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A/n this is very short, mostly because in my opinion this episode is the worst of all four years.

Honor Among Thieves.

My Aunt called two days ago. She put me through the third degree about Spencer. She said that she wanted to know how he was doing and how things are between us. I wanted desperately to tell her everything. I love my Aunt, she raised me, but I love Spence too and I don't know what to tell her that won't make her suspicious of the kind of person he is. He's a good man with a lot of problems. I want my family to like him for the person that I fell in love with, but I don't know if that person exists anymore.

We had a very strange case that was brought to us by Emily's mother, Ambassador Prentiss. It was the kidnapping of a Russian man in Baltimore. The kidnappers had cut off his finger and threatened to mail him home in pieces if the family didn't pay the ransom.

I don't think Hotch or Gideon, or any of the team appreciated getting dragged into this because of Emily's mother, but we did our job. Gideon, Morgan and Reid went to Baltimore. I got to stay at Quantico and comfort the wife of the kidnapped man. Here I have a stack of work on my desk and I'm patting the shoulder of this woman. Okay… I know that was unfeeling, but…

Anyway the whole thing seemed to be a waste of time. Ambassador Prentiss helped by getting Garcia into the Russian banks. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have figured out that this whole thing was about a mob leader trying to help his son that wasn't supposed to exist. He was supposed to renounce family under the rules of the thieves' code, but he sort of gave him a job by paying the ransom for all of these kidnap victims.

The daughter of the man we were trying to find was in on the whole thing. She was in love with the son of the mob leader and helped kidnap her own father. And I thought I had family issues. Anyway now they're both dead and the father is in the hospital with a missing ear and finger.

Emily went to dinner with her mother and as she told me this morning, they may be mending some of their relationship. I'm glad for her. It made me want to talk to my Aunt Gina again, so I called her and I told her about everything that happened and all the things I was feeling and thinking about Spencer. She really surprised me by getting my Uncle Charlie on the extension in his office. They both said that I had to talk to Spencer and do whatever it took to make things right. Uncle Charlie said that he still expected to meet Spence one of these days. He said that he could see that Spence makes me happy and that I should fight to hold onto that.

Maybe that Russian guy had it right. Maybe family is more important than business. I know that I want Spence to be a part of my family. I don't know how to start… Maybe I should go talk to Hotch. I think he knows that something is going on. I'll do it tomorrow.