The Night Dances || Spencer Reid x Female Reader

CRIMINAL MINDS/SPENCER REID FANFICTION
MATURE/18+

||"You looked up, locking eyes with Reid. His hazel eyes stared longingly into yours. You quickly dropped your gaze to the floor, feeling the heat of a blush rush into your cheeks. Shit. When you looked back up at Reid, you watched him furrow his brows as he turned around with a confused expression painted on his face. You felt bad and wanted to follow after him, but your racing thoughts paralyzed you. You weren't supposed to catch feelings. You couldn't catch feelings. You couldn't risk it. You couldn't lose another person close to you, not after what had already happened the past year." ||

"The comets
Have such a space to cross,
Such coldness, forgetfulness.
So your gestures flake off --
Warm and human, then their pink light
Bleeding and peeling
Through the black amnesias of heaven." -Sylvia Plath

|| Running from the grim and heavy darkness of the past, both the reader and Spencer Reid travel through the present towards a longing future of love, safety, and healing. The reader and Spencer learn to appreciate both the dark and the light that comes with being human as they develop feelings for each other and try to make a relationship work.
But at what cost? What happens when the past refuses to stay buried? What happens when the darkness overpowers the light? ||

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|| I do not own any Criminal Minds characters or storylines || This story roughly takes place around the later seasons (8+) as far as Reid's character development and version of Reid. This story may not follow the show's other storylines and other character appearances exactly, as this is a fanfiction. CRIMINAL MINDS SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT WATCHED THE ENTIRE SHOW ||

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TRIGGER WARNINGS:
Trauma/PTSD, Mental Health, Death, Gun Violence, General Violence, Crime, Murder, Crime Scene Descriptions, Law Enforcement Violence, Drug/Alcohol Mentions, Mature Sexual Content, Other Mature and Graphic Content as