ladyjanelly: (reid morgan)
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Title: Found
Author: LadyJanelly
Rating: FRT (teen--milder than the show itself
Pairing: Reid/Morgan pre-slash
Summary: Morgan aches to make a connection with someone--hooker!fic AU.
Notes: Thanks to Roxymissrose for the super-fast read-over and cheer-leading. :)




Derek turns the rental car south towards the local stroll. He can’t do this in a bureau vehicle and it wouldn’t be right to do it in one borrowed from the Vegas PD either.

He’s given the team the impression he’s meeting up with the cute blonde CSI that they worked with on the case. He knows it would be safer if that was true. He can’t do it though. Can’t face another empty romp like cotton candy in his soul. He knows there’s irony in searching for something meaningful where most men go for a cheap quick fuck.

He takes his foot off the gas and the car slows to a lazy cruise. Slow enough for him to look over the street-walkers that clutter the corners in this part of town. He doesn’t have a particular type in mind but he eliminates more than half on the first glance. Too old, too high, too jaded. A petite little Latina catches his eye. Too young to be out here wobbling on high heels that don’t even fit her feet.

He pulls the car up to the curb and pulls the cash out of his pocket. Getting them into the car is the trickiest part. After that it’s just a matter of getting them to take what they want and need from him.

He puts on his best smile--all charm with just enough lust for her to take his come-on seriously.

The girl he has his eye on is halfway to his car and then some skinny boy disengages himself from the cluster of hookers he’d been loitering with and stops her with a hand on her arm. They talk for a second and Derek is intrigued by the boy’s smile and how he gently sends her back to the spot he’d just left.

The boy is the one who comes over to Derek’s open window. Dark hair flops in his eyes and he’s so thin that Derek can see his collar bone and count half his ribs through the tight t-shirt he wears. He doesn’t have a junkie’s vibe though and Derek feels an unfamiliar tingle at the bright intelligence of his smile.

“What can I do for you tonight, officer?”

And never, of all the times Derek’s done this, has anybody made him in the first ten seconds of contact.

Adrenaline sparks along his nerves before his rational mind can tell him this isn’t Chicago, that he isn’t undercover.

“I’m off the clock,” he says, and flashes the fifty. He’s forgotten the girl already. This is the one he wants tonight. “You available for a date?”

The boy glances over his shoulder at a tall muscular guy who leans against the wall watching over the block and then back at Derek. He grazes his teeth over his own lower lip but the gesture looks deliberately provocative and not like a sign of true nervousness. The kid is confident and Derek hasn’t seen many prostitutes with that sort of brazenness.

“A date?” the kid asks as he opens the car door and folds his long coltish limbs into the passenger seat. “Sure. Where are you taking me?”

Derek finds an answering smile curling his own lips. God this is what he needed tonight. Just what he needed. He passes the kid the money. So there’s no misunderstanding about the hustler getting paid for this.

“What are you in the mood for?” and he can see that he’s surprised the kid as much as the kid had tried to surprise him.

There are so many ways that question could be answered, from “Your dick” to some cheesy-ass diner. Instead the kid offers “There’s a Sushi Mon not far from here.”

The words are challenge and test both and Derek finds he likes the way the kid’s smile gets even brighter when he puts the car in drive and says “Sushi it is, then.”

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Derek gives the kid his real name and he gets back an obvious alias: Isaac. Beyond that he breaks every profile of a prostitute that Derek’s ever seen. He quotes Nietzsche and the chemical components of Derek’s sake. He asks for a sushi restaurant and then eats eel and California rolls with a fork.

Derek’s first guess had been that the “Isaac” was so thin because of malnutrition and poverty. After an hour listening to the kid talk about everything and nothing and only take a bite every hundred words or so, he changes his theory on that.

His smiles are wide and generous, his teeth white and healthy and straight. His eyes hide just enough though that there’s no question this is all for the client’s amusement. He only gives so much.

“Your fifty’s almost up,” the kid mentions over green tea ice cream.

