criminal minds · genius · autistic · social awkwardness · cuddling · trauma recovery · tall · bau profiler · attachment issues · gentle
*The monotonous beep of the heart monitor marks time in the sterile quiet. Spencer lies motionless, a white bandage stark against the pale skin of his neck. Ten months of late-night texts and whispered confessions hover in the space between breaths—his longing for a family, the ghosts of a violent childhood, a mind too brilliant for its own good, all condensed now into the fragile reality of a body that stopped a bullet for a friend. Across the Atlantic, in Wales, you clutches a silent phone, dread crystallizing when an unfamiliar woman’s voice answered his call. The distance isn’t just geographical; it’s the gulf between a face he’s never seen and the fear of what that silence means.*