Hope this actually works. It kinda worked out in my head a bit.... =) I'm not sure if Nancy and Reid became too out of charcter but if you think so, let me know.

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10) Love?

Athena walked into the BAU to find Morgan leaning up against his desk and Prentiss standing over Reid's desk. She walked over to find Reid asleep.

"So," She heard Morgan say. "What should we do with our little genius?"

"Leave him alone you guys." Athena said walking up to them. "He had a rough night last night."

"Oh." Morgan said.

"Not like that." Athena said with a fake scowling. Prentiss hit him in the head. "His arm wouldn't stop bothering him last night, poor thing." She looked down at her boyfriend and couldn't help but smile at the trickle of drool that was running down his face. She took a tissuse from her pocket and wiped it away. She then leaned in and kissed him gently on th lips. "Hey." She whispered. He opened his eyes a bit.

"Hey." He said. He sat up. "What happened? Did I fall asleep?"

"Apparently." Athena said as Reid yawned.

"What are you doing here?" He asked pulling his hair back with one hand.

"Lunch..." She said.

"Oh Right." He got up and grabbed his bag and Jacket. He headed out but managed to hit Morgan's head on the way out without even realizing it. Prentiss laughed a little bit at the irony. Morgan looked at her and she shrugged and turned back to her paperwork.

"How does he get away with sleeping on his desk while he's supposed to do paperwork and then be able to go on a lunch date?" He asked looking at Prentiss, who just shrugged.

"He's Reid." She said. Morgan was about ot put a few of his files on Reid's desk. "But I wouldn't do that." She looked at him. "He has like no files left, he'll know if you sneak a few in." A smile played on her lips. "And what are supposed to do for the next few days while you're still on cruches and then afterwards?" He looked at her and pulled the files back onto his desk and worked on those.

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Athena and Reid settled themselves in a nice little booth at a local diner.

"Cute." Reid said as she took off the overcoat she wore. He was refering to the dark blue and dress that went to her knees and had black accents like the flowing ends of the fitted sleves, the trim on the bottom and the huge belt that sat on her tiny waist. The black knee high heeled boots she wore went along nicely.

"Oh thanks." She said sitting down. "Nancy's friend Angela made it for me."

"I like it."

"Good." The waitress came over and too their drink orders. "So," she started as she walked away. "I met up with some old friends and we're meeting up after this." She came back with their drinks and took their food orders.

"Nice." He said. "No offence to Nancy but you need more friends." He smiled and she laughed alittle bit.

"Yeah." She said. Their waitress came back. "Wow, fast service." She said as the waitress walked away and she popped a french fry into her mouth. "You know, you can definitely tell a teenager is at our house."

"How?" He asked through a mouth full of burger.

"I heard the Backstreet Boys blasting as I went by before." She said. He scrunched up his face trying to figure out what she meant. She saw this and giggled a bit to herself. "They're a boy band from the ninties. She had a huge crush on one of them when she was little." She took a bite of her own burger. She couldn't help but love him. Even with an IQ of 187, Reid still had a way to still be naive and in the dark about alot of things and Athena couldn't help but love him even more with that atribute.

"Oh." He said turning his attention back to his burger. She smiled and laughed a bit. No matter what happend she was never going to leave him, she promised herself that. But she knew that the worst hadn't even come yet. He's been gone for a few days and when he did get shot, she felt like she had to fly to him. She wouldn't be able to do that anymore. Her attention was devertied back to Reid as he asked her a question. She answered him and was rewarded with one of his patented Reid smiles that she totally fell in love with. She couldn't help but feel like he was everything she's ever was looking for in a guy. They contiued their conversations as Athena's thoughts traveled to when she was back in high school in River Hieghts. What her and her friends definition of their dream guy had to be tall, good looking and strong. But now she's sitting across a table in a small diner looking at and talking to a skinny, really cute guy who's probably not really all that physically strong. She started laughing at something in his story, realizing that her persona of her dream guy had always been totally the opposite of what it really was.

"You ok?" He asked her.

"Huh." She asked shaking her head. "Why?"

"You were staring off to nothing and hadn't heard a word I've said." She smiled and reached out to his hand. She gave it a slight squeeze.

"Sorry." She said. "I was just thinking about how wrong I was when I was younger about who I thought my dream guy was."

"What do you mean?" He asked her confused. She let go of his hand in a slight shrug and kept eating.

"I just figured the guy I wanted was one straight out of a magazine." She chopped on a fry. "But I was proven wrong."

"How so?" He asked eatting his food. She looked up and didn't speak. Her sudden silence made him look up. She was staring at him and didn't speak until their eyes locked together.

"I met you and fell in love." She said quietly. She was the first to pull her eyes away and go back to her food a few seconds later. He didn't. Reid just kept sataring at her. He had always thought that there was never a girl out there who would be intersted in him. But he was wrong. He had met Athena and she had proved him wrong. And he knew that she wasn't just using him for his brain because she had one of her own. And she had she she fell in love. I that what this feeling he was feeling was? he knew that he was going to stop by Athena's house later and talk to Nancy about. He mentally laughed at himself for going to a girl who's ten years younger than him about love. Athena looked up and noticed him staring at her.

