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6.

WARNING: angst, talk about harassment, time jump

Ruby was driving around all night trying to get her mind straight again. She understood that Spencer was just worried, but why did he need to ask so many questions to which she did not know an answer? Okay, actually, she knew the answers, she just could not say them out loud because it would make things real and more people would start to ask questions which would be worse than Reid's and she did not know if she could take it.

It was already 1am and Ruby did not know where to go. She could not return home right now. He would immediatley start to interrogate her again. So she drove to the only person she knew who would be awake at such a cruel night time on a work day. When she arrived at Soraya's apartment, she parked her car on her driveway before she got out and silently walked into the apartment complex. When she arrived at her front door, she knocked waiting for her best friend to open up.

"Ruby? What are you doing here?! It's 1 in the morning!", Soraya wondered.

"Spencer and I had a fight and I did not know where to go.", Ruby answered shyly. Soraya gave her a sympathetical smile before she let her inside her apartment.

"What happened?", her best friend wanted to know as she walked to the kitchen to get them both a cup of coffee. Ruby waited for the woman to come back to the living room where she quickly thanked her for the hot liquid before she started to explain.

"Well...Spencer came back from a case tonight, we had dinner and everything was going fine until we started watching a move, I got startled and flinched away when he put his arm around me. I got up and told him I was fine. Then he suddenly saw a bruise, which is actually pretty normal, and I told him I got it at work which he did not believe. He started to profile me and you know I hate when he does that.  He said I had changed and asked if something was going on. I don't know...I just snapped and told him to back off. And then I ran and drove around DC. I did not want to go back home right now.", Ruby said as Soraya carefully listened.

"Is something going on?"

"Excuse me?"

"I asked if something is going on. I mean Spencer would not be that resistent if he did not know that something was going on."

"Come on, not you too.", Ruby groaned.

"Ruby, you don't have to be a profiler to see that something is bothering you. It's not good to bottle things up."

"I know that..."

"Is it Michael?", Soraya suddenly asked.

"W-Wha-at?", Ruby stottered, suddenly feeling overwhelmed and dizzy at the mention of that name.

"I noticed the tension between the both of you and did you think that I forgot the incident at the break room a while ago? He was really mean and rough towards you. Did he threaten you? You know you can tell me anything."

Ruby sighed and thought for a minute. She really could use someone to talk to but if Ruby would tell her what happened she would for sure tell Reid about it. Did Soraya need to know the wholw truth? Ruby gathered up all her courage before she began to speak.

"Yeah..Michael and I...we had some misunderstandings and difficulties. I feel like ever since Spencer came in my life, he changed. Like we used to be really close friends, but now he is acting so weird and he keeps telling me that he loves me and that he is the one who's supposed to  be with me. I try to ignore him as much as I can, but it's hard because he's like a boomerang. He always keeps coming back when I got rid of him." So far, Ruby was telling the truth.