No. 56

Prompt: Gilmore Girls/Criminal Minds, Rory Gilmore + Spencer Reid and/or Jennifer Jareau, Rory gets the chance to interview one or two members of the BAU.
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Rory wasn't sure what to expect from an FBI profiler, but Dr. Spencer Reid wasn't it. When he walked into the room, Rory looked him up and down, and lyrics from a song filled her mind. I wear your granddad's clothes/ I look incredible. He was tall and lanky with long-fingered, spidery hands and wispy hair that didn't look regulation. When Rory had read his quick-sketch bio, about his three doctorates and off-the-charts IQ, she'd imagined a tidy, tweedy man, bespectacled, severe. The nervous, coltish creature opposite her looked better suited to art and poetry than catching murderers.

The way he smiled sweetly when JJ Jareau, the BAU's media liaison, ducked in and asked if he wanted coffee, made Rory want to take him home to Sookie and have her cook him all his favorite food at once.

Down, girl, she told herself. He wasn't much older than her. She flipped back to his bio. Only three years. How had she missed that detail?

"So, Agent Reid," Rory began, then corrected herself, "I mean, Dr. Reid –"

"Please, call me Spencer." He sipped at his coffee with a gentle curve of his wrist.

"Spencer," she said. "Why did you decide to join the FBI?"

"My mother used to teach medieval literature," he said, "and she told me stories about brave knights who slew monsters. I wanted to be brave."

"And do you slay monsters?"

"All monsters are people inside," he said, and Rory wondered what he saw inside her.