David, Morgan, and I arrived back at the station a few minutes later. When we walked in we were met with shocked looks from officers and our own team members, apparently they thought the extent of my injuries was more serious than they actually were. Finally J.J snapped out of it, got up and embraced me in her arms.

"I am so happy you're ok. You had all of us worried, very worried. I'm just so thankful nothing too serious happened to you."

Tears started to sting my eyes, but I held them back.

"Thanks J.J. I am so thankful I have a team like you guys behind me. Now I know I'll always have someone looking out for me." I said returning the hug.

Prentiss got up and I assumed was next in line for a hug. Followed by Hotch.

"Melissa, do you know how lucky you are you didn't get yourself killed?"

He hadn't exactly hugged me. He was staring down at me, and kind of scolding me. But, I'll admit it; I deserved every bit of it.

"Yes, I know. I'm sorry for messing the plan up. I guess Straus was right, I shouldn't have come. I was too emotionally attached to this case."

What Hotch said next shocked me.

"No. Strauss was not right. That attachment is what led you to Sarah. If it wasn't for you, we may have never found her."

He then wrapped his arms around me and hugged me.

"There is no doubt in my mind that you deserve to be a part of this team. After these past few weeks, you have proven it."

"Thank you. Thank you very much Hotch."

Suddenly there was a beep from one of the laptops. Morgan clicked the mouse and Garcia popped up on the screen.

"Hello team! And hello you pretty young thing! I am so glad to see you are ok. Well minus the sprained wrist. But other than that, you look as gorgeous as ever.

I started to chuckle.

"Thanks Garcia. And thank you for helping the team find Sarah and I. I have no idea what the team would do without you."

"Well it would be very boring that's for sure."

I was now full on laughing.

"Haha alright Garcia, there are still a few more people I need to say goodbye and thank you to, but I'll see you when we get back."

"Ok, I need a giant hug from you though; I'm going through withdrawals without your hugs."

"Ok Garcia, I can promise you will get a big hug from me the minute we get back."

"Great! See you soon and have a safe flight!"

The screen blank and Prentiss put a hand on my shoulder.

"See? Everyone missed you. I know you doubt yourself sometimes about being a part of this team, but you truly are a part of this team. Don't ever question that. We all love you and care about you very much."

"Well, not all of you."

I gave her a look meaning to say one person was missing on welcoming me back; Spence. He must really hate me to not even show up to say hello to me.

Prentiss instantly caught on.

"Don't even say that. If there was one person who really wanted to find you safe it was Reid. The only reason he isn't in this room with the rest of us right now, is because he's afraid you're mad at him."

I looked around the room, and everyone was involved in some sort of conversation do they never noticed Emily and I talking.

"More like, he's avoiding me."

"No he's not. If you go talk to him, you'll get an explanation from him."

"I don't know Emily. We kind of left off on a really bad note."

"It doesn't matter. He saved your life didn't he? You have to at least thank him for that."

She was right. I did owe my life to him. If it wasn't for Spence, who knows what kind of screwed up place I'd be in right now, or if I'd even be alive.

"Fine. I'll go talk to him. Where is he?"

"If you go out the door and all the way to the end of the hall, take a left. He's in the very last interrogation room reading the paper, although, he's probably been done reading it for the past 20 minutes."

I gave her one last hug and made my way down Spence.

The walk which took less than five minutes seemed to last forever. This was my last chance to hopefully get things back to how they use to be.

Finally I was at the room. I lifted my hand and knocked.

"Come on in."

I hesitated a little, but then I turned the handle and opened the door. Spence was looking up at the door when opened it, and when I walked in, his face seemed shocked.

There was an awkward silence for a little, since we both seemed to wonder about how the other would react since our falling out.

"Hi, Spence."

"Hello Melissa. I'm glad to see you're alright."

He was cold, and stayed seated. This was not going to go well. An awkward silence followed. Finally I couldn't take it anymore.

"Spence, I just wanted to thank you for saving my life. If it wasn't for you and the team, especially you, I honestly don't know what would have happened to me. And I'm actually surprised you did save me, considering you hate me now. But that's all I wanted to say, so I'll be leaving now and I'll see you on the plane."

