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Childhood scars are the ones that last the longest, especially emotional scars. You had learned to read and study people at a young age, entirely because you needed to find a way to survive. You would shut yourself down, focus on facts of manipulating what people thought about you. There was a price to be paid for being born into old money, and until you were sixteen you suspected you would never find your way out.
Despite your career in the BAU, parts of the world you desperately escaped still haunted you. While it only took a few months for most members of the BAU to open up, it was closer to years before your walls actually started to soften. You knew Emily long before she joined the BAU, Penelope and JJ went out of their way to get to know you from the first day you started, and Derek was constantly trying to talk you into going out with the rest of the team. Yet, Dr. Spencer Reid was the one you opened up to first, and all because you had a very, very, specific 'type.'