Fic: Checkmate

[niniblack]

Title: Checkmate
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: an AU of Memorium, familiarity with that episode is best
Warnings: themes of mental illness and kidnapping, nothing explicit
Pairings/Characters: Spencer Reid - age 4, Diana Reid, William Reid
Word Count: 3,670

Summary: "You can't talk to strangers," Mom tells him. Her knuckles are white from gripping the

Comments

[limpycsiwombat]

NO SPENCER! DON'T GO WITH THE EVIL MAN! Is there more? I hope so!

[niniblack]

Ah, probably not of this particular plot. Sorry! I am hoping to finish the "5 Things That Didn't Happen to Reid" series at some point, but since I don't know if that will happen or not I decided to go ahead and post this part of it.

Thank you for reading! :D

[niniblack]

Thank you! :) I don't know if I'll write more of this story in particular, but I do love the family dynamic that the Reid's have. They're fun to play with, tho "fun" probably isn't the word I should use. XD

That line is possibly one of my favorite things I've ever gotten to do in fic. It was too good to pass up.

[kuriadalmatia]

Nicely done. I really like how you captured the tension between Diana and William, especially William dismisses her instincts because he thinks she's just having one of those episodes when really... yeah. And the way you established Gary as friendly and curious yet has that underlying creepiness to him.

Bravo! Looking forward to future fics!

[niniblack]

The difference I went with to make this an AU was that Diana didn't try to act on her own, going to Riley's father, etc. She told William. And William didn't listen to her. :( Gary is very creepy, but he was friendly when we saw him in Memorium, which really just made him creepier...

Thanks for reading! :D

[jujuberry136]

Don't take his hand Spencer!!! Oh man, really chilling ending there.

I think you captured little!Spencer really well - such a hard balance to find between childish naivete and his startling intellect. The tension between Diana and William was nicely handled - c'mon William, ask *why* the neighborhood is suddenly unsafe!

[niniblack]

I feel so bad for doing this to little Spencer! D: I'm glad he was believable as a child. He was easier to write than most children, I think, because he's so smart.

Thank you for reading! :D

[niniblack]

Oh, thank you! I'm glad to hear that they worked well! Diana is difficult to write. This episode always haunted me a bit, so I wanted to do a bit more with it.