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1. when the heart would cease, ours never knew peace by marestomars for stevienicss

   Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   04 Feb 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Aaron Hotchner/Emily Prentiss
   • Aaron Hotchner
   • Emily Prentiss
   • The BAU Team (Criminal Minds)
   • Eventual Romance
   • Drama
   • lauren arc
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Ian Doyle Arc (Criminal Minds)
   • Inspired by a Hozier Song
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Inferno References (La Divina Commedia | The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri)
   • Passionate Sex
   • Declarations Of Love
   • Not Really Character Death
   • brought myself to tears multiple times writing it
   • not exactly sad

   Summary

   “Dante finds them in Hell, in the second circle where the lustful are, and she tells him how love led them to their downfall. She blames herself for their fate with the same intensity that she wouldn’t change a thing—because that meant she loved and was loved in return.”

   Aaron tries to process what she’s telling him, and it takes a minute. But he understands. She’s telling her own story. Not regretting her own death—because at least once, she was loved. "

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