Classified light- a criminal minds fan fiction

With you

"Psst-" Cameron and Garcia heard the smallest of whispers as they sat on the bench in the dining house, looking around the empty hall but nothing catching their eye.

"Psssst-" 

It happened once again, Cameron looking over her shoulder and just about spotting the top of Sam's head out of the window.

"Sam? What are you doing?" Garcia laughed, walking over to him but pausing when a stack of her magazines were held up.

"You found them! You're the best!" She beamed, taking the ones that Porter had hidden as punishment for her not doing the activities.

Cameron smiled as she watched Sam and Garcia laugh and talk through the window for a while, Garcia paused at that smile as she sat back down after Sam left.

"What are you smiling at?"

"You like him."

"W-what?! No, no way, not at all" Garcia tried to lie before seeing Cameron's amused eyebrow raise and laughing, "fine... I might have the tiniest, little bit of a liking for him."

"You should ask him out" Cameron smiled and finished icing Garcia's hand after she had fallen and twisted it on one of the activities that she didn't want to do the day before.

It was now Friday which meant they only had one more day before they left on the Saturday to be able to have one day off before work started again on Monday.

The days after the punching incident had been awkward for Reid and Cameron like expected, but this day had also been awkward for Hotch and her too after he came into her room late the night before when Amanda had gone to use the shower by the lake.

"That was a quick shower- oh" Cameron looked up from the book she was reading in bed, expecting to see Amanda but instead Hotch was stood there at the door.

"May I come in?" He asked quietly, she nodded and popped her book mark in as she sat up properly, a strange awkwardness between them in the tension of the two of them alone in the room.

There was a moment of silence as Hotch took a seat on the other bed away from her and looked at the floor.

"What have I done wrong?" He said after a while, she tilted her head at him.

"Pardon?"

He finally looked up from the floor to her, "what have I done to upset you?"

"What? You haven't done anything wrong or to upset me" she said with confusion.

"I must have, you've been avoiding me all day."

"That's because we have to-"

"No, this is different than just us having to just be co-workers again" he interrupted and shook his head, "you won't look at me, you do everything to be paired with anyone else in the activities, you can't even stand being one person away from me on any closer to me than the other side of the room- I must have done something so tell me so that I can apologise."

Cameron fell silent for a moment and then spoke quietly, "you didn't do anything wrong Aaron, I promise you."

"Then what's going on?" He said with frustration, almost embarrassed of how much it was irritating him, "why are you pretending that I don't exist?"

"Because... because it's too hard to know that you do" she spoke quietly and looked down at her hands, "it's too hard knowing that you do and I can't exist with you."