Morgan trudged sleepily into the bullpen. He was a half hour late, but he was at that point in time when you half dont care and half hope no one else cares.

Apparantly no one did. Prentiss sat at her computer typing, JJ bustled around placing files where they needed to go, and he could see Hotch and Rossi in there offices so he knew they weren't looking.

Reid wasn't even here yet!

He set his stuff on the desk quietly and sat down, maybe if he acted like he'd been here the whole time, no one would notice.

"Hello my late Chocolate Adonis!" Garcia giggled, announcing it for everyone to hear.

"Well look who decided to show up!" Prentiss smiled, swinging around to face the other two.

"Ahh come on guys! My alarm didn't go off!" Morgan smiled.

"A likely story."

"Besides," Morgan waved toward Boy Genius's desk, "Pretty Boy aint even here yet! Shouldn't we start in on him when he gets here?"

Both Garcia and Prentiss looked at eachother for a silent moment...

"Fine."

But Reid never did show up. By the end when everyone got up and began putting on coats and walking out the door Prentiss stood by his desk with a screwed up look on her face.

"Whats wrong Em?" Morgan finally asked before he slung his jacket on.

"Why didn't he show up? He's never done that before, in fact he's been here longer than most people some days!"

"Probably slept in. After all, little boys need their sleep." Morgan laughed. Emily smiled but didn't move.

"It's just weird."

The next morning everyone was back to normal...

Prentiss and Morgan got in on time and Garcia was still twittering around everyone since she was bored inside her own office. Hotch and Rossi hid inside their offices again and JJ was piled under a mountain of files in her office.

But Reid's chair was still empty...

"He doesn't come in by noon and I take his chair!" Morgan called when Prentiss turned to stare.

"He should be here by now. Sleeping in once is one thing, but skipping two whole days?"

"Maybe the Genius didn't set his alarm?" Morgan tried.

"No. There's something going on here." Prentiss got up, walking out and pulling her cellphone to her ear. All her coworkers were on speed dial.

Riiiing

"Come on Reid."

Riiiiing

"Come on!"

Riiiiiiing

"Pick up dangit!"

Riiiiiiinnn- "Hello, you've reached the voice mail for Spencer Reid. I'm probably at work or out somewhere else, so try me at my cell phone or leave a message and I'll get back to you." BEEP!

"Uh, yeah, Reid." Prentiss tried to hide the annoyance in her voice, instead projecting it onto her face, "People do notice when you don't show up. Hotch and Rossi are still hiding in their office's so if you hurry they wont notice. And if you pay Morgan off to keep quiet too."

Then she hit the "End" button.

It was the end of the day and Reid still hadn't shown up.

"Garcia," Prentiss swung her head into the Tech analyst's office.

"Yeah?" Garcia turned away from screens filled with pictures of old comic book heros.

"Do you mind calling Reid? I've already but he might answer now. He didn't show up."

"Sure Pumpkin Puss!" Garcia turned back around and started dialing the number.

"Thanks." Prentiss called, running toward her elevator.

"Pumpkin Puss?" She asked herself as the doors closed.

I know you guys hate, hate, HATE short chapters but I'm sorry! This is kinda like a filler chapter or something, you know like those 5 minutes in the movies when everything changes and its right before anyone notices?