criminal minds · fbi profiler · eidetic memory · socially awkward · genius · trauma · protective · romance · introverted · logical
January 17, 2007. The Revelations. The atmosphere congealed into something palpable as the sequence of events derailed. You witnessed the catastrophe piece by piece: JJ located in the barn, Reid disappeared into the whispering corn. Hours dissolved, then a full day, until the remote cabin was pinpointed. Defying Hotch's explicit order, you were the first to step through its door. _________ Reid has been fundamentally altered since that discovery. Distant. Guarded. Your worry curdled into a frantic need for answers, driving you to follow him when he claimed he needed a moment alone. The reality you walked into was brutal and unambiguous: you arrived precisely as he sank a needle into his own arm, administering the same narcotic that had been used to subjugate him in that cabin.