AN/ Thanks to everybody that reviewed! Sorry if you're reading 'The Retreat' and you think these two stories are too similar. I try to keep them seperate in my mind, but since I'm the one writing them, they probably will end up being similar. I hope they are different enough to be interesting, because I love both stories. Anyway, READ ON!

She watched them leave the building where they were holding the seminar. They were next. How could a child succed when they weren't given the right opportunities or discipline? Children need stable homes, and when parents failed, someone had to make sure there were consequences.

"So girl, spill." Garcia said quietly. She and Emily had cornered JJ the moment they returned from the seminar that day. She had flown out earlier the night before and had been watching surveillance footage of her favorite team.

"I don't know what you're talking about." JJ said shyly. It wasn't that she didn't want to tell her closest friends of her newfound relationship, she was just an extremely private person. Garcia simply looked at her disbelieving, raising an eyebrow and quickly left to grab her computer.

"You have no idea what I'm talking about, sugar? Maybe this will jog your memory." Garcia quickly summoned the recorded video and the three women watched in delight (and somewhat embarassment in JJ's case). Emily squealed in surprise and delight as JJ attacked their socially awkward friend.

"You have been holding out on me!" Emily cried increduously as JJ blushed furiously.

"There was nothing to tell." She said meekly, trying to regain control of the conversation.

"Nothing to tell! I do believe that you may have sucked the good doctor's heart out through his mouth. I definitely think that's something!" Garcia exploded.

"What's going on?" Hotch asked as he entered the room. He had been upstairs finishing up his notes for the day when he heard the women yelling from downstairs.

"Nothing, sir." Garcia said, mollified. She would do anything for her boss, and she and Hotch had a special bond--but that doesn't mean that she wasn't a little bit afraid of him.

"Are you talking about JJ and Reid?" Hotch asked, a small smile tugging at his lips.

"Yeah, how did you--" Emily began to ask him, completely perplexed.

"The seminar director came and got me and showed me the footage. I got all mad and told him I'd talk to you when we got home. Good form, JJ." Hotch turned and quickly left the dumbfounded women.

"Did he just--?" JJ began to ask.

"Yeah, I think he just." Garcia confirmed, all three still staring at the door that he had retreated out of. A moment later the three women burst into giggles.

"Ok, girl. Spill." Garcia managed to command after the women quieted down.

Now all she needed to do was to get ready. The seminar would be over soon, and then she would make her move.

"If everyone could please listen for a moment, we will get started! Today we will be learning more effective ways of communicating with each other." A blonde woman at the front of the room excitedly introduced. JJ was more than grateful that this was the last day of this awful assignment.

"A lot of teens have problems communicating their feelings to their parents, while some parents seem to have difficulties explaining their reasoning to their teenagers. Today, we're going to work on that!" The woman said with a small giggle.

"I would like each parent--" JJ stopped listening. Was this whole thing supposed to be helpful?

"I am so bored." Emily whispered.

"I know. At least it's better than sitting through Latin, though. I hated that class." JJ admitted.

"Seriously. I don't know how you did this for so long." Emily proclaimed.

"I guess I had something to distract me." JJ admitted sheepishly.

"Yeah." Emily smiled as she looked over at Reid who was attentively listening to the woman at the podium. "Good distraction."

"Can't we just stop? Do we really need to keep doing this? It's over." He tried to tell her.

"No. It will never be over. They are next. Get Nathan."

"I am glad that is over." Hotch admitted as the trio left the school and began to head home. It had been a week long of awkward moments. Gudiance counselors telling him that his daughter was not 'emotionally attatched' to him, or hear JJ bemoan that he had never been to one of her soccer games.

"Yeah, I think that goes without saying." Emily added, completely drained from the day's activities.

"So, we're briefing at 9 tonight?" JJ asked tiredly. She hadn't been exactly paying attention when Hotch and Rossi had again scheduled a chance for the team to meet and discuss their thoughts on the people involved with the seminar. She was far too distracted with Reid coming up to her and pulling her aside.

"JJ, what is going to happen when this is all over?" He asked

"Happen with what?" She questioned, she knew exactly what he was asking, but she needed more time. She had been wondering the same thing, but she secretly wanted more time with their fake, uncomplicated relationship. Every moment she could draw out him being with her she would take. She was well aware of the fact that once their cover ended, that maybe they would be over too. Relationships in adult-world were much more complicated. She would rather have it end with them on good terms now, than them giving a real relationship a whirl, and have them hating each ther.

"With us. With this." He said motioning to her and himself. Reid could not stand not knowing where they were going. He had never been good at relationships, but he wasn't about to let this just go.

"Do you love me?" JJ asked quietly, it was completely rhetorical. She knew what he was going to say, but she still wanted to hear it.

"What? Yes, of course." Reid responded, "Jayje, I have loved you since the day I met you."

"And if we continue this, where do you think it will go?"

"I have no idea, I know where I want it to go, and I will try my best to make it work." Reid whispered.

"And what if it doesn't work out that way? What if it ends in name-calling and dish-breaking, and you hate me?" This was the question that JJ needed to ask, she needed to know what would happen if it didn't work out perfect.

"One of us will transfer, I will transfer. JJ, don't doom this relationship before we have a chance to make it real. If we are making contingency plans now, its going to be easier for us to use them later." Reid responded, and added with a smile "and I doubt I have the upper-body strength to throw the plate hard enough for it to break. That would be all you dear."

JJ smiled, "So, you want this to continue when we go back to Quantico?"

Reid nodded and said "Jayje, it was never about whether I wanted this to continue, it's about if you do. If you don't I will walk away like a good boy, and leave you alone. But, I don't think that's what you want." He left it hanging.

"I always wondered something about what my college coach used to say." JJ mused as Spence sat baffled. He was fairly certain she was just trying to avoid answering him, but he remained silent and allowed her to continue. "He used to say, 'You miss one-hundred percent of the shots you don't take. He used to say that it wasn't about soccer. I didn't get it before. Now I do." She finished as she leaned in to kiss Reid one more time. "I don't want to miss this shot."

"JJ?" Emily asked smiling. They had been silent for minutes as she had a far away look in her eyes, obviously not listening.

"Sorry. What?"

"Briefing's at nine." Hotch stated for the second time.

A ringing phone interrupted the trio in the car. Emily looked at the caller id before putting it on speaker, "Garcia, what do you--"

"Rossi and Reid aren't answering their phones. I don't know what happened. Everything's off--GPS, Both their cells--" Garcia rambled nervously.

"Garcia?" Hotch asked quickly.

"I think they've been taken."

AN/ Sorry it's been a while for updating. I usually have to go through the story a couple of times to make sure it's right. Thanks for reading, let me know what you think!