in which spencer reid tells the girl across the bar about the dangers of smoking spencer reid x oc slow burn- friends to lovers previous title: afterglow

Dr. Spencer Reid spent most of his life believing happiness was something that happened to other people. Then he met Courtney Burkely. What starts as a chance meeting during a case slowly becomes the kind of love Spencer never thought he'd have - messy, passionate, heartbreaking, and real. Through long nights, dangerous cases, missed milestones, prison walls, newborn cries at 3 a.m., and the chaos of building a family while working for the BAU, Spencer and Courtney fight for a life together in a world constantly trying to pull them apart. But love was never the hard part. Staying present is. As Spencer struggles to balance saving strangers with being there for the people waiting for him at home, Courtney begins to wonder how many sacrifices a family can survive before it starts breaking apart. Still, through every painful moment and every beautiful one, they keep finding their way back to each other. A story about healing, family, and giving Spencer Reid the life he always deserved. ♡ Friends to lovers ♡ Marriage & family ♡ Hurt/comfort ♡ Emotional slow burn ♡ Pregnancy & parenthood ♡ BAU family moments ♡ Angst with happy ending ♡ Spencer Reid being the world's most emotional dad

"I don't think you know how long I've been waiting for you, Mr. Whitlock." "I think I can take a guess, darling. Because I've been waiting all my life for you." (Rating May Change) --------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This is fan fiction. The characters and settings belong to the creator, Stephanie Meyer. I am only the creator of the original characters and plot changes. I am generating no profit from this story.

Camille Gallo spent her nights at Club Coco as Kitty, day in, day out, until sex workers start turning up dead. When the BAU is called in to track down the man responsible Camille becomes front and centre of the case. She catches the eye of Spencer Reid, tall, reserved, and pulled into her wild nightlife in the hopes to catch the Killer. Together, Camille and Spencer begin to unravel the trauma they've both carried, finding recognition in one another's scars. Camille has always been a survivor. But for the first time, she has to ask herself if she's ready to be something more than that. Spencer x OC fic! I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing, oh and I would love to hear your feedback in the form of a comment or two :))

𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐀 𝐕𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. A promise that she intended to follow through on. She was going to take down every single person that was there that night, and she was going to make them pay for it all. Nothing- or no one- was going to stop her. Not even the handsome FBI agent that she met one fateful morning in a coffee shop.

Three years ago, she vanished from the BAU without a word-her badge stripped, her name buried, her past sealed behind prison walls. No one ever learned why. Now she's free. With her sentence served and her record still shrouded in silence, the FBI makes her an offer no one else would dare: her old position at the Behavioral Analysis Unit. The team she left behind isn't sure whether to trust her, fear her, or pretend she was never gone at all. And she's not sure she deserves the second chance. As new cases blur the line between right and wrong, the secrets that put her behind bars begin to surface-threatening her freedom, her future, and the fragile trust she's trying to rebuild. Some profiles never leave you. And some mistakes refuse to stay buried.

Quinn Bennet is Washington DC's go-to lawyer for high-stakes disasters. Spencer Reid is the BAU agent who keeps appearing like a legally-appointed headache. He thinks he can out-evidence me. I think he can't read a room to save his life. Then the case flips, the genius needs a defence, and suddenly I'm arguing law for the man who argued facts at me first. This is a slow burn. Slight enemies to lovers. Set around Season 10 - in which she tries, fails, and repeatedly fails not to fall for him.

𓏲 ࣪₊♡𓂃. 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, in 2016, twenty-six-year-old quinn verity is scraping by as a waitress, quietly raising her teenage sister olive and trying to forget the horrors of her past-namely, being the daughter of infamous serial killers. but when a phone call from agent aaron hotchner pulls her back into the world she thought she'd escaped, quinn is forced to confront both old trauma and new danger. as the she faces a case eerily similar to the one that shattered her life in 2006, quinn must decide whether to use the lie-detecting gift she's spent a decade trying to suppress-or risk letting another monster slip through the cracks. trope: friends to lovers published: 1st may 2025 finished: on going . . . #1 - criminalminds #1 - spencerreid #1 - aaronhotchner #1 - penelopegarcia #1 - matthewgraygubler #1 - jasongideon #1 - profilers #1 - fbiagent #1 - bau #1 - fbi

"Maybe I could love them into something greater?" Her song flows through the deep dark skies- a haunting melody of silver and shadow. Her voice a divine madness, both sweet as a dream and deadly as a curse. To listen is to surrender, to follow is to be lost. The Lunar Queen calls, and the night obeys. "A woman with a beauty that rivals the moon and a wrath that could eclipse it." (More inside) ⚠︎ I don't claim anything of the twilight book/movie franchise. I claim only my original written characters, story and plot. Full credit for the Twilight universe goes to Ms. Stephenie Meyer. ⚠︎ ⚠︎ This story is my original work. Please don't copy, share, or repost without permission. Thanks for respecting my creativity and effort! ⚠︎ ⚠︎ This story contains mature themes that may be triggering. Including strong language, graphic depictions of violence, sexual content and scenes of an intense or distressing nature. It is intended for adult audiences only! (18+) Please proceed with caution. ⚠︎

E X I T W O U N D S "I have spent my life calculating the distance between people, but I find I cannot find the logic in how much I need you." "Then stop being a profiler, Spencer, and step into the storm." A thousand days of silence and a rhythm only they can hear. In which Andrea Castaneda, the sharp-edged trauma surgeon and "Quiet Storm" of a chaotic brotherhood, becomes the only variable Spencer Reid is brave enough to keep-igniting a fire that refuses to stay within the lines of a case file. CRIMINAL MINDS FANFICTION spencer reid x andrea castaneda