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The Reid brothers looked up in astonishment at Allie's face brightly flushed with excitement. Her sparkling eyes took in their faces and the chess game and she said, "Oh, am I interrupting something important?"

"Spencer was just telling me about D…" Evan started while Reid almost shouted simultaneously.

"No, no, you're not interrupting anything. We just started this game, we can finish it later." He rose from his chair, approaching the perky brunette. "You said something about great news."

"Oh yeah, I just got an email from Chantal Jeffries, one of my friends from high school. There's a five year reunion in a couple of weeks. Isn't that great, I'll get to see all my friends from high school and they'll get to meet the wonderful Dr. Spencer Reid."

"What," Reid squeaked. "You want me to go to your high school reunion?"

"Well yeah," Allie looked surprised, "You are my boyfriend, that's the kind of thing boyfriends do."

"Um, look Allie, I can see you're really excited about this reunion but you know me and high school. It was not one of my favorite times. I would really be the wrong person to take to something like this." He looked at her beseechingly.

"So you're not gonna go with me, is that what you're saying? And who do you suggest I take; someone else from Quantico, maybe one of my old boyfriends." Her voice was rising with every word and he knew it would soon reach the danger zone.

"I can't just go running off to Ohio. What if a case came up and I wasn't here?" Reid attempted to placate the inflamed woman in front of him.

Allie, it seemed, was not to be placated. Her eyes blazed as she looked at the man she loved. "Don't give me that. Hotch has practically been begging you to take some of the vacation time you've saved up. He even asked me one day to try and get you to take some time off. Now that Rossi's replaced Gideon, there's no excuse anymore."

"This isn't high school," Allie added knowing he was still plagued by nightmares from the things he'd been made to suffer through at the hands of high school bullies. "We're all adults here; you're older than all my classmates. No bully is going to beat you up. You're a doctor and an FBI agent, not a little kid. There's another reason I'd like you there too."

Almost afraid to ask, Reid said, "What's that?"

"I'd like my parents to meet you. I've told them all about you. They can't wait to meet you."

Reid looked like he had just been sentenced to death by firing squad. Evan had not moved from his seat at the chess board. Damn, this was good!

"Meet…meet your parents," Reid stuttered, staring blankly at Allie.

"Oh my God Spencer, did you think I never wanted you to meet my parents. Of course I want you to meet them. I'd like to meet your parents too."

"Well that's not happening. My mother's in a sanitarium and my father's in a federal prison. Did you think we'd just arrange tea?"

"No, of course not; I realize things will be a little more difficult but it's not like it can't be done. You do go to visit your Mom. I could go along and if it's not a good day, I wait in the lobby. And well, people do visit at Leavenworth."

"That's just what I was saying to Spencer before you came, Allie," Evan interjected, jumping up from his seat in front of the chess board. Reid squeezed his eyes tightly shut and his head dropped. He'd been hoping Allie's arrival would put his brother's thoughts of a visit to Leavenworth out of his mind but now, it seemed, it would have to be dealt with. "I was asking him to take me to Leavenworth to see Dad. Maybe you could come with us."

"Sure, why not, why don't we take Allie's high school marching band with us as well?" Reid uttered in total exasperation. He felt he was suddenly losing control of the situation, if he ever had it to begin with, which he was seriously starting to doubt.

"There's no need for sarcasm Spencer. What's wrong with Evan wanting to see his dad?"

"There's nothing wrong with it, it's just complicated. Leavenworth is a federal penitentiary. It's not like going to someone's apartment and ringing the doorbell." Reid looked imploringly at Allie trying to get her to change the subject.

Allie, however, was not complying with Reid's pleas. "Well, I'm sure other inmates have children that visit them," she stated forthrightly.

Alright, this was obviously not working, Reid thought, looking at his brother and his girlfriend both eyeing him expectantly. So he'd try a different tack, he decided, divide and conquer.

"Okay, well it's going to take some time. I'll need to get time off from work and if I'm taking time off to go to Allie's reunion, then I can't take too much time off all at once, so it'll have to wait for a little while."

"You're going to my reunion, really!" Allie ran over to Reid, throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him on the cheek.

Reid glanced at Evan as he held the, now happy, Allie in his arms. He could see the boy was disappointed but at least Allie was no longer pleading his case.

"I'm so excited. My parents will be thrilled," Allie babbled excitedly and Reid smiled and nodded. "I have to go call Mom and some of my friends. You better call Hotch," she said as she turned for the door. At the door she turned and walked back over to him, kissing him soundly on the lips, then ran out the door, waving at the brothers as she left.

"So, going to the reunion, huh," Evan said quietly after the door had closed behind Allie, the disappointment evident in his face and his tone.

"Yeah, Allie's always there for me, I guess I should be there for her," Reid replied in an attempt to ease the blow and quell the boy's unhappiness.

"Well. I hope you have a good time." Evan walked over to Reid's computer. "Is it okay if I do some research for school?"

"Don't you want to finish the game?"

"No, like you said, we just got started. We can finish it another time," Evan reminded him.

"You want to do schoolwork…here!" Reid was incredulous.

"There's a first time for everything," his brother replied, sitting down in front of the computer and fingering the keyboard.