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Spencer Reid

 Scene Excerpt - Criminal Minds S5 Ep13

Falling Star

Y/n POV

We got back to the plane and everyone immediately just found a chair and sat down. Derek sat towards the back and put his headphones on, Penelope pulled out her knitting project, JJ and Hotch sat up front talking to each other and I sat down in the middle with Spence next to me with Rossi and Emily across the table. I looked over at Spence and he immediately put his scarf on his shoulder like he always did and I leaned against it and drifted off.

A fidgeting noise woke me up and when my eyes opened I saw Emily messing around with a wooden...something.

Spence of course spoke up first, "What is that?"

She looked up from the object she was disassembling, and laughed under her breath, "It's called a star puzzle."

"A star puzzle?" I looked up at her readjusting my head but not quite getting up from my position.

"It's basically impossible to figure out," She moves her head to get her hair out of her face as she darts trying to put the pieces back together, "You have to put all of the pieces back together to form a perfect star." I start to sit up more intrigued with what she has to say, "But the origin of it is um," she looks back down at the pieces putting them down as she sits back in her seat, "kind of a romantic tale. There was this young prince, who wanted to win the heart of the fairest maiden in the land, so he climbed to the top of the tallest tower in the kingdom and caught a falling star for her."

"Aww that's sweet," I smiled and leaned my head on my arm that i was thing on the table.

"Yes but, unfortunately, she looked over at me and i slightly frowned, "he was so excited he dropped it, and it smashed into all of these pieces, so he frantically put it back together again to prove his undying love to her, and he succeeded and they lived happily ever after."

"That's adorable." I leaned back into the seat and smiled with the little happy story playing out in my mind. Spencer however wasn't as moved as I was.

"That doesn't make any sense."

Emily let out a small laugh, "What do you mean?"

"You can't catch a falling star, it would burn up in the atmosphere."

I rolled my eyes, "ugh here we go," I muttered under my breath as I lightly banged my head on his shoulder.

"Yeah, but it's not literal Reid. it's a fable."

"But there's no moral fables have morals."

"Ok. So it's just a romantic little story," Even with my face pressed against his shoulder i could see the frustration building up in Em's voice, "and the point is it's basically impossible to do,"I felt Spences arm's reach out and wood start clicking against one another, "because you have to take all of those pieces and put them back together exactly...'' I felt her trail off and something nudge me in the arm. I looked up at him and he looked down at his hand and he had fit the star puzzle back exactly the way it was before. Smiling, i took it in my hands and started looking at it.

Emily sighed, "there's a lot to hate about you Dr. Reid." 

Everyone started pitching in with other things to say but I was just so fascinated by the puzzle and then a few lines from the story popped up in my head. "..win the heart of the fairest maiden....put it back together again to prove his undying love..." is that why Spencer handed it to me? No that's ridiculous...is it?