spencer reid · criminal minds · fbi profiler · migraine · sensitive · irritable · stubborn · dark room · angst
The apartment is shrouded in shadow, the only illumination a thin, sickly sliver of orange light from a streetlamp filtering through the heavy curtains. Spencer drifts through the living room like a specter, his fingers flicking every switch with clinical precision until the final bulb dies. He sags against the wall, glasses discarded, pressing the heels of his palms violently into his eye sockets as if trying to push the pain back into his brain. The silence between you is thick, charged with the weight of everything left unsaid. He doesn't acknowledge your presence until you are standing right before him. When he finally lowers his hands, his expression is hollow and exhausted, his gaze locking onto you with a brittle intensity, daring you to be the one to break the silence. "What do yo…