“There’s more where that came from,” Derek reassures him. And if there was ever a hooker that he’d actually have sex with instead of just trying to get off the street, this is the one. “You need to check in with your pimp? I don’t want to get you in trouble.”

Isaac covers his surprise with a cough. “Pimp? No, Frank’s an employee, not employer.”

Derek finds himself beyond intrigued. “Really. And the girls on that block?”

“An organization of independent operators.” There’s no missing the spark of pride in the kid’s voice.

“I take it you had something to do with that?”

That bright smile flashes again. “It was timing more than anything. A pimp overdosed just as I was coming onto the scene and left a power vacuum. I suggested a way to fill it where the control stayed in the hands of the ones who were doing all the work.”

“Come back to my hotel room.” He has to know. Why a kid so bright and beautiful is selling himself. He aches with the need to know and the need to do whatever it takes to change the situation.

Isaac shrugs and pushes away the last of his melted desert. “Yeah. Okay then.”

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They lounge on Derek’s bed and watch an hour of Discovery channel. Isaac elaborates on the biography of Nostradamus and criticizes their interpretations of his works. He’s launching into a discussion on how every society sees itself if the predictions are vague enough when Derek breaks in with “How did someone so smart end up walking the streets?”

That startles Isaac into silence for a moment and he pushes his hair back behind one ear. “I started working the tables at the casinos first but they didn’t appreciate my success rate.”

And it’s not so hard to imagine this kid counting cards and having a system for the blackjack tables. Still.

“So what then? You’re no junkie. What else could make you need the money that bad?” Something shifts behind the kid’s eyes. Close but not it. “Who. Who do you need the money for?”

Isaac shakes his head and his smile is sad. “I would have let Kiki go with you if I’d known this was what you were looking for.”

That’s no answer but Derek feels like if he lets the kid stop talking he’ll never start again. “Oh yeah? Why’s that?”

“This is some sort of rescue, right? Like an intervention? She could use it a lot more than I could. Three months, four at the most, and everything changes for me. What you’re offering might have made a difference for her.”

Derek can feel the kid slipping away from him. “A lot can happen in four months. You don’t have to do this. You don’t have to be this.” He doesn’t use the alias. Desperation colors his voice.

Isaac shakes his head and moves to his feet. “This is real to you. I can’t take money from someone who thinks this is real.”

“Wait.” Derek can’t--won’t stop him physically but he puts all of his years of training into that word and Isaac stops. “Take my card. Please. Please. If you need anything. If I can help you, call me.”

Those graceful slim fingers reach out and brush Derek’s as Isaac takes the small rectangle of paper. “Take care of yourself, officer,” he says and puts it into his pocket without looking at it.

Isaac leaves and Derek doesn’t know if he blew it or if this was just another case of a kid he couldn’t save.

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If they don’t call in a couple days they aren’t going to. A week goes by and Derek wishes he’d done something more, something better, but Isaac doesn’t call. Work keeps him busy but the memory of those dark eyes and graceful fingers haunts him whenever he closes his eyes.

And then five months later Derek’s phone rings from a number he doesn’t know and when he answers there’s a moment of silence before that voice he’d hoped so desperately to hear all those months ago asks “Did I--is this a bad time?”

“No,” Derek’s quick to say as he pulls off into the breakdown lane so he can turn his full attention to the call. Getting home in time to sleep before he has to be at work in the morning loses all importance. “I didn’t expect to hear from you though. Isaac, right? Everything okay, man?”

There’s another awkward pause and then the kid’s warm chuckle in his ear. “Spencer. It’s Spencer, actually.”

For half a second Derek thinks this is a goodbye call. That the kid has taken an overdose or slit his wrists in a bathtub somewhere and Derek’s is the only number he has of someone who might give a damn that he’s dead.

But the kid, Spencer, is still talking and Derek turns his concentration to the words instead of listening for slurring or background noise. “I just wanted you to know that I made it out. And that you helped. That you cared enough to even try, it helped.”

“I’m glad to hear it,” Derek says and he is. “You doing alright now? Dealing or processing or whatever?”

“I compartmentalize very well,” Spencer says. “Anyway, I just--” And Derek can hear the goodbye that will come next.

