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Hachetfield as reddit sleep talking
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throwing my hat in the ring with my own cunty chilchuck amv that happens to push the slavchuck agenda w a classic russian club banger (and a companion to my yalla senshi amv!)
#L.txt#L.mov#amv#dungeon meshi#chilposting#slavchuck#chilchuck tims#chilchuck#cuntychilchuckamvs4life#song is . mr. saxobeat ๐ by alexandra stan#'how is this pushing the slavic chilchuck agenda?' they played this song LITERALLY every time#ive been to a russian/other post-soviet state restaurant. this is a Formative Diaspora Experienceโข#also jfc it so hard to make him serve. yall have my utmost respect
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All the polls have now ended, and we have the results for tumblr's favourite Musketeers
Congratulations to all the winners, and to the runners up for making it this far
Luke Pasqualino is the Best D'Artagnan
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Tamla Kari is the Best Constance
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Christopher Lee is the Best Rochefort
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Maimie McCoy is the Best Milady de Winter
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Tom Burke is the Best Athos
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Simon Ward is the Best Duke of Buckingham (winning by just 3 votes, the closest result in the whole tournament!)
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Alexandra Dowling is the Best Queen Anne of Austria
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Santiago Cabrera is the Best Aramis
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Howard Charles is the Best Porthos
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Manaki Reika is the Best King Louis XIV
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and Tim Curry is the Best Cardinal Richelieu
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RIP Timothy West (20.10.1934 - 12.11.2024)
"We met when we were cast with small parts in that really boring play, so had both brought the crossword to stop us going mad. We saw each other across the rehearsal room doing it, so decided to sit together. Then we couldnโt record because of the strike one day so we went to the cinema, Pru and I, to see The Grass is Greener with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. The show was cancelled, but a bit later Pru sent me a card saying โtheyโre reviving that terrible play, are you in it?โ I wasnโt but we started writing to each other then."
"Humour is vital, and respect for what people do and what people think. Kindness is important, and weโve always had the same humour, laughed at the same things, been interested in the same things, got cross about the same things. And been in the same business. We have often been away from each other work-wise and therefore weโre always very glad to see each other again."
#timothy west#rip#death ment tw#character actors#brass#bleak house#edward the seventh#big breadwinner hog#the day of the jackal#villains#hine#randall and hopkirk (deceased)#nicholas and alexandra#the fellows#tales of the unexpected#hedda#hard times#cry freedom#not going out#going postal#not just a titan of the english stage and screen (and how few actors can truly say they've risen to the prominence he#achieved in both mediums?) and not just a talented chameleon able to play filthy grotesqueโ noble kindness and cold#arrogance with equal assuredness; not just these thingsโ Tim was also one half of one of the greatest love stories in the history of#the british stage. his more than 60 years with Prunella Scales are almost unheard of in 'showbusiness' tho truthfully they were not a#very showbiz pair. just two good souls who found each other and were gloriously happy together. even in recent years (Tim has been her#primary care giver for more than a decade nowโ since her dementia diagnosis) they somehow seemed to remain upbeatโ hopefulโ and more than#anything in love. my heart honestly breaks for her. i can't even imagine.#anyway. hum. i try to rec something less known with these posts. Tim's ep of The Edwardiansโ as rascally MP (and conman) Horatio#Bottomley is a really lovely thing. and as im sure i must have said at some other timeโ more people need to see the incredible BBH#perhaps the first time i saw the (until thenโ to my eyes) cuddly Tim West as a truly repugnantโ horrific character (he's brilliant)
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Aimeeโs 2024 royal family engagement count: The final results!
Disclaimer; everyoneโs counts will be different, people have different rules to their method of counting the Court Circular. It isnโt a definitive count and is done just for fun ๐
The court circular doesnโt record any work behind the scenes, only public engagements, official meetings and luncheons/dinners. Itโs more a gauge of their public facing roles.
This year has been in no way easy in 2024, with health problems with HM The King and HRH The Princess of Wales, to the concussion accident with HRH The Princess Royal. Everyone banded together and the show went on! I cannot wait to see Catherine return to her duties next year ๐
๐ Princess Anne ๐
This year started off like any other year for the Princess Royal. She was the first royal to get back to work, on the 4th January. She and her husband, Sir Tim, were also the first royals to go on a royal tour in 2024, to Sri Lanka. Once she got back, the BRF as we knew it took a slight turn, the sad health announcements of the King and the Princess of Wales. HRH took it on the chin and did amazingly well, carrying on her royal duties being the true backbone of the British Monarchy.
Another blow to the royal family came in the last week of June. Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Anne suffered concussion after a blow to the head by a horse during a walk around the grounds of her home, Gatcombe Park. She was hospitalised for a week. She returned to work two weeks after her release from hospital, her first engagement back was equestrian related (very on brand imo). Shortly afterwards she left the UK and headed to Paris for the 2024 games, she spent 10 days in Paris attending IOC meetings and watching various games. The rest of the year went smoothly for the Princess Royal. She returned better and stronger than ever and has basically fulfilled her yearly quota of engagement ๐ช
Once again Princess Anne tops the chart as the hardest working royal, completing 437 engagements.
She has done 362 engagements in the UK.
She travelled to 10 different countries this year and did 75 engagements there. ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ซ๐ท๐ซ๐ท๐ณ๐ฑ๐ซ๐ท๐ฎ๐ฒ
Dubbed by some as the unofficial Queen of Scots she did 56 in Scotland. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Out of a total of 40 investiture ceremonies held, Princess Anne held 27 ๐๏ธ
King Charles III
This has been a tough year for King Charles, but he has still managed to pull off a staggering number of engagements! In the second year of his reign King Charles did a grand total of 345
In the UK he did 294 engagements.
He travelled to different countries where he completed โฆ engagements and did 5 full royal tours in Australia and Samoa. He also hosted a state visits for Japan and Qatar at Buckingham Palace. ๐ซ๐ท๐ฏ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐บ๐ผ๐ธ
What is also worth mentioning is that he has Red Boxes that he has to go through every single day, except Christmas Day and Easter Sunday as well as a lot of work behind the scenes.
Out of a total of 40 investiture ceremonies held, King Charles held 5๐๏ธ
Prince Edward, The Duke of Edinburgh
This year the Duke of Edinburgh turned 60 years old and he was bestowed the highest order in Scotland, the Order of the Thistle! He carried on his brilliant work with the Duke of Edinburgh award and travelling to visit international sections of the award. Prince Edward also visited a lot of theatre related organisations and youth centres and charities.
He completed 280 engagements this year and visited 9 countries on solo tours and with his wife. ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐๐๏ธ๐บ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ท๐ฒ๐จ๐ฒ๐น๐ง๐ญ๐ฐ๐ผ
Sophie, The Duchess of Edinburgh
In 2024 Sophie carried on her hard work in areas like womenโs rights in disadvantaged areas, avoidable blindness, hygiene and agriculture. She did marvellous confidential visits to Ukraine and Chad, focusing her attention on womenโs rights and the childrenโs safety of these war torn countries. She also maintained her strong work in the UK by visiting childrenโs charities, meeting mothers and standing for what is right.
She completed 232 engagements this year in the UK and the commonwealth and visited 10 countries on solo tours and with her husband. ๐ซ๐ท๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐น๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐น๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฉ
Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester
The Duke of Gloucester has this year completed 197 engagements in the UK.
He continued his long lasting work in heritage, architecture, the St Johnโs Ambulance and military organisations.
Hopefully next year we will see him do some overseas engagements. ๐ฏ๏ธ
Queen Camilla
In the second year of her husbands reign, Queen Camilla carried out 171 engagements.
She visited 6 countries this year including accompanying her husband on official tours of Australia and Samoa where she did 40 engagements whilst on official tours. ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ท๐ฏ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐บ๐ผ๐ธ
She focused a lot of her engagements this year on sectors close to her heart like womenโs & childrenโs charities, osteoporosis care and animal welfare.
Prince William, The Prince of Wales
This year the Prince of Walesโ engagements slightly reduced due to his wife illnesses, understandably. He continued to carry out his important duties in areas like homelessness, mental health and conservation with Earthshot. In 2024 Prince William carried out 137 engagements in the UK and the Commonwealth.
Prince William travelled to 3 countries (France x2, Germany x3) where he did 21 engagements ๐ซ๐ท๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช
Out of a total of 40 investiture ceremonies held, Prince William held 8๐๏ธ
Birgitte, The Duchess of Gloucester
The Duchess of Gloucester has this year completed 102 engagements in the UK. She continued her long lasting work in sports, the arts (Opera, Ballet, Acting etcโฆ) and accompanying her husband to official engagements.
Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence
Although not an official working royal, Sir Tim often attends as a great support to his wifeโs engagements as well as having his own non-royal patronages and interests. In 2024 he became the Chair of the Science Museum, the new patron of the Oban War and Peace Museum and will become the new President of Kent Cricket Club in January 2025.
He accompanied his wife to a total of 95 engagements, represented her 3 times and remembrance services and accompanied her to 48 engagements abroad in 4 countries. ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ท๐ณ๐ฑ
When we see Sir Tim carry out his own solo engagements, they arenโt included on the Court Circular as heโs not an official working royal, so if they were to be his engagement count would be a lot higher
(Operation working royal Tim) ๐
Prince Edward, The Duke of Kent.
Despite being 89, Prince Edward, the late Queens cousin, has carried out 89 engagements even with his ailing mobility.
He continued his valued hard work with organisations like the RNLI, the Royal Scots Guards and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which he recently passed on the presidency to the Princess Royal.
Catherine, The Princess of Wales
This year has not been easy for the Princess of Wales with her diagnosis, she significantly reduced her schedule and only attended the most important engagements like Trooping the Colour, Remembrance Day, visiting Southport and taking part in the Qatari State Visit. I really do hope that 2025 treats Catherine kindly and we can see her more often, doing what she does best ๐ฅฐ
Hopefully we will see her and the Prince of Wales go on a couple of overseas tours next year now that their children are older.
In 2024 the Princess of Wales carried out 13 engagements.
Princess Alexandra of Kent
Princess Alexandra is more than likely unofficially retired from her royal duties now due to her age, health and ailing mobility.
We have only seen Her Royal Highness twice (once officially) this year, firstly accompanying her daughter Marina, at King Constantineโs service of thanksgiving at Windsor Castle, and secondly attending the Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace.
