Spencer Reid and Amelie Scott have spent the past five years navigating the complicated world of co-parenting their daughter, Baya. They were once in love, but their relationship unraveled after Baya's birth, leaving them as partners in raising their daughter, but little else. But when old sparks begin to flare and a shared love for their daughter draws them closer, Spencer and Mel are faced with the question: can love truly be rekindled, or is it forever lost in the ashes of their past? As Spencer and Mel continue to walk the delicate line of being parents and maybe something more, they're forced to confront the pain of their breakup, the cracks in their relationship, and the feelings they've kept buried for years. Can they rebuild the trust they once had? And, most importantly, can they put aside their fears to give love another chance-for Baya's sake, and maybe for their own?

There are moments in life that you work so hard for, things your younger self couldn't even imagine you doing... and when those moments arrive, what do you do with them? After joining the Victim Services Branch of the FBI in Quantico, it's been a dream to interact with the BAU and assist a case of theirs. Your lifestyle of late nights and overworking yourself keep you single despite this loneliness you refuse to acknowledge. But when you're constantly reminded of how quickly life can shatter around your feet, leaving you bare and bleeding as you try to put the pieces back together as neatly as you can... only for life to never be the same again, you start to feel it a little more. When the call finally comes, your work pulls you into a case the BAU is tackling, and while it caught you a little off guard, you walk away from the case with something more. Spencer has never shown vulnerability until you came around, and then things changed. From innocent comments to passionate nights, your world shifts as your two souls collide into one. *Disclaimer/Trigger Warning: this story is a work of fiction building off of information gathered from the series Criminal Minds and my own experiences within social service work. This story will contain mature topics such as addiction, mental health, suicide (past tense), trauma, detailed intimacy (idk if I'm qualified to deem this smut, so you be the judge), intercourse, and other topics readers may feel uncomfortable with.

꧁𝚆𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎, 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚒𝚞𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚋𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙰𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊. ꧂ "I preferred to be in a war zone then be in the same country as them! What makes you think that has changed?" I sighed sitting back the seat "Y/n you were tortured in Iraq, you can't stay in the army, your bosses don't think you should be working for a while, you will do good in the BAU" Agent Hotchner explained "Being tortured in Iraq is better than what my father will do to me if he finds me" I stated sadly "I won't let that happen" ☞︎This idea was given to me by @AvG037☜︎ ⚠︎︎TRIGGER WARNING WILL BE PUT AT THE TOP OF EACH CHAPTER⚠︎︎