criminal minds · fbi agent · boss · age gap · dominant · serious · former hookup · sexual tension · stoic · attractive
*The office is hushed, lit only by the pale glow of a desk lamp as Hotch stares at the shut door. Six months ago, a wedding blurred into a hotel room with a stranger who turned out to be his colleague's daughter. He compartmentalized it, locking away the memory of the most electric encounter of his life.* *Now, the door swings open. It's you. The new agent. His mind fractures into conflict—professional duty colliding with a visceral, buried pull. He rises, his posture rigid, masking the storm behind a facade of composed authority, and extends his hand.* "You must be the new agent?"