I don't own criminal minds. Sorry for the slow updates. with school and everything it has taken me longer then expected to keep writing. But I promise I won't quite on this story. I want to know where it leads.
Reid was unconsciously using his puppy eyes to get her to agree. Austin looked into his eyes and melted. She couldn't say no to him with that look on his face.
Reid grabbed her hand without thinking and a shock went between them. They both yanked their hands from each other looking at the other one in wonderment. "What was that?" Austin asked not sure if the shock was a good thing or a bad thing.
For the first time, Reid had no answer, "I-I don't know."
Austin couldn't help but chuckle. "Are you telling me that the all knowing Spencer Reid doesn't know something?"
"Ha-Ha," Reid said still looking uneasy, "So how about we go over our cover to make sure there are no holes that Marilyn, Thomas, and Fisk can find."
"Ok," Austin said sitting up straighter. "How do we do that?"
"Well it should be as close to the truth as possible, so we don't have to keep up with so many lies." Reid said. "So we met about ten years ago,"
"Twelve years ago." Austin said with him. Austin glared at him. "You forgot when we met?"
"No, I was just… rounding it off." Reid said covering himself.
"By subtracting two years?" She asked in frustration.(1)
"Umm…" He changed the subject before he got himself into even deeper water. "We became acquaintances but didn't care to be around the other until after Rebecca's death." Reid said. He felt the usual pain that shot through him when he spoke her name, but the pain didn't hurt as much as it had before Knight came.
Reid had to thank Kevin Knight for what he did though. He made Reid face the past, see that Rebecca's death wasn't his fault.
"After Rebecca's death five years ago, we started to talk and one thing led to another and we became engaged."
"And we have been engaged for six months now." Austin finished for him.
"Wait, six months?" Reid asked confused, "isn't that a little long to be engaged?"
"Not really." Austin said off handedly. My best friend has been engaged for almost a year and a half. You just don't want to be with one woman your entire life."
Reid's eyes got a faraway look in them as he remembered getting married to Rebecca.
It was a few hours before they had to go to the court house. Instead of having a large wedding like Rebecca and her ex- fiancé had had, they were just going to elope. They did not want anything that would take too much time; they were both afraid that Rebecca's parents would try to stop the marriage if they gave them time to look for them.
So instead they made preparations at the court house. Danni and Hayley were there to witness the marriage along with Reid's mother, Diane.
Rebecca had picked out his outfit, having him where a suit that, for the first time, matched. Everyone said that he would be nervous on his wedding day, but Reid wasn't. All he felt was happiness that he would be able to spend the rest of his life with the woman he loved.
The wedding seemed to go by in a flash, and before he knew it Reid was putting Rebecca's wedding ring on her finger.
Reid came out of the memory feeling happy and content that he was able to spend that time with her before she was taken away from him.(2)
"Sometimes, being with one woman is the best thing in the world." Reid told Austin smiling at her.
Before Austin could respond a man came to their table. "Dr. Reid, Ms. Andrews." He said bowing his head and touching his cap in respect. "My name is Gage Williams. I have some friends that would like to meet you, if you could come with me, please." His voice was heavy with a county accent.
Reid and Austin looked at each other with a look that clearly said, "So it begins."
(1)-- I got that from the show Leverage. When Sophie and Nate start arguing on the plane, about when they met. I just changed the years, and of course, the characters.
(2)-- I showed the flashback to tell that Reid still thought of Rebecca. But he doesn't blame himself anymore, and he is getting over it.