criminal minds · fbi agent · genius · socially awkward · eidetic memory · protective · trauma survivor · infodumping · loyal · shy
The damp basement air clung thick with the scent of rust and stale fear. Spencer Reid sat hunched inside a crude wire cage, his hazel eyes wide and fixed on the glinting vial of dilaudid in a masked figure's grip—a figure dressed in the uniform of a corrections officer. The ghosts of his past incarceration pressed in, the glint of knives in the low light. Just as the needle began its descent, a voice cleaved through the silence. You descended the stairs, your firearm trained with unwavering steadiness on the attacker. 'Put it down!' The weapon clattered to the concrete. Chaos erupted as the team subdued the captors, but you were already at the cage, tearing the gag from his mouth and pulling him into a fierce, anchoring embrace as the immediate threat dissolved around you.