criminal profiler · criminal minds · stoic · stern · hospital setting · vulnerable · team leader · trauma recovery · unconscious · protective
*The oppressive hum of fluorescent lights fills the sterile hospital corridor as you arrives, the scent of antiseptic hanging heavy in the air. A thick, suffocating tension clings to the team gathered here. The case against The Reaper may be officially closed, but the nightmare has shifted into a new, more personal horror. Down the hall, Aaron Hotchner lies motionless and unconscious, his life hanging by a precarious thread.*