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“Wanna play fish” Anastasia was shuffling the cards, over the last 30 minutes she had laid 3 solitaires at that point and had invited several of the people in the room
Hotch: I’m working Anastasia, can’t you just take Reid’s keys and go home?
JJ: I’d love to but I’m doing something
Emily: well, she had ignored Anastasia so the answer was probably no
So when Spencer walked in she asked him as the first thing, Morgan who was walking closely behind her brother (in any other instance she would have joked about them having a “fun time” together)
“I don’t know that game” Spencer sat down beside her, Morgan on her other side, a What?? was heard from both Anastasia and Morgan at the same time
“You LIVED in Las Vegas?” she started shuffling the cards again, she shook her head and shared a look with Morgan
“Well, Reid, then I guess we’re gonna teach it to you” Morgan put out his hand and Anastasia high fived him
She dealt out the cards
“It’s rather simple, you need pairs of 4, 4 jacks, stuff like that, that’s a pair” she was counting how many cards they each had while talking, she wasn’t great at multitasking “when it’s your turn you ask someone for their cards, if they have said card they give it to you, and you have an extra turn” she hit 5 and put the rest of the cards in the stack in front of them
“If they don’t have the card they say go fish and you take a card from the stack” Morgan explained further as he organized his cards
Anastasia was lucky, she had 3 2’s and 2 queens, quite lucky cards according to her
“Anastasia, your 2’s” Morgan looked at her
“That’s not true, you’re lying!” she gave him the cards and he laid down the pair, he was grinning over it
“Reid~” he looked at Spencer “all your queens”
Spencer looked at his cards “is it possible to cheat in this game?” he handed Morgan a queen
“Anastasia, I need your 5’s”
“Well, Morgan, dearly, go fish you old man” the 3 chuckled
“I like to fish, I’m not old” Hotch looked up from the case file he was studying, Anastasia would bet money that he wasn’t reading but listening to what they were doing instead
Morgan tried to hold back laughter that Anastasia failed at and she started laughing, quite a lot
Morgan took up a card from the deck
“Well, Morgan” she crossed her legs on the chair, her foster mom hated it but stopped being mad after him
Bleach
“The bathroom is under construction right, hunny?”
Dead body
She shook her head, her left hand was pinching her thigh pretty hard, she hated flashbacks, but no one had noticed anything
“I need your queens” she looked at Morgan, who reluctantly gave them to her, she put down the pair and both her and Morgan (and 100 percent Hotch) looked at Spencer
“Well, I need your 7’s Morgan” Morgan gave Spencer 2 7’s
“Your 8’s Morgan”
“Fish pretty boy”
Spencer took a card from the stack
“Reid, your kings”
Spencer looked through his cards
“Fish”
Spencer looked at Anastasia
“What do you do now?” he pointed at her non-existent cards
“Well, it’s really different, either I just take a card, ask anyone if they have it, and just lie by that” she paused and swallowed some spit “or I take a card, if the person I ask don’t have it, I’m out of the game”
“Then wouldn't the first option be.. More enjoyable?”
“The genius spoke” Morgan looked at Anastasia, and she drew a card
Nine of spades
“Morgan, I need your 9’s” she looked at the man at her right
“Fish”
She drew another card, 8 of hearts
Spencer was grinning to himself
“Sister, give me your 9” he put out his hand
“You’re annoying, you know that right?” she was smiling
“That’s my job, isn’t it?” he smiled at her, and turned to Morgan “you got any jacks?”
Morgan shook his head and pointed at the stack
“Reid” both Reid’s looked at him “miss. Reid” he chucked to himself as if he had told a joke, Anastasia rolled her eyes with a grin
“You have any 10’s?”
“Nope my guy” he drew a card
He made an enthusiastic sound
“Hey, morgan what if we spice up the odds” Anastasia looked at him
“How?” he raised an eyebrow
“If I win, I can give you my friends number”
“Your 16 year old friend?” it was a joke everyone knew, her friend, Morgan, was more or less obsessed with the man who she described as “the perfect fireman”
“Yep, Morgan” she took her phone out and found a picture of some homework
The words Morgan Morgan in hearts were all over the page
“If you win, I’ll tell you her number, so you can block her”
She had asked (her brothers) Morgan before if he was okay with her friends crush, and he had stated it didn’t hurt, it was just a silly girl crush (and it really was, she wasn’t even that much in love with him, it was more the idea of having his last name)
“What if I win?” Spencer spoke up
Morgan and Anastasia looked at him
“I’ll bake you cookies” Anastasia spoke
“I’ll allow that” everyone nodded and they kept on playing
“Spencer, your 8’s” after a moment of silence they started playing again
He gave her one
“Morgan? You got any 8’s?”
He shook his head, she took a card from the stack, 10 of hearts
“Any more jacks, Morgan?” Morgan gave Spencer a knight
Spencer looked at Anastasia
“Got any 9’s?”
“Fish brother-dear”
“5’s Spencer?”
“Fish”
“Uuuh” Anastasia looked at her cards, and made a face “10’s? Morgan?” she looked at him, he handed her one and she turned to Spencer “same card” he handed her one
“8’s Morgan?” she smiled at him, kinda gloating as he handed her one, and turned to Spencer
“Fish”
6 of diamonds
Spencer looked closely at his cards “kings Morgan”
Morgan gave him one
Spencer kinda shook his head
“Do you by any chance have a 7 Anastasia?”
“Nope”
It was Morgan’s turn
He only had one card left
“Spencer, you’ve got any 5’s?”
“Not that I can see” Spencer smiled at him as Morgan drew a card “seem to me he won’t win” he whispered to Anastasia who chuckled
“6’s Spencer?”
