Those damn tricksters.

Rossi stood up from his desk and removed the whoopee cushion from his chair. He laughed in spite of himself and the juvenile joke. Halloween was quickly approaching and the team felt it necessary to gang up on him. Rossi looked over at Hotch sitting at his desk in his office. He saw their fearless leader bite back a smile as Rossi met his eyes.

Ducking his head down, Hotch silently chuckled until tears stung his eyes. Although he'd never admit it, it was fun seeing the team get Rossi with these childish pranks. He warned them; as long as it didn't interfere with their work, they had free reign. It looked like they were just getting started. Earlier, they managed to replace his sugar shaker with salt, making for a horrible cup of coffee. Before that, it was baby oil in the elevator so that when Rossi got off at the BAU stop, he was holding on the inside walls for dear life.

The team sat back and cracked up as another one of their jokes went off with out a hitch. Even Reid was laughing, and initially he was against it.

"I admit, as childish as this is, this is hilarious!" Reid said laughing.

Emily, JJ and Morgan were wiping their eyes as they looked up and saw Garcia coming.

"Hey guys", she said giggling, "that was so funny!" Garcia laughed heartily until her eyes came in contact with Rossi's as he walked down the stairs from his office.

"Uh oh", she said, as he approached.

"Alright", Rossi said facing the group. "What gives? What did I do to you guys?"

The team looked around at each other and broke out in laughter.

"Seriously?" Morgan said. "They way you always seems to know what going on and throw in our faces?"

"Or how about how you meddle in our private affairs?" JJ said.

"Or how you play pranks of your own?" Emily said.

Reid shook his head. "I was against this from the start."

"Sell out", JJ said.

"Well watch out. You can have all the fun you want. But you know what they say about payback", Rossi said with an evil gleam in his eye.

Rossi turned on his heels and then stopped. "Reid, you and Hotch are getting it too."

Hotch was walking out his office when he heard that last statement.

"Why me?" Hotch said, sort of smiling.

"Yeah why us?" Reid said.

"You laughed", Rossi said heading up to his office. "And soon, I will too". He said under his breath.