#clyde easter

[doctoralhashimi]

new JTF-12 assignment just dropped

[eyesontheskyline]

PSA for all the Emily Prentiss fic people out there (except those of you who don't care about her work history, no hard feelings, scroll on): on the Doyle case, Emily was employed by the CIA, not by Interpol.

I know 'work for Interpol again?' in S7 threw everybody, so here is JJ's entire speech from the start of Lauren after Emily's "what are you gonna do? tell him?" moment in Fahey's car:

"Okay so I talked to a colleague from Langley [CIA HQ] - he couldn't give me Emily's full CIA history, but he could give me this. She assumed the identity of Lauren Reynolds as part of a special task force called JTF-12. Assembled after 9/11, the CIA and Western agencies contributed their best and brightest." [questions from the team] "[Doyle] was their last case. And now the JTF is on his hit list. Jeremy Wolff was victim number one, from Germany's BND. Sean McAllister at Interpol was the second. He's the one that brought the JTF in to work the Doyle case. He was murdered last week in Brussels with his wife and daughter. Tsia Moseley of France's DCRI - she got engaged to Jeremy earlier this year; after he died, she fled to DC. And team leader Clyde Easter, British SIS*."

(*This is honestly weird, he'd probably call it MI6 but maybe JJ / the State Department doesn't for valid reasons I don't know about, and anyway this is irrelevant.)

So okay. JTF stands for Joint Task Force, because these people all work for different agencies. The team was brought onto the Doyle case by Sean McAllister at Interpol, because Interpol wanted Doyle, and Doyle was a terrorist, and this task force was catching terrorists. But until she leaves the FBI after S7, Emily didn't work for Interpol - she worked for the CIA. And Sean brought the team in for this case, but Clyde was the team leader, and he also didn't work for Interpol at that point - he worked for MI6 / SIS.

[mouthydraws]

Back to these with a Strauss design! Her death hit so hard, her actress did an amazing job and it was so painful to watch. Reminded me of brokenstars death with the way her senses went out. Anyway I don’t really know where she’d fit in terms of the warrior cats hierarchy, but I definitely don’t think she’d have nine lives, I think the nine lives would be given to field team leaders who were going up against other cats directly (Gideon, Hotch, etc.) and risk their lives on a daily basis. Trying to fit her into the warrior cats roles makes me want to reexamine everyone’s roles overall, but I wanna focus on the designs for now. I’ve been meaning to do Blake for a bit now as well but I’ve also gotta finish Doyle and the JTF-12 team. Haven’t done a fullbody for Clyde yet but I did test out some designs and landed on one I liked with a headshot.

[sunlightgalaxy]

Lauren

emily prentiss centric, mentions of emily/ian

warnings: cm typical violence (lauren arc), suicide, heavy angst

a/n: i posted this on ao3 like 3 years ago so im uploading it here

(my gif) / (read on ao3)

lauren reynolds.

that was her name. nothing else. her past didn’t matter anymore. she had to live second by second, minute by minute. that was the only way she would survive.

sitting in that dimly lit dive bar on the outskirts of boston, that was the only thought running through her mind. lauren reynolds, lauren reynolds, lauren reynolds.

and as the stranger she would grow to know over the next few months sat across from her, she knew who she was. who she would become.

he was charming, a flirt. anyone looking in from the outside would see them as a perfect match, but not to her. she would have to ultimately flirt back, get him to trust her, but there would be nothing serious. that wasn’t part of the plan.

as they conversed, she began to zone out a bit, focusing more on him. he was kind, his eyes hiding more than he would ever admit. truthfully, if he wasn’t a weapons dealer with law enforcement after him, and if she wasn’t more into women, she could imagine some sort of future with him. a house in europe, two kids, the so-called perfect family. but of course, this was real life. there would be no house in europe, no kids to look after.

or so she thought.

***

it was fine in the beginning, being in europe with ian. she’d travel with him, helping him with business. they’d sometimes take weekend trips to get away from it all, staying in the countryside on one of his many properties. she didn’t necessarily enjoy being intimate with him, but she had to. after all, it was really just an act. and it would soon be over, hopefully.

but the first time she had felt her heart flutter when he looked at her, she knew. she had to get out. she couldn’t just fall in love with a weapons dealer, it would end terribly. and he didn’t even know who she really was, that the lauren he had fallen in love with didn’t actually exist.

when they finally settled down in italy, she saw her chance to get out. she’d call clyde every few days, pleading with him to just arrest doyle. there was no good reason that her team couldn’t take him. but clyde had other plans. “a few more days,” he had promised, claiming they were getting closer. but he’d been saying this for weeks. she turned to tsia, eventually, but even that was useless. tsia would say the same as clyde, confirming the thought lurking in the back of her mind. she wasn’t leaving anytime soon.

to her, there was no end in sight. he wanted to marry her, have her raise declan. she knew deep down that this couldn’t go on for much longer. she needed an out. she didn’t want to be lauren reynolds anymore.

every morning, her first thought was “this could be the last day.” and it never was. it was getting to be too much, she couldn’t keep going on anymore. the stress of it all had finally caught up to her.

and as she laid in the guest bed, hidden away from ian’s prying eyes, she let her tears fall. reaching into the drawer of the nightstand, she grabbed the bottle of pills and took one. and another. and another. she took enough that she knew would kill her. and that was okay. she didn’t want to be lauren anymore, and now she wouldn’t have to be. she wouldn’t even have to be emily, a whole other life that she was never quite sure if she wanted to go back to. this was better for her. for everyone.

clyde would get her message eventually, or perhaps he would figure out something was wrong. but she didn’t care, she wanted them to find her when it was too late. the letter on the table would explain everything.

“it’s for the best,” her mind reassured her. she recited it softly under her breath until she couldn’t anymore.

her eyes drifted shut, heart slowly stopping.

lauren reynolds was dead.

***

they caught ian doyle the next morning.

[perplexed-confusion]

"Sorry I missed your funeral" he's so funny

[flaminghotjareau]

i’m at the doyle arc in my rewatch and i would totally watch a spin-off based on the jtf-12 team, like just that phone conversation between emily, tsia and clyde at whatever park in dc was enough to convince me of their team dynamic, also i love tsia i wish she had been in the show for longer

[criminalmindsgonewrong]

opinions: did Emily and Clyde sleep together?

yes

no

Voting ended onSep 8, 2023

[javsobsessions]

Sharing credit for this theory with @overpoweredcacti , but Teresa is Clyde Easter. No, I don’t take constructive criticism.