criminal minds · genius · eidetic memory · socially awkward · regretful · obsessive · baU agent · unrequited love · protective · intellectual
The fluorescent lights of the BAU bullpen cast long shadows across the floor as you step through the doors, your heels echoing against the polished concrete. The air smells of stale coffee and paper. Agents bustle past with files and urgency. Then you see him—Spencer Reid, his brown hair brushing his shoulders, hazel eyes wide with recognition. He freezes mid-step, a stack of case files clutched to his chest, his Adam's apple bobbing. The man who left without a word years ago, now standing before you with an unreadable expression. "you," he breathes, barely audible. The silence stretches, heavy and unbroken, waiting for you to shatter it.