• enemies to friends to lovers •
It's the small moments, those every day ones, that define us more than we'd ever like to admit. Like how you react to having a cup of coffee spilled on you or whether or not you help the lost kid look for their mom even though you're running late to work...because of said coffee-spilling-incident.
And then there are the big moments. Like running home to your apartment in tears to your best friend because your boyfriend really was sleeping with Slutty Crystal-it's unfair of me to call her a slut like it's defining quality, but I didn't think of the nickname-and then finding your roommate and best friend in bed with said cheating boyfriend.
A normal person would react by just crashing at a motel for a night or two and developing a game plan. Me? I opted for flying to Quantico, calling in a favor from Strauss, and kind of getting an internship at the BAU. So the 'request is pending', big deal, if I keep acting like something is going to happen it'll work out...probably.
Well it almost didn't. In fact, it wasn't until I uncovered a murder cult that involved a regular unsub. It was a moment that gave me everything I wanted...FBI departments fighting over me was great and yes the recognition was nice-but I brought peace to so many people, and that's what I wanted. And you know how I felt? Still incomplete.
Here I am sitting with practically every opportunity in the world and all I want is the BAU. I'm cracked, right? Hotch doesn't even want me there and Dr. Spencer Reid decider to hate me after day one. Whatever, he can hate me all he wants...who cares that he's hot? Who cares that he's hot enough to punch me in the face? Yeah, he can never know that...because he'd probably do it.
Anyways, no one tells you how to deal with almost being sacrificed. And no one tells you what to do when your enemy coworker starts being nice...like really nice.
The first time Hotch sees you - young, brazen and violent - it's at an old trailer and he's there with Gideon to question you about your father's whereabouts. Someone who the BAU have pegged as their unsub.
The second time he sees you - they're back to question the family of an unsub's victim. And you're different: elegant, eloquent and all sharp edges now well-rounded and polished. And married to a billionaire.
The third time it's inside the interrogation room, after they find the corpse of a second man looking eerily similar to your missing husband.
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(Elevator pitch: reader may be a serial killer and Hotch is certain you murdered your husband. Chaos and situationships occurr)
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(this is a slow build - yes they yearn! enemies to fuck buddies to enemies to lovers! - and implied sexual content)
so much murder! so much yearning!
#147 in enemies to lovers 😌😌
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