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After a case makes Y/N and Spencer hive each other the cold shoulder, Penelope meddles to get them to make up.

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It didn't take Penelope long to figure out that something was going on with Y/N and Spencer the moment they arrived back from their most recent case. There were no secret glances when the other wasn't looking, there were no hugs exchanged between the two and there was no communication at all. What really solidified Penelope's theory was when Y/N asked Penelope if she could spend the night with her.

"Penny, would I be able to spend the night with you?" Y/N questioned, making sure to talk loud enough so Spencer could overhear her.

Penelope's gaze flicked between the two lovers, "Of course! But why?"

"I'd rather not talk about it now if that's okay." Y/N said, wanting nothing more than to look back to Spencer but refrained herself from doing so.

"Yeah that's fine, you can tell me in your own time, or don't tell me at all. Whatever you're comfortable with." Penelope said, still occasionally glancing at Spencer who had slowed down packing his bag away for the weekend.

"Thanks, I owe you." Y/N said.

"Oh my sweet girl, you don't owe me anything." Penelope said as the two left the bullpen, leaving Spencer to stare after them.

***

Once Y/N arrived at Penelope's apartment, she headed straight to the guest room, deeming that she was tired and wanted to sleep. Penelope could easily tell that Y/N was far from tired as she could hear her crying through the walls of her apartment. Even though Penelope knocked on the door multiple times, Y/N only said that she didn't want to be bothered. Penelope left her alone after that.

From knowing Y/N and Spencer so long, Penelope easily knew that there was something going on between them. They hardly ever gave each other what appeared to be the silent treatment. After cases the two would head home together and no one would hear from them until the next time they were back at work. To say that ignoring each other was strange would be an understatement.

Ever since Penelope had known the two, they always showed their love for each other, even if it was just through gentle touches or loving glances. If it was more of a stressful case, Spencer's arms would always be securely around Y/N. Penelope just wanted to get to the source of the problem.

Picking up her phone, she dialed the number of the person she would know for definite what happened. It rang a few times before the person on the other end picked up.

"Hello?" The voice of Luke Alvez came through the phone.

"Do you know what happened between Y/N and Spencer?" Penelope asked, getting straight to the point.

"No one told you?" Luke questioned.

"No!" Penelope exclaimed, "What happened?"

She heard Luke sigh on the other end, "When we were hunting down the unsub, Y/N and Spencer headed into the house where we guessed the unsub would be," He began to explain, "Reid found him first and took off his vest, probably trying to gain some trust or something. Y/N came into the room and Reid tried to make her leave but she refused. The unsub shot at Reid and Y/N pushed him out of the way. Apparently the bullet barely missed her head."

"Oh god." Penelope said quietly.

"The two of them haven't spoken since it happened." Luke said.

"Well we need to do something!" Penelope said, "We can't just let them keep giving each other the silent treatment."

"Garcia, we need to let them work it out in their own time," Luke said, "It was pretty bad. Meddling will just make the whole situation worse."

Penelope sighed, "I just don't want them to split up, they are perfect for each other."

"I know, but you need to let them work this out on their own."

Penelope let out a long sigh, "I hate to admit you're right."

Luke let out a soft chuckle, "Bye Penelope."

***

When Y/N and Penelope arrived at work two days later, there weren't many people in the bullpen. Tara, Matt and JJ hadn't arrived yet and Emily and Rossi were in their respective offices and Luke was sitting at his desk talking to Penelope. Unfortunately for Y/N, Spencer was sitting down at his desk which was directly opposite hers. Sucking it up, she sat down at her desk, avoiding any and all eye contact with Spencer.

As Y/N attempted to get on with her work, she noticed that Spencer continuously glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. The first couple of times, she ignored it. After the fourth time she decided to say something.

"Can you stop that?" Y/N said, dropping her pen down on her desk.

"Stop what?" Spencer questioned.

"Looking at me out of the corner of your eye."

Spencer scoffed, "Oh so I can't look around the bullpen now?" He said, letting his pen drop to his desk as well, "Not everything is about you, you know?"

Y/N groaned, "Did I ever say that everything is about me? No I didn't." She exclaimed.

"Yeah but you made that perfectly clear when you were nearly shot the other day!" Spencer said, raising his voice, "Agent Y/N coming in to save the day when I specifically told you to leave!"

"You're the one who took your vest off like an absolute idiot, if I wasn't there you would've been shot!" Y/N said, standing up from her seat.

"I was getting through to him!" Spencer said, waving his hands about, "If you didn't come barging in with your saviour complex, we wouldn't have been in the situation where I could've been shot."

"Please," Y/N said, "You were in a situation where you could've been shot as soon as you took your vest off!"

