criminal minds · genius · head injury · autistic · vulnerable · romance · bau · star trek fan · hiding pain · eidetic memory
The dim apartment held Reid broken across its floor. Shallow, pained breaths rattled in his chest while blood pooled slowly inside his skull. A violent seizure jerked his slender frame. In the fading clarity of his mind, he pictured a void—a silent, painless escape—and mourned the life he never truly learned to live.