A/N: I only own my own characters, and plots. I wish I owned the rest…one day… Thanks for all the comments and everyone adding the story to their alerts and favorites and everything, it definitely made a not so great day a lot better. Remember, Reid's car is in the shop, he would be unable to ride the Metro as only the buses run to Quantico, and the trains only go as far as Alexandria Va, about 30 mi north of Q-City. Just an FYI

Chapter 3

"Rossi?" Reid says with a confused look on his face, "What are you doing here?"

"I figured you would probably need a ride so here I am. I decided to rent a large limo in case the team wants to go out after the benefit, before heading to the hotel rooms. You were on my way so I decided to stop and get you, save you cab fare."

"But, Rossi, I don't need a ride. I have one. My date is picking me up shortly" stammered Reid as his voice rose an octave or two.

"Who, Emily?" Rossi asked with a smirk, "I know all about the two of you. How was Strauss' office anyway?" he said with a chuckle as Reid turned as red as Garcia's standard lipstick, and then to a shade of purple closely matching his tie.

"But…wha...how did you know? We never said anything; we stayed away from each other at work. We were so careful!"

"Come on kid, I wrote the book on profiling. How long did you think you could keep it a secret around a group of profilers? Give me a break, Reid, I've known since we got back from Canada. I don't blame you. You deserve all the happiness in the world. Now are you ready? Call Emily and tell her we are on our way."

Reid pulls his phone out of his messenger bag and begins to dial; "No not here, call her from the car we need to catch her before she leaves."

"Ok Dave, let's go Reid says with a resigned look as he closes his phone and places it back in his pocket. They exit the house and Reid locks the multiple locks that he had put in. After everything that had happened with his team he was not taking chances with security measures. He then armed the security system with the button on his key.

He turned and finally got a look at the hummer stretch limo in front of his house and his jaw dropped.

"Let's go Reid, stop staring and get in." Rossi said to Reid as he climbs through the door opened by the impeccably dressed limo driver.

"Oh ok" said Reid as he climbed in and pulled his phone out of his ever present messenger bag. He dialed Emily's number.

"Hey…ummm…I'm on my way to get you." He said nervously

"Why is that? I'm supposed to be coming to pick you up Reid" she said a little confused.

"Well ummm you see the thing is…"

"Spit it out Reid!"

"!" Reid said as fast as humanly possible

"Slow down, Rossi? But I thought we were not telling anyone about us for a while."

"Apparently he figured it out right after we started seeing each other, but today he showed up at my door and gave me no choice in the situation. So now anyways we are on our way to Lorton to get you."

"it makes very little sense for you to come north just to head south again. Plus, its rush hour traffic. It will take forever to get down I95 this time of day! Route 1 is just as bad!" she protested.

"Well statistically speaking fewer accidents occur on Rte 1., and those that do occur tend to have less severe injuries. Also , the traffic has the stoplights to help move it along…"

"Ok Mr. Statistics" Emily cut him off "How long until you guys get here?

A/N: Sorry I have more written and had intended on getting it posted tonight but I am falling asleep at the keyboard. Will handwrite more til I fall asleep so that the is minimal wait for the next few chapters.