Title: A New Addition Part 1: Growing Pain
Author: Trista Groulx
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds, it belongs to its creator, writers, network and the actors and actresses who bring these characters. Just letting them have some fun, will return unharmed.
Summary: Reid has to have his wisdom teeth removed before the baby is born, but Prentiss goes into labour early. Oh my!
Notes: This is the second to last four parter in my Prentiss/Reid series (Wedding Date Blues, Learning Something New, Who Celebrates Six Months, Drama Love and Parents, Planning the Big Day, Sometimes the Best Laid Plans, Bumps in the Road). I am so glad people are still enjoying this. Welcome to readers, and thank you to those of you who have stuck through this epic. Never meant to be so long, but I like it, after we're done here I have another plot bunny currently burrowing in a notebook.

Reid was laying down on a gurney with Prentiss holding his hand, and running her fingers through his hair. He smiled at her nervously, his hands rubbing her now thirty eight week pregnant belly. Reid was nervous about needing his wisdom teeth removed. He had been complaining that he was having trouble eating for a few weeks, and when he finally went to see the dentist it turned out that one of his wisdom teeth had a cavity, and would need to be removed. Now that it was time for him to go for the surgery he was starting to get nervous about what could wrong."

"Spencer it's not a big deal," Prentiss tried to reassure Reid. "It's a simple procedure, the worst that's going to happen is that Garcia is going to call you chipmunk cheeks for a few weeks."

"Just because it's a routine dental procedure doesn't mean I have to be calm about this," Reid replied.

"I know you you've done a lot of research on this. You have to get it done, the longer you stall the worse it's going to hurt. You are the smartest person I know, I can't understand why you're so scared about this."

"I'm not scared, I'm nervous and that's perfectly normally. I don't understand why this can't wait until after the baby is born."

"For one thing you have barely been able to eat for the last week. Your mother already thinks you're skin and bones, so you need to be able to eat or she'll think I'm the worst wife in the world. You know need to have at least the one with the cavity removed, and the surgeon said it's easier to do it all at once."

"I know, I'm just worried that I'll miss something with the baby."

"The baby isn't due for another two weeks, you're not going to miss anything." She kissed his forehead. "You're here now, just get it over with you big baby."

"I'm not being a baby," he defended. "I am trying to stay close to my very pregnant wife just in case she needs something that only her scrawny and awkward husband can do for her."

"Good try, Spencer. JJ and Garcia are going to be spending the whole time with me. I'm pretty sure that they can take care of most of my needs until you the anaesthetic wears off. Besides they'll probably be less adorably annoying while doing it."

"You're not going to let me weasel out of this are you?"

She shook her head. "Nope, I promise I'll be right there with you when you wake up. I'll still love you chipmunk cheeks and all."

He laughed then pulled her toward him in a chaste kiss. "I love you Emily."

"I love you too, Spencer."

"All right Doctor Reid, are you ready?" a nurse asked coming into the room.

"Yeah I think so," he put his hands on Prentiss' belly again. "Be good for your mom Amorino."

Prentiss smiled down at him. She loved the way his long hands would wrap around her belly when he would talk to their unborn baby. She felt a few small kicks from the baby it was almost like she knew that he didn't like it when she kicked hard. Anyone else who put her hands on her belly would feel the full force of their little genius baby. She was strong, and she wanted to see the world. She watched as the nurse brought him into the other room for the procedure.

Prentiss went over to the coffee shop across the street to meet with Garcia and JJ who were going baby shopping with her. She went in, ordered herself an herbal tea, then joined her friends at a table. Garcia had as always had gotten some cookie for them to share. Prentiss lowered herself into one the chairs, even though she was still on the small side she still had trouble sitting down sometimes.

"Did you watch Boy Genius go into under the stuff?" Garcia asked. "I would put it past him to try to escape when you weren't looking."

"No," she admitted. "But I know he's not going to weasel out of it."

"How are you sure? You did marry a magician. He might escape."

"Trust me Spencer is not an escape artist."

"Sounds like you know from experience you sly foxette."

"I might," Prentiss then winced. "Just when I thought this little one couldn't get any tougher, she kicks even stronger."

"As much as I hate to miss a day of shopping, I think it might be best if you took it easy today," JJ told her friend. "You've got two weeks before the baby is born, and maybe this is her way of telling her mother to slow down a little and get ready for her arrival?"

