I can haz blankie?

[jadesfire]

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I think I'm starting to understand why there isn't more Criminal Minds case-fic out there. It's not really a case of being intimidated by the show's quality, although I think that's a factor. It's because you have to wade through pages of depressing statistics to give Reid one line of dialogue.

Actually, scratch out depressing. Replace it with disturbing. At the moment, I'm researching an episode tag to 3x05 "Seven Seconds" and the child abduction statistics are scary enough. You know what's worse? The acronym for one study is NISMART. National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway children.

Thrownaway. There's even a definition of it on the webpage. One thing I like about Criminal Minds is that it never plays down the horror of this, that we need a definition for it.

*shivers* Still, I'm writing the story anyway. Because there's one hell of a loose end there, and I really, really want to tie it up. Or at least draw attention to it, because I can't have been the only one to spot it.

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[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Thrownaway?!? *meeps*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I know. It's for kids who are thrown out of the house, not allowed back in after running away, or who aren't searched for when they go missing, as well as the abandonment that the word suggests. On the one hand, I want them to pick another word, on the other? Given what it means, I kind of want it to be a gut-punch. It shouldn't be easy. You know?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh yipes- so that's what they call the 'you leave, you never come back' types. I suppose the gut punch is a good thing in a weird way, if it helps bring it to light