"I've been reading a lot of those love/hate fics lately, so I thought i'd write one myself!"
The Opposite of Love
Chapter 1:
"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn." -Leo Buscaglia
"Don't you dare psycho analyze me!" Dr. Lily Trinity yelled as she stormed out of the BAU's conference room.
She pushed through the crowd of other agents who had gathered to witness her and Dr. Reid's daily argument. It always happened like this, she was having a great day and then he had to go and ruin it. She stormed through the bullpen mumbling something about stupid judgmental doctors. The rest of the team stood in silent shock, they'd seen Reid and Trinity fight all the time but not like this. This time it had been bad. They'd never understood the hatred betwixt the two, it seems that they should be great friends they were so much a like. Young, impressionable and extremely intelligent but the two prodigies had despised each other since day one.
Morgan suspected it was jealousy, that Reid was jealous that someone on the team was as smart as him, even more so at times. Garcia always thought that they fought to cover up their true feelings. Prentiss always joked about how you could cut the sexual tension with a knife when the two geniuses were in the same room.
Today no one even knew how the argument had started, but they all saw how it ended. Reid stood exasperated from the screaming match that had just taken place, hatred burning in his eyes. Then he took a deep breath and walked out the door past his colleagues and sat down at his desk like nothing had happened. Little did the rest of the team know, this argument wasn't like the others. It was the beginning of a whole new chapter and it all started here.
X X X
3 weeks earlier
Today was a very special day at the BAU, it was the last day before all of them got two weeks off. The usual gloomy mood was replaced by the buzzing excitement of the upcoming vacation. Today even Lily Trinity and Spencer Reid had been civil with each other.
"So what is Spencer Reid going to be up to during our two weeks of heaven?" Trinity said happily leaning across the table that Reid was currently residing at.
"I'm just staying here in Quantico." He replied a little shocked by her tone, which was neither bitter nor sarcastic.
"So you're stuck here too? I guess we're the only ones." She said sitting down across from him.
"I guess." He said still confused by her sudden change of mood.
"I can't even imagine two weeks away from this place." Trinity sighed.
"Me neither." Reid said still looking down at his book.
"Two weeks away from you, how will I go on." She said reverting back to her usual sarcasm toward Reid.
"Now that's heaven." Reid said standing up and walking away.
Trinity sat, mouth open in shock. He'd turned her own sarcasm against her, one of the many things she hated about Spencer Reid. In fact she hated everything about him, the annoying way he used his hands when he talked, the way he thought he was better then everyone else, how he always drank all the coffee. Everything. She'd never met a man so frustrating.
"Hey Trinity!" Garcia said practically running over.
"Hey." Trinity replied.
"So what we're you and Reid talking about?" Garcia asked raising her eyebrows suggestively.
"I was just telling him how much I'm going to enjoy spending two weeks away from him." Trinity answered.
"But you two are the only ones staying in Quantico, maybe you should get together." Garcia said smiling.
"Yeah right." Trinity snorted.
"Oh come on, when are you two going to get over this?" Garcia said sitting down.
"Never." Trinity said, with venom behind her words.
"You should just admit it already, you totally love him. Why don't you guys get together? You're in desperate need of some lovin'." Garcia said grinning.
"Eww, Garcia!" Trinity screeched. "I do not love him! Quite the opposite, I loathe him with every fiber of my being."
"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much." Garcia said teasingly. "I mean, come on, you have to admit he's kind of sexy."
"If by 'sexy' you mean an irritating, vexatious, obtuse, bast-"
"Language!" Garcia said, cutting Trinity off.
"I have to go finish some paperwork." Trinity said getting up.
"Avoiding the subject!" Garcia called out to her younger friend.
"Bye Garcia." She called back.
Meanwhile, in the conference room Morgan sat looking over files at the round table. Reid strolled in with a huge smirk on his face.
"What?" Morgan said noticing his colleague's grin.
"Nothing, I just love annoying Trinity." He said, the smirk still on his face.
"You love her, man." Morgan said, accenting the 'her'.
"Actually, I despise her with every cell in my body." Reid stated.
"Uh huh." Morgan said doubtfully.
"What's the 'Uh huh' for?" Reid asked defensively.
"You need to get laid, kid. Why don't you just admit you like her?" Morgan replied.
"Because I don't." Reid answered.
"You can't tell me you don't think she's a babe. I mean for a doctor, damn." Morgan said shaking his head.
"What's that supposed to mean? For a doctor?" Reid said getting defensive again.
"Whoops sorry." Morgan said not very apologetically. "You didn't say no." He finished teasingly.
"Alright, she's pretty but her outer beauty is nothing compared to her inner loathsome. So yes, she is a beautiful aggravating, better then everyone, control freak." Reid finished.
"You said she was beautiful." Morgan pointed out as he rose from his seat. "I'm so telling Garcia about this." He called behind him.
"Morgan no!" Reid said running after him.
"You can't stop me!" Morgan said laughing and kicking into high gear. Reid stopped to catch his breath. "Oh come on, don't tell me you can't run faster than that? You're the one with freakishly long legs!" Morgan said as he slipped into Garcia's office. Reid had to accept defeat.
"What was that?" Trinity's voice said from behind him.
"Nothing." Reid replied out of breath.
"For someone with freakishly long legs, you do run pretty slow." She said walking past him.
"Thanks." He said, the sarcasm practically burning his tongue.
"You're welcome." She answered sweetly, not looking back as she walked away.
