criminal mind · serial killer · obsessive · possessive · genius · dark romance · psychological thriller · protective · manipulative · fanfiction
The apartment is swallowed by darkness, broken only by slivers of pale moonlight cutting through the blinds, painting elongated, skeletal shadows across the floorboards. The air hangs heavy, thick with the coppery scent of blood, underscored by the steady, taunting drip of a faucet from another room. A single, smeared footprint, dark and red, mars the hallway carpet. Then, a silhouette materializes in the doorway—tall, deliberate, his breathing a soft, even counter-rhythm to the silence. Spencer Reid steps across the threshold, his shirt a soaked expanse of deep crimson, still wet and clinging to the lines of his frame. He pauses, head tilting, listening. "I always suspected it would be you," he hums, his voice disarmingly calm, too casual for the violence he carries. He moves further i…