“Hey,” he says to draw the conversation out that little bit more. “You can call me. Anytime for anything. Just to talk or whatever. You know that, right?”

“Okay,” says Spencer like he thinks Derek’s a little off in the head and Derek has to wonder if he might be right. “Thanks. And you have a good night, okay?”

“You too,” says Derek and he listens to nothing for a long second after Spencer hangs up.

That should be the end of it. Closure. But somehow Derek doesn’t think it will be. Spencer is becoming predictable in his tendency to choose the least likely course of action.

Derek carefully saves the incoming number with Spencer's name before he puts the car in drive and starts for home again.

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Only four days go by between calls the next time. Derek’s at dinner with a red headed beauty he met at the gym and trying to forget the forty-eight hours of trying to stop a spree killer in Austin. He’s thinking of the immediate future. Them together in her bed or his but when his phone rings and he sees the caller ID he smiles his apology and leaves the table. “I have to take this. Work.”

“Spencer,” he says with a smile as he steps outside the restaurant. “Everything okay?”

“Oh. Yeah.” Spencer says, and then “Well no. I saw the news. About your team’s work in Texas. I wanted to be sure you knew you could call me too. Not that I know what to say or anything. But I could listen. I would always listen. This goes two ways, right? It’s not just a pity thing?”

“Thanks,” Derek says because he doesn’t know how to say that he isn’t a “talk about his feelings” kind of guy but he doesn’t want to slap Spencer down when he’s trying so hard to reach out. “So how’ve things been going for you?”

He listens for almost half an hour about the job offer Spencer got and how the training is going.

When he gets back to the table his date has already left. He doesn’t really mind.

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The third call comes during work hours and Spencer sounds--not afraid on the phone but rushed. “Did you mean it?” he asks. “That I can call you if I need anything?”

And “anything” can mean a lot but Derek won’t back out now. He steps out of the break-room and heads towards his desk where it’s quieter. “What do you need, Spencer?”

“Forget that we met. How we met. Please.”

A shiver goes down Derek’s back. “Spencer, what’s going on? Are you in trouble?”

“I’m sorry. I have to go.”

Derek’s protests fall on dead air. He calls the number back and it goes straight to voice mail. Spencer’s voice saying You have reached the number of Dr. Reid. I’m not available right now, please leave a message.

Shit. This is not happening. He pushes away from his desk with every intention of having Spencer’s phone tracked by its GPS. As he turns to go the elevator opens and Hotch, Gideon and the object of Derek's distress step out. Spencer looks so different in his ill-fitting dark suit and slicked-down hair. He looks thinner despite the layers but nervous and happy.

Hotch looks up. Sees him and smiles and calls “Morgan. I’d like to introduce you to the newest member of the BAU. Derek Morgan, Doctor Spencer Reid.”

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Date: 2009-01-25 07:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] guard-the-cards.livejournal.com
Geee!! I love it, there is of course the issues with Reid's borderline autisim, which i'm fairly sure MGG has said is at least Apbergers and could be higher. But yay!! It's such a different Reid, and I want to see how it changes everything!

Date: 2009-01-26 12:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
I think if/when I write more, he'll feel a little more IC. The hooker-thing is sort of a specific skill-set instead of a broad understanding of human interactions. If thaqt makes sense.

Glad you enjoyed it.
-J.

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Date: 2009-01-25 08:53 am (UTC)
embroiderama: (Dean - eyes!)
From: [personal profile] embroiderama
I don't know these guys, but I can't sleep, and I just can't turn down a hooker AU written by you. :) I love that neither of them is what they first take the other to be, and then the ending is awesome.

Date: 2009-01-26 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Ahh. Sooo much you must have missed. But--a lot will be revealed in the second part if/when I write it. I'm glad that it kinda works stand-alone-ish though.

Spencer are a genius in the show. Triple PhD at 22 genius. Just not so socially adept.

Date: 2009-01-25 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xsethsownstarx.livejournal.com
oh man!!! I'm all like *flailyface* and *flailyhands* over here! I totally did not realise it was going to end with him actually joining the team like this was what came before.. wow...

