Emily idly stroked Sergio as she lay out on her couch with him on her stomach. "We need to do something, Serg" She whispered into his fur as she planted a kiss on his head. He looked up with his bright yellow eyes and quietly meowed. She awkwardly took her phone out of her back pocket while trying not to disturb the cat and searched through her contacts.

"What about JJ?" He asked the little black cat who stared idly back at her. "I think she said she was taking Henry to the zoo…" She answered herself and looked further down her contact list. "I could call Reid? He's never doing anything" She said and gave a little smile. She nodded slightly and hit call then pressed the phone to her ear.

"Reid here" He answered in the same familiar tone Emily was used to.

"Hey, Reid" She said with the little smile growing uncontrollably.

"Is everything ok?" Reid asked as he slightly sat up in his armchair. He hadn't bothered checking the caller ID and it wasn't usual for him to be called by one of the team, especially on a Saturday at midmorning.

"Yeah, I'm just really bored…" Emily answered as casually as she could "Do you wanna do something, maybe?" She asked while trying to hide her nerves, she always took rejection badly and she knew if it was from Reid it would be ten times as bad.

"Um… yeah, sure. Do you have anything in mind?" He asked, he too was trying his best to hide his nervousness but he was sure she'd be able to tell.

"Oh, um… I was think you could come round to my apartment and we could just hang out or something?" She replied awkwardly, she'd wanted to spend time with him but she hadn't actually thought how. He's probably going to say no now, she thought to herself.

"Sounds great. Do you want me to bring anything?" He asked, standing and grabbing his car keys as he eagerly awaited her hanging up so he could drive round there and see her face to face.

"Uh…" She hesitated and looked round the room as if it would present an answer. "No, don't worry about it. Just bring yourself" She said with a grin as she realised just how cheesy that would sound to him.

"Alright, I'll, uh, bring myself over now" He said with a small laugh and grinned back as he pulled open his front door. "Bye, Emily" He said. He waited for her to say goodbye to him then hung up and hurriedly got into his car and drove, faster than normal, straight to her apartment.

Emily let the phone slip from her hand to the floor and lay her head back on the sofa while letting out a sigh of relief. "That wasn't so bad, was it Serg?" She asked as she smiled and ruffled the fur on his head. She couldn't seem to get rid of the little smile on her face until she heard the knocking on the door.

She practically ran towards the door then stopped, took a deep breath, brushed a few strands of Sergio's dark fur off her white shirt, and opened the door as calmly as she could. "Hey" She said, the big grin returning as she opened the door for Reid to come in.

"Hi" He said and returned her infectious grin. He took a step inside the apartment and looked round, Reid only been round a few times and he'd always had Morgan or JJ with him.

"Do you want a drink or something?" She said and turned her body ever so slightly towards the kitchen.

"Uh, sure" He said and put his hands in his pockets. Emily went to the fridge, pulled out two bottled waters then carried them out to Reid. "You remembered I like bottled water?" He asked with a little proud smile as he opened the bottle and took a sip.

"Yeah… I saw it in a store a few months back and remembered you said you liked it so I picked a couple up just to try" She replied while trying to play it cool.

"There's no documented health benefits of drinking bottled water rather than tap water but I personally prefer the taste of it" He said, he always had the habit of talking too much when he was nervous and when he was around Emily it was even worse.

Emily tilted her head at him as he sheepishly took another sip of water and smiled. She could tell he was nervous but she couldn't tell why. Her profiling skills could tell her but she refused to listen to anything but her own voice of reason that told her a guy like him would never like a girl like her. "Can you show me that magic trick again?" She asked, referring to the magic trick she'd been trying to work out for the last few weeks.

"Um, sure. Do you have a coin?" He asked as he searched through his pockets for one.

"Oh, uh… Here's one" She said as she grabbed a coin off of an end table. She passed it to him and she couldn't help notice how both of them paused for a second longer than they needed to before they pulled their hands away, the coin now in Reid's hands.

