Watching Over || Spencer Reid

This story picks up in the middle of the series, not at the beginning, because I couldn't quite picture Nathaniel as one of the originals on the team..

Story Description:

Before the BAU, Nathaniel "Nate" Hayes learned to survive in silence-reading danger in a flicker of movement, finding strength beneath scars no one sees. Now, as a profiler and guardian to his siblings, he carries the weight of a fractured past with a steady hand and sharp instincts.

Thrown into the heart of darkness again, Nate confronts monsters both out in the field and inside himself. The cases are grim, the pressure relentless, but it's the quiet moments between that reveal the true fight-holding on, letting others in, and navigating the fragile balance between control and vulnerability.

Nathaniel is my original character. Everything else-the world, the storylines, the other characters-belongs to the original creators.