Red~ Spencer Reid

Part 15

We were now heading back to Quantico, we managed to solve the case quickly. Garcia looked through old newspapers and in the 90s a teen was buried alive by his father in a sand dune and his father had just died two months ago which was the stressor.

Spencer and I hadn't gotten much time to talk about that night jn my hotel room. We both admitted we loved eachother I just hoped he meant it the way that I did.

I had fallen in love with everything about Spencer. How he rambles on, how he reads so quickly but when we read together he slows down his pace for me. How he makes me feel butterflies by simply holding my hand, how he is adorably old fashioned.

I loved Spencer.

We all headed back to headquarters to finish off our paperwork. We all exited the elevator and you could tell we were absolutely exhausted.

"Here you go guys" Garcia said handing us the case paperwork.

"Thanks" I mumbled heading over to my desk to fill it out.

After about half an hour or so I had finished my paperwork and I headed to Hotch's office to hand it in.

I gave a slight knock on the door.

"Come in" Hotch called out placing the file he was reading down on the desk.

"Here's the report" I said handing him the file.

"Thank you" He said lifting it up briefly before setting it down on his desk.

I gave him a curt nod and turned to exit his office.

"Oh and L/n, I'm happy for you and Reid" Hotch said.

I froze at the doorway, did he just say what I think he did? I slowly turned around nervously itching at the back of my neck.

"Uh nothings going on between Reid and I" I replied, Hotch raised his eyebrows clearly not buying it.

"You may be able to fool the others, but I'm more observant than the others" Hotch said.

"So you know now" I said.

"Yes it was quite obvious, and don't worry I won't tell anybody I'm just happy for you. You and Reid are two of my best agents and you seem to make eachother happy" Hotch said and then a rare moment happened, Hotch smiled.

I returned the smile and instantly felt less nervous.

"Thanks Hotch" I replied.

"No worries and you better get going it looks like Reid is waiting for you" Hotch said with a slight smirk.

I turned my head glancing out the window, Reid was standing up at his desk, his fingers dancing along the top of the stack of case files on his desk as his eyes glanced around the room.

"Goodnight Hotch" I said with a slight chuckle.

"Goodnight L/n" Hotch replied.

I smiled and closed the door behind me heading towards Spencer.

"Hey what were you and Hotch talking about?" He asked.

"I'll tell you later" I replied glancing at the rest of the team who were still around.

Spencer nodded getting the memo and we both headed towards the elevator. As soon as the doors shut Spencer reached over and grabbed my hand giving it a light squeeze.

"What was Hotch saying?" Spencer asked.

"He uh knows about us" I replied.

"Oh" Spencer said.

"Don't worry Spence he's happy with us being together and he's going to keep it a secret" I said.

"Oh thank god, well it's not that I want to hide the fact that your my girlfriend it's just our job and-" Spencer rambled on.

"Spencer I get what you mean" I giggled cutting him off, his face turned a bright red.

"And I'm your girlfriend now huh" I teased.

"Yeah I mean only if you want to" Spencer replied nervously.

It was honestly adorable how nervous Spencer was. I chuckled and pressed a kiss to his check.

"I would be honored" I said.

"Cool" He replied giving me a half smile.

We got out of the elevator and I headed towards Spencer's car as he was the one who drove me to work.

"Now before I drop you home would you maybe like to go grab some food?" Spencer asked me.

"I could do with a bite to eat" I replied.

Spencer smiled and turned the keys in the ignition starting up his car. He rested one arm on the back of my seat and reversed out of the carpark.

"So where would you like to go my love?" He asked driving out of the parking lot.

"I don't mind" I replied shooting him a small smile.

"I think I have a place in mind" Spencer said.

After about ten minutes of driving Spencer pulled up to a diner. It looked old fashioned american. Spencer took my hand and lead my inside. We were greeted by the delicious smell of food as soon as we were through the door.

We got seated in a booth around the back of the diner. It was late at night and the diner was nicely quiet the faint sound of the jukebox playing and the cicadas outside were the only noises we could hear.

One of the waitresses came out with two menus handing them to Spencer and I a wide smile spread across her face.

We ordered some curly fries to share and a milkshake each. Everything seemed normal, we weren't too FBI agents, well doctor in Spencer's case. We were just too normal people out on a date.

Spencer and I talked the whole time laughing and sharing stories happily, every once and a while the waitress would look over to us and smile.

"Thanks Mary" Spencer thanked the waitress as she took our plates away.

"No problem it looks like you two had a good time" She replied.

"We definitely did" I replied giving her a smile.

Spencer reached over and rubbed his thumb over my hand, before getting to go and pay, despite my pleas to let me pay, but Spencer Reid being the gentleman he truly is decided to pay for our meal.

Sorry forgot to add this in the A/n but I have a tik tok acc dedicated to criminal minds which I just started so if you could go check that out it would be greatly appreciated and i will be following back anyone who follows me lmao! My acc is @spencers.magictricks also thanks for all the suppory on the book and smut coming up in the next chapter (;