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

When victims begin turning up across Los Angeles with their hearts stabbed and the words "She Deserves Better" carved into their skin, the BAU is desperate to find the connection. The answer? Sage Holloway. A world-famous goth rock singer trapped beneath the weight of fame, expectations, and a persona she no longer recognizes. After the murders turn personal, Dr. Spencer Reid is assigned to protect Sage until the unsub is caught. He expected long nights, profiling, and danger. He didn't expect her. The girl behind the black eyeliner. The girl who plays piano when she can't sleep. The girl who's slowly forgetting who she really is. And Sage never expected the awkward genius FBI agent with messy hair and kind eyes to become the only person who makes her feel safe. But as bodies pile up and obsession turns deadly, Spencer and Sage realize something terrifying: The killer doesn't just want Sage. He thinks he deserves her. And if he can't have her- No one can. A Criminal Minds Story Spencer Reid x OC 🎵 Slow Burn 🖤 Protective Reid 🔪 Serial Killer Case 🎹 Music & Healing ❤️ "Every love song has a body count

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

Proxy: the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another. °•°•° SSA Koraline Thompson wanted to join the BAU the second she read one of David Rossi's books. So when she's handed the golden opportunity to fill in for Agent Morgan during his six month recovery, she takes it without hesitation. What she didn't expect was to befriend the gorgeous genius with comforting brown eyes and an entire encyclopaedia in his head. Dr Spencer Reid had been in the BAU for almost twelve years. He'd seen his fair share of agents join and leave the team, but none were as stunning as Morgan's proxy. Between her perfectly proportioned face, her sense of humour, and tolerance of his ramblings, he inferred that he'd be in trouble. As per usual, his hypothesis was right. The only thing standing between them is Kory's rule: no dating coworkers. Between that, FBI rules, and the shadows of their pasts, a relationship is simply off the table. Or it should have been. If only he wasn't able to read her so easily. And if only she wasn't one of the few people actually interested in every word he had to say. This would be a long six months. ||Spencer Reid Fan-Fic - Criminal Minds|| ||Seasons 11-15|| ||mostly original content with important canon events/trauma|| ||Content warnings inside|| ||Complete - 280,000 words|| ||Book 1/3 of the Thompson/Vasquez Universe|| Notable rankings: #1 in criminalminds #1 in spencerreid #1 in crimesolving #1 in friendstolovers #2 in ocstory #5 in pining #7 in crimefiction

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.

"The best and most beautiful things in the world... they have to be felt with the heart." I joined the FBI to get to the BAU. CAC was just the step in between. Then Spencer Reid walked in-PhDs, cardigans, and so stupidly attractive it completely derailed my ability to speak like a functioning adult. We were supposed to work one case together. Now I'm pretending I don't notice how brilliant he is. This is fine. Totally fine. I'm being very normal about it. Set during Season 2, Episode 2 ("P911"), this is a slow(ish) friends-to-lovers rewrite where Evelyn Gilroy takes Amanda's place and tries very hard not to fall in love with Spencer Reid.

Dr. Ivy Woods has had a rough couple of years. After being forced into an honorary discharge from the army, where she served alongside Dr. Owen Hunt, Ivy made her escape to the rainy city of Seattle. She made friends there, and memories, until a ghost from her past appeared and landed himself a job as the Head of Trauma. As her boss. And Ivy put up with it, until everything went to shit and a psychopath shot up the hospital. Now, Ivy wanted nothing more than to get out of Seattle, so when a position as Head of Trauma opened up at a hospital in Washington, Virginia, she jumped at it. In a new city and a new job, Ivy had a chance for a fresh start. To form new bonds, explore relationships, and to hopefully not get caught in any more horrible disasters. But out of everything Ivy wanted from her new adventure, the last thing she expected was to fall in love. Spencer Reid x Original Female Character

Sunday Finnegan is the definition of chaotically detailed. She is powered by coffee thanks to her addiction of reading smutty books till 3am, cheerfully goofy and optimistic to a fault. She's fresh out of Quantico and already has her first big girl job with the BAU. Of course when your mom was one of the best profilers and your dad turned out to be a serial killer, your automatically recruited. Spencer Reid has never met anyone like Sunny. She was the epitome of enthusiastically energetic. With a serious coffee addiction. Most of all he just likes how she makes him feel like the most important person in the world. She listens to him....really listens. He's never felt truly comfortable with anyone until her.....she made him feel at home in her presences.

Spencer Reid didn't expect to find a lost toddler in the middle of the library. He definitely didn't expect her to grab his hand and call him a wizard. But then again, nothing in his life has gone according to plan-not prison, not grief, and definitely not the way his heart stumbles when her mother walks into the room. She's cautious. Private. A single mom with no time for complicated men. But Spencer is different-too kind, too awkward, too patient with a little girl who doesn't understand what the word dad is supposed to mean anymore. What starts as a quiet friendship slowly turns into something else: bedtime stories, late-night confessions, small moments that feel too big to ignore. And just when it starts to feel safe, everything fractures. Because building a future means facing the past. And some ghosts don't stay buried-especially when one of them has a name.

'For a really long time that's all I had. Little moments with a girl who saw me as a friend, and a lot of people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl who I worked with, but I think even then that I knew that I was waiting for my wife.' -Jim Halpert, The Office. LONG CHAPTERS: (Season 1-5 up atm, currently on PAUSE but can be read as competed) Tropes cause I suck at blurbs: Friends to lovers Opposites attract Secret dating Oblivious to love Colleagues to lovers Everyone can see it Found family TRIGGER WARNINGS: Smut. Criminal Minds subjects: eg, murders explained in detail. Miscarriages, SA, assault, guns etc. #1: jj #1: coworkerstolovers #1: secretdating #1: davidrossi #1: derekmorgan #1: spencerreidfanfic #1: emilyprentiss #1: criminalminds #1: mgg #2: penelopegarcia #1: reid #1: alexblake #1: grey