Revelation
They'd wrapped for the day on the current case they were working on. Someone was going round kidnapping, torturing and killing young homosexuals. They looked around to find Spencer had never come back.
Their latest victim had looked a lot like Maeve and he'd found it too hard to handle so he'd walked away saying he needed a breath of fresh air. They'd all allowed it believing he was going to come back soon. Secretly he hadn't been the only one affected.
"Where's Spence?" JJ asked.
"I'll go find him," Aaron answered worried about him while his chest pounded and tightened. Where could he be?
"But..." JJ answered as Aaron walked off.
"Let him go find him," Dave answered leading the rest of the team back to the hotel.
Aaron searched high and low for the youngest member of his team and finally found him sat on a bench by the river wracked with sobs. He sat down next to him with his chest pounding and without a second thought pulled him into his arms. Spencer laid his head on Aaron's chest feeling his heart race while he tried to recover his tears.
He looked up and whispered, "I knew it would be you who'd come find me."
"Of course I would. I care about you," he answered stroking his back wishing there was more he could do for him. "I'm so sorry she looked so much like Maeve. I wish I could have taken all that happened away from you."
"It wasn't that she looked like Maeve. It was that he looked like you..."
"What are you trying to say?" he answered feeling his heart race even more.
"I love you, Aaron, I love you so much."
He couldn't believe his ears but he knew what he wanted to answer. "I love you too, Spencer," he answered.
Spencer looked up not quite believing his ears but could see how he meant every word in his eyes. "Oh Aaron, I never knew."
"I thought it would interfere with work but you're so much more important than work."
Spencer claimed his lips for his own while Aaron joined in. They felt everything just float away and like they were the only two people in the world as they shared their first kiss.
They didn't even hear the footsteps coming up behind them.