Seaver unlocked the door to her flat, dumped her unused go-bag onto her couch, and immediately made her way to her bathroom and took a shower before going to bed. It had been a long day, first with the human trafficking case, and then afterwards when she went to dinner with Reid. At the time, it seemed fine, seeing as she was starving, but they both soon realized that the rest of the team would not think so when they were all fully rested later that morning. She reflected on this as she dried herself off with a towel. She didn't bother with drying her hair as she would fix it when she woke up, so put on an old college t-shirt and fresh underwear and immediately went to bed.

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Reid was exhausted when he came into the bullpen at exactly 9:30 the next morning. He wanted to try and at least make it through the day without a case so that he could finally try to get a full night's sleep later, so he started his morning with a cup of coffee loaded with sugar. As he made his way to the break room to do so, he saw Garcia talking with Seaver…wait, no, that wasn't Seaver, that was…

"JJ?" he asked as he approached the two women.

"Spence. Hey," JJ said as she hugged the godfather of her son, Henry.

"What brings you here?" Reid asked awkwardly. JJ hadn't been in much contact with any of the team besides Garcia since Emily had died.

"She's here to take half my workload and pay, that's what," Garcia answered for her.

"Um," was all Reid could say. Subtle hints didn't exactly cut it for him.

"Meet your new, or I guess you should say old Communications Liaison," JJ told him.

"You're coming back? That's great,"

"Well, technically, I'm already back, but I really feel at home and it's great to get to see everyone again. Now if you two could excuse me, I've got some case files to look over." And with that, JJ left Reid and Garcia to themselves.

As Reid made his way over to the coffee machine in the break room, Garcia followed.

"So…" she said with a smirk on her face.

"So?"

"How was last night?" Garcia asked.

"Well, considering we were all up until 2 a.m. yesterday hunting down a trafficking ring, I'd say I'm feeling pretty swell under the circumstances."

Garcia groaned.

"Honestly, Reid, you need to take a hint more often," she said. "I was talking about what happened after we caught those creeps."

"I had an exceptionally late dinner with Seaver before going home and catching up on as much sleep as possible, which did not provide any help to the headache that I'm currently having, so if you don't mind, I'd really like to get to work," Reid said while adding a mound of sugar in his coffee before leaving Garcia and making his way to his desk.

"Morning," he said to Seaver, who was already subconsciously working on one of the files that stood in a pile on her desk.

Seaver replied with a "hmm" without looking up from her work.

Reid didn't take this into account and sat down at his desk to begin work.

After they had both been working hard for about an hour, Seaver blurted out:

"Did Garcia interrogate you when you came in today?"

"She did indeed," Reid replied.

"Hmm," Seaver hummed quietly then turned back to the file she was working on.

A few minutes later JJ approached the pair to tell them they had another case and would be briefed on the plane.

OK, I know this chapter is kinda short but now I've got the whole summer to write stuff, so look forward to more frequent updates .