I hope she is doing well and is taking things slowly. She began her royal duties in the 1950s, so at least 70 years of representing the monarchy. She has truly deserved her retirement and we will miss seeing her at engagements. I hope we will see her occasionally, health permitting of course ๐
In conclusion
This year the British Royal Family completed a grand total of 2099 in the UK and 25 different countries across the world.
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See below for engagements from the past decade and the types of engagements carried out in 2024
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#aimeeโs 2025 engagement count 2024#please take everything with a pinch of salt#that goes for any other count you see#i donโt think theyโll ever be 100% accurate#if you wish to see my whole spreadsheet then drop me a message ๐#court circular#king charles iii#queen camilla#william prince of wales#catherine princess of wales#prince edward duke of edinburgh#sophie duchess of edinburgh#princess anne#princess royal#tim laurence#timothy laurence#prince richard duke of gloucester#birgitte duchess of gloucester#prince edward duke of kent#princess alexandra of kent
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We Like, Are Totally Spies
When we think about shows that will appeal to boys. Action is the easiest to relate. Something like; Ben 10, American Dragon Jake Long, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Justice League will be on the list. It has drama, it has fights and it's cool!
However, there has been a movement in that era where specific cartoon shows aim to get girls into action. Kim Possible, Juniper Lee, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and The Winx Club are perfect examples of such shows.
There is an odd case for more girl-centric shows. Something about the need to balance femininity with action. The show needs to feel like an action that happens to have the main characters be girls. This is where today's topic comes in. We're talking about how;
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- How's the Mission, Spies? -
< Totally Spies > by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel follows three teens; Sam, Clover and Alex from Beverly Hills living a secret life being Super Spies for WOOHP (World Organization Of Human Protection) under their boss; Jerry Lewis.
Their missions involve travelling the world. Fighting mad scientists and twisted outcasts who seek to dominate the world with style and gadgets that conceal themselves as fashionable equipment.
The trio plays specific archetypes. Sam (green) is the brains, Clover (red) is the fashionista/ boy obsessive and Alex (yellow) is the athlete and occasional nerd. Despite their differences, they share several common interests such as their love for shopping and spy skills of agility, hand-to-hand combat and espionage.
Across six seasons, the girls matured from high school to university students. Confronting the daily struggles of homework, social lives and their petty arch-enemy, Mandy.
As a vibe, < Totally Spies > fully leans into the Beverly Hills lifestyle of fabulous fashion and some familiar pop culture names of that era. The show has a mix of the James Bond type of super spy world filled with dull henchmen, high-tech machines and some tacky villains.
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The episodes are condensed into their own episode. Although there have been some arcs that follow specific villains who have a bit of history with the main characters.
Tim Scam is a former agent who went rogue against WOOHP and Terrence Lewis; twin brother to Jerry and a sore thumb to WOOHP. There also reoccurring allies as well. Brittney (cyan) who joined the team as a trainee, Dean from the three-part series < Evil Promotion Much? > and Blaine a freelance agent who dated Clover.
The conflicts, if we can even call them conflicts at all have aged rather strangely. Some of the villains commit petty crimes like kidnapping celebrities due to jealousy or act extreme. Like being anti-consumerist with the solution of destroying malls.
Yet, some are still relatable to this day such as a kid villain who is mad at his father for being busy as a commentary on how parental neglect can cause warped ideas in a child. Whatever, it's a pre-teen show. Let's not look into it too deeply.
The world of Totally Spies is also interconnected with several other shows; [The Amazing Spiez] and [Martin Mystery].
< Martin Mystery > follows Martin, a paranormal investigator for the Center with Martin's step-sister, Diana Lombard and Java the Caveman. Fighting monsters, urban legends and aliens.
According to a special crossover episode. Martin's boss; M.O.M (Mystery Organization Manager) and Jerry know each other. Likewise, in Amazing Spiez; Jerry is also the boss of the Clark siblings. Lee, Marc, Megan and Tony. Sadly, these shows were short-lived and cancelled.
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It does raise an interesting point. Why is Totally Spies more popular? As a guess, I think it's because the chemistry between the characters is a lot more interesting and fun.
The three girls are best of friends and while they sometimes bicker over boys, responsibilities and opinions. They will always put their friendship and mission first above all else. It feels more real, in a superficial way.
That an actual girl would have a girlfriend group this tight-knit and if they ever become a part of something bigger than them. They would do it together.
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Tacky villains, cute super spy girlfriends and awesome gadgets aside. The show has a few good jokes here and there. Its art style borrows a lot from Anime and its colors are groovy to the eyes.
For a show that was meant to attract girls into action. The show has also garnered a large following from boys as well. I think another secret to the success of < Totally Spies > can also be because of its approach to the subject. Like I said in my introduction.
There is an odd case for more girl-centric shows. Something about the need to balance femininity with action. The show needs to feel like an action that happens to have the main characters be girls.
This show is a girl's show. The girls are unapologetic being girly. Doing girl things like shopping, manicure, dating and going on dream vacations but with their secret life as spies. The show balances it out with good action and is still using that girly theme to add to its gadgets.
Heck, some of the gadgets are stuff that I would personally want to have. The Jet Pack backpack, The Wind Tunnel 3000 Tornado Blast Hair Dryer, Lazer lipstick and the Compowder are on my list. Especially with its costume change function.
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It's a show that embraces both ends of the spectrum and allows it to show its respective strengths rather than shy away from the themes. With the announcement that this show is going to have a season 7/ soft reboot. It does look promising with several concerns.
But I am hopeful that for a beloved show such as this. The girls will have a proper return and inspire a new generation of girls (and boys) to be < Totally Spies >
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#totally spies#samantha simpson#Clover Ewing#Alexandra Casoy#jerry lewis#martin mystery#diana lombard#java the caveman#M.O.M#the amazing spiez#spiez nouvelle generation#spies#super spies#tim scam#Britney#Brittney Akiwara#sam#clover#alex#WOOHP#world organization of human protection#marathon media#Blaine#dean
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Princess Anne being a cute little dork as she attends Christmas Day Church, on 25 December 1988.
#she's such a dork#lmao#i love her sm#she's so funny#TIM BEHIND#princess anne#princess royal#prince edward#princess margaret#princess alexandra#tim laurence#timothy laurence#peter phillips#brf#british royal family#my gifs
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Next Thursday, it will have been three years since No More Lies first went to air on the ABC. Itโs a funny feeling, seeing all these Season One episodes reach their third year anniversaries, as I have such strong vivid memories of watching this show as it first aired, whilst we were in lockdown. It truly doesnโt feel like that long ago, but according to time and mathematics, it is.
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No More Lies really did strike a nerve. Itโs brilliantly brave and searing storytelling around the plight of HIV and AIDS affected people and how the media represented - or rather, misrepresented - their stories and circumstances. This is why I love The Newsreader so dearly. It hasnโt portrayed the 1980s through rose-coloured glasses, and has sought to elevate the stories and perspectives that were either misrepresented or not represented at all during the time. It also demonstrates how easy it is to fall for misinformation, and I genuinely believe that this episode is a great lesson in media literacy. The whole show itself, but in particular this episode, should be used in schools and universities.
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A part of my paternal family history is my Dadโs younger brother, who was a young gay man who contracted HIV during the 1990s. This was the decade in which medical treatment and antiretroviral therapies became available to significantly prolong the progression of the virus to AIDS in HIV-affected patients. He was thankfully able to benefit from these therapies and medications, which bought him two decades of life, longer than our Russ and Caroline would have lived for.
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We sadly lost my paternal uncle Christmas 2012, when he was only forty years old. Through watching this episode with my Dad, it gave me the courage and the instigator for a discussion about my uncleโs condition, how people responded to it, and how it impacted his life. Iโll forever be grateful to No More Lies, and especially to Michael Lucas and Kim Ho, for giving me the opportunity to have this discussion with my Dad, which I had been hesitant to have for at that point nine years. Never underestimate the power of good media and the conversations and connections it can bring about. ๐๐
#dale jennings#sam reid#murray gallagher#john leary#helen norville#anna torv#noelene kim#michelle lim davidson#adam lindell#tim draxl#russ the newsreader#geoff walters#robert taylor#rob rickards#stephen peacocke#caroline gibson#alexandra schepisi#the newsreader#nas1986 s1 story a day
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These moments totally happened at the GOP primary debate
WaPo satirist Alexandra Petri add her spin on the Republican primary debate. This is a gift ๐ link so that those who do not subscribe to The Washington Post can read the entire article. Below are some excerpts. Enjoy! ๐
If you said, โWould you like to watchย Ron DeSantis,ย Vivek Ramaswamy,ย Nikki Haley,ย Tim Scott,ย Doug Burgum,ย Mike Pence,ย Asa Hutchinsonย andย Chris Christieย talk to each other for two hours?ย FYI, the place where theyโll do so is hotter than Beelzebubโs armpit!,โ I would have said, โNo, thank you.โ But if you said, โThe alternative isย watching Donald Trump talk to Tucker Carlsonย on the website formerly known as Twitter,โ I would say, โI canโt wait to hear what Ron, Vivek, Nikki, Tim, Doug, Mike, Asa and Chris have to say!โ [...] Here is approximately how it went. Bret Baier:ย Hello. We have brought a bell just because we enjoy the sound of a bell. Martha MacCallum:ย Feel free to speak over it; it will give the evening a fun, musical vibe. Baier:ย Yes, and speaking of music, candidates, the number one song in America is something called โRich Men North of Richmondโ! Governor DeSantis, introduce yourself by providing a close reading of the subtle lyrics of this song. DeSantis:ย Hang on, first I have some prepared remarks! Joe Bidenโs basement! Hunter Bidenโs paintings! โRich Men North of Richmondโ! Taxes! Florida! Baier:ย Chris Christie, why would you be better as president? Christie:ย Bret, I have spent the last four years sailing around sharpening my traffic-cone harpoon for my hated foe (from hellโs heart I spit my last breath at him!), and the one question I did not expect was about a scenario where I could actually become president. Uh, I was governor of New Jersey? So, take that for what itโs worth.
[See more under the cut.]
