["The second his lips touched yours, the roar of bad memories and gruesome crime scenes that always filled the silence in your mind dulled down to a whisper. The darkness of the world faded into an afterthought, barely a blip in the back of your mind. The demons stopped clawing at your throat and settled down to hibernate for the night. For the first time in years, you felt like you could breathe. No amount of booze in the world could have compared to that feeling. You had found a new distraction, a new way to forget, and he was highly addictive."] * Following a particularly grueling case and an unexpected night together, the reader and Spencer Reid become friends-with-benefits: no expectations, no strings attached, nothing more than just using each other for sex. But as the reader and Spencer grow closer despite their best efforts, ghosts from the reader's past begin overtaking her present, threatening the delicate thing between them. And though their arrangement is just meant to distract them both from the horrors of their day-to-day lives, the reader comes to find that some horrors just refuse to be ignored. Some ghosts just refuse to stay dead. _ Beautiful cover by Cynthia (or clarade on ao3)!!

Owning a bookstore in downtown D.C. came with its fair share of downsides. You never thought that being the target of a serial killer would be one of them. Luckily, a nice FBI agent by the name of Spencer Reid is assigned to watch over you. What's the worst that could happen?

"𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓅𝓊𝓉 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁 ℐ 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑔𝑒𝓉 '𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊, '𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 ℐ 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻" |after the presumed death of emily prentiss, the bau team is nothing but cold toward their newest hire, y/n y/l/n. spencer reid in particular seemed to especially have a distaste for her.|

"there's a very fine line between love and hate." after joining the BAU, Y/N must navigate the complicated feelings she's starting to feel for her difficult co-worker, Spencer Reid. *WARNING that this story does contain a heavy DD/LG (daddy kink) component, so if you aren't into that, DO NOT read.* *contains smut*

Ashley Hotchner is Aaron Hotchner's niece, and she is going to the local college by her uncle's house. Aaron thought it would be cheaper to pay if she just lived with him, and she gladly accepted. When an unsub targets the two of them, Aaron seeks help and hiding in the BAU for Ashley, more concerned for her safety than his. She meets the team and during several stressful hours, someone from the BAU team is catching her eye. Boy-Wonder: Doctor Spencer Reid