Why Is It Always Me? (MorganxReidxHotch)

Chapter 4: Persistant

The next morning, Hotch notices Reid and Prentiss arriving to work together. He watches as they laugh and talk about random movies they had watched last night. He starts to wonder if Reid might have something for Prentiss, like he did with JJ for awhile. This makes Hotch somewhat jealous, and makes him want to just jump in to talk to Reid. Morgan than arrives and sees what is going on between Prentiss and Reid. He hears about them watching movies last night, making Morgan upset that Reid had lied to him. "So how was staying at home and catching up on some reading?" Morgan asks. Reid turns to him, and the smile disappears. Prentiss looks to Morgan aswell, in disbelief that he would do that. 

"I asked him to join me last night." She states, in a pissed off tone. This makes Morgan back off. 

"Sorry kid...." He replies and just sits back down at his desk. 

Hotch watches from his office. He wants to go down there and talk to Reid now, because he is worried that he has told Prentiss what had happened the night after the bar. Garcia comes running out of here office space and to Reid, hugging him from behind. Making everyone in the room look at her oddly.

"Umm, hi Garcia. Is everything okay?" Reid asks, a bit confused by the sudden hug. 

"I tried calling you last night, and you wouldn't pick up. So I went to your apartment and you weren't there either. Your neighbor said you had rushed off and that you had been gone for hours." She states. 

"Why did you try calling me?" Reid asks, now really confused. 

"Gideon had told me you were acting funny and so I wanted to see what was wrong. So when you never answered and when you weren't home, I worried you were kidnapped or something." She states. 

"Garcia, I don't think that anyone is going to kidnap me." Reid insists. 

"Reid, you work for the BAU, you are young, smart, and to be quite honest more of an easy target." She states. 

"Ouch..." Prentiss comments. 

"Yeah, really." Reid adds.

"I didn't mean it like that." Garcia states. "But anyways, I am just glad you aren't taken. But where were you?" 

"I was with Prentiss all night." He answers. 

"Oh?" She looks to both of them and points from Reid to Prentiss in that questioning way. 

"No." Prentiss answers.

"No!" Reid also answers. "It's not like that." He insisted. 

"I asked him over because I also noticed the whole acting weird thing, and it was just a false alarm." Prentiss explains. 

"Oh, alright, well I just better go back to my office. I have a few things I need to actually finish up." She explains. 

"okay." The both respond and watch as she walked back to her office. Hotch had seen the whole thing and now there is still hope, to try and get Reid to like him. But is it to late to stop him before he shows that picture to anyone? He asks himself. "Reid, can you come here for a minute?" Hotch asks. Reid looks up at Hotch and then to Prentiss with a look a kid gets when they are called to the principles office. 

"Want me to go in with you?" Prentiss asks, in a whisper.

"No, it's okay." He answers and heads up into Hotchs office. Hotch closes the door behind them, locks it, and closes the blinds so that no one else can peek in here. "What's going on?" Reid asks. 

"That picture, I sent to you not to long ago." Hotch starts up. 

"Oh...uh..." Reid is lost for words.