A/N (12/31/09): I am re-uploading all of the chapters, plus publishing the final chapter, today with all the necessary corrections made. Thanks to all of you for reading!
A/N:
This an idea that grew out of a couple of one-shots I did. I decided my new idea was pretty good, and twisted the existing fics a bit to fit them into something bigger than themselves.
The concept is that the Criminal Minds TV show works on the same premise as The Office on NBC. The team is on a reality show about their jobs (titled Dark Journey…for hopefully-obvious reasons) that they know about, and they function as real people instead of TV stars working on script and stuff like that. Hopefully I did it well enough that you'll get the jist of what's going on. I just figured a preemptive explanation was a good idea.
Another thing, this fic mainly concerns Reid, what a twit he is, and how much everyone hates him. I know that he really isn't and that they don't really hate him (as far as being on a TV show goes), and Reid is probably my favorite character. However, I always see great potential for taking what Reid does out of context and stuff like that.
There's a lot of OoC, and this may border, or actually be, a Crack!fic. In fact, any character may take on any number of different fake personalities to suit my needs. That's why I'm not worried about "nailing" any one character's dialogue or getting the facts/details straight about their lives and personalities. It's all for fun, so please don't bother commenting on anything like that. I would appreciate the help in a real fic, but this is not one of those.
There should be some chances to get a prize (probably guessing games where the winner gets to have me use their idea for a chapter or fic or something).
Allow me to take this time to mention that I do not own…anything. Criminal Minds, The Office, and any other trademarked/copyrighted thing used in this fic is the property of its respective owner and I made no profit from their use. I'd be too lazy to actually try doing that. This disclaimer shall apply to all chapters in the fic.
I will also mention that the fics appear in no sensical order. I'm not necessarily posting in the order I write them because some of them are just short little things that I can sprinkle in randomly, but I also have no definitive order of where I'm writing them from. Some will have Gideon, then another Rossi, then Gideon again. Some stories may take place in a way-future from when the actual incidents they refer to happened. Plus, I suppose I should warn you that Elle will not likely appear as a character in any of these; I don't like her. I don't even really like Emily, but she's better than Elle.
Okay, I think I'm done. I'll randomly leave Author's Notes (probably smack in the middle of a fic) if I feel anything else needs explanation or just feel like saying something. Though I've already explained a lot, I'll probably reiterate a lot.
Sorry about the lengthy note.
Now, we can proceed to the real story.
I hope you'll have as much fun with this as I am, and if there's anything you like or hate, let me know so I can work with it!