Hotch agreed to not fight Strauss when she added an eighth agent to the team. He did not agree to like said agent. For SSA Victoria "Tor" Beauregard, having everyone like her is the key to her survival. If they like her, they won't look closely enough to see the shadow looming over her past. So, whatever it takes to get her grumpy boss to like her, she will do it. Even if it means staying late every night to help him with his paperwork. This story is completed at 65 chapters (plus the author's note) with 1 bonus chapter!

when i'm in a room with you, that missing piece is found, when you're by my side darling, nothing can bring us down. criminal minds fan fiction grumpy x sunshine slow burn friends to lovers aaron hotchner x oc

𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗚𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗦 | criminal minds ❝ we're not who we used to be ❞ in which K9 trainer nancy chavez moves from brooklyn, new york to quantico, virginia. haunted by her past, the young agent joins the BAU to help solve an unsolvable case... 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 - 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟓 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐝 𝐱 𝐨𝐜 started: january 1st finished: ongoing ©lcvndreid all credit of the original story and characters goes to the creators of the cbs tv show criminal minds, and the scream franchise the only things that were the creation of myself are nancy chavez, marshall riley, mateo chavez, eddie chavez & genevieve song

god loves you, but not enough to save you. ⇥ criminal minds ⇥ set sometime in season seven ⇥ spencer reid x fem!oc ⇥ right person, wrong time ⓒ fxllmoons, 2024 cover by foxgIoves

A case in New York brings you back to confront and forces you to work alongside a childhood friend - Aaron Hotchner. A long time ago, your life was alongside the Hotchners. You grew up with your best friend, Sean, and learned to coexist next to his brother - an expert at ignoring you. Your relationship with him was tumultuous at best. Complicated at worst. It only got worse as the years went by. However, encouraged by your respective superiors to collaborate, you try to learn ways to work together amicably, without bringing out the painful past. The more you get to know this new version of Hotch, the more feelings arise: new and old ones are sparked to life. All while reminiscing on old memories. Maybe, what you're both doomed to become is not dissimilar to the remaining wasteland of the bombs you're investigating. (Elevator pitch: As his brother's best friend, you and Hotch grew up together, but a fall out causes you both to hate one another, only to be reunited years later for a case in NYC. ) childhood friends to enemies to lovers! Image from tumblr user: @kamiamaya I do not own Criminal Minds, the characters or the story!*

❝ YOU KNOW, YOU'RE RUDE. ❞ ❝ WOW, YOU'RE LIKE A DETECTIVE OR SOMETHING. ❞ Scout Wiley has two sides. The loudmouth mailroom girl who hates coffee, and the trained assassin who never misses her target. Thanks to years of training, these lives have been kept separated. But after an unusual incident, Scout can't help her intense curiosity towards the mysterious, and a little bit charming, Dr. Spencer Reid. As she learns more, her separate lives begin to merge in a dangerously lethal way. Scout knows her mission. She cannot fail. But what if succeeding sudden cost more than she bargained for? And is it worth anything if it destroys the only love she's ever known? - previously titled NUMB - ( BOOK ONE of FIGHT OR FLIGHT ) rankings: #1 in criminal minds #1 in reid x oc #1 in spencer reid #1 in matthew gray gubler

"I am accused. I dream of massacres. / I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, / Hating myself, hating and fearing." ─•──── Sylvia Plath Sinners are allowed second chances, and redemption can be found in the arms of a genius. Tragically, the universe seems to have other plans. ─•──── Spencer Reid x FemaleOC ─•──── Spencer Reid x Unsub ─•──── Rivals to friends to lovers ─•──── Set in Season 10 onwards ─•──── Extended intro inside

With a young son who cries more than he smiles, a house in a frontier town plagued by violence, a job that all but guarantees heartache, and a death certificate for his first wife, Sheriff Aaron Hotchner cannot imagine anyone wanting to marry him. But at the urging of his few friends and family, he places an advertisement in a national paper seeking a woman of fortitude who can love his boy and tolerate his temperament. Victoria Beauregard cannot imagine ever wanting to marry someone. She stopped believing in romance and happy endings years ago, too busy trying to survive on her own and outrun her past. But when an advertisement in the paper catches her eye, she cannot stop wondering what life would be like on the frontier with the widower and his son. Updates on alternating Sundays at 5 pm EST