Author's Note: Set during the 4 months between "The Fisher King Part 2" and "P911". May contain spoilers for "The Fisher King" parts 1 and 2.

Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds or any of its characters.

Chapter 1 – The Visit

"Man if you wanna see her naked, why don't you just tell her?"

Shy, awkward, Dr. Spencer Reid blushed profusely at his partner's comment but Derek Morgan simply laughed. "Okay, sorry, but I'm serious, if you like her you gotta tell her, she's a profiler and all but still."

Reid's stomach was tied together in knots as he and Morgan took the elevator up to the fourth floor of the hospital. After the case was closed he had taken his mother back to Las Vegas and had decided to stay with her for four days so today was his first time visiting their team mate, Elle Greenaway, in the hospital. He followed Morgan as he stepped out of the elevator, walked down the long, white hallway, and took a sharp left.

Morgan placed one solid knock on the partially opened door before he stepped inside. He smiled brightly at Elle. "Hey girl, how ya doing?"

She smiled back at him as she sat up in her hospital bed. "I'm doing pretty good. Bored as hell, and can't wait to get outta this hospital but pretty good." She smiled at Reid as he tentatively stepped inside the room. "Hey Reid." He gave her a small smile and a shy wave.

"So what's ya been up to?" Morgan asked as he sat in the chair on one side of her and Reid remained standing with his hands in his pockets, swaying back and forth uneasily.

"JJ and Garcia left about an hour ago, been twiddling my thumbs ever since," she answered laughing.

"Well you look good," Morgan complimented.

Elle smiled. "Wow Morgan, you even feed the lines to the girls in the hospital." He laughed hysterically as he leaned back in the chair while Elle turned her attention to Reid. "Hey, you can sit down ya know." Reid blushed as he walked towards her hospital bed and sat in the chair opposite of Morgan. "So what has Dr. Spencer Reid been doing?" She asked smiling.

"I was in Vegas with my Mom," he replied calmly.

The three of them talked about various things and Reid was just starting to settle into a comfortable environment when a nurse entered the room. "Sorry boys but we have to get Ms. Greenaway ready for discharge."

"You're getting out today?" Reid asked surprised.

She nodded. "Yes! Thank God!"

"Do you have anybody to take you home?" Morgan asked concerned.

"No, I got it, my Mom wanted to come down from New York but I demanded that she stay up there, I'm a big girl."

Reid looked at her distraughtly, he was troubled that she didn't have anybody to take her home or look after her while she was rehabilitating but before he could voice his worries the nurse shooed him and Morgan out into the hallway.

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Reid got out of the elevator and walked halfway up the hallway before he turned around and scurried back towards the elevator. He hand his finger on the push button when he took a deep breath and raced back down the hallway. He knocked on the door of room 718 and waited nervously for an answer.

"Hey," Elle answered surprised.

He smiled at her nervously. "I heard Hotch say that you were staying at this hotel and I was worried about you staying all by yourself."

She opened the door wide and let him into her hotel room. "Sure, come in, so you can see that I can live on my own."

Her snappy tone put him on edge. "Is something wrong?" He asked sincerely.

She shook her head as she walked over to the bedside table. "Sorry, my shoulder is just killing me." She opened a small container and let two pills fall out into the palm of her hand. She washed her painkillers down with a sip from an open bottle of water on the table.

Reid hesitantly took a seat on the edge of the bed. "So you've moved into a hotel room?" He asked observing three unpacked suitcases in the corner of the room.

"Yeah," she said slowly as she sat down beside him. "I just couldn't go back to my house," she revealed quietly. "And besides for now I have everything I need here, a shower, a bed, JJ and Garcia got my clothes and some other things from my house, and I can order room service for meals." She smiled, "I don't even have to cook."

He looked down at his feet as he said, "Well if you need anything just let me know."

"Thanks Reid, that's sweet." She reached for his hand and lightly stroked his skin but he shyly pulled away.

