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Fic: A Touch of the Wild, Part 01
Jan. 10th, 2009 07:14 pmI decided to put up my first Criminal Mind fanfic here, as a test run for hand-coding and stuff.
Title: A Touch of the Wild
Author: Soledad
Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds or the White Wolfe characters and settings or any of the other shows from which I've borrowed characters for cameo appearances. All I own are a few OCs and a really twisted plot idea.
Rating: Generally Adults, rated for violence, so no underage readers, please.
Genre: Criminal Minds, crossed over with my Pathways universe. To borrow a matching expression from James Walkswithwind, Pathways is the AU that eats all fandoms.
Timeline: Early Season 3 in Criminal Minds. Set after “Scared to Death”, but before David Rossi joins the BAU team.
Summary: The BAU team is called to Los Angeles to help with a series of particularly brutal murderers. When it turns out that Dr. Reid matches the prey scheme of the unsub with disturbing accuracy, one of the local detectives has to take drastic measures to save his life. So he comes away, relatively unhurt – but does he also come away unchanged?
PART 01
Detective Joaquin Murietta reached the front door of the West Los Angeles Community Police Station exactly ten minutes before the beginning of the night shift, like on every other working day. This rather unremarkable brick building had been his workplace for the last seventeen years, and he still looked essentially the same as he had on the day he’d first set foot into the office of Lieutenant Bronowski: a moderately well-clad Latino man in his mid-thirties, with sharp features, short-cropped black hair, a neatly-trimmed goatee and wide, observant dark eyes.
People sometimes teased him about the fact that he apparently wasn’t aging a day; to which he usually replied that his grandfather hadn’t shown any sign of aging well into his late sixties, and that he must have come after the old man. “It’s all in the genes,” he used to say.
Which was, basically, true. At least the part about his grandfather, who’d lived to a ripe old age of ninety-seven and barely looked a day older when he’d died. The other pat wasn’t something Murietta would discuss with anyone but a few chosen allies.
He locked his car, a black Sedan with tinted glasses, and entered the building. The officer on duty behind the desk – infallibly Sergeant Miguel Sanchez on night shift, a short, wiry, balding man in his early fifties, and Of Mexican origins like himself – nodded in his direction, looking exceptionally grim. Which was a lot to say, as Sergeant Sanchez always looked grim. The bone structure of his face, combined with the hollow cheeks, made him look like a skull on the best of days, albeit an aesthetically pleasing one, from a purely artistic point of view.
For Sanchez to look so much grimmer than usual, something really bad must have happened. As a rule, he was pretty unshakable, which wasn’t surprising if one knew his personal history. Murietta got a sinking feeling in his stomach, guessing already what must have caused the man who’d been hell and back several times to react so strongly.
“There’s a new case, isn’t there?” he asked.
( Read more... )
~TBC~
So, you are free to guess where the individual characters are borrowed from. Small hint: Bianca Moralez and Nancy Wong are the only OCs in this chapter.
Part 02
Title: A Touch of the Wild
Author: Soledad
Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds or the White Wolfe characters and settings or any of the other shows from which I've borrowed characters for cameo appearances. All I own are a few OCs and a really twisted plot idea.
Rating: Generally Adults, rated for violence, so no underage readers, please.
Genre: Criminal Minds, crossed over with my Pathways universe. To borrow a matching expression from James Walkswithwind, Pathways is the AU that eats all fandoms.
Timeline: Early Season 3 in Criminal Minds. Set after “Scared to Death”, but before David Rossi joins the BAU team.
Summary: The BAU team is called to Los Angeles to help with a series of particularly brutal murderers. When it turns out that Dr. Reid matches the prey scheme of the unsub with disturbing accuracy, one of the local detectives has to take drastic measures to save his life. So he comes away, relatively unhurt – but does he also come away unchanged?
PART 01
Detective Joaquin Murietta reached the front door of the West Los Angeles Community Police Station exactly ten minutes before the beginning of the night shift, like on every other working day. This rather unremarkable brick building had been his workplace for the last seventeen years, and he still looked essentially the same as he had on the day he’d first set foot into the office of Lieutenant Bronowski: a moderately well-clad Latino man in his mid-thirties, with sharp features, short-cropped black hair, a neatly-trimmed goatee and wide, observant dark eyes.
People sometimes teased him about the fact that he apparently wasn’t aging a day; to which he usually replied that his grandfather hadn’t shown any sign of aging well into his late sixties, and that he must have come after the old man. “It’s all in the genes,” he used to say.
Which was, basically, true. At least the part about his grandfather, who’d lived to a ripe old age of ninety-seven and barely looked a day older when he’d died. The other pat wasn’t something Murietta would discuss with anyone but a few chosen allies.
He locked his car, a black Sedan with tinted glasses, and entered the building. The officer on duty behind the desk – infallibly Sergeant Miguel Sanchez on night shift, a short, wiry, balding man in his early fifties, and Of Mexican origins like himself – nodded in his direction, looking exceptionally grim. Which was a lot to say, as Sergeant Sanchez always looked grim. The bone structure of his face, combined with the hollow cheeks, made him look like a skull on the best of days, albeit an aesthetically pleasing one, from a purely artistic point of view.
For Sanchez to look so much grimmer than usual, something really bad must have happened. As a rule, he was pretty unshakable, which wasn’t surprising if one knew his personal history. Murietta got a sinking feeling in his stomach, guessing already what must have caused the man who’d been hell and back several times to react so strongly.
“There’s a new case, isn’t there?” he asked.
( Read more... )~TBC~
So, you are free to guess where the individual characters are borrowed from. Small hint: Bianca Moralez and Nancy Wong are the only OCs in this chapter.
Part 02
