Title: Wills
Rating: G
Characters: Morgan and Reid
Warnings: None
Summary: Derek and Spencer have a battle of wills.
Disclaimer: The only thing of Criminal Minds that I own is the first four seasons on DVD.
A/N: I had to write this to work off some frustration sorry if it's short. I am working on some other longer stuff, but hopefully this tides you over a bit. As always, reviews are welcome and appreciated.
No one ever anticipated Spencer Reid; they always underestimated him. They only ever saw how he acted on the surface, the skinny, nerdy kid, with a high IQ, questionable fashion sense, and statistics for everything under the sun. Granted for most people this is all he wanted them to see, but for his friends, the people who knew him best, the people who he considered his family, he let himself shine, he let himself show who he was deep down, not everything, but enough, enough to make him feel vulnerable and uncomfortable—it was part of the reason he was so pissed at Derek Morgan.
Derek had finally put the proverbial straw on Spencer's camel's back. All of Derek's pushing, and prodding, and teasing. Spencer could take a lot, but enough was enough. They hadn't spoken, besides what they need to communicate to each other for work, for nearly a week and Spencer had just heard something that he knew had just hardened his resolve.
Spencer had been eating lunch with JJ when she told him what Derek had said to her earlier that morning.
"He knows you'll crack first." Spencer laughed. He couldn't help it, it was an involuntary motion, a harsh bitter laugh that he knew somewhat startled the woman sitting across from him.
"I'm sorry," he said even though his tone was anything but; it had just seemed the thing to say. Derek was underestimating him. Had he learned nothing in their time together?
Spencer knew he was being childish and irrational, but at the moment he couldn't care less. What Derek had said, to Spencer's still angry brain, sounded like a challenge, a battle of wills. And if Derek thought Spencer was going to break he had another thing coming. Spencer could be one of the most amicable people you'd ever meet, but when he felt threatened, trapped, or challenged he could become the most stubborn person on Earth; it was something his mother had often chided him for when he was younger and she had been able.
Spencer sat back hard set determination in his eyes. He knew how this was going to end, there were only two possibilities. Either they would have an intervention, most likely in the form of their team, or their friendship would be lost forever. Spencer secretly hoped it was the former, he didn't want to lose the man he considered his best friend.
Spencer knew this was going to have to come to a culmination, somehow. As his blood seemed to simmer in his veins making his whole body tingle with suppressed anger he thought of Derek's words, he had a feeling the end wasn't going to be pretty. And Spencer Reid was rarely wrong.
