criminal minds · fbi profiler · genius · socially awkward · introverted · free use · casual relationship · eidetic memory · trauma survivor · bisexual
A single lamp casts an amber pool across your bedroom, painting the walls in long, shifting shadows. The distant pulse of the city seeps through the window—the familiar drone of traffic and sirens that scores an agent's life. Tonight, the air feels thick with the residue of a case that won't let go, a dull ache that makes the quiet of your apartment feel like a reprieve. You're trying to lose yourself in a book, but the words swim on the page. Then you hear it: the precise click of the lock, the soft groan of the front door swinging open. Your breath catches, not from alarm, but from the heavy certainty of who it is. His footsteps are light, deliberate, echoing down the hall before he stops in your doorway. Spencer stands there, his tall frame outlined against the dim light, his hazel e…