Boy Meets Girl / Criminal Minds Fanfiction.

No Threatening Allowed

"Hey, Reid," Morgan says as he walks up to his team member and friend as he watches the younger man pack up for the night. "You up for drinks?"

"Not tonight, Morgan." Spencer tells him without stopping in his movements, having just texted Ryder, telling her he was leaving work.

"C'mon man, why not? You haven't been out with us in a while." Morgan tells him, suspicious of the kid. He had been turning down all the offers for drinks and food after cases lately. At first, he had been worried, thinking his friend hadn't been doing well but that worry soon left his mind when he noticed Reid's behavior. The lack of bags under his eyes, his light attitude, smiling and joking around. Well as much as Reid could joke.

"Another time, Morgan." Spencer said as he through his messenger bag strap over his shoulder.

"Another time, what?" Emily asks as she approaches the two, having caught only the end on the conversation.

"Pretty boy here is turning down drinks, again." Morgan tells her as he sits on the edge of Spencer's desk.

"Again? Come on, Reid, I feel like we never see you outside work anymore." Emily tells her younger team member.

"Sorry guys," Reid tells them. He was sorry, he enjoys his team's company and he felt guilty for not telling them about Ryder but he just wasn't ready yet. He felt that the moment the team knew about her it wouldn't be the same. She was his escape from work and everything connected to it if they knew, he was afraid it wouldn't be the same. But deep down he knew that wasn't true, he just wasn't ready to tell them. "Next time."

"That's what you said last time." Morgan pointed out, grabbing Spencer's jacket before he could.

"Morgan." Spencer said with a sigh, look at the older man.

"He's right, Reid, you've said that the last two times actually," Emily said, coming to stand next to Morgan as they both observed Spencer with curious eyes.

"Yeah, he did, didn't he?" Morgan said, holding Spencer's jacket behind his back.

"I've just been busy." Was Spencer's poor excuse.

"Uh-huh." Emily said in disbelief as Spencer tried to reach around Morgan to get his jacket.

"Not so fast, pretty boy." Morgan said, keeping the jacket from Spencer's reach. "Just tell us what you've been doing, or who." He added with a smirk, watching the heat rise in Spencer's cheeks.

"It's not like that." Spencer tells him after another failed attempt to get his jacket, Morgan's teasing a small reason he wanted to keep Ryder to himself.

"Oh, yeah? Then what is it like?" Asked Morgan, smiling at his younger team member.

"You know what? Keep it." Spencer told Morgan, referring to his Jacket before turning and walking out of the office. He had to meet Ryder and he couldn't be late.

"Wait, Reid!" Emily called out, smiling as she watched Spencer enter the elevator. "What do you think that was about?" She asked Morgan, turning to look at him as he regarded Spencer's jacket with squinted eyes.

"I'm not sure, but I'm gonna find out." He told Emily, sharing a laugh with her, setting Reid's jacket on his desk.

And he was going to stand by those words. One way or another he was going to find out his friends secret.

"I'm so sorry I'm late." Spencer told Ryder after she opened the door to her apartment. "You look amazing." He added once he got the chance to look at her properly.

Chuckling, Ryder moves away from the door, leaving Spencer to enter and close it behind him. "Don't worry about it, you're right on time. They're not even here yet."