let me in [a criminal minds fanfic]

hotel tennessee

After Spencer and I went though files and came up with theories for a few hours, the rest of the team returned. One by one they all entered the room and took a seat around the table. All of them looked completely exhausted. After all were present, we quickly discussed our findings and then decided to talk more in the morning. It was for the best, probably none of us, except Spencer, would remember a thing from tonight anyways.

As we stood up to leave, a voice broke out. "Let's go to dinner." Emily suggested and her stomach growled loudly in agreement. No one on the team protested, all of us as hungry as the other. Some of us probably hadn't even eaten today, and by some of us I mean me. Then came the time to decide where to go. Rossi suggested Italian, JJ suggested Chinese, and Hotch apparently wanted a burger. I didn't care where we went, I just wanted some form of food.

About 30 minutes after this conversation, we were being seated at Huey's, a local restaurant in Memphis. I ended up sitting in between Spencer and Morgan. I looked through the menu, everything sounding great to me. "What are you going to get?" I asked Spencer. He looked up, "Not sure yet; debating between the chicken and the steak." I nodded, "I am too..." I looked back down at the menu as the waiter approached. We ordered our food and chatted about random things as we impatiently waited for our meals. I would say dinner was amazing but that could be because I was starving.

Dinner was mostly quiet, all of us enjoying our food. No one really talking after the food arrived, except for the occasional, 'This is amazing.' or something along those lines.

After dinner we headed off to our hotel. It was supposedly a nice hotel- according to the reviews at least- and it was located in the heart of downtown Memphis. The neon red sign above it read, 'The Peabody'. Probably a well known hotel to all Memphis residents. It was obviously special to the city; the hotel wasn't one of the big chain hotels like 'Hilton' or 'Best Western'.  Who knows, maybe Spencer has some crazy fact about the hotel hidden in that huge brain of his. And just as I thought this, I was proven correct. As we walked in Spencer said, "You know, the Peabody Hotel is famous for its 'March of the Peabody Ducks'." No one replied at first, probably all of them too tired to care. "Interesting." I said quietly, but loud enough for Spencer to hear.

When we walked in the rest of the team took a seat in the lobby, I followed. Hotch went to the front desk to get the room keys, I suppose. So as I waited for him to return, I began to wonder how the rooming situation would work out: who would room with who, if there were separate beds, or not, and many other things.

Eventually a voice interrupted my thoughts, "So, I'll divide up the rooms now" Hotch said somewhat loudly. "Morgan and Rossi, Emily and JJ, Reid and Bella." He said in an authoritative tone. He then handed out room keys and quietly slipped away to the elevator to go to his room. Hotch had a room to himself, which according to Morgan, it was normal for Hotch to have his own room. I didn't mind sharing a room with Spencer, hopefully he didn't mind sharing one with me. I mean all we would be doing in there is sleep and plus we would barely even be at the hotel, we would be working on the case the whole time.

All of us were so tired and we decided to just head up to the rooms and get some sleep. As we walked up to the elevators, Morgan appeared at Spencer's side, nudging him a bit. "Hey Pretty Boy, behave yourself." He said with a wink. I rolled my eyes and laughed a bit. Spencer looked over at him with a confused look, obviously not understanding. "H-How would I misbehave?" Spencer asked and tilted his head. Morgan just shook his head with a laugh, patting Spencer on the shoulder. "Never mind."

We arrived at our room, and I set my bag down on the edge of the bed furthest from the door. I unzipped my bag and pulled out a tank top and some sleep shorts and slipped into the bathroom to change. When I came out of the bathroom, I heard a knock on the door. I looked out the peephole, seeing Emily and JJ standing there. I whipped open the door, "Bella!" JJ said excitedly, "Come with us." She added, grabbing my arm and pulling me into the hall. "Cute PJ's" Emily said in the background, I mumbled back a thank you, confused by what all was going on.