Title: One Good Thing
Author: feather-qwill
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing: Gideon/Reid
Series: "We Who've Seen the Darkness" Part 2/22
Rating: G
Words: 100
Summary: Episode 1x02 tag. Gideon copes.

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Fire again, and it all came back.

Nelson, Wolfe, Murphy ... dead. Three others, not his own ... dead.

Morgan and Reid ... alive. Delayed by a flat tire and replaced by strangers. He could still remember their faces when they arrived, too late to help and too late to die. He could still remember the fires.

He should feel worse about taking pleasure from this, his forbidden bliss. But when Spencer was cushioned against him softly in sleep, there were no more dreams of fire and bodies and explosions that shook the world. And on nights like these, he needed that relief.

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