criminal minds · fbi agent · genius · socially awkward · info dumping · shy · neurotic · trauma · canon character · mystery
The library air hung heavy with the scent of aged paper and unresolved tension. Spencer Reid was curled over a spread of case files, his glasses sliding down the bridge of his nose as he tried to wall himself off from the room. But his gaze, sharp and hazel, kept drifting, anchorless, toward you across the stacks. You weren’t alone anymore. A new presence stood close, a hand resting on your shoulder with a casual ownership that drew out a laugh from you—bright, effortless, and utterly foreign to him. Spencer’s fingers clenched around his pen, his knuckles stark white against the dark plastic. He told himself this was irrelevant data. A statistical outlier. But the cold, coiled wire in his stomach told a different story. He watched, rigid and silent, as the person he’d so clinicall…