Chapter 7: Jealous
The valley parking guy brought back his car to the bar's door, Spencer opened the passenger door for her and then he put their paintings on the backseat, he got in and drove to the restaurant.
When they arrived he parked the car and went to open the door for her. She liked his chivalry and when he offered his arm for her to hold it.
She had to admit this was the first guy who did this to her, at least this much. They walked in and the waiter led them to a table next to an elderly couple.
The restaurant was Italian so they both picked a plate of pasta, Spencer wanted the bologna sauce and Max ordered the carbonara sauce.
While they waited they talked and laughed softly. Then the food arrived and both eat. They were starving so there was not a pause to talk very much.
He asked her if she wanted a dessert but she was full. Maybe a takeaway one could be better, then while he headed to pay Max walked to the bathroom.
In there was the elderly woman washing her hands. Max did the same and refreshed some of her makeup.
The woman next to her sighed "fifty wedding anniversary, can you believe it?" Said her looking in the mirror.
"That's pretty impressive. My longest relationship was 2 years" said Max looking at her.
"And how long have you been with that handsome man you were with at the table?"
"Oh Spencer and I aren't a couple. We are taking things slowly"
"I see... but be careful honey. He is very handsome and if you don't catch him with both hands firmly, you may lose him" said the woman looking at her "and I know you like him a lot, I can see it in your eyes" she blushed softly looking down.
"Ok thank you for your advice" the woman smiled and leave her thinking.
Meanwhile Spencer was paying when the elderly man arrived and stood next to him "today I celebrated my fifty wedding anniversary"
"Congratulations sir, I hope I would be that lucky to expend my life with someone that long"
"I'm sure your girlfriend will be that person"
"Oh no... s...she isn't my girlfriend, she want us to take this slowly, I understand that past experiences may make people reject a new one because they don't want to screw it up"
"Oh boy, I know you don't ask it but I will give you an advice. You need to make the bold move to ask her to be your girlfriend. She is beautiful and you don't know if, by taking things slowly, you ended up losing her for someone bolder"
Spencer looked at the man and nodded "thank you sir, I will think about it" the elderly man nodded and smiled then his wife walked by and kissed his cheek softly.
"Haven't you pay yet?"
"No the young man just finished" he said while Spencer got back his card from the cashier "good night boy"
"Good night sir, ma'am" he looked at the woman and she smiled.
Then he walked away to wait for Max, he was thinking about what the man said to him. He was right about it, but he was also worried that Max will get upset about it.
When she arrived they both headed to his car. Neither of them mentioned the elderly couple's words for them. Max asked him to take her back to her apartment so she could study a little then went to sleep.
He did as she told him and when they arrived to her place he stopped in front of it.
"Max" he said turning off the car and like to keep the painting I made" he looked at her.
"I would love to Spencer but only if you keep mine" she said looking at him.
"It would be an honor to have it" they both smiled and he reached the painting to her and she held it. She leaned in and kissed him gently then got out of the car and walked to the door. He stayed there until he was sure she was in.
Then he drove back home. When he got in he put the painting on the table. He will buy a framework so he can hang the painting properly.
Then changed into some comfortable clothes and lay down falling asleep almost immediately.
The next day he put on a short sleeve white shirt with black pants and his black jacket. He has to be at the Smithsonian at a quarter to eight, it was just seven o'clock so he ate a sandwich with his coffee then went to his car and drove there.
When he was parking she called him "hey Spencer, where are you?"
"I'm parking" he said turning off the car.
"Oh ok. I'm at the main building, at the auditorium"
"Ok perfect see you there" he finished the call and walked there. On his way there a woman stopped him.
"Doctor Reid?" She said.
He stopped and looked at her "yes, who are you?"
"I'm Veronica Smith. I'm the director of the art program of the museum. When I was in charge of the program for kids with disabilities I invited you here for a lecture about the art and the persons with disabilities"
"Oh yeah I remember. It was when I wasn't an active agent at the FBI two years ago"
"Right. I'm still grateful for that, because you open the eyes of our executives and the parents of those children to bring them here and learn art"
He smiles and nods "it's always a pleasure to help. Psychology is a huge area to help people to understand the impact of some activities in our emotions and knowledge"
She nodded and smiled "I'm totally agree..."
Meanwhile Max decided to walk out of the auditorium to look for him when she saw him talking to this woman. Immediately her mind when to what the elderly woman said last night.
'...but be careful honey. He is very handsome and if you don't catch him with both hands firmly, you may lose him'
And she felt jealous, she usually was not a jealous person but her relationship and her feelings for Spencer were different.
She decided to walk over to them, her body language could tell everyone that she was upset but her face was calm "oh hello Spencer, I was looking for you"
"H-hey Max" he could tell her voice was not her normal self and he could tell she was jealous "this is Veronica, your soon-to-be boss" he said the last part in a subtle warning tone.
She understood and relaxed "oh so you are Doctor Smith, right?"
"Yes and you are Maxine Brenner. One of candidates, I didn't know you and Spencer were friends" she bit her lip and just nodded. She cannot correct her because they are not a formal couple "well it was good to see you, Doctor Reid. I hope you could come over and give more lectures for our community"
He nodded "sure I would love to" he smiled and looked as she left then turned to Max who was looking down playing with her hands "hey you ok?"
