* CRIMINAL MINDS (04/02/16): SORRY READERS, NEW AND OLD FAITHFULS, BUT THE CM MUSE IS GONE - NO UPDATES WILL BE COMING! *

I’m not being a schmuck leaving you guys hanging on everything, it’s just not a part of my brain working anymore. I tried looking at one chapter that I thought was basically done and when I got to the section of the draft that still needed to be written … empty void. And trying to push into that void made me feel stressed and tense and miserable. And I write for fun. For free. So clearly I’m not going to keep pushing into something that makes me feel that way. If the urge to write there comes back, I’ll know it. In the meantime, if you are familiar with The Walking Dead, the muse is going crazy over there.

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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The Walking Dead: I've discovered that I cannot be exposed to new canon for any show, or it kills my muse. So, please, please TWD readers don't send me any spoilers for Season 9 or beyond. Thanks :)

Criminal Minds: New Readers, if you pick up from my Author Notes that there previously seemed to have been other stories in my CM library, you are correct. There were additional stories posted here, but they were unfinished, and that obviously would have been fine to just leave them out here to read as they were, but I had a couple of trolls who were angry that those stories were never completed. The regular, anonymous, harassment I got from those 'people' (it went on for months, and it was ridiculous because it was over such a stupid, stupid, thing) finally hit my last nerve and I just took them all down. I'm sorry for those of you who were enjoying them, or new people who would have liked to have explored them (there were notes clearly indicating they wouldn't be finished) but as they say, it only takes a few bad apples to ruin things. And again, it was such a ridiculous thing for someone to actually send nasty notes over, but I finally got tired of putting up with the nonsense because I'm obviously a real person with a real life and real feelings about these things. And IF ONLY FF.net didn't allow anonymous reviews to be submitted against the author's wishes, this never would have happened because I could have blocked those people. But regardless, they do allow them, and as a result this is what happened, and now those stories are gone. It sucks, but here we are. *shrug emoji*

General: Thank you to anyone out there reading, reviewing, faving and/or, lurking. Even if I'm not always able to get back to everyone, please know I always appreciate the feedback :)

AWARDS/NOMINATIONS:

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2014 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Most Beloved Fic - Falling In Love With a Girl

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2011 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Most Beloved Fic - Falling In Love With a Girl

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2010 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Characterization of Aaron Hotchner - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Characterization of Emily Prentiss - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Het Romance - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: (Tie) Best JJ/Morgan - Things Fall Apart

Category: (Tie) Best Overall Fic - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Overall Author

WINNING STORIES/CATEGORIES - 2009 CM FAN FICTION AWARDS

Falling in Love with a Girl - First Place, Best Work-in-Progress

A Love Story in Three Acts - First Place, Best Drama

Breaking Aaron Hotchner - First Place, Best One Shot

The Being Emily Prentiss, Being Aaron Hotchner Series - First place, Best Series (written with Chiroho)

Goldilocks & Papa Bear - Third Place, Best Friendship Fic

And Me! - Third Place for Best New Author

Thanks again everyone who voted :)

NOMINATIONS - 2ND ANNUAL CARYL FANFICTION AWARDS

Category: Plot: This Is Now

Category: Characterization: This Is Now

Category: Multi-Chaptered: This Is Now

NOMINATIONS - 2015 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Drama: The Arrangement
Category: Best M-rated: The Arrangement
Category: Most Beloved: Second Chances
Category: Best Hotch: Falling in Love, Again
Category: Best Hotch/Emily: The Hours

NOMINATIONS - 2014 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Overall Author
Category: Best Het Romance: The Courtship of Clark and Lois
Category: Most Beloved Fic: Aaron and Emily & Meet Luke and Lorelai

NOMINATIONS - 2013 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Overall Author
Category: Best Angst – The Hours
Category: Best Hotch/Emily – The Hours

NOMINATIONS - 2011 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Angst - Everything Happens for a Reason
Category: Most Beloved Fic - Falling In Love With a Girl
Category: Best Alternative Universe - The Gingerbread Girl
Category: Best Drama - The Hours
Category: Best Overall Fic - The Hours

