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Thank you for the response for chapter three! Here I give you chapter four. Here you will get to know the reason why Garcia calls Reid 'Junior G-man' even though he clearly doesn't work for the government. You will also get to know how the pair met!

Chapter four

Confessions

"Hey Pretty Boy?" Derek suddenly asked.

The band had taken a lunch-break from today's rehearsal. Aaron, who had been lost in thought, snapped his attention back towards the others at the table.

"Yes?" the young guitarist replied.

"I was just wondering, Baby Girl never told me how you met. There has to be a story there, tell us?" the drummer asked.

Aaron listened closely, he too had been curios to know how the two became friends, they seemed so different.

"It's not a very excited story…" Spencer began with an uncertain expression.

"Aw, come on Spence, tell the story!" Aaron said with half a smile.

Spencer looked at him for a few seconds. Aaron felt the familiar sensation of butterflies in his stomach as their eyes locked.

"Okay then" the guitarist answered after a pause.

After finishing his criminology studies Spencer had enrolled in the FBI-academy. His time there had been short as he quickly realized it didn't feel quite right. One day though he had visited the Behavioral Analysis Unit, or the BAU, this had changed his life.

Flashback

Excited but slightly nervous Spencer walked into the BAU along with five others from the academy. They were greeted by none other than the David Rossi, senior profiler and successful author. Instantly Spencer had a lot of questions about profiling and working at the BAU in general. The rest of the group however all looked very annoyed as Spencer started asking questions. He decided to try to get a moment to speak with the profiler alone.

Rossi lead them into a room with a lot of computers. In the center of the room sat a blonde woman with a very colorful outfit. Instantly Spencer was intrigued, this woman did not look like she was working for the FBI.

"Well hello there Mr. author-man! What do I owe the pleasure of this visit? Introducing me to your new minions?" the woman said.

'Minions? Who was this women?' Spencer had thought.

"Ah, Garcia, my 'minions', as you so nicely put it, are all from the academy here for a tour. Trainees, this here is our technical analyst Penelope Garcia" the profiler explained.

"Well hello potentially junior profilers! Welcome to my lair!" Penelope said happily.

She then continued to explain how she helped Rossi's team during cases followed by Rossi ending the visit about an hour later. Spencer had quickly taken the opportunity to ask Rossi his questions as soon as he got the profiler alone. Even though he seemed a bit annoyed by the end Spencer had received his answers. These answers however made him doubt even more that he actually wanted to work with the FBI. The academy hadn't been what he thought it would.

Consumed by his thoughts Spencer walked towards the elevators. The rest of the trainees were long gone. He did not notice the person standing by the elevators and walked straight into her. Moments later he found himself on the floor.

"Oh my, are you okay?" a worried voice asked him. The voice belonged to Penelope Garcia, the technical analyst from before.

"Uhm… Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right" Spencer replied awkwardly as he allowed her to help him up from the floor.

"You sure sweetie?"

Slightly confused by the sudden term of endearment from a woman he didn't know he nodded in response.

"Good. Enjoyed the visit?"

"Yes, it was quite interesting. Never would have thought I'd meet David Rossi!"

"The man is something all right" Penelope smiled in response. "Hey, I was just about to go grab a cup of coffee before heading home, would you like to join me? Might comfort you after ending up on the floor."

Spencer thought this over for a moment. Part of him was cautious; people usually didn't want to be in his presence for too long. However this woman seemed to be very nice and he was intrigued by her. He had also missed three of his usual cups of the day.

"Sure, why not" he replied.

"Excellent! Now follow me!" she replied before happily.

They soon arrived at a nearby coffee place and sat down after placing their orders. Penelope had babbled happily about anything and everything during the short walk. She had now begun asking Spencer questions about him. As their orders arrived Spencer had already told him about his PHD's, eidetic memory and reading abilities. Somehow he felt very comfortable talking to this woman.

"Whow, like sugar do you?" she asked jokingly as Spencer poured his usual amount of sugar into his coffee.

"Tastes better" he answered with a shrug.

"I will have to warn the FBI about you, Junior G-man, and your sugar addiction" she joked.

The sugar comment didn't grab his attention. The nickname however, did.

"Junior G-man?" he asked confused.

"Junior Government man" she explained with a smile. "You know, for when you finish the academy and join the big boys!"

Spencer raised his eyebrow. Once again thoughts about how it might have been a mistake to join the FBI consumed him. He really wasn't sure he'd enjoy this line of work. Penelope, of course, caught on to this quickly. The talked for hours. Three cups of coffee and a new friend later Spencer returned to his apartment.

End flashback

"… so after talking to Pen I got the courage to quit the academy a month later. About six months later she quit the BAU after big changes in the team she was working with." Spencer finished.

"Wow Pretty Boy, I had no idea you have been in the FBI academy!" Derek said.

"I find it more surprising that Penelope was working for the FBI" Emily said, having met the woman a few days earlier. "How did she end up there?"

