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• The Sniper, The Spy, and the Unit Chief by DefinitelyNotStraight

  Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F, F/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  14 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Aaron Hotchner/Original Female Character(s)
  • Emily Prentiss/Original Female Character(s)
  • Aaron Hotchner/Emily Prentiss
  • Penelope Garcia/Derek Morgan
  • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/William LaMontagne Jr.
  • The BAU Team (Criminal Minds) & Original Female Character(s)
  • Aaron Hotchner
  • Emily Prentiss
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Penelope Garcia
  • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
  • Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)
  • Spencer Reid
  • David Rossi
  • William LaMontagne Jr.
  • Henry LaMontagne
  • Ashley Seaver
  • Jack Hotchner
  • Polyamory
  • Bisexual Emily Prentiss
  • Pansexual Penelope Garcia
  • Eventual Smut
  • Idiots in Love
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Military Backstory
  • The BAU Team as Family (Criminal Minds)
  • Smoking
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Sexual Tension
  • Bisexual Female Character
  • I am projecting onto Lex in the way that I too want to date Hotch and Prentiss
  • This starts in season 5ish
  • Dead Haley Hotchner
  • Medical Inaccuracies
  • Military Inaccuracies
  • No specific timeline or cases
  • Lex is the both very competent and very stupid
  • Lex Monroe is made of angst gay thoughts and idiocy
  • Lex is the best damn friend anyone can ask for
  • Lex is hot and the team has just noticed it
  • slow burn? maybe?
  • Depends how much patience I have
  • It took 16k words but we finally getting somewhere (with Emily)
  • Everyone is a switch because I say so
  • Praise Kink
  • Hair-pulling
  • Dom/sub Undertones
  • (No sex yet but references to it)
  • WE GOT TO THE PORN BAYBEE
  • Dom/sub
  • Biting Kink
  • Scars
  • Kidnapping
  • Lex is scarily competent and also traumatized
  • Ballroom Dancing
  • Ice Queen Lex Monroe
  • They're so in love and absolutely not subtle
  • Lex is a matchmaking little shit
  • The porn is in chapters 5 and 9 so far
  • This fic now includes my one enby mission to give Ashley Seaver a personality

  Summary

  Lex is so goddamn bored. Ex-army snipers are not made for doing nothing, retirement sucks.

  Then she picks up a book, by a certain David Rossi, and she finds a new purpose.

  How was she supposed to know that she'd fall in love with her boss, and her coworker?

  "If you're listening, God, fuck you."

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  42,110

  Chapters:

  10/?

  Comments:

  11

  Kudos:

  84

  Bookmarks:

  22

  Hits:

  1,613