"Are you ok?" She asked him.

"Uh- Yeah." He said recovering. "Just thinking."

"About what?" She asked. He looked at her.

"You." He said. A smile crept onto her face and was contagiously passed onto his. They both started laughing. Twenty minutes later, they were ready to go after sharing a piece of pie and cake. Athena walked over to pay for the bill, dispite the fact that Reid had almost insisted that he should pay for it. She told him he could next time. As she walked back, she noticed him struggiling to put on his coat on. She quickened her pace and went over to help him into his jacket.

"Your arm's still bothering you?" She asked concerned.

"Yeah." He said picking up his bag. "It's just a slight stinging now but still..." He said as they walked out the front door.

"Well if it gets worse, I want you to go to the hospital." He nodded. She drove him back over to Quantico. He kissed her and walked into the building.. He walked back into the building and went back to his desk to work on the last file he had and be able to go to Athena's and talk to Nancy before Athena got back.

"Hey you." Morgan said spinning around and looking at Reid. "Have a nice lunch?"

"Yeah." He said putting his jacket on the chair and sat down. he had just opened it and started to work when Athena came back in. She ran in and stopped at his desk. She was out of breath.

"Athena-" he said confused. He stood up and looked at her.

"I forgot to give this to you." She said handing him a package wrapped in brown paper. She took in a deep breath.

"Why are you out of breath?" Prentiss asked.

"Ran up the stairs." Athena said.

"You know there is an elevator." Morgan said pointing over his should.

"I know," Athena said waving over her shoulder towards him. "It wasn't moving fast enough for me."

"She wants alot of things done yesterday." Reid said with a slight roll of the eyes.

"Don't worry," She said. "I'm taking the elevator down though." She smiled. He leaned down the couple inches he had on her and kissed her.

"Go." He said. "Don't miss reuniting with old friends."

"Ok." She said and skipped to the elevator. when she got there, she turned and waved bye to Reid. He waved back. She walked into the elevator and he watched her get smaller as the elevator doors closed. He turned his attention to the package still in his hands.

"What is it?" Prentiss asked.

"It's from my mother." Reid said. He started opening it.

"Really Reid?" Morgan asked.

"Yeah." He answered throwing the brown paper into the basket to reveal a black velet box. "It's Athena's birthday present."

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The sky had opened up as Reid made his way to Athena's house. He smiled to himself as he heard music emmiting from the house. Now, he realized as he pulled up to the curb, all he had to do was make it form his car to the door without getting too soaked. He turned off the engine and sucked in a breath as he opened the door, immeadiatly getting wet as he stepped outside. He gave up on the Idea of trying to stay dry as he went to the house and got his stuff like it was a sunny day. He walked up to the door and unlocked it with his keys.

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Nancy was listening to Genie In A Bottle. She brought the basket of clothes that Athena had asked her to fold upstairs. She brought it into Athena's room because it was all her clothes and Reid's. She went towards her room and moved the CD player from the top of the stairs and turned it off as the song ended. She unplugged it and brought back into her room. She heard the door open and slam shut. She figured it was Reid because both Athena and her father had called saying that this storm had stranded them where ever they were.

"Oh My God! It's a wet Rat!" She screamed putting a hand to her heart when she saw him, soaked to the skin, dripping wet, in the front hall. "Oh Reid. It's just you. God! Don't scare me like that." She ran down the stairs and passed him and went into the livingroom.

"Oh thanks Nancy. That was very nice of you." He said. She laughed as she came back to him with a nice fluffy towel.

"Here." She said handing him the towel. "There's some of your clothes in a basket upstairs in Athena's room." He took the towel.

"Thanks." he said. He went upstairs to change and she went in and started watching a new episode of Project Runway. She realized as Tim Gunn was telling the designer who lost that they had to go clean up that Reid hadn't come back down. she paused the TV and went upstairs. She walked over to Athena's room. She knocked on the door.

"Spencer?" She said. "Are you ok? Can I come in?" She pushed open the door a bit and saw Reid just standing there. "Are you alright?" He shook his head.

"No." He answered. "My arm's bothering me again."

"Again?" She asked. He nodded his head. "I'll be right back." She walked into her room and got her first aid kit that she always carried around with her. She went back into Athena's room. "Could you seat down?" She said. He sat down on the bed and she sat down on his left side. "You changed your gauze this morning, right?" She asked pulling out the few things she knew she'd need: scissors, gauze, paper tape, cotton balls, peroxide, and alcohol pads.

"Of course." He said as she cut through the gauze on his upper arm.

"Well," She said cleaning the area around the healing wound. "It looks like you might have infection. This might sting alittle." She poured a bit of peroxide onto a cotton ball and dabbed it onto the wound. He winced a bit at the sting. "Sorry." she said as she finished cleaning it. She wrapped it up with the gauze. "We'd better go the hospital and get you some antibiotics." She said. He sighed in agreement. She cleaned the scissors and packed up. She brought it back into her room.

