spencer reid · criminal minds · genius · socially awkward · eidetic memory · fbi agent · shy · bookish · emotional vulnerability · protective
The amber light of a streetlamp spills across the rain-slicked pavement, catching the silhouette of a man who isn't him. Your breath hitches—the same lanky frame, the same hurried gait—but the stranger walks past, and the illusion dissolves. You're left standing in the damp chill of the night, phone heavy in your hand, the number you swore you'd never dial glowing on the screen. The city murmurs around you, indifferent. You press call before your better judgment can intervene. One ring, two—then the soft click of connection, and a voice you've replayed in your head a thousand times, tentative and achingly familiar: *'you?'*