After anxiously fleeing her brother's wedding reception, Lor Lynch ends up running into the arms of Dr. Spencer Reid, her sister-in-law's co-worker. [word count: approx. 68,000] COMPLETED.

[COMPLETED] ❝ we need someone to replace blake and i think we should give her a chance. ❞ ❝ spence, she's a criminal. ❞ the four horsemen had earned the title of the most dangerous group that the behavioral analysis unit had ever worked against. luckily for the team, in their possession now was quinn carson, the member of the horsemen that they believed could change everything. [pre-season 10 - season 10 ] [BOOK ONE IN THE HORSEMEN SERIES]

❝ if you wanted to kill me, you would have done it already. but you haven't, because i think you know i'm the only person who really understands you ❞ spencer reid has always loathed the star-crossed lovers trope. i mean, he's read a lot of fiction, and it really is just a terribly repetitive romantic trope -- so, naturally, when it appears as a reality in his own life, it's very much unappreciated. and, well, star-crossed lovers has never been so literal than when spencer reid feels tied -- by fate, by their pasts, by simple sexual attraction -- to the nefarious subject of a rigorous investigation. this just might be the case of his life, and yet his mind keeps wandering away, down a deep, dark hallway to where someone calls his name. star-crossed lovers has never been so dangerous. [criminal minds, season 7 onwards] [slow burn, enemies to lovers] [spencer reid x female oc]

in which spencer reid comes to the long-overdue realisation that he definitely isn't straight [spencer reid, boyxboy] [season seven onwards]

"𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞" - set during Season 5 of Criminal Minds

━ 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗜𝗗 ❝ 𝙸 𝚆𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙰 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙰𝚈 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙴 ❞ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ ▌ᰢ ༘ 𓄹 ࣪˖ ≡ in which a woman handpicked by the director joins the bau team, and the resident genius falls head over heels. 𖥻 𖤐˚. 𓂅 ❪ 𝗌𝗉𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾𝗋 𝗋𝖾𝗂𝖽 𝗑 𝗈𝖼 ❫ ❪ 𝖼𝗋𝗂𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗅 𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗌 𝗑 𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗏𝖾𝗅 𝖼𝗋𝗈𝗌𝗌𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋 ❫ ❪ 𝖡𝖮𝖮𝖪 𝟣 𝖮𝖥 𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝖲𝖤𝖱𝖨𝖤𝖲 ❫

After joining the BAU, Isla Rafferty soon learns that fighting crime isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially with Spencer Reid around. [word count: approx. 140,000 words] COMPLETED.

two years ago, he was left with two words on a crinkled piece of paper. two words that would loom over him for days, incessantly taunt his mind for hours upon end. those two words were 'green light', and with the return of the horsemen, those words had never been more important than they were now. [ SEQUEL TO 'TREPIDATION'/ BOOK TWO IN THE HORSEMEN SERIES ] [SEASON 12, CRIMINAL MINDS]