Disclaimer: as always, I don't own it.
This chapter is dedicated to La Rata, for giving me the idea of chain tag, sorry it has been so long before featuring in the story. xx
At eight AM. On a Sunday morning the team of the Behavioural Analysis Unit were just about ready for a day at the park, the only exception was D Spencer Reid, who stood in the laundry room, waiting for his clothes to dry.
"What's taking him so long? Asked Garcia, tapping her foot impatiently.
"He had to borrow the washer yesterday, he didn't have any clean clothes and now were just waiting for them to dry." JJ replied looking down the hallway for the fifth time since the team assembled in the entry.
"Why won't he use the clothes I got for him for Christmas?"
"Because he wore them yesterday, remember? I'll go see where he is." JJ answered, walking down the hall. As she reached the laundry room and pushed open the door she was greeted by the sight of spencer, dressed in only his jeans, reaching for the close fitting black shirt that he had worn the previous day.
"Hey, do you have to wear the shirt?" JJ asked flirtatiously, approaching her boyfriend and placing her hands on his hips pulling him close.
"Seeing as were going out in public, I think I have to. Besides imp already wearing the jeans of death." He said placing a kiss on the top of her head before disentangling himself and pulling the shirt on.
"If you don't like them, why wear them?" she asked, voice filled with genuine curiosity, taking his hand and pulling him down the hall towards the awaiting team.
"Because, when I wore them yesterday, this extremely hot girl that I've been in love with for years kissed me. I think they're lucky."
"Oh yay, Boy Wonder is wearing the clothes I got him!" Garcia exclaimed, jumping and clapping her hands together.
"Come on let's go!" yelled Henry, getting excited. The team began to leave the house and pile into cars. As they were at the back of the group JJ and Reid were the last to leave, just before he exited the door Reid felt a tug on the back of his pants, J had hooked her fingers into the back pockets and was tugging him towards her.
"I don't know about the jeans being lucky, but if you play your cards right, you might get lucky." She whispered in his ear. He leaned down and kissed her, smiling against her mouth. Before either one of them could deepen the kiss, a car out front honked the horn.
"Ugh, can't they go, I think I want to stay." Reid groaned, heading out the door as he spoke. Behind him JJ just laughed.
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The ride to the park was a quiet affair in Aaron Hotchner's car. Jack and Henry had insisted on going in Aunt Penny's car with Morgan and Rossi, JJ and Reid were in his car and they had left before Prentiss could get in, leaving her to travel with Hotch. The silence between them wasn't awkward, but it was almost like a third person was in the car with them. The third person had an identity. The kiss. With a sigh Hotch pulled over to a stop on the side of the road and turned the car off.
"Hey, are you okay?" Emily asked looking over at him, concern written on her face.
"Are we going to pretend it didn't happen? You and I both know that we can keep hiding our feelings from each other, the kiss was proof of that." He said not looking at her, knowing that if he did he could easily get lost in the colour of her eyes, the shape of her lips, the way the sunlight hit her hair, in her pure beauty.
"I simply assumed that it was a onetime slip, on your part, I hope it wasn't, but that's what I assumed. I loved the kiss, I would love for it to develop into something more, but you have Jack, and work will make it difficult." She replied looking down at her lap.
"I don't care. Jack loves you, there's nothing that work can do that will make me give upon the possibility of us. I don't want to lose you Emily Prentiss, not before I've had you." He said softly, turning her face towards him.
Instead of replying she leaned across the small distance that separated them and kissed him.
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At the park half an hour later the team of the BAU were getting ready for their final bonding exercise.
"Final exercise is a game of Chain Tag. I'll be team leader one and Prentiss team leader two. The rules are pretty basic, it's like regular tag except once you've been tagged you have to hold hands with the person who tagged you, only the last person on your chain can tag another person. This exercise will show how well you can communicate with the people you're teamed up with. Okay ready, set, go!" Hotch ended the tangent with a grin as he jumped towards Jack, and successfully tagged him.
For fifteen minutes the team ran around the park, holding hands and trying to tag each other, the final member to be caught was Morgan, but with a little bit of team work and ingenuity the rest of the group managed to pin him over by the swings. By the time people were ready to start heading home it was almost dark, they all piled into the assembled cars and headed back to JJ's to collect their things. A very sleepy Jack asked his dad an interesting question from the back seat on the drive home.
"Dad, is Emily going to stay over tonight, please?"
A/N: Hey guys, this concludes this story, I know that there wasn't much JJ/Reid in this chapter, and the little but I did have in here didn't go far at all. Let me know what you think. I think I'm going to carry on the Hotch/Prentiss line of this story, not sure what the next story will be called yet, but it'll be something new for me to write, a non JJ/Reid story. =] hope you guys have enjoyed the story. You've been great. Until next time Cooey out!