Title: Sometimes
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Rating: NC-17 or mature for eventual explicitness
Pairing: Spencer Reid/Emily Prentiss
Status: work in progress
Tags/Warnings: growing up, time skips, canon divergence, friendship, loneliness, denial of feelings, FBI, shapeshifting, secret identity, we just love each other
Summary: Emily Prentiss was an aimless, lonely kid who found an unlikely friend to help her through her childhood. Years later, now an agent in the FBI, she develops an odd friendship with a biologist that mirrors the one from her childhood, and sets her on a collision course with the past she thought she put behind her.
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