By now everyone who was in the bullpen had abandoned their work to listen to the couples quarrel. As Y/N and Spencer stood in the middle of the bullpen shouting at each other, Emily finally came out of her office.

"Guys!" Emily shouted, interrupting their argument, "My office now."

Both Y/N and Spencer sent a glare at one another as they both walked sheepishly up to Emily's office. Once the two entered, Emily closed the door behind them.

"I am just going to get straight to the point," Emily said, "This argument between the two of you needs to be sorted out otherwise I will have to write the both of you up for causing a disturbance in the workplace," Emily paused for a moment, "Now I'm going to talk to you both as a friend," She said, "I know you both care so deeply for one another and your love is a type of love you don't come across often, it's too rare to let go of."

Y/N and Spencer shared a quick glance before they both looked away quickly.

"Now, get back to work." Emeily said, dismissing the couple.

Y/N and Spencer walked out of Emily's office in silence. Even after the talk with her, both Y/N and Spencer still needed to get a lot off of their chest. Once they got back to their desks, Y/N picked up all of her things before heading out of the bullpen.

"Hey, where you going?" Luke questioned.

"To work somewhere else," Y/N answered, "I don't think I can work in here today."

***

Y/N sat in Penelope's office in silence as they both completed work they needed to do for the day. Penelope tried to start multiple conversations but it was clear that Y/N wasn't exactly up for talking when she only gave her one word answers in return. It wasn't until Penelope asked one question that caused her to give a full answer.

"Do you still love him?"

Y/N's head shot up at the question, "Of course I do," She answered with no hesitation, "I love him so much it hurts."

"Then why don't the two of you make up?" Penelope questioned.

"It's not like that Pen," Y/N said, "I'm just so angry at him for taking his vest off when he was in immediate danger and I know that he's mad at me because I pushed him out of the way, risking my own life."

"You know what I think?" Penelope said, "I think that the two of you should make up. When you joined the BAU in 2005, I just knew that there would be something between you and Spencer. I had never seen him act the way he was around you with anyone else. I knew that you would be together forever after you helped him through his addiction."

"Penelope, where is this going-"

"At your wedding, I began to believe that soulmates did exist, when he laid eyes on you when you walked down the aisle I had never seen such love in someone's eyes before. The two of you are meant to be together."

There was a moment of silence before Y/N shook her head slightly, "I'm just going to get back to my work Penny."

Letting out a small sigh, Penelope headed out of her office.

"Where are you going?" Y/N questioned.

"To get myself a drink."

When the door opened to Penelope's office not even five minutes later, Y/N didn't even lift her head up knowing that Penelope was back with her drink. What did take Y/N by surprise however, was the person who walked into Penelope's office wasn't Penelope.

"Y/N? What are you doing in here?" Spencer questioned.

"What does it look like?" Y/N said, gesturing to her work on the desk, "I'm doing my work."

"I thought you left." Spencer said.

"No, I just wanted to get away from you for a while," Y/N said, "What are you doing in here anyway?"

"Garcia said she left some files in here and asked for me to get them," Spencer said, "I'm sure that she lied."

"Yes she did," Y/N said, "Now can you leave please, I want to get my work done so I can go home."

"Go home or go back to Garcia's?" Spencer questioned, "Because that's where you've been for the past few days, you haven't even come home for a change of clothes."

"I had spare clothes in my go bag that I used," Y/N said, "There was no need for me to come home."

"No need for you to come home?" Spencer questioned, "I was there."

"But I was under the impression that you didn't want to see me considering the silent treatment you gave me on the four hour plane journey home." Y/N said, standing up from her seat.

"Of course I wanted you to come home!" Spencer said, raising his voice ever so slightly, "I was just mad at you."

"Mad at me for pushing you out of the way of a bullet that could have easily killed you?" Y/N scoffed.

"It could have killed you just as easily," Spencer said, "It was barely centimeters from your head, Y/N! You could have died just as easily as me. You don't need to save me from everything."

"I do not think that I'm saving you from everything!" Y/N exclaimed.

"Of course you do," Spencer yelled, "You helped me when I was addicted to dilaudid, or- or when I was shot in the leg. Maybe when I was in prison and you did everything to try and get me out. You always try to save me!"

"If anything, it's always you saving me!" Y/N snapped back.

"Oh don't start that."

"You saved me when I was taken by that unsub back in 2011, remember that? You saved me when I was shot and bleeding out on my apartment floor, literally keeping me alive until the paramedics got there. You even saved me when I was trapped in a burning fucking building!" Y/N shouted, pacing around the room.

Walking up to the door, Y/N tried to walk out but it was locked. Penelope had locked them both in the office.

"Great, we're locked in here," Y/N mumbled, "You can let us out now, whatever you were trying to accomplish clearly isn't working!"

There was no responde. It was completely silent.

"Well I guess we're stuck in here together."

"That's what 'til death do us part' means. You don't get a free pass because I've nearly died several times. Like the time I was beaten up in prison, or the time I was shot in the fucking neck." Spencer exclaimed.

"Hey, don't joke about that! That messed me up," Y/N shouted, stepping closer to Spencer. "All my damage comes from you!"

"Well all my pain comes from you." Spencer added, stepping closer to Y/N.

"And I'm allowed to want to save you!" Y/N said. By now the two were nearly chest to chest although they were still yelling at one another.

"I'll save you every time or I'll die trying. I don't care!" Spencer yelled.

"Me too, because I love you!"

"Yeah well I love you too!"

"Then why are we yelling?!"

"I don't know!"

Y/N and Spencer ended their argument and they both panted as they stood chest to chest in the middle of Penelope's office. Lifting her gaze to Spencer's eyes, she found him already looking at her.

"I love you so much Y/N that it physically hurts me," Spencer said, gently placing his hands on the side of her head, thumbs brushing along her cheekbones, "

"Spence, you are the one person I've ever truly loved," Y/N said, placing her hands on his chest, "I've loved you for well over a decade. It just pains me when you put yourself in harm's way. I've seen you laying down in hospital beds and I just think to myself 'What if this is the last time I will see him alive?' That question goes through my mind every time and I can't help myself."

"I want to have children with you, start a family, grow old together and I can't do that if you're dead." Y/N said.

"There's nothing more that I want in the world than to start a family and be with you for the rest of my life," Spencer said, "I don't plan to ever die on you. I will always fight to get back to you."

"I cannot begin to describe my love for you Spence," Y/N mumbled against his lips, "But if I had to, I would say that my love for you is as big as the universe as it's-"

"Continuously expanding." Spencer finished, a smile appearing on his face.

"I'm sorry I make you worry," He muttered, "I'm so sorry that I got mad at you for saving me."

"It's okay Spence," Y/N mumbled, "You're here and that's all that matters. That's the only thing that matters."

Spencer leant forward and connected their lips. Y/N mentally let out a sigh of relief as their argument finally came to an end. The kiss was sweet and filled with pure love and adoration. Normally all of their kisses felt this way, however there was something about this kiss in particular that just filled Y/N and Spencer to the brim with love.

Spencer's palms remained on the side of her face whole his fingers tangled in her hair, pulling her closer to him. Y/N couldn't help but let herself smile into the kiss. The man in her arms was a man she knew she would treasure for the rest of her life and she was beyond lucky to have him.

Spencer pulled away from the kiss to utter three very simple, but powerful words, "I love you."

"And I love you too."

Spencer smiled before pressing his lips to hers once again, gently backing her up to the desk.

***

Penelope and Luke were standing outside of her office, listening to Y/N and Spencer's argument. They both knew that it was intrusive but neither of them cared at that moment.

"What happened to not meddling?" Penelope questioned, looking at Luke.

"I-I just thought that after their argument in the bullpen that a little bit of meddling wouldn't hurt." Luke said.

"Sure," Penelope said, not too convinced, "How much longer are they going to argue for?"

"You can let us out now, whatever you were trying to accomplish clearly isn't working!" Y/N's voice came from the other side of the door.

Both Penelope and Luke stayed silent as their argument resumed.

"I give it another five minutes." Luke said

The shouting between the loving couple resumed, although their voices were muffled, some words they said stuck out as clear as day.

"Me too, because I love you!"

"Yeah well I love you too!"

"Then why are we yelling?!"

"I don't know!"

There was a long silence after Spencer yelled. Slowly turning their heads, Penelope and Luke made eye contact.

"Do you think it's over now?" Luke questioned.

Penelope stepped up to her office door and silently unlocked it. As she stepped into her office her eyes immediately widened as she quickly backed out, closing the door behind her. Neither Y/N or Spencer even realised the door was opened in the first place, they were to wrapped up in one another to notice.

"Are they fighting again?" Luke questioned.

"Worse, they're kissing." Penelope said, eyes wide.

"Aww but you normally love that kind of stuff." Luke teased as he followed Penelope down the hallway, leaving Y/N and Spencer alone in her office.

"You're right but not when he had her backed up to the desk and kissing that passionately, I think I literally saw him grind on her! I don't think I can ever look at them the same way again," Penelope rambled, "I might have my office cleaned before I go in there just in case."

Luke simply chuckled at her comment as they entered the bullpen, both relieved that their friends had finally made up.