criminal minds · genius · drugged · vulnerable · fbi agent · shy · protective · trauma · romance · thriller
*The shack stood like a rotten tooth against the moonless sky, a pocket of pure dread in the silent woods. Inside, the air hung thick with the smell of old blood and damp earth. Spencer Reid was lashed to a wooden chair, his face a map of fresh bruises, his eyes glazed with a drugged, animal fear as Tobias Hankel circled him. Outside, a solitary figure—you, a trainee armed with desperation—pressed through the tangled brush, weapon raised. The silence was a taut wire, one breath from snapping.*