the great war, spencer reid [ 2 ]

071. truth or dare

"You guys, you should have seen Reid." Luke says as he walks in, followed by said man. "He shot a 100." He informs getting impressed reactions.

"That's my man." Bedelia grins, clapping. Spencer shyly smiles, his cheeks heating up at her praise. He quickly clears his throat, rubbing his face to try to cool it down.

"Yeah, he qualified to shoot a possible." Luke says.

"That's a perfect score. What, like 200 agents have made the wall of glory." Matt says.

"He hit everything. I mean, at one point I thought he must have two guns." Luke says, sitting down.

"Maybe I did." Spencer shrugs, sitting down. Bedelia proudly smiles at him, rubbing his arm, being the only one aware of the two guns.

"Okay, I think this will work." Penelope says, putting a big bowl of jelly beans on the table.

"Wow, where have you been hiding those?" JJ asks.

"So, Alvez, what did you shoot?" Tara asks.

"95." He answers.

"Phew. Tara?" Emily asks.

"Hundred, come on." She scoffs.

"No. No way." Luke scoffs. "Okay. I mean, you're good, but you are not that good."

"That's not what your daddy said last night." Tara retorts earning exclamations and Bedelia laughs.

"Ooh, lucky daddy." Luke chuckles.

"I am loving this time right now." Penelope smiles. "But two days without a case, it feels weird."

"Hey, hey, watch it." Bedelia warns.

"It feels like we could be doing some of this waiting at home." Luke comments.

"Yeah. Yeah, Rossi stepped out." Tara says.

"Rossi's getting married in two days, and we're still on the clock." Emily says.

"So we just need to get married in order to get days off." Bedelia says and Emily nods. "Propose." She tells Spencer.

"I already--"

"Do it again." Bedelia orders.

Spencer gives her an amused look.

"Nice try." Emily chuckles.

"Guys, I feel like this is gonna be the hot seat." Matt says, pointing to Spencer.

"Yeah, you are aware he's been banned from every casino in Vegas, right?" Bedelia asks, smiling at her teammate.

"Really?" Matt asks the genius.

"With a deck of 52 cards, the number of combinations is a factorial of 52. You simply need to calculate your outs and then your implied odds. Math is the basis of all card games." Spencer says.

"All right, ladies and gentlemen, today's game's 5 card. Roll them out. The big blind is 50. The baby is 25." Tara says as she shuffles the cards.

"This is still poker, right?" Bedelia whispers to her husband, unaware of Emily's same confusion on the other side of the table.

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JJ slides all of the jelly beans she has to the middle of the table. Spencer clicks his tongue. Bedelia sips on her drink as she glances between the two like it's a tennis match.

"Do you think the lady's bluffing?" Luke asks.

"I know the lady's bluffing because she has a tell." Spencer says.