Scott:ย I have come to this debate with some specific numbers at my fingertips! I was told everyone would be excited about specific numbers! If not, I would really like those hours back. Ramaswamy:ย Hello! You may be wondering, who is this skinny guy with a funny name? Iโm not a politician who is going to offer you a series of prepared, meaningless platitudes. Iโm a businessman with no political experience who is going to offer you a series of prepared, meaningless platitudes. Isnโt it time we stopped running away from things and started runningย towardย things? I am notย running for presidentย so much as I am running for the title of Favorite Grandson of your Fox News grandmother. Have you ever considered that people donโt love God anymore? [...] Pence:ย Hello! I am here to recite scripture and keep referring to the Trump-Pence administration, and Iโm all out of scripture. That was some Mike Pence humor; I will never be out of scripture! I am unquestionably the best-prepared person in this race, the single individual with the experience that is closest to being the president, with no exceptions that spring to mind. I have been in the hallway. I have been in the White House. Do you like what my administration did with the Supreme Court? [...] Ramaswamy:ย You think now is the time for incremental reform. I think it is the time for actual revolution. Pence:ย Good Lord, no thank you. I do not have any revolutionary proposals. I believe in mild, small, incremental change. Except for a nationwide 15-week ban onย abortion, which I want to implement because I promised it to God. Haley:ย Letโs be realistic! Women hate hearing this. Letโs just admit that it will never happen. But weโre all going to say we want it to happen! But, ladies, itโs not going to happen. [...] Young Person:ย Please tell me that anyone on this stage believes in climate change, the only issue I care about because I anticipate living on this planet for at least 60 years. I am starting to get worried. Can we have a show of hands? DeSantis:ย No! We are not schoolchildren! We will not raise our hands or acknowledge the existence of science! Ramaswamy:ย As the only one on this stage who is not bought and paid for, I have a thought. Christie:ย I have had enough of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT and stole his opening gambitย from Barack Obama. I came here to bludgeon Donald Trump verbally, but Trump is not here and I have a lot of verbal bludgeoning built up. [...] Baier:ย Why do we have homelessness, drugs and crime? Pence:ย Because Democrats talked about defunding the police, and everyone knows that if you say โDefund the police!โ into a mirror three times, crime appears. Itโs just science, or, as Governor DeSantis and I prefer, religion. Christie:ย I disagree. Crime went up because Hunter Biden did it.
Please use the gift link above to read the rest of Petri's cutting satire.
Just one thing I would like to comment on though. I grew up in NJ... BEYOND the exits on the Turnpike. Why does there always have to be a NJ joke?๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธThere really are nice parts of NJ. Really. I mean it. ๐
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#gop primary debate#republicans#ron desantis#chris christie#nikki haley#mike pence#vivek ramaswamy#asa hutchinson#tim scott#doug burgum#satire#alexandra petri#the washington post#gift link
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Princess Anne, Sir Tim Laurence and other members of the British Royal Family attending the Thanksgiving Service for King Constantine of Greece at St George's Chapel on 27 February 2024
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30 April 2003 Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy and Commodore Timothy Laurence with Queen Elizabeth II during a Reception at St. James's Palace for the Association of Royal Yachtsmen. ยฉ ITN
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The Working Royals of the British Royal Family: A Series
A working royal is a member of the Royal Family who represents the King at official engagements. At the moment, there are eleven working members of the royal family. Of those, seven are over the age of 70 and two are close to 90.
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Valentรญa: Extreme Aggressor
Season One Masterlist
Previous: Prologue Part Two
Next: Compulsion
Summary: SSA Jason Gideon is called in from his six month medical leave to return to the BAU to go to Seattle to profile a rapist and killer and save his latest victim after she goes missing.
Warning: Typical Criminal Minds warnings; UnSub is a rapist-killer; References to rape; References to murder; Descriptions of PTSD; Mention of real-life serial killer, Countess Elizabeth Bรกthory; "Supernatural" References
โPTSD: Itโs not the person refusing to let go of the past, but the past refusing to let go of the person.โ
September 21, 2005
"Zoe Valdez", as she was known around the office, wrote in her crime book, writing her own profile on the killer of Countess Elizabeth Bรกthory when her phone rang.
"Hello..." She mumbled.
"We have a case and we need Gideon."
Zoe fell off the couch, "Gideon's coming back?" She grinned.
"Don't worry, he knows how you want to be known around the office."
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BAU โ Behavior Analysis Training
FBI, Quantico, Virginia
One of the founders of the BAU, Jason Gideon, six months after leaving the BAU on medical leave, was teaching a class of those who may be FBI agents one day.
He clicked through the faces of the victims of the recently caught Footpath Killer (as of six and a half months ago), the victims were always the least known part of serial killer stories
"Anyone recognize these faces?" Gideon asked.
"Victims of the Footpath Killer." A student answered.
"That's what Virginia newspapers are calling him. We refer to him as the Unknown Subject or Unsub. I told Virginia P.D. they're looking for a white male in his twenties, who owns an American made truck in disrepair. Works a menial job. I told 'em, when you find him, don't be surprised if he speaks with a severe stutter." He explained.
A girl raised her pencil-holding hand and voiced, "Not to sound skeptical, but come on... a stutter?"
"Where'd the murders occur?" Gideon asked and realization slowly occurred to the girl as he continued to explain what a young genius he had known since birth had suggested, "Hiking paths. Isolated. If I'm a killer who has to use an immediate application of overpowering force, even out in the middle of nowhere, I lack confidence. I can't charm them into my car like Ted Bundy did. I can't because I am ashamed of something."
Gideon's serial killer class was interrupted when a quite pretty twenty-three-year-old boy with gelled down brown hair and brown-hazel eyes, held up a case file and tapped it. Gideon's protege, Doctor Spencer Reid, the smartest guy Gideon had ever met.
"Excuse me." He told the class and walked out with Spencer, "They're calling him the 'Seattle Strangler'. Four victims in four months. He keeps 'em alive seven days. The handle serves as a crank." He and Gideon looked at a photo of a recent victim.
"Allowing him to control the rate of suffocation." Gideon deduced.
"To prolong it?" Spencer asked.
"To enjoy it." Gideon corrected, "Seattle's hit a wall?"
"Physical evidence is nonexistent. There are no tangible leads."
"And another girl is missing." Gideon said and he entered an office, looking over the case, "I looked the case file over. I'll get some thoughts to you ASAP."
Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner and Derek Morgan entered with the former saying, "you're gonna be with us in Seattle ASAP."
Gideon looked up at the man who now held his former job title of Unit Chief and he took off his glasses.
Morgan held out a picture of a young girl with red hair, "Twenty-two-year-old Heather Woodland."
"Before she left for lunch, she downloaded an email with a time-delayed virus attached. The killer's virus wiped her hard drive and left this on the screen." Hotch said and handed Gideon a printed screenshot with a familiar messy colored hand-writing at the bottom.
"For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself."
ย The hand written note scrawled out the words: William Heirens (Lipstick Killer) December 10, 1945, the second victim, Frances Brown's apartment.
"Uh, Valdez, the new girl that Hotch hired wrote that." Spencer said, gesturing.
Gideon looked at Hotch and knew that meant Zoe.
"He never keeps them for more than seven days which means we have fewer than thirty-six hours to find her." Hotch said.
"They want you back in the saddle. You ready?" Morgan asked.
"Looks like medical leave's over, boss." Spencer said.
"They sure, they want me? You guys have Alexander andโฆ Valdez." He, like Hotch, knew Zoeโs real identity as Alexanderโs daughter, having been the second person to hold her after the stressful event that was her birth.
They all looked at him, they all knew, Alexander... well, he was about as crazy as the UnSubs they caught.
"The order came from the director." Hotch nodded
Gideon turned, dramatically, "Then we'd better get started."
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Gideon got out of the car with his go bag and walked towards the BAU jet as Alexander, a forty-year-old man with messy brown hair, stuck his head out, "Ah, Jason. Welcome back."
"Alexander."
Gideon entered the jet to see what he should've expected, Zoe Noble-Valdez had notes all around her and stuck on the walls and there were several stuck in her hair that was streaked with light green and headphones over her ears.
"Of course." Gideon said as Zoe wrote rapidly, having always been an over-achiever due to her brilliant mind and constant need to be doing something especially in the past four years.
Spencer, Morgan, and Hotch got on the jet.
"Jason Gideon, meet our newest recruit, Doctor Zoe Valdez." It hurt the father, only referring to his daughter by his late girlfriend's name but this was what Zoe wanted.
"Zoe." Spencer said, passing her and pulling her headphones off, letting the distant sound of her audiobook be heard.
Zoe looked up, pausing the audiobook and smiled, widely.
"SSA Jason Gideon, nice to see you again." She said, acting as if he hadn't known her since before she was born, as if he hadn't mentored and worked with her mother.
"You know, Agent Valdez." He said, playing along and shaking her hand.
"You two have already met?" Morgan asked.
Zoe looked at him, keeping her cool and said, "Yes." She sat back down, "That is technically true."
Truth was Gideon was like a second father to her along with retired Agent David Rossi but Gideon had more of a healthy idea on what's appropriate to read to a three-year-old child before bed rather than a grisly unsolved crime case as Rossi had gotten bored of children books with no twists or plots and Zoe had annoyed Alexander into doing it.
"How did you get all this done? We were gone for half an hour." Morgan said.
"It's not my fault that you're ordinary and your thoughts go at a normal speed." She smiled.
"How's she doing so far?" Gideon asked Hotch and Alexander.
"Pretty good for a nineteen-year-old." Hotch admitted, "Other than her being, reckless, rebellious, a little violent, refuses to oblige the dress code. Pretty much everything I predicted.โ
"Pretty good? My angel is the best agent since her mother." Alexander whispered, proudly as he watched Zoe and Spencer compare notes.
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"His first victim was twenty-six-year-old Melissa Kirsh." Zoe said, "Stab wounds. Strangulation."
ย โWait, wait. Back up. Back up.โ Morgan interrupted the young medical doctor.
Holding his hands out in front of him, stopping her from continuing.
โHe stabbed her, and then he strangled her to finish her off?โ
โNo.โ Zoe deadpanned.
โOther way around.โ Gideon corrected and he turned to his two proteges, "Why do you think he started using the belt with the second murder?"
โStrangulation with your bare hands is not as easy as one would believe.โ Zoe said, "About four-point-four to eleven pounds of pressure."
"He tried, probably realized it took too long..." Spencer speculated.
"So he stabbed her instead." Morgan finished.
โAnd realized it would be hours cleaning up the blood.โ Hotch said.
