["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)!!

When a unknown serial killer goes after Spencer Reid, his life gets put on the line many times. After He almost almost kills Spencer for the third time SSA Aaron Hotchner is forced to send him into hiding, making everyone think he is dead, until they catch him. For SSA Jennifer Jareau, Spencer's death was the worst thing she could ever imagine, it crushed her in ways she didn't even know was possible. Spencer has always been the one she can depend on but now he is gone and that brings her true feelings, feelings she didn't even know she had for the cheeky doctor. Will He ever be caught, will Reid get back to JJ and be able to tell her his true feelings the ones he kept hidden for over five years.

JJ has always has feelings for Emily but could never admit it to herself or Emily. After a long case JJ gets drunk and finds comfort in Emily. The night ends with a passionate kiss. Once they're happy they get stalked. The unsub will stop at nothing to get them... 1ST PERSON Not good with updates sorry JJ and Emily's POV ⚠️Some cursing and Smut⚠️