#yoakkemae . spencer . 001 .

[tiderider]

❝ must come in handy, ❞ harry said absently, ❝ i'm not much of a reader. words start blurring together, get all messed up. ❞ he leaned back, cracking his neck and rolling his shoulders back. he took the bag, leaning around to give spencer a look that indicated it was time to switch. ❝ sure, but it they don't kill me in one swing then i'm coming for them myself. ❞

' sometimes i look up information specifically for a situation , but often times , it's just additional details that come from my initial avenue of research , ' spencer explains. there was one case where part of the unsub's delusion dealt with weeds , and they had use the aforementioned shrub mentioned , but spencer likes to read , and it's not as if he can really forget anything. ' it'll be easier with a weapon or anything that's relatively hard than with their bare hands. '

[tiderideraa]

harry felt a familiar thrill rise through him as spencer ducked, eyes round as he attempted to explain himself. the more spencer spoke the closer harry leaned, tipping his head to one side and watching spencer through his lashes. the temptation to keep teasing him was almost overwhelming. harry grinned slowly, reaching out to grab spencer's shoulder and shake him, " relax, i'm only teasing, " harry said, " but aye, you can hold the bag, what other uncommon deaths are there? "

sometimes harry had a hard time following spencer's long - winded streams of consciousness. he would list facts, stats, and his sources in one breath, sometimes it was relevant to the over all topic and sometimes it was like having a front row seat to a mind that could process information ten times faster than he could. harry liked listening to him the same way he liked watching car wrecks : with rapt interest. harry chose at that moment to lean forward into spencer's personal space, " you saying my death's gonna be common ? "

[tiderider]

❝ do you look this stuff up? you can't find it all interesting, right? ❞ harry considered himself a curious enough person, at least when it mattered, but spencer seemed to absorb information about anything and everything. harry reached around the punching bag to tap spencer's shoulder after he'd adjusted his hold on the bag before he resumed a string of combos that were all muscle memory. ❝ see? quick and simple. mind, they'd have to hit me hard enough to kill me the first time. ❞

' no , the closer equivalent would be to shrubs although some people colloquially refer to them as " weeds " due to their prevalence , ' spencer can't help but correct. he adjusts his hold on the bag to keep it in place as harry continues to punch it. ' blunt force trauma to the head would be faster if it's strong enough to cause near instantaneous death. comparatively , it would probably be less painful too. a sharp burst of pain and that's it , while drowning -- even in alcohol -- and hyperhydration are a lot slower and would be very painful. '

[tiderider]

❝ isn't that a weed? ❞ harry remarked offhandedly, the word conjuring images of eye-sore yellow blooms. harry wasn't much of a plant person but he knew enough that some of the ramblings stuck. not for the first time since meeting reid did harry wonder how he managed to remember so many things, even after his numerous explanations of possessing an eidetic memory it was still shocking just how much useless information was floating around in the agents head just waiting for the time when it would become relevant.

❝ alright, drowning in 9 kegs of wine makes more sense then hyperhydration. i'd still take blunt force trauma to the head over it, ❞

it's rare that spencer is ever prompted to continue blurting out the information he knows for recreational purposes. or perhaps it was meditative purposes while harry continued to work out ... regardless , he answers the questions as he feels the blows on the bag through his arms. ' in regards to the name plantegenest , it had been a nickname that richard of york had adopted as his family name. a popular theory about the origin of the name is that " genest " refers to a flower called " genista " in medieval latin. ' he shifts to allow himself a better hold while harry continue to beat on the bag. ' as for kegs , the equivalency is about 9.8 kegs. '

[tiderideraa]

sometimes harry had a hard time following spencer's long - winded streams of consciousness. he would list facts, stats, and his sources in one breath, sometimes it was relevant to the over all topic and sometimes it was like having a front row seat to a mind that could process information ten times faster than he could. harry liked listening to him the same way he liked watching car wrecks : with rapt interest. harry chose at that moment to lean forward into spencer's personal space, " you saying my death's gonna be common ? "

' well , according to a report done by the centres of disease control that evaluated violent deaths occurring in 39 states , the distrct of columbia , and puerto rico during the year 2018 , blunt force trauma accounted for 4.2% of all homicides , so it'd certainly be more common than hyperhydration. just in general , however , car accidents , falls , sports accidents , and physical assaults are the number one causes of blunt force head trauma rather than just straight homicides. '

[tiderideraa]

short answer? no. of all the ways a person could die, death by hydration seemed pathetic. harry hummed as spencer spoke, busying himself with wrapping his wrists and the backs of his hands. he left his fingers and knuckles bare as was habit. " what a miserable way to die, " harry commented once spencer was done explaining the phenomenon. " i'd take blunt force trauma to the head any day, "

spencer : open.

' did you know that you could die from drinking too much water ? it's called water intoxication or hyperhydration , and it occurs when there is a disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe limits by excessive water intake. andy warhol was said to have died from it as , allegedly , the hospital that removed his gallbladder gave him an excess amount of liquids. '

[tiderideraa]

❝ what kind of name is planteganet, ❞ harry asked, he shifted his weight from one foot to the other, rolling his shoulders back to stretch and warm the muscles while spencer moved to hold the bag for him. harry hit the bag with repetitive force, three quick jabs, an upper cut, followed by an elbow. he didn't even need to think about the movements, his body remembered the drills easily. ❝ how much by kegs? ❞ harry asked when spencer began listing quantities, finding it easier to gage if he could imagine something visual.

the first exposure spencer has ever had to friendly teasing was with ethan , and while it might have been a long time ago , certain ... expectations had a way of digging their hooks in. he attempts a smile in return to harry's shoulder shake ( although it feels spurious in nature ) as he moves to hold the bag for harry to hit. ' well , george plantagenet , first duke of clarence , was charged for treason against his elder brother , edward the iv , and it was said that he died by drowning in a butt of malmsey wine. ah , a butt being an obsolete english measurement of liquid volume , which is equivalent to 126 imperial gallons , 151 us gallons , or 573 litres for wine. '