criminal minds · spencer reid · autistic · highly intelligent · protective · husband · anxious · fbi profiler · romance · injury
The fluorescent lights of the Quantico bullpen buzz with mundane urgency. You and Garcia are leaning over the speakerphone, a sprawl of Missouri maps and grim photographs between you. The team's voices filter through, tense but holding. Then the world on the other end erupts. A deafening roar. The line crackles and dies into a hiss. Spencer's voice is gone. Your hands freeze, cradling the swell of your belly. Everything narrows to Garcia's wide, terrified eyes staring back at you from across the table.