AN- Casey/Emma are going to be used intermingling. Just to warn you.
Emma felt the bits and pieces of her life crumble. Reid figured her out and now she could not stay. She had hurt him too much to be around him and her fate at Spencer lays in the balance of Reid's hands.
"I'm sorry, I have to go" Emma turned and ran out the door before the dam in her eye broke.
"What the fuck is going on here?" Of course Reid would follow her.
"I…I…"
"Just spit it out!"
"I can't!"
"You think you can leave without a trace and expect to sneak back into my life unnoticed? Where have you been for the last four years?"
" I told you."
"Why did you just leave?" That was both of their breaking point. Tears spilled over their eyes.
"I was scared. Leaving you was the hardest thing I have ever had to do and I regret it every day."
Reid stepped closer to Emma and looked down at her. "When you left a piece of me died."
"All of me died" Emma whispered. Reid grasped her face and kissed her. His lips full of pent up love from the last four years.
"Let me take you home."
"Reid, I don't think that is a good idea."
"Please, I went without you for four years and I don't want to go another minute that I don't have to without you."
"Okay." Reid interlocked his fingers with Emma's as he walked her to the passenger's side of his car. The drive was quiet in a content way, like she had never left.
All the nervousness that Emma felt about Reid finding out had dissipated. His lack of anger at this moment was comforting and Emma could not help but want to kiss him. Reid's arm jerked when Emma stopped him in the hallway outside her room, "kiss me" she whispered to him. He complied lovingly. As soon as their lips touched Emma felt her phone vibrate. Sarah was calling. Ignore. 'I'll text her later' she thought.
"I should go" Emma said, her forehead touching Reid's.
"I already told you that I am not going another minute without you."
"You cannot be around me all the time."
"Is that a challenge? You know how stubborn I am, that has not changed."
"Fine, come in." Emma opened the door and Reid stepped into her room and sat on her bed. He acted as if he owned her room.
"Will you tell me why?" Reid's question caused extreme amounts of anxiety to build in Emma.
"I was scared. People were horrible to me…"
"I would have protected you" Reid interjected.
"My sister was loved and I took the blame. It wasn't my fault. When I came back I became a villain instead of a victim. At that moment I needed to leave but I knew I couldn't tell you. If I told you, you would have come to find me and I needed a clean break or it would hurt too much to abandon you like that."
"It hurt anyway. I heard rumors that you left and when I went to your house it was as if no one had ever lived there. I felt betrayed. You just left me like I was nothing, like we meant nothing to you."
"I wanted to tell you but I couldn't."
Reid stood up and embraced the crying girl. He loved her so much and no matter how many girls he fucked he would always love her. "I like your new hair" Reid's feeble attempt to make her laugh worked. Emma let out a small laugh before looking up at Reid. "I know." Emma didn't have to say it for Reid to know she was sorry.
"I think I look good with reddish hair" Emma was going to embrace the change of subject wholeheartedly.
"It looks sexy." That was a bizarre comment for Emma to hear Reid say but she supposed they were seventeen now and hormones had caused them to become far more sexual then when they were thirteen.
"I will have to get used to your new lingo" Emma quipped before giving Reid a quick kiss.
"Will you start where we left off with me?" Reid looked down at the woman in his arms lovingly.
"Of course I will."