✔️As Neighbors Do | (Spencer Reid)

Bad

A/n This chapter is based on ep 15x6 "Date Night." I've changed a lot but bolded exact quotes scenarios from the show as best I can for transparency.

I've changed "Kelsey" to "Michelle," I'll be going back to previous chapters at some point to fix this. I also plan on adding some pics later.

Bad
Adjective
1. having a harmful effect on.
2. failing to conform to standards of moral virtue or acceptable conduct.
3. Injured, diseased, or painful.
4. decayed; putrid.

Max is in Spencer's apartment now.

Spencer had told her a good bit about Catherine Adams, and his team filled in the rest of the gaps for her just now.

She was obsessed with him, wanted him miserable, but most importantly-- wanted him to doubt himself.

She wanted to screw with him.

She was sick in the head, successfully killing dozens of men, but Spencer ended her fun.

Perhaps in another life, Max could have been like her, if she would have been less successful at managing her emotions, stifling the sometimes intrusive thoughts.

Given in to the impulses.

"They're on their way up," Emily says in her ear, "she likes theatrics, so be ready for anything."

Cat Adams was back to play, and unfortunately for Cat- people always underestimate Max.

"Make it good" she hears a woman say on the other side of the door.

Max doesn't feel just nervous as the door knob turns, she feels... excited.

Cat's eyes meet Max's the moment the door opens, but Spencer's are closed.

He has her against the door frame and he is kissing her hungrily.

I guess he's "making it good," Max thinks.

Max used to like Spencer's doorframes.

Like the one leading to his bedroom he firmly pushed Max against once via a gentle hand around her neck...

Or the ones he leaned against as he talked to her,

The ones he taped or poked at sometimes as he walked through them,

The one he white knuckled when she was on her knees for him.

Or even her own door frame, that matched the one she watched now where he leaned over her after the gala, daring her to kiss him for the second time.

Now she thought she'd like to rip them all off the walls and set them on fire.

"Look surprised and hurt," Max hears Emily say through her piece, and Max thinks she hears a tinge of disgust in Emily's voice.

Max makes a fiend look of surprise and Cat's full interest is no longer spit between Max and Spencer, it's fully on her.

Cat smugly pushes him off of her and Max hears a popping noise as his lips leave hers.

His gaze follows Cat's and they meet Max.

Spencer stands there for several beats as if in shock, and Cat leans into the doorframe, fixing her hair.

His face falls, and Cat's lights up, looking between Max and Spencer in triumph.

"What are you doing here" Spencer says, shaking off the shock and running into the apartment, grabbing at Max.