Stories by Terribly-Timid

When David Rossi gets a call about his apparent claim to small boy in Vegas his first thought is that the social worker has the wrong number. His second thought is that Diana was more out of it than anyone knew. His third and the one that he holds to is this. He is not a parent, he does not want to be a parent, Spencer Reid deserves a parent.

"You are your parents' child, stubbornness and pride. Mind them now as you always have. Remember to live. Life fiercely, live fearlessly, live recklessly, live without regret."

The setting event itself is not anything abnormal. In fact it is often that parents or loved ones approach him begging for him to look at a case. His answer is always the same as the echo of what he told Jason a decade ago when Mary Ellen Barnett pressed the photo of Tara into his hands. They can't save them all. But maybe, just maybe he can save Spencer Reid.

Sirius Black has spent the last 5 years working tirelessly to keep a grieving family together. They are not healing but they are surviving. Until something rocks them to their core. They have survived a war, and crippling grief, but can they survive the winter of 1986? Dimension Travel AU - rewrite/reworking originally named I'm Coming Home on -

Safety is a fleeting and feeble comfort for the man that is condemned. For though he often knows not the hour nor the day, he is aware that at some point his safety will be compromised and his prior transgressions will be set before him. That the time will come, in this life or the next, when he will stand bearing the full responsibility of his actions and be judged.

Toni Stark could count on her hand the amount of times in her life that she cried that she could recall. Howard beat the mantra of 'Starks are made of iron' pretty early on in her lifetime. This is the story of the five times Toni failed in holding in her tears and the one time she let them fall freely. A.N - Rated T for the fifth chapter.