"Yeah, you might be right shopping might not be the best choice for today," Prentiss agreed.

"Besides your little honey bunny made us promise that we would keep you safe just like he does," Garcia laughed. "Not that I'm afraid of him. Do you wanna head out?"

"No, I think that tea with my two best friends is very relaxing."

"I totally agree Missus Genius."

"You need to stop calling me that, and find a better nickname for Sonya while you are at it."

"I'll think of something, but I still like having you three be the whole genius family."

"I'm not a genius and we don't know if she's is going to be."

"Are you hoping that Sonya's gonna be as smart as Spence?" JJ asked, staring down at her empty coffee cup. "These things get emptier quicker every time Henry has a milestone, I swear."

Prentiss laughed. "I really don't know. I want her to be smart every mother wants that for her child. But some of the things that Spencer had to endure as a child like he was, I really don't want that for her."

"I can understand that, I guess it's not easy being a child genius."

"Especially when you're pretty much alone."

"Sonya's not going to have to worry about that, she has both of her parents, and they are both very healthy. Plus she'll have me as her Godmother, which means that she will have Henry like a cousin of sorts, so she'll always have a friend."

Prentiss smiled. "I'm glad that we picked you as her Godmother. I think she'll always be able to go to her Aunt Penelope as well, and who know she may decide to have some babies of her own some day, since she's so good with her surrogate nephews."

"I would love a baby of my own some day, but first I need to find the right guy. As much as I love my chocolate Adonis, he gets very squirmy or distracts me when I bring up the topic of babies."

"He would make an interesting father," JJ laughed.

"Everyone says that, I don't think he'd be that bad at it. But before we decide to have any new additions I want a ring on this finger, and big splashy white wedding. None of this eloping to Las Vegas stuff for me."

"We wouldn't expect anything less from our resident tech goddess. I bet you have it all planned out already."

"I do, I was defiantly one of those girls who thought about every detail of her dream wedding since I can remember. I just never thought I'd find me such a great hunk of man meat."

"I'm just surprised that it took you two so long to admit that all that flirting was real."

"I guess it was a way for me to not feel rejected. If I was attached to someone, even a spineless jellyfish like Lynch I knew that he couldn't break my heart."

"But he didn't do that," JJ reminded her.

"Nope, he just showed me what I missed for four wasted years of my life. But he does make up for it, a lot." Her cheeks got a little red.

"I miss that honeymoon stage," JJ sighed. "Emily you've gotten awfully quiet over there."

Prentiss kept rubbing her belly, trying to ignore the increasing pain. "Sorry," she murmured. "If this baby's kicks get much stronger she's gonna kill me."

"Emily I think that it might not be baby kicks you're feeling," JJ said. "You can try to ignore it, but they could be contractions. I should know."

"It can't be contractions. I'm not due for another two weeks,," she tried to reason, but knew her friend was right.

"I tried to say that too, only substitute three weeks early. Emily listen to what your body is telling you."

"Spencer can't miss this," Prentiss sighed.

"Ignoring your body isn't going to change it, Sweetpea," Garcia told her friend.

"What's your body telling you, Emily?" asked JJ.

"It's telling me I should probably go to the hospital. Here's hoping that I'll be in labour long enough for Spencer to be able to get there."

"You're the only woman I know who would want to have her labour pains go long."

"Until your genius hunk of lean man meat can make it to your side, I think Jayje and me will make pretty could sub in labour coaches," Garcia assured her.

"If I can't have my husband my surrogate sisters will be just fine," Prentiss assured them.

Garcia grabbed all of their purses while JJ helped Prentiss to her feet. Prentiss would not miss feeling the need for a giant shoe horn in order to get up from her seat one the baby was born. The three of them walked to JJ's car, and started toward the hospital.

The three of them went to the maternity ward, and were directed into one of the small examination rooms. Garcia and JJ tried to excuse themselves before the exam, but Prentiss wanted them close. She didn't want to be alone for any part of this. Garcia held Prentiss' hand as a nurse began the exam. Prentiss hated when she didn't get her own doctor right away. It didn't take the doctor long to finish. Prentiss hope that this would mean that it was just false contrations.

"Your friends were right, Miss Prentiss you're in labour," the nurse said. "So we'll admit you, do you need us to call Doctor Reid?"