7:30 P.M.
December 31, 2011
"What's wrong with you?" Seaver asked, walking towards the Bureau with Anderson. "You deflated when Dr. Prentiss came into the room back at her apartment. Is everything okay? Did something happen between you two that we should know about?"
How was he supposed to explain it? "Just an old trick that I think she and Reid are gonna get back at me for."
"With those two, how bad can it be?"
"Do you even remember any of what Reid did during his and Morgan's prank war?"
"Quit being a baby and come on. If you get your due desserts than oh well, at least you got it over with."
He laughed. "That's not helping, Ashley."
"And I repeat, oh well."
8:30 P.M.
December 31, 2011
As would be Anderson's luck, Reid and Leah were the last couple in the dance competition, so he had to wait for an hour to see what they were going to do. By his way of thinking, Ashley was kind of right, between the two of them, it couldn't be anything horrible, and since a dance was how it started, it made sense that a dance was how it would end.
Anderson was unsurprised to hear Michael Buble's "The Last Dance" as the duo stepped out onto the area that had been cleared for the competition. It made sense for them, at least when you looked at it from the inside. He had led Leah on pretty well, and for a while she had all but left Reid in the dust. In the end though, when he let her down, it was Reid she had turned to, where he'd been waiting all along.
They made a good team, and had surprising skill on the dance floor. They were fast-paced and sharp. Leah's hair came out of the upsweep and tumbled in a riot of ebony curls down her back. In the end, she leaned back over Reid arm and he pulled her slowly back up, until their head were bent together, their foreheads touching, chests heaving with the exersion. Reid moved his head slightly, and for a millisecond they kissed.
And Anderson understood his message. If you hadn't come with that other girl, you could be standing where I am right now. Anderson smiled. Those two deserved each other.