Another short post-ep to "Breath Play".
The resilience of children would forever astonish Spencer Reid. No, it wouldn't astonish him, but merely fascinate him. He would never quite understand it.
Somehow, a teenager, who would really like to pretend to be tougher than the little girl she still was, could watch her father, the man she loved to the moon and back for years, turn into the monster under the bed, the boogeyman in her closet. And somehow, through it all, she could still find a way to love her mother, even though her trust should've been slashed through.
Maybe it was only his own childhood, marred by abandonment, that seemed irreparable. Either way, he'd never understand how children were so unbreakable, no matter what happened.