Grades

A Reid drabble by Windgale

Disclaimer: Ownership? I think not.


Spencer Reid has only ever failed one assignment in all of his years of schooling. He remembers it clearly. He was eleven years old, and in tenth grade. His English teacher had told them to take out their notebooks- they were going to do a writing exercise.

This was not strange. They wrote a paragraph every week on a subject of their teacher's choosing. Spencer would always write pages on each subject in the time it took his classmates to write a paragraph. He would fill his notebook with statistics and scientific facts that made even his teacher think twice.

That day, though, Spencer just stared blankly at the prompt he had copied down. He had no statistics for this. No one had ever scientifically studied this. He felt helpless as the minutes they were allotted ticked away.

When the teacher collected the papers, she frowned down at Spencer's. All he had written down was the prompt- "What does it mean to be a friend?"


Author's Note: A short drabble I came up with after writing that exact prompt. R&R. I'm thinking of doing a little Hotch drabble as well. Thoughts?