AN/ Thanks to everybody that reviewed! It just makes me want to write sooner and faster. Sorry it's been a while, I just wanted to make sure everything was perfect.
JJ was anxiously watching the clock, waiting for the last class of the day when the girl that sat next to her leaned in to talk.
"Sorry, Mr. Hayes is really boring."
"Don't worry about it. I've been in tons of situations where people drone on about things when I have no idea what they're talking about." JJ said, smirking to herself, thinking of all of the times her team would begin spouting off profiling jargon while she and the police officers would wait for them to stop and explain.
"You're Becca's friend, right?" The girl asked and as JJ nodded continuing to take notes on the fundamentals of Latin.
"I'm Allie. I always give Becca a ride home so she doesn't have to go with her brother. Come with us." The girl offered.
"Ok, sure." JJ said smiling-at least she wouldn't have to take the bus.
"So, Reid, how was jewelry making? Make any good necklaces?" Rossi teased as Reid entered the car.
"Funny. I didn't know that torture was acceptable. Apparently you all find it hilarious" Reid pouted, buckling the safety belt as they drove back to their house.
"Oh, how bad can high school be?" Rossi teased.
"I had 16 year old girls staring at me all day like I had something stuck in my teeth!" Reid moaned
"Well, what do you expect?" Rossi asked chuckling, "I mean, you're an ok looking new kid. Of course they were staring."
"The only redeeming part of the day was when JJ and I got to have lunch together--at least she's someone to talk to." He continued as though Rossi had never spoken while Rossi raised an eyebrow at Reid's comment.
"Reid, you can't date 15 year olds. I'm sorry, I know you've always envied Morgan's player status, but this is no place to level the playing field."
"What?" Reid asked incredulously, his voice cracking to an all time high. "I do not envy--"
"Look kid, I've seen the way you've looked at JJ since my first day here. You like the girl, right?"
"Umm, she's my friend. I mean, we decided as colleagues that we were friends--professional friends, so I think its even more like an acquaintance really, or maybe even a distant---" He began nervously.
"Just stop. Reid, when a guy likes a girl, he'll ask her on a date."
"JJ and I went on a date. Like 3 years ago. I told her I just wanted to be friends."
"Now why would you do something stupid like that?" Rossi asked without looking at him.
"Because I know that's what she wanted. I mean, I'm a profiler, I read behavior."
"Look, you may 'read behavior', but you won't have any clue what's going on in a woman's mind unless she tells you. Women are way more complicated than a serial killer."
"Well, JJ and I went on a date and nothing happened."
"Kid, you took her to a game and then dropped her off at home. That is not a date. A date is you take her out to dinner. You surprise her with something. Then you walk her to the door, and from there---"
Reid interrupted Rossi quickly, "No offense Rossi, but I'd really rather not have this discussion with you. I have read everything you are talking about in the books my mother gave me."
"Reid, what kind of books?"
"Classic German Romance Novels." Reid answered as though it were completely obvious.
"No." Rossi said definitely. "Listen, you will ask JJ out on a date, or else your entire time in this undercover operation will be spent fending off 16 year old girls with raging hormones. The best thing you can do for yourself is to go after the girl you really want."
"Hey, so I checked your myspace during class. How romantic!" Becca interrupted JJ's visions of exacting revenge on her ex-best friend for the day she had just experienced.
"Yeah, and your boyfriend is so hot! If you weren't dating him, I'm sure half the girls in the school would be after him." Allie agreed.
"I bet some of them already are. But you two look so sweet together!" Becca added.
"What are you talking about?" JJ asked from the backseat of Allie's car, completely confused.
"You know all those pics you have on your profile. That's so cool how he asked you to the dance and how you used to be a cheerleader. Do you have a dress yet?" Becca explained, offering her phone as evidence.
JJ had no idea what these girls were even talking about. Myspace? Looking quizzically at Becca's iphone she saw the offending webpage, complete with blog updates of how 'in love' she and Spence were and how he had asked her to the formal dance coming up in a week. The page looked like that of a teenage girl, and was filled with some real and other obviously photo shopped pictures of her and Spence.
"Garcia." She muttered, shaking her head in disbelief.
"Huh?" The girls in the front asked in unison.
"Um, no. I haven't gotten my dress for the dance. I don't really know where to go, probably to a place back where I'm from." JJ stuttered, suddenly remembering she was supposed to make sure these girls believed she was in high school.
"Hey, why don't we go now? I've got to pick up my dress, and we can show you around!" Allie planned excitedly.
