The Lady and the Genius.

What?

(River p.o.v)

The past two months have been interesting to say the least. I got the other 30 bucks from Spencer later that day we told the team, but other then that we've been as normal as we could be. I guess Penelope, Emily and J have been asking more questions on girls nights but the answer is always the same.
"No we haven't yet. I still have not ridden that disco stick, and if or when it happens I'm not giving you guys details. I'm a private person, this should be known with how Penelope still hasn't worked out my family tree."
"I still don't know who Hank is the father of."
"And I won't be telling any time soon."
"So why won't you talk about your past?" Emily asked
"My past is not interesting."
"You were a hostage at the age of 8." They all told as one.
"Yeah. And all I got was a scar on my shoulder that no one knew about except the boy band and Mac 'n cheese cause we lived together for a bit, and ptsd from that whole experience."
"Hold up you lived with them?" Penelope asked
"Yes. We thought it would be easier till I moved here. The boy band actually still live in the house we got, Mac 'n cheese moved to one of his coworkers places and now he has two roommates."
"Ok but can you at least tell us what Spencer is like as a boyfriend?" Penelope asked
"Protective. He doesn't like me being in danger and the whole stalker thing is not great I'll tell you that. But he is also sweet and loves to cuddle when we are relaxing or sleeping together."
"So how did the whole apartment situation happen?" J asked
"So as you guys know, my now dead ex mike kept my locked in his house for three days till I could escape. I rushed to his apartment since I wouldn't be able to get to J's place on foot because of the distance and what not, also you would have killed him. So once I arrived at his place, he took me in and helped me make sure I was ok. He went with me to get some things from my house which was when we learnt it was broken into by said ex, since he thought I was going to go back there. So we went to the police and told them the whole thing, and I didn't feel safe in my house anymore so we began to look for a new place and the old tenant moved out from under Spencer's apartment so we went could I/she and they said yes so we moved in."
"I actually liked your other one and was confused why you would have left it." J explained.
"Yeah it was a shit show."
"I mean, it's great you two found each other since you two are perfect together." Emily added
"Yeah. He still gets mad when I lower my prices for my store." I told
"You've been doing that since you were 19 and owned the place." J stated
"He's worried I'll go bankrupt which if it did happen, it's not going to be super quick." I added
"Wait you've owned that store since you were 19?" Penelope asked
"Yeah pretty much. I got it when I was visiting J, but I didn't officially move here till I was 20. I had some prior engagements I needed to finish first before coming here."
"You get stranger and stranger the more we learn about you." Emily added.
"Cheers to that ladies!" I exclaimed as we all cheered and clunk our glasses together.
'Man I love this family.'

I was working away in the BAU when my phone began to ring. I checked to see it was Sweets and picked it up.
"Yes?"
"River. Are you alone right now?"
"I can be just give me a sec." I told before walking to the round table room. "Ok I'm alone now."
"This is kinda hard to tell you." He explained and I noticed the tone in his voice.
"Why do you sound sad?"
"Your cousin. He was shot."
"Again? Is he ok?" I asked as I moved to the closest chair in the round table room.
"He didn't make it."
"Oh." I said as I sat down in one of the chairs.
"I was hoping you could come in for the funeral in the next week. I would really like to talk to you at least a couple of days before hand."
"Yeah. I can do that."
"That's great. Just call this number and we can arrange a time for us to meet."
"Yeah I can do that."
"I will let you get back to whatever you were doing. And I'm sorry."
"Thanks."
He hung the phone up and I slowly brought my phone away from my ear as I could tell tears were beginning to form. I began to play with the sleeve of my sweater as I tried to calm myself enough to tell Hotch I would need to take time off only for the tears to run down my face faster.
"River?"
I looked up towards the voice to see it was my co workers.
"Hey. Did you hear that there was someone crying in here? Cause I think they went that way." I told as I pointed to the other door.
"Sweetie why are you crying?" Penelope asked as she rushed over to pull me into a hug.
"I just got a call saying my cousin died. He.... he was shot apparently. So I gotta head up to go to the funeral."
"We can go with you if you like." Rossi told
"I should be fine."
"Reid. How about you take Finley home so you two can figure the ticket situation out." Hotch told
"Thanks." I told as I got up and left, making sure I gave J and Rossi a hug since I knew they wanted to give me one the most. "I'll call once we figured it out."
"Take the time you need sweetie."
We both left the building with our things and went back to my place.
'I lost Sniper now. I should be mad at him but I just feel somewhat empty.'