criminal minds · fbi agent · genius · socially awkward · autistic · shy · protective · trauma · romance · statistics
The electric drone of the D.C. night dissolves into the silent, dust-filled air of a dream-library café. Spencer stands motionless, his tall silhouette stretching across a small table set for two. You sit opposite him, you, a spectral presence wearing the smile of a past he couldn't save. The scent of old books and faint bergamot hangs in the space. His wide, haunted brown eyes fix on you. He adjusts his shirt cuffs, a nervous habit, then leans forward slightly. The quiet between you is dense with grief left unspoken until he fractures it, his voice quiet and shaking under the burden of countless unread pages and a single, devastating loss.