Hiiii, hope you're doing good today 🤠 could i get a blurb from the Well Respected universe with Hotch and reader from before they got together 🥺 maybe her first day on the job or something, idk I'm feeling fluffy lmao
Hiiiiii <33 you absolutely can!!! I hope you’re having an amazing day. Also if I ever write a prequel chapter you have to pinky promise to pretend this doesn’t exist bc continuity errors give me a headache <3
Ps I do not think this is fluffy enough and I’m so sorry😭 pre relationship makes me so nervous to write fluff for cause I don’t want them to be TOO familiar yk
“Sir? The new agent is here to see you!” Garcia chirps from the doorway, and Hotch glances up from his paperwork without lifting her head. “I like her. She’s very… well, you’ll see!”
She flits away without a word, leaving Hotch only slightly nervous as to what she means. Her presence in the doorway is replaced by a shadow a second later, and then he sees you.
It’s a good thing that Hotch’s unwavering professionalism is one of his strong suits. Otherwise, god only knows what sort of embarrassing reaction he would have the first time he sees your smile. He blinks once, twice, snaps himself out of the haze he didn’t realize he had fallen into while you stick out your hand.
“Agent Hotchner, it’s nice to meet you. I’m here for orientation,” you say, and your eyes are so wide, your face is so eager, and Hotch is just grateful that your profiling skills aren’t as developed as his own. Yet.
He shakes your hand as he stands up from his desk, and nods when you introduce yourself. He commits both name and pronunciation to memory, then rounds the desk. “Let me show you around,” he offers, and when you nod he starts towards the open door.
“This is a really nice office,” you tell him, and he can’t tell if you’re trying to fill the silence or if you genuinely think that. “It’s an honour to work with you, sir. I’ve heard a lot about you.”
Hotch hums, a short noise from somewhere in his throat. “Not all bad, I hope,” he murmurs. It’s fruitless; he knows you’ve probably heard all about what an overworked asshole he is. His reputation precedes him in most circles, for better and for worse.
“Not at all,” you assure him as he leads you to the conference room. When you start to turn in the wrong direction out of his office, he guides you with a hand on your back to keep you on track while letting you speak. “Well, I mean. I’ve heard a lot.”
A wry chuckle escapes him against his better judgement. “I’m sure you have. This is the conference room; every time a new case comes in, we meet here to go over the details. Garcia is currently transitioning us away from paper files, so we should be a little more high-tech in a few months.”
“Penelope, right?” you double check and he nods in answer while you look at the TV screen, chairs, and file folders. “She seems nice. Very bubbly.”
“She’s very nice. Bubbly is a good word for it,” he answers smoothly. Something about you is bringing his guard down, and he hesitates for a moment. “You’ve heard a lot, you said. About the team?”
You shrug one shoulder and follow him out of the conference room and down the stairs to the bullpen. “Some stuff about the team. Some stuff about the leader.”
Hesitancy is written all over your face. Hotch stops walking, forcing you to stop as well. When you make eye contact with him, he raises one eyebrow. Tell me more, it seems to say.
Maybe you’re feeling ballsy because it’s your first day, or maybe something about the arch of that eyebrow makes you want to tell him anything he wants to know. “They just never told me you’d look like that,” you murmur, averting your gaze again. “What’s next?”
That’s… well, it’s not what Hotch was expecting to hear. He files that thought away for later, then puts a hand on your back to guide you towards the cluster of desks that make up the BAU. “We’re full of surprises,” he says quietly, and it doesn’t take a profiler’s eye to see the way goosebumps rise on the back of your neck when you walk in front of him. “Let me introduce you to my team.”
L - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for
Answered here! But if I get another request?! Um... Idk. Can I get something where Nana and Maya work together? I like their brotp... Or Karen and Maya. That’s so rare.
Yes I know I’m biased to Tender Mayo shhhh.
P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)
Answered here but I realized I can always just say another AU lol
I’ve had a pseudo Tokyo Ghoul/Bleach AU stuck in my head lately for RS. So maybe one of those two? I know there’s a Bleach!AU for LWA at least.
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go
Okay, fine you asked for it. Going under the cut because the rest of this got long.
So like everyone who has read my crap stories knows I love Diana Cavendish to pieces and that she owned my heart and soul for over a year right? Okay well there’s someone who has finally dethroned her (for now): Tendou fucking Maya.
Perfect thoroughbred prodigy. So good that her #2 rival gets super frustrated just from her existence. And dramatic af. She also has a lot of fucking hair like bb can you please give me some of that I’m balding.
Ahem. Anyway, But you know what else she is?
A fucking dork. A dork who really likes food apparently. Fandom loves to play this for laughs to the point where I can’t tell how much of a dork she actually is. But she’s my perfect, beautiful, adorkable fav for this stupid series that was the first to pull me away from LWA’s strong grasp on my heart and gdi I love her so much it hurts. It hurts so much. I wish I can dedicate more than 10k+ to her but I really have to go back to Diana too because I still love her but damn it I love you Tender Mayo.
You could see that he was a man accustomed to being treated with a certain degree of respect; you could guess that he thought well of himself, as others thought well of him.