I turned to open the door and leave with tears now streaming down my cheeks.

"Lissa wait!"

I turned around to see Spence, now standing and walking towards me.

"You think I hate you?"

"Well, you're so cold towards me right now; I just don't know what to think. My head is spinning, my minds in a fog."

"Lissa, the only reason I'm doing that, is because, I thought you hated me."

"What?! Spence, I could never hate you. I owe my life to you. So obviously I could never hate you."

"But I was such an ass to you before you were taken, how could you not hate me?"

"Because Spence, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't be alive."

"So?"

"So? So, you were freaking out the most once I went missing, and you were the one, who was pushing for the team to find me, and you were the one who shot Daniel, and you were the one who had my inhaler and saved me when I was on the brink of death."

"Yeah well, I just did what I had to do."

"But why did you have to do it Spence!?"

"Because, Melissa, I can't stand the thought of losing you!"

"What?"

I was shocked by what I had just heard come from his mouth.

"Melissa, you are the most amazing woman I have ever met. You are beautiful, you're smart, funny, outgoing, and yes, sometimes you can be stubborn, and a pain in the butt, and even a bitch."

"Well, I was starting to feel better about myself."

"But, all of those things are things I love about you."

"What?"

"I love those things about you Melissa Rossi, and I love you."

Still in shock after what I just heard come from Spence's mouth, I was even more shocked at what he did next.

Spence stepped closer to me, closing the gap between us and took my hand in his, inspecting it. Next he looked up from my hand to my face, he had a few strands of hair in his face, but my god, he looked amazing.

He took his free hand and brought it to my chin. The hand holding mine was brought to my waist and he pulled me in to him.

My eyes were now locked with his, and he lifted my chin up, bent his head down, and placed his lips on mine.

Right there, in the interrogation room of my home town's police station, Spencer Reid kissed me.

And it wasn't like when Dan, disguised as Caleb had kissed me. This one felt right, it felt real, it felt…amazing.

My hands, which I had down at my sides when Spence had first kissed me, were now wrapped around Spence.

Finally, but sadly, after what felt like forever, we broke apart.

"I love you too Spencer Reid."

Spence smiled and gave me a light kiss on the lips.

"I'm glad that worked the way it did. I was really hoping you wouldn't be freaked out or anything, but I'm glad that you were okay with it…"

"Spence just shut up and kiss me again." I said with a smile.

With that, he returned the smile and bent his neck back down to kiss me.

He was right, that did go a lot better than I thought it would. I had to say, even though things went really bad when we first got to Maine, it was a lot better than before. And finally after months of crushing on him, Spencer had kissed me.

I couldn't wait to get back to Quantico and see what would happen from there.

"Lissa, I don't want to push you or anything, but um, does that make it official?"

"Make what official Spence?"

"Well us."

"Do you want us to be official?"

"Yes. Very much so."

"And are you asking me to be official?" I asked with a smile.

"Melissa Rossi, will you go out with me?"

"I would love to Spencer Reid."

We kissed again and when we pulled apart we just stared into each other's eyes.

"Lissa, there's one thing about this though. I don't think we should really tell Hotch or your "dad"."

"Why not?" I asked surprised.

"I feel like, with Rossi knowing, he'd always be, like questioning me, and watching us. And with Hotch, well..."

"Hotch is Hotch. But Spence, I'm not sixteen anymore, David has no control over what I do."

"Okay, how about this, we keep it from Hotch and Rossi for a few months, just to see how things go. And then when we are certain of it, we'll tell them."

"Alright, I can work with that."

He kissed my forehead this time, and we walked out of the room holding hands. I knew though that once we reached a point we would have to separate. I didn't want to hide this from David, but Spence was right, he'd always be watching us.

So, I would have to sit back and watch to see how the next few months would go with Spence, and I couldn't wait to see what those next few months held. From cases, to visiting my mom, and from learning new things, to spending time with my boyfriend, these next few months were a mystery, and I couldn't wait to unravel it.