โNext time, our boyโs got a methodโthe belt.โ Derek said.
โHeโs learning, perfecting his scenario. He's learning from his mistakes like the Reaper," Hotch shifted and Alexander flinched, giving Zoe an unreadable glance, "did when his call to 911 actually led to his only surviving victim's survival.โ Zoe said, โbecoming a better killer.ย
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They arrived at the FBI Northwest Field Office in Seattle, Washington. They were held back due to Zoe having more weapons than most would think possible on her person at the security check.
"What's wrong with you? Why do you have so many weapons?" Morgan asked as Zoe finally made it through and looked at him.
He never stands with his back to a window and was reholstering most of her weapons. She looked at Morgan with a guarded look in her eyes, "My dad was an overprotective and paranoid guy." She said, vaguely. She never said much about her parents but plenty about her terrifying family which seemed to mostly consist of badass women and valued a variety of Zoe's attributes and feminism.
Zoe walked with Morgan and Spencer when Morgan nudged the older genius, "He never stands with his back to the window. When I was between him and a doorway, he asked me to move."
"That's hyper vigilance. It's not uncommon in post traumatic stress disorder.
"Also paranoia; trust issues; vivid flashbacks; intrusive thoughts and/or images; nightmares; intense distress; physical sensations such as pain, sweating, nausea, or trembling. There's also categories of the different types of symptoms and the symptoms those symptoms have."
"I know what symptoms PTSD causes, Zoe!" Morgan snapped.
"I don't think you do. You most likely had been ignoring yours for years, more than a decade I bet." She said, blankly.
"Don't profile me." Morgan pointed a finger at Zoe who looked at him with a bored deadpan expression. "Just how much disorder are we talking about?"
"Morgan, it's been six months." Hotch said, "Everything's okay."
"Yeah, fuck off, Morgan." Zoe said.
"That's not what I said." Hotch said.
"Essentially it was." She said and Hotch just continued onwards with Spencer, being painfully awkward. โJust because you ignored the trauma your past caused you, doesn't mean Gideon will heal just as quickly." Zoe said.
Morgan was trained not to react when surprised but being off-guard, his eyes widened only briefly before his face went back to neutral but with panic, confusion, and mild curiosity in his eyes. "What trauma?" He asked, defensively which only further confirmed her profile she had unwilling been making over the past six months.
"You're guarded, unwilling to trust that peopleโve got your back as well as you've got yours, and protective. You grew up with an absent father and given that he was a officer too, it's likely he was killed in the line of duty. Your compassion for the wounded tells me that maybe you witnessed it. And I'm sorry for that. You were then betrayed by a father issue not too long after." Zoe said and she noticed Morgan stiffen in fear and anger for said father figure and the idea of this nineteen-year-old that he wasn't sure if he fully trusted yet finding out, "I can't quite and am unwilling to deduce the specifics because that's personal and I am already overstepping, I'm aware of that. But you got out and you moved on to make sure that as few people as possible experience what you did." Zoe said with absolutely no effort whatsoever. "Not many people are that strong. They let it control their life. Not you though. Not only did you get out but you're making a difference."
She gave him a hesitant, small smile that only lasted about a second or two with a semi-warmth to it which was more than he had gotten from her in six months and then she walked after Hotch and Spencer.
Alexander walked past Morgan, pretending to have not heard anything with a small, proud smile on his face for his daughter's kindness, even if she tried to hide it.ย
Hotch introduced the team as they walked, "This is special agent Gideon, special agent Morgan, our expert on obsessional crimes, special agent Noble, special agent Reid..."
"Doctor Reid." Gideon and Alexander corrected.
Doctor Reid, our expert on well, everything, and special agentโDoctor Valdez, our expert on missing persons and medical knowledge and pretty much everything Reid may not know. And after two years busting my butt in this office, I hope you all remember me."
And people laughed. His systems must've malfunctioned.
They looked at the murder board and Gideon observed, "He's willing to travel with the body."
"Then he drives a vehicle capable of concealing one." Hotch added.
"One in seven-point-four drivers in Seattle own an SUV." Spencer reasoned.
"Explorer with tinted windows." Morgan suggested.
"Explorers rate higher with women."ย
But how do we know it's his car?" Morgan asked.
ย Ted Bundy drove a VW Bug."
"A what?" Zoe asked. She was more of a motorcycle girl than a car girl. She had a ย Marine Turbine Technology Y2K motorcycle that she had modified, it went above the average speed of one and was silent due to her modifications, she rode it when they were racing to an UnSubโs location and was usually able to stall or even take down the UnSub.
"Volswagen Beetle." Alexander clarified as Zoe, despite being such a tomboy she considered herself to count as a boy in the boy's club of the team (apart from J.J. and Penelope Garcia, the latter rarely ever traveling with them).
"What about a Jeep Cherokee?
"Jeeps are more masculine." Reid said.
"Yeah, doesn't mean he has one." Zoe said.
"We all know how an unsub feels about asserting his masculinity." Alexander said.
"That's a good point." Zoe muttered before turning to the closest detective, "Most male rapists are insecure about their masculinity and feel the need to assert their dominance as men over womenโthey also tend to have insulting and distorted views on womenโor feel the need to be reassured in their masculinity by raping women, because men are the worst, meaning their insecurities are often present in their behavior."
Zoe raised her eyebrows as if asking anyone to question her but no one dared do so.
"When did the bureau become involved in the case?" Hotch said, ignoring her.
"After the fourth body." The ASAC (Assistant Special Agent in Charge) said.
"Sondra Watts, taken August sixth, killed and dumped August thirteenth." Zoe said, humanizing the deceased victim as she tended to do.
"He dumped that one out of state.โ
"On purpose." Hotch added.
"If so, knowledge of law enforcement does suggest a criminal record.โ
"Or that he watches television."
"Television usually is widely inaccurate and is based on assumptions and beliefs caused by television. He'd have slipped up by now. Maybe he's law enforcement..." Zoe mused.
"Are you accusing the local police?" Someone asked accusingly.
"There are other law enforcement jobs than police, you know." Alexander snapped, barely restraining himself. How dare someone speak to his little girl like that.
Zoe gave her father a side look and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, or maybe he's associated with law enforcement but not necessarily law enforcement." Zoe suggested.
"Like a prison guard or something." Alexander said with a bitter undertone.
"May I?" Morgan asked.
"So you wanna see our suspect list?" The ASAC asked.
"No, we won't look at a suspect list until after we come up with a profile. It keeps our perspective unbiased." Hotch explained.
"When do we sit down with your task force?" Gideon asked.
"Four o'clock." Another agent said.
โAn accurate profile by four o'clock today?" Morgan asked.
"That's not a problem." Gideon said and walked to another board.
"Agent Gideon, where would you like to start?" Hotch asked, still used to taking orders from him.
Gideon pointed at a picture, "Let's start at the site of the last murder."
"Do we have a list of those Heather Woodland is related and close to?" Zoe asked.
"Yes," A detective said and produced a list.
Zoe looked over it, "David Woodland, who's that?"
"Her brother. He was the one to report her missing. He's at her house, watching her dog."
"Alright, I'm going to go interview the brother." Zoe declared.
"Uh, not alone you're not!" Alexander scolded, with more emotion than a supervisor would to a new agent. Zoe turned around and gave him a deadpan look that only someone who knew her longer than six months could detect the hint of a glare she was giving him like, don't fucking treat me like a child. I'm a big girl, Dad. โYouโre around the same age as the victims.โ
โI can take care of myself.โ Zoe said, stubbornly.
"Reid and I'll go with her." Hotch said before Alexander did any more damage to Zoe's request that their relationship as father and daughter remain secret for now.
"As long as he doesn't drive." Zoe said, jabbing her thumb at Spencer.
"Deal." Hotch agreed in his usual deadpan, walking past her.
"What's wrong with the way I drive?" Spencer asked, genuinely.
Morgan made a sound between a scoff of disbelief and a snort of amusement.
"Because you drive like a grandma." Zoe quipped, "Come on, Boy Genius."
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At the dumping site, Gideon walked off, observing the crime scene as an officer asked the group, consisting of other officers, Morgan, and Alexander, "so that's Gideon? The Gideon. The one who caught that guy, Adrian Baal, in Boston.
"Yep. That's him. But catching him cost us six agents." Morgan said.
"Gideon, he... he's always been haunted by those he can't save so that hit him pretty hard." Alexander said.
"You co-founded the BAU with him, right?"
"Yeah."
"You, him, and that famous writer, Rossi, and someone else. A woman."
"Zelena." Alexander said, "yeah."
"Didn't you marry her or something?"
"No. No. We never married. Never had the chance. I fell in love with her immediately... when she judo-flipped me. then straddled me, and pressed her forearm against my throat. She took a while, given my... my Bipolar and ADHD but she did and in January of 1985, we learned she was pregnant, then found out it was twinsโboth girls..."ย
For a lot of fathers, the day of their child's birth are the happiest days of their lives, even better than their wedding days. Alexander's father didn't see that for Alexander or his younger sister. Alexander's oldest twin daughter, Zarah had been born normally but then... the job really did wreak havoc on his life and Zoe had been born with a number of complications from the circumstances to her health.
"How are they?"
"Oh, they're-they're good.โ Alexander mumbled, knowing only where one was as he walked out where Gideon was.
"Twenty-two-year-old Anne Cushing was found right here. Nails clipped just like the others." Alexander said and handed Gideon a picture, "He wants them to fight back."
"But not enough to hurt him. And he left the belt around her neck." Gideon stated as Morgan joined them, "He's probably in his early twenties."
"What's your reasoning?" Morgan asked.ย
"Youthful arrogance." Was all Gideon said as according to Zoe applied to Morgan.
Morgan sighed, "He clothed the body before dumping it."ย
"That's a sign of remorse." Gideon said.
"It's not consistent. Look where we are. His opinion of women is pretty clear, don't you think?" Morgan opinionized.
"They're disposable." Alexander scowled, every time the killer's M.O. was even vaguely associated with his girlsโhe couldn't help but fear and imagine that they were the next victim. Zoe was technically half-Caucasian-Scottish but also half Hispanic but that didn't matter to a single parent of two girls both with childhoods filled with trauma and danger.
"Why show remorse by taking the time to dress her but then dump her here?" Morgan asked.
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Hotch, Spencer, and Zoe were in Heather Woodland's house, let in by her brother, David.
