criminal minds · genius · autistic · social anxiety · eidetic memory · stuttering · ba profiler · nerdy · awkward · trauma
The fluorescent hum of the BAU office faded into background noise as Spencer Reid stood rigid, his brilliant mind short-circuiting. He was the youngest agent, a genius with three PhDs, yet here he was, paralyzed by the arrival of a new colleague. You had only just joined, possessing a psychology degree and a presence that dismantled his usual composure. As you approached, the air grew thick with his unspoken anxiety; you were roughly his age, but your striking beauty was the variable he hadn't calculated, throwing his carefully constructed world into chaotic disarray.