Fanfic: Shattered Glass - Prologue
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Prologue
And our time is running out
And our time is running out
You can’t push it underground
You can’t stop it screaming out
How did we come to this?
Time Is Running Out, Muse
The unsub had gotten away and his latest victim lay still and cold on the floor. Hotch had blood on his shirt and hands - the victim’s blood, not his own. He’d tried to save him, but it had been too late. This time, evil had won. This time, it was their fault.
“What happened in there?” Strauss would ask later.
The unsub had tricked them and they hadn’t seen it. That was what they would say. But it wasn’t the whole truth. It was far more complicated than that. Everything in their investigation had gone wrong. The case wasn’t even that complicated: they could have delivered the profile after three hours. It should have been over much sooner and with a very different outcome.
But in order for a team to work, trust is needed. You need to be able to trust that the others may be right and you may be wrong; you need to be able to trust that they know what they’re doing and there’s no need to second-guess them every step of the way; and - if you are putting your life at risk - you need to be able to trust your team with it, to know that they have your back and won’t let you down.
Derek felt a light touch on his shoulder and he knew it was Spencer before even turning around to face him. They shared a meaningful glance.
Spencer was about to say something when Rossi approached them.
“We need to do something about this,” he said. Derek and Spencer couldn’t agree more. They just weren’t sure that something could be done.
Could they really put the pieces back together and be a team again?
Chapter 1: Denial
Prologue
And our time is running out
And our time is running out
You can’t push it underground
You can’t stop it screaming out
How did we come to this?
Time Is Running Out, Muse
The unsub had gotten away and his latest victim lay still and cold on the floor. Hotch had blood on his shirt and hands - the victim’s blood, not his own. He’d tried to save him, but it had been too late. This time, evil had won. This time, it was their fault.
“What happened in there?” Strauss would ask later.
The unsub had tricked them and they hadn’t seen it. That was what they would say. But it wasn’t the whole truth. It was far more complicated than that. Everything in their investigation had gone wrong. The case wasn’t even that complicated: they could have delivered the profile after three hours. It should have been over much sooner and with a very different outcome.
But in order for a team to work, trust is needed. You need to be able to trust that the others may be right and you may be wrong; you need to be able to trust that they know what they’re doing and there’s no need to second-guess them every step of the way; and - if you are putting your life at risk - you need to be able to trust your team with it, to know that they have your back and won’t let you down.
Derek felt a light touch on his shoulder and he knew it was Spencer before even turning around to face him. They shared a meaningful glance.
Spencer was about to say something when Rossi approached them.
“We need to do something about this,” he said. Derek and Spencer couldn’t agree more. They just weren’t sure that something could be done.
Could they really put the pieces back together and be a team again?
Chapter 1: Denial