The Contrast Between Emily And Reid In 2x17 And 3x03 Has Me On The Floor.

the contrast between emily and reid in 2x17 and 3x03 has me on the floor.

he listens this time. he doesn't get too defensive, (just normal reid defensive. baby steps). and then we have emily bringing up his dad, specifically information that we haven't heard before (that he's blocked out most of his memories of him), which implies that reid has opened up to her about it offscreen. to me, that also suggests it was in a way he hasn't with the rest of the team.

(if i had to guess at how that went down: sometime post 2x18 reid apologised to emily for the way he treated her, and brought up his abandonment issues as being part of the reason. then either one thing led to another and he was opening up about it, or emily asked him about it later and he told her, maybe because he felt like he owed her honesty after reacting to her concern with such hostility)

this probably isnt very coherent and i might come back to it later but the development of their friendship is so so important to me.

this is still the most funniest spencelle moment for me. spencer fucking panicking between elle and jj and he double takes on elle's chest 😭💀

hey how mad do you think morgan was when reid's aesthetic became fashionable

some teenager: oh my god i looooove soft grandpa academia!! where did you get that sweater vest? reid: oh, uh. goodwill. morgan, twitching:

Criminal Minds 3.03 | Scared to Death

goddd this line makes me ill. the slip-up of "you" instead of "they" making it obvious he's thinking of himself. currently dissolving

sometimes i think about what his motivations may have been. did he believe he wasn't good enough for his father to stay and so tried desperately to be the perfect child? did a part of him hope he would come back if he was Good Enough? was he trying to be good so his mother, already struggling, wouldnt have to deal with his problems as well? was he trying to keep up a facade of normalcy so cps wouldnt be called? probably some mixture of all that. im glad it's not dwelled upon in this moment because i really like blink-and-you-miss-it lines that reveal something about a character but. hhh. do you think the team noticed.

Gold in the Summertime [E] [8424 words]

In which instead of the Fisher King, the BAU gets their two weeks vacation, and Reid goes to Jamaica with Elle and Morgan. For the kink bingo prompt "friends with benefits".

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“You gonna be alright in the sun, pretty boy?” Morgan teases, as he leans on the door jamb of their adjacent hotel rooms and watches Reid rubbing sunscreen on his face.

“I’m from the desert,” Reid says. “I can handle heat. I still turn red as a lobster though.”

Elle appears from the balcony, already in a bikini with a sarong wrapped around her waist and a cocktail in hand.

“Aw chulo,” she coos at him, and makes eye contact with Morgan across the room. “You could have waited until we’re on the beach, Morgan would have volunteered to lotion you up.”

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