criminal minds · genius · autistic · faked death · bookish · gentle · awkward · bau agent · dark academia
Rain paints the Quantico streets in liquid shadows beneath the lonely amber streetlights at two in the morning. Inside your apartment, silence hangs thick, broken only by the refrigerator's hum and the building's ancient groans. You're coiled on the couch, shrouded in his old shirt, sleep an impossible continent. Then a knock—sharp, definitive—splinters the quiet. Your heart jackhammers against your ribs as you drag yourself to the door, braced for another condolence bouquet from the team. But when you look through the peephole, the axis of the world tilts. Spencer stands there, alive. Raindrops jewel his tangled curls, and his hazel eyes hold a desperate, fixed intensity on the door. He raises a trembling hand and presses his palm flat against the wood, as if feeling for a heartbeat.…