Second Chances (Spencer Reid Story)

Silver Linings

Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds, the characters (except for my OC'S and Gabby), or the show! All credit goes to Jeff Davis!

Thanks! Enjoy chapter 2!
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Silver Lining

After sipping on his coffee lazily for the last 20 minutes, Spencer decided that it was time to get to work. He wasn't supposed to be at the BAU until 8:30, the time right now being 8:07, but he'd figured that he might as well get some paperwork done instead of having to do it after they finished the new case.

Getting up off of the table that he was sitting at and throwing away his now empty cup, he then walked out of the café and into his car before driving away to work. The drive over to the BAU took no time at all, considering the fact that he'd been thinking about Gabby and how they'd be meeting up on Saturday.

Spencer could still smell her sweet vanilla scent, and that smell just made him go insane. Never in the world did he think that he would ever like vanilla. It might have been the first time he had ever proven himself wrong. That, and the fact that he thought he would be able to save Maeve and maybe even Diane Turner. He had been wrong about the too.

Not wanting to think about Maeve and put himself in a bad mood when he should in fact be very happy, he shook his head and tried to not think about her before driving up to his work place and parking at the nearest parking spot there was. He knew that he'd be working for very long hours today. JJ had called him right after Gabby left to inform him that the case that they'd be working on was very important, so important that they'd even have two other different teams working on the same case.

He wasn't sure how he'd ever get through the day, but Spencer most definitely knew that he wouldn't want to spend it thinking about Maeve and have more pain seep through his little heart and out of his eyes as fresh tears. No, he definitely didn't want that.

Instead, he should think about Gabby. Maybe that would help keep the pain at bay for a little while. "It was definitely working" Spencer said as he replayed their first encounter earlier at the café. A small smile snuck its' way up to Spencer's cheeks as he opened up the doors to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Maybe today wouldn't be so bad after all...
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Spencer sat at his desk waiting for JJ to call them all into the conference room for the new case. He had his feet on his desk, something he never did, and was currently playing with a blue ballpoint pen he had found on the floor. Spencer still had the smile on his face, only he tried to make it smaller so that it would go unnoticed. Sadly for him, agent Morgan had noticed the expression on Spencer's face, and was slowly walking over to his desk with his usual smirk.

"Having a nice day, Dr. Reid?" Derek asked him. His eyebrows were up and his smirk grew bigger, as if he was waiting to be amused. He knew that he shouldn't have made fun of Spencer, but it had been so long since he had seen him in a good mood, and he simply couldn't help himself. He tried to remember the last time Spencer looked this happy, and there was only one word that could explain his happiness. Actually, it wasn't a word. It was a name. And that name was Maeve.

Spencer looked down at his desk avoiding eye contact with his fellow friend/co-worker. He thought that by doing this he'd get Derek to back off and go away, but apparently...Derek was far from doing that. He coughed a small little cough before sitting up and looking at him dead in the face, before answering the question that had just been asked to him only a couple of minutes before.

"I, uh...I met a girl" Spencer said, matter of factly.

Derek starred at his friend, wondering if he had heard him correctly. Spencer couldn't be over Maeve already. He knew that he should be glad for him. That 6 months of moping around after her death was unhealthy for Spencer, and that he should be thanking the heavens for letting Spencer finally have a silver lining.

Derek just thought it was strange to have Spencer half way back to normal when yesterday he literally had to break into his apartment, drag a depressed Spencer out of his bed and over to the car, and drive back to the BAU. Derek crossed his arms and gave him the brow before speaking again. "Are you serious about this right now, man?"

Spencer looked up at the ceiling and tapped his pen against his chin, as if he was answering the most difficult question there was in the history of mankind. Pursing his lips and nodding extremely fast, he replied. "Yeah, actually. I'm pretty sure that I met a girl. There really is no other possible explanation for what I'm feeling right now." He said sarcastically.

"Okay..." Derek said nodding slightly, a sly look on his face "what's her name?"

"What?" Spencer asked feeling slightly annoyed. Derek was one of his closest friends, but sometimes he just wanted a little bit of privacy. His team knew almost everything about him, his family, where he came from, and what he's been through.

He wanted to at least have something he could keep to himself. Something that only he and nobody else knew about. Something that only he could enjoy. Spencer opened up his mouth to reply to Derek, but suddenly closed it shut once he heard JJ's voice telling the team to go to the conference room. He thanked the heavens silently for letting him dodge this question, though he knew that Derek would shoot it right back at him some other time during the day.

Hoping that Derek wouldn't, he excused himself from his friend's sight and walked over to the conference room with his head down just as Agent Prentiss walked towards Morgan. Watching Spencer's behavior and body language as he entered the room, Emily opened up her mouth to speak and get some of the intake on why Spencer looked awfully anxious and worried. "What's up with him?" she asked, tilting her head in Spencer's direction.

"He met a girl" Derek replied, still staring at Spencer through the glass window of the room. He was currently fixing some files on the desk, probably helping JJ distribute them.

"Oh" Emily said nodding her head, finally figuring out what was happening. Derek was embarrassing Spencer, parading him with questions on his non-existent love life, and Spencer was getting annoyed. "I see." Emily also had a mischievous smile on her face, all of a sudden shoving about 5 case files onto Derek and walking away.

"Call Garcia. Hotch wants some info on the families of the bodies we just found at the previous case. He wants to identify them and hopefully tell the victim's family what happened to them. You know, let the families finally have some closure." She said walking away.

"Will do" Derek responded, taking out his phone and calling Garcia.

"Hey, baby girl" Derek said through the phone "I need you to do something for me..."

He hung up the phone as soon as he finished giving Garcia instructions on what she was to do and who she'd be looking for, now walking towards the conference room as well. Who Spencer's mystery girl was, or what case they'd be working on next, Derek was anxious to find out.

The only thing that Derek knew and was keeping him from asking right away was the fact that he'd be finding out both answers soon enough...
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A/N:That was chapter two! Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed and followed this story. It means alot! I know that this chapter wasn't as eventful, but I decided to save the details of the team's new case for the next chapter, considering the fact that this chapter would be too long if I added it! Thank you so much for the support! Please review! Criticism and compliments are welcome! Suggestions are too! Feel free to PM me as well! I'll definitely respond! Thanks!