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A “wellness accountability collective” weaponizes recovery language to control members. Spencer goes undercover to expose coercion, but the psychological cost threatens the life he’s finally built.
Series Spoilers. I've already planned out parts 7-10. And an AU part 11.
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- Part 6 of Obsidian
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тоска по дому by Mililya
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
19 Jul 2026
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Ilya Rozanov is homesick, and tired of the world around him being in English. He goes to the library to find some books to read in Russian.
Spencer Reid is preparing for a guest lecture by rereading some classics in their original Russian language.
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Ilya Rozanov and Spencer Reid meet at the library. -
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After wrapping up a case in New York, one of Spencer’s top twenty-five modern authors is having their first signing in the city that never sleeps. Excited to meet him(?), Spencer finds out that this meeting will change the course of his life.
Story starts during season one. I didn’t tag major character deaths and I mean it. Haley lives (as soon as I get to The Reaper arch).
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This story takes place in early 2007 and serves as a rewritten and reimagined aftermath of the events depicted in the mid-season two episodes "The Big Game" and "Revelations".
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Spencer knows it's bad the moment the belt comes out, the moment the syringe enters his line of sight.
He knows it's really bad when he can't get it out of his head, not even after the BAU saves him.
It's even worse when he steals the drug.
Worse when he takes it.
When he likes it.
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Something about her unsettled him from the moment they met. Maybe it was his lingering sadness about Emily’s departure. Maybe it was his bias from having already met—and accepted—a new teammate in Blake. Maybe it was the smokescreen about her background, or her sharp, unwavering attention on anyone she spoke to, or how her lips were so perfectly symmetrical that Spencer thought they may have broken the laws of biology.
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Dr. Spencer Reid isn’t good with change. Or new people. Or trusting others. And he doesn’t trust the BAU’s newest agent, even if she was recommended by Emily. For four years, they haunt the halls with tense glares and petty arguments.
Until Spencer goes to prison.
He doesn’t expect their bitter rivalry to thaw into a reluctant friendship. He doesn’t expect to be released to find her happily coupled up. But mostly, he doesn’t expect to fall in love with someone clever, cunning, and too ambitious for her own good.
Someone properly foxlike.
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A new Agent is introduced to the team, a charming and intelligent woman struck Spencer first by surprise but slowly sneaks herself into his heart.
As their feelings for each other start to evolve, Y/n has to come clear with her true intentions. Not only considering her job but also her attachment to one special pretty boy who seems to have gotten under her skin.
Will her emotions get the better of her, or will she be able to compete her mission successfully; and if so what will happen if her cover gets blown? -
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There's a lot of bad in this world; Spencer Reid knows this. But surely there is even more good than bad. That's proven wrong time after time, but he still wants to believe. Then, the Winchesters enter the scene. And everything gets a whole lot worse.
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The BAU meet the Winchesters in the case of the century.
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"They say opposites attract... but when I start getting letters from Awkward in D.C., I can't help wondering if some people are just... meant to find you."
Talk to Teddy was supposed to be a column, not my whole personality. But somewhere between the late-night coffee binges and strangers oversharing about their breakups, it became the thing I love most.
Then his letters showed up. Rambling. Brilliant. Way too honest....and signed Awkward in D.C.
I told myself it was just another letter, another secret I'd file away and forget. Except I didn't forget. I can't.
And the truth is... I can't stop wanting to know the person behind the letter.
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The Winchester File by fallenztar
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Supernatural (TV 2005)
09 Jul 2026
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Spencer was sent to find the Winchester brothers. The mission was to observe them, gain their trust, and gather evidence to finally arrest them. The plan was simple. Until it started to go wrong.
Now, trying to understand ghosts, demons, monsters, and an attraction that definitely wasn't part of the operation, Reid needs to decide what to do when the truth about the Winchesters contradicts everything he's been told. And whether or not to hand them over to the FBI and go back to being the agent he was before.
The idea for the story comes from someone called: @peninkblue (on ttk)
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She came and went like the storm she is — one moment she was there and they were together, and then she was gone without him realizing it was a goodbye.
And out of nowhere she’s back, and everyone is judging him for being broken and stubborn when they don’t know she was more than a friend to him.
