For some unknown reason, it has been established that the concept of the BAU’s youngest member, Dr Spencer Reid, could never get a girlfriend. Never. Was he too awkward? Unattractive? Nerdy? Maybe a mix of them all, leaving him with relentless teasing from the team, and Morgan constantly trying to set him up with the girls they meet on cases (a bit tasteless, but all in good spirits).

And you’d think he’d get insecure about these qualities that had been assigned to him. Sure, he wasn’t Mr. Confident, but he never tried to change himself. Little did the team know, Spencer has had a girlfriend since he joined, a girl he has met at the bookstore. She was shopping for textbooks for college, and he was buying more obscure Russian literature. It just started from there, really, and you’d been happy together ever since.

Reid never told the team, didn’t think it necessary to. What did his relationship status have to do with work? Besides, he wasn’t necessarily keeping it secret. There’s a photo of you in the corner of his desk, taken a couple of winters ago during a snowstorm that you’d force him to go out in, and you’re bundled so tightly in coats and scarves that he’d forced on you, that you can barely see you’re face even if the lighting was better. He can see you, though. The memory is seared in his brain.

So imagine the teams shock, when he sees the two of you outside the office, across the street at a little coffee. He was holding two coffees, grasping a pastry bag in the corner of his arm as you fiddles with his hair, fixing the mess on top of his head with a fond smile, fixing his tie to make it less crooked (it never worked).

You were now flattening his sweater across his chest, before pressing a kiss to his cheek. Then another, and another, and another, until Reid was left laughing and trying to fend you off. You flung yourself around him, hugging him tightly, causing him to spill some of the coffee. You’d never stopped being obsessed with him. Most people get out of that phase a couple months into the relationship, not you. You doted on him almost maternally, and him the same to you.

“Excuse me, Dr Reid? You ever gonna introduce us?” You hear an unfamiliar voice behind you, one you only vaguely recognised from the times spencer would be on the phone.