Title: Friend in Need.
Summary: One Shot. Reid needs some advice from Gideon but he doesn't know how to go around it.
Author's Notes: I know I have been gone for some time now but life have been so crazy, its still is but I have found some time for my love of writing. So this is for all of my readers, I hope you enjoy it :D
REIDFANATIC is purely awesome for betaing my stories for me. Thanks.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Sadly, the characters in this story are borrowed from the TV show 'Criminal Minds'.

"I love her."

Reid glanced at Gideon, looking for any signs of reaction to his outburst. It was so random; nothing whatsoever to do with the topic that they'd been talking about just minutes ago, which was football.

Gideon had been explaining the game to the young genius as he still couldn't understand why grown men get so worked up by a simple ball being kicked around.

Reid fought the urge to run out, unable to deal with what might come next. He had never felt this way about anybody else before. His heart raced with the mere thought of her, his blood roared and he felt dizzy every time she walked into the room. Worst of all were the sweet kisses, his whole world stopped - not turning for a long time. He would be in a trance - unable to process any information properly until he regained control of his senses.

When he told her that, she stopped giving him kisses in the workplace - allowing him to have a clear head but instead she gave him a wink and kept track of how many kisses she held in so that she could give them to him later on. He looked forward to that moment.

"Huh." Gideon was dumbfounded, he knew that they were a couple but they only told the rest of the team that they were together two mere weeks ago. Was Reid really that unaware of what love really is?

He could remember the moment when they'd told them in the conference room, JJ was biting her lips and Reid couldn't stop twitching. They were nervous about how their 'family' would react to the relationship. JJ had told the director beforehand and she gave them the go ahead as long as they wouldn't be in the field together at any point, or one of them would be kissing their old team goodbye and saying hello to a brand new team.

Gideon was fond of the younger genius but he knew that if he hurt the blonde woman, then he would make him feel pain.

"We have been together for ten months now." mumbled Reid. He was ashamed that he had managed to keep it a secret from his mentor, the man that he looked up to and respected so much, for so long. "We weren't ready."

"Ready?"

Gideon kept to his one worded answers, thinking that if he got a whole string of words out then he would not stop rambling, telling him the rules of what to do and what not to do in a relationship but, it would seem, that he'd already worked them out.

Reid had developed JJ's nervous habit; he began to gently bite his lips. He did not like the way that this was going now. He had lured Gideon into the topic of football so that he could build up the nerve to tell him about his newfound feeling. He had felt this way for so long but only recently had he been able to put a name on the feeling. Reid wasn't expecting rainbows and kittens but he did hope that it would be a better reaction than the goldfish expression on the older man's face.

After he felt the lip protesting in pain, he replied; "We were not sure of how the team would feel about it and we love you all so much that we were … well, we were afraid that it might create tension in the team."

"Ten months?"

Reid grinned, this was getting better. He nodded in response. He needed his father figure to help him sort out the newly discovered feeling that he'd kept held in for too many months. Neither of them had said the phrase and he was ready to make the first move, only he didn't know how. He'd never mumbled the words; they were like poison to him. However, now the context of love had completely changed since he'd held JJ in his arms, protecting her from nightmares after a hard, tiring case.

Reid did not add anything, not wanting to slow Gideon's process in stringing words together to form a longer sentence. His grin did not waver, he kept eye contact, letting the older man know that he was telling the truth and was partly sorry for keeping it a secret.

"How could I not know about this?" asked Gideon, as he threw his hands up in the air. He was in shock that he could have missed all the signs that were there in front of his freaking nose. "I'm a profiler! I might as well quit right now. I failed."

Reid only shrugged his shoulders. He didn't want to make matters worse by accidentally saying the wrong thing. He knew when to keep his mouth shut around his father figure, letting him carry out his own argument.

"Are you sure its love?" asked Gideon as he took a seat, unable to keep control of his jelly legs. He did not want Reid to rush into things, even if they had been together for so long, longer than he would have ever thought Reid capable of.

Reid just glanced at Gideon, shocked that he would even dare to ask a stupid question. He took a step closer, not knowing where he got the confidence from as he pulled Gideon from his seat so that they were face to face.

"It's love." Reid harshly whispered, "if it's not love then I don't know what it is. I … I cannot breath freely when she is around me, my heart stops when she speaks. My knees turns into jelly when she gives me those cute looks and Gideon, you can't believe how I feel when I wake up next to her in the morning. I would die for her. But what's worse, I would kill for her without a second thought."

Reid's words died out as tears overflowed his eyes; he loosened his grip on Gideon's jacket and went crashing down to the ground. His emotion for JJ was overwhelming and he did not even know until the words came rushing out.

"Tell her." ordered Gideon, as he kneeled down. Placing a hand on the younger agent's shoulder, he smiled. "What are you waiting for?"

"You," came the simple answer. Reid did not dare to meet Gideon's eyes, knowing that he would be in shock. Gideon however was not in shock; he knew that Reid had problems expressing his emotions, let alone the hardest one of them all. All he needed was a father and a friend all rolled into one.

"Tell her," he repeated. "She will feel the same way."

Reid could only grin; he missed this, the way that they could connect at a different level, knowing what each other needs and the right thing to say.

"I was thinking that I would hire the red arrow plane and get them to spell out 'I love you' in smoke or a band to sing to her …"

"Reid." Gideon stopped Reid's rambling, "the words from your mouth would be much better, more personal."

"Right…right. I am going to go home, cook her dinner and I'll tell her tonight." Without a thought, Reid walked off, his thoughts muddled together as he was on a mission.

"Wait." Reid swung around. "I love you son. Don't keep anything else from me."

Glued to the spot, Reid's genius mind was overloading at the phrase, 'I love you'. Who knew the words would be so powerful, especially from his father figure?

"I won't." whispered Reid as Gideon walked past him, giving his shoulder a tight squeeze.

"I love you too." He knew even though Gideon would not have heard that, the older man just knew. With an extra spring in his step, he strolled through the building, letting the love build up inside him. This was a perfect day.

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