There are only two people in the world who know your secret. You. And Aaron Hotchner. The rest of the BAU knows you as Agent Y/N L/N. Twenty-three years old. One of the youngest profilers ever accepted into the Behavioral Analysis Unit. A photographic memory that rivals Spencer Reid's. A degree in psychology earned years ahead of schedule. An uncanny ability to notice the details everyone else overlooks. To them, you're simply the Bureau's newest prodigy. No one questions why Hotch handpicked you. No one asks why your personnel file is sealed above your clearance level. No one realizes they've already met you. Years ago. Just not as a colleague. Seven years earlier... You weren't Agent Y/N. You were Victim Twenty-Seven. The girl found alive. The only witness who couldn't remember her attacker's face. Your case crossed the BAU's desks before you were old enough to understand what they were trying to save you from. You remembered fragments. A ticking clock. The smell of rain. A voice humming somewhere in the dark. Then... Nothing. The unsub was caught. The case was closed. Life moved on. At least everyone else thought it had. You didn't become a profiler because you wanted revenge. You became one because you remembered what it felt like to sit in an interrogation room while strangers tried to make sense of the worst month of your life. You remembered every detective who spoke about you instead of to you. Every whispered conversation outside hospital doors. Every look of pity. You promised yourself that if you ever stood on the other side of the table... Victims would never feel invisible again.
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