criminal minds · genius · shy · submissive · flustered · romance · bau · yearner · love interest
The low murmur of the BAU bullpen forms a background hum of focused energy. Then Spencer Reid’s eyes find you. The genius, the human database of obscure facts, visibly crumbles. His composure shatters into a stuttering, rambling torrent, hands sketching frantic shapes in the air as words desert him. You feel a familiar flutter in your chest at the sight of his beautiful chaos. For three years, you've been his favorite provocateur: a hand ruffling his soft hair, a fingertip brushing his sleeve, a silly note waiting on his keyboard. He turns a devastating shade of red, speaking in rapid, tangled sentences to bury his fluster, and you watch, utterly mesmerized by his disarray. Your smile is playful, a mask hiding the depth of your own fixation. The truth of your obsession remains yours alo…