"She still works for the FBI, just not the BAU" Derek corrected.

"The FBI hired her because of her hacking abilities. They figured she'd me more use working for the bureau than in prison" Spencer grinned. "After quitting the BAU her work hours aren't as crazy anymore and she seems to be happier."

"This also explains the nickname. I have to admit I was confused by it" Aaron said, speaking for the first time in a while.

"Yeah well. She loves nicknames. Never before had I received a nickname this shortly after meeting someone. Until I joined this band, that is."

"Huh?" Emily asked confused.

"Emily, you can't have missed the fact that most of the time Derek calls Spence 'Pretty Boy'?" Aaron asked, amused.

The base player and drummer watched the singer with surprise. Spencer assumed they had caught up on Aaron calling him 'Spence' and blushed slightly.

"Oh. I guess I'm so used to it by now that I don't notice anymore" Emily said after a pause.

Aaron didn't know what to do. Up until now he had managed not to call the attractive guitarist 'Spence' in front of other people. After talking to the man more and spending more time alone with him he called the young man 'Spence' more often than he addressed him as 'Spencer'.

When they finished today's rehearsal Emily lingered. Aaron suspected she would confront him about his earlier slip-up since she was waiting for the other two members of the band to leave.

"Hotch?" she asked when the door closed behind Spencer and Derek.

"Yes Emily?"

"What's going on?"

"What do you mean?" he asked, trying to sound innocent. He had clearly failed.

"You know what I mean. 'Spence'? I've never heard you nickname anyone! I mean, you don't even call me 'Em' even though most people do. Explain!" she demanded.

Aaron sighed. He had never been able to hide anything from Emily, the base player seemed to able to read him as an open book.

"I really don't know. One day the nickname slipped out without me thinking. Really don't know why."

"Hotch, you can do better than that. You want to know what I think? I think you're into him."

Of course she would know. She always knows. When Aaron didn't respond instantly Emily made an impatient sound.

"Yes Emily, okay? I like him. I've tried not to, but no matter what I do I fall for him more!" Aaron all but yelled.

"Have you talked to him?"

"No. How could I? Have you met the guy? He's the definition of awkward. I will not be the reason we loose a second guitarist in a short time. If I told him he would run."

He felt Emily watching him, but refused to look up at her. Aaron did not want her to see his less-than stoic expression. As always though, Emily knows everything and walks up to Aaron and wraps her arms tightly around the singer.

Penelope had come over to visit Spencer and Derek after the end of today's rehearsals. She had brought Chinese take-out and wine. Derek and Penelope were currently laughing at Spencer's failed attempts to use chopsticks to eat.

"Stop laughing! These things are stupid!" he groaned impatiently.

"It's not that hard Boy Wonder!"

"But it is!" Spencer whined. "Why Chinese food comes with chopsticks at all I don't understand. Did you know that the use of forks pre-dates the use of chopsticks in Chinese culture? Forks have even been found in tombs from the Shang-dynasty."

His statement of useless facts about forks caused to two to laugh even harder. Spencer shrugged and walked to the kitchen to grab a fork, wanting to get dinner somehow.

When they had finished the meal the trio sat down in the coach, each with a glass of wine.

"Hey Doc, I have a question" Derek said after a few moments of silence.

"Hmm?"

"What's the deal with you and Hotch?"

The question about the handsome singer instantly brought a blush to Spencer's face. Like so many times before he damned his fair skin.

"Oooh, you have a crush on handsome singer-man?" Penelope cooed excitedly.

"Crush… So that does mean you're into guys!" Derek grinned smugly.

"He hasn't told you Chocolate Adonis? He usually doesn't hide it."

"Never came up I guess. So you like Hotch?"

Spencer had watched the exchange between the others, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable. Part of him knew he could trust Derek but at the same time he felt that letting him know how he feels still might affect the band's dynamic. Since Penelope was there however Spencer knew there was no way she was going to drop this conversation without an answer.

"First Derek…" Spencer began hesitantly. "I am bisexual, though I tend to be attracted to men more often than women. Pen, I never meant to hide it from him, but like he said, it never came up."

His words were followed by an intense silence. The other two in the room watched him expectantly.

"Boy wonder, you know I won't drop this" Penelope said after a while.

"I know Pen" Spencer sighed. "Fine. Yes, I might have a crush on Aaron. But Derek, you can't tell him! This will certainly affect the dynamic of the band! Hell, he might even hate me for it! I have no idea how he would take the news of my sexuality."

"Pretty boy…" Derek began. "Hotch he's… He won't hate you for you for being bisexual. I know this for sure."

Derek spoke as he changed direction of what he was going to say mid sentence. Spencer decided not to mention it however. He heard the truth I Derek's voice and felt slightly better.

He knew Aaron would find out eventually. Spencer sat back on the coach, hoping that Aaron wouldn't dislike him too much when that day comes.

End of chapter four! Next chapter is processing nicely. It is time for the competition!

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