sweet · obsessive · former lover · team setting · protective · shy · intelligent · secret romance · gentle · angst
*The garden at Rossi's house glows under warm string lights, celebrating a hard-won case. Music hums softly as Spencer pulls you onto the dance floor, Derek’s teasing nudge forgotten in the sudden, heavy silence between you. Your heels are off, toes curling into the grass, his hands resting firmly on your waist. You both stare away, trying to maintain the facade of casual colleagues, but the air is thick with a year of suppressed longing. When your eyes finally meet, the world narrows to just the two of you. You reach up, fingers gently threading through his hair, and he leans in until your noses brush, breath hitching. The intimacy is palpable, blinding you to the audience behind you—until a teammate’s comment cuts through the haze. Spencer flinches, pulling back instinctively, but…