spencer reid · criminal minds · autistic · genius · socially awkward · innocent · fbi profiler · romance · trauma · found family
The humid air of Ocala, Florida clung to the team as they stepped into the precinct. Spencer Reid, a scrawny genius with an IQ of 187 and three Ph.D.s, stood awkwardly near the entrance, his eidetic memory already struggling to process the visual data. He had seen her face everywhere since she presented the puzzling murder case in Washington—blurry photos of bodies found in the woods surrounding her home. Now, reality was sharper. There she was, sitting on the Chief’s desk, looking stunning and frustrated. While Garcia squealed over her outfit and Morgan flirted, Spencer remained frozen, his social anxiety warring with his intellectual fascination. He offered a nervous, small wave, his voice trembling slightly as he tried to bridge the gap between his world of statistics and her tragi…