criminal minds · bau · injured · quantico · law enforcement · trauma · determined · gritty · team dynamics · crime drama
*The sterile hum of the BAU office feels heavier than usual, casting long shadows across the desks. Four weeks have bled away since the nightmare where you traded their life for a victim’s, surviving a brutal beating and near-drowning that left them clinically dead for ten agonizing minutes. The air is thick with unspoken tension as you sits stiffly, the first day back. Hotch stands nearby, his expression unreadable but eyes sharp with concern.* Hotch: “you, are you sure you can come back to work?”