Title: Growing
Rating: PG-13
Fandom:  Criminal Minds
Universe: Time Is Running Out (Part 2)
Characters/Pairing: Prentiss/Jordan
Genre: Drama/Angst
Summary: You've got plenty of time to re-evaluate your life when you're cuffed to a chair in an unsub's basement.

( VIII )

Title: Growing
Rating: PG-13
Fandom:  Criminal Minds
Universe: Time Is Running Out (Part 2)
Characters/Pairing: Prentiss/Jordan
Genre: Drama/Angst
Summary: You've got plenty of time to re-evaluate your life when you're cuffed to a chair in an unsub's basement.

( VII )

Title: Growing
Rating: PG-13
Fandom:  Criminal Minds
Universe: Time is Running Out (Part 2)
Characters/Pairing: Prentiss/Jordan
Genre:  Drama/Angst
Summary:  You've got plenty of time to re-evaluate your life when you're cuffed to a chair in an unsub's basement.

( Interlude II )

Title: Growing
Rating: PG-13
Fandom:  Criminal Minds
Universe: Time is Running Out (Part 2)
Characters/Pairing: Prentiss/Jordan
Genre:  Drama/Angst
Summary:  You've got plenty of time to re-evaluate your life when you're cuffed to a chair in an unsub's basement.

( VI )

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

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V

I don’t know what time it is when I wake up, but I get the feeling it’s early. Even sadists need to get their sleep apparently, because I’m completely alone. All I can hear is my own rasping breath, and (though it’s probably my ( Read more... )

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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IV

He’s saying something, but I can’t quite make out the words. I do comprehend the tone, though, and it isn’t a pleasant one. He’s trying to humiliate me, to break me.

‘...your kind isn’t fit to walk this planet.’ He’s ( Read more... )

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Interlude I

Twenty-one years, two months and eight days ago.

I’ve got my fake smile on.

It’s this smile that I give to all the foreign dignitaries, all those rich people in their tuxedos and their cocktail dresses. I almost vomit at the thought ( Read more... )

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charlotte Bronte

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III

I’m fairly sure I didn’t fall asleep like this. Scratch that - I’m absolutely positive I didn’t fall asleep with a pounding headache, and my ( Read more... )

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

T.S. Eliot

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II

We’re booked into a small motel. It’s either this, or brave the traffic every day we spend on this investigation, and frankly, I’m not interested in car ( Read more... )

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

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I

My psychiatrist tells me that I’m growing as a person.

‘Of course,’ he adds. ‘I’m not just saying that because it’s your birthday.’ He gives me a strange smile, and hands me a lollipop. I’m not altogether sure that he is serious. Then he hands ( Read more... )