Criminal Minds: Trompe L'oeil (part 22)

[sodakey]

The sterile air in the hospital trudges warily over the grime on their skin, ruffling the edge of Rossi's collar, rippling the soot stamped to Gideon's shirt.

Closing his mouth, Morgan pulls a slow hitch of it through his nose and feels the recoil against the remainder of smoke in his lungs. Ten minutes of standing in the same spot hasn't eased the

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[qultng1]

Understanding is beginning to dawn for Reid and Gideon. Reid is finally ready to move on and I like that. They were close, but Jason's not coming back, so Spencer is okay to move on.

Good description of the team's reactions to the events in this case. Can't go thru something like that without having it affect them. Each one trying to handle it in their own way.

Liked it a lot. :)

[sodakey]

Yes, it is, and I'm hoping that works for the readers. To be strung along this long and hate the ending would probably suck, lol.

Thanks so much for being one of those who hung in there. LJ was giving me trouble tonight, but I finally got the last bit up. It's sooo nice to have this done. People could pelt me with tomatoes and various rotten meats and I'd still be happy. What a year.

[water_soter]

I love the way you simply closed the book, not slamming it, merely letting gravity do it's thing. It was a nice chapter. How they all waited, their points of view and how each of them dealt with the stress was wonderful. I loved the way you related Gideon with the rest of the team. How you can see the small fractures between them. And that moment between Gideon and Reid was sad and painful but like a breath of fresh air after crawling through the sewers. Reid needed to come to this realization, that things could never go back to the way things were because this Gideon was not the Gideon of then and the Reid of then was not the one now. People change, and sometimes that change brings people together, and sometimes that change pulls people apart. And then Morgan and Gideon listening to Reid and Morgan, sad, but like I said before, sometimes people just grow and grow apart. I also loved, I mean loved how there wasn't any real resolution to Reid's condition. He may be fine, but may not be, it was great!

[sodakey]

Thank you! :D I always like that final push to the end. There was a lot that could have been done with the ending. Seriously, I could write epilogues to this for an eternity probably. In the end, I like to think Reid has compassion for Gideon and his mistakes but knows he can't fix them, any more than Gideon might be in a position to fix Reid.

Thanks for hanging in there!