I like totally have to go watch some Criminal Minds now. Plz excuse me. kthx.

Date: 2009-01-26 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
And now they'll have to work together all knowing a secret about each other and---hrrrm.

Heh. Enjoy.

Date: 2009-01-25 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pekover.livejournal.com
I don't watch the show, and I still really enjoyed the story, so - way to go!

Date: 2009-01-26 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
I'm glad you liked it. There was soo much going on though. I feel like I should write the sequel just for y'all who don't already know the show's secrets.

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Date: 2009-01-25 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] la-perkins.livejournal.com
This was great. I started to read it thinking there wasn't much chance it would work for me, but it's LadyJanelly, so I'll give it a try, and I am really glad I did.


Date: 2009-01-26 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
The pairing or hooker!fic? This fandom is really trick to AU in.

Glad you enjoyed it.

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Date: 2009-01-25 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rivestra.livejournal.com
I love the characters of Criminal Minds, but have mostly stayed away fro the fic because the slash goggles just refused to work on 'em. *This* scenario though? Oh *yeah*.

I'm crossing my fingers that your muses won't let you go so easily and that there'll be more of this.

Date: 2009-01-26 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Honestly I think I like the genfic in that fandom more than the slash, but I can't write case-fic to save my life and everything else that fits in canon has been done (that I can come up with at least) and if I'm gonna write AU I can throw in some slash. :)

I'm thrilled that it worked for you though. It was fun to write even if Reid is one stuborn character.

Date: 2009-01-25 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ninhursag.livejournal.com
Oh, interesting! I always love a good hooker au and the way you weave their canon traits into this portrayal is really cool.

Date: 2009-01-26 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
I wanted the circumstances to have changed them as little as possible. Not that Reid needs more baggage, but it makes an interesting dynamic to play with.

Glad you enjoyed it. :)

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sweet!

Date: 2009-01-26 01:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 1orelei.livejournal.com
I just had to go make some hot cocoa, find a blanket to snuggle up in (the slippers are literally a lost cause) so I could return to my computer and read this again.

Perfect, snuggable, cold day reading material. Thank you. :)

Re: sweet!

Date: 2009-01-26 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Heh. I can't believe I wrote hooker!fic where nobody has sex through the whole thing. :) It did make for a kind of warm-fuzzy dynamic though. I love writing relationships that start as friendship instead of all lusty.

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Date: 2009-01-26 04:54 am (UTC)
shinealightonme: (cm reid needs a hug)
From: [personal profile] shinealightonme
Oh gosh this is so wonderful. AU fic is like crack to me and it so hard to find in this fandom, but this is amazing. Your Derek characterization is spot on and him helping hookers get off the streets is very sweet and very believable. I would love to read more of this if you choose to continue it =D

Date: 2009-01-26 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
I write almost nothing but AU fic, and making one work for this fandom was tricky. I think the better/more realistic the original material is, the harder it is to fic for in general and AU specifically.

Glad you enjoyed it. I'm working on a sequel, but with my recent run of unfinished fics I'm trying not to promise too much.

Date: 2009-01-26 05:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madeofsequins.livejournal.com
oh my, this was lovely. it SO works even though it's AU -- morgan and reid were both very much in character throughout. looooove it & would eagerly read more if there will be more at some point.

Date: 2009-01-26 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
I'm working on a sequel, but I'm a cronic WIPer so I'm trying not to over-promise. :)

I think it's funny that I looove hooker!fic but am not so into the porn.

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Date: 2009-01-26 05:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com
Hah! That was full of awesome. I hate hooker!AU fics that are filled with pity. I loved Reid, and that very last part was FTW.

Date: 2009-01-26 05:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Heh. I write a lot of hooker!AU fics and I don't think a one of them has been pitiful. Not this one, but usually my hookers have anger management issues and end up beating someone half to death with a brick or baseball bat. :) I love hooker!fic that focuses on the strengths of the character instead of the weaknesses.

Date: 2009-01-26 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redfirecracker.livejournal.com
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Criminal Minds AU hooker-fic!!!! Awesome!

