On being rebooted.

[angustifolium]

It's okay.

It's not the first time. It probably won't be the last. But this time it didn't end because someone tried to kill Curie.

Yes, I'm sad. I'd had hopes this time. But it's something I should've known would happen.

At least I won't remember.

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[thesoulbound]

You don't want to remember?

[angustifolium]

No, I really don't. I don't want to be this miserable. I don't want to have a broken heart.

[thesoulbound]

But wouldn't forgetting be like losing a piece of yourself?

I'm sorry. That's never easy to bear.

[angustifolium]

It's actually the second time this has happened to me. ...Involved the same person both times, though. I guess this is a sign not to get involved that way. [He sighed, rubbing a hand over his eyes.] But at least I get to keep Curie.

[thesoulbound]

Ah. I see. I've had bad break ups in the past as well. -=He smiles sympathetically.=-

Who's Curie?

[angustifolium]

Curie is... [Well, besides the obvious...]

Curie is my bright spot. She cheers me up, stays with me... Brings me dead birds to show off what a good hunter she is...

[thesoulbound]

A cat! -=Now you've got him started.=-

I have one, too! His name's Ling and he keeps the mice and rats out of my shop.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Ignorance as bliss?

[angustifolium]

At the moment, that's what I'm hoping for.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Sounds hopeless.

[angustifolium]

It worked once before. [He shrugged.] And I was happy for a while afterward.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

Won't you have less information to operate with?

[angustifolium]

Not really. I'll know everything except... Except what I've lost.

[lostwithoutmyblogger]

And perhaps a case hinges on some scrap of information that is gone?

[iwanttobelieve]

Sounds like you are having a rough patch.

[angustifolium]

Yeah, I am. It's... just something else to deal with, though. Something I should've expected.

[iwanttobelieve]

Used to having a rough go of things?

I do know how that is myself.

[angustifolium]

[Spencer gave a small shrug.] Everything good ends sooner than later.

[hotchner]

Something wrong Reid?

[angustifolium]

...Consider it a bad break up.

[Wow. This is awkward.]

[hotchner]

Are you alright? [His forehead creases a bit in worry.]

[angustifolium]

[He bit his tongue. How could one say, in this situation, that he'd just broken up with Hotch. A different Hotch. Yeah. Not easy. So he'd be... as vaguely honest as possible.]

Not really. I... I'll be better after my mun makes me forget what happened.

[hotchner]

No one should have their head messed with Reid.

[angustifolium]

Hotch, I just split up with someone I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was happy. I had something to depend on for the first time in my life, and now I don't. This happened once before, adna fter it happened, I... forgot everything then, and it came out for the better, because then I wasn't lingering on what happened. It meant I could go to work and not get stuck remembering what I'd lost. I don't want to remember.

[hotchner]

As long as it's what you want. [He looks out for his team.]