It was an unusually snowy January night. The team had just finished up with a case that they'd been working on for three days. They were all so thankful to finally be going home.
Spencer had been wanting to check out a new movie theatre that opened up a few blocks from there. "They're going to screen some old movies at 8," he told Prentiss. "Do you wanna go?"
"Oh I wish I could, Spence, but I have a date."
Intrigued, he asked, "With who?"
She smiled. "Not telling you, genius."
"Okay, I'll ask Garcia to dig up some information then." Garcia was a force not to be messed with.
"You better not or I will make your life miserable." She joked.
Spencer just smiled, and as JJ came through the glass doors, he made his way to her. "JJ? You wanna go to the movies?"
"Sorry Spence, I can't. I made plans with the kids. Maybe next time?"
He frowned but before he could say anything, Luke's deep voice startled him. "I can go with you, Spence."
"Really? " Spencer beamed, he didn't want to go alone.
"Yes. I would love to!" Luke grinned, this was a fantastic way to spend time with the genius.
"Thank you! I have been wanting to go for ages!"
JJ and Emily shot each other a knowing look. They both knew what was going on with the pair in a trance.
"You guys coming or not?" Emily asked as the doors to the elevator finally opened.
The duo stepped in and as they walked outside, they said their goodbyes to each other. Luke and Spencer walked to their cars and drove to the movie theatre as they talked through the phone.
"What are we watching?" Luke inquired.
"A 1970's horror classic, "The Exorcist'" He said, "I don't know if you've watched it though. I should've asked before paying for the tickets. I'm sorry."
"No, Spence, It's all good! I haven't seen it but my sister did when she was younger- she's been traumatized by it ever since."
"If you don't want to watch it, I could pick another movie that's not horror."
"No, I'm actually kind of excited to see it. I'll be fine."
As they entered the movie theatre, Luke managed to convince Spencer to let him pay for everything- it was not easy. They sat in the back.
The movie started slow and boring- so boring that Luke had to force himself to stay awake, for Spencer's sake. Spencer took notice of this and tried to make it more fun for him by throwing popcorn at him and telling him to catch it in his mouth. He only caught one out of all of them.
As they giggled, a woman right next to them turned and told them that they were a really cute couple. Spencer's skin quickly turned a bright red, Luke laughed.
"We're not a couple." Luke politely told a woman as he saw Spencer's face. Would it really be bad if they were?
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to-" the woman was cut off when a young couple in front of them turned around and shushed them.
Spencer kept his eyes on the movie, visibly flustered and Luke made a mental not not to bring it up. Spencer's not good with attention.
There were a few jump scares along the way which Spencer had memorized since he watched the movie when he was a teenager. He could see Luke covering his eyes when something scary was about to happen. He wanted to reach out and calm him down but he knew he couldn't so he just sat there, eyes glued to the screen.
