So this one is actually going to be the first of some 9x24 (Demons) post-eps, so that I can finally switch this to Season 10, which is fabulous, by the way. Hopefully, I can pull this off.

Rated: K+

Characters: Spencer Reid, mentions of Alex Blake

He wanted to believe he was reading too much into things, but he was a profiler, first and foremost, and he couldn't deny the obvious signs. It was in Alex's voice when she said goodbye, in the fact that she left her badge on his table. A small part of him knew it was hopeless, but most of him hoped that Alex would walk into work the next day, joking about the hassle of getting through security without her badge, and then he'd pull it out of his badge and everything would be normal.

But Spencer had lost more than enough people to know that he was losing Alex Blake. It pierced him down to the soul to think that another person was leaving him. First his father, then Gideon, then JJ and Emily (which had given him the hope that people could return), and now Alex.

He wished he was dead wrong, but he knew, he just knew that he wasn't. He could say it was the profiler in him that concluded this, but, really, it was a scared, lonely young man being abandoned by everyone he looked up to.

Who would it be next? Morgan, Rossi, JJ (again), Garcia, or Hotch? He didn't know, but he hoped that at least they would still be there.