Criminal Minds fic: Foliage
Title: Foliage
Rating: PG - 13 for creepyness
Pairing: None, gen
Word Count: 417
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for Criminal Minds 4X21 "To Hell ..." and 4X22 "And Back" and triggery for whats in those eps. Triggery, anyway for mentions of drug use.
Kelly cuts her hair, after.
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She was a junkie, but she didn’t shoot up her drugs of choice. She was afraid of needles, always had been, screaming and causing a ruckus even when she was a toddler. So she didn’t shoot up. There are lots of ways to chemical oblivion even without them.
*
Kelly gets checked into rehab by her mother. It’s peaceful and boring there.
*
Her throat is sore from screaming for him.
She’s dirty and thirsty and hungry and tired and totally out of her mind with adrenaline and fear, but it is her throat that bothers her body the most.
She can’t stop seeing Lucas get shot to pieces, blood pooling on his lumbering body. He screamed, howled like a frightened animal.
There are bruises on her stomach, but they weren’t from Lucas carrying her. She wanted to go to him, protect him. It wasn’t his fault. It was Mason’s, all those shoes and murders. She had seen the sheet laid out with all those muddy, grungy shoes, had heard about it in the hospital, the nurses gossiping.
*
The linoleum squeaks under her rubber slippers. Her hair curls and bobs under her chin, a sensation she isn’t used to yet.
She has three squares a day and group and individual therapy sessions every other day. Her mom visits every first and third Sunday and her dad visits every second and fourth Sunday.
Her parents still can’t be in the same room as each other, three years after the divorce. She misses the clarity of the streets, in some ways, to the way they glide around each other like sharks or jellyfish.
*
She doesn’t like leaves or trees or weeds after. Nature is overwhelming and volatile.
*
Her therapist has her read Of Mice and Men, after she’s detoxed enough to concentrate. She cries, getting tears and snot all over the last few pages.
*
She wonders sometimes what the cops who found her, tracked Lucas and Mason down, what they’re up to. If they like getting pizza and pop rocks, if they like watching spaghetti Westerns. If they wake up dry heaving and sweaty, thinking about seeing an autistic man die in front of thier eyes.
*
When she gets out of rehab, she goes to live with her mom. She keeps her hair chin length, wears black and blue and purple. She thinks she wants to work with children, in a big, clean city somewhere. Somewhere without leaves.
Rating: PG - 13 for creepyness
Pairing: None, gen
Word Count: 417
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for Criminal Minds 4X21 "To Hell ..." and 4X22 "And Back" and triggery for whats in those eps. Triggery, anyway for mentions of drug use.
Kelly cuts her hair, after.
*
She was a junkie, but she didn’t shoot up her drugs of choice. She was afraid of needles, always had been, screaming and causing a ruckus even when she was a toddler. So she didn’t shoot up. There are lots of ways to chemical oblivion even without them.
*
Kelly gets checked into rehab by her mother. It’s peaceful and boring there.
*
Her throat is sore from screaming for him.
She’s dirty and thirsty and hungry and tired and totally out of her mind with adrenaline and fear, but it is her throat that bothers her body the most.
She can’t stop seeing Lucas get shot to pieces, blood pooling on his lumbering body. He screamed, howled like a frightened animal.
There are bruises on her stomach, but they weren’t from Lucas carrying her. She wanted to go to him, protect him. It wasn’t his fault. It was Mason’s, all those shoes and murders. She had seen the sheet laid out with all those muddy, grungy shoes, had heard about it in the hospital, the nurses gossiping.
*
The linoleum squeaks under her rubber slippers. Her hair curls and bobs under her chin, a sensation she isn’t used to yet.
She has three squares a day and group and individual therapy sessions every other day. Her mom visits every first and third Sunday and her dad visits every second and fourth Sunday.
Her parents still can’t be in the same room as each other, three years after the divorce. She misses the clarity of the streets, in some ways, to the way they glide around each other like sharks or jellyfish.
*
She doesn’t like leaves or trees or weeds after. Nature is overwhelming and volatile.
*
Her therapist has her read Of Mice and Men, after she’s detoxed enough to concentrate. She cries, getting tears and snot all over the last few pages.
*
She wonders sometimes what the cops who found her, tracked Lucas and Mason down, what they’re up to. If they like getting pizza and pop rocks, if they like watching spaghetti Westerns. If they wake up dry heaving and sweaty, thinking about seeing an autistic man die in front of thier eyes.
*
When she gets out of rehab, she goes to live with her mom. She keeps her hair chin length, wears black and blue and purple. She thinks she wants to work with children, in a big, clean city somewhere. Somewhere without leaves.