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So if you don't want to be spoiled for season six of Criminal Minds, read no further.
But.
But.
This is the season where Emily faked her death and Reid, in unrelated news, was having a really hard time because he was afraid he was going to inherit his mother's mental illness.
What if the BAU is working on some terrible case, really bloody, violent, they have to stop this guy fast and they just can't find him. And the unsub has some vague connection to Emily, like she'd taken him down before, or when she was CIA he was on her radar or something. And the whole team is having Emily feels, right?
But Reid goes home one night and Emily is in his apartment. And she tells him things about the case that, when he goes in to work the next day, are all true. She tells him she trusts him and he can't tell anyone she was ever there but she never says "Oh, by the way, I faked my death and I'm in hiding, but this guy is bad news and I can't let you get hurt."
So Reid is convinced he's just had his first hallucination. All the things Emily told him were things he COULD have intuited from the material they've collected on the unsub. It could just be a leap of intuitive logic that made him figure it out - which is what all his teammates think happened. But every time Reid sees Emily - and she pops up several times throughout the fic, because she's following the case and trying to look out for them - he just becomes more convinced that he's going crazy.
And this will totally be a Reid/Morgan fic because who else would Reid turn to if he really thought he was hallucinating? And he tells Emily one day that he told Morgan, and she's all "Okay, I understand, he can protect you better than I can." And he's like, great, my hallucination thinks I need looking after, that's very reassuring.
At some point Emily realizes what's happening to Reid and there's some big dramatic showdown where they catch the bigbad - maybe the bad guy has Morgan? Or Emily? I don't know this part yet.
AND THEN THERE ARE FEELS.
And Reid and Derek totally hook up. And Emily is all "I technically got them together, you know." And Hotch is like, "It doesn't count as matchmaking when you convince one of them that they're insane."
But.
But.
This is the season where Emily faked her death and Reid, in unrelated news, was having a really hard time because he was afraid he was going to inherit his mother's mental illness.
What if the BAU is working on some terrible case, really bloody, violent, they have to stop this guy fast and they just can't find him. And the unsub has some vague connection to Emily, like she'd taken him down before, or when she was CIA he was on her radar or something. And the whole team is having Emily feels, right?
But Reid goes home one night and Emily is in his apartment. And she tells him things about the case that, when he goes in to work the next day, are all true. She tells him she trusts him and he can't tell anyone she was ever there but she never says "Oh, by the way, I faked my death and I'm in hiding, but this guy is bad news and I can't let you get hurt."
So Reid is convinced he's just had his first hallucination. All the things Emily told him were things he COULD have intuited from the material they've collected on the unsub. It could just be a leap of intuitive logic that made him figure it out - which is what all his teammates think happened. But every time Reid sees Emily - and she pops up several times throughout the fic, because she's following the case and trying to look out for them - he just becomes more convinced that he's going crazy.
And this will totally be a Reid/Morgan fic because who else would Reid turn to if he really thought he was hallucinating? And he tells Emily one day that he told Morgan, and she's all "Okay, I understand, he can protect you better than I can." And he's like, great, my hallucination thinks I need looking after, that's very reassuring.
At some point Emily realizes what's happening to Reid and there's some big dramatic showdown where they catch the bigbad - maybe the bad guy has Morgan? Or Emily? I don't know this part yet.
AND THEN THERE ARE FEELS.
And Reid and Derek totally hook up. And Emily is all "I technically got them together, you know." And Hotch is like, "It doesn't count as matchmaking when you convince one of them that they're insane."