ᴜɴʀᴜʟʏ - spencer reid

two.

authors note: there will be very, very minor mentions of bdsm related topics in this chapter. if you're uncomfortable with this, please do not continue. (honestly... if you're here we all know you're comfortable with it)

las vegas was new territory for you and the tense flight there didn't help calm your nerves after the confrontation with spencer. you eventually revealed your thoughts on the case when the team was going over the evidence once more before landing, and they were impressed with how quickly you were getting accustomed to being put into action. but again, you got the glare from spencer just letting you know that he still thought the same thing he said to you earlier. and you were still getting that same tingling sensation in your stomach just from the way that spencer looked at you.

you were accustomed to virginia heat in the summer, but las vegas heat was completely different to you. jj walked up to you with a smile on her face, her hand digging in her pocket to hand you a hair tie.

"you'll learn quickly that in the field it's best to just get your hair out of the way." she spoke out softly to you, giving your shoulder a small pat before she caught up with the rest of the team.

while you were catching up with the team on their way up to the local police station, spencer was the first one you caught up to. you could feel his eyes on you as you pulled your hair back into a small braid, your finger skillfully weaving through the strands of your hair to finish the braid in just a few seconds. with a few small mental pep talks, you turned your gaze to spencer and could tell he was caught in one of the moments where he looked away quickly as soon as he was caught staring you down.

the team was quickly introduced to the police, you being introduced by hotch last as the specialist that would be the most helpful right now given some of the evidence. you were surprised that he would bring you up this quickly given your standing with the team so far, but you instantly led in with your ideas about the evidence that was on hand right now.

"all these victims are linked by the same bible verse, all crimes leading to believe the unsub is a woman in her early to late 20's driven by the idea that these men are unfaithful in some way," as you were looking over the evidence closer, you noticed one thing the team hadn't brought up yet. "there's also a pale spot on each victim's hand where we can assume a wedding ring had been taken as a token."

"good catch, agent (y/l/n). we had assumed it was just part of a robbery or the victim just forgot it for the night. these men were all tied to a local club here in vegas that involves... a more promiscuous group of people. it's not known to people outside of the community but we've gotten a few calls from people there that clued us in." the lead detective spoke to you, nodding your head along with his words.

as the detective spoke, you could see out of the corner of your eye that spencer tensed up once the nature of the club was mentioned to the team. you hadn't seen him act like that, but with your studies you knew his reaction had to be related to him hiding something that dealt with the nature of the case. you would've had the same reaction as he did if you hadn't been better at hiding your personal emotions than he seemed to be.

after clearing his throat, spencer finally spoke up although his voice slightly cracked when he first started speaking. "if you don't mind explaining, what is the nature of the club? it's important to know these details to get more insight into the mind of the unsub."

"we'll leave that up to you to figure out, agent. there's clients of the club waiting there to talk to your team."

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the drive to the club was tense for you, you got stuck driving spencer to the club the team was headed to. prentiss had joked that it was initiation for the new member since spencer could be a little bit of a pain to drive somewhere, and you could see why. he critiqued your posture, the fact that you'd always go five over the speed limit even though you were just keeping up with traffic, and not to mention him critiquing the way that you'd take your eyes off the road to talk to him.

the blacked out windows of the club gave you a hint of what went on behind the doors, and as much as you didn't want to admit it, your subconscious was telling you to be nervous that you were walking into this place with spencer but also excited to be walking into this place with spencer. the two thoughts existing at once was enough to confuse you and make it so you didn't pay attention to the raised concrete that caused you to stumble over your feet. you were able to catch yourself before you fell, but that didn't get you away from spencer noticing.

"do you not know how to walk either?" he scoffed as he spoke, but that didn't stop you from noticing the smile that curved up the corners of his lips.

it was a smile that made your stomach fill with butterflies. the kind of smile you knew he was trying to hide which made it even better. your thoughts were quickly halted when you walked into the doors of the club and saw all the whips and strands of rope decorating the walls of what you now realized was more of a sex club. you weren't uncomfortable with these things, but you were only slightly uncomfortable with the fact that spencer's fingers were now running down the edge of one of the red whips hanging on the wall. 

"we have people to be interviewing, agent (y/l/n). let's get going." you quickly snapped out of the daze you were in from watching spencer's fingers when you heard his voice, nodding your head and heading to the back of the club closer to the bar where to women were sitting in the high-rise chairs. spencer was the first person they acknowledged, barely giving you a glance. 

for just a few seconds, it made you jealous that the attention was on him and you could just tell that he was giving them all of his attention. your thoughts changed as soon as the women referred to him by his first name and greeted him with a tight and way too friendly hug. he knew them by name too, even though their faces were half covered by black masks around their eyes, he still knew them by name.

and then the realization hit you of why he looked so comfortable here. and the thoughts hit you hard.