"You can take this as slowly as you want." JJ smiled, sitting across from Alex at the kitchen table. "When ever you want to stop, you can okay?"

"Okay." Alex smiled, before she looked up at all the FBI agent, six in total, who were all peering down at her.

"It happened in high school…it was our last year and there was a big party right before grad…we were eighteen…."

Flashback

"Come on Connor…you can't be serious." Alex sighed, pushing her hair back out of her face, her head spinning for a moment from the three drinks she'd had.

"Why not?" He shrugged, looking around at all the people coming and going from the beach.

"Because I don't wanna deal with…him."

"You make it sound like he's the devil or something."

"Maybe he is. We should as your mom!"

"Not funny Lexie." Connor sighed, leaning against the tree and looking over at the group that was around the fire pit. "I'm telling you, if anyone can make him come over, it's you."

"Why?"

"Cause you're his best friend?"

"Oh really?" Alex asked, looking at Connor. "Cause I'm pretty sure right now, that bleach blond bimbo sitting on his lap and sucking his face is his best friend."

"Jesus Lexie just do it!" Connor snapped, pushing her away from the tree.

"Fine…" She rolled her eyes angrily, before she marched out of their little hiding place on the edge of the beach towards the group of people.

"Hey Alexandra! Here's a drink!"

"Thanks." She said, taking the drink from the boy…whose names escaped her buzzed mind, who Connor had introduced her too.

"Your welcome!" He called from behind her as she took a large drink of liquid courage.

"Well, well, well!" One of the snooty blondes, who was dressed in nothing but her bathing suit called as she stepped forward. "If it isn't little miss Lexie Vega!"

"Hi." She said simply, her eyes not meeting the girls. "Hey, Adam."

If it was because he was ignoring her, or because of the girl that was whispering in her ear that he didn't look up at her, she wasn't sure.

"Adam? Can I talk to you?"

"How about you talk to me?" One of the footballers, who was seriously drunk, called, stepping towards her and placing his hand on her ass.

"Don't touch me." She snapped, pushing him away from her. "Look Adam, you can be a jerk all you want, but Connor and I were wondering if you wanted to come chill for a bit?"

He finally looked up at her, his eyes seemingly evil as he did. "Looks to me like Con's a little bit tied up at the moment." He nodded in the direction behind her and she spun around to see Connor with his hands plastered all over some girl who, from behind Alex didn't recognize.

"Looks like you've been replaced twice." The girl who was sitting in Adam's lap called, and the group that surrounded them all laughed. "Once by some random." She looked back at the girl who was making out with Connor. "And by me." She added, before leaning in and kissing Adam's cheek.

Anger washed over her as she watched this, wondering how Adam could let her say that. Let her put that in her mind and possibly make her believe that. Possibly make her believe that Adam had let someone replace her in his life…

"Now run along little nerd." The girl added, waving at Alex slightly as all her friends, including Adam laughed.

Pulling the beer cup up to her lips, Alex sucked it back, not furious.

"Ouu! Look who's trying to impress us with her drinking skills!" One of the other footballers called.

"Up yours." She snapped, pulling the plastic cup away and from her lips and crushing it, now realizing that there had been more vodka in the cup then she expected. "Look, Adam…"

"Jesus Lexie! Don't you get it?!" He yelled angrily, looking up at her furiously. "I don't wanna talk to you; I don't wanna be around you. So fuck off!" He snapped, their eyes locked on one another.

"Hey Alexandra…Connor kinda took off and I was wondering…"

"Yeah." She said, not letting him finish as she turned and faced him, still not remembering his name. "Sure." She added, before reaching forward and locking her hand around his neck and pulling him towards her, before kissing him.

A roar of whoa's and whistles erupted all around her as she kissed him, pressing her body against his, his arms going to her hips.

Pulling away breathless, and now drunk, she smiled at the boy in front of her. "Let's get outta here." She smirked, running her hands up and down his chest.

"Yeah." He smirked, his hands still on her hips. "I'll go get my car started." He added.

"Mhh….gotta love a boy with a car." She giggled, before leaning in and kissing him again, before he walked away.

"Well who would have guessed that little miss prude Lexie would ever put out!"

Alex turned fast and looked to the girl who had spoke, and wasn't surprised at all to see that it was the one who was sitting in Adam's lap.

