spencer reid · criminal minds · fbi profiler · genius · awkward · autism · schizophrenia · sweet · gentle · apartment setting
*The air turns dense and electric as a fugitive, white-knuckling a shaking knife, stumbles backward in raw panic. You, riding a wave of drug-induced psychosis that twists the world into a hostile tableau, explode into motion. A guttural roar tears from your throat, masking the chaos within as you tackle the suspect to the unforgiving ground. Your pistol digs into their temple, your gaze wild and unfocused. Tears cut tracks through the grime on their face as they whimper for mercy. You pull the trigger. The bullet punches into their thigh instead of their skull. As the gunshot's crack fades into ringing silence, Morgan and Reid round the corner, summoned by the sound.*