Hey guys, just a short 300 word story, to distract me from my other story.. which is coming along.
Spoilers for 6x18 'Lauren', 4x03 'Miminal Loss', 3x02 'In Birth In Death (In Name in Blood)', 2x05 'The Aftermath', 5x09 '100'
Reid sometimes cursed his eidetic memory. Sometimes he praised it. Reid would never forget the gruesome crime scene photos, even which way the blood fell on to the floor. Reid would never forget the words on Gideon's letter. He would never forget the dimensions of the cup as he drank with Elle. Reid would never forget seeing Haley's body on the floor. There were so many things Reid wished he could forget, but was unable.
Reid knew that he would always remember JJ's face when she told him that Emily died, the way the tears rolled down her checks. That image will never leave him. It would haunt him for years. The pain on her face, but maybe he won't have to remember the words. The words that tore into his heart like a knife, the words that he shouldn't had to ever hear. They were the ones he wanted to forget. The ones he could forget. Reid wants to forget, but he also wants to remember.
So every time Reid visits her grave he remembers the girl that dressed up in high school. The girl who gave herself up for him in Colorado. The girl who wanted to be cremated, but yet lays six feet underneath him now. Maybe people forgot. Maybe no one cared. But Reid will always remember. He knows now that life doesn't always work out. The girl who wanted peace was now rotting, and the girl who was loved by everyone was now all alone. So every time Reid visits her grave, he will always remember Emily, the person who he wanted remember but forget. Reid will remember who she was, and all the things that his eidetic memory won't make him remember.
Reid wanted to forget those words, the ones that could break him. Because then, there is a chance that she isn't gone. But he needs to remember. He wants Emily to know, that he'll put up with the pain, just so he can remember her name, right till the very end.
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