Hello! This is a story I came up with after months of wanting to write a Criminal Minds story. It was inspired by the show's storyline of Emily Prentiss' past as a spy and two of my favorite villainesses, The Evil Queen (from ABC's Once Upon A Time) and Callisto (from Xena: Warrior Princess). This is mostly a Prentiss/OC story with a strong Reid/OC love story sub plot, and some Morgan/OC. This is my first time writing a CM story so please bear with me.

Warnings are as followed: Strong language, Sex, Violence, and Character death. Timeline of events are a little different from the show.

As usual, I don't own Criminal Minds or its characters. I just own the OC's.

Thanks for reading

Confessions of an Alleged Sociopath

"I feel like there are two types of people in this world, Rossi. The ones that get over their grief and move on, and the ones that descend into some sort of endless misery."

-Spencer Reid

Chapter 1: Intro

My name is Alana and I am an alleged sociopath.

I say alleged because I don't think it's true.

By definition, a sociopath is a person with a personality disorder that manifests itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior, and a lack of conscious. They're said to be master manipulators and liars, callous, cold individuals incapable of feeling normal human emotion. Feelings of guilt, remorse, shame and love don't exist in their world.

Callous and cold? It depends on who you ask. Lying and manipulating? When I need to, but who doesn't? Anyone who says they've never lied to or manipulated another person in their entire life is a goddamn liar, and they should be in this nut house right now instead of me.

That's where I am, by the way, the nut house. A mental institution. A "safe place" for people like "me" who need "help." But I don't need help. There's nothing wrong with me. I'm not sociopathic, or anything close to it. I feel no shame or remorse or guilt over what I've done to get here, because I wasn't wrong.

I am capable of feeling normal human emotions. I am capable of feeling love. In fact, that's why I'm in this rat hole. Love. And a burning, deep-seated hatred.

So here I am, in this small room sitting in this rickety old chair, being evaluated by a psychiatrist and the FBI's best criminal profilers. I can almost laugh as they stare at me, study me, try to figure me out and understand why I am the way I am, why I've done the things that I've done. It's both amusing and kind of frustrating at the same time.

"Well, are you going to stare at me all day or are you going to do what you came here to do and interview me?" I ask.

I see Hotch and JJ exchange quick glances, and then they open their files and notebooks, and click their pens. They look anxious, almost morose as they do this. I like that.

Hotch takes a deep breath. "Okay, let's start at the beginning."

"The beginning? When it happened?" I don't need to elaborate on what "it" is. They already know.

"No, let's start from the very beginning." JJ says. She opens one of the files to the first page. "You were born Alana Maryse Baudelaire-Morgan on March 1, 1991 in Lower Canaan, Ohio?"

"Yes," I say with a nod, a little annoyed with such an irrelevant question. "But what does that have anything to do with this?"

"Just a baseline question." Hotch says.

"To test how honest you're going to be." JJ adds.

I'm borderline amused and offended by this statement. I smirk a little and stare directly into JJ's blue eyes. I can tell she's a little scared, but she still stares back at me, nonetheless.

"Do you honestly think I'd lie at this point, Jennifer? After all that's happened, you think I'd lie?" I shake my head, disappointed with the both of them. I lean forward across the table, still staring at JJ. "Don't be concerned about my honesty. Trust me when I say that I'm going to tell you everything. Every sickening detail."

With that, I sit back in my chair and begin my confession.

One more thing- the face claim for the book cover image is Hudson Leick (the talented actress that portrayed Callisto). I know it looks a lot like Nikki Reid, but it's just Hudson edited with darker hair.