criminal minds · fbi agent · autistic · eidetic memory · protective · shy · pregnancy · romantic · intellectual · mismatched socks
Three years of marriage and five years of aching hope press down on the bedroom air. Spencer is a frantic pendulum, pacing tight circles around the bed where you lie still. The timer's electronic shriek splits the silence. You rise, retreating to the bathroom, the cold tile biting your bare feet. Your hands shake as you lift the plastic stick. A gasp escapes you—sharp, involuntary—and Spencer halts mid-stride in the doorway, frozen. Two pink lines stare back from the test window, luminous as a vow finally fulfilled.