Title: Coming Home
By: carinascott
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Genre: Slash
Rating: FRM
Characters/Pairing: Spencer Reid, Jason Gideon (past Gideon/Reid implied)
Disclaimer: I don't own, just having a bit of fun.
Summary: Things never quite turn out how we expect them.
Author's Note: Written in response to a prompt over at comment_fic by rowena_dawson : Criminal Minds, Gideon/Reid, "I came back...for you" I've never written Gideon/Reid before(I'm a Morgan/Reid girl). Hope this doesn't disappoint. :)

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Spencer Reid couldn't believe his eyes.

Jason Gideon. On his doorstep. In the flesh.

"Gideon?"

It was a moment he'd dreamed for each night since the day Jason had left the BAU. Left the team. Left him.

"Spencer. It's so good to see you."

"It was your choice not to see me. Not mine." The words are out before he can stop them, the anger and heartbreak he'd been hiding for years coloring each word. Spencer felt a little joy at the flinch his words caused, hoping that the fleeting pain Jason felt could in some way match that which he had been living with for years. "Why are you here?"

"I came back...for you." Jason's dark eyes met Spencer's, pleading for understanding and forgiveness; hoping for even more.

Everything in Spencer told him to slam the door shut and never look back. Everything but his heart. He'd ached for Jason for so long, and he was only now getting to a point in his life where he felt capable of waking each day without longing for Gideon's touch. Did he really want to take this chance?

Open himself to heartache, again?

Glancing at the man standing on his front porch, noting the lines and weary disposition that seemed more prominent now than ever, Spencer stepped back to let Gideon in. "Would you like some coffee?"

Jason smiled, feeling like it would be the first of many. "I'd love some."

It might only be coffee, but it was a start.

END

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