"How is he?" JJ asked Garcia down the line.

"He's fast asleep… and boy can he sleep" Garcia replied with a little laugh. "How's my chocolate?"

"Right here, baby girl" Morgan replied with a grin on his face as JJ switched the phone to loudspeaker. There was a small pause and the smile slowly faded from Morgan's face despite how hard he tried to hide it. "Has he said anything about Prentiss?" He asked nervously.

"Not a thing… He went pretty quiet after you guys left. I tried to get him to eat something but he said he wasn't hungry and went to bed a little after" Garcia explained quietly from the kitchen of Reid's apartment.

"Poor kid" Morgan sighed and ran his hand over his head. "I thought he was getting better"

"You know, Spence. He'll wake up one day and be fine…" JJ said hopefully.

"I know this is a really bad time to ask but were they actually together?" Garcia asked quietly as she stole a glance down the corridor to make sure he couldn't hear. "I mean, I knew he had a thing for her but I didn't think they were actually dating"

"From what he told me it was a lot more than dating, Garcia" Morgan sighed as he sat down on JJ's sofa. "He said they'd been together for two years" He added.

"And he didn't tell anyone before she went missing?" Garcia asked as she washed up the glasses from earlier that day.

"No…" JJ sighed and pushed a few strands from her hair.

There was a long pause as everyone thought through the last few years, could they have seen the change? That day when Reid's smile was a little bigger, when Emily was happy to skip her morning coffee. Had they seen it? Was it during or between a case? How had it begun?

"I better go" JJ finally sighed and reached for her phone.

"I'll see you in the morning, Garcia" Morgan said quietly as he grabbed his car keys to head home for a few hours sleep.

"See you then" Garcia replied, her voice was barely above a whisper as she hung up. She dried her hands from washing up then quietly walked down the corridor toward Reid's bedroom. She gently opened the door and peered inside the dark room, Reid's body just a faint outline curled up under the blankets of the bed. "See you in the morning" Garcia whispered to him, just encase he was awake, then walked back to the living room, sat down on the sofa and prepared herself for a long night.

"How's Reid coping?" Rossi asked as he sat in Hotch's office with Hotch opposite him, behind his desk.

"This is your session, Dave" Hotch reminded him in his familiar formal tone.

"His mandatory leave ended last week, right?" Rossi continued. "When're you expecting him back?"

There was a small pause as the two men stared each other down like they often did when their personalities collided. "Honestly, I don't know if he's coming back" Hotch sighed and sat forward. "He still seems hurt over what happened with Prentiss" Hotch admitted.

"I heard" Rossi stated. Hotch raised a questioning eyebrow so he explained "He wasn't exactly quiet about it"

"He's lost his girlfriend, Rossi. They spent almost three years hiding their relationship from us because they didn't think we would understand…" Hotch sighed.

"And now Prentiss is dead and he blames himself?" Rossi asked rhetorically with a steely look.

"From the way you're behaving it'd be very interesting to profile you" Hotch countered.

"And why's that?"

"Changing the subject, for one. Evasive answers yet open body language, attempts at appearing not to care about Prentiss' death. The list goes on… But you don't want to hear it. You just want to talk about it without having to ask" Hotch stated matter- of- factly.

"You got all that from a three minute conversation?" Rossi asked, doubt obvious in his voice.

A small, rare smile crept onto Hotch's face. "Body language-"

"Never lies" They finished in unison. "You read my books?" Rossi asked with a little surprised smile.

"It provides better night time reading than a stack of files… Not by much, I must say, though" Hotch added with another brief smile. There was a small pause as Hotch's smile slowly melted away. "Are you ready to talk now?" He asked seriously.

Rossi smiled a little then shrugged. "We'll see"

I'm really sorry this is short, I tried hard to make it longer but it really was only meant for tannerose5 and anyone else wondering about how much the team knew about Reid and Emily. I'm working on making the main chapters at least 1000 words if not more as well as a few smaller chapters for your requests. I'm halfway through a look into what Emily is doing but it won't be posted for another few chapters so that it fits properly with the other chapters. I hope you liked the chapter :)