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gothprentiss · 2 years

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@cmgiftexchange holiday gift for @pagetbewbster !!

the book of the dead

derek morgan/emily prentiss | rated m | 2 chapters | 16.8k words

He wanted to be grateful for her presence, and largely he was. But something was off, something was always unsettling him when they were together. He felt always that something was intervening between them. // A fresh wound you wouldn’t acknowledge could do a number on you. // Where was he, the Derek she knew? Her Derek, her partner— he might last have called her his partner when he was watching her bleed out. At least he’d called her his friend since then. Where was he, her solid foundation?

For the living. For the protection of the dead, and their guidance to the afterlife. Set season 7, largely canon-compliant. In the life after death, Derek and Emily find new ways of living.

#i'm SORRY this is so late first i dropped my laptop and then i was in the literal forest. but it's here #also like. i know this is very long. i work only at unreasonable lengths. i tried to vary it so there's at least ONE fun thing in it!!!!!#also it's like 90% character portraiture. anyway. i'd never written a whole long demily fic before so this is a textual exorcism really #sorry to keep hedging this it just felt appropriate lol. i think i rewrote it twice too and still am here.#demily #fic #pagetbewbster

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