i know what it's like to be 𝒂𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅 of your own 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅.
spencer reid. profiler. 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬.
Title: 𝓣𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓶𝓮 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝔂.
Word Count: 1348
Characters: Spencer and Diana Reid
Warning: Character Death
Three hundred sixty five days: broken into 8765.81 hours, 525949 minutes. Three hundred sixty five days, three hundred sixty five letters, travelling the course of unfulfilled promises to his mother’s trembling grasp. Between them, these letters served as tangible penance for her abandonment, and his escape. In his youth, sealing his mother, his caregiver, his surveyor and spinner of tales, away behind walls decorated by her crippling fear of isolation, never graced his mind; a mind busy, practically overflowing with knowledge acquired by merely existing. Such was the burden, curse, and gift of a birthright genius:
Brilliance was often lonely; especially when said brilliance could not be used to ease the suffering of those he was born to cherish.