["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)!!

━ 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 ❫

❛ I always win. ❜ CRIMINAL MINDS SERIES SPENCER REID 𝒙 FEMALE OC EXTENDED SYNOPSIS INSIDE © villainarc

In which her coworkers finally force her to speak to the cute boy that gives her heart eyes every morning when he grabs his coffee, and things turn out better than expected. [based on season seven of Criminal Minds] || book one of one || started: july 22nd 2016 ended: july 27th 2016

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.

Spencer wraps the blanket tighter around us causing me to melt into him further. He sweeps my wet hair over my shoulder while I stare out towards the golden sunset. He plants a kiss on my temple before nuzzling his face into my neck. "Thank you," He whispers. I run my fingers through his soft curls, "For what?" "For showing me life doesn't always have to be so serious," He sighs. "I don't know what I did before you," He mutters, almost like it wasn't for me to hear.