Fragility Optional IV: Empty Yesterdays (Criminal Minds)

Empty Yesterdays
A Criminal Minds fic
Part Four of the Fragility Optional verse
by mhalachai

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Summary: What do you do when the center of your universe walks away?
Rating: PG
Setting: beginning of season three, after Gideon leaves but before Rossi joins the team
Characters: Spencer Reid, Emily Prentiss
Words: 1,135
Notes: Genderswap!Spencer/always a girl!Spencer. This part references Spencer's drug use. See notes in Part 1.

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( Spencer sat in the empty office, now stripped bare of Gideon's possessions, and stared at the shadows cast on the wall by the setting sun. )

Fragility Optional III: A Girl Not Lacking in Initiative (Criminal Minds)

A Girl Not Lacking in Initiative
A Criminal Minds fic
Part Three of the Fragility Optional verse
by mhalachai

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Summary: Aaron Hotchner isn't sure if Jason Gideon is having a mid-life crisis, or if Spencer Reid really does belong in the BAU.
Rating: PG
Setting: Before the series; before Spencer joins the FBI
Characters: Aaron Hotcher, Haley Hotchner, talking about Jason Gideon and Spencer Reid.
Words: 1,330
Notes: Genderswap!Spencer/always a girl!Spencer. Because really, Gideon's method of bringing Spencer into the FBI was bound to raise a few eyebrows. See notes in Part 1.

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( Aaron couldn't stop a small smile from crossing his face. ''There is absolutely nothing usual about Spencer Reid.'' )

Fragility Optional II: Incongruity in Ambulances (Criminal Minds)

Incongruity in Ambulances
A Criminal Minds fic
Part Two of the Fragility Optional verse
by mhalachai

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Summary: Spencer always knew this was a possibility. She just didn't realize that killing a man in the line of duty would feel so... weird.
Rating: PG-13, mentions of violence
Setting: In CM season 1's LDSK; actually, a genderswap re-write of the end of that ep.
Characters: Spencer Reid, Aaron Hotcher, Derek Morgan, Jennifer Jareau.
Words: 1,360
Notes: Genderswap!Spencer/always a girl!Spencer. Before anyone has any comments about Hotch in this, I refer to his canon back-story in Natural Born Killer, and extrapolate. See notes in Part 1.

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( She didn't want to think of anything else. Not the heavy weight of the small gun in her hand, not the aches and pains in her body, not the words Hotch had said to her in the emergency room. Definitely not shooting a man in the head. )

Fragility Optional I: Extrapolation (Criminal Minds)

tl;dr - been writing genderswap, it's kinda fun.

I'll be honest. I kinda wanted to name this series "Spencer Reid, Self-Rescuing Princess", but I managed to contain myself. I've been wanting to play with some of the gender issues on Criminal Minds for a while, and, well, here's a bit of what I've been playing with. Four stand-alone pieces, but they work best if you read them through. (Chronologically out of order) (and ignore that one is in present-tense please).

Extrapolation
A Criminal Minds fic
Part One of the Fragility Optional verse
by mhalachai

At AO3

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Summary: Given all that's happened, you'd think no one would expect Spencer Reid to put on high heels and slink out undercover.
Rating: PG
Setting: Set in the latter half of season six, post Lauren.
Characters: BAU!team, Spencer Reid, Ashely Seaver
Words: 1,995
Notes: Genderswap!Spencer/always a girl!Spencer

( Hotch does not, Spencer notes with a mix of internal amusement and frustration, tell Seaver that she'll be safe.  )