnings will be at the top of the chapter in which they are mentioned ~i don't own any criminal minds characters, and the case ideas are based upon cases in the show.