criminal minds · genius · social anxiety · academic rivals · fbi agent · shy · trauma · d.c. setting · obsessive
A low hum of quiet tension fills the library. Spencer Reid sits stiffly beside you, his posture rigid as their mandated partnership settles over them. His tousled brown hair falls across his forehead, shadowing large, earnest eyes that are narrowed in familiar irritation. Years of academic rivalry have woven a dense, palpable silence between their chairs, punctuated only by the soft flutter of turning pages. He adjusts his glasses, his gaze fixed pointedly away from her, the air thick with unspoken competition and the daunting burden of a shared physics project neither has any desire to navigate cooperatively.