Fic: The Elevator

[taricalmcacil]

This ficlet was written for Crimeland Case 7, Challenge 32: Favorite Scene. Tag to CM 3x03, the elevator scene. Interestingly, most of this fic comes from first hand experience, very similar to that seen in the episode.

Title: The Elevator
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Author: taricalmcacilGenre: Character Study

Comments

[maria42]

This was pretty good, I like the way you wrote all the small but very life altering and affects of nearly dying in an elevator or being trapped in one.

I got stuck in one last year and then again with my friend and since then I haven’t taken the elevator, it’s not so bad because I’m on the 4th floor, I dread to think what I would do if I was on the 10th floor or something like that.

[taricalmcacil]

I got stuck in one on a trip to Chicago with a group of friends. There were 5 of us in there and we were border lining on mass hysteria when it finally moved. I was close to hyperventilating, and I've never been claustrophobic. I've ridden in elevators since then, but I'm always prepared to throw myself flat - just in case.

[maria42]

lol, yeah same here, I’m always prepared ^^

It was super scary the first time it happened to me, I was by myself, and I was so freakishly calm it was insane.

Then the second time when I was with my friend just like you and your friends I go hysterical but in all fairness it probably had something to do with the fact that she kept pressing buttons :)

when we got out we started making jokes about how this was a memorable bonding moment between us, yeah where crazy and then we started talking about adrenalin, seriously I was shaking but it's always better when you’re in numbers, there’s more chance of there being a sane person to calm you down.