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1. Without Help by Fish_are_Friends93

   Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   02 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Aaron Hotchner & Spencer Reid
   • The BAU Team & Spencer Reid
   • Spencer Reid
   • Aaron Hotchner
   • Jason Gideon
   • Spencer Reid Whump
   • Hurt Spencer Reid
   • Spencer Reid Needs a Hug
   • Drug Addict Spencer Reid
   • Drug Use
   • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
   • Protective Aaron Hotchner
   • Vomiting
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Whump
   • Post-Episode: s02e15 Revelations (Criminal Minds)
   • Angst
   • Spencer Reid Angst

   Summary

   Hotch knows that Reid is struggling. Unable to continue to let things slide, he takes Spencers thinly veiled cry for help in S2E19:Ashes and Dust as an opportunity to have a long overdue conversation.

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   The conversation Reid never got to have with Hotch in the months following S02E15: Revelations.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Calling For Help: The Healing of Spencer Reid

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   English

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