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   Chain Reaction by EloquentDossier

   Fandoms: Criminal Minds  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   21 Jun 2015

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid
   • Aaron Hotchner
   • Spencer Reid
   • David Rossi
   • Derek Morgan
   • Penelope Garcia
   • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
   • Jason Gideon
   • Emily Prentiss
   • Alternate Universe
   • AU
   • Texting
   • Dialogue-Only
   • text fic
   • Self-Esteem Issues
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Spencer Reid is kind of a little shit
   • and Hotch is determined
   • reference to minor canonical character deaths
   • Implied past drug use
   • Hotch and Reid are kinda insanely defensive of each other
   • Mentioned Past Drug Use
   • Fairy Godmother Rossi
   • Aaron Hotchner is an oblivious idiot
   • Angst
   • and I swear this will have a
   • Happy Ending
   • Canon Divergence
   • in chapter fifteen
   • definitely screwing with the timeline
   • chapter 15 is normal story format
   • as is the epilogue

   Summary

   "(Mon 12:20 pm)
   Which is why you text the stranger instead of talk to coworkers.

    (Mon 12:20 pm)
   Yes.
   (Mon 12:28 pm)
   Is that weird?"

   xxx

   A dialogue-only AU in which Hotch texts what he thinks is Rossi's new number but is actually the slightly eccentric stranger whom Hotch knows only as "Spencer." What follows is something neither man could have ever quite expected.

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   English

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   42,524

   Chapters:

   16/16

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