I don't own a like, wait, I mean I don't own Criminal Minds. :P

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Three hours later, they decided to take a break and sleep. Reid took first watch just in case the couple came. Ten minutes after everyone was asleep, Nathan came up and sat by Reid. Neither said anything, they didn't know how to act with each other. Nathan didn't know how to act because he had never been with any other adults except his parents and the ones that they killed in a few days. Reid didn't say anything because he was never good with children.

Reid looked at the child beside him and could tell that he might have looked like he eight, but he hadn't been a child for a long time. "Did you know that little girl?" Reid asked.

Nathan nodded his head slowly and said, "Yes, she stayed alive longer than the others had." He stuttered, it seemed like the words didn't want to come out. "We became friends. She's the only friend I've ever had." But then it seemed like he couldn't stop, like he had to talk about it. "When my parents," he said the words parents with disgust in his voice, "When they found out about it, they brought her out to the car lot, that's what they call it, they killed her. I'm not sure what they did, but they didn't come back for hours."

By this time Nathan was crying into Reid's shirt. Reid didn't know what else to do but hold him. He didn't say a word to the little boy; just let him cry until he fell asleep. Long after Nathan had fallen asleep, Reid held him in his arms afraid to let him go.

Lila came up behind Reid and put her hands in his hair. She sat down next to him and rubbed Nathan's back. "So what's going to happen?" She asked looking at the little boy. "Do you think we'll get to Krista in time?"

"Honestly Lila, I don't know." Reid answered sadly

"I don't know why you do this Spencer." Her voice was shaking with suppressed tears. "Doing this day after day, seeing the things you see." She closed her eyes and a tear came down. "I wouldn't have lasted if I had your job. I keep seeing today's events over and over in my mind, how do you deal with that?"

"I think of you." He said looking her in the eye. "I think of all the people that have been saved with my help. Those innocent lives have been saved because I caught the bad guy."

They didn't take their eyes off each other. "Spencer I want you to know something. And I want you to remember that this isn't transference." She stopped and took a deep breath. "Spencer I love you." She said in a rush.

Reid took a deep breath. At that moment he didn't care about transference, he didn't care that two murderers where on the loose. Lila loved him and at that moment in time that was all that mattered. He kissed her as deeply and passionately as he could telling her in that one kiss that he loved her too.

"Lila I love. I loved you from the first time met you." His smile couldn't have been bigger. They stared into each other's eyes forgetting the world around them.

That was when Nathan turned in Reid's arms. "What's going to happen to him?" Lila asked worriedly.

"He'll probably be put into the system." Reid said bitterly. He knew that this kid was not up to handle being in foster care.

"Couldn't— I don't know, couldn't we adopt him?" Lila asked.

"We, as in both of us? As in us being a couple and adopting him?"

"Yeah, we know what went through, or at least part of it, and we can help him through it."

"I think it's a wonderful idea." Reid smiled and kissed her.

They sat in companionable silence the rest of the night thinking of the future they could have together.

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The next morning they walked another hour before the got to the house.

Reid turned toward the group and saw that Robert and Ben were going to put up a fight if they didn't go in with him and the Chief. "Ok, Robert, Ben, Chief Mitchell, and I are going in." His statement had brought arguments from Lila, Storm, and Nathan. "Listen to me, Lila I need you to call this phone number until you have a signal. You need to stay on the line until Garcia knows exactly where we are. Storm I need someone to help explain what has been going on in these woods. Nathan you know these woods better than any of us. If something happens inside the house, I need you to lead the girls out of the forest as fast as you can."

"Just be careful, ok?" Lila said and kissed him quickly on the mouth. Reid led the group into the house, while Lila called Garcia.

It seemed like she couldn't get a signal for ages. In reality she had been trying to contact the computer genius for only five minutes. She was walking around in the woods trying to get a signal. Finally the phone started ringing. She heard a frantic woman on the other end of the phone. "Hello, Reid? Answer me Angel."

"Um… Ms. Garcia?"

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Ms. Garcia, I wonder how she's going to react to that.