You're a new member of the BAU and struggling finding your way around. Everyone on the team seems super nice and welcoming within your first few months as a member. While you are significantly younger than the rest of the team, you are just as smart, you're a prodigy. However, you do not feel this way. This story goes over the mental health struggles of being a part of the BAU plus the struggles you have faced for many years. You start of struggling alone and no one knows, till one day, Emily picks up on it. Not soon after so does the rest of the team. You spent your whole life hiding this from everyone around you, how will this effect my job, my life, and more importantly, my relationships with everyone
TW: this storry will have mentions of self harm, mental health stuggles, panic attacks, abuse, violence (on cases and flashbacks), flashbacks, body image issues, eating disorders. Please do not read if that triggers you, take care of yourself first. I tried to not be super graphic or detailed but I will put TW at begining of each chapter with some details of what will be mentioned!
Hope everyone enjoys and let me know what you would like to see more or less of!
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 😌😌
I do not own Criminal minds, the characters and the story!*