(ON HOLD) "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it" - Alfred Hitchcock. Leighton Hotchner spent most of her life watching over her shoulder. It comes with the job, you might think and that's partially true. Although, her monster hit way before she made it to the behavioral analysis unit. She knew how it would end, she knew the second she's stop looking, the monster would come back, appearing in the darkest corner of the room, ready to get it over with. Despite that, she loved deeply, cared profoundly, worked hard and tried to live a normal life, until the day she finally did stop looking...

"how could a heart like yours ever love a heart like mine?" -- -- -- Delilah Bellerose knows love. She knows it destroys you and gets people killed, and she doesn't fall in love because of it. Enter Jennifer Jareau, the force of nature intent on making a home in Delilah's heart, the sun to her moon, her invisible string, her best friend who, as far as Delilah knows, is straight. Delilah knows love hurts. She knows how things will end when she falls in love with JJ, but she lets herself fall, anyway. She finds the pain isn't so bad when it's JJ causing it. -- -- -- jennifer jareau x fem oc s1-5 book one of the "long live" series

"only then i am human, only then i am clean." -- -- -- Olivia Bellerose has never been in love. Her little sister is an expert on broken hearts and the fear has taken root inside of Liv like a brain tumour she can't quite cut out of her. That all changes after a hookup in the bar with her sister's teammate, Emily Prentiss: the sinner to her saint, her invisible string, her first and only love. But love isn't easy, not on the Bellerose sisters, and Liv is no exception to this curse, not even when Emily is concerned. -- -- -- emily prentiss x fem oc s2-? book/ship two of the "long live" series first book- heart like yours (jennifer jareau x fem oc)

when jessica green starts her new job at the BAU to get away from her old life and start a new one, arguments spark upon meeting a familiar colleague

𓏲 ࣪₊♡𓂃. 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, in 2016, twenty-six-year-old quinn verity is scraping by as a waitress, quietly raising her teenage sister olive and trying to forget the horrors of her past-namely, being the daughter of infamous serial killers. but when a phone call from agent aaron hotchner pulls her back into the world she thought she'd escaped, quinn is forced to confront both old trauma and new danger. as the she faces a case eerily similar to the one that shattered her life in 2006, quinn must decide whether to use the lie-detecting gift she's spent a decade trying to suppress-or risk letting another monster slip through the cracks. trope: friends to lovers published: 1st may 2025 finished: on going . . . #1 - criminalminds #1 - spencerreid #1 - aaronhotchner #1 - penelopegarcia #1 - matthewgraygubler #1 - jasongideon #1 - profilers #1 - fbiagent #1 - bau #1 - fbi

'𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘦.' Spencer prides himself on his ability to detect lies, to spot the tiniest inconsistencies in a person's story - it's the one thing he's always been able to rely on. Which is why he feels such a disdain for the BAU's newest member. Unlike the rest of the team, he isn't fooled by her veneer of normalcy. There's something off about her; a lack of warmth in her smiles, a lack of light behind her eyes... She's hiding something, he knows she is. He just needs to prove it, and her 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 will come crashing down. [ A Spencer Reid x Reader ]

❛ 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒖𝒑. ❜ ㅤㅤㅤㅤARIADNE HALE has been knee deep in black ops since she graduated from the academy. When her Unit Chief transferred her to the BAU, she thought that her life had ended. All that until she met her friends. Until she met him. a criminal minds fanfic ( spencer reid x fem!oc ) ¹ˢᵗ #cia 03/26/26 ²ⁿᵈ #profiler 11/28/25 ²ⁿᵈ #cia 03/25/26 ³ʳᵈ #ellegreenaway 03/25/26

𓏲 ࣪₊♡𓂃. 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, penelope garcia's best friend, lyla fairchild, a nonverbal forensic photographer, moves from london to quantico to join the BAU, but struggles to communicate with her new team. when dr. spencer reid, a brilliant yet awkward FBI profiler, reaches out to help her feel at home, an unexpected bond forms. spencer reid x nonverbal oc trope: friends to lovers / found family published: 23rd november 2024 finished: 8th february 2025 #1 - penelopegarcia #1 - aaronhotchner #1 - emilyprentiss #1 - davidrossi #1 - derekmorgan #1 - jasongideon #1 - fbi

Ella never thought she'd be the one to catch feelings-especially not for her best friend and colleague, Dr. Spencer Reid. They're the perfect team, working seamlessly together on cases that would haunt anyone else. But somewhere between late-night stakeouts and quiet moments in the office, Ella's feelings for Spencer have taken root, leaving her stuck between what she feels and what she knows they're "supposed" to be: just friends. As the lines blur, Ella finds herself torn between keeping her friendship safe and risking it all to tell Spencer the truth.