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[dr-spencer-reids-queen]

Outfoxed: Final Part

Pairing: Spencer Reid x Female!Reader

Word Count: ~2.4k

Summary: Derek has had enough and decides now is the time to work bringing you home. The team is working on two cases and stretching their agents thin but they'll do anything to bring you back into Spencer's arms.

Warnings: canon violence, canon language, canon talk of death, methods of kill

Season Five Masterlist

Author’s Note: I know I'm going to piss some people off with the way I wrote the trial and the gathering of evidence but remember, this is fiction and it's my story. I'm making it easy and convenient. I know this isn't how trials work.

I do not own anything from Criminal Minds. All credit goes to their respective owners. If there are any warnings that exceed the normal death/kills from the show, I will list them.

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"This unsub is armed and suffering a major psychological break, and she will not hesitate to kill again. She's white and in her twenties. We believe she came to the US a few years ago. She's likely on foot. She could be Eastern European. She may speak little to no English."

"If you manage to apprehend or corner her, do not underestimate this woman. She will try to fight her way out. The Downeys live less than a mile from the Foresters which means she's somewhere in this area."

"Every media outlet is being informed of the clear and present danger to the public," JJ says.

"Thank you," Rossi concludes the meeting just as Penelope calls. He takes this to the conference room so she can be on speakerphone. "Hey, Garcia."

"Okay, I really might have got something. All of these photos, every one of them, were uploaded to a user website called Photobug. It's an app where people can upload photos and videos, email, and webcam chats. Every one of these families extensively used this site for months, even years."

"All these family photos were printed by Photobug?"

"Yes."

"Isn't it protected?"

"Not from the people who run it. It's a great way for military families to keep in touch and a perfect way to target a family without anybody's knowledge."

"They outsource work to people all over the country. So, I took your profile, hacked into their employee database, and came up with this list of potentials. One of which is a match that screams homicidal bitch. Her name's Miranda Dracar. She was an orphan, born in Sarajevo in 1982. She was adopted by a family in Srebrenica. The address is being sent now."

"Let's go," Rossi says.

Rossi, JJ, and Anne find her apartment easily but luck has it, she's not there. However, pictures of Miranda's victims are posted all over her walls.

"All three families are on here," JJ says.

"Look at this." Anne points out a picture of another military man. "Do you think this is her next victim? His name is Sergeant Eric Young."

"JJ, call your contact."

JJ takes out her phone and calls someone she knows will be able to help in figuring out who this man's family is.

"Hi, this is Jennifer Jareau with the FBI. Sir, I'm gonna need access to every piece of data on US Marine Sergeant Young. It may save his family."

Rossi calls Hotch and Emily to let them know of their progress, and Hotch is more concerned the longer they talk to Karl about the murders.

"I don't think this woman has anything to do with Karl," Hotch says once he gets off the phone.

"I encouraged him. Ohh. I flirted with him," Emily cringes. "I made it personal. Getting intimate with a killer is so different."

"It's what we do."

"Yeah, but there's no fixing how I feel right now, is there?"

"No, but it helped the case. You did what you had to do."

"Agent Hotchner," Karl says from the room knowing he can hear him. "Before you go, there's one final thing I'd like to share with you."

"Let's get this over with," Emily sighs.

Both of them walk back into the room and Karl smirks at them.

"You think you found my admirer? A woman?"

"No, we found the killer," Emily corrects.

"With my help, of course."

"Your admirer is exactly like everyone who contacts you--lost."

"My love, your guy is far from lost."

"Okay, we're done here," Hotch declares.

"So is he." Karl holds up a note he's been keeping secret. "Look at what I have done. It's quite brilliant, you know?"

"We will find whoever sent you that."

"No, Agent Hotchner, I rather think he's already found you."

Hotch can't deny the dread he's feeling from his words. Emily and Hotch's phone rings but only the former grabs her phone to check. They found the unsub. She fought hard to escape but was eventually shot by her own gun. Something snaps in Hotch and he starts going through every file Karl has, anything that will help him get the answers he needs.

"Hotch. Hotch!" Emily urges.

