Criminal Minds (Elle Greenaway) [Week 1, Prompt #2] Title: The Price of Victory Author:andwhenwespeak Fandom:Criminal Minds Characters/Pairing: Elle Rating: NC-17 Warnings: Bondage. Spoilers for early season 2 Word Count: 205 Summary: Winning isn't everything. Or is it?
"You won," Reid had told her. As if that meant something, as if any of it ever meant anything.
The guy buys her another drink. She smiles at him, pitying. Elle can hold her liquor, these days.
It wasn't like she was inexperienced when she joined the BAU. She'd worked sex crimes, for god's sake, it wasn't like she was someone who'd never seen things.
"You want to give me a ride home?" she says.
"Sure," says the guy, trying to act casual, trying not to show it. He thinks he's hit the jackpot. You've won something, all right, thinks Elle.
She'd thought she understood. What they did was endless, unceasing. There was always someone else out there, someone willing to go one step further, willing to take it to the next level. And she'd been okay with that. Each one they caught was one less on the streets. And that was enough. She'd thought it was enough.
She was wrong.
He's naked, this guy, cuffed securely to her headboard. She's checked the posts, she knows they'll hold. She stands at the foot of the bed, watching him. "Now," she says, seeing him strain, arms taut, his cock leaking, painfully hard, "now the fun starts."