Author's Note: Due to lack of actual Reid/Seaver-dialogue in the latest episode...this is another semi-missing scene, yet based on the show because you can actually see them talk in the window behind Prentiss , when she talks to her old colleague, you just don't hear what they say.

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Chapter Seven

Today I Do

"What's wrong?", I asked right after Emily had left us sitting at the table at the precinct, Reid hovering over a bunch of files and me, eyes fixed on the computer.

I was, simply put, irritated with him. We'd been to the movies together and I thought we were well on our way to becoming friends.

And when Rossi had called me to say that I was welcome to come back to the team to finish my training I'd been so happy, I could have hugged whoever passed me on my way to my first day back to the BAU. Also because I'd see Reid again and on a regular basis.

But when I got there, with Hotch and Rossi walking me into the round table room, he did only so much as smile at me politely.

Sure, on the way to the plane he acknowledged my presence by saying: "You're back" but, I don't know, I would have liked a little more familiarity.

But as we were briefing on the plane it was like we had never spoken more than a few words and it just didn't get any better.

"Nothing", he replied and I saw him starring at Emily on the phone behind the glass, "Why?"

"I don't know, Reid", I said, ignoring the sudden pang I felt, "You seem off"

He seemed to be deliberating with himself, wondering whether he could share his thoughts with me and the pause he took I used to put two and two together.

"Emily", I said, quietly, so that she wouldn't hear us.

"I'm worried about her", he said and I could tell he was glad that I'd noticed on my own so he didn't have to 'gossip', "She's not herself lately"

"I'm not one to tell", I said, looking up to him, "but she does seem a little distracted and...it looks like she is always ready to jump, you know, like she's expecting something that scares her"

Reid left that uncommented and went back to studying a file, and once again I was bewildered, was it just me or was he avoiding talking to me?

I mean, of course I didn't think we'd suddenly be the best of friends but a little notion, a little nod that I hadn't dreamed that we'd gotten closer somehow wouldn't have been too much to ask for, would it?

"Reid", I demanded his attention back to me, "Did I do something?"

"Why?", he immediately turned around to me and looked puzzled, "What should you have done?

"I mean, are you mad at me somehow?", I asked, furrowing my brow at his surprise. Hadn't he'd been noticing that he was giving me the silent treatment?

"No, not at all", he said and he still didn't understand how I could even ask him that.

"It's just that...", I started but wasn't sure how to continue without sounding really pathetic, "I thought after Friday...well, I thought we were friends and now we're not even talking at all. I mean, I don't want to bother you or distract you from work, not at all but...I was just very happy knowing that I'd come back here and at least one person would be happy to see me"

"But I was", he was quick to say, "and I am but...there's a lot going on, on this case especially, statistically 91 percent of abduction victims die within the first twenty-four hours, this means that time is of the essence and we all have to have our main focus on the case and then there is Emily and..."

He paused and looked at me, weighing of again, if he could give me the additional information he obviously had. I held his gaze, signalizing that he could might as well go on, that I was listening and that I wasn't going to tell anybody. For a split second I felt like Middle School again, sharing corridor-gossip and swearing to secrecy.

"You know, the day I met you, Garcia already basically said I had a crush on you and...this job is a lot to deal with as it is without the others constantly making assumptions about your private life", as he was saying it, he leaned in closer and keeping his voice down, "I don't know if you really want that, I've been there"

I was completely lost for words. What exactly had he just been telling me? That we were secret friends? That we were pretending to not being friends when at work? That the team was already talking about us? About him having a crush on me? And why were his ears bright red?

I looked up at him but he was back to starring at Emily who'd just put down the phone.

I remained clueless as to why he seemed to want to keep our friendship on the low. After all we really didn't do anything. And with the things Morgan and Garcia kept saying to each other, a nice and friendly conversation between us shouldn't be such a big deal or raise suspicions.

And suspicions of what, anyway?

When Emily came back I excused myself to go to the ladies room, contemplating once again how Spencer Reid sometimes just didn't make any sense to me.

Okay, so, I know this might be a far stretch and I'm a bit worried that Reid is a bit out of character BUT ...isn't he out of character in the show as well?...The way they're writing him now, I can actually see him pulling this off, I could imagine him saying all those things to Seaver. So I'm using that to my defense.

Basically I just had to maneuver my last chapter into the flow of the real episodes.

I'm guessing they're not as good friends as I'd like them to be.

Of course I could delete the last chapter and rewrite the rest...should I? Or can you arrange yourself with the slight AU-ness of this?

Or is it too much? Should I change it?

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