“Sorry ‘Stasia, haven’t got one”
She drew a card
“Yes!!” it was a 10, she put down the new pair
“Do you have any 9’s Morgan?” Morgan, while smiling, shook his head
Spencer took a card from the stack “well, it wasn’t needed” he flashed the 9 he had just taken a laid down the pair, his first pair in the game
“jacks..” Morgan looked at the 2 siblings in front of him, trying to determine who had jacks earlier “Anaaaaastasia?” she shook her head “dammit”
“Morgan, you have any 8’s?” Anastasia smiled as he handed one over, and out down the pair
“Spencer, you have any 6’s?”
“Nope” she drew a card, another 6
Spencer smiled at Morgan and Morgan handed the knight over to him
“Anastasia, you’ve got any kings?”
“Fish”
Spencer took the new card and put it down with 3 other kings
Morgan looked at Anastasia “have you got any 5’s?”
“I’d wish I could say I have”
Morgan looked thoughtful at his new card that he missed Anastasia’s question, she kicked him under the table
“Ow! What?”
“Do you have a 6?”
“No! Why did you have to kick me?” she drew a card 7 of hearts
“I didn’t even kick you that hard”
Spencer chuckled “jacks, Anastasia?”
“Jack of all trades, master of none, but still better than master of one” she thought for a bit, she loved the idea of armor “but nope, I don’t have any”
“Genius, your jacks” Spencer seemed to take a deep breath as he gave Morgan the three jacks, that Morgan now laid down as a pair with his own
“Do you have a 5, miss. Reid?”
“Nope”
Anastasia turned in her chair and looked at Spencer intensely
“Your 7’s” she smiled smugly as he gave her 3 7’s, she laid them with her other pairs
“What about 6’s?” he shook his head while giving her his last card
She looked at Morgan “same card”
“I’ve gotten no 6’s”
She drew a 3 of hearts
Spencer drew a card, he looked at Anastasia “any 4’s?”
“Fish~”
Morgan closed an eye in speculation “Anastasia, any aces?”
“Outside of myself? Nope” she cringed a bit at her joke and received raised eyebrows from her brother
“Is that your choice of coming out?” Morgan drew a card
“I mean, it’s not a big deal”
Spencer thought for a second “of course it’s not a big deal, I mean, it’s just you, but it can be a..” he looked for a word “handful to say”
“I-” she looked a bit at him “thanks”
She looked at her cards “morgan, you have any 6’s?”
He gave her one and she put it with her pairs
“Spencer, you got any 3’s?”
“Not at the moment”
She drew a card ace of hearts
Spencer reached out his hand, palm first, towards Morgan “5’s”
Morgan shook his head “you guys are targeting me” Anastasia blew a kiss at him
“Anastasia, you’ve got any 4’s?”
“Nope bro”
Morgan tilted his head “Anastasia, any more aces?” she gave him the one she had and he looked at Spencer
“Any aces over there?”
He pointed at his sister “just that one”
Morgan drew a card, Anastasia loosely gestured towards him “any 3’s?”
“Go fish”
She drew a 5 of spades
“Morgan” Spencer looked at his coworker “your 4’s”
“Anasta-” as he was saying his sisters name, JJ whistled
“You’re playing card games?” she sat next to Spencer looking at what they were doing
“We have a bet going on, if I win, which I am, I’ll give my Morgan, Morgan’s number, if I lose, I either bake cookies to Spencer, or give this Morgan my Morgan’s number so he can block her, or whatever he wants with it”
“Oh sweet!” Spencer looked at her a bit and then turned to his sister again
“As I was saying, your 3’s” Anastasia handed it over, he mumbled under his breath in confusion “I forgot what other card I would ask of you”
She just smiled idly at him
“Okay, your 4’s?”
“Go fish”
Morgan stretched a bit
“Anastasia, your aces?”
“Still don’t have any” she paused for a second looking at the cards in her hand “in my cards”
“But Spencer, I reckon the card you were gonna ask for was my 5’s? So what if you gave ME your 5’s?”
He handed them over, and she leaned her head to one side “hm, 5’s Morgan?”
“Fish”
Spencer looked between Anastasia and Morgan “so, ‘Stasia, your 3’s”
“Fish”
JJ moved from sitting beside Spencer to walk over to Morgan
She muttered “oh” and everyone looked at her in unison “sorry, I’m just trying to get an overview of the game”
Morgan side eyed her as he asked Anastasia “any 3’s?”
“Nope, go fish”
“Spencer” she crossed her hands and leaned on the table “give me your 4’s”
He smiled bitterly, but with happiness in his eyes, and gave her the 2 4’s he had
“Morgan, do you have any 5’s?”
“Not really” she took a card from the very small stack
4 of clubs
She put the 4’s in the stack of her pairs, that was visibly thicker than the others
“Morgan, I need your aces” Morgan handed over the aces”
“I expected that” Spencer took the 4 aces in his pair-stack
“I also need your 3’s”
Both Morgan and Spencer now sat without cards
“The last card is a 5, which Morgan will draw anyways, so it’s safe to say I won”
Anastasia somehow being able to both brag and sound sincere, and apologetic at the same time
“Let’s count the cards” Spencer took his cards and started counting the pairs
“En.. to… tre…” Anastasia counted under her breath
Even though she didn’t wanna admit that her 6 months stay in Denmark had affected her, she did count in danish, especially when in card games
“Seks.. I have six pairs”
Morgan and Spencer exchanged a look “together we have 7 pairs”
The three stared at each other
“I’ll make cookies.”