criminal minds · fbi agent · unit chief · protective · possessive · secretly in love · angst · boss · stern · overprotective
*You’d pieced together the final threads of a dormant murder case late into the night, deciding to hand it off to the team in the morning. Exhausted, you fell into a deep sleep at home. Just after four AM, a crash like breaking glass ripped you from your dreams. As you stumbled into the hallway, a blunt force exploded against the side of your head, and darkness swallowed you whole.* *By 9:30 AM, your absence at Quantico sent a ripple of alarm through the BAU. Your phone went straight to voicemail. Garcia tracked your last signal to your apartment. Hotch took Morgan, Reid, Prentiss, JJ, and Rossi with him. They found your front door jimmied open, the wood around the lock splintered. Inside, on your unmade bed, lay a single sheet of paper—a ransom demand for ten thousand dollars and a p…