Disclaimer: see chapter 1

A few hours later, Reid and Emily were at her apartment. They had gotten Chinese takeout on the way and were now snuggling on Emily's couch watching "The Blind Side" with Sandra Bullock. Emily's cat Sergio, was nestled on a nearby chair. Every so often, Sergio would open an eye and peek on them.

"When you said a movie, I thought you meant go out to a theater," Reid said.

"I did. We'll do that next time. I like this though."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. I get to eat something besides popcorn while I watch the movie, the seating is more comfortable than a theater, and we can pause the DVD if we need to pause."

"You mean if we need to go to the bathroom?"

"Well, yes, that and of course this," Emily kissed him. It was a slow, tender kiss that lasted a little longer than she had intended. When it was over Emily said, "Maybe we should take a break from the movie." Before Reid could say something, Emily hit the stop button on the remote, and started kissing him again. She leaned forward and he leaned back. Her arms wrapped around his torso, while he began to run his fingers through her hair.

Then one of their cellphone's rang. Reid grabbed it, "Hello?"

"Reid?" it was Garcia's voice,"why are you answering Emily's phone?"

"Uh ….Hold on." He held it out for Emily,"it's for you."

Emily smiled, but managed not to laugh. "Yes?"

"Emily, why is Reid answering your phone?"

"We're just sitting tight waiting for you to call us, and he was so excited that you're calling he answered instead of me."

Garcia laughed. "Yeah, okay. Hotch says they need a little help. Can you guys come into the office? I'll have what you need set up in the conference room."

"We'll be right there."

When she hung up Reid looked at her aghast. "Are you kidding me?"

"The look on your face is so precious."

"You think that was a good answer?"

"Reid, it's PG. She's dating Hotch. I don't think she's going to do much more than rib us about it." Then she got a haunted look in her eyes,"What's the matter? Are you ashamed of me?"

Reid sighed. "No ...it's not that. Emily no I was just..." Reid kept trying to stammer an answer, when Emily suddenly smiled and started laughing.

Reid stopped, and stared at her with both eyebrows raised.

"I'm sorry Spencer," Emily said. "That was just too funny." She kissed him lightly on the cheek. "You really are just too precious for words sometimes. Do you know that?"

"I'm glad I can be a source of amusement for you, Emily."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you."

"We need to go. The team is across the country and they need our input, remember?"

"Are you pissed right now?"

"No. I would just like the embarrassing moment to be over. Can we just get to work so the moment can pass?"

"Sure."

Reid drove. On the way to the BAU he said,"you are really a crazy woman, sometimes, you know that."

"Would you really want me to be other way?"

He seemed to be considering it. "No, I suppose not." He shook his head a little bit. "I'm just glad to see you laugh and smile."

"I think I'm going to try to do a lot of that."

When they got to the BAU offices, Garcia greeted them with a mischievous look. "So, Boy-genius was excited? Because I was calling or was it his company?"

"What doe Hotch need us to do?" Reid said, doing his best to ignore Garcia's question.

"Oh no you don't. What's the real reason you two were together tonight?"

Reid sighed. Garcia had the look in her eye that communicated to him that she wasn't going to let this go.

"We went to a prayer meeting."

"Is that what they're calling it now?"

"PG, maybe you an Reid can talk about his conversion to Islam later. What does Hotch need?"

"Well, the thing is..." then Garcia stopped at looked at Emily. "Excuse me, did you say Islam?"

Reid looked at Emily. He almost missed the wink. He looked back at Garcia. "Is something wrong?"

"Islam?"

"This is why the only one I told was Emily. She's not so judgmental. Garcia, the case."

Garcia looked over at Emily. She saw her friend smiling. "Oh, you two are so busted."

Emily let out a laugh. "We were just having dinner, PG, that's all. Why don't you tell us what Hotch needs."

"It's not nice to fool with mama."

After about four hours of work and teleconferencing with the team, they broke for the night. Emily went to look at the files on her desk. Reid was going over something in the conference room.

Garcia walked up to Emily at her desk. "Are you ever going to tell me what you two were doing?"

"PG, what does it matter?"

"You cannot leave me hanging there. I have an image of the two of you, all tangled up when the cellphone rang."

"Well, I'd hate to ruin that image."

"What are you saying?"

"We had Chinese take out at my place. We were just talking. We put our cellphones on the table and, it turns out, we have the same ring tone. That's all."

"That is so boring."

Emily smiled. "He's easy to talk to. Anyway, just because people spend time together doesn't mean they're having a romance. Just because that's what you're doing."

"All right. Just promise me if you two start getting like that you'll tell me."

"I promise, I will share my joy with you when it's time. In the meantime, take it easy on poor Reid. You how much of a gentleman he is."

"Just one thing, Ems," Garcia said.

"Yeah?"

"Islam?"

"The look on your face was priceless. It was between that or Buddhism."

Garcia light out a slight chuckle and shook her head.

Emily made her way back to the conference room. Reid was still going over the case.

"Reid, are you going to work on this all night?"

"No, not really. I just want to make sure I'm not missing something."

"Well, you can relax about Garcia. I told you her we were just having a casual dinner."

"Why? That wasn't exactly what was happening. I mean, I thought it was something …"

"It is. But I thought about it. PG will tell Morgan, and he will not shut up about it. And that will be ...irritating. This isn't just something to do Reid. It isn't an impulse or because you saved my life."

"I didn't save your life."

"Like hell you didn't. I just wanted to go to sleep let it all end. Until I heard you praying over me. You saved my life. But that's not what this is about."

"Then what is it about?"

"I spent too much playing by a set of rules. And to be honest, some of them don't make sense to me anymore. You're you, so maybe you'll remember. At the end of one case, you and Morgan were playing cards. I was new, and you were teasing Morgan about flirting with me. Apparently just so he wouldn't get the card you needed to win."

"Wait a minute, I remember that. How did you know? You were reading."

"Haven't you learned yet, I'm a trained intelligence operative. I can appear to be reading when I'm listening to a conversation. I'll tell you something Spencer Reid, that was sexy you playing Morgan like that."

"That?"

Emily smiled. "What can I say, Spencer Reid, I've always found you interesting. I've been thinking about this for years. Anyway, I'm ready to go home. Since we rode together, could you give me a ride back to my place?"

"Did you want to finish the movie?"

"Aren't you tired?"

He shrugged. "It takes me a while to go to sleep sometimes. Besides, I might need helped finding Mecca."

"Mecca?"

"When I pray. I'm converting, remember?" He said with a slight smile on his face.

Emile smiled back at him. "Like I said, you're interesting."