NOMINATIONS - 2010 PROFILER'S CHOICE CM AWARDS

Category: Best Hotch/Emily Fic - Falling in Love with a Girl
Category: Best Hotch/Emily Fic - Fracture

Category: Best Hotch/JJ - Love, Unexpected
Category: Best Hotch/JJ - The Ides of May

Category: Lifetime Achievement Award - Falling in Love with a Girl

Category: Best Humor/Comedy - Finding a Place to Dump the Body

STORIES - THE WALKING DEAD (ACTIVE FANDOM)

Stand Alone Stories

Echoes In The Blood - Season 1. A night at the CDC. (Caryl) Romance/Smut - Complete

Running From Monsters - Total AU, no ZA happening. A world where Daryl and Carol are both living in the same Atlanta apartment house. Carol and Sophia have just left Ed, and Daryl is their new next door neighbor. (Caryl) -- Romance - In Progress

The Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Season 2. A hurricane, and a missing day. (Caryl) -- Romance - Complete

The Days In The Cedar Forest - ZA, starting pre-show, moving along with missing scenes. Mostly working around known canon events to start, shifting to AU not long after Rick's arrival. (Caryl) -- Drama/Romance - In Progress

This Is Now - ZA, AU where Carol and Daryl meet under different circumstances about a week before civilization begins to collapse. Events pre-show, through Season 2, reimagined (Caryl) -- Drama/Romance - In Progress

Memories Universe

Take My Hand - (Story 1 of 2) Gap time between seasons 2 and 3. Prequel to "The Memories of Us." -- Romance - Complete

The Memories of Us - (Story 2 of 2) Season 4. Sequel to "Take My Hand." Missing scene from 30 Days Without An Accident -- Romance - Complete

RP Fic

The We You Don't See In The City - (Story 1 of 2) RP McReedus Fic *Only Available on Nine Lives* - ninelivesarchive . com - Complete

The We You Don't See - (Story 2 of 2) RP McReedus Fic *Only Available on Nine Lives* - ninelivesarchive . com -- In Progress

STORIES - CRIMINAL MINDS (INACTIVE FANDOM - STORIES WILL *NOT* BE UPDATED)

Girl'verse:

Universe A - Main Story Universe of Hotch and Emily meeting, falling in love and living their lives together

Story 1: Falling in Love with a Girl - My version of their lives in canon starting with meeting when Hotch worked for her mother, taking them through Season 4. (Complete)

The Offshoots below fall within the story they're listed beneath. They're ideas that came to me after that portion of their lives were covered in the larger story. And they're arranged chronologically so you know where they would properly fall within Story 1, 2 or 3.

Offshoot: Ladybug, Ladybug . . . Fly Away Home - Early Season 3. Emily's 39th birthday. Missing scene between Chapters 26 and 28. (Complete)

Offshoot: Making Spirits Bright - Mid Season 3, Christmas Eve. Missing day between Chapters 32 and 33. (Complete

Offshoot: A Kick, A Kiss And A Bag Of Chips - Mid Season 3, New Year's Eve. Missing day between Chapters 32 and 33. Direct follow up to Making Spirits Bright. One week later. (Complete

Offshoot: Invasion of the Pod People (1) - Early Season 4, Missing day between Chapters 47 and 50. (Complete

Offshoot: Revenge of the Pod People (2) - Early Season 4, Companion to Invasion of the Pod People - read the other one first (Complete

Offshoot: Night of the Pod People (3) - Early Season 4, Companion to "Invasion" and "Revenge" - read the others first (Complete

Offshoot: Escape of the Pod People (4) - Early Season 4, Companion to "Invasion," "Revenge," and "Night" - read the others first (Complete

Offshoot: To Rossi's House We Go - Early Season 4, 4th of July. Missing day after Chapter 54. (Complete

Offshoot: Cadence & Noise - Early Season 4, Missing day, couple months after Pod People. (Complete

Offshoot: Bartholomew Cubbins Had Nothing On Emily Prentiss - Early Season 4, Missing Day: Shopping Trip (Complete

