Jackson was quiet for a little while longer. Coming from her, it was definitely a compliment - not that it would do him any good to acknowledge it as such. Coming from Reid, the way she meant it - a condemnation.

Thinking of Reid up here did him no good. He didn't even know why he bothered.

"I'm touched, Aria," he told her, with enough irony in his tone to offer her a way out of acknowledging what she'd just said. "I can't say that I'd turn it down," he added, almost immediately, to prevent her from having to answer his first words.