Title: First Fight
By: LoraLee2
Pairing: JJ/Reid
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Usual disclaimers, I do not own any CM characters, I'm just borrowing them and will return them in the same condition as I found them.
Summary: JJ and Reid have their first fight.

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Hotch and Gideon, stood at the top of the stairs watching as Reid followed JJ into the round table room. JJ had the day's case files in her arms, and was walking quickly but Reid, of course, had no trouble keeping up. Gideon murmurred to Hotch, "Looks like the lovebirds are having their first fight."

"They're starting to attract attention. He's been following her around all morning."

"Oh, leave them alone, nobody seems upset by it, just curious."

Hotch chuckled, "Yeah, I'm kind of curious myself to know what he did to set her off like this."

"Me, too. I wonder how long it'll be before she gives in and tells him?"

"If she's anything like Haley, it could be weeks."

The blinds to the round table room were open, so the two men had a clear view of what was happening in the room, although they couldn't hear what was being said. JJ was throwing folders on the table while Reid was waving his hands frantically talking to her back. Every time he moved to face her, she turned away. JJ finished setting up for the morning meeting and started to leave the room.

Reid followed her and Hotch and Gideon heard Reid shouting, "Will you please just tell me what I did wrong?"

"You're the genius, figure it out."

"I've been trying to figure it out all morning." The two were now moving across the room towards Hotch and Gideon. "I can't fix it, if I don't know what the problem is."

"Who said you have to fix it. Just don't do it again."

They had reached the bottom of the stairs when Reid suddenly whipped his arm out and grabbed JJ by the shoulder, spinning her around. Hotch started to move forward but Gideon stayed him with a raised hand.

"I'm breaking this up, Jason, they're starting to get physical."

"Just give them a couple more minutes. You know Reid isn't going to hurt her."

Hotch mumbled back, "I'm not sure it's JJ I'm worried about getting hurt. If he grabs her again, she's gonna clock him."

"Do what?!" Reid had given up trying to keep his voice down. He didn't know if he'd ever been this mad before and the worst part was he didn't even know what he was fighting about. "JJ, talk to me."

"I don't want to talk. Now, get your hand off me."

"Fine." He threw both hands in the air. "Forget talking," Hotch and Gideon were almost quick enough to realize what he was going to do. JJ started back towards the stairs, when Reid grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her into a hard kiss. JJ was startled enough not to react for a moment, but when she did, it certainly wasn't the reaction Reid had been looking for.

Twenty years of playing soccer, twenty years, one knee came up high and hard and one genius hit the floor. JJ calmly strode up the stairs, handed Hotch and Gideon their folders, and calmly announced, "the briefing room's set up whenever you're ready, I'll be in my office."

JJ turned from the two stunned men and headed back down the stairs. She didn't even look down as Reid rolled out of her way in an effort not to be stepped on.

By the time Gideon made his way down the stairs Reid had raised himself into a leaning position against the wall. Gideon squatted down in front of him, "You okay?"

"Not really."

"You need to go to medical?"

"No. I -- just give me a couple minutes. I'll be fine."

Reid looked up as a shadow fell across the floor in front of him, Morgan. "Go away."

Morgan too, squatted in front of Reid. "You know that was probably the most boneheaded thing you could have done."

"Yeah, I figured that out. Think she'll forgive me any time soon?"

Gideon barely managed to keep that laughter out of his voice, Reid was rolling around on the floor in agony and already worried about JJ forgiving him, "Probably about the same time as she forgives you for whatever you did in the first place."

"But I don't have a clue what I did. How can I make her forgive me, if I can't fix it?"

"Spencer, trust me, sometimes you don't have to fix it, you just have to wait it out. She'll tell you eventually."

Morgan hooked a hand under Reid's arm, up helped him to a vertical position, more or less anyway. "I just want to know one thing."

"What?"

"What the hell possessed you to do something that stupid."

"It always works in books."

Morgan laughed, "Didn't anyone ever tell you --"

Gideon finished for him, "-- don't believe everything you read?"

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Next story in series - The Reason.