Heather's labrador barked up at Spencer who flinched back.
"Sandy, no, no, no." David scolded the dog and apologized to the agents, "I'm so sorry."ย
"No, it's okay. It's what we call the Reid effect. Happens with children, too." Zoe snarked, Spencer gave her an unamused look.
"I'm Agent Hotchner. This is special agent Doctor Reid and this is special agent Valdez."ย
"You both look too young to have gone to medical school." David noted.
"They're PhD's. Three of them." Spencer replied.
"Are you a genius or something?" David asked.ย
"I-I-I don't believe that intelligence can be accurately quantifiedโbut I do have an I.Q. of one-eighty-seven and an eidetic memory and can read twenty thousand words per minute." Spencer said and David stared at him, โYes, I'm a genius.โ
"Actually, I'm the medical doctor." Zoe said as she wandered around the room.
"Are you a genius too?" David asked and triggered Zoe to go on an absent-minded unintentional brag.
"Well, I never took an official IQ test because I believe tests are bias towards only two kinds of intelligences but it's been estimated to be quite high as I have an auditory memory, I finished high school when I was sixteen, could've done so when I was nine or ten but... circumstances. I was seventeen when I finished medical school." Zoe babbled.
"Seventeen?"
"Yeah, I started getting college degrees when I was six, technically graduated from Princeton, Yale, CalTech, MIT, etc. before age twelve."
"How many degrees do you have?"
"Twenty-four."
"How old are you?"
"Nineteen. I turn twenty next month.โ
โButโhow-howโฆโ
โI was fully able to comprehend basic language and things like death before six months old, I was fluent in Spanish and English by twelve months. I started taking college classes along with normal kindergarten classes at age five..."
"Zoe, you're doing it again." Hotch interrupted.
"Oh." Zoe blushed, "I'm sorry. I'm ADHD and Cyclothymic, mildly Bipolar, I tend to get distracted and it's a bit difficult to filter my constant thoughts. Uh, May I?" Zoe asked, referring to Sandy.
"Oh, yeah." David nodded.
Zoe crouched down and petted the dog, "You know my family back in Mexico breed Xoloitzcuintle dogs.โ
โIs that a breed?โ
โYeah, theyโre the national dog of Mexico.โ
โI thought that was chihuahuas.โ
Zoe ignored this comment. โXoloitzcuintle are rare nowadays and Mexicans believe they have spiritual abilities.โ She went back to petting Sandy, โSandy, you get a lot of attention, don't you?"
"Yeah, Heather loves this dog. I feed her when Heather's away. Usually, she's fine, but lately, she won't eat. It's almost like she can sense something's wrong." David worried.
"Not sense. Smell. Our apocrine sweat gland releases secretions in response to emotional stress." Spencer explained.
"Uh, translation: Sandy's worried because she knows you are." Zoe said, standing up.
"David, does your sister drive a Datsun Z?" Spencer asked.
"No, but she's in the market for one. How'd you know?" David asked and Spencer showed him a magazine displaying that car, then Sandy barked, "Come on, Sandy." He took Sandy out.
Hotch and Zoe joined Spencer, "There's an immediate relationship established between a buyer and a seller, a level of trust. If I want to coax a young woman into my car..."ย Spencer theorized.
"Offer her a test drive." Zoe finished, "That's really smart, Spence."
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Back at the field office, Morgan was pacing, Spencer and Zoe were spinning in their swivel chairs as Zoe sucked on an apple-flavored dum-dum.
"Okay, then how about the fact that on one hand, we have paranoid psychosis... but the autopsy protocol says what?" Morgan asked.
"Adhesive residue shows he put layer after layer of duct tape over his victims' eyes." Zoe recited after pulling the dum-dum out of her mouth with a pop!
"He knows he wants to kill them, but he still covers their eyes. He doesn't want 'em looking at him, apparently. Okay, but then he takes the body and dumps it right out in the open, murder weapon nearby."ย
Zoe turned to Gideon, noting his tense posture and being ADHD, she had hypersensitivity, also known as being a "highly sensitive person" (HSP), which meant she was more empathetic than the average neurotypical person and being raised around profilers plus her own studying and intuition meant she could pick up on what others didnโt and completely missed what everyone else did.
"Not the M.O. of a paranoid convinced he's being watched or surveilled." Spencer said. Twelve minutes in and we're already foreshadowing.
"Paranoid psychosis, but behavior that's not paranoid." Morgan argued.
"Maybe he's schizophrenic." Hotch asked.
"Gideon?" Zoe asked but got no response, "Gideon?"
"Maybe we just don't have enough for a complete profile." Morgan said, pessimistically, as always.
"We have enough to narrow our list of suspects." Hotch said. "You know, we're looking at less than twelve hours to find this woman. We don't know exactly what..."
"Hotch, we don't know anything!" Morgan shouted.
"Gideon!?" Zoe said, loudly.
"All right, enough." Gideon said, quieting the room and Zoe put the dum-dum back into her mouth and started to half spin her chair before using her feet to make her go the other way, never fully spinning around. "Let's tell them we're ready." Then he walked off as Alexander entered with the coffee (and in Zoe's case highly caffeinated Mexican hot chocolate) orders.
"We're ready?" Morgan asked in disbelief as Alexander placed the cup holder tray on the tableโZoe and Spencer taking their respective cups at onceโand Alexander followed Hotch after Gideon.
Zoe took a big sip of her hot chocolate and then leaned onto the table to write down a copy of the profile they never really discussed.
"Reid. Zoe. You're good with this? We've got a woman who's only got a few hours left to live, an incomplete profile, and a unit chief on the verge of a nervous breakdown." Morgan complained.
Gideon came in and picked up something as he said the same thing as Zoe, "They don't call them nervous breakdowns anymore."
"Grandma Morgan." Zoe had added, snarkily as Gideon left.
"It's called a major depressive episode." Spencer said, getting back to writing.
"I know, Reid." Morgan snapped.
"Are you sure? Do you know what year it is, gramps?"
"Okay." Morgan said and walked out.
Zoeโs phone rang and she saw her caller ID, reading, MD.
She brought the phone up to her ear as she spoke to her friend, โHey. MD, seriously, Iโm fine. Weโre just about to deliver the profile. Well, youโre not a profiler. I know. I know, you are. Alright, Iโll call you back later.โ
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Gideon stood in the middle of the room before getting to the profile.
"The unidentified subject is white and in his late twenties. He's someone you wouldn't notice at first. He's someone who'd blend into any crowd. The violent nature of the crime suggests a previous criminal recordโpetty crimes. Maybe auto theft. We've classified him as an organized killerโcareful. Psychopathic as opposed to psychotic. He follows the news, has good hygiene. He's smart. 'Cause he's smart, the only physical evidence you'll find is what he wants you to find. He's mobile, car in good condition. Our guessโJeep Cherokee, tinted windows. The murders have all involved rapes. But rape without penetration is a form of piquerism, and that tells us he's sexually inadequate. Psychiatric evaluations will show a history of paranoia stemming from a childhood traumaโdeath of a parent or family member. And now he feels persecuted and watched. Murder gives him a sense of power. Organized killers have a fascination with law enforcement. They will inject themselves into the investigation. They will even come forward as witnesses to see just how much the police really know. That makes them feel powerful, in control. Which is why I also thinkโin fact, I knowโyou have already interviewed him."
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They had an officer with the Seattle FBI agent lure a suspect named Richard Slessman into a nearby house where they tackled him to the ground.
Slessman looked like a near-incompetent monster hunter with a lame catchphrase that was just their first name as a verb that would get bitten by a werewolf with dead eyes. As in Slessman had dead eyes, not the werewolf.
They searched Slessman's house as others spoke to the woman who had opened the door for the previously mentioned agent.
"There's no sign of Heather here." Zoe said after jumping over the banister to make room for the agentsย
"We can arrest him with probable cause, but we won't be able to hold him. Slessman's been at the top of the suspect list." Spencer added.
โIs that the mother?" Gideon asked.
The agent came up to them, "Grandmother. The mother died in a fire when he was thirteen."
โProbably not the only fire in his childhood.โ Zoe said.
She looked to Spencer and Zoe, "Hi, Agent Elle Greenaway."ย
"Special Agent Doctor Zoe Valdez. I prefer Zoe." Zoe shook her hand while Spencer awkwardly and clumsily shifted past them, trying to not make any physical contact with them. "That's Special Agent Doctor Spencer Reid. He doesn't understand social interactions while I understand them a little better but despise them."
Elle chuckled and they walked with Gideon and Spencer asย
โBefore his Son of Sam murders, David Berkowitz set a multitude of fires.โ Spencer said.
"Exactly how much is a multitude?" Morgan asked.
"A multitude." Zoe sassed. Morgan wasn't amused. "A multitude is a multitude many. More than one."
"Zoe's the second snarker on the team. The first is Alexander Noble." Gideon told Elle.
"According to his diary, one thousand-four hundred and..." He trailed off, trying to search through his memories.
"Eighty-eight." Elle and Zoe said.
"Luring him out was your idea, right? Greenway? " Gideon asked.
"Elle. I don't send a SWAT team into a house with children." Elle stated.
"Hotch says your background is in sex offender cases. What can you tell us?" Gideon asked.ย
"The last four murders show he's an anger-excitation rapist. He'll keep a victim for a couple of days. He probably records or videotapes them so that he can keep reliving the fantasy."
Zoe balled her fists, her fingernails digging in her palms.ย
"You ok with Hotch being in on the interview?" Gideon continued.
"I'd like him to lead, actually." Elle said.
"Fine. But hold off.ย Slessman's done time, and he knows the process. And all you will get now is a demand for a lawyer." Gideon said. "Hotch, let's check the garage, then show me what you got.
"Next time, show a little leg." Morgan flirted.
"Spence, you wanna go check out... not here." Zoe said, deadpan.
"Yeah, that-that sounds like a good idea." Spencer said and they went up the stairs at a quicker pace than Morgan and Elle and went to a room at the end of the hall.
"Morgan, the only time you're gonna see a little leg from me is when I'm about to kick your ass." Elle said.
"I still teach hand-to-hand over at Quantico if you need a little brush-up training."
"Yeah, because I passed up so I can humiliate him when Hotch asks me to join. He loses every time." Zoe called to them, much to Morgan's chagrin. "It infuriates him to be beaten by someone who's only been in the FBI less than two years and has only been at the BAU six months and is thirteen years his junior."
