Welcom everyone to chapter 23! I meanwhile, have reached my 50 story maximum on the doc manager... So, need to delete stuff later.

Anyways, thank you for the reads, reviews, the favorite and the follow. I really do appreciate it! I managed to finish chapter 25! Chapter 26 will start innimatly... (Did I spell that right?)

Anyways, Dan is back! Dan kinda pushed himself earlier than I planned him too... though don't worry, he'll be back...

Taster chapters are being uploaded as we speak, (Though the daily thing went out of the window... Uploaded 3 of them today, with 1 to go...) So, read them, and the poll will be up soon!

Before I get distracted... here is the chapter!

Chapter 23- Dan, Plans and a New house

Hello, Lightning. Found Bartholomew's address. I haven't seen Hope. - D

"It's Dan." Lightning mumbled to Spencer, "He didn't see Hope when he went to investigate Bartholomew's house."

It had been two months since Caius Edwards had been arrested, and he was currently waiting in jail for the trail, which would take place in a couple of weeks' time. Lightning and Spencer thought they were safe, but they had forgotten about Dan.

"What should we say?" Lightning asked.

"Well, you could mention the myths of the L'cie. Tell him to go to Bodhum…." Spencer began, but Lightning cut him off.

"We don't tell people who live outside of Bodhum." Lightning replied furiously.

"You told me." Spencer challenged.

"But you already knew before I told you." Lightning snapped.

"Well, it's either tell the truth, or have our trust ability compromised because we lied." Spencer muttered.

"Fine." Lightning sighed, "Only to get him off our backs."

Hope is the statue in Bartholomew's house. – L

Oh, really? You killed him, and then stripped him, before freezing him in a crystal? – D

No. Have you ever heard of the L'cie? – L

What are the L'cie? – D

Go to Bodhum, New York. You'll find out there. – L

Are you saying that Hope was a …? – D

Yeah. Not our fault. We were helping him. – L

Why didn't you say so sooner? – D

Because the myths sound utterly ridiculous, but they are true. – L

You saying that the L'cie are myths? I don't believe your current theory then. – D

They are not myths. I've seen two L'cie in action, Hope and a guy named Samuel. Unless it was CGI effects in a movie, then they are real. – L

Fine then. I'll believe you for now. But if you are lying, I'm calling the police, and telling them you killed Hope.-D

"He believes us, for now." Lightning sighed from relief, "That was a good idea, though what happens if he tells everyone?"

"We'll deal with that if that ever occurs." Spencer replied, kissing his girlfriend, "What do you want to do today?"

"I think we should find a house. After all, we were planning on moving in together." Lightning stated.

Spencer nodded, running his hand through Lightning's hair, "I agree with you. Where do you want to move too?"

"I don't know." Lightning admitted, after a moment's silence, "Do you want to have a look around different houses?"

"Yeah. That'd be good." Spencer smiled, as they walked towards the nearest estate agents.

Lightning pointed at one house, "This looks good. I like this house, plus we can both afford it with our salaries."

"Do you want to arrange a tour of the house at some point?" Spencer asked, to which Lightning replied yes. Spencer smiled, and then led Lightning into the agency, where they booked a tour of the house, which was due to take place in around 2 hours.

Then, Spencer and Lightning decided that whilst they were waiting for the tour of the house to begin, they would have lunch out at the nearest café, where Lightning had a strawberry milkshake, whereas Spencer had an extra caffeinated coffee.

"So, looking forward to looking around the house?" Spencer asked when they had settled down beside a window table.

"I am." Lightning replied, "It looked really nice in the pictures."

Spencer nodded, "They did. Hopefully, the pictures are not lying."

Lightning agreed, "Me too."

After having lunch, both of them aimlessly walked around the town, not really doing anything in particular, before they finally arrived at the house, and met the estate agent.

"Hello, I'm Eliza Gekie." Eliza warmly grinned, offering her hand to both Lightning and Spencer, but only Lightning shook, but Spencer waved at her.

"Lightning." Lightning formally replied.

"Er… Dr… Spencer… Reid, Pleased to meet you." Spencer stuttered.