But life, like always, loves to throw curveballs at him, and nothing will ever be simple — yet after the tornado has passed, maybe it’s not too bad. He might even like it. -
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Reid is kidnapped by a bible obsessed unsub when he meets a strange man named 'Castiel' in the field prompting a wider investigation into what he saw that day. He knew he would never be 'normal' ever again.
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away from home, through no wish of my own by FrozenInSpace
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
01 Jul 2026
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He’s quiet again, and then something he really didn’t expect comes out of his boss’ mouth. “Quantico's requested you transfer to run the New York Office.”
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Derek takes the job offer in New York City.
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“Everyday at work, he feels the paranoia between each line of conversation. There’s a lilt to Emily’s voice sometimes, does that mean she’s lying about her interest in his life? How can he possibly know the difference between genuine and false when Rossi and Hotch’s expressions hardly shift for either. What if Derek thinks he’s a loser just like the rest?”
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After a few too many jokes that read as insults, Spencer starts to question his place amongst the team and his friendships. Derek, noticing a withdrawn Reid, starts to worry like no other.
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In the same day, approximately two weeks ago, Spencer met and lost the first person he truly considered his match. He loved her, and she may have known that, but he could not speak it into existence when he needed to. This morning he wakes and grapples with coming to terms with the true tragedy that is loss.
“For the first time this morning, he actually feels some semblance of warmth. Among the nondescript mess of his neglected apartment, a benevolent heat is emanating from the single most valuable possession he owns right now: The Narrative of John Smith.”
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- Part 1 of non omnis moriar
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First case: The team works to track down a local serial killer murdering random women who have nothing in common. Hotch is beginning to spiral due to the aftermath of Foley and Haley. Reid realizes and tries to navigate.
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- Part 1 of The Silence Where Footsteps Should Echo
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Can You Hear Me Screaming "Please Don't Leave Me"? by Keircat
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
11 Jun 2026
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The drugs flooding his system after a particularly hard case and going a little too long without a hit fills Spencer with immediate relief. If only he knew this was a high he might never come down from, he might've made a different choice.
Derek just wanted to check on Reid. He knew his friend wasn't as ok as he claimed he was, and this was a hard case. He never imagined just how badly Reid was struggling. Nor did he imagine the scene he'd walk into, the one he knew would forever be seared into his brain, even without an eidetic memory.
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Saving You is Saving Me by Nock_and_Bolt for im_up_to_shenanigans
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
31 May 2026
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It had to be some kind of afterlife or complex hallucination to be back in the BAU conference room, one very dead Jason Gideon rounding the table with a decade-old case conversation on his lips.
Or: the one in which mid-prison arc season 12 Reid travels back in time to mid-addiction arc season 2 Reid and team, season 12 Reid thinks he’s hallucinating and is more or less helpful than he could be, in the meantime the team puts 2 and 2 together and gets 21, and somehow this still ends up changing the timeline for the better.
Featuring: an intervention for season 2 Reid, multiple collective heart attacks for season 2 team, and eventual healing for season 12 Reid.
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- Part 1 of Saving You is Saving Me Universe
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Spencer Reid is not known to appreciate change by any means. Much to the contrary, he despises it from the bottom of his heart. Especially when said change comes in the form of a new member to the team. HIS team.
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Doctor Vivianne Ashford.In which Spencer wants to the team after the arrival of the new member. Were the cracks always there, or did they create them themselves?
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He took a shaky breath. Just looking at the vials reminded him of that shed. The smell of fish guts, burning wood and dirt. It was enough to make him throw up. But he knew once he did it, he wouldn't remember any of that. He wouldn't feel a thing but an all-encompassing sensation like he was wrapped in a warm, heavy blanket. He needed that feeling. He imagined that was how well-adjusted children felt, when their mentally stable parents tucked them tightly into bed.
He just didn't want to be afraid anymore.
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Dilaudid is Spencer's only solace, the only peace from the memories of the horrors he went through in that shed. However, his habit is getting increasingly harder to hide from the rest of the team, and one person in particular: Derek Morgan. When Spencer misses a plane for a new case, Morgan covers for him with the team instantly. But he won't let Spencer's dirty little secret go. He's determined to help—and to discover what Spencer has been hiding since the day they rescued him.
Trigger warnings in the tags. Be warned this fic will have explicit representations of possibly disturbing themes and events.