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Psychodrama
I had a doctor's appointment three days ago. Yearly physicals are always at the top of my list of things to put off as long as possible, despite the fact that my OB is a woman. She's the greatest! She was completely psyched to see pictures of my new little cousin. I think she's a sucker for blonds. All of her boyfriends are blonds. I like guys with brown hair and chocolate eyes. She spent most of the visit pumping me for information about Spence. You'd think that he was all I ever talked about. She was really happy that I finally asked him out. As excited as she was you'd think we were a couple in a soap opera that had been kept apart by a series of improbable and completely ridiculous circumstances. Talk about over-dramatic…
So I told her about what happened on our date and she winced. She said that I have to do something to make it up to him and prove that I really care for him. I asked her how I was supposed to do that when he wouldn't even trust me enough to agree to go out again. She said to find something that he likes and surprise him with it.
It was at that moment that I realized that I really don't know all that much about him. What does he like to do in his spare time? I never took the time to find out. I should talk to Garcia. She would know, right? No… He said he wanted me to come talk you him instead of relying on others. So how do I find out without ruining the surprise?
We got called to another bad one. Okay so all of the cases we deal with are really bad. It started out as a strange set of bank robberies where the un-sub was making the customers undress. In the last robbery he made two pairs of customers simulate sex with each other. I know I said I wasn't going to say, it again, but what is wrong with people?
Also, we had to go to LA and that's not where I wanted Spence to be right after breaking up with a Hollywood starlet. I'm sure it brought back some bad memories for him. I wish I had had the time to go see her and have a little chat.
Anyway, we split up as always to look at different aspects of the crime. Elle and Hotch went to look at the video surveillance, and Gideon and Morgan went to the bank. Spence and I went to the police station and started on the geographical profile. Spence was explaining his map and the lines he was drawing on it. I understood some of what he was saying but some of it was just big words. It was nice though, he didn't seem to be mad about the other night, but then he's always professional in the office. It's one of the things I love about him. Then he explained that the area he was looking at only narrowed down the number of people to about two hundred thousand. I just said, "Oh," and we just looked at each other. I thought, well, it's better then two million people.
Hotch had Garcia run her recognition software and she determined that the height differences made it two un-subs, which just made our job harder to do. Then she realized, and I don't know how, that the guy was wearing lifts in his shoes.
I had the fun job with Elle and Spence to look through all the sex offenders and bank robber files at the station. Normally it would be a tedious job, but it was nice to just be close to Spence, even if it was a bit distracting. We found a suspect, but it turned out he wasn't the guy.
Did you know that Spence studies maps? He also realized that the guy was doing something called a psychodrama. He needed an audience to play out his fantasies. Hotch was very upset when this guy just walked into a café and tried to get a teenage kid to hit his mother. Then he killed the kid when the kid wouldn't do it. He just shot him. It was awful to watch. I've never seen Hotch look like that.
Hotch, Spence and Gideon got him at a kid's birthday party where he was trying to make a kid kill his mother. I guess the un-sub's mother was abusive to him as a kid, and that coupled with some serious meth tweaking, made him go nuts and try to get revenge on his mom. I'm glad that Hotch shot him! He deserved it for killing that boy.
Spence talked to me after we got off the plane and everyone else left the airstrip. He said that he was sorry for overreacting the other night and I said that it wasn't his fault, it was mine. I told him I was sorry for getting jealous and not going to him with my concerns and talking about it.
He asked if we could go for coffee somewhere and have a talk. It went well, but I could tell he was still holding back and he didn't say anything about going out again. I don't know what to do to fix it. I didn't even think about trying to find out more about what he likes. I got distracted by his eyes like always. They should come with a warning or something.
Should I talk to Garcia, or will he get mad again?