So! Chapter 2! 10 very common nouns, this time around! :3 Same pairings as before.

I do not own Criminal Minds. :(

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1. Connection

If anyone had noticed the connection between Spencer Reid and Derek Morgan, it was Garcia. She saw how they looked at each other when they thought no-one was looking, she saw how they were naturally drawn to each other, saw how they did little things to spend time with each other and how Derek spent less time dancing and more time conversing with the team (mainly Spencer) when they went out for drinks together.

And, of course, the not-so-secret bathroom-sex-romps on slow days at the BAU.

Yeah. There was definitely a connection.

2. Model

It had been a conversation amongst the ladies one evening at the BAU. It had started with Garcia gushing over Reid, which surprised JJ and Prentiss only a little (Garcia had been fawning over Morgan and Reid a lot more, now-a-days).

"I mean, his cheek-bones are so defined! And his lips-have you ever seen a man with lips like his? And don't even get me started on his eyes!"

"You talkin' about me, Baby Girl?" Morgan had asked after he unintentionally snuck up on the conversing women.

"Sorry, Morgan," Prentiss said. "But she's talking about Reid this time, believe it or not." The dark-skinned man shrugged and nodded.

"Yeah, sometimes I wonder if he used to be a male model or something," he said before walking away.

The women shared a knowing look before happily dismissing themselves and going back to work.

3. Many

When Morgan came to work on Monday thoroughly exhausted with an unusually giddy Reid,Garcia was hot on his heels to figure it out.

After hours of relentless questioning and not-so-subtle hints about what she thought went on over the weekend, Morgan said only one thing:

"So…many…Star-Trek episodes…"

And that was all he needed to say.

4. Brother

It pained him to hear Reid call him his brother. Not that he was upset about being such a positive influence on the younger man, no. He cherished it, because that was as close to him as he was ever going to get; brotherly one-armed hugs, noogies, teasing…

No loving embraces, caresses, flirting.

Just Brothers.

5. Mess

Spencer Reid loved Derek Morgan-and he wouldn't be the only one to tell you so. SSA Aaron Hotchner would also tell you that Spencer loved Derek unconditionally, David Rossi too. And Emily Prentiss, Jenifer Jareau, and Penelope Garcia. He loved all his strengths, his faults, everything.

Well…almost everything.

"Ouch! DEREK!"

"What?"

"You do realize that leaving your exercise equipment laying around is a serious danger to our health?"

"No, it's just a danger to YOU. Pick up your feet, man."

"This place is a mess!" Reid all but screeched. Morgan looked at him from his spot on the couch.

"Like I said: pick up your feet, man."

Reid had half a mind to throw one of the many weights at the back of Morgan's fat head.

6. Mathematics

The Reid Effect. It was something everyone on the team knew about. Reid didn't mind, he knew he was bad with children. And he was never really fond of animals. So when Hotch had asked him to look after Jack, Reid instantly wondered if Hotch had gone insane.

"Uh, I, I'm not sure if that's such a good idea, Hotch," Reid stuttered. The last time he and Jack were left alone he'd managed to make the poor boy cry.

"It's okay, Reid, it's just for ten minutes," Hotch said in a soothing tone usually reserved for his five year old. "And he has homework, so he'll be busy."

When Hotch came back 15 minutes later, he found one Dr. Spencer Reid playing a mathematical game with his son.

Hotch instantly wondered if the world had gone insane.

7. Hiding

Derek Morgan was hiding something from him, and he just knew it.

The way his eyes shifted, how he was constantly glancing over his shoulder, and his need to know where Spencer was every minute of everyday were dead giveaways.

"I think Morgan's cheating on me…" Reid had said mournfully one day in Garcia's office.

"What?" the bubbly blonde had immediately twisted in her seat to face the young genius. "How could you think that?"

"Well, he's been acting strange lately!" he defended. "He's hiding something from me, Penelope. And Derek's never hidden anything from me before…"

"Well, just wait and see before you make assumptions of my Chocolate God, Mister!"

With a frown, Spencer went back to his desk.

Later that same night, Derek proposed.

"I guess it's true, then," Reid had mumbled after he and Morgan had made love.

"What's true, Pretty Boy?"

"That assuming makes and ass out of you and me."

8. Value

If anyone knew the value of trust, it was Derek Morgan.

He didn't trust very many people. Even including his family, he could still only count them on one hand.

He knew the value of trust could be priceless, and, with one small error, become worthless.

Glancing to the back of the jet where Dr. Spencer Reid sat-who was pointedly ignoring him- Morgan remembered all to well when happens when you break someone's trust.

9. Crazy

"Spence, are you sure you saw it?"

"I'm not crazy, Morgan! If I said I saw it then I saw it!"

"I am not callin' you crazy, Reid! Just maybe you were over exaggerat-HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!"

"See? I told you it was a giant spider!"

10. Truck

What a way to go, Spencer though drowsily. Of all the ways I could have died, with what I do for a living, I get hit by a car.

"Did anyone get the license plate on the truck?" someone next to him, who sounded an awful lot like Morgan, shouted.

Excuse me, Reid corrected himself with an audible giggle. A truck. With that thought, he closed his eyes, and never opened them again.

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I'd have to say that 9 is my favorite. XD Believe it or not, it was actually the hardest one to write. Go figure.

Love, peace and chicken grease!

~stereo-typed