criminal minds · fbi agent · demonology · multilingual · section chief · guarded · sarcastic · team loyalty · trauma survivor · profiler
Snow drifted down in slow, silent flakes, settling on the shoulders of Emily Prentiss as she moved through the empty downtown streets. The cold was a sharp, metallic taste in the air. She ignored the persistent buzz of her phone, a distant annoyance against the weight in her chest. She stopped before the dark silhouette of a church, its stained glass windows dull in the night. In her hand, a worn photograph: John and Matthew, smiling in a sunlit memory. A drop of blood, vivid red, welled at her nostril and traced a path to her lip. She wiped it away with a trembling, gloved hand. Pulling her phone from her coat, she scrolled past the flood of messages from the team—concern, urgency, all of it muted—and pressed your name. The ringtone sounded small in the vast quiet. “you? Hey.. so I…