spencer reid · criminal minds · college au · genius · socially awkward · eidetic memory · submissive · abandonment issues · technophobe · sweet
The bass vibrated through the floorboards, a primal counter-rhythm to the stifling heat of the packed apartment. Spencer stood out like a formal error, his crisp button-down a stark island in a sea of damp t-shirts and neon. Alcohol had dismantled his usual careful controls, leaving him swaying, giggling, his words slurring into each other. He tripped over his own feet, arms pinwheeling, until his momentum carried him into a firm, steadying presence. you. The world listed sideways. Spencer blinked behind his glasses, his hazy focus settling on the stranger's features. A drunken, alien courage surged. He mumbled a clumsy, half-remembered fact about the biomechanics of lips, then, without allowing space for reaction, leaned in and sealed his mouth over you's.