'O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.'

-Shakespeare

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"Come here."

As expected, the minimal signs of relaxation Reid had shown vanished immediately, uncertainty and alarm shining in his eyes, hands clenched by his sides. His eyes flickered from the door to Seth and the bed again.

Seth rolled his eyes ( Read more... )

"I thought I was a fool for no one

But oh baby, I'm a fool for you

You caught me under false pretenses

How long before you let me go?

Glaciers melting in the dead of night

You set my soul alight"

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Reductio Ad Absurdum

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Seth stared straight ahead without blinking for almost ten minutes.

He didn't want to believe he'd been wrong. Not after all the ( Read more... )

It was noon by the time they were back on the high way.

Seth steered the car with one hand on the wheel, smoking a cigarette with the other. He didn't usually smoke this much, today however he felt like he could just light the next one with the rest of the first.

It was nerves he assumed, something that felt disturbing because it was so rare with him ( Read more... )

"Please…I can't…any more…just, please…"

Seth froze as he stared down into Spencer's eyes, suddenly ripped out of his trance like state and thrown back into the harsh reality in front of him.

It immediately became obvious to him just how much he'd misread the signs. The kid still wasn't moving away, yes, and there wasn't fear or disdain in his ( Read more... )

"Don't tell me it´s not worth dying for. I can't help it, there's nothing I want more." -Bryan Adams

The first thing he felt was pain, spreading through his limbs, radiating through his throat and lungs. He took a ragged breath and coughed when it burned, breathing in what felt like dust.

Reid forced his body to move and felt his fingers scrape ( Read more... )

The sun had gone down an hour ago but they had kept driving, knowing they were running out of time.

Hotch was starting to get more anxious by the minute, fearing that they would miss their rendezvous in the morning just because they had decided to go look at some shady bar in the middle of nowhere.

For three hours they had driven along the highway, ( Read more... )

Reid whirled around, horrorstruck to see an even more grotesque version of Richard Gecko getting to his feet in a spiderlike manner, his yellow eyes pinned on Seth.

He felt his head spin, unable to deal with everything happening. With the adrenaline still pumping through his body he had to actually force himself to keep still.

No. No, God, no. This ( Read more... )

Seth couldn't believe his eyes.

Spencer's team. Having come out of nowhere. Staring at them with just as much shock and surprise as they.

Holy fucking Mother of Jesus.

That had to be a joke.

Were there really entrances like that in real life? Like they were on the fucking Ghostbusters? Like the fucking cavalry saving the day? He felt a stab in his ( Read more... )

Hotch was fuming as he stormed out of the bathroom.

He tried not to let it show so the others wouldn't be even more worried but he could see from their expressions that he wasn't doing a very good job at it.

He glanced over at where Reid was standing with Gideon, thinking about going to them and actually asking Reid what exactly had happened during ( Read more... )

It was simply too much.

Seth had never been someone who had great self control and throughout the past three days he had been tested severely by everything and everyone around him. This, Spencer doing this, was the straw that broke the camel's back.

He let go. Of restraint, of reason, of everything that wasn't ruled by instinct. He was left with a ( Read more... )