Reid is awed when he sees you. He'd never expected to see you again in this building, in the BAU headquarters, since you'd been transferred by the big guns in the FBI. It felt like a piece of him was ripped away when he'd heard the news. His heart was shattered.

And it felt like it was being repaired at the sight of you. You look so different. Your hair, your makeup, the way you hold yourself. It's so you but it isn't at the same time. He doesn't hate it.

You reaccquaint yourself with everyone on the team, everyone being absolutely estatic to see you.

Everyone had missed you, god damn it. But especially Reid. Before you were transferred, you two were always the closest on the team. It was incredibly hard to contact you when you'd been transferred to the International Response Team of all things. The signal in Japan wasn't the greatest, he found out one time.

"Hi," he manages, when you finally get to him. Everyone else had decided to give you two your space considering they knew how hard your transferral hit Reid, and that was something much appreciated.

And he does something unexpected, something he'd never do with anyone else, and had never actually done with you before. His arms wrap around you and he hugs you, burying his head in your neck. "Are you back? Not gonna leave again, back?" his words are soft and desperate.