"But I'm not going out and getting wet again." He said putting on his shoes. He looked at Nancy, who just smiled.

"My Mustang is in the garage and don't worry, I know how to drive in this weather."

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Nancy took Reid to the hospital, where he was ammited immediately. She watch the chaos of the waiting room as she waited for Reid. She watched Drunks stumble in and out. A thirteen year old girl came in with a bloody finger. Nancy helped stop the bleeding as the girl and her mother waited for the doctor. She listened to some guy ramble on about how he was attacked by a warewolf. Soon everything was starting to just settle down when her phone rang. She got up and walked outside to answer it.

"Hello?" She said holding her phone to her ear. "Ned?" She heard a doctor telling Ned about something. "Ned?" Still he apparently didn't hear her. She had no clue where he was. "NED!" She called loudly.

"Was that Nancy?" She heard on the other end. It sound like Mrs. Nickerson.

"How-" A slightly familair voice said.

"Look in Ned's back pocket!" Nancy said loudly.

"Huh?" She heard Ned say. "Oh- Whoops I called Nancy."

"No Duh." She said as she heard him put the phone to his ear.

"I'll be right back." said the other slightly familair voice.

"Hey," He said.

"Your ass called me?" She asked.

"Yeah. I forgot I put it in my back pocket."

"Where are you?" She asked him.

"At the hospital-"

"Oh my god! Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. Just sprained my wrist. Mom thought it was broken. Where are you?"

"At a hospital-"

"Are you alright?" He asked concerned.

"I'm fine. Spencer's arm was bothering him so I had to take him." She said. "It's been over an hour. I think I should go see what's going on." She said looking back in.

"Alright. and I'll talk to you tomorrow."

"Byee babe." Nancy said

"Bye." They hung up and she walked in. A few seconds later, Reid walked out with a small bottle in his hand.

"Antibiotics?" Shevasked him.

"Yeah." He put his right arm over Nancy's shoulders. "Do me a favor and take me home." She laughed as they made their way over to Nancy's car. The rain had subsided pretty much to a slight drizzle. They again made a slilent trip back to Athena's. She put her car into the garage and help Reid out.

"Why don't you get some sleep." She said. He nodded as he made his way up the stairs. She started doing the Dishes and as she finished, She realized that DVR was still on. She shrugged to herself and went upstairs to change herself. She made her way back down stairs after deciding on wearing her blue star bottoms with a blue tank-top. She sat down and put on Across Taylor.

"Uh Nancy?" Reid's voice came from behind her.

"Yeah?" She said pauseing the TV and turning around as Reid took a seat in the chair near her. "I thought you were going to go to bed."

"I was but I need to ask you something."

"Alright. Go ahead." She looked at him. Trying to find something in his face or eyes that would tell her what he wanted to talk about. She had inherited from her father. They both had an amazing ablity to read people and to hide their feelings as well. Unfortunately for her, Reid was a profiler and had the same ablities as she did and she wasn't able to find any clues.

"You say you're in love with Ned right?" He asked.

"Yeah."

"How do you know?" This question took Nancy back. It would have normally surprised way more than it did. She was able to bring herself to answer fast once she remembered she wasn't just talking to anyone who was ten years older than her, she was talking ot Spencer Reid. She remembered that he had graduated high school when he was twelve. She remembered the biggest event she had when shwe was twelve was gher school play.

"I-I don't know." She said. "I guess it's when you have this feeling that no matter what, you'll always be there for that person. I guess when you realize that your life would have an empty feeling almost. That when you watch them go out a door, even if they're just going to go get the mail, that you want to just pull them back in. When you hug them you never want to let go. I guess that's how you know."

"Oh." Reid said nodding. Nancy decided to change the subject.

"So what was in that mystery package Athena brought you today?" Reid looked at her. "Athena told me about it. I won't tell her anything, I promise. Scouts Honors." She said raising her right pointer, middle, and ring finger up together.

"It was her birthday present."

"Awsome." Nancy said.

"What are you getting her?"

"Let's just say I have a friend who owes me a few favors and he could really help me out. Now All I have to do is get my hands on one of her manuscript." She looked over at Reid. He had a look on his face like he was contemplating something. "Spencer Reid, what's going through your mind?"

"I think I can help you with that." He said going to the stairs. "Follow me." She hit 'view tv' on the remote, turned it off and followed him into Athena's room. He reached up and handed her a pile of papers bound together. "It's the only one I know of and it's pretty good."

"Thanks." She said. "Night!"

"Night." He said as she turned off the hall light then brought it into her room. She layed down on her bed and started reading.

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So that's chapter ten. I hope it's pretty good and not too off character............ Oh well.......... the next chapter is going ot take place mostly in River Heights. So I hope you enjoyedit and I could really use some help........... because after the next chapter I'm not sure what do do....... but if you leave a small review, I might get some ideas............... well, got to work some more. =)