ext_1509 ([identity profile] thepouncer.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2007-12-20 10:55 am
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Absolution by Letrice (PG-13)

Fandom: CRIMINAL MINDS
Pairing: Gideon/Hotch
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] letrice
Author Website: None that I could find
Why this must be read:

Because it's the aftermath of Boston, where Gideon's decision resulted in the deaths of his co-workers. This picks up where Gideon is about to break, and it's marvelous. Only slightly slashy. Very satisfying.


Three days after Boston, after the warehouse had blown (wood and shingles and feet and hands; in the aftermath they had gaped at each other in the roaring silence of their stunned ears, shining gobbets of meat and gore all over the road, the sidewalks, all over each other) was when Gideon fell apart. On the day it happened he was enraged and quietly efficient, organizing the evidence against Adrian Bale into a neat and damning package for the DA's office. The second day had bled seamlessly into the first with Gideon in the same clothes, the same jacket smelling of cordite, meeting with the families of the dead agents and finally with that of the hostage.


Absolution