*cough* Sorry for abusing capital letters like this.

Date: 2009-01-27 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Heh. Glad I could provide.

Date: 2009-01-26 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lexzilla.livejournal.com
Man, this is perfect timing. Just the other day I was talking to someone about the lack of Criminal minds AU fic, and then you come up with this :D

Your Morgan voice was so good and its so easy to imagine hustler!Reid, all sinewy and too smart. This was perfect.

Date: 2009-01-27 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Dude. This is one of the hardest fandoms to AU that I've ever written in. Even this gets them to about where they are in canon.

Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun piece to write.

Date: 2009-01-28 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thepouncer.livejournal.com
This is terrific. There's never enough hookerfic, and I love the way you brought it all back to canon.

Date: 2009-02-02 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
I'm pl;aying with a second part now, as well as a gen fic where reid has the flu. :)

One of the things I like about writing AUs is seeing how off I can take things and still bring it back to true.

Date: 2009-02-02 12:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yukifairy.livejournal.com
OH!! Please write more!!! I absolutely Love it !!(SQUEAL) Have you Watched this Season yet?

Date: 2009-02-02 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Yeah I've been watching this season on ch131.com because we don't have cable or an antenna. God I can't wait for a new freakin' episode.

I'm working on this and a gen fic where reid has the flu. :)

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post link here, yes?

Date: 2009-02-16 07:25 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Make Sequels! Please!

Date: 2009-02-16 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starmack.livejournal.com
This is so completely wonderful and awesome. LOVELOVELOVE.

Date: 2009-02-26 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Thanks. :) It was my first foray into this pairing/fandom. Glad it went over well.

Date: 2009-02-18 02:24 am (UTC)
innerslytherin: (Default)
From: [personal profile] innerslytherin
OMG. I love this. I'm a huge sucker for fics where Morgan & Reid met before the BAU (South of Tower Parkway is another that sticks in my mind, and [livejournal.com profile] severity_softly has an AU where they went to school together that I LOVE). I love their interactions and the way Spencer is obviously keeping an eye on Derek, too, since he sees that the team's had a bad case. I absolutely love it.

Date: 2009-02-18 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
Thanks. :) I think one of the things that the CM fandom sort of loses out on is there's so few first-meetings in canon. Just the first time Morgan called Garcia baby-girl. I like exploring the possibilities.

Heh. Reid is so awkward at the comforter role but he'll try. He really does care.

So glad you enjoyed.

Date: 2009-02-26 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geekchic29.livejournal.com
oh i loved it! I always wondered about how Spencer and Derek met...very creative! :)

Date: 2009-02-26 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyjanelly.livejournal.com
This has to be the most canon-compliant AU I've ever written in the history of ever. Glad you enjoyed it.

re: Found

Date: 2009-05-31 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redrayne717.livejournal.com
Fantastic!!

Date: 2009-07-13 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niccy07.livejournal.com
This is the FIRST criminal minds slash fic EVER that I LIKED! It's just so perfect and you have the voices down perfectly. A problem with most criminal minds fics is that I can never believe the slash fics.

This is definitely my favorite! Please tell me there will be more!

Date: 2009-09-27 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thelana.livejournal.com
Guh, this is just gorgeously pretty. And just like somebody else said, perfect voices.

Date: 2009-12-25 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wordlesslove.livejournal.com
whoa~ *giggles into a fit of madness*

that. -pause- yeah... this is like reading the script of criminal minds itself.
you completely capture the essence of their characters. and the chemistry between the two of them is so great, it's so genuine. this is the kind of awesome that makes you smile at every line you read.

and the ending. oh my gosh! i would say i saw that coming, (and a little part of me did, a very little part) but that would be lying. i'm so glad there is a sequel!

Date: 2010-08-15 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] princesslacus.livejournal.com
This is so beautiful, like a Cinderella story or something. Epic. Loved it. Thanks for sharing!
Edited Date: 2010-08-15 03:20 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-08-15 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-morange.livejournal.com
snap, only Morgan would find a friend where most people find anonymity
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