Prompt: heart
For: heinsbergen
Rating: FRC
Tag to: 4x12 (Soul Mates) and 4x24 (Amplification)
Word count: 124
Four months ago, he'd sat in an interrogation room and told an unsub that he'd never been in love with another man before. Four months ago, it had been true.
Sure, Derek had been sleeping with Reid for almost two and a half months at that point, but he wasn't in love, not then, not ever. Thankfully, Reid didn't hear that part of the interrogation...or if he did, he'd never brought it up or appeared to hold it against him.
Even now, he's not sure when it snuck up on him, but as Reid apologizes to him from behind the thick glass door, he realizes the only way his heart could ache this much is if he'd given a piece of it away.
