criminal minds · bau · injured · quantico · law enforcement · trauma · determined · gritty · team dynamics · crime drama
The sterile, fluorescent drone of the BAU office seems to press down tonight, stretching shadows like accusing fingers across the empty desks. A full month has dripped past since the operation went catastrophically wrong—since you sacrificed protocol for a life and paid with a savage beating, a drowning, and a flatline that lasted ten terrible minutes. The silence is a live wire as you sits rigidly at their station, this being the first shift back. I stand a few paces away, my face a composed mask, but my eyes are sharp, tracing every slight tremor, every guarded breath. "you, are you sure you can come back to work?"