A/N~ Hello, my lovelies! Okay, so this chapter is from the episode "Minimal Loss" in season four. However, I'm not actually skipping that far forward in the timeline - I'm just shifting the order of episodes around. Also, for my purposes, Gideon is in this episode instead of Rossi. I'm going to end up playing around with the order of episodes and things a lot, but for the most part things will stay the same. Sorry that this is a rather short chapter!

The song in this chapter is House on a Hill by the Pretty Reckless.

As they approached the compound, Prentiss kept trying to figure out what it was that Reid was doing.

He kept tapping his fingers against his leg - first one tap, then two sets of two. It was starting to worry Prentiss a bit.

"What'cha doing?" she asked.

Reid looked up, startled. "Sorry - I didn't even realize I was doing that."

"Reid, its fine." Prentiss reassured him. "What was it?"

He turned a bit red before he answered. "House on a Hill, by Undiscovered Nemesis. Something about this case is reminding me of it…"

"You listen to Undiscovered Nemesis?" Prentiss smirked. "I honestly never thought that you would ever listen to anything other than Mozart."

Reid looked offended. "Actually, I enjoy more of Beethoven's works…" then he smirked, making Prentiss laugh.

"I've never heard of that one, though…" she mused, making Reid slightly nervous.

"Uh, they… they just released it, actually." he said, hoping that she wouldn't be able to see through his lie. In reality, the song was one that wouldn't be released for another week or two, but he had heard the band work on it enough before they had gone on tour that he had it memorized.

"Nice." she said, and then they both lapsed into silence as they continued up the hill.

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They were on the plane on the way back to Quantico, and Prentiss was walking back to her seat when she noticed that Reid wasn't sleeping or reading like he usually did on the plane rides. Instead, he was listening to music through ear buds. Although, she realized, he had been listening to music a lot more recently.

She filed that thought away for later and sat down next to him. She tapped him on the shoulder, making him jump. "Sorry." she said as he pulled the ear buds out.

"Its alright." Reid assured her. "What can I do for you?"

"I was just wondering… what made you think of that song? Home on a hill?" Prentiss asked.

"Actually, its House on a Hill." Reid told her. "And the words of the song are oddly specific - which makes sense considering that the song is about the repressive effects that society can have on an individual's personality. But it fit with the case rather well." Then he held up the earbud. "Do you want to listen to it?" he asked.

Prentiss just stood there for a moment, thinking about it, before deciding. "Okay, sure." she said, sitting down next to him.

She put an earbud in as he restarted the song. It started out with the sound of a heart beating, before starting in with the rest of the instruments.

"Somewhere in the end of all this hate"

A woman's voice started, low and rough. She recognized it as the voice of the band's lead singer, Ari Ross.

"There's a light ahead
That shines into this grave that's in the end of all this pain

In the night ahead there's a light upon this

A second voice joined Ari's for the chorus - that of Kat Simms, the band's bass guitarist.

House on a hill
The living, living still
Their intention is to kill and they will, they will
But the children are doing fine
I think about them all the time
Until they drink the wine and they will, they will, they will

Somewhere in the end we're all insane
To think that light ahead can save us from this
Grave that's in the end of all this pain

In the night ahead there's a light upon this
House on a hill
The living, living still
Their intention is to kill and they will, they will
But the children are doing fine
I think about them all the time
Until they drink the wine and they will, they will, they will

I am not afraid
I won't burn out in this place
My intention is to fade and I will, I will

In this house on a hill
The dead are living still
Their intention is to kill and they will, they will
Keep your children safe inside
Out of pocket, out of mind
Until they drink the wine and they will, they will, they will"

Once the song faded out, she pulled the earbud out, handing it back to Reid. "That was… not Mozart." she said jokingly - even though she was slightly shocked that that was the kind of music that the bookish Dr. Reid listened to.

Reid laughed. "Or Beethoven." he added, and they laughed again.

"Seriously, though." Prentiss said. "That was amazing. Have you been to any of their concerts?"

Reid paled, and if Emily hadn't been so close she would have missed it. "What, you mean the band's?" he asked, and she nodded. "Um, yeah. Yeah, I've been to one or two" he lied.

"They're really good." she said, getting up to go back to where she had been sitting before. "I've been to one of their concerts before, but I've been wanting to go to another one for awhile.."

He just gave her a little half smile, saying, "Yeah, maybe you should." Before putting his earbuds back in and looking out the window.

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Their next case took them to upstate New York, and was solved in a number of days - which meant that Reid was able to convince Hotch to let him stay behind while the rest of the team flew back to Quantico.

That night, once he had said goodbye to the team, he headed for the rental car that Garcia had set aside for him - he would have to remember to thank her once he got back - and drove to the hotel that Finn had told him about - the Albany Morgan State House Inn. The man in question was waiting outside of the hotel for him, and they did that awkward man-hug thing before Finn brought him upstairs.

The band had paid for three rooms on the top floor of the hotel, under aliases - Amanda Richards, Kaylee Seds, Fred Ramirez, Leo Valdez, and George Getz. Luckily, no one had recognized them - as of yet. They had done their absolute best to keep a low profile, but Ariel had been depressed lately, and so they had decided to forgo their usual attempts at stealth in order to get Reid there. Although they still managed to keep a low profile, thankfully.

But even if they had managed to get on someone's radar, it was worth it to see Ariel's face light up when she opened up the door to her hotel room to find Spencer waiting on the other side.

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