A/N: Great response, thanks everyone. : ) Dedicated to PinkHimeLacus for the Scrabble idea.
"M-e-l-t. Melt." Said Morgan smugly as he put the word onto the board. Garcia, Emily, Morgan, and Reid all sat around a small Scrabble board in Garcia's living room. It had been Garcia's idea to start a game night for the team but only four of the seven could make the inaugural meeting. As Morgan reached to grab more tiles everyone turned towards the person whose turn it was next.
"Cat." Garcia smiled and placed the word down connecting to Morgan's last letter. Everyone then faced Reid who studied his options for two seconds before figuring out a word.
"Myrmidon." Raid said placing the tiles down on the board. He connected the last 'm' to the first 'm' in Morgan's word.
"What the hell?" asked Morgan moving from his lax position to get a better look at the board. Reid carefully finished laying down each tile before glancing around at the group of people. They all were open mouthed and gaping and Reid's word.
"Myrmidon: one who obeys or follows without question or scruple." Said Reid automatically.
"We should have known the game was going to be like this." Emily said laughing.
"This is just ridiculous." Morgan said folding his arms.
"What, did you think you were actually going to win with words like 'melt?' Come on dark chocolate, you never stood a chance." Garcia playfully nudged him and he smiled.
"Look who's talking little miss 'c-a-t.' I'm sure you could have come up with something better." Morgan fired back grinning.
"Nope, it was the only word available."
"Can I take a look at your pieces?" asked Reid curious to see if she was right. Garcia shrugged showing she didn't care and Reid swiveled the wooden holder to look at the letters she had. "Calamity" he said almost instantly.
"I always get really hard tiles to work with. I swear one of these days I'm going to pick my first seven tiles and they'll all be 'q's." Emily smiled.
"That's impossible. There's only one 'q' in every game. In fact there is only one k, j, x, q and z."
"How do you fit all that information up there?" Garcia asked rubbing the top of Reid's head, he smiled and then brought his hand to his head so he could fix the hair she had messed up.
"What about mine? What's the largest word I could get?" asked Emily shoving her pieces towards Reid.
"Demitasse." Reid said placing the word down on the board for her.
"This isn't even fun." Said Morgan as he threw down the tiny wooden square onto the table. It bounced and skidded off. Reid felt his face warm with embarrassment; he was never one for games. As a child no one would ask him to play because they knew that he would always win.
"You're just being a sore looser hot stuff." Garcia said chuckling and relieving the tension, "Let's try another game."
"Sorry Reid, you're right. I get too competitive over these games." Morgan said while allowing himself to laugh, "What do you guys want to play?"
"We have…" Garcia opened her game closet and began to shout out the titles, "…Monopoly?"
"Too long." Said Emily.
"Life?"
"The one time I played that game I landed on every single 'have a baby' square and ended up having to get two cars." Said Reid reminiscing. He had been five and playing with his mother, she turned to him when he got his second car and jokingly said, "the world has enough trouble with one Spencer Reid, I can't imagine it dealing with six offspring."
"I have cards." Garcia said holding up a Bicycle deck. Reid smiled gigantically but Emily and Morgan quickly yelled "No!"
"Never play cards against Reid." Morgan informed Garcia. Both he and Prentiss started to laugh when they thought back to a time when Reid easily beat both of them, not once, not twice, but nearly twenty times in a row.
"I'll keep that in mind sugar daddy. How does Boggle sound?"
"It'll be worse than Scrabble." Said Emily laughing. It was true, Reid's brain was like a dictionary. They would end up spending half the game looking for words and then the other half of the time would be a vocabulary lesson given by Spencer explaining the outlandish words he had found.
"The only other two games I have are Clue and Pictionary."
"What if we played charades? I have a feeling that Clue with a team of profilers might end quickly and Pictionary is only fun when you have a bunch of people."
"Sound good to me." Said Garcia closing the closet and walking back to her friends. She had always been a star at charades; as a kid it was her favorite game.
"Girls vs. Boys?"Morgan asked.
"You're on."
A/N: Working on the next one. : ) Let me know what you guys think. Reviews make me a very happy girl!