Spencer Reid loved Jennifer Jareau. That was all there was to it.

Over the years, it was no longer a romantic love. Over the years, it grew to be a brother's love but it was just as deep, if not deeper than it would have been if he had still loved her romantically.

She was so beautiful. So wonderful. So perfect and hurt and broken but never really broken. Cracked. Not broken, and all of those hairline cracks on the surface of her heart just made her all the precious in his eyes.

He loved her. He always would.