"Don't you have a room to search, Doogie Howser?" Morgan asked, irritably.
"Okay, first off, I'm a woman. You'll need to find a girl name, Chicago. Second of all, Doogie Howser is improbable, the youngest people to graduate from medical school were the same age. Balamurali Ambati and me. They'd never have a ten-year-old start medical school, even if he was the legen-dary Neil Patrick Harris."
Spencer appeared next to Zoe to add his criticism to the legendary Neil Patrick Harris' breakout role. "Even if he knew all the information since his emotional development would be taken into account."
"You two ruin everything." Morgan said.
"Elle, you think you're ready for it?" Zoe asked, "the job. You'd have to deal with all of us all day. And we got Garcia who flirts with Morgan even less shame than him."
Zoe moved back into the room with Spencer before Elle strode over, "Zoe, wait. You're the newest member, also somehow only nineteen. The cut off is twenty-three."
"Well, for geniuses, we were given exceptions. I joined the BAU when I was twenty-two." Spencer said.
"I trained with Maze Valdez, no relation,โ Absolutely relation, โfor a year and a half before..." Her mouth was about to form one word but then she changed, "The BAU requested my transfer. But I'm fully qualified." Like most people Elle assumed Zoe had said that due to her age and not her blood relation to two of the founding members of the BAU.
"Zoe, seriously I want that opening at BAU. You got any advice?" Elle asked.
"My advice? Just trust your instincts. Be intuitive. Be empathetic. Restrain your impulses. At all times, try to understand the Unsub's point of view, including their backstory, their mentality, their family, everything. Put yourself in their shoes as horrible as it is. Be perceptive. Be observant. But most of all, trust your instincts. They're telling you something for a reason."
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Elle found Spencer, Gideon, Zoe, and Alexander upstairs; Alexander seemed to be fussing at Zoe about something in a manner that Elle hadn't experienced in twenty years; Spencer in thirteen.
Zoe irritably snatched a bottle of water and reached into her side satchel that carried her ADHD fidget toys and her antidepressant, ADHD, PTSD, and Cyclothymia (a combination of a variety of pills) pill bottles and she took out only a few of the bottles to take and washed them down with the water.
Elle didn't comment on this as she had figured Zoe had some kind of mental illness due to her constant fidgeting, oral fixation, distractibility, hyperactivity, forgetfulness, and her bag of fidget toys.
Then she spotted a game on a wooden platform with white and black markers.
"What kind of game is it?" Elle asked.
"In China, it's called wei-chi. Here we call it 'Go'." Spencer said.
"It's considered to be the most difficult board game ever conceived." Zoe said, having mastered the game by two and a half.
"Chairman Mao required his generals to learn it." Gideon said.
"It also looks like he's playing himself." Zoe observed, kneeling down beside the game board, nearly knocking it over with her knees, making Spencer's hand fly near it before pulling them back. "Sorry."
"How can you tell?" Elle asked.
Zoe gently pushed the board into a spin, revealing that it was on some kind of rotator wheel.
"My uncle taught me how to build these, I've got a few at home." Zoe said.
"I will come back to that later." Spencer promised her, "This might provide an advantage, actually."
"Yeah, Go is considered to be a particularly psychologically revealing game. There are profiles for every playerโthe conservative point counter, the aggressor, the finesser. And with what little psychological research that has been done of 'Go' against other games. In Go the large search tree, knowledge, and pattern recognition is more important than in other strategy games, it's theorized playing this reduces the risk of Alzheimer's and dementia and I can already tell I'm doing the off-topic thing again..." Zoe said and saw Elle looking at her, wondering how she knew so much about the psychology of a game Elle didn't know existed five minutes ago, "My, uh, one of my cousins introduced me to it when I was a year and a half." She pursed her lips together, recalling a brief memory where her thirteen-year-old cousin had been pinned to the floor by mental institution security officers and forced into a straightjacket in Las Vegas when she was about three years old.
"A year and a half?" Elle asked, certain she must've heard that wrong.
"What kind of player is Slessman?" Hotch asked, noting Zoe's discomfort which told him it was either one of her criminal relatives or mentally ill relatives.
Zoe stood back up once again, carelessly, bumping against the board game, making the markers jump but no real damage done. "Sorry. Sorry. Need a few angles." Zoe tilted her head as visualizations only she could see formed rather cinematically, putting mental notes on the different players. Her eyes darted up to meet Alexander's first, before darting to the next person's eyes and so on, "Extreme aggressor."
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Elle, Gideon, and Zoe walked into the boy room where Morgan was with the laptop.
"Oh, fake password?" Zoe asked.
"How'd you guess?" Morgan asked.
"Garcia's not the only hacker, I just prefer the field." Zoe shrugged.
"Well, ladies first." Morgan said, pulling the chair out.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" She sassed. Spencer snorted in amusement behind them as Zoe sat down, flipping her streaked dark brown hair.
"Well, then what's the number six at the bottom of the screen?" Elle asked.
"Number of password attempts before the program wipes the hard drive." Morgan said.
"There could be an email, or a journal in the computer, something that tells us where Heather is." Elle said and looked at Zoe, "Do you think you can break in?"ย
"In six tries?" Morgan asked, skeptically.
Zoe tilted her head back and looked at Elle and the others upside down, Zoe asked, "I don't know if there's any other viruses on the laptop if I try to hack into it which would wipe the hard drive.โ
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Gideon quoted and Elle, Zoe, and Morgan just stared at him.
"Samuel Beckett." Spencer recalled.
"Try not. Do or do not." Morgan said.
Gideon looked at him confused before Spencer turned to him, "Yoda."
Zoe was hesitant; while she may be reckless when it came to her own safety; she was so filled with self-loathing and utter conviction that people wouldn't care all that much if she died; but they only had six tries.ย
"I'm all for taking risks but not when it holds the life of another person. Zoe Valdez." Zoe sassed. "The password likely means something to him. Our best chance is to either get it out of him or to profile him.โ
Gideon turned around and spotted a familiar book spine on the shelf that was written in 1984, he pulled it out and Spencer read the title aloud, "Journal of Applied Criminal Psychology..." Zoe cut herself off from her conversation with Morgan when she heard Spencer say the title and turned to look at them, "Co-written by David Rossi, Jason Gideon, Zelena Valdez, and Alexander Noble."
Her eyes landed on the book and Zoe stood up from the chair and made her way over, Gideon glanced at her as he started to flip through the book before it landed on a newspaper article about the incident from six months ago.
Shrapnel Blast Kills Six
"I wanna talk to him." Gideon said and walked off.
Zoe took the book and a slip of paper fell out, landing on the floor Zoe picked it up and read it. Her eyes grew dark and she stormed out of the room, slamming it into Alexander's chest. He looked at it and his eyes also grew dark.
Zelena V.
Alexander N.
Zarah N. V.
Xiomara N. V.ย
Zelena and Zarah were crossed out.
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Gideon approached Slessman and placed the book down on the makeshift interrogation table which was really the cheap dinner table.
"You read my paper. Learn anything?" Zoe and Alexander ran down the stairs, Gideon turned and held out a hand out, making Zoe stop and turned back to Slessman, "go on."
"Heirens said a man living inside of his head was the one who committed the murders. You said he was lying, that there'd never been an actual case of multiple personalities." Gideon gestured for Alexander and Zoe to come in and Slessman's eyebrow raised when he saw them, his eye glued to Zoe.
"I assume you know who these two are?"
"Alexander Noble, co-founder of the BAU in 1983, you were nineteen. Same age as your daughter here, Xiomara Noble-Valdez."
"No one calls me Xiomara and don't call me Noble-Valdez either."
"What? You rather go by the surname of the mother you killed?"
"What did my mother say on Heirenz?" Zoe asked.
"She disagreed. Saying that it was more than likely many serial killers had multiple personality disorder. What do you think, Xiomara?"
"About what?"
"Heirens' diagnosis."
Zoe sat back in her seat, sensing the test and she looked down as she shifted through her thoughts
"Nothing was ever confirmed but it's been theorized that he could've had some sort of personality and/or schizophrenic disorder. Hysterical Personality Disorder. Dissociative Personality disorder. Dissociative Schizophrenic. His mother however, had hysterical paralysis and conversion disorder, formerly known as hysteria, is genetic so most likely HPD but still possible he had DID." Zoe shrugged.
"You have an academic interest in dissociative identity disorder, or you just planning your defense?" Gideon asked and Slessman just chuckled/scoffed. Gideon pulled out the article he found in the book and placed it in front of him. "You a fan of Adrian Baal's work?"
"No. I'm a fan of yours." Slessman said. "You know they never give you the real facts about CPR that outside of a hospital, it's only effective seven percent of the time." Slessman mocked but Zoe had already found that he was arrogant in his intelligence but he wasn't as smart as he thought he was. "Your friend had a ninety-three certainty of dying, but you kept trying even after you'd broken his ribs, even after his blood was all over your hands.
"How are you still alive? Are you learning medical knowledge off of a sitcom or the back of a cereal box? That was deeply inaccurate." Zoe deadpanned. "So you can't figure out how to get into the laptop to Google it either?"
A flash of irritation flickered upon Slessman's face and leaned forwards on the table, "I've heard about you. The daughter of the Scottish FBI agent, never afraid, always mocking others. I bet you're afraid deep down."
Zoe leaned on the table too until her nose was only an inch from Slessman's nose and she spoke in a soft but rather tauntingly intimidating tone but also so a certain nearby agent wouldn't hear, "I once looked a well-known serial killer who derived sexual pleasure off of the fear he inflicted up all twenty victims before brutally killing them, likely he couldn't perform otherwise. I stared him right in the eyes and I knew I was the only one to ever show him no fear and I was twelve years old. I am nineteen years old now and you look like a dentist turned supernatural monster hunter who was so incompetent at his job that he turned into a not-at-all-scary werewolf. I made my first kill when I was thirteen and he was a family member and I never regretted it because he hunted me like an animal for nearly two weeks. So, you don't scare me, so why don't you tell us where Heather Woodland is?"
He tried to cover up the fact he was unnerved and shaken now and he sat back in his chair.
"Woodland?" He feigned vague recognition at the name, "isn't she the girl that went missing a couple days ago?"ย
Zoe smirked, confusing Slessman and she got up, spinning on her heel dramatically out of her chair and strode out.
