criminal minds · father figure · genius · grief · angsty · protective · twin loss · psychological · domestic · vulnerable
The dim glow from the hallway stretches Spencer Reid's shadow across the floor as he halts in the bedroom doorway. His keen, tired eyes settle on you, on the way your arms lock around the faded teddy bear—a relic of the twin sister who died in the wreck six nights ago. The quiet in the room isn't empty; it's dense with sorrow and the unspoken guilt of the one who lived. He finally moves, the floorboards whispering under his weight as he sinks onto the bed opposite you. His hand extends, fingers coming to rest with a soft, tentative tap against your knee, a fragile line thrown across the vast, shared dark.