"So how does it feel to get out of the hospital?" He asked changing the subject.

"Great!" She smiled brightly. "I can't stand hospitals." She pushed her long, dark hair out of her face. "I was just so excited to get actual food and take a nice, long, hot bath."

He laughed lightly, "What did you have to eat?"

"I stopped at the first McDonald's I saw," she replied laughing. She moved up to the top of the bed and lay down on her back. "You wanna watch TV?" She asked as she grabbed the remote off of the bedside table.

Reid nodded. "Yeah, okay."

"Well then come up and lie down," she said smiling.

He glanced up at her and swallowed nervously as he looked her up and down. She was physically perfect, tall and slim. He looked down at her cute, bare toes then his eyes moved up her long legs to her flat stomach which was partially revealed by her tight t-shirt that had risen up. He lingered at the abundant swell of her breasts before his inner gentleman kicked in and he made eye contact with her. He turned blood red as he realized that she had been watching him the whole time. He looked away as he joined her at the top of the bed and lay down next to her.

She flicked on the television and it was already set on a sports channel. She smiled excitedly as she saw that it was soccer. "Do you like soccer?" She asked turning to Reid.

"What?" He asked embarrassed. He had been fighting the urge to touch her long, soft, dark hair as he stared at the gorgeous side profile of her face.

She laughed, "Do you like soccer?" She repeated.

He blushed. "Well I don't really know much about it."

She smiled as she started to explain the rules of the game to him. As they watched television, they talked about everything under the sun, books, movies, Elle told stories from her time at university and it turned Reid on a little bit to find out that she had been a little wild. Reid also told stories from the various universities that he attended, and they even ended up talking about work and the BAU for a little while.

The last thing that Reid remembered was telling Elle about how he admired her speciality in sex crimes before they both drifted off into sleep.

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When Reid awoke he panicked a little bit. They had talked late into the night and he had fallen asleep on Elle's hotel room bed. To his pleasure, she did not seem to have any problem with it. He looked down to see her cuddled into him with her head resting on his shoulder and her left arm draped across his chest. He turned his head and saw that it was only eight o'clock in the morning; he still had plenty of time to go back to his apartment and get ready for work. He steadied his breathing and tried to remain as still as possible as he did not want to wake her.

He had never slept with anybody before, he had had sex before, he was not the virgin that everyone thought he was but he had never slept with a woman. His sexual experience consisted of in the backseat of a car and rushed encounters in the bedroom where he was kicked out of her house afterwards because her parents were coming home. Because of this he enjoyed having the sleeping form of a woman next to him, especially when she was as attractive as Elle, and he enjoyed her body heat.

His thoughts were interrupted when she began to stir, but she did not awake up, instead she buried her head in his dress shirt and gently grasped his side with her hand. He shivered as he felt her long nails lightly graze his skin. He smiled as he heard her mumble something into his chest. Usually, he found it annoying when people talked in their sleep but when she did it, it was adorable.

She slept for twenty more minutes while he gave into temptation and ran his hand soothingly through her hair. He quickly pulled his hand away and tucked his hair behind his ear as she opened her eyes. She looked up at Reid and blushed uncomfortably before she sat up.

"I'm really sorry," she apologized awkwardly. "I didn't realize that I was so cuddly," she laughed.

He sat up beside her and smiled. "No need to apologize, I'm the one that should be sorry, I fell asleep on your bed.

She smiled back at him. "No it was nice to have company."

He hopped up off of the bed and smoothed out the wrinkles in his clothes. "Monday morning," he said unenthusiastically, "gotta get to work."

She stood up as well. "You can come and visit anytime, I'm gonna be really bored."

"I'll do that then," he replied nodding.

She smiled at him as they walked towards the door. She opened it for him, allowing him to exit the room. Once he left, she closed the door and pressed her back against it for a moment. She bit down on her bottom lip and suppressed a giggle, being around him outside the office made her feel like a schoolgirl.