"I can't believe you can't see what he's doing," Karl laughs.

"What is going on?"

"He's torturing him."

"Who?"

"It's great to see you squirm, Agent Hotchner."

Hotch looks at Emily with fear in his eyes. "Foyet."

"He knew you'd come," Karl laughs.

This all comes down to Foyet, and Hotch knows if he is going to get his ass, he's gonna need you to come back. After the incident with Big Sue, Ashley has been left alone. Big Sue hasn't gone after anyone since she was kicked out of her own gang for not being tough enough. One of them tried inducing you but you politely declined.

You and Ashley are in the rec room playing a game of chess. She doesn't know how to play but you've been teaching her.

"I used to know how to play well when I was a kid but got out of it as I grew up. My boyfriend retaught me."

You smile at the memories of you two going against each other.

"He sounds sweet."

"He is. He keeps trying to visit me here. It breaks my heart every time I deny him."

"Why do you?"

"He has this beautiful mind that remembers everything he sees and reads. He can't forget. I don't want him to remember me this way. I can't look in his eyes and see this version of myself. Maybe that makes me selfish."

"No, I get it. I'd hate for my parents to see me like this. They've tried visiting but I told them after the first one I don't want them here. They write every day, though."

"That's nice," you smile.

"Y/N!" You look to your right and see a guard coming for you. "Trial time. We have a spare change of clothes in your cell for you."

"Thank you," you say and get up.

"Give 'em hell," Ashley grins.

"Keep your head up, Ash. Remember what we talked about." She nods. "If I am found innocent and I don't return, just know I'm going to do whatever it takes to get you out of here."

"Go, you have court," she smiles with tears in her eyes.

"I promise, Ashley. I'll get you out of here."

After getting changed into more professional clothing, you're escorted to Arlington General District Court. You're nervous since you've seen the evidence they have on you. It's going to be tough to prove your case but you're going to use everything you've got to persuade the judge. You sit next to your lawyer after the judge has sat down. You look at the jury and quickly read each and every one.

Bored. Scared. Excited. Nervous. If you act right and give them the truth, you believe they will side with you. Most juries are unanimous so it could be a long decision process if not everyone is on your side.

"This is the case of the Commonwealth of Virginia v Y/N. Ms. Y/N, how do you plead?" the judge asks.

"Not guilty, Your Honor."

"Present your case."

The prosecutor stands up since he is allowed to go first. He walks in front of the jury and begins his statement.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do not let looks fool you. What you see as a friendly woman is a stone-cold killer." You fight the urge to roll your eyes. "She murdered seven men in cold blood, and here is the evidence to prove it. On every single victim are her prints and her hair. On every single murder weapon are her prints. I have the results back from the lab here. I have a witness statement made by a man named Frank Livingston that explicitly saw her commit the crimes."

"Is your witness here today?" the judge asks.

The prosecutor becomes clammy and clears his throat nervously.

"No, Your Honor."

"Why not?"

"I was unable to locate Frank to be subpoenaed."

"Objection. That's hearsay, Your Honor," Steve interjects. "How can we accept that statement from the person if that person isn't here?"

"I will allow lab results submitted into evidence but not that witness statement. If your witness isn't able to show up, the statement is voided."

"Yes, Your Honor."

He finishes his opening statement about how you're such a bad person before taking a seat at the desk. Steven stands up and does the talking for you, trying to make it clear to the jury that you're innocent.

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I'd like to introduce you to Y/N. She is an FBI profiler for the BAU right here in Virginia. She started in the police force before moving up quickly to where she is now. She's aided hundreds of cases and given justice to those who were seeking it." Your lawyer holds up a file that has pieces of paper sticking out of it. "In here, I have letters from victims and their families thanking her for what she's done for them." You had no idea he did that for you. "The crimes she's accused of just isn't who she is. She helps instead of taking what she vowed to protect. The crimes in question occurred at night, the same nights she was safe in bed with her boyfriend. I have credit card statements that have already been submitted into evidence that show she is nowhere near the crimes when they were occurring." Steve goes on to talk about you in such a high tone, presenting everything he has that is in your favor. "Your Honor, if I may."