"Hey just an FYI." Alex snapped, stepped closer, her balance a little off as she stepped into the sand. "I do put out. I'm just not a whore who fucks anything that moves."

The girl gasped in shock, and Adam's eyes went wide as the group of people around her all fried out their 'ouu!'s and 'ohh!'s as Alex turned away from them, rather content with herself.

"Oh!" She called, before spinning back around, and locking eyes on the girl. "And another thing. I wasn't replaced."

"Excuse me?" The girl snapped, looking up at Alex as if she were crazy.

"You said earlier that I was replaced in Adam's life by you? Well I'm here to tell you that I wasn't and I'll never be."

"How do you know that?" One of the other members of the group asked.

Alex looked away from the girl, and turned her attention to Adam, who was looking up at her, his eyes filled with either anger, or complete amazement art her attitude.

"Cause, as Adam once told me…" She paused and looked at him, smirking. "I may be annoying as hell, but I'm fucking irreplaceable."

That time, Adam actually laughed happily when she said that. But it didn't matter to her much as she turned away to see the boy, who's name she still couldn't remember walked back towards her.

"Ready to get outta here?" he asked as she plastered herself to him.

"You have no idea." She said as sexily as she could, before kidding him once again.

Pulling away, she looked back at the group who were both shocked and amazed as they talked about what had just unfolded. But her eyes locked onto the only person who really matter in the group.

"See you later Adam!" She called, waving at him. "But then again I doubt it." Shrugging, Alex sighed. "Maybe I was replaced?" She called, before turning away, the last thing she saw were Adam's eyes wide with both shock and horror at what she had said.

"So…" She called, leaning into the guy. "What's next?"

"Well we could head back to your place if you want?" He looked down at her, and because she was so drunk she wasn't even sure if he was good looking anymore. "Have some alone time."

"Sure." She sighed. "Whatever."

"Great." HE smiled, pulling her closer.

"Where are you going?!" She heard someone scream behind her, a woman, furious. "Get back here or we are done!"

"Someone's pissed." The guy laughed.

"Yeah." Alex chuckled.

"If you take on more step towards that little nerd I swear to god I'll…"

"Alex!"

"M'wha?" Spinning around a little to rapidly, Alex came crashing into Adam's awaiting arms. "Adam? What the fuck do you…"

"I'll take her home." He said sternly, and she looked to see him looking down at her, furious.

"Sure thing." The guy said, and he walked away. "But Alexandra."

"What do you want?" She demanded, trying to pull away from him.

"Just shut up will you." He snapped, pulling her even closer to him, before walking to where his car was. "I'm taking you home."

She wasn't sure how she got into her bed, or even how she got home but when she opened her eyes, that's where she was.

"How's your head?" Adam asked as he walked up to her, a glass of water in hand.

"Uh…dizzy." She moaned. "Wha…what are you doing here?"

"I took you home remember."

"No."

"Figures." He laughed.

"Is my mom…."

"No home."

"Thank god." Alex sighed, leaning back in her large bed.

"Yeah, cause god forbid she see you with the bad one." Adam said harshly.

"That's not what I meant." She snapped.

"Whatever Lex." He sighed, rising up. "I'll see you at school on Monday and…"

"Will you though?" She called, and he stopped dead.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" He demanded turning back and facing her.

"Well, tonight your talking to me. But come Monday, I have a feeling you're gunna be back in bimbo Barbie's arms ignoring me again."

"Lex it's not like that…"

"Then what is it like Adam? Why have you changed so much all of the sudden? Ignoring me…ignoring your brother?!" She looked up at him, sad. "What happened to you?"

"Nothing happened. I'm still the same Adam…"

"Oh don't even try that! You aren't any where close to the Adam I know." She snapped.

"Yes I am!" He snapped back.

"No, you aren't!" She yelled, rising up then, and marching towards him.

"Yes…I...AM!" He screamed.

Alex looked up at him, totally shocked and afraid. But more then that, she was broken. And he had broken her. "Get out…" She whispered, as tears pooled in her eyes.

"What?" He snarled, looking down at her.

"Just…" She turned away from him then, not wanting him to see her cry. "Get out. Leave me alone. Go hang out with your new and improved friends. I don't care anymore…"

"Lex…"

"Just go Adam…" She cried, hugging herself. "Just go…"

"No." He said sternly, and suddenly she felt his arms wrapped around her waist. "No…Alex I'm sorry but…." His mouth was right next to her ear, whispering to her, his breath sending chills up her spin as she cried. "I'm sorry but I'm not leaving you."

