Briar Rose groaned letting her head hit the wooden table in front of her, "Spencer," She whined, "My head hurts."

Reid's lips twitched but he didn't stop flipping through his pages, didn't even take his eyes off them.

She huffed tugging on his sleeve, "Come on, we've gone through at least seventy five people by hand and so far none of them fit your profile, let's just take a break."

The young doctors brows furrowed, "We can't just 'take a break' Briar, this is your life we're talking about here."

"And these are my lips," She whispered suddenly leaning so close to his face that her lips brushed across his cheek bone.

He jerked back, glancing around to see if anyone had seen, the rest of the team were scattered around the room going through files of their own, none of them so much as looked up, "Briar Rose." He hissed his brown eyes narrowed in disapproval.

She leaned back crossing her arms over her chest. Spencer had long learned to tell her emotions from the color of her eyes, and right now they were a deep blue instead of the usual spunky green. He'd hurt her. He sighed running a hand through his hair.

"you've been here for three days and you haven't kiss me once." She said her voice low and hurt although she tried hard to hide it.

He turned to face her suddenly frustrated, didn't' she get it? They had talked about it so many times before this, it was the only reason they weren't together though they both knew they would never be with anybody else, not like they were with each other. Their lives were so different, too different. They're worlds would never work together.

"We've talked about this, you know why it wouldn't work, our lives would never work well together!" He said in a harsh whisper, his face flushed with frustration.

Her eyes were glossy after his outburst, and her cheek were flushed with hurt and anger, if this was a cartoon he imagined smoke would be coming out of her dainty ears.

She leaned close to him, her eyes burning a hole through his the way they always had, he had always imagined she could somehow see into his very soul, it always left him feeling naked.

"Look around you."

He did as she asked, Prentiss was talking to Anya, both women had cups of coffee in their hands, Rossi and Lochlan, were chatting easily, Garcia and JJ were laughing quietly together on the sofa, Morgan sat next to Silas, nudging the kid playfully on the arm in response to whatever it was that he had said, and Hotch had Dahlia in his lap. They all fit perfectly together it was a very dysfunction but kind of right picture. Spencer turned large bemused eyes to Briar Rose and she rolled hers in response, clearly agitated pushing herself to her feet, she dodged around him, "I'm going outside." She announced loud enough for the room to hear, they glanced up when they heard the tone of her voice.

"You shouldn't go out there by yourself Rose," Reid said in exasperation.

"Damnit Spencer!" She snapped whirling around to tell him to screw off, when JJ stepped in.

"Don't worry Spence I got her," She smiled lightly at the young women gently herding her towards the door.

Spencer threw his pencil down on the table in frustration when she left, tilting his head back , he draped an arm over his eyes taking a deep breath to calm himself.

JJ eyed the young women carefully she was pacing the length of the patio while JJ sat on a bench by the door, she was biting her finger nails and every once in a while she'd blink rapidly like she was trying desperately not to cry. JJ winced, she bit her lip and glanced behind her into the house before quietly getting up to slid the glass door closed.

She turned to Briar Rose, and cleared her throat lightly. Sliding her hands into her back pockets she rocked back on her heels, "So you and Spencer huh?"

Briar Rose froze turning to facer her, her thumb nail was still in between her teeth and her brows were furrowed tightly, her eyes were glassy and she looked about ready crack from the stress she could see on her face.

JJ smiled at her trying to be as comforting as she could to the girl, she walked over to her and placed a hand on her arm, "I'm not gonna tell anyone," She said with a soft shake of her head, "Spencer is like a brother to me, he's the godfather of my son. I just want what's best for him, and you clearly care about him."

The girl who was so tough and so strong had tears in she eyes as she confided in the blonde agent, "I love him." She sighed heavily dragging a hand through her dirty blonde locks.

"It's always been Spencer, my entire life it's been the two of us. But our lives are so different, Spencer is a FBI agent and up until Dahlia was born I was…whatever I was, we always said it would never work, but you guys are here and it…works."

She shrugged her shoulder twiddling her fingers to avoid looking at JJ's face while she talked, "Spencer Reid is kind, and compassionate and stubborn and easily flustered, and a genius and he believes he can save the world and….I can't."

She did turn to face her then JJ watching the serious look on her face as she met her eyes firmly, "He could have somebody else, anybody else. But spencer's it for me there is nobody else. I don't want anybody else."

When the two girls came back into the house it was nightfall, both feeling like they had gained an understanding and maybe even an unlikely friend.

When they entered the living room Spencer had moved from the table to the couch and still had a file in his hands, though he did glance up to give her a concerned look when she walked in. She strides across the room toward him, uncaringly pulls the file from his long fingers and tosses it on the coffee table, and before he can protest she climbs into his lap wrapping her arms around his torso and pressing her face to his chest.

Spencer holds her hands up like someone had dropped a bomb in his lap, momentarily shocked from her boldness in a room full of her family and FBI agents, he opens his mouth to protest but then she tightens she arms around him and squeezes her eyes shut tight but that doesn't stop the couple tears he feels seep into his shirt and his heart shatters. Instead of asking her to move he sighs and wraps his arms around her, he drops a swift kiss to her head, a silent apology.

Morgan sends JJ a questioning look but the blonde just smiles at him sadly and shakes her head glancing back across the room where Spencer had resting his cheek on the top of her head and it looked like she was slowly falling asleep.

Hotch for once doesn't comment on it he too had seen the tears leak out of the young girls eyes and hadn't had the heart to condemn Spencer for wanting to comfort her.

So instead he sends him a softer look that said they would talk about it later..much later.

She was almost asleep when Lochlan walked into the room his face grim, "Agents." He called earing their attention.

He held up his hand displaying the yellow envelope.

"There's another package."