Gideon's eyes darted around the kitchen, noting a recurring theme in the kitchen. Good boys. Growing up in an environment like that wasn't exactly likely to mold a dominant criminal; but the kind to mold... a submissive.
"Get him out of here." Gideon said and he left.
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Hotch found Gideon, Alexander, and Zoe, Gideon wasn't speaking while Alexander once again was fussing over Zoe to put on her sunglasses.
"I'm not putting my sunglasses on. It's fucking dark out here. You know who wears sunglasses at night? Blind people and no-talent douchebags!" She hissed at him
"Hey." Hotch said.
Gideon turned to him, "He said 'isn't she the girlโ. If he'd already killed her, he would have saidโ"
"'Wasn't she the girl'."ย
"She's alive. We don't know for how long." Gideon said.
"Is it true what he said about CPR? I mean, I didn't know." Hotch said, gently.
"You want statistics on CPR, ask Reid or Zoe. She's the medical doctor. Zoe, what's the real statistics on CPR?"
"Forty-three percent survive." Zoe said, "Fifty-seven don't."ย
"I wanna know if you're okay." Hotch told Gideon.
"I'm fine."
"Are you?"
"Think I can't do the job?" Gideon asked.ย
"I think you can't be two different people at once." Hotch said and Zoe flinched.
"Conflicts in the profile." Zoe said.
"What?"
"Slessman's behavior fits a submissive of a duo. Part of the profile but another part conflicts it.
"Two different behaviors." Hotch said.
"Two different people." Zoe added.
"There's a second killer."
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Apparently, the only friend Slessman had was his ex-cell mate, Charlie Linder. Alexander had refused to let Zoe go to the prison and for once she didn't fight him too hard on it. He told Hotch to make sure she didn't sneak off. Zoe was messing with a cube puzzle, sitting in a chair next to Spencer who was on his phone when Hotch approached.
"We get an address on Linder?"
"It's coming right now." Spencer said and turned to Hotch when he went past him, "Does senior management want a field assessment on Gideon? "
Hotch stepped towards the boy genius, "Don't worry about it."
"It's Morgan who's been worrying." Zoe muttered, still doing the cube.
"Are they nervous about him being in charge? Aren't you two on your way back to Slessman's house to help Morgan?" Hotch said and Zoe left to get the keys since Spencer drove so slowly.
"Do you know why he always introduces me as Doctor Reid?" Spencer asked.
"Because he knows that people see you as a kid, and he wants to make sure that they respect you." Hotch told him.
"But he never corrects people for Zoe and she's four years younger than me." Spencer said.
"You're about to be in a car alone with her for ten minutes. Ask her then." Hotch said as Zoe came back.
"It's here." She said.
"What's the address?" Hotch said as Zoe held the paper so they all could read it.
"Don't think it matters anymore." Spencer said.
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Winston Churchill said, "the farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.
"I heard you ask Hotch why I never insist on being called Doctor and Gideon or Alexander never correct people when they call me 'Agent'." Zoe said and Spencer looked at her as he clutched his seat, tightly with her reckless driving, "It's because I know they see me as a kid and I want them to. I have always had the element of surprise. I have twenty-four degrees. I finished a four-year medical school in two years. I finished the FBI training in six weeks. I'm a five foot two, nineteen-year-old girl with dyed hair and I refuse to dress as professionally as everyone else. I want them to underestimate me. I prefer to show them up, you don't because you're better. You're... honestly, you're one-of-a-kind, Doctor Reid, I've never met anyone like you. And you should be respected for that." Spencer smiled, warmly at her. She glanced at him, "What?"
"You finished your FBI training in six weeks? That's a twenty-week program." Spencer asked in amused bewilderment.
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Spencer sat on Slessman's bed, spinning a CD while Zoe tried listening to the music with his CD player to get into his headspace. She pulled off the headphones.
"Ugh, this is much too loud."
"I'd think rock was your style." Spencer said, in an attempt of conversation. Something he was terrible at. But Zoe had always been easy to talk to while simultaneously terrifying. She never judged him for being awkward or different. She never interrupted him when he went off on one of his rants like literally everyone else but his mother had but Zoe often had her own inputs of her own knowledge.
"Alternative rock is. Very rarely in the metal section. The only Black Sabbath song I ever heard is Iron Man. What music do you like? School House Rock?" Zoe asked as she took the CD out of the CD player.
"I like Beethoven."
"Ugh. I'll never understand how people can stand classical music." Zoe rolled her eyes as she picked up the nearest CD case. "It's boring and old and there's no story..."
"You gave me the CD case." Spencer reminded her,
Zoe looked at the case she was trying to put the CD in, "Oh, yeah, this isn't the right case..." An idea came to her. "He already had a case empty."
"Like he was using it. Nothing was in the CD player..." Spencer came to the same conclusion.
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Morgan was pacing in the attic, "Oh, come on! I need a password. I need a password. What am I looking for? What could I possibly be looking for?"
"Zoe and I've been thinking about the CD's." Spencer said as he and Zoe entered as he turned a stretched-out paperclip in his hands.
"Oh, guys, come on. We tried the CD's. We searched, sifted, and sorted through every one of this guy's head-banging heavy metal collection. We gotta find something, or this girl is dead."
"Think we may have missed the obvious." Spencer said, using a paperclip to eject the CD holder.
"What are you doing?" Morgan asked and the ejector popped out, revealing a Metallica CD. Morgan picked it up, "Reid, Zoe, what made you think of this?"
"If you're putting this kind of protection on your computer, then you probably use it a lot, it's easier to use the laptop and listen to music on it at the same time." Zoe said.
"And it was the only empty case." Spencer added, handing Morgan the case.
"All right. I'm an insomniac who listens to Metallica to go to sleep at night. What song could possibly speak to me?ย
"Enter Sandman." Zoe said so at once. "Trust me, I come from a family of sociopathic and violent insomniacs." Morgan put the password in as she added, "Or as we call ourselves 'independent women'." The home screen popped up, "Morgan, let me. I can find anything relating to Heather fastest."
Zoe pushed Morgan out of his chair and started to type at lightning speed, sticking a bit of her tongue out. Until a box popped up saying: "Are you sure you want to connect to T. Vogel's live camera?"
Yes.
Their eyes widened at what they saw. "Morgan, get the cops. The cops! Get the cops!" Morgan ran out, shouting for them. "Phone, where's my phone!"
She pulled it out of her pocket but dropped it. Spencer grabbed it, fumbling and handed it to her and she called Gideon, "Gideon, Heather's alive."
"How do you know?
"'Cause we're watching her right now."
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They still didn't know where Heather was.
"Zoe, did you see that?" Spencer asked.
"Yeah."
"What?" Morgan asked.
"Zoe, can you show me the last twelve images lined up next to each other?"
"Yep." She said, popping the 'p', typing a few keys and bringing up the twelve.
"What?"
Zoe spoke just a fraction of a second before Spencer, "Right there."
"Right there." Spencer said, "You see that? The light bulb hanging from the wire? Yeah, what about it? It's shifting positions like it's swaying like the Earth is tilting."ย
"Not the Earth, doc." Zoe said, "The ocean."
"I'll call, Hotch." Morgan said.
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"According to Zoe, he wouldn't be able to transmit the webcam image from the middle of the ocean. It's the best we got, Hotch. Even if we're right, getting the exact location's on you, my friend. To work me a little magic."
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Zoe sat in front of laptop and she messed with a glow in the dark spinning pen while Spencer absentmindedly messed with a puzzle box of hers.
"Zoe, would you knock that off, I feel like I'm going to have an epileptic seizure." Morgan complained.
"Technically, an epileptic seizure is caused by flashing lights." Spencer corrected.
Morgan snatched the pen from Zoe and she pulled out a shape-shifting fidget cube.
"Guys, look." She said, "he's inside." They saw Vogel unlocking the cage, "get Elle on the phone, Morgan!" She snatched her spinning pen back as he walked off to make the phone call. On the screen, Vogel started to pull Heather out of the cage when she kicked him in the face.
"Ooh." Spencer and Zoe said as they were getting their things together to leave.
"Good instincts, girl. But she won't get far, he's been starving her and raping her with various objects on a boat." Zoe said, "Let's just hope Gideon and Elle get to her in time. I'd better drive."ย
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Gideon had angered Vogel until he threw Heather aside to shoot him, allowing Elle to get a shot in, killing Vogel. Zoe had rushed over to check on Heather's condition at once, comforting her with Elle in hushed whispers, doing what she could with her portable mini-medical kit until the ambulance arrived.
Morgan sat with Hotch when the impulsive former cop asked, "So what kind of report do they want on him?"
"I suppose whether he's fit to be a field agent." Hotch said.
"Same one they wanted on Zoe?" Morgan asked.
"Same one they want monthly on Zoe." Hotch corrected.
"Think he'll pass?" Morgan asked after a chuckle at the jab towards the department's wild card.
"You know, Haley and I were looking at a baby names book. Guess what Gideon means in Hebrew." Hotch said as Spencer and Zoe walked up behind them.
"Mighty warrior." Spencer said and walked off before turning back to them, "Appropriate."
"Also, 'great destroyer'; 'great warrior', 'woodsman', 'one who cuts down'." Zoe said, "But apparently in the bible, Gideon was the name of a judge in the Bible and the angels called him a 'mighty warrior' or as Spencer explained to me for five full minutes, so indeed spot on."ย
Morgan rolled his eyes at the two geniuses.
"So what are you gonna tell them?"
"About Gideon's report?" Zoe questioned.ย
"What would you say?" Hotch asked Morgan.ย
"Gideon saved her life. That's good enough for me." Morgan said and walked off.
"Seemed not to be good enough for him when we got here." Zoe murmured with a hint of teasing sarcasm in her tone.
"What do you think?" Hotch asked.
"I think... there may be setbacks due to the whole Adrian Bale situation, we may have a bomber eventually and he'll have to deal with that. But... he's the best and unless Rossi comes out of retirement or as I call it 'hiding from his dozen ex-wives', we could use a founder of the team who is not constantly worried about his daughter's safety and keeping the fact that the newest member of the team is his daughter a secret and the stress that his other daughter has been missing for four years now." Zoe sighed, "It's been four years since I escaped and I still have nightmares of the stuff I allowed myself to remember but eventually, I'm going to have nightmares of the stuff we see again, cases that don't end as well. He can't wait until the guilt stops because then he'll be waiting forever. The only way to stop feeling so guilty is by helping others, he can't do that on medical leave."
