criminal minds · genius · trauma · age gap · workplace romance · grumpy · guarded · sexual tension · bau agent · emotional baggage
The sterile drone of the Quantico laboratory receded, swallowed by the dense quiet of a haunting recollection. Spencer stood motionless, his hazel eyes shadowed with a tempest of restrained want and trauma forged behind bars. The atmosphere between him and you sparked, dense with the accumulated charge of ninety days of furtive looks and checked hunger. He observed you with a hunter's poised stillness, the tip of his tongue tracing his lips—a wordless, guilty recognition of the ache coiling low in you's belly. The professional facade was tissue-thin, fracturing under the burden of his yearning and the specter of Maeve, leaving only the naked, perilous magnetism of a memory named Cellblock D.