"Erm, I don't know. I'll have to ask my parents, they're kind of weird about all of that stuff." JJ attempted to dismiss the offer from the girls. As if high school wasn't bad enough, but now she had to go to a dance? Maybe she could convince Emily or Hotch to let her skip out on the dance, but she had a sneaking suspicion that Hotch would insist they do everything possible to solidify their covers and that Emily was involved in this whole mess.
It wasn't as though JJ hated the time she got to spend with Reid, or even that the prospect of going to a dance with him was such a bad idea. After all, he had been the one 3 years ago to say that they should just be friends, and as much as she hoped that would change, he didn't seem to care. So she had dated, and he hadn't.
"So, JJ, how was class?" Emily smirked as she looked up from her laptop seeing JJ with two other teenage girls.
"Terrible! I've got an insane amount of homework, but this is Allie and you've met Becca." JJ dropped her bag on the floor and introduced the girls at her side.
"Hi Mrs. Hotchner, we wanted to take JJ to go get a dress for the dance!" Becca blurted out.
"You're going to a dance?" Emily asked pretending (but not very well) to be confused.
"Erm, only if that's ok. Spencer asked me. But if I can't go, I'll just let him know now." JJ attempted to send a subtle message to Emily, but only received a "I think that's an excellent idea. I'm sure it's ok, but why don't we all go tomorrow?" in response.
The two younger girls quickly began to plan tomorrow's adventure and completely missed JJ's death glare directed at Emily, who simply chuckled. So she is involved in this! JJ thought in disbelief. Unbeknownst to JJ, the entire team was hoping she and Reid would just get together already. Emily was not about to let this carefully planned opportunity go to waste. However, there was still a case to solve, and they had scheduled a briefing for later that night.
"JJ, you do realize that you are supposed to be failing? Right?" Emily laughed as JJ searched diligently through her physics book for an explanation of how to do her current homework problem. Becca and Allie had left soon after dropping JJ off and checking out her room. JJ had now resigned herself to homework.
JJ glared at Emily and threatened, "You know, you're the one who got me into this situation, so I'd watch my back if I were you. I know where you sleep."
"You know, JJ, at first I didn't believe Prentiss that you could pull this off. But now, if I didn't know better, I'd think you were 16 myself." Hotch and Emily laughed as JJ glared at them and were only disrupted by Emily's phone.
"Hey Garcia." Emily laughed into the phone.
"Yeah, I think JJ found out what myspace is."
"Ok, we'll be there." JJ and Hotched listened to the one-sided conversation intently, hoping that some break had been discovered in the case.
"That was Garcia--we're going to meet up with Rossi, Reid and Morgan at a local diner. She's arranged for a private room so we can go over the case files." Emily explained.
"So Reid, detention twice in one day? Wow! Good job. JJ, you've got competition now." The other profilers grinned as Emily teased the youngest team members, knowing how JJ did not take kindly to competition.
"Yeah, maybe they'll fight it out on the dance floor." Morgan added as the team (except for JJ and Reid) burst into laughter.
They sat eating burgers and various other items, Reid excused himself to go to the restroom while the team continued mercilessly teasing JJ. As he returned, the team overheard a high voice say "Hey Spencer. You're in my gym class. You did really well today. Maybe we can go out sometime." The team sat in shock as this blonde flirted mercilessly with Reid.
"Um, yeah. Maybe." Reid stuttered unsurely leaving the girl to watch him from behind as he returned to his teammates who stared at him with large eyes.
"Reid, I totally don't think you should be going out with these kids. You're like 10 years older than them. That's just gross. Next time use JJ for an excuse--say she's your girlfriend or something." Morgan said disgustedly as JJ and Reid both blushed at the suggestion.
"Ok, let's get back to the case." Hotch attempted to refocus his team. "Do we have any new leads?"
Morgan spoke up, "Garcia found something. Three students at Midland Academy either have relatives or have lived in all 5 areas, two of them moving within two weeks of the murders. None have connections that she could find to the victims."
"Well, that's got to be something. How many times can these kids move?" Rossi asked
"You'd be surprised." Morgan responded. "Most of these kid's parents have jobs that transfer them all over the country."
"Well, I think JJ and Reid's involvement is even more important now. What can we do to solidify your cover?" Hotch asked the younger agents authoritatively.
"They could go on a date." Morgan said jokingly, and at Hotch's surprised look continued "Garcia set them up with social networking profiles and hinted that they were dating. Having them out on a date would just make it more believable." Morgan raised his eyebrows suggestively at Reid, causing the younger man to blush even more furiously.
"We also can't forget our objective-we need to get into that seminar." Rossi pointed out
"Agreed. Tonight, Reid, take JJ on a date."