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It’s pouring outside and Spencer woke up alone in a motel bed after what he thinks was a two hour sleep, but that’s the most he has slept in three days.
He can feel his pounding headache and what is almost certainly a fever. But they have a case to finish so he drags himself out of bed and grabs some piece of mismatched clothing. He’s too tired to care about that.
Reid doesn’t even stop to look at himself in the mirror because he would’ve noticed how pale he looked and how badly the dark circles under his eyes stood out.
By the time he arrived at the police station, he is extremely exhausted so he headed straight for a cup of coffee.
“Good morning pretty boy. Woah, you alright?” Morgan asked when he saw his boyfriend approach them. Reid just murmured affirmative, missing the concerned glances of the team.
After hours looking at maps, pictures of the murders and reading diaries and books, Morgan followed Reid to the bathroom, noticing how bad his boy was.
“Baby, are you okay?” Derek asked while resting his hands on Spencer’s waist.
“I’m so tired and my head hurts so much” Spencer rested his head on the crook of his boyfriend’s neck, needing the comfort of his favorite person.
“Little love, you are overworking yourself, you have hardly slept at all these four days, you are just drinking coffee without any real food or any water” Spencer just snuggled closer to Morgan, he was extremely tired and in pain to even answer.
“Okay baby boy, this is what we are gonna do. You’re going to stay at the station with JJ, resting while we catch the killer and then, we will come back home for a good cuddle session and a deserved rest, understood?”
Normally, Reid would have protested and refused completely. But, knowing that the case was almost over, his exhaustion and headache won over his stubbornness so he just nodded, though he didn’t like the idea of being away from his boyfriend (even if only was for little more than an hour to catch another sociopath)
Morgan grabbed Spencer’s hand, leading him to the room where all their team was.
“Hotch, pretty ricky here has overworked himself once again and now he can barely stay with his eyes open”
“Kiddo, do we have to repeat the self-care talk once again?” Hotch asked with a concern gaze in his face, seeing the slight blush in Reid’s face. Even though Hotch wanted to give the image of a strong and stoic man, they all knew he had a soft spot for their youngest agent (no matter how many times he has denied it, he knew he was always a bit more protective over Reid).
One hour later, Garcia found the address of their killer, so they left an almost sleepy Spencer in the couch of the room they were in the police station with the softest blanket they could found.
“For a genius, sometimes you are pretty stupid” Emily said to Reid before they left, giving his best friend and little brother a forehead kiss.
When they successfully come back, Reid is fully sleep now and Morgan can swear he looks like a little angel. After packing up everything in the car, it was time for the most difficult task; waking Reid up.
“Come on baby, wake up we have to go” Morgan whispered, but Spencer just whined and shook his head. “Wake up or I will carry you to the car”. So, in a normal day, Reid would be embarrassed if his team saw him like this, but his tiredness was too much and in his foggy mind being carried by his boyfriend's strong arms sounded like a perfect plan.
Spencer put his arms up and turned his head “Kissy?” Derek smiled and pressed a little kiss to Spencer’s lips before lifting Reid up. Spencer wrapped his legs around his waist and Morgan rested his hands a bit possessively on his ass, seeing the smirks on his team’s faces.
“ ‘love you” Spencer murmured into Morgan’s neck, already sounding half asleep again. “I love you too, beautiful”.
Morgan pressed soft kisses to his hair as they arrived at the car, depositing Spencer by his side. It was only a fifteen minute drive to the airstrip, but they can all swear they heard Reid snoring.
Once again, Morgan helped drag an overly exhausted Spencer Reid onto the jet. Derek thinks he heard Reid mumble a “can walk myself” but he can feel how he is leaning more and more against his chest.
Morgan pushed Spencer into the couch, giving him a kiss and leaving him so he can seat in an empty chair, taking out his headphones.
No more than five minutes later, when everyone is already seated and the plane is about to take off, he can hear a mumbling in a anxious voice he could recognize anywhere.
He looks up and can see Spencer with almost teary eyes talking to Emily and pointing at him. He heard Reid said something like “wanna sit there” and “want Derek”.
Spencer had pass out as soon as he lied on the couch, but his hazy brain was not happy, missing the warm embrace of the one who always make him feel protected.
Emily helped an exhausted Reid reach his fixation, and Spencer just dropped himself into the chair near Morgan.
“Wanna sleep with you” Spencer muttered. Derek smiles and opens his arms, Spencer quickly rest his head on his boyfriend’s chest.
“Sleep now baby boy, I’m right here, not going anywhere” Spencer smiles softly as he can feel Morgan petting his hair, his entire body goes limp and he yawned. In his sleepy, and now comfortable, head he doesn’t care that Derek had teased him calling him “kitten” because he is asleep once again in minutes. His head stopped hurting a little just from feeling so loved and protected.
After a time relaxed, fingers still running through Spencer’s hair (because if he dares to stop Spencer lets out a growl) he exchange glances with Hotch, who is now sitting in the seat across from his. The unit chief smiled a little at the view of the couple of the team snuggling together.
“Was thinking about you two, how you were pinning for each other for years until you finally got together. I remembered all the punches you threw at the walls every time Reid got hurt by an unsub” Hotch said with a chuckle. “I’m really glad you are together, you seem so happy”
“I’m happy. We are really happy, we complement each other so well. It was a long road until we finally started dating, but it was so worth it.”
“Because you didn’t liked me” and that made Derek looked down to see that Spencer is rubbing his eyes and yawning. “Hey, baby,” Morgan says softly. “Did we wake you up?” Spencer just nodded.
“And I did liked you, but you thought I didn’t like boys, and every time I tried to flirt with you, you became shyly and with the cutest blushed” at that mention, Spencer pouts and blush.
“Reid, kid, you should go back to sleep, you are exhausted and we still have three hours until we land”
“Don’t wanna sleep” Spencer said with a sassy tone but Morgan returned to run his fingers through Spencer’s curls and body and that did the trick because he went back to sleep instantly.
Hotch didn’t add anything more, focusing once again in his paperwork and Morgan slept for the rest of the flight, waking up from time to time to make sure his boyfriend was okay, asking Emily to grab him a blanket for Spencer.
When they finally arrived, waking up Reid was an impossible mission, he just pouted and mumbled something unintelligible, snoring as he lay in his boyfriend’s arms.
Once they got home, he had to change Reid, just giving him one of his oversized t-shirts. When he also went to bed, Spencer instantly lie down on top of him, and sleep overcome him instantly.
And the next morning, Spencer, who is feeling much better, wakes Derek up with a delicious breakfast, and they spend the morning kissing and cuddling, feeling extremely happy and at home.