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1. When Spencer first started at the BAU, he didn’t bring any decor for his work desk. He claimed that it’s not necessary for his job performance and that it would only be a distraction. Eventually, he brought a few figurines and a singular framed photo. Derek pointed at the picture, one of Spencer grinning at a woman with her tongue stuck out, and asked him about his girlfriend.
Spencer furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. “I don’t have a girlfriend.”
2. Rossi hosts a birthday party for Aaron and encourages the team to bring anyone and everyone. So I can send more people home with leftovers, he’d said.
Spencer brought his best friend, and it’s the first time he’s introducing her to the team. As is every event that Rossi throws, the dress code is formal, so she’s wearing a dress and heels. Spencer has a suit on, with a tie that matches the color of her dress. She holds onto his arm as they ascend the front stairs to the house.
Emily and JJ are in the foyer, helping each other remove their coats, as she and Spencer enter. He introduces her to them, and she shakes their hands while keeping one on his forearm.
Emily asks, “How long have you guys been dating?” and they laugh like she’s told a joke.
She looks over at JJ with perplexity. The blonde woman just shakes her head.
3. At the FBI/Secret Service softball game, she comes to cheer them on wearing a shirt that says Go FBI! on the front and Reid on the back. She shouts and claps for everyone, but she’s especially loud for Spencer. After his first attempt at bat results in him striking out, she shouts, “It’s okay! You’ll get ‘em next time!”
Spencer’s cheekbones are flushed, certainly just from being out in the sun, as he sheepishly waves at her from the dugout.
A woman next to her in a Secret Service T-shirt leans over and asks her what it’s like to be married to an FBI agent, and she laughs and shakes her head, “Oh, we’re not together.”
She misses the bewildered gaze the woman gives her. She’s too busy wordlessly asking Spencer if he needs more water.
4. They’re sitting on a quilted blanket in the park, pulling sandwiches and cubed fruit out of a picnic basket. It’s a beautiful Spring day, one of the rare ones where the frigid Winter cold has worn off and the deep heat of Summer hasn’t set in yet. They both brought books to read, but they’ve been abandoned next to them as they talk and laugh around bites of their lunch.
An elderly couple approaches them and tells them how sweet they look, and the man shares that this park is where he took his wife on their first date fifty years ago.
They smile politely and inform the couple that, no, we’re not dating, and they chuckle and shake their heads at them.
The man looks pointedly at Spencer, “Don’t waste any more time, son.”
Spencer stutters, “Y-yes, sir.”
5. Spencer is away on a case, somewhere. He can’t remember where. The last thing he can recall is trailing behind Derek as they entered an abandoned house. There was a loud noise, possibly a gunshot, before Spencer collapsed and everything went dark.
When he opens his eyes, everything is blurry. He’s surrounded by EMTs, being wheeled on a gurney, and the bright flashing lights of the ambulance are hurting his eyes. Around the oxygen mask, he starts mumbling unintelligibly.
A woman near his head tries to stop him from pulling the mask off and hears a woman’s name coming from his mouth just before she reorients it.
“You’re okay – someone will call your girl at the hospital.”
He’s so out of it that he doesn’t think to try to correct her – he just nods and sighs in relief.
*** She steps off the elevator at FBI Headquarters and looks around for Spencer. A smile rises on her face once she spots him, and he hurriedly packs his satchel before rushing out of the glass doors to greet her. Bending down to kiss her cheek, he takes her hand in his before leading her back into the sliding silver doors, talking animatedly about the new spot he wants to try for lunch.
The team watches the scene unfold, and Penelope is exasperated as she throws her hands up and asks, “Are we all seeing this?”
When they return from the new sushi restaurant, they don’t notice that JJ and Emily have just pulled into the parking lot, as well. Their eyes track Spencer as he leads her back to her car with a hand on her lower back, murmuring things in her ear that have her giggling.
The two women climb out of JJ’s SUV, and they can’t tear their eyes away as Spencer softly closes her door and leans his forearms in her open window. Emily gasps as he juts forward to press his lips to hers, and JJ grabs her arm when they hear him say, “I love you. Drive safely.”
They stand a few spots away, frozen in place, as she pulls out of the lot and Spencer waves goodbye. With his hands in his pockets and his head tilted downward, he doesn’t notice his coworkers staring at him until he’s a few feet away. His eyes squint at their incredulous expressions, and he shrugs, “What?”
Emily points to where her car just was, dully saying, “Best friends don’t act like that.”
He laughs and informs them they’re not just best friends anymore. Well, we’ll always be best friends, but she’s my girlfriend now, too.
JJ sighs in relief, “It’s about damn time.”