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