"Yes."

Steve walks all the evidence that's in your favor (it's not much) over to the judge who accepts it. Once they get the evidence out of the way, they'll go over the witnesses' statements before getting into their closing arguments. Steve doesn't have much in terms of evidence for you but the prosecuting attorney has plenty to put you away for a very long time.

Before he has a chance to end this part of the trial, the double doors into the courtroom are opened, and you look behind you to see your entire team file in. They all give you encouraging smiles until you see Spencer walk in. You briefly make eye contact with him before turning around to face the judge.

"Your Honor, if I may, I have more evidence to present."

"What is it?"

Steve walks over to Derek who hands him a file of more evidence in your favor. He looks through the file before taking out the ME reports that Derek had rushed. There is a TV in the corner of the room that can be used to show evidence, and he points to it.

"I'd like to request the use of the TV as I have video files to show as evidence."

The judge motions to the bailiff to roll the TV over to Steve so he can use it. You had no idea this was even happening. You knew they were working it but you didn't know they collected all this evidence... whatever it may be. You fight the urge to look back at them. You can feel his eyes on you.

"Your Honor and the jury, may I present to you, a video--CCTV footage of Y/N." He plugs the USB into the TV where the video of you walking into the hotel plays. He then shows the video of you in the gas station. It's grainy but it's clearly you." You get tears when you see the video of you and Spencer walking into the lobby holding hands. You miss that. "I have two of the four autopsies that were released for victims Juan Lopez and John Dimateo. The medical examiner put their deaths on the night that Y/N and her team checked into the hotel. They were dead a week before being found by police. She was on a case a few days prior to them being discovered, and I have the proof submitted by her Unit Chief."

The next video he shows is too dark to make anything out, but it's clear there is a man stabbing another man. You can't see any defining features on the man, but it's clear that the person on the video doesn't have your build. The crime scene photos of Chase Williams are also submitted side by side to show that it's the same alley he got stabbed in.

"Victims four and five, Eric Price and Jeffrey Rideback, as per the medical examiner report, have injuries that are too old to be when they say they died. They were dead long before they were ever found, and according to the ME report, two weeks. Two weeks before they were found, Y/N and her boyfriend Spencer Reid were out of town, and I have credit card statements and videos to prove it. Finally, video footage taken by a neighbor's camera pointed right at Y/N's apartment doors."

He plays the video that shows a man leaving your apartment with your hairbrush and two of the murder weapons in hand. You frown when you see the man's legs. It's a weird thing to think about but you've seen those legs before. You always knew that you knew the person who murdered the seven men because who else would hold a strong enough grudge against you than a person who knows you? Still, you can't put a name to it but if you had to guess, it's Frank Livingston. Why else would he lie about seeing you murder a man?

"This video shows a man leaving her apartment with two of the seven murder weapons and with a hairbrush that is used to leave behind her DNA on the victims. Victims she never knew or never had contact with. Ladies and gentlemen, Your Honor, Y/N is framed for murder and doing time for something she didn't do."

Steven does a good job, you have to admit. They just have a lot to speculate as soon as the day is over, and they come to a decision fairly quickly. That can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. Either they find you so guilty that they didn't want to debate long or they weren't fooled and decided you were innocent. Either way, you're sitting on the edge of your seat when they return.

"We the jury find Y/N on account of murder innocent of all charges."

You don't care what they say afterward. All you care about is that they find you innocent. You're free to go. You don't have to go back to that hellhole of a prison. You hate leaving Ashley behind but you're going to do good by her and get her out of there as soon as you can. You walk over to your team who is cheering for your release, and the first person you run to is Spencer. He pushes aside the last two months of you not wanting to see him and accepts you into his arms, and you cry from how happy you are.

You're finally home.

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[mr-salamander40k]

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Captain Leodrax Dracar *Devoted Knight of the Sundered Halls*

[a-song-for-ages]

Maelora: I would have liked to see Vhagar fly *thinks of how the Conqueror Queen would have looked atop her, not needing to urge her dragon to fly off into war*

Aemond: I could show you ?

