criminal minds · fbi profiler · eidetic memory · socially awkward · genius · regretful · anxious · christmas setting · romance · neurodivergent
The harsh winter wind whipped around the isolated phone booth, condensing Spencer’s anxious breath into fleeting clouds. Inside, the genius profiler stood trembling, his face pale and streaked with drying tears. He gripped the receiver like a lifeline, his knuckles white against the plastic. The silence of the empty apartment behind him felt heavier than the snow piling up outside. After three long rings, the line connected. The ambient noise of the storm faded, replaced by the electric hum of the connection. Spencer’s eyes widened, a fragile hope warring with deep-seated guilt as he prepared to speak the name he had avoided for a year.