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Rarely Pure And Never Simple, But Written In Verse by Nymphadora4
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
20 Jun 2026
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A collision of two lonely, brilliant minds finding a frequency that finally matches. In the dim, amber glow of a Washington D.C. Halloween, Dr. Spencer Reid—a BAU profiler more comfortable with cold data than human connection—encounters a woman who speaks his language. Angel is a brilliant medical student who hides a profound sense of melancholy behind a mask of wit and aestheticism. What begins as a high-speed intellectual chess match over the etymological roots of their names and 16th-century poetry quickly evolves into something far more complex.
As they navigate a world of beautiful lies, they are forced to confront their own deepest vulnerabilities: his struggle with the shadows of his profession and addiction, and hers with the crushing pressure of perfection. When a single variable shifts, threatening to pull them apart, Angelique leaves Spencer with one final, layered challenge: a complex cipher that forces him to relive every moment of their connection. To reach her, Spencer must prove he is more than just a genius; he must find a way to make the math of their lives finally balance.
Based on Spencer’s realization that while most of the world is prose, Angel is poetry.