Maelora, smiling, not really wanting to see Aemond fly for the hundredth time that day, but also not wanting to antagonise and make him feel foolish: I would like that very much, brother.

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Maelora, watching as Vhagar makes her descent, thinking, wondering, eyes entirely focused on the beast of Conquest before her, wondering how much of Visenya she retained, after all those years of her rider's death:

Vhagar, not liking the smell and look of death that radiates from the youngest Targaryen, about to burn it away, because what gets rid of the dead, easier than the fire of dragon's? : dracar -

[mondstaub1]

Fanfiction idea hotd Jace/Luke modern

Jace and Luke are not related

Luke is intersex

Basic backround info:

Rhaenyra and Daemon were married form the start but Jacerys and Joffrey have brown hair for their grandmothers side: Arryn

Lucerys is the adpted son of Leanor with bio mum Alys rivers, but Leanor died so he lives with his grandparents in Driftmark

Jacerys is a 22 collage student at Blackwater University (BWU) he studies finances and buisness/ecunomics and is set to inhered the family buisness (Dracares sports) one day but a year ago his grandfather died and the family split appart because his stepgandmother and uncles tied to take over the family buisness. Now both sides try everything to get as much buisnessparners as possible and drive the other side into bankruptcy but the only other possible parter in Driftmark sailing and sea sport (which besides sports goods is the mayor company for both travel and ex-/import to and from blackwater bay, all it's islands and the capital Kingslanding)

Luke is 20 and studies marine biology and finances with a minor in arts and crafts and loves sailing

Work in progress

What do you think?

[teefa85]

So yes! Beat Hero Mode Normal. Debating using Endless as a NG+ affair (yes I know I'd have to do Normal again...I can grind in a few ways along the way since I realized a good Rune I could use was a 50/50 drop that didn't hit for me in one of the Alde Dracare). And because really...if the characters count as recruited, there's a lot less sidequesting to do on NG+ once you have all 120.

But now I've dived right into the world of Eggfoot Racing. I'm hatching till I get Cs or Bs (preferable) from Champion Eggs. The Cs get trained to max and bred to make Bs since I'm using the Cs to grind mid-way supplies from the races so I can further customize my better Eggfoot. The Bs then get 2 easy 750 stat races they can win easily to give a quick stat boost, then move up as they further improve their stats. I've yet to see how far I can take them as I work towards getting them ready to breed for As.

And no, I don't need to know the most efficient way to do this. Mandie and his eternal love of egg puns means that if I have to keep racing and racing and racing like a nerd, I get to at least get a laugh out of it! So even if I get several maxxed out eggies and can't finish so I have to start over, I'm just happy to keep getting to mess around here!

(there will eventually be screens of some of the champs and I'm gonna keep a pictoral view of my Bs and above).

[daegaric]

Os vikings usavam dracares para viajar do Próximo Oriente, como Constantinopla e o rio Volga, na Rússia, até o extremo ocidente, como a Islândia, Groenlândia e Terra Nova, e até o sul de Alandalus. Este período de expansão viking - conhecidos como a "era viking" - constitui uma parte importante da história medieval da Escandinávia, Grã-Bretanha, Irlanda e do resto da Europa em geral.

(https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings)

[cosmedicaclinic]

Transformation after Hair Transplant Surgery

[noconsequencestory]

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[diamondblondestore]

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[thefandomsurvives]

Yep! That’s logic! Sure! *sarcasm*

Robb Stark: Gets betrayed then killed after fighting a war to ensure the North independence. Practically all GoT Fandom: OMG! What a terrible thing! The Lannisters, Freys and Boltons must pay for this! I hate them!

Sansa Stark: Says that she wants to keep the Northern independence that half of her family died for. Practically all D*ny Stans: How dare she? That power hungry bitch deserves to burn for not respecting her bastard*half-brother*turned*Targ*cousin's decision of given her home/freedom away to his lover/aunty! Dracar*s on her!

