74.2

Reid's fingers busied themselves twining and untwining the cord to his robe as he listened for Hotch on the other end of the phone-call. After thirty seconds the anticipated disappointment of missing the call was alleviated. Hotch had answered.

"Spencer…? Do you know what time it is? Is everything okay?"

He let out a contented sigh, "I'm sorry, did I wake you up? It's been so hectic moving in, I don't think I've even unpacked a clock yet…"

"…No, no it's fine. How do you like the new place?" Aaron was smiling, Spencer could tell by the way his tone was softer now. Maybe he wasn't the only one missing him.

"You should come over and see it." He invited, he looked at his watch on the nightstand, he was inviting over it boss at 11PM, what the hell was wrong with him?

"Mmm, I'd like a tour. You aren't still mad about…"

"No, I understand… our relationship entails certain compromises we have to make that other couples don't have to. I still think we should start a group-carpool so we can at least drive to work together sometimes, though." Reid pouted, so he wanted some normalcy, was that so unheard of?

His apartment, besides being half a block from a coffee-house and three blocks from a bookstore was two blocks from Aaron's apartment. That had been the deal-breaker. Hell, the amazing tub? That was just his excuse. He knew Aaron's landlord insisted on having all his properties to have at least one amazing amenity.

"It's funny. This weekend I thought I wouldn't get a chance to see you at all. I thought you'd still be upset when I turned down your offer…"

Spencer mewled, he didn't want to go into that now, he was upset, but it was a predicted outcome. He knew better, but he still had to test the waters, "Mm, I am a little, but I already told you, I get it. But I'm lonely and want to see you, or is that not okay?"

Baited, Aaron easily fell for the trap he'd been wanting to walk into since 7AM when Reid had started the moving process. He had hired a company to help move his furniture, instead of ask Hotch, Morgan, Rossi, Kevin, Garcia, JJ, Will, and Prentiss to give up any point of their weekend. He probably felt guilty even thinking of asking JJ since her departure from the team two weeks ago.

"Sunday you should have a house-warming party."

"It isn't a house." Reid corrected.

Hotch adjusted, "Tomorrow you should have an apartment-warming party. Should you make the arrangements or should I?" That killed the chances for argument, and Hotch knew Reid would probably default it to him doing it, probably too embarrassed to arrange it for himself, though how that would look to anyone outside their circle… he had no idea.

"I just want you to come over… can you?"

The noise at the door distracted him from his answer, "Hold on there's someone at the door…" Reid paused, who the hell would be at his door at 11PM and not be the man he had just invited over? He checked the eye-piece anyway, smiling to himself as he said, "I have to call you back." And hung up.

Opening the door, he stepped to the side so Aaron could enter, he too disconnecting his phone, slipping it back into his jean pocket.

"It's a ten minute walk at most, but I decided to cheat and drive." He shrugged, "Have to scope out the lay of the road for carpooling and all." Spencer smiled warmly at his lover as he wrapped his arms around him, pulling him in for a long kiss.

"Let me give you the tour. This is the foyer," he led Aaron to the living room, still planting kisses on him, neither losing eye-contact for more than fractions of seconds to make sure they didn't crash into any half-unpacked boxes and to actually get a lay of the land, "this is the living room."

Spencer pulled him toward a slightly offset space, "This is the breakfast nook/dining room, and that's the kitchen…" he was now sucking and biting as he kissed down Aaron's throat, leaving tell-tale marks. "Then there's a small bathroom, and the second bedroom…" he didn't walk into the room, instead pulling his lover into the master suite. "And this is the master bedroom… and in there's an amazing two-person tub with Jacuzzi jets. Want to try it out?"

"Maybe later." Aaron offered, undoing Spencer's robe, "You just got out, and there's no way to prove it's a two-person tub without two people."

His lover smiled at him, making last weekend's conversation over dinner evaporate. All week it had eclipsed him, telling his lover of two years that he couldn't move in with him for work-related reasons. This compromise was good enough though, for now. Hell, he had been in that apartment for a long time, maybe he should move to a bigger place now that Jack was getting older, the young boy probably could use a bigger bedroom… this building seemed to have a good size… Those were his sneaky thoughts, but his mind was quickly more occupied with how to sex up his lover now that they had officially made up than to actually figure out how to exactly make it right.

Fin.