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Fandom: Criminal Minds
Title: Cubed
Characters: Elle Greenaway
Rating: Teen
Notes: Post-Fisher King
Disclaimer: Criminal Minds + its characters are the property of Jeff Davis and CBS/The Mark Gordon Company.
She keeps her pills on top of unsolved Rubik’s Cubes. It’s a self-indulgent habit: look, I’m a metaphor; look, I’ve got layers, got depth, got three dimensions with a fourth spilling over. Literally spilling over. She went AMA on the pain pills and Valium a week out of the hospital, but going AWOL on the refills would mean taking a hit to her medical record and all of a sudden it’s like she’s back in high school only this time she cares because her job is so much more important than the Rest of Her Life.
Isn’t it?
So she picks up the pills. Goes to physio. Lies to a therapist twice a week. Buys new shirts and pretends not to notice how her purchases are straying from professional to business casual to fuck it. ‘I got shot and all I got was this lousy T-shirt’. They won’t care how she looks as long as she can do the job and last time she checked she wasn’t being paid to profile herself.
Title: Cubed
Characters: Elle Greenaway
Rating: Teen
Notes: Post-Fisher King
Disclaimer: Criminal Minds + its characters are the property of Jeff Davis and CBS/The Mark Gordon Company.
She keeps her pills on top of unsolved Rubik’s Cubes. It’s a self-indulgent habit: look, I’m a metaphor; look, I’ve got layers, got depth, got three dimensions with a fourth spilling over. Literally spilling over. She went AMA on the pain pills and Valium a week out of the hospital, but going AWOL on the refills would mean taking a hit to her medical record and all of a sudden it’s like she’s back in high school only this time she cares because her job is so much more important than the Rest of Her Life.
Isn’t it?
So she picks up the pills. Goes to physio. Lies to a therapist twice a week. Buys new shirts and pretends not to notice how her purchases are straying from professional to business casual to fuck it. ‘I got shot and all I got was this lousy T-shirt’. They won’t care how she looks as long as she can do the job and last time she checked she wasn’t being paid to profile herself.