Prompt 3:
Are you sure that you're mine?
Aren't you dating other guys?
Cause you're so cheap
and I'm not blind.
You're not worthy of my time
February 2012
SSA Spencer Reid may be a genius but when it comes to love he is anything other than brilliant.
For a man like him- who spends his free time with his nose shoved in a book or mind focused on something obscure, educational, nerdy, magical or possibly all those rolled into one- maybe it should come as little surprise that he had no clue he was in love with someone until probably months, or even years, after he first fell for her.
Oh, that's what that is, he thinks to himself when he finally gets alone in his hotel room, angrily yanking off his clothes. He's been pissed off all day and the reason seemed ridiculous at first but now he's put it all together to his satisfaction.
He hated watching Emily flirt with the local detective because Reid thought of Emily as his.
But she's not. It's nearly Valentine's day and he is as alone as he has been most of his life. It's a holiday he's never celebrated with anyone but his mother. Years ago he accepted the fact that he wasn't good at romance and that he would spend the majority of his life without that kind of love in it.
He was okay with that. Today, he's not okay. Today Emily hit on some stranger while Reid was standing right there. Today everything in him hurts.
Today he knows he loves her but he doesn't think it matters much because, at the end of the day, he's still alone.
