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Morgan and an injured Reid were in the elevator on the third floor of an underground parking garage when the entire building came crashing down around them. As the two men try to keep Reid's injuries at bay while they await rescue, the team helps with the search and rescue efforts up top, unsure whether their friends will be found alive under the rubble.
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Reid didn’t even realize he still had his phone in his hand until it buzzed again. He immediately hit the decline button. Not two seconds later, it buzzed for a fourth time. Still Morgan. He’s not going to stop until I pick up. Goddamnit.
“What?” Reid barked into the phone as he picked up the call. He did not care how annoyed he sounded, in fact he hoped that came across loud and clear.
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Some old friends attempt to help Reid process and heal from all that has happened to him in the past three months since his arrest. Takes place directly following 13x01 (Wheels Up).
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Spencer Reid asked for some time off after Emily’s return. When he doesn’t answer Hotch’s calls to come in for a case, the team starts to worry. Is Reid withdrawing from them in anger, or is something else going on entirely? As the team tries to find him, the situation becomes more complicated than they could have possibly imagined.
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Morgan saw the panic on Reid’s face. “Weapons down! Weapons down, now!” Morgan commanded as he holstered his own gun and stepped in between the SWAT members and Reid. SWAT reluctantly lowered their guns, but remained on alert.
Morgan approached Reid slowly.“Reid? What’s happening? Talk to me.” Morgan forced himself to sound calm despite that fact that he now recognized the thing in his best friend’s hands to be a live grenade with no pin.
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My take on s11e01 The Job, but Reid is the one who has the grenade stuck in his hands.
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When Reid is attacked within the BAU by a seemingly kind-natured witness, he sustains some very serious injuries. With Reid hospital-bound and having temporarily lost his ability to hear or speak, the BAU team must find ways to rally around him and help Reid through his recovery.
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When the FBI’s trafficking task force identify Reid as their only viable undercover agent, he’s sent into a high-intellect ring where buyers gather in person to bid.
His role is simple: pose as one of them, get sight of the victims, make the call. But the auction isn’t the only thing underway... and by the time Reid takes his seat, someone’s already decided what he’s worth.
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17 Jul 2026
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For the World’s More Full of Weeping by IdLike2SayBeautifulThingsButIDontKnowHow
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
30 Mar 2025
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Reid moved over to the map to adjust the position of the pin. Only then did he realise the others’ eyes were still on him.
“Reid, you have a visitor,” said JJ, curiosity lacing her voice.
He turned back to face her.
“She says she’s your sister.”
Or: What if a violent incident at home led an 11-year-old Spencer Reid to be placed in foster care – only for him to discover that he might have been safer staying where he was?
Now the team is back in Las Vegas, just streets away from where he grew up, investigating a case that strikes just a little too close to home.
What secrets will they uncover and what has Reid been hiding all these years?
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Spencer, Derek, Hotch end up in a high speed car chase that results in their vehicle flipping. One of them sustains life-changing injuries that will take all of their love and strength combined to survive.
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- Part 3 of Medical Whump Reid
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04 Feb 2026
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i'm really fine and there's nothing we haven't talked about by misplaced_space_ace
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
03 Jun 2019
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It was not a victory for Reid. It was a wound that cut far deeper that he would’ve cared to admit. Nobody had died, but he would never forget the way Adam Jackson’s broken stare vanished for the last time. Adam was dead, all the same as if they’d put a bullet in him themselves, and Spencer couldn’t bring himself to grin and lie and say that was good enough.
Or: a fix-it fic for that time Reid told Morgan he was suffering residual guilt for killing the man who tortured him and Morgan’s solution was to say ‘Lol we can’t save everyone’ and move on.Series
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13 Nov 2025
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“Hotch?” Morgan’s voice cracks over his shoulder.
With hands he’ll forever deny are shaking, Hotch reaches up and presses two fingers to Spencer’s carotid, even though he can feel him breathing. It’s faster than he would like, but it’s there, and it’s strong. “He’s okay, just unconscious,” he assures his other agent, whose hands hover over Spencer’s back like he’s afraid to touch him.
Gideon steps closer, reaching for one of Spencer’s arms. “Here, I’ll take—”
Hotch doesn’t let him finish the sentence, crouching down so he can hook one arm under Spencer’s knees, careful to keep the other supporting his back, then lifts him slowly. Sleeping people are heavy, and his ageing knees complain as he returns to a standing position, but he doesn’t blink.
Or: After being rescued from Hankel, Reid makes the perfectly reasonable decision to take a quick nap. So what if it's a little sudden and in the arms of his boss?
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24 Oct 2025