The Conversation Around Haley And Hotchs Relationship Is Too Much He/she Was A Bad Spouse And Not Enough

the conversation around haley and hotch’s relationship is too much ‘he/she was a bad spouse’ and not enough ‘they were two people who loved each other very much but grew to be two different people who wanted different things’

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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Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?

I was going through some of my old reading journals on the storygraph, and when I was going through the one I had for the starless sea by erin morgenstern (possibly my favourite novel of all time) I came across this quote i’d written down:

They peel off each other's clothes in layers. He curses at the strange clasps and fasteners on her garments while she laughs at the sheer numbers of buttons on his. […] It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. In one person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric. But doors cannot stay closed forever.

and if I said spencelle…

ough this interaction. also the fact that morgan is the one who calls hotch a drill sergeant in revelations and it's what hotch repeats to him here,,the implication that at least part of him was genuinely hurt by the team all naming what they thought was his worst quality. any reminder that hotch is human hits me in the gut. also hotch and morgan's dynamic... the begrudging respect that becomes admiration that becomes friendship. hhh.

hey do you ever think that the reason reid knocks "shave and a haircut" on elle's door is because post-fisher king elle gets nervous when someone knocks on her door because she doesn't know who it is, so reid (or even the whole team) start knocking a pattern. do you ever think about elle checking the peephole anyway. i do.