Disclaimer: If I owned any television show there would be well written, comical, smart, and deep LGBTQ characters…. But I don't own any TV shows, especially Criminal Minds, which would explain why I'm writing fan fiction at two AM instead of trying to think of a way to rob a bank and pay back that BITCH Sallie Mae! This disclaimer goes for the whole story. lol

Important: This story is being edited so this time round I'd like to take a moment to enter trigger warnings, and I'm stating this for all of my work.

Any and all trigger warnings, that is the depiction of anything that may cause an unintended negative feeling or memory, should be applied when reading my work.

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Reid's skin flushed with the thought….

Just the memory of the needle finding his vein left him with a dry mouth.

He stared at the red digits above the t.v. on the jet. It read 3 AM.

Two days. That's all it took. Two days with a steady stream of opioids, inter cut with physical and psychological torture.

And Tobias was right…it did help.

'The rush', "Diacetylmorphine", Reid mumbled to himself.

"What", Morgan leaned over from his seat next to him.

"Mmm? Nothing, I'm sorry. I was just thinking out loud."

Derek Morgan sat reclined next to Spencer Reid, now curled up in his chair staring out the window. His gaze lingered on the thin young man before he raised his hand to rest on Reid's knee.

"You should get some sleep…"

Across the cabin JJ watched the two with questioning eyes. After all he'd been through she could only half convince herself she understood why Reid would rather be near Morgan, right now, than her. She watched Morgan squeeze Reid's knee. She saw the way Reid scratched at his right arm absently, the needle holes visible even from where she lay.

They shared a quiet joke and Morgan hit the recline button on Reid's chair, sending him backward to quickly. They grinned at each other before Morgan put a hand through Reid's hair. The young man turned in his seat towards him and Morgan pulled a blanket over them both.

JJ watched as they slowly drifted off before lowering her eyes.

'Chemistry….'