After that, all night it was all paramedics, ambulances, and police. Garcia was phoned and let in on all the news. Lila was taken home, where she still slept peacefully. Wilkins was rushed to the hospital, losing blood quickly. Reid tagged along in the ambulance, and waited by himself in the lobby for three hours.
Afterwards he stayed in a still unconscious Holly's room for two nights, until Hotch finally dragged him out to get to his paperwork.
When Holly finally gained her consciousness and was let out of the hospital, Hotch gave her the week off, and her doctors instructed her to rest, and not leave home.
Lila's missed phone calls flooded Reid's cell phone. He'd answered once, telling her he was busy and he'd call back later, although he knew he never would.
Reid tried painfully hard to get away to see Holly, but each time he tried something came up. He considered calling her, but he'd promised himself to tell her how he felt the very next time he saw her, and he refused to let a phone call be the way it was done.
So, on Monday morning Reid waited, in the rain, in the parking lot of the BAU for Holly to arrive.
"'Holly, when I first saw you I loved you,'" Reid practiced silently. "No. That's not it...'I know we haven't known each other very long, but I love you…' No, not right either. 'Holly, I've never, ever, ever, felt this way about anyone…'"
"Arg!" moaned Reid, aloud, purposely banging his head against the wall. "Oww," he growled, holding his bruised, rain-wet head, and scorning at the wall.
Just then he heard Holly's motorcycle coming; a sound that sent his heart to his throat.
Holly pulled her motorcycle into a parking space, and put her helmet on one of the handlebars, letting her familiar chocolaty curls fall loosely onto her shoulders. She clumsily dismounted her cycle, nearly falling into a puddle, and causing Reid to chuckle.
Wilkins repositioned her messenger bag, pulled her raincoat closer over her favorite dress – the one she'd worn the day Reid met her – and tugged her left sock back up to her knee. Then she started towards the door. Noticing Reid, a warm, overly happy smile crossed her face.
"Reid!" she called, waving. "Garcia told me what you did; that you were the one that started after me."
Reid smiled and waved back, but just as he opened his mouth to brush off the compliment, he saw someone that caused his smile to drop.
"Spencer!" Lila gushed, jogging though the hard rain past Wilkins and towards him, as if in a hurry. "Why haven't you returned my calls?" she continued in a teasing tone.
Reid looked Wilkins' way. She'd stopped dead in her tracks, not seeming to mind if she stood in the rain, and her smile was long gone, as she suddenly found the wet pavement a very interesting thing to look at.
Reid looked sternly at Lila. He didn't want to be mean to her, but if he tried to be nice he'd stutter hopelessly and never get his point across.
"Lila," he said. "I haven't returned your calls because I just don't think we should be seeing each other anymore." Lila stared blankly, and she didn't reply. Wilkins had looked up at this turn of events. "You'll be leaving Virginia soon anyway, and I don't want to carry on a distant relationship."
"Spencer," began Lila, but Reid cut her off.
"It's as simple as this, Lila: I'm in love with somebody else," he glanced, embarrassed, towards Holly, "and what we had was never love anyway."
"Spencer," Lila tried again, more sternly this time. Reid stopped his train of reasoning. "I know." Lila said, smiling softly. "I knew the first night I saw you again."
Lila looked over her shoulder at Wilkins, who stood, soaked, staring at Reid, wondering if she was hearing right.
"And I'm alright with it," Lila continued, blinking suddenly as rain splashed into her eyes, "because, frankly, we were just a pastime." Reid grew wide-eyed at that, taking it as an insult for a moment. "I've been calling to talk about that. I'm leaving Quantico today, and I wanted to tell you that you could stop pretending."
Reid nodded, not sure what to say.
"Now, I've got to go before I miss my plane. Tell everyone goodbye for me." Lila leaned in to kiss Reid goodbye, but caught herself, and settled for a hug instead. She turned to Holly, and smiled warmly.
"Too bad we didn't get to talk more than we did," she said, taking Wilkins' hand. "We would've been the closest girlfriends!" Wilkins smiled, her hate for Lila, draining away completely. Well… almost completely.
Lila jogged back to the taxi waiting for her, and waved goodbye one last time before riding out of both Reid's and Holly's lives.
Holly turned back to Reid, who crossed his arms nervously.
Both knew what they wanted to say, but neither could. Reid stepped slowly down the stairs towards Wilkins, brushing her rain soaked curls behind her ear.
Back inside the BAU, J.J. hunted down Reid and Wilkins. They had a new case, and the rest of the team was read for briefing.
"Morgan, have you seen Reid?" J.J. asked.
"Outside waiting for Wilkins," Morgan replied, heading to conference room.
J.J. stepped soundlessly outside into the pouring rain just as Wilkins let her soft lips touch Reid's, passionately.
J.J. smiled. She could brief them later.
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"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
-William Shakespeare
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The End! D: *cries mindlessly*
I wanna thank all my sweet lil' followers for their loveliness! If it wasn't for you guys I'd have quit this story before I began it! :D So thanks!
Now, since each chapter has it's own theme song, I've put together this story soundtrack! So do some iTuning people, and listen to the songs before I send out my evil monkeys! :D
"Adored" Soundtrack
Title Theme Song: "Adored" by Miranda Cosgrove
Chapter 1. "Shiftwork" by Kenny Chesney
Chapter 2. "Thinkin' About You" Britney Spears
Chapter 3. "Shakespeare" by Miranda Cosgrove
Chapter 4. "Round and Round" by Selena Gomez
Chapter 5. "Smile" by Uncle Kracker
Chapter 6. "It's My Life" by No Doubt
Chapter 7. "So Close" by Jon McLaughlin
Chapter 8. "Sally's Song" by Amy Lee
Chapter 9. "Rock God" by Selena Gomez
Chapter 10. "She Wolf" by Shakira
Chapter 11. "Undo It" by Carrie Underwood
Chapter 12. "Leave Out All the Rest" by Linkin Park
Chapter 13. "Breathe You In" by Thousand Foot Crutch
Chapter 14. "Everybody" by Keith Urban