The Zero Hour

Reid and Prentiss

February 2011

Chapter Six

"Pretty boy," Derek teased, as he reached over and tugged at the collar of Spencer's shirt "who have you been letting suck on your neck? Oh, woo wee, little Spencie has a lov-ah! Is it a woman?"

"What?" Spencer scowled at him and pushed his hand away, while they sat at breakfast the next day. They were the only ones at the table so far. They were eating in the hotel restaurant. "That's not what you think. Its from a...uh...vacuum cleaner."

Derek hooted with laughter. "What, kid? Oh, no no no, I ain't buying that!"

"Well, it's the truth. I had an incident when I was trying to learn how to use the accessories. The suction is pretty powerful and it caught my skin and..."

"Save it. Derek Morgan knows a love bite when he sees one."

"Maybe it's a rash."

"Definitely it's a hickey so who is the lucky lady who got to be your second?" Derek grinned at him, eyes shining.

Reid rolled his eyes at Derek's joke and then answered "Who I sleep with is my business and my business alone," he announced, primly, just as Hotch, Seaver and Prentiss came walking over.

Hotch raised an eyebrow and then asked, in a dead pan voice, "What are you now? A vampire?'

Reid blushed and tried to resist the urge to tug his collar up higher.

After Emily sat down she smirked at him "Do you have something you'd like to share with the rest of the class, Reid?"

Derek laughed and slapped his hand on Reid's shoulders. "Come on, you can tell us. We're all family here. You picked up a hooker, didn't you? Oh, my man, you better watch it with those ladies that get paid. They can really be trouble." Derek smiled broadly as he teased his friend.

Rossi joined them, texting as he sat down, "Hookers love Reid, well known fact."

"What?" Reid squeaked. "That was just that one case!"

Derek asked "You aren't gonna tell us who your honey is, are ya?"

Reid shoveled food in his mouth. Derek laughed and Hotch changed the subject to the case.

Later that day, Reid and Emily were riding together when he asked her "Did you think that was funny today at breakfast?"

"Little bit," she teased him.

He smirked at her and raised his eyebrows. "Just remember that payback is a bitch, Prentiss."

"Ohhhh, you scare me!" she teased and laughed.

She was driving. Reid leaned over till he was breathing on her ear and then said "I bet it wouldn't take Morgan ten seconds to notice a hickey right about," he licked her throat and then blew on that spot "here."

She shivered. "Need I remind you that I'm operating a motor vehicle right now and we're on our way to a crime scene."

Reid moved back to his seat, a smile on his lips. "Don't start a game if you can't handle the stakes."

At a red light she stared at him, in that way she was prone to do, till he asked "What?" feeling suddenly self conscious.

"You are quite competitive," she drawled out.

"Only when I like the game," he answered, with a smile, and then she had to drive again and they focused on the case for the rest of that day.

XXXXXXXXXX

"Our sexy boy genius is getting some!" Penelope announced as soon as Emily walked into Penelope's office, once the team was back in Quantico. "My chocolate adonis informs me there was a love mark on Reid's neck this morning." She crinkled her nose. "It would be quite the shame if this woman lives hundreds of miles away. Its not like Reid is exactly great at letting love in. Hey! You don't think it could be our junior cadet who is doing the dirty with our junior g-man?"

"Seaver? Definitely not. She's a child, for heaven's sake!"

"She packs heat. That's hot. Trust me, I hate guns but when Derek is all in protective mode I still get full body shivers. Maybe Reid's the same way. Besides, he's young, too."

"Not that young. Not Seaver young."

"Well then who could it be? I just can't see him randomly hooking up."

"People do random stuff all the time. Anyway, are you ready to get out of here? I'm starving and JJ and Will are probably already at the restaurant waiting on us so-"

Penelope flew out of her seat, hands to her chest, "Emily Prentiss, you naughty girl! You are Reid's secret hook up, aren't you?"

"What? No!"

"You're uber lying through your teeth right now, aren't you?"

Emily gave up the charade. "Okay, fine, I was lying. How did you know?"

Penelope smiled with happiness. "Oh, your face so totally gave you away!"

"And you're not even a profiler. Crap. I wonder if the rest of the team knows too and is just playing it off."

"Forget about what they know and start focusing on what I need to know and that's everything." Penelope pulled Emily into a seat. "You sit down right here and spill every juicy detail to my ever waiting and eager ears. Sex during a case! I've always wanted to try that sometime. I can't believe you got down and dirty with our intrepid boy genius. I always knew that crush you had on him would boil over one of these days."

"It wasn't that big of a crush."

"You told me that you flat out asked him to have your babies."

"I asked him if he was ever going to have babies. I didn't so much as insinuate they would be with me."

"Oh, you so meant that and if Reid wasn't Reid he would have gotten that. Wow, this is uber wild- you and Reid. You broke the frat rules. I didn't think you were the type."

"Frat rules? I can't believe you're bringing that up. The woman who talks about spanking and licking chocolate popsicles while on speaker phone with the whole team and a room full of cops actually remembers that there are frat rules."

Penelope smiled. "I didn't say I wasn't the type to break them. I said I didn't think you were. And stop trying to worm out of giving me details. Is he good? Oh, I can just imagine that he has all this beautiful, hungry pent up sexual energy simmering inside him and when it is unleashed its like Mount Vesuvius blowing!"

Emily paused for a moment. "Pretty much."

Then they both broke into sexy giggles.