He spun her around then, his arms still locked around her waist. "I'm not leaving you." Leaning down towards her, Adam smiled. "Ever again." He finished, before she reached up and locked her arms around his neck, their lips connecting.

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"Adam ended up staying with me at my house for the rest of the weekend…my mom was away on business and his mother never really questioned where he was back then. And Connor…well I just didn't talk to Connor for a few days." A small smile appeared on Alex's lips. "I was too happy to have Adam all to myself."

"How long were you two involved with one another after that weekend?" Derek asked.

"Just the summer…then me and Connor went to school and he…well I'm not really sure what he did but he traveled."

"And when you were in school, you and Connor got together?" Emily asked.

"Yeah." She nodded. "But then Adam came back and…" Alex stopped then and sighed.

"It's okay, you don't have to tell us." JJ assured her, reaching forward and pressing her hand against hers.

"Might as well." Alex half smiled. "Got nothing to lose now."

"Adam showed up at our apartment one night when Connor was out of town and…I don't know it was just like it was that night. He had been gone and I wanted him back and there he was, standing in my door way."

"You slept with him." Aaron guessed and she nodded slowly.

"Yeah…I don't know why I did it, and neither does he but…it just happened and the next day Connor showed up early and found us and…" She stopped then and took a deep breath in to stop herself from crying.

"That night was when they fought. Adam kept calling me…telling me things that were confusing me. And all I was trying to do was talk to Connor. But he wouldn't answer. So finally I left him a message on his cell phone telling him if he wanted to try and work it out, to meet me at this little bar we liked to go to.

"I was there an hour before he shower up, and he was drunk….He said he hated me, and called me names. And I let him. But then it started to go good. He started to come around. That was until…Adam walked in the door.

"I still don't know how he knew we were there but he showed up and started saying those things again. That I was his, that I should be with him, that he could give me what Connor couldn't…and that was when all hell broke loose.

"Connor didn't mean to hit me. I tried to tell Adam that. But he wouldn't believe me. And the next thing I knew, I was in the back of an ambulance and they were being arrested.

"I didn't see either of them for a month. And it worried me. And scared me. I had never gone a day without having one of them around for nearly half my life. And all of the sudden it was like they were missing.

"But then Connor showed up to get his stuff. I didn't even try to make him stay. I didn't really want him to, not after what I'd done. But I made sure to tell him that, no matter what happened, he and Adam needed to reconcile. Because their relationship as brothers was worth more to me then having either of them in my life.

"And then in the end…some how the three of us worked it out. And we were okay with each other for a while. Until Connor and I talked about getting back together…that was a year ago. And that was when I realized that Adam loved me, and Connor did too. So I pulled away from them…"

"But it only made them want you more." JJ nodded.

"Yeah…"

"Nothing you could have done about that." Emily smiled down at her. "They always want what they can't have. Men are just stupid like that."

"I resent that comment." Derek noted, looking at her.

"I think we all do." Aaron added.

"IS that why you told me you could have stopped it years ago?" Spencer asked suddenly, getting everyone attention. "Because you were with Adam first? So you could have stopped it?"

"I guess…"

"How?"

"I couldn't have told Connor. I could have not kept it a secret. And maybe it would have changed things. Maybe he wouldn't have fallen in love with me at all…"

"You can't know that." David whispered.

"I've been dreading him finding out for years. Dreading what he'll think of me when he finds out…I couldn't lose him after everything. He's my best friend…And all I can ever think of it what if he found out…" She paused then, sighing heavily as tears filled her eyes. "What would he do if he found out that I loved Adam before I loved him?"

"You WHAT?!"

Everyone turned and watched as a slightly more sober Connor walked into the room, his eyes filled with rage.

"Connor…" Alex whispered, looking up at him in utter horror. "Connor I…"

"You were in love with him?" He asked, walking towards her. "You…LOVED him?!" He screamed.

"Calm down Connor." Derek called, stepping away from the table and walking towards Connor, with Aaron and David behind him.

"How could you….how could you lie to me about that? How could you…" his eyes went wide suddenly. "It was him…the guy from that summer that you wouldn't tell me about…it was ADAM!" He screamed, still coming closer to her, looking more hostile with each step.

