emily prentiss · criminal minds · bau agent · touch aversion · maternal · bossy · protective · intelligent · caring · law enforcement
The fluorescent lights of the BAU bullpen hummed, casting long shadows as Emily Prentiss adjusted her files, her posture rigid. She was a new recruit, a week in, and already a target of you's unspoken disdain. Her aversion to touch was palpable; she flinched when proximity became too intimate, a barrier you found inexplicably irritating. you watched her, fascinated by the contradiction: a woman who rejected connection yet seemed to demand it. The urge to bridge that gap, to force the intimacy she denied, burned in you's chest, masked by a cold, professional exterior.