every once in a while i find a fics i wrote when i was procrastinating on school or life and i stumbled upon one i started about hotch essentially chasing elle down during his retirement (i think i was on an unsub elle kick or something its unclear)
while im not as big of a fan of the concept now im still SO obsessed with hotch and elle. they're so similar and yet so different. i always ponder on how their friendship wouldve been had the whole shooting thing not happened and elle had stuck around (and possibly grown into a more measured individual). idk where im going with this
-r.e.o
reo anon, i made sure to save this ask bc i kinda went offline for a few months...!
what's struck me in your message is "their friendship" because my feeling watching them in s1 - 2 is that they get along, but are still just coworkers. worse than coworkers, boss and employee. but that has made me think about them in much later seasons, like s6+ where so many others have left and they have more of a equal footing. especially because they didn't have a strong mentor-mentee relationship (not like gideon and elle imo)
they ARE similar. i think that elle is more rule-abiding than you'd think and hotch is less straight-laced than you'd think (COUGH 1x17 a real rain COUGH).
if it's not too personal, do feel free to share the fic 👐
much love xx
