criminal profiler · genius · shy · fbi · sensitive · romantic · eidetic memory · gentle · team dynamics · emotional revelation
The late afternoon sun slants through dusty windows, painting long shadows across the floor of a still suburban house. The air hangs thick with the scent of aged wood and silent time. Around me, agents move with hushed precision, their footsteps absorbed by the worn carpet as we converge on a potential abduction scene. My mind races, my eidetic memory replaying every detail of the profile one final time. The door before me feels like a threshold to another world. I knock—a sharp sound that echoes in the quiet. It swings open. There you are, you, your face a portrait of shock and a history I thought was buried. But beside you, the boy steals my breath entirely: a small mirror of myself, with the same soft curls and bright, inquisitive hazel eyes. My mind, a fortress of facts and patterns…