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Profiler, Profiled

The last couple of weeks have been hard. It's been bad timing all around, first Spence has to deal with Nathan Harris and his almost suicide, and then he has to deal with seeing his mother in Bennington. He was very quiet for the last few days and I didn't know how to help him.

Then, my friend Jackie called me. She was back in town again and wanted to double date. She has a new boyfriend. I wonder how long it will last. She's still obsessed with her career. Anyway, his name is Michael and it turns out he's a huge fan of magic. So they had tickets to a magic show at a little club called "Sleight of Hand," and that's where we went for our double date. The magic show was a bit amateurish, and I had to endure Spence telling me how most of the tricks were done, but it made him smile, so it was okay. Then, the Great Stephan, called for a volunteer and Spence went up to help with a trick. He was so psyched about it afterwards. It was so good to hear him laugh again.

Jackie called me the next day and teased me for a solid half-hour about Spencer. I told her to shut up, that we weren't in high school anymore. She just laughed and wanted to know when Spence was going to make me an honest woman. She has a lot of room to talk.

So, the next day we were working, or playing around since Spence had to demonstrate his 'physics magic' for me and Garcia. He's so serious about keeping the mechanics of the trick secret that I couldn't help but laugh, especially when the first 'rocket' hit Emily on the head when she walked into the bullpen. Then the second one almost hit Hotch. He got after Spence for playing the trick in the office, but I know he was just pretending to be really mad.

It turned out to be the last bit of fun we were going to have for a couple of days as Morgan got arrested for murder in Chicago. He was there visiting his mother for her birthday when a young boy was found dead. The lead detective was sure that it was Morgan. He even turned Gideon's profile against Morgan to make it fit his suspicions.

The worst part was Gideon making me and Garcia look into Morgan's past. He had a criminal record as a teen that got expunged and sealed. The director of the Youth Center that Morgan went to as a kid, Carl Buford, wrote a letter to the judge that got his record expunged.

Spence and Emily went to see Morgan's family and to see Buford. Spence said Morgan's family is really nice people. He said that Morgan's sister told him that Morgan talks about Spence to his family. I think it was really flattering for Spencer as he sort of looks up to Morgan like a big brother.

The lead detective wouldn't listen to reason, especially when Morgan escaped their custody. Hotch knew where to find him and he knew what had happened to Morgan as a kid. I almost can't write it because it's so surreal and so terrible at the same time. Morgan was molested as a teenager by Buford and it was Buford that killed the kid the cops found and two others over the last fifteen years. Morgan was the one that found the first body which put him on the detective's radar. I guess Carl Buford has been molesting kids for years.

God… sometimes I hate this job. It's like you don't have any privacy. Morgan is a very private person and it's not right we should have found out about this the way we did. It was his decision to tell us or not to tell us. I hate that detective!

Well… the good news is that the Christmas holidays are coming up and I'm staying in Virginia with Spencer. Hey… I think this year I'll make him help me shop for everyone. I'm sure he'll love that!