"You look around my age, and yet you're a doctor?" Eliza inquired, checking out Spencer.

Spencer rubbed the back of his neck with his hand, "3 PhDs in Chemistry, Mathematics and Engineering. Also have undergraduate degrees in Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy."

Eliza's eyebrows shot up, "So, a genius as well as eye candy?" She whispered to herself, before saying out loud, "Do you want to go into the house?"

"Of course we do." Lightning formally replied, holding Spencer's hand as they walked into the building, where Eliza began her lecture on the building, showing all of the rooms in the house, and when she had finished, she left Lightning and Spencer to decide whether or not they were going to buy the house.

"I really like this house." Spencer admitted, "I can see us together here."

"Same." Lightning admitted, and then they both stated to Eliza, "We'll take the house. How do you want us to pay?"

"Come back to the estate agents with me, and then we can sort out the payments there. You two planning to move in together?" Eliza asked.

"Yes." Lightning replied, "We've been dating for 2 or 3 months?"

"2 months, 3 weeks." Spencer added more information, "2 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes and…"

"Right, then." Eliza nodded, crestfallen, "We'll go to the estate agents, sort out the paperwork and then you can start paying the deposit?"

Spencer nodded, "That sounds good."

So the three people returned to the estate agents, and after half an hour of sorting out the forms and other such matters, Spencer and Lightning were finally on the process to owning the house, which also included putting both apartments up for sale.

A day later, the first person offered to buy Lightning's apartment came in with Eliza, and as Lightning showed the man through her apartment, Spencer put his elbows on her kitchen counter and thought to himself. He thought about how much he loved Lightning, and how he just wanted to be with her.

His thoughts however were interrupted by Lightning, "We have a taker. Bartz Klauser, this is Spencer Reid, my boyfriend. Spencer, this is Bartz Klauser."

"Pleased to meet you." Spencer waved at Bartz.

"I'm delighted to be buying your girlfriend's apartment." Bartz smiled, "It's quite a nice base from which I can travel around the world."

"You like travelling?" Spencer asked.

"Yeah, when my father died several years ago, he said that travelling was a good option. However, I also decided to buy an apartment as a base, so I had a constant in my life." Bartz muttered to Spencer.

A week later, Spencer also managed to sell his apartment, to an artist named Alyssa Simons, who planned to turn the apartment into a studio, from where she could draw and sell paintings, and eventually become famous for her craft.

However, Spencer and Lightning told no one of their plans, so it was a shock for everyone at the BAU when, several weeks later, they received an invite to Spencer and Lightning's moving house party.

Strauss even had to take both agents into her offices for a long chat about the relationship.

"So, I see you're moving in together." Strauss commented, staring at the two agents.

Lightning replied formally, "Yes, but we are keeping our private life separate from our professional lives, and we were not making out in the closets."

"I love her." Spencer added, "I never imagined that I would meet my soul mate at the FBI academy, but fate decided it would be that way. Already, I cannot imagine being without her."

Lightning smiled, shocked at Spencer's words, "I love you too Spencer." She finally whispered.

"I see." Was Strauss' reply, "Will you still be able to keep your FBI career separate from your home life? Or will I have to transfer one of you to another unit in the FBI?"

"We can still keep it separate. We only see each other before work, on the morning coffee break, and after work. We rarely talk to each other otherwise, as we have our separate cases, which take us on different sides of the country." Lightning replied.

Strauss nodded, "Alright then. I see no reason why the relationship will hinder your attempts to catch serial killers. I guess you can still remain in the BAU."

Spencer and Lightning smiled, before both of them thanked Strauss, and they walked out of her office.

"So, what did Strauss say about you moving in together?" Morgan asked.

Spencer smiled, "We'll both be allowed to move in together, without having to transfer."

At this the team smiled at Spencer's statement, and then Spencer added, "So, the house warming party is on Saturday. Bring anything you want."

Everyone in the BAU nodded, and immediately started planning what they would bring to a party- a rare event at the BAU.

Kudos to you if you spotted the FFV reference! So far done: 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12- with 1, 2, 4, 9, 11 and 14 to go!