The next day, the team was on standby, meaning they had a possibility for a case to come in, so they had to stay put.
As Prentiss made her way to her and JJ's hotel room, she stumbled upon Reid, who went up to her and said, "Emily, I think I'm going to hang around for a bit to see my mom if we don't have a case."
"You can take the next week to stay with her if you'd like." She said.
"But what if-"
"Let me rephrase that. Stay with your mom. We can work without you for a week just fine. I know you've been looking forward to this, Reid."
"Thank you, Emily."
With a nod and a smile, Prentiss left to go to her room.
As the sun set and they still didn't have a case, Spencer got ready to play poker with the team, which, considering Reid's expertise in the game, he was confident he'd win.
"Heard you're going to stay here for the week," Luke said, as he entered the room.
"Yeah, Prentiss gave me an order to stay and see my mom."
"That's good. I'm glad you get to see her."
"I'm glad too." He looked down and fumbled with his fingers.
Luke took notice of this and asked, "But?"
"Hmm?" He asked absentmindedly.
"Come on, talk to me." He said, sitting on his bed. "We've already talked about nightmares and we slept in the same bed. Come on, what's going on?"
The events of the morning flashed through his mind but quickly swept them away as he started feeling a blush setting in. He cleared his throat and began, "I'm afraid she won't remember who I am. Sometimes she's fine but other times she doesn't remember that I'm her son." He said, not looking up. "I mean I can handle when she has her schizophrenic breaks but this....this is just harder for some reason."
"Well nobody wants to be forgotten by their parents." He said. "I can go with you if it'd make it easier on you."
Spencer looked up at this, "No, but the case-"
"We're on standby and if there is a case, I can ask Prentiss if I can stay and do it from here."
"Luke, you've already done so much for me-"
"If that's your concern, then you can buy me some dinner, and then we'll be even."
He hesitated before agreeing. "I have been wanting to try this new Chinese restaurant a friend told me about."
"Ok, great. We'll order from there and then go to your mom."
"Thank you, Luke."
He only nodded and said, "Any time. Let's go play some poker for now."
As they got downstairs, they started setting up the game.
A few minutes of the game went by and Spencer and Luke were the ones left playing.
"What's your move Alvez?" Tara asked.
He gave a cheeky smile and said, "I'm all in." pushing all his money to the center.
"I'm all in too," Spencer said, doing the same.
Once they showed each other their cards, they realized that Luke had won.
Spencer had a surprised look on his face and the rest of the team was just as surprised, saying stuff like "Our little genius finally lost?" and that it was "Too good to be true." like Rossi had said.
