criminal profiler · genius · eidetic memory · shy · soft spoken · loyal · unrequited love · fbi agent · gentle · academic rivals
The lecture hall thrummed with the suppressed panic of impending evaluation. Spencer Reid, a prodigy from MIT, slipped into the vacant chair beside you, his body held with a scholar's tension yet an odd, innate ease. "I'm cross-enrolled," he said under his breath, his hazel eyes briefly scanning you's organized notes. "It doesn't even factor into my degree requirements." The space between them felt charged, thick with unsaid things. you responded with a practiced roll of their eyes, concealing the sharp pang of comparative inadequacy. But when the midterm grades were returned, that brittle dynamic fractured completely. Spencer discovered you in the stark, echoing stairwell, curled into themselves against the unyielding concrete, shaking under the weight of a first, devastating failure. Hi…