Big thank you for the reviews! I'm still quite new to this so I didn't know what to expect but thank you! They really made my day. I was asked about continuing it so I'm going to try my best. I really hope it lives up to expectations. My apologies if it doesn't.
As before, I don't own anything to do with criminal minds except for a few DVD's.
Chapter two:
There is never just one victim.
There is the main victim. The person who went through a harrowing ordeal at the hands of whichever UnSub had decided to shatter their ordinary life.
Then there are the other victims. The people who went through days of hoping and praying that the person they cared about would return home safely. With limited news available to them, the worst scenarios imaginable would play over and over in their minds like a movie. They would loose sleep. Lash out when they can't get to an answer. They would feel guilty over something they shouldn't feel guilty about. They would argue with one another over whose to blame.
They are there from the beginning, the middle, the end. They are there for the future. They will be there to carry on as normal. Get back into that familiar safe routine. They would be there to hold them and talk to them. The safety net. The reassuring shoulder to cry on during the day. Then they themselves would cry at night. Overcome with worry for their loved ones, longing for them to smile again. To love again. To see the sparkle in their eyes.
These victims are the family: Mother, father, bother, sister, husband, wife, children. These victims are friends, neighbours, teachers…
Colleagues even.
But the BAU are more than just colleagues. They are a family. They worked with each other. Spent time with each other. They had hoped and prayed for the safe return of a loved one. They had lost sleep trying to find him. They had felt guilty of leaving him on his own. They had lashed out at anything they could that wouldn't fight back. They had made threats to whoever was to blame for tearing their family apart and they had pointed the blame at one another.
They were there for the beginning, the middle and the end. Now it was time for the future. To carry on as normal. An every day routine that would hopefully bring back the sparkle in his eyes.
Spencer Reid was rattling off statistics. He was pointing out the obvious when everyone else had missed it. He was pinpointing the exact location the UnSub would strike next. He was helping solve cases.
The team were watching their youngest closely. To outsiders he was still Reid. The same bright, young man who worked for Gideon's team. But to Gideon and the rest of the team, he was different. The little things that made him Reid. The childlike enthusiasm as he rattled off random facts and made a break in the case had gone. He was snapping at his fellow colleagues for no reason. Prentiss being the main vent of his newly found cold attitude. He was making excuses for being late and wandering off without telling people. The sparkle in those hazel eyes had been gone for a while, and it was heartbreaking for the team to see…
By Em-J
Thank you for reading. Can you tell I've been watching repeats of season 2 lately?