Title: To Live and Die In The Multiverse
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Rating: NC-17 or mature for eventual explicitness
Pairing: Spencer Reid/Aaron Hotchner
Status: work in progress
Tags/Warnings: strangers, friendship, alternate universe, drug addiction, caretaking, social issues, codependency, denial of feelings, angst, physics, multiverse, not canon compliant, dubious science, time skips
Summary: Dr. Spencer Reid is a brilliant quantum physicist on the verge of a breakthrough that will realign human reality as we know it. He doesn't have time to be distracted by the weird guy who moved in across the hall in his building. Not only is his neighbor weird, he seems potentially dangerous as well. But that doesn't stop Reid from being pulled into the guy's messy complications, which in turn put his life's work at risk. What is it about Aaron Hotchner that compels him, and how far will he chase the addictive high he gives him?
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