Late November 2005 - Derailed
"Hotchner let him do what?" Ella had come to pick Spencer up from work so they could have Dinner, she'd met the team right before they left for this case, and Elle apparently felt the need to talk to her. She was filling Ella in on the case. She'd just told her how they let Spencer go in to the hostage situation and use magic tricks to convince a man they had removed a device from his arm. She turns to Hotchner who is talking to Spencer and Gideon, her eyes are wild; someone could even describe them as crazed.
She had seen some of her friends get blown up with a roadside bomb, and stayed calm and collected until they had reached safety and she was off duty. But you mention the possibility of Spencer getting hurt and she goes downright batty. Not a good thing when his job is constantly putting him in danger. She walks toward them, and Spencer gently grabs her arm, stopping her from hitting his boss.
"Ella, don't." He says it quietly so the others don't quite hear him.
"Nope. I'm gonna." She pops the "P" like a bratty child; Spencer lets out an exasperated sigh and throws his hands up. If Hotchner's poker face wasn't so good, you'd be able to tell that he was shocked. Gideon looks giddy. "You let my boyfriend, go into a hostage situation with a man that was suffering from a psychotic break, with two guns, to use magic tricks to convince him a chip had been removed."
"Ella, it's fine, I didn't get hurt, I even saved Elle's life!" He was trying to get her out of her foul mood by amusing her. It was not working.
"Reid, why don't you tell her that you insisted? That Morgan told you to teach him how to do it and you replied with 'I've been practicing this my entire life, I'm going in' that-" Ella cuts him off.
"Spencer William Reid" the scold would have made any angry mother proud. "You insisted on going into a hostage situation? How many times do you tell me to be careful at work, and how you wish I'd find a new job, because mine is too dangerous, and you voluntarily go into a hostage situation; hypocrite!" The last word was shrill, and the men all wince.
"Ella, you disarm homemade bombs. It's incredibly dangerous."
"Not anymore I don't." He looks confused.
"What?"
"This isn't leave, I'm out." And that's how Spencer found out Ella was out of the army.