"Connor I'm sorry…please…I didn't mean for it to happen." Alex was crying now as she slowly rose up, stepping towards him. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you but…"

"But you should have you slut!" He screamed.

"Hey! Back off!" Derek yelled as he got closer and closer.

"I can't believe that I EVER loved someone as disgusting as you. That I kept loving you after what you did with him. And now…now THIS?!" HE yelled. "Now I find out that he'd fucked you first? That'd he'd had you first and you KEPT it from me?!"

"Connor please!" Alex pleaded as tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Don't 'Connor please' me!" He yelled. "You better hope that you stalker can still love you if he finds out about this. Because aside from him, no other man on earth will love a whore like you." Connor snarled, watching her with his eyes so full of hatred and anger that it physically hurt Alex to look at him. "And you know what…"

He rushed towards her then, but Derek and Aaron stepped in front of him, blocking his path, while Spencer jumped up and grabbed Alex's waist, pulling her into him protectively.

And Connor's reaction was instant. "I see you've already moved on." He snapped at her, watching her as she stood next to Spencer. "Well, like I said, no man, not even this tacky FBI nerd, will love you after hearing that."

Alex flinched against Spencer, and he tightened his hold on her waist.

"You're gunna die alone, just like you always feared. You're gunna die all fucking alone!" He screamed, and once again he tried to get at her, but Aaron and Derek pushed her back.

"I hate you." He sapped, before turning fast and marching out of the house, slamming the door shut a she did.

"You have to go after him…" Alex said suddenly, and everyone turned and looked at her.

"Why?" David asked.

The sound of a car peeling down the street cried out into the night and Alex flinched against Reid.

"He'll go after Adam…" She whispered, her eyes suddenly blank. "He'll go after him and…" She stopped herself then and shook her head. "You have to stop him."

"Alright, Reid, Morgan and Rossi you're with me. Prentiss and JJ…"

"Reid stays here." Emily said sternly, looking up at Aaron.

Aaron looked from her to Reid who was still holding onto a shaking Alex. His arm wrapped tightly and protectively around her waist.

"She trusts him Hotch…." Derek whispered to him, as the unit chief watched the pair.

"Alright." Aaron agreed. "JJ, Prentiss, when we get to Adam's house, I want you to get him out of there before Connor can show up."

"So long as he isn't already there." Emily warned, as they all marched out of the kitchen.

"Call us if anything happens." Aaron said lastly, looking at Spencer who nodded.

Spencer waited till he knew they were gone before he even considered moving. But he didn't need too.

As soon as the door to the house was closed, she collapsed to the floor, landing hard on her knees, sobbing.

"Alex…Alex, listen to me…you need to listen to me." Spencer called as he too dropped to the floor, holing her against him.

"He's right…he's right!" She cried, clinging onto Spencer. "No one will ever love me…I am a whore! And I will die alone!" She was shaking now as she cried, her head bowed, not looking at him. "No one will ever love me…" She whispered.

Spencer said the first and only thing that came to mind. The only thing that could possibly make her feel better. The only thing that was…true.

"I will." He whispered, fear rushing over him as the words left his lips.

Her crying stopped for a moment and she just remained there in his arms, her head pressed against his chest, breathing in deeply, still shaking. But ever so slowly, she pulled her head up and looked at him, her blue eyes shimmering with tears. "Wha…what?" She whispered, watching him.

"I'll love you." He said it again. And this time, it didn't scare him. Because he knew it was true. "I'll love you." He repeated, looking down at her smiling softly.

Her hands slowly crept up and pressed onto his chest, her back straightening as she looked up at him, her eyes wide with amazement.

"I will love you." He repeated it again, as she inched her way closer and closer to him, his hand coming up and cupping her face. "Forever."

"Spencer…" She whispered with a soft smile on her lips, before he leaned in and kissed her.

He pulled her against him, hugging her tightly as his hands slid up the back of her over sized t-shirt, while her hands grabbed at his own shirt, pulling it open. Slowly they fell to the floor, Alex's leg wrapped around his waist, his hands caressing her skin, the kiss deepening with every passing second.

As they slowly undressed one another, kissing each other, touching each other, holding each other, loving each other, in the distance, the soft sound of a cell phone going of rang out into the house.

A text message had been received. Received from someone who had been watching. Someone who wasn't please. Someone who wanted Spencer Reid…dead.