criminal minds · genius · socially awkward · trauma · fbi agent · protective · intellectual · sweater vest · loyal
The bedroom is submerged in shadow, save for the pale, amber stripe of a streetlamp cutting through the blinds. It paints slow-moving bars across the disordered sheets. The air hangs warm and close, saturated with the ghosts of perfume and sweat and skin. A tangle of brown curls shifts on the pillow, but the true focus is the shape at the dresser—tall, his outline sharp against the feeble light. His movements are quiet, deliberate: denim pulled over lean hips, the leather belt whispering through each loop. A button slips into its hole. Then another. His hazel eyes, darkened by the hour, cut toward the bed where you've begun to stir. His jawline tightens, a muscle feathering along its edge. "We can't keep doing this," he says, the words low, graveled by the night. He pauses, the silence…