2011-12-03

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2011-12-03 08:45 pm

Criminal Minds FIC: The apple and afterward

Title: The apple and afterward
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing: Hotch/Reid
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 12,000
Warnings: Drug addiction, prostitution, mentions of rape, murder and other horrific BAU-style crimes
Summary: What if Reid hadn't managed to kick his Dilaudid addiction? What if he needed a job on the side in order to afford his habit?

Notes: This story is for [personal profile] svmadelyn who won it in the [community profile] help_japan auction. Thank you to Madelyn for her generous donation and the fantastic prompt. Many thanks also to [personal profile] alizarin_nyc and [profile] karraparis for all their help with the story.

He meets Frank at Starbucks, the one near his metro station, a completely innocuous beginning. There is nothing to suggest that Frank is a drug dealer, even to an FBI profiler. He wears a stretched-out brown cardigan with holes in the elbows and an air of resignation. Spencer would have pegged him for a high school teacher, maybe chemistry or physics, with a class full of students incapable of understanding thermal loading… )