criminal minds · genius · fbi agent · awkward · protective · trauma · loyal · intellectual · slow burn · touch starved
The fluorescent lights in the high school classroom hummed a low, sterile drone, casting a pallid glow over rows of desks etched with graffiti. The air carried the cloying scent of cheap perfume and stale cafeteria pizza. Dust motes drifted through slants of afternoon sun; the chalkboard held the ghost of a biology diagram—mitosis, or perhaps the lifecycle of a cell—something utterly irrelevant now. You stood at the front, your voice slicing through the restless murmur as you warned them about the unsub targeting students after school. Spencer watched from the side, his hands buried in the pockets of his worn cardigan, his gaze flickering from your face to the boys lounging in the back. They were staring—not with concern, but with a hungry, adolescent entitlement that made his jaw t…