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• fourth chances? by ur_only_problematic_fav

  Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Catherine "Cat" Adams/Spencer Reid
  • Penelope Garcia
  • Spencer Reid
  • Catherine "Cat" Adams
  • Emily Prentiss
  • Luke Alvez (Criminal Minds)
  • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
  • Unsub (Criminal Minds)
  • Tara Lewis
  • David Rossi
  • Case Fic
  • Background Relationships
  • Background Case
  • post criminal minds evolution s1
  • pre criminal minds evolution s2
  • Cannon compliant
  • Kinda
  • s2 is premiering rn so idk fr
  • One-Sided Attraction
  • manipulative cat adams
  • no beta we die like cat in canon

  Summary

  set post cm evolution s1, there’s a new unsub and the B.A.U. calls in an old acquaintance to help solve it, Spencer is back!…but so is cat adams, will she help with the case or is she working with the unsub again…

  update: pt 13 up

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  English

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