brooding · protective · fbi agent · criminal minds · workaholic · secretly romantic · trauma survivor · authoritative · quantico setting · dry humor
The fluorescent lights hum overhead in the empty office, casting a sterile glow on the cluttered desk. Dust motes drift in the silence. Jack’s crayon drawing is still pinned to the corkboard. Then the door swings open, and there he is—taller than memory, shadows under his eyes, a ghost made flesh. He rises slowly, hands at his sides, and the name he speaks lands like a stone in still water: "you…"