Offshoot: Itsy, Bitsy, Teenie, Weenie . . . - Early Season 4, Missing Day: Shopping Trip (Complete

Offshoot: Pretty Girls, Pool Parties & Pot Bellied Pigs - Early Season 4, Missing Day: Pool Party at Dave's (Complete)

Offshoot: Dial L for Laundry - Early Season 4. Missing day. Hotch helps Em on Laundry Day (Complete

Offshoot: Three Men and a Pissed off JJ - Early Season 4, JJ/Rossi friendship piece. (Complete

Offshoot: Goldilocks & Papa Bear - Mid Season 4, JJ/Rossi friendship piece. (Complete

Offshoot: The Sick Boy and the Sitter - Mid Season 4, Emily babysits a sick Jack (Complete

AU Offshoot: The Ides of May - JJ/Hotch Friendship piece (Complete)

Offshoot: My Friend the Doctor - Series of Reid centered one shots

Universe C - Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-94 of Girl before reading this world. Each story stands alone.

Story 1: Epiphanies - Alternate ending of Girl. Hotch and Emily come to a revelation. (Complete)

Story 2: Birthday Festivities - Emily's birthday. Two weeks post Epiphanies. (M Story - Complete)

Story 3: Everything Old is New Again - Three days before Halloween (Complete)

Story 4: I'm Okay, You're Okay . . . So What's Wrong? - Halloween night. (Complete)

Story 5: Drop A House On Her Aaron - Hotch and Emily go to Haley's for Jack's birthday party. (Complete)

Story 6: My Girlfriend's Boyfriends - A night out for Emily, a night in for Hotch. (Complete)

Story 7: Things That Go Splash In The Afternoon - Hotch and Emily go yachting with Dave (Complete)

Universe E - Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Intense universe. No fluff. Read chapters 1-20 of Girl before reading this story.

Story 1: Everything Happens For a Reason - Late season 2, Hotch & Emily fly to Texas for a routine parole hearing. Something terrible happens. Friendship story, no romance in this one. It is an M for violence and language. (Complete)

Universe F -- Late Season 3, begins with a Gilmore Girls crossover. Read chapters 1-43 of Falling in Love With a Girl before reading Story 1.

Story 1: Aaron & Emily, Meet Luke & Lorelai - CASE FIC: Hotch & Emily are staying at the Dragon Fly Inn while investigating a case out of town. (Complete)

Universe G -- Spin-off of Falling in Love with a Girl. Read chapters 1-36 of Girl before reading Story 1.

Story 1: The Lonely Hearts Club -- Mid Season 3, Valentine's Day. Hotch and Emily working a case in San Francisco. Their relationship changes. (Complete)

Season 4 Finale Fix:

All can be read as stand alones but these stories run through the same universe

Story 1: The Middle Ground - Post Ep for Demonology (H/P)

Story 2: Ties That Bind - Post Ep for Roadkill (H/P)

Story 3: That Which We Must Do - Post Ep for Hell & Back (H/P)

Being Emily Prentiss & Being Aaron Hotchner Series:

Joint effort with Chiroho. Romantic comedy pieces with me writing Emily's POV and Chiroho writing Hotch's

Story 1: A Hard Day at Work (by Chiroho)

Story 2: Breaking Aaron Hotchner - (by me)

Story 3: Victoria's Secret or Harry & David (by Chiroho)

Story 4: Secrets of the Fortress of Solitude (by me)

Story 5: Deck the Halls with Behavioral Folly (by Chiroho)

Story 6: Avoiding the Peanut Butter & Pickle Souffle (by me)

Finding Series:

Light hearted world where H/P get together on Valentine's Day.

Story 1: Finding a Place to Dump the Body

Story 2: Finding a Way To Cheer Up A Cranky Bastard

Story 3: Finding a Tree in the Forest (Valentine's Day)

Story 4: Finding a Naked Man in Your Bed (Valentine's Day)

Story 5: Finding a Place to Stick The Shillelagh (St. Patrick's Day)