[emsondraeling]

GoT Episode 8x05: A Super-Long, Edited Edition

Soooo....I read ASoIAF when I was 14-16, because my parents were reading them and Hey Look, They’re Making a Show and It Looks Real Good. Aside from short clips, I didn’t actually watch the series until about season 6. I’ve always enjoyed the dragons and morally complex characters. I’ve liked the rape and latent misogyny quite a lot less. 

I usually try to stay away from particularly “I’m mad at the creators and here’s why they’re canceled” fannish content, partly because I quite literally don’t have time for it and also because I just kind of...think individual interpretations are good as long as we don’t get too entitled about it. Everyone has a version of the story they want to see, and sometimes the best people to tell a story aren’t the ones doing it, and we just sort of have to live/let live/make fic to our heart’s content if we really can’t get behind canon.

ANYWAYS--this has all been to clarify the fact that I’m not just going to be bashing the show runners here, even if I didn’t enjoy the last couple episodes (and sometimes the GoT world as a whole). Plenty of other people are doing that. It’s a hard show to run, to be sure, and I’m not interested in yelling about them online. Instead, I’m more interested in other ways things could have gone in the episode, considering the characters, their arcs, and general themes of the show.

Tl:dr: these are just the things I would have changed about the most recent episode without completely rewriting it, because I have a lot of angry feels about canon and this is a productive way to channel it/exercise my storytelling muscles, while I procrastinate on Real Work.

Beware spoilers and pure wish-fulfillment fantasy below the cut

Varys Gets Toasty

this part I’m actually ok with. Am I sad to see Varys, as a pretty unique and influential character, go? Yes. 

At the same time, he’s...kind of a shitty ‘servant to the people.’ I would have liked to see him called out on that--more explicitly, I’d have liked a Dany Jon Tyrion scene discussing his treason, and pointing out the fact that he jumps ship as soon as a ruler heads in a direction he does not approve of (this would also re-establish complexity in this trifecta of relationships beyond “Scary ruler and the two men who alternatively serve/betray her”). 

Varys has, by his own admission, served the most kings out of anyone--but he keeps trying to play the game, rather than make real change by improving an existing ruler. 

^These are things the show has already pointed out, but I think they need to be re-emphasized. Dany might not be the crown’s best option, but Varys would really jump ship for Jon “Knows Nothing Stop Giving Him Unqualified Leadership Positions” Snow, and that doesn’t help anyone in the realm, imo.

So...Let’s Talk About Missandei

Um. So the bit with the collar was good and symbolic. 

But can someone MENTION her??? Jeeeeeeesus.

Again, a little tweak: have Jon try to bring her up, recognizing the (crazy) amount of loss Dany has suffered over the past few weeks (yeesh). Maybe have Tyrion allude to it as well, in more explicit terms.

More on this later.

The Queen and her Hand

Rather than just a “If you fail me again [it’s hinted that I’ll murder you]” I would have changed this to:

Dany: “I know you’ll find a way to see him. It seems increasingly difficult to keep the surviving Lannisters apart.”

Tyrion, internally: shit.

Dany: “I am running out of allies, Tyrion. Even fewer are the number of people I still have some modicum of faith in.”

Tyrion: double shit. Also, Jaime, you idiot, I finally got you a good gf and you give me this?!

Dany: “I trust that when you return from visiting your brother, I will still be able to count you among those few.”

Tyrion: ?!

Dany: “Do we understand each other?”

Tyrion: “...yes, your Grace.” *insert one of those half-smile things Peter Dinklage does super well* “I shall endeavor not to fail you. Again.”

Dany: “See that you don’t...If you were to fail me, it might be the last time.”

^This would both re-establish their relationship (who else does Dany have in corner?! Seriously?!) and keep the implied threat.

THE SIEGE

(oof, here’s where I really go off the rails)

The Build-Up

Actually pretty good. Not a lot of critique.

Melted Iron Fleet

Have a missile fired by Euron come scarily close to Drogon. Maybe a couple close up shots of Euron all angry and Dany smirking before she roasts the goat.

Bell-Toll

The thing I have the biggest issue with, tbh

Keep Dany on a landed Drogon, having that beautiful crisis of conscience as portrayed by Emilia

But when Drogon takes off again, make it clear she’s made her decision to burn everyone... 

