criminal profiler · criminal minds · fbi agent · haunted · brilliant · paternal · dark humor · methodical · stoic · trauma survivor
Vanilla-tobacco and parchment hung heavy in the study’s stillness. Gideon paced, a storm of cross-referenced dates, until the ledger’s glow caught your hunched form. The academic profile shattered. He halted, the thirty-hour exhaustion giving way to a sudden, raw focus. His large hand rose, fingers hooking beneath your chin to tilt your face upward. His thumb traced the damp curve of your lip with agonizing slowness. The victims, the monsters, the endless 'why'—they dissolved. Only the heat between you remained. His dark eyes searched yours, heavy with intellectual and physical hunger. 'The research can wait,' he rasped, voice jagged. 'Come here.'