Malina and Spencer

Birthright (sexual relationship)

1st- Kids and Orchids (romantic)

2nd- Malina

### Reasons

1st- Malina's mother dies after Malina contemplates whether or not to move in with Spencer. She takes it as a sign to not commit to him and she breaks up with him out of fear.

### Aftermath

1st- The two don't talk to each other for a while and they have their friends and Opal act as proxies if they wanted to say anything to each other or bring the kids where they need to be. They become friends again in JJ after Spencer learns that Malina was thinking of leaving the BAU.

## Key Chapters

### Season 1

CompulsionBlood Hungry

The relationship between Malina Reyes-Тургенев and Spencer Reid started as strictly a work relationship and developed in to a friendship and soon a sexual and romantic relationship.

## About

Malina and Spencer met in May of 2004 when Malina started interning under Hotch at the BAU. Spencer was the first member of the team that Malina met and she started to take a liking to the young Spencer Reid. It was learned in [[Memories of Us]] that Malina had a hard time not tripping over her words when she first met him and she thought the younger male was adorable. However, her liking for him faded as she tried to keep those feelings to herself and started to find things about him that she didn't like in order to keep her feelings for him from returning.

## Throughout The Series

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6
* Season 7
* Season 8
* Season 9
* Season 10
* Season 11
* Season 12
* Season 13
* Season 14
* Season 15

### Season 1

The two start the series off only talking about work-related things and when they were out at bars with the rest of the team they would rarely talk to one another personally. During nights out Malina was either gushing to the team about her family and her son or she was getting hit on by guys at the bar which made Reid only "a bit" jealous.

In Extreme Aggressor it seems that Malina doesn't really like Spencer as she says that he just isn't her cup of tea but it is later revealed that this may be because Malina actively tries to avoid him.
Malina reveals that she initially had an attraction to the male but the longer they worked together the more she found annoying about him to try and deter her from having feelings for her co-worker.

In Compulsion it seems that Malina is trying to be nicer to Spencer smiling at him when he asks her something and offering him advice. It is later revealed that this is because JJ thinks that it would be best if she tried to be nicer to him because they both could learn a lot from each other.
Although the two are not far apart in age, Malina seems to try and remind Spencer that he still has a lot to learn just like everyone else asking him to look closer at things to see the bigger picture.
As Malina watches his interactions with Gideon while playing chess she can tell that Spencer has a love for life that she seemed to have lost some time ago.

In this same chapter Spencer wonders if Malina hates him as he takes her rejection for his help as something personal. He starts by asking Elle if she thinks this is the case as she isn't very open with anyone to her knowledge.
Spencer later asks Derek the same question to which he tells him to try and find an in with her. It wasn't going to be easy but he just need to find one.

Spencer and Malina start to develop a friendship after the case in Blood Hungry. While on the jet on the way home, Malina is seen reading Преступление и наказание, the original Russian version of Crime and Punishment, and Spencer asks her about it since it is one of the few books that he never got around to reading. Malina lets Spencer read the book and the two start to act more friendly to each other after that. The two start to find a lot of things that they have in common and eventually, Malina's feelings for Spencer start to return.

The two eventually become so close that Spencer is the only person to know about Mason cheating on Malina. He becomes her shoulder to cry on and the two start to hang out a lot more after that.

### Season 2

In Lessons Learned after their case the team goes to a bar and they hang out. While there Malina gets really drunk and starts to flirt with men at the bar. She also flirts with Spencer which leads him to decide it was time to take her home. Malina continues to flirt with Spencer up until he tucks her into bed. After this encounter Spencer starts to act weird around Malina.

It is confirmed in Revelations that Malina's feelings for Spencer were returning and they had never really left. Malina spends the entire chapter worried about Spencer and whether or not they would get him back. She is unable to leave Garcia's side hoping that they get some indicator that he is still alive.

### Season 3

We learn in Birthright that the reason Spencer has been acting so weird around Malina is because he can't figure out if she has feelings for him or not.

In A Higher Power Spencer reveals that he started to like Malina shortly after the two met. He thought that she was pretty when they first met but the longer that she was on the team the more he started to notice that her brains matched his in so many ways. He was attracted to her smarts and her confidence.