Fire and Blood

...but don’t. (Like, seriously, so many better ways to have her be a mad queen. Logically this didn’t make sense to me. She’s pissed at Cersei, pretty traumatized, very paranoid. This =/= torching King’s Landing.)

Zoom in on Dany’s face. Cut to the flames and burning golden company. 

Closer on Dany’s eyes, then back to the flames. She opens her mouth to say, “Dracar--”

and then we shift to a flashback. Missandei, riding alongside her, smiling gently. Grey Worm looking at her best friend with eyes full of love. Jorah. The Mhysa moment. The Dothraki bowing as she emerges from fire not once, but twice. Missandei again, this time correcting her pronunciation.

Dany’s eyes fill with tears instead of fire. She stops, pulls the dragon around, and soars back over to the outer wall. Away from the Red Keep.

Surrender?

The Bell keeps tolling. More swords are dropped. Jon looks relieved. Except.

Cut to Cersei. Her lip curls at Dany’s retreat.

 “She could have made it so easy,” she tells Pycelle. “Do it.”*

Cut back to Jon. The ground shakes, the air rumbles. Jon looks around in confusion. Drogon isn’t back? So what...?

The building next to them explodes with Wildfire. Daenerys’ forces are shocked, as are Cersei’s. 

More explosions wrack the city--Cersei did not give up every member of the Golden Company to a frontal assault, nor did she use up every reserve of Wildfire--torch-bearing mercenaries set long fuses of oil alight, deep beneath the city.

Age-old structures burn to ruin. Families are incinerated where they cower.

Cersei won’t let Daenerys be queen of anything but ashes.

*(I think it’s ridiculous that Cersei had no backup plan. Really? She already said she doesn’t care much about anything anymore. This includes the common people. She would have them burn anyways--and fire is such a convenient thing to blame on the Dragon Queen)

A Blood-Soaked City

No one knows what’s happening, what with all the confusion and explosions. A panicking Northman runs forward, towards the Lannisters, yelling about betrayal. He’s killed as a Lannister soldier grabs a sword from the abandoned pile.

Grey Worm wastes no time, sending the Unsullied back into the fray. 

Jon yells for the Northmen to stop, but he has no control. No one does.

Similar events as to the show, but besides saving a Landing woman from rape, Jon watches as his men die, as innocent bystanders die, and hears Cersei’s words echoing back: “He will remain in the North where he belongs. He will not take up arms against the Lannisters.”

Cersei releases more members of the Golden Company into the city, where they kill indiscriminantly.

Grey Worm responds with equal ferocity, fighting like something inhuman--even cutting down the common folk that get in his way.

there is a moment where he pauses, sees slaughtered civilians alongside the dead soldiers. He blinks. And then he turns around and keeps killing.

Jon yells for order, for something, for Dany, maybe. It doesn’t matter.

-I might followup with some more ranting, but these were the thoughts off the top of my head that I wanted to release into the universe. Apologies.

[nycroshears]

Week 75- Dracar- pen and coloured pencil

[wolfchic]

I have a small nit-pick about certain pronunciations in House of the Dragon, namely about the names Syrax and Vhagar.

We have heard consistently that the “y” in words and names make an -ee or -ih sound (Rhaen-ee-rah, Viser-ih-s, Rhaen-ees, dracar-ees/-is) but never the -y sound, so to me Sigh-rax 1) doesn’t make any sense and 2) is a continuity issue.

With Vhagar, why is it pronounced Vay-gar? If it was spelled Vhaegar, yes, I could see it pronounced that way, but it looks more similar to Valar (like Valar morghulis) so shouldn’t be pronounced Vah-gar? I’m less sure about this one, just because there’s never been a name spelled Vh- (not that I could find), so maybe the Vh- changes how the -a sounds, but I don’t really see how. The -h in names seems redundant to me because it doesn’t seem to serve a purpose aside from making it look exotic and Valyrian and the same could be said for Vhagar.

I don’t know. Anyone more knowledgeable with languages have any thoughts or insights?