"Y-yeah... j-just let's go" she said and walked back to the auditorium. She was ashamed of her attitude, this was not her. She must really have deeper feelings for him than she thought. Because she did not feel like this when she saw him kissing Cat, even though that was a hot kiss, but now just saw him talking with a woman with executive clothes make her jealous.
He walked in the auditorium following her "Max, where do you want me to sit?" He asked when they reached the stage.
"At the first row. Somewhere I could see you" he nodded and moved her to the backstage.
"Max, relax you will do it alright. You are a good teacher and I'm sure you will nail it" she nodded looking at him.
"Thank you and I'm sorry I didn't know what happened to me" he looked at her "and don't you dare profile me Spencer" he lifted his hands like saying 'I haven't say anything' and she runs her hand into her hair "we will talk after the conference" he nodded.
"Ok" he leaned in and kissed her cheek gently and left to sit where she told him.
The class started and he could see lot of mothers and their children taking note and the kids painting as Max was explaining to them. He smiled at that and she looked relaxed and happy teaching them.
He took some notes and saw her looking at him now and then. When he saw her looking at him, he just gave her a thumbs up and smiled at her.
After an hour the class was over and they clapped at Max. Then some mothers walked towards her to thanked her for the class, their children enjoyed it.
He smiled and when they were alone he helped her picked her things up. Veronica walked over at her and congratulated her. She told her, to plan a class for the blind kids. Because the Smithsonian had groups with different levels of the same disability. This was just the autistic children then the blind children and much more, so they have to test if someone can plan for all of them.
Max nodded and thanked for the opportunity and promised to do her best then Veronica left.
"Oh God... that was a surprised twist" she looked at him "thank you for coming Spence" she held his hand gentle.
"It's ok I'm glad you invited me here. I'm happy to see these kids learning something that will help them no just with their abilities but also to socialize" he smiled at her "do you want to visit the museum? JJ said she will bring her children her today"
"Sounds like fun" she smiled and they both were to leave her stuffs in her car and then went back in the museum. Then they met with JJ and her kids. Will was busy that weekend so it was just her with the kids and Spencer with Max.
"So you are my God father's girlfriend" said Henry matter-of-fact.
"Henry..." said JJ rolling her eyes.
"Um... he isn't my boyfriend" she said looking at him "but I was wondering... do you think we look good together?" She asked in a whisper just for him.
"Yes I do" he smiled at her and she smiled back.
Max and the kids where looking to a painting and she was explaining some stuffs to them. Meanwhile JJ and Spencer looked at them.
"So are you going to ask her to be your girlfriend?" Asked JJ.
"Yes. But she kept saying she want us to go slowly and then today she looked at me talking to woman and got jealous"
"That's a good sign Spence. It means she has deeper feelings for you and is afraid to lose you. So you should totally ask her to be your girlfriend"
He looked at her and smiled "you think so?"
She laughed "yes I do, go for her. You aren't the same shy kid I met when we started at the BAU and I'm sure you are more secure" she patted his arm.
"Thank you JJ" he wrapped an arm on her shoulders softly.
"Oh and by the way, Will wanted us to go with him this Christmas to New Orleans. His family want to see the children"
"Sounds like fun" he smiled as he saw Michael and Henry having a good time with Max "they love her"
"She is a great person and complements you" he nodded.
They stayed at the museum until noon then they went to buy some hotdogs and sodas. The kids played at the park while the adults chatted about random things.
After a while JJ and the kids left and leave them alone.
"JJ is great" said Max while they walked to her car.
"Yes she is. We became best friends almost immediately after we met. She was the first person who collected me Spence. Then it became common, especially Emily and other members of the team but mostly JJ" she smiled at him.
"She most feel really close to you to named you godfather of her children"
"Yes she does. It sometimes shocks me because, we both work at the same place and we both have the same odds to die at any time. And the common thought is that the godfather will watch over his godchildren if their fathers die"
"She most feel like you have more possibilities to survive than her"
"Could be" they reached to her car "um... by the way I wanted to talk to you about what happened today" she sighed.
"Spencer it was just..."
"A jealous moment?" She looked up at him.
"I told you not to profile me"
"I can't help it. It's like a second nature for me" she leaned on her car "what I wanted to say is..." he took a deep breath "Max, will you be my girlfriend?" She looked at him in shock. She did not expected him to ask her that. Especially after what happened "yesterday an elderly man who was next to us told me to ask you to by me girlfriend because there could be any guy. With a less risky job that could catch your attention and make you forget about me so I'm taking a leap of faith and ask you. Even when you wanted things slowly..."
"Spencer...?"
"Yes?"
"Just shut up and kiss me" he took it as a yes and just did what she said. He kissed her.
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Ok that's all for this chapter. Hope you liked it.
I am placing this few chapters in the late October and November.
Maybe after a Christmas chapter where hespend it with her family maybe even he will introduce her his mother, I will do a time jump to the events of episodes 9 and 10.