Love
As I stare into the mirror
Looking at what I wear
I realize I wear a color
That represents us as a whole
Those who have been bullied
Beaten
Yelled at
Talked down to
Is it because they were different?
Did they hold another boy's hand?
Or perhaps a girl was caught kissing her girlfriend
Perhaps it had nothing to do with that
Sexuality
Were they tormented because of their clothes?
Hair?
Make-up?
When all they wanted was someone to care
They were hurt
Thinking they weren't good enough
They hurt themselves
That is why I wear purple
To show my small town
That I care about these people
The ones still here and the ones th
Shocked and Numb by RandomStarvingArtist, literature
Literature
Shocked and Numb
Shocked and Numb
A friend once told me that you don't always need a gun to take down the unsub and from that point on my words became my own secret weapon; I had a degree in psychology after all and my eidetic memory helped me to have a wide vocabulary, but something happened today that hasn't happened in a while. The case had been simple enough, or as simple as they can be since we're normally called in when the LEOs can't solve the case themselves: two teenaged girls, best friends in fact, had been kidnapped and one girl was dead before we arrived and the other was still alive. As we began to dig through the girl's life we discovered that
Petit Papa Noel by RandomStarvingArtist, literature
Literature
Petit Papa Noel
Petit Papa Noel
It was Christmas Eve and everyone at the BAU had the day off; Prentiss was flying out to see her mother, which she had been dreading for the past month or so, Rossi was going to Italy to visit some very distant relatives, JJ, Will, and Henry took a road trip down to Louisiana to visit Will's family, Morgan was going to see his mother and sister's and was planning on staying all the way through New Year's, and Hotch was going to spend as much time with Jack as possible and even hinted at visiting Haley's grave. And then there was him, Dr. Spencer Reid, who had absolutely no plans for the cheerful holiday. He had originally pla