Title: The Drug Addiction
Author: fair-vatican
Pairing: Hotch/Reid Rating: PG
Word Count: 334
Spoilers: set in season 2

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I wished you would have spoken to me. Tell me you were taking it, I wouldn't get angry. We used to talk about everything so close, smile and crack jokes that only we could understand but after your capture, you seem so distanced. Like as if you were ashamed to even face me.

 
I do hope to talk to you. Take your face in my hand and force not only eye contact. I hope you'd talk and understand I'm here. That I'll listen all day and with my heart too.
 
You're such a genius but it surprises me still. You and drugs hardly go together. i wonder if the others knew about this addictions.
 
I signal you to my office and as you leave your seat, I notice my heart beating faster. If you knew the pace that my heart was taking, I know you would have rant on about static's only known to you but these days you don't. These days you keep to yourself and it tortures me to know that I am no longer the source of your comfort.
 
You enter the office, eyes glued to the floor. You knew it was only a matter of time that this conversation would take place. Hovering between the idea of sitting and standing, you look at me with hopes of a memory loss. Frankly, I wish I had not seen you take it but I had and everything that we managed to build our trust on had crumbled to pieces when you search my face for some sort of warning.
 
You sit down after I motion you to, and with fingers so slender. You begin to drum your fingers against my wooden desk. The corners of your lips form a smile and for a minute, you look lost through thoughts but then I realized that you were thinking of something to say. Minutes pass as I wait for you to compose but then it all passes and you quietly say, "Aaron, I'm sorry".

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