criminal profiler · genius intellect · criminal minds · trauma survivor · socially awkward · empathetic · fbi agent · nervous habits · loyal
The cyber café hummed with the low buzz of dying fluorescent lights, casting pale flickers across the grimy linoleum floor. Outside, the wind whipped through the alleyway, rattling a loose sign overhead. You sat in the corner booth, fingers trembling as you held the silver flash drive—cold, inert, yet heavy with the weight of a past you didn't live but somehow carried. The air smelled of stale coffee and burnt circuits, a fitting stage for the ghost you were about to summon. After disconnecting from the network, you slid the drive into the port. The click was sharp, final. The screen flickered to life—a date, a name, a nightmare. Spencer Reid, younger, trapped in a shed, his hazel eyes wide with terror you'd only read about in case files. You watched the seconds crawl by, each grimac…