Title: The Censorship Of Skin (2/6)
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters: Reid, Morgan, Elle
Rating: FRT
Disclaimer: Not mine. No infringements of copyrights intended, used here without permission, etcetera.
Summary: The team prepares to leave for vacation. Reid doesn't like beaches, and he's not feeling so enthusiastic about visiting his mother, either. Set at the beginning of 01x22, The Fisher King (1). (ftm!Reid, which idea refuses to leave my head.)
A/N: Written for lesablefox . Part two of a mini-series of AU episode tags. Title from "Born A Girl", Manic Street Preachers. I was nice and resisted the urge to bring the Fisher King legend into this one. ;)

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.