Ok here it is thanks for the reviews they are much appreciated and sorry for the late update school has been mayhem!

another big thanks to Blaze709

I don't own the show or characters and if i did the season 4 finale would not have happened lol :)

"Reid! How nice to see you! Oh my, look at those flowers. tThey're gorgeous!" Stella exclaimed walking forward and giving him a hug.

"Thanks. tThey're for my mom and Mac," he turned his attention to Mac and smiled.

"Wow! He looks like Claire," Stella thought to herself.

"I was hoping that you would accept them Mac, you know, because it's your anniversary and I wanted to get you something.," Reid said to him and, handing the flowers over to him.

"Yes, of course I'll have them. They're lovely and she would have been very happy with these,. They were her favourite. How did you know?" Mac asked.

"I don't know, I just got a feeling that she would have liked them."

They were interrupted by Reid's cell phone ringing and he had to leave quite abruptly.

Mac turned to Stella and smiled but she could have sworn that she saw a tear in his eye.

"Stell."

"Yeah Mac? Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm fine,. wWill you finish up here? I want to go and put these in my office."

"Sure,. I'll come up later and arrange them for you because I know what you guys are like. You just dump them in the a vase and that will do leave it at that." Stella tapped him on the back softly

Mac stepped back into the elevator and she went to get a confession out of Lucas.

Stella closed the door of the interrogation room and let out a sigh

"That's one less case he can blame his sleepless nights on.," she said to Flack,.

He smiled and led Lucas away.

She took the elevator to the thirty-fifth floor and walked along over to Mac's office but he wasn't there. She decided to check the labs because that is was where he was most likely to be found., Her first stop was DNA.

"Hey Adam! Is Mac in here?" she said asked as she peered around the door.

"No, sorry Stell."

"Ok. Have you seen him lately?" she asked

"Actually, no I haven't. iIt's a bit strange because he is usually breathing down my neck,." Adam replied not taking his eyes off the computer screen.

"Thanks Adam,. oOh and by the way, he's not breathing down your neck. He's observing you, for the promotion."

"Promotion?" he said to himself as Stella closed the door.

Stella continued her search for her missing boss.

"He's not in the AV lab or reconstruction, and he hasn't left the building, so where the hell is he?!" Stella stamped her foot in frustration.

She tried his office again on the off chance that he had been there all along and she hadn't seen him.

She walked in and that's when she saw him, with his back against the huge window, hunched up and with his head in his hands.

"He's gone back to that dark place. Now we have to get him out of it all over again. It's like we've taken one step forward and thirty back," she thought as she sat down beside him and pulled him closer to her,.

He put his head on her shoulder., and they sat in silence.

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