"You know you're too wise for nineteen."
"Yeah, the graduations from Yale, Harvard, MiT, and CalTech before I even graduated high school kind of tipped me off to that." She sassed, playfully, though she had an embarrassed blush on her cheeks.
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On the plane back, Morgan was asleep in a chair, still clutching the file. Spencer was asleep on a couch, rather adorably which Zoe definitely did not think or care about and if she were awake she would not think his turning in his sleep was adorable either, nor would she care.
Only Alexander, Gideon, and Hotch were awake, Gideon sat in a seat on a laptop while Alexander sat on a couch diagonal to the older founder with Zoe asleep on the other side of the couch with her head laying on her balled up leather jacket in his lap, making the occasional noise in her sleep, usually it was incoherent mumbles or soft groans or moans but every once in a while, she muttered something.
"Mary... Mary Bell, ten years old... Scotswood... Newcastle... Tyne... nineteen-sixty-eight..." She muttered, apparently dreaming about one of the youngest female serial killers.
Alexander couldn't help but chuckle, having long since lost his concern of her growing up to be what he hunted.
"She still sleeps like she did as a toddler." Gideon remarked as Hotch sat in the seat across the aisle from Gideon.
"Hey."
Zoe suddenly stirred, her groans rising before she rolled over and hit the floor. She woke up, smacking her lips as she saw the three men looking down at her, all rather amused at how she could be both the definition of innocent and the antonym.
"Hey, guys. Uh... you and Haley pick the baby's name yet?" She ignored what happened as she lifted herself back onto the couch. Alexander wrapped his daughter into a fatherly one-armed hug, pulling her against him, kissing the top of her head.
Hotch smiled briefly before saying, "It's funny Haley liked the name Charlesโbut, you know all I could think of..."
"Manson." Gideon chuckled.
"Then there was Henry." Hotch said.
"Lee Lucas." Alexander supplied.
"Uh... Jeffrey."
"Dahmer." Zoe filled in the blank, sleepily.
"There's just too many of them."
"That was the problem when Zelena and I were coming up with names for this one and..." His eldest daughter's name died on his lips, "you know, luckily they both turned out to be girls and there's not as many girl serial killers."
"You wanna bet?" Zoe tilted her head up, giving him a challenging look. โPlus, you and mom picked the most bizarre names ever. Zarah and Xiomara.โ
"Kind of hard to feel good about catching one when you know there are fifty more still out there." Gideon said.
Hotch looked away for a moment and the father and daughter exchanged looks, having a feeling he was thinking about that one serial killer who got away seven years prior.
"How's your report going?" Gideon said, having not been on the case due to his son Stephen having his appendix removed but knowing it weighed heavily on Hotch's shoulders. Hotch chuckled at Gideon, knowing this, "Didn't think you could hide that from an old profiler, now, did ya?"
"Oh, Gideon, you're not old. Not compared to Rossi, he's always been a cranky sixty-year-old man at heart." Zoe teased.
"You know, you saved that girl today. You can feel good about that." Hotch told Gideon.
"It is good. It's a good thing." Gideon said.
"Zoe, you need to go get some sleep. Go." Alexander said and pushed his daughter off the couch and towards the side of the plane where Spencer and Morgan were.
"Or else what? I'll turn into an UnSub?" She muttered, sarcastically before toppling herself in a couch beside Spencer's.
"She's good." Gideon said,ย
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Late February to Early March, 2005
Dumfries, Virginia
Nietzsche once said, "when you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."
Soon before the Boston bombing case, Gideon was driving back to Quantico, talking to Zoe Noble-Valdez on the phone as a test run to see if she could get an interview was to create a profile for the Footpath Killer, theorizing a white man in his twenties, most likely an American van, a menial job that was most likely isolated containing few visitors and little to no possibility for witnesses, and a possible stutter.
He had already made the profile but she was doing it on her own which turned out to be a bit more detailed than his.
Zoe had been through a recent traumatic event just a few weeks before but Zoe had always been better at compartmentalizing and dealing with trauma better than others.
He hung up on the young girl he had helped his co-founder raise when he stopped at a gas station in the middle of nowhere to get gas. He filled up his car tank and went inside the gas station for some unnecessities.
He took a single candy bar and placed it at the counter, "I'll take this."ย
As the gas station clerk rang up the purchase, Gideon's eyes wandered behind him to the wall of photos, noticing several but not all were of the Footpath Killer's known victims, they were up-close and personal.ย
Gideon turned to see the cashier's truck, it was an old, dingy American truck, maybe a Chevy, looking like it could use some repairs.
The cashier's gas station was in the middle of nowhere, isolated enough for the occasional customer with little to no risk of a witness.
He turned back to the cashier, a white man who seemed to be in his mid-twenties. Only one characteristic remained.
"Have a n-nโa n-n-n-nice day." He stuttered. He had a stutter. He fit the profile to a "T"
Gideon looked at the clerk for a long time and then the clerk glanced down to see Gideon's holster. He was law enforcement but he didn't react with Gideon watching him.ย
Gideon took the money and left the store as the clerk moved quickly inside the shop and reappeared behind him with a shotgun. Gideon spotted him in the reflection of a sign, pointing the gun at him, ready to fire.
*Spencer Reid Gif Source: @borahaes*
*Edited November 8, 2024*
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Aimeeโs 2023 royal family engagement count: The final results!
Disclaimer; everyoneโs counts will be different, people have different rules to their method of counting the Court Circular. It isnโt a definitive count and is done just for fun ๐
The court circular doesnโt record any work behind the scenes, only public engagements, official meetings and luncheons/dinners. Itโs more a gauge of their public facing roles.
๐ Princess Anne ๐
Once again Princess Anne tops the chart as the hardest working royal, completing 467 engagements.
She has done 393 engagements in the UK.
She travelled to 10 different countries this year and did 74 engagements there. ๐จ๐พ๐ช๐ช๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐บ๐ซ๐ท๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฎ
Dubbed by some as the unofficial Queen of Scots she did 62 in Scotland.
King Charles III
In the first year of his reign King Charles did a grand total of 463 engagements
In the UK he did 386 engagements.
He travelled to 5 different countries where he completed 76 engagements and did 3 full royal tours in Germany, France and Kenya. He also hosted a state visit for South Korea at Buckingham Palace. ๐ฉ๐ช๐ท๐ด๐ซ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ฆ๐ช
What is also worth mentioning is that he has Red Boxes that he has to go through every single day, except Christmas Day and Easter Sunday as well as a lot of work behind the scenes.
Prince Edward, The Duke of Edinburgh
This year, on his 59th birthday, Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh, taking the title of his father. With this he increased his work with the Duke of Edinburgh award and travelling to visit international sections of the award. Prince Edward also visited a lot of theatre related organisations and youth centres and charities.
He completed 294 this year and visited 13 countries on solo tours and with his wife. ๐น๐จ๐ง๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐น๐ท๐ง๐ญ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฉ
Sophie, The Duchess of Edinburgh
In 2023 Sophie carried on her hard work in areas like womenโs rights in disadvantaged areas, avoidable blindness, hygiene and agriculture.
She completed 226 this year in the UK and the commonwealth and visited 10 countries on solo tours and with her husband. ๐ณ๐ฑ๐น๐จ๐ง๐ธ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐ช๐น๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ด๐จ๐ญ
Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester
The Duke of Gloucester has this year completed 208 engagements in the UK.
He continued his long lasting work in heritage, architecture, the St Johnโs Ambulance and military organisations.
Hopefully next year we will see him do some overseas engagements. ๐ฏ๏ธ
Queen Camilla
In the year of her Coronation, Queen Camilla carried out 198 engagements.
She visited Germany, France and Kenya where she did 42 engagements whilst on official tours. ๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช
She focused a lot of her engagements this year on sectors close to her heart like womenโs & childrenโs charities, osteoporosis care and animal welfare.
Prince William, The Prince of Wales
The Prince of Wales this year carried out engagements in the UK and the Commonwealth in areas like mental health, homelessness and conservation. In 2023 he did 183 engagements.
Prince William travelled to 4 countries where he did 32 engagements related to Earthshot in USA and Singapore, visiting Ukrainian troops in Poland, attending the Jordanian royal wedding in June and finally travelling to Kuwait to give his condolences to to The Emir of Kuwait following the death of The Emir Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. ๐ต๐ฑ๐บ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ผ
Catherine, The Princess of Wales
The Princess of Wales carried out 134 engagements throughout 2023. Catherine continued her work in her Early Years foundation and childhood development.
She visited France for two, one off engagements for the rugby World Cup in France and to Jordan for Crown Prince Hussein and Princess Rajwaโs wedding in June. ๐ซ๐ท๐ฏ๐ด
Hopefully we will see her and the Prince of Wales go on a couple of overseas tours next year now that their children are older.
Birgitte, The Duchess of Gloucester
The Duchess of Gloucester has this year completed 127 engagements in the UK. She continued her long lasting work in sports, the arts (Opera, Ballet, Acting etcโฆ) and accompanying her husband to official engagements.
Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence
Although not an official working royal, Sir Tim often attends as a great support to his wifeโs engagements as well as having his own non-royal patronages and interests. It was recently announced that he would become chair of the Science Museum group and is the patron of a number of heritage organisations.
He accompanied his wife to a total of 92, represented her 4 times and accompanied her to 27 engagements abroad in 5 countries. ๐ช๐ช๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐บ๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ฎ
(Operation working royal Tim) ๐
Prince Edward, The Duke of Kent.
Despite being 88, Prince Edward, the late Queens cousin, has carried out 75 engagements even with his ailing mobility.
He continued his valued hard work with organisations like the RNLI, the Royal Scots Guards and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which he recently passed on the presidency to the Princess Royal.
Princess Alexandra of Kent
Although she is practically retired now, we have seen Princess Alexandra attend four official engagements in 2023. Firstly she attended a Reception for British East and South-East Asian Communities, secondly to present medals to members of The Royal Lancers, thirdly she attended the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla and lastly she visited the Royal Chelsea Flower Show.
This year the British Royal Family completed a grand total of 2476 in the UK and 29 different countries across the world.
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See below for engagements from the past decade and the types of engagements carried out in 2023
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