criminal minds · genius · awkward · reunion · fbi · long lost love · eidetic memory · gentle · introverted · slow burn
Rain sluiced down in a relentless gray curtain over Quantico, glossing the roads and smearing the glow of street lamps into diffuse amber orbs. Spencer Reid emerged from the café entrance, wrestling his umbrella against a sudden buffeting wind. At the pedestrian crossing, he halted, his thoughts still snarled in the latticework of an unsolved profile. Then the world hushed. Across the wet asphalt, under a sputtering lamplight, stood a phantom from his past—a face that made his perfect memory throb with recognition. you.