He gave a little smile, showed the coin in his palm, passed the coin into his other hand, but when he opened the hand the coin should be in it was empty. Emily looked thoughtful for a moment or two then her face split into a grin.

"I know how you do it!" She proclaimed.

"How?" Reid asked with the same grin on his face as he eagerly awaited the answer.

"You slip it up your sleeve when you pretend to put it in your other hand!"

"I already told you I don't do it like that!"

"Push your sleeves up then and prove it!" She said and grabbed at his sleeve to push them up.

Reid let out a little giggle and pulled away slightly even though he knew she wouldn't find the coin. "It's not in my sleeve!" He called out as she half tickled him to get the sleeves up.

"Come on, Reid. I know it's up there" She said as she pushed the sleeve up only to find his long slender arm. "Dammit… I was sure I'd worked it out" She said and smiled up at him with a look of defeat.

"I told you you'd never work it out" He said with a little triumphant smile.

"Oh yeah? Where's the coin now, then?"

"Right… here" He said as he put his hand behind her head like he was tucking a strand hair of hair behind her ear then when he pulled his hand back the coin was in his hand.

"How did you do that?" She called and took the coin from his hand and examined it. She slowly moved backwards while still staring at the coin and sat down on the sofa.

Reid smiled down at her then down only a few inches from her. "Magic" He whispered in a jokingly way and smiled wider.

Emily lifted her eyes away from the coin and smiled at Reid. "I'll figure you out, Reid. Believe me"

"It's magic! You can't figure it out!" He said with a little laugh.

"I'll still figure you out" She said with a little smile as she shifted her body position so she was facing him with her back resting against the arm of the chair. "So, what were you gonna do if I didn't call you?"

"I don't know… I had a book I was thinking about reading…" He replied shyly as he mimicked her sitting position.

"So you weren't planning on watching a doctor who marathon?" She asked with a little knowing smile.

He laughed a little then nodded. "I'd rather be her with you though" He said without meaning to then tried to cover it up with the friendliest smile he could manage.

"Good" She said and returned the smile even though her heart had stopped beating when she heard him say it. "Oh, how was your Aunt Ethel?"

"Huh?" He asked as he thought back to the previous case in California where his aunt had moved to when he was twelve. He'd stopped by her small bungalow the day the case had been solved just to visit; he hadn't seen her for almost three years. "She's good… She still thinks my hair is too long though" He said with an awkward smile.

Emily wanted to say she loved the length of his so badly but friends don't say stuff like that, do they? There was a small pause and Reid realised he needed to say something. "Do you have any aunts or uncles?" He asked awkwardly.

"Nope… my mom was adopted" She explained with an awkward smile Reid had never seen before that matched his perfectly. "It's no big deal, I moved around a lot so I wouldn't have seen them if I did have any" She added with a small shrug.

There was another pause as Emily picked at her fingernails. "Did your mom ever meet her biological mom?" Reid asked nervously, he wasn't sure whether or not he should change the subject or if she wanted to talk about this.

"No… She was always pretty bitter about her adoption, she stopped talking to her adoptive mom when she was eighteen or something and she never contacted her again… I don't think she even looked for her biological mom"

"You never met your grandma?" Reid asked.

"Nope" Emily said with the same awkward smile.

"Would you want to?" Reid questioned as he fought not to profile her from this new discovery.

"Maybe… I don't know what I'd do even if I could find her. I mean, I'm the daughter of the child she gave up… not exactly a great ice breaker, is it?" She said with a little laugh. Reid couldn't help but note that she thought of her grandma as her mother's biological mother rather than her adoptive mother.

"Well, I could help you" He blurted without meaning to. His cheeks became a rosy red and he gave a sheepish smile. "You know, help you find her and be there when you talk to her" He explained shyly. "If you'd want me too" He added quietly.

Emily gave him a reassuring smile and nodded. "That sounds great"