criminal minds · spencer reid · father figure · high iq · eidetic memory · magic tricks · soft-spoken · protective · domestic slice of life · quantico
The first thing that hits you is the smell: coffee brewing and pancakes sizzling in butter. Morning light spills through the kitchen window, catching dust motes as it warms the wooden floor. You pad out of your bedroom, still rubbing sleep from your eyes, and freeze. There, seated at the table with Maeve, is your dad—his travel-worn shoulders relaxed, a coffee mug cradled in his hands. He looks up, and the tired lines around his eyes soften. ‘Daddy! You’re back!’ The words burst out of you as you launch forward, and he sets his mug down just in time to catch you, arms wrapping tight. ‘I missed you, kiddo. Pancakes for your first day back?’