Chapter 5: A Night in The City that Never Sleeps

Derek's POV: (later that night)

Angel hadn't come down for dinner and that didn't seem like something she normally did so i decided i would go see if she was alright. I walked upstairs and knocked on her door,

"Angel are you alright?" i asked concerned.I put my ear against the door trying to hear if she was doing something.

"Hey you've reached the voicemail of Dr. Spencer Reid, I can't come to the phone right now, please leave your name number and reason for calling after the tone." I heard from inside. It was Spencer's voicemail, loverboy must have forgotten to charge his phone again. Before I could pull away the door opened and I fell forward into Angel's room.

"Eavesdropping Morgan, thought you knew better than that?" She said as I got up.

"I was checking to see if you were in the shower or something, I didn't hear an answer when I knocked. You weren't at dinner I wanted to make sure you were okay." I said awkwardly.

"I'm fine." She said shortly.

"You don't sound fine." I commented as she rolled her eyes.

"Spencer's avoiding me. He's not returning any of my calls." She said as I chuckled.

"He's not avoiding you, Spence isn't very tech savvy he forgets to charge his phone sometimes, and it probably went dead at the hospital. He's fine, if he weren't we would have heard about it already." I said reassuringly as Spence walked through.

"H-hi." he said sheepishly.

Angel's POV:

"H-hey." i said blushing feeling a little foolish for thinking he was avoiding me.

"So what did i miss?"

"no first how is the girl is she going to be alright?" i asked worried.

"She's stable, we'll have a sketch artist go over there in a little bit to work with her." he said as Derek left and i nodded trying to figure out how to bring up the Penguins.

"I-I saw an article in the news ab-about the penguins at the local zoo." I said softly as Spencer looked up blushing.

"I'm assuming Hotch explained."

"yes he did and i feel stupid for not understanding at first." i said taking his hand in mine.

"Why don't we go out for a walk or something the rest of the team went to go talk to Lylian. There isn't much we can do right now." he said and i nodded blushing a little. He held out his hand, and I took it shyly as we left the house. We walked down the streets of New Orleans, it was sunset, the sun casting soft pastel colors on the stone streets. We had just gotten to the town square when Spencer finally broke the silence between us.

"D-do you know how to ride a bike?" He asked as I nodded cocking my head. A smile crept across his lips as he pulled me towards a small building by the herbal shop, a bicycle rental shop. Spencer ran inside coming back out a moment later with a tandem bicycle and two helmets. I looked at him confused not really sure about this.

"Are you sure about this love?" i asked nervously. Spencer nods smiling softly.

"I want to see the whole city, and this is the fastest way without driving in a car and missing stuff. Besides we're sticking together and nothing could happen to us." He said simply. I smiled seeing how excited he was getting and couldn't help but get excited as well.

"Alright then, let's go." i took the helmet he handed me and put it on. We got on the bike and we were off on our little date smiling the whole way. I have to admit it was nice doing things like a normal human. It made me feel normal Spencer made me feel human again and i loved the feeling.

"So Angel what is your favorite color?" he asked.

"Well it depends. It changes, like right now i'd have to say blue its a calm color and i feel calm when i'm with you." i explained a little self conscious.

"You've known Hotch since college right? Why hasn't he mentioned you before now?" i smiled sadly at that.

"Well after we graduated my family and i moved and we lost touch for awhile and i guess it never occurred to him to mention me until this case."

"speaking of your family how many siblings do you have exactly?" i chuckled knowing this was going to be an interesting answer for him.

"Well this is where it sorta gets complicated love. There's our older brother Finn who died a few years ago. After Finn you have our sister Freya who we didn't even know existed until around the same time that Finn died, then you have Elijah then its me and my brother Klaus of course and then its Kol who is the party boy of the family. Next you have our dear little sister Rebekah who is off with her boyfriend in Virginia right now but hopefully you'll meet her soon. Lastly you have our baby brother Henrik who died when he was only ten.i-it was a terrible accident and we were all devastated." i looked down for a minute trying to hold back my tears still not over Henrik's death.

Spencer's POV:

I looked down for a second when she mentioned that two of her siblings had passed away.

"I'm so sorry that you lost your brothers Angel that must have been hard." i stopped the bike when i got to the park and got off helping Angel off and we sat on the bench.

"Finn and i weren't close especially not at the end of his life but i still feel bad about his death, a-and Henrik h-his death, his death was sorta mine and Klaus's fault. We were told not to go out in the woods and we did and Henrik came a-and he was attacked." i hugged her and held her as she started to cry rubbing her back soothingly wanting nothing more than to make her happy again. After a few moments she started to calm down and pulled away and smiled a little.

"I'm ok Spence, let's get back on the bike." she said and i nodded.I got on the front seat of the bike, I had been on one of these before with my mom as a child. Angel got on behind me. At first we were clumsy, both trying to steer at the same time, nearly crashing a few times, but soon we got into a rhythm. We saw almost all of New Orleans before the clouds eclipsed the sun making the world grow darker. We were half way back to the bike rental store when it started to rain, the stones of the sidewalk grew slippery, and then we were falling. The first reflex I had was to pull Angel away from the bike. We rolled and landed hard on the muddy ground, she was on top of me, making me an impromptu airbag.

"Oh my god spence are you alright?" She asked as I nodded taking a breath trying to get my lungs to start accepting oxygen again.

"I-I'm fine are you okay?" I asked worried as she smiles softly.

"I'm alright b-because of you." She said and I blushed pink.

"I-It my was my pleasure." I whispered. Our faces were inches apart, slowly I inched closer just as she did. Our lips touched, and the bitter cold of the rain and mud was replaced by a brilliant warmth. Our lips moved against each other as she wrapped her arms around my neck her fingers running through my rain tangled hair as my hands cupped her perfect face. The face of an angel, the face of my angel. Time seemed to stop when we kissed, and sooner than I would have liked someone cleared their throat from behind us.

"I leave for New England for a few weeks, and my sister ends up kissing a cyclist in the mud." A woman said as Angel and I looked up. Standing on the sidewalk by our overturned bicycle was a woman dressed in a flashy modern outfit, her hair straight and blonde, her eyes sky blue.

"Rebekah! You made it home!" Angel said running to hug her sister. The two embraced as I stood up.

"Angel who is your...friend." Rebekah asked an eyebrow raised as her lips formed a smirk.

"T-this is Spencer Reid, he's with the FBI. Y-you've missed a lot Bekah, let's get back and we'll fill you in then." Angel said as Rebekah nodded hailing a cab for us. We dropped the bike off moments before the store closed, before we landed back home at the Mikaelson Mansion. Through the entire car ride I couldn't help but smile. I could still feel the tingle of her lips on mine even after the kiss ended. People always say that their first kiss is always awkward, mine on the other hand was as magical as the woman who gave it to me.