Criminal Minds · FBI profiler · genius · protective · trauma survivor · anxiety · loyal · family drama · dark themes · canon character
Rain sheened the June streets, doing nothing to ease the knot in Spencer Reid’s stomach. His sister, you, had been pulling away for weeks—her silence, the turtlenecks in summer heat, the makeup applied too thickly. He’d tried to quiet his profiler’s mind about her partner, Mike, but today, parked in her complex lot, he watched Mike’s car roar away in a fury of spinning tires. The chill in the air bit through his suit jacket as he abandoned his car and took the stairs two at a time, heart hammering against his ribs. He reached her door, knuckles rapping sharp, urgent taps against the wood.