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The Man You Remember Me As by helles_belle
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), criminal minds: Evolution
21 Dec 2025
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Summary
"He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture,
and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant
battle between what he was and what he wanted to be."
x Larissa Ione x—o—
Six months in a coma should have been a period at the end of a sentence. For the BAU, it was a reprieve; for David Rossi, it was a personal purgatory spent staring at an empty chair and a monster who wouldn't wake up to face his sins.
But when Elias Voit finally opens his eyes, the man who looks back isn't Sicarius. He is Lee Duval, a gaunt, stuttering wreck of a man with trembling hands who flinches at the sound of his own name.
To the doctors, he’s a medical marvel of retrograde amnesia. To the DOJ, he’s a legal nightmare. To Dave, he’s a liar playing the longest game of his life.
Until that first moment Lee looks at him, not with a killer's cunning, but with a drowning man’s relief. He doesn't see the FBI agent who hunted him. He sees a shoreline in a silver-white fog, a reprieve. He sees his partner.
Dave Rossi spent a lifetime learning how to profile the devil. He has no idea how to survive a man who thinks Dave is the love of his life.