BETRAYER
AUTHOR'S NOTE\DISCLAIMER
Inspired by "Profiler, Profiled". Criminal Minds belongs to CBS. Morgan's inter musings.
Look, Derek…I never hurt you. You could have said no. Carl Buford's words ran through my head. I knew what he was doing. He was trying to scare me again. But he can't. Not anymore. I was so afraid that Hotch and the others would find out how dirty I was…how tainted. But then I talked to James and I admitted what had happened to me. Man, I didn't want to believe that Buford was still doing it. But he was. Thank God we got him off the streets and out of the center. Now no one else will have to go through the fear and the shame. He says I could've said 'No'. Well, I'm sayin' it now: no. No more. Buford doesn't get to run my life anymore. I'm through being his victim. He was to blame, not me. And I'm not gonna forget that. I'm taking back the power. I'm letting Carl Buford go. I'm saying 'No'.
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