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Celebrating

"Spence is not coming?" JJ asked, as the pizza they ordered finally arrived.

"I don't know." Lily shrugged. "He said he wasn't feeling well."

"But he was lying." The blonde woman sighed. "He's mad at us."

"It's not fair." Emily whispered, sitting beside JJ. "He shouldn't be mad at you. He should be mad at me."

"I was his best friend, Em..." JJ whispered, as Rossi gave her the piece of pizza she wanted.

"You still are, Jay." Lily smiled gently, as JJ shook her head.

"I don't know... He hates me."

"He doesn't." Penelope frowned, sad to see all her friends sad. "Just give him some time. He'll come around, you'll see."

"Hey you, party-wreckers!" Morgan called from the other side of the table as the four women looked up from their conversation toward the men of their team. "Today we are supposed to celebrate."

They all laughed, but picked up their drinks as they did so.

"Here is to two of our favorite girls concluding their courses!" He said, quite loudly causing half of the restaurant to look at them. "To Lily, our brand new, official and now graduated liaison and to JJ, our brand new, official and now graduated profiler!"

They all cheered as they clicked their glasses together, not caring about the dirty looks they were receiving. JJ and Lily left their cups to meet last. Lily smiled.

"Just because I'm the liaison, doesn't mean I'll let you do all the Profiling by yourself, Jay."

"Wouldn't expect you to." She laughed. "I'll give you some of my contacts too. I'll tell you who is nice and who is a straight up asshole."

"Are there any nice people in the media business?" Lily arched an eyebrow as she took a sip of her coke. "Didn't meet any up till now."

"They're a few, I'll give you that." JJ smirked, as she did the same. "But you learn to deal with it. At least... I did."

They all laughed and started talking over pieces and more pieces of pizza. It was almost one in the morning when they decided to leave. As Lily searched her purse for her car keys, she grabbed her cellphone, checking her messages.

Spence: Sorry I couldn't make it. Hope you're having fun.

With a huff, she put the cellphone back in her purse, as all the girls looked at her.

"What happened?" Emily asked. "You okay?"

"No." She admitted, as the four of them waited for Rossi to pay the bill so they could leave. "Spence said he wanted to celebrate my achievement once I finished the liaison course. But apparently, acting like a baby is more important than me."

"Don't say that, doll." Morgan cooed, as he slung an arm over her shoulder. "Pretty boy really cares for you, you know that. He's just upset, that's all."

"Yeah?" She challenged with a pout. "Well, so am I."

***

As soon as she heard a knock on the door of her almost brand new office, Lily's head snapped up. She bit her lip as she saw Spencer standing there.

"Hey." He smiled, sort of unsure of how to act at the moment.

"Hey." She did the same, before spinning her chair around so she was facing the files piled up behind her instead of her boyfriend. "If you've finished the reports on the cases I gave you this morning, I still have quite a few here and I would really appreciate if you could..."

"You're mad at me, aren't you?" He interrupted her as he walked closer to her, standing in front of her desk.

"I'm not mad, Spence..." She sighed, still not facing him.

"Then turn around so I can see you." He said. Once she didn't move, he sighed. "Listen... I'm really sorry. I was actually dressed up to go, but as soon as I thought that JJ would be there I just..."

"It wasn't just JJ there, though, Spencer." Lily stated, finally turning around. "We were celebrating my graduation too, you know? Aren't you proud of me? Or at least happy for me in some way?"

"Lily..." He whispered, as he made his way around the table so he could crouch down in front of her chair. He spun her gently so they were face-to-face. "Of course I'm proud. I mean, look at you, now... You even have your own office." He chuckled as she smiled. "I'm really sorry, Lily."

"It's okay. I'm not mad, Spence, I promise. I was just... Upset, I guess." She shrugged, placing a kiss to his forehead, enjoying the fact that for once in her life she was taller than he was. "Now, I need to go check this with Hotch so we can take our next case." She said, picking up the file she was reading on her desk and getting up.

Spencer followed closely after.

"Where are we going?" He asked.

"Oklahoma." She answered. "Oh, and by the way..." She said, as she stopped in front of him and closed the door of her office. "I think you should consider talking with JJ. She's a wreck without you."

Without another word, she smiled and left the office, heading straing toward Hotch's as Spencer left the small room as well, going to sit down on his desk at the bullpen.

"Hey, pretty boy." Morgan smirked. "You two are good?"

"Yeah." Spencer nodded, as he watched Lily and Hotch talking on his office through the window. "She's great."

"That's good." JJ nervously said.

She was still trying to be back on the good terms with Spencer, but as he ignored her, she knew she would have to try harder than that. She exchanged a look with Emily and they both sighed. Before the brunette could say anything, though, Lily and Hotch left his office and the woman stood by the railing, facing them all.

"Come on, guys. We've got a case."

As they all moved to the conference room, Emily grabbed JJ's hand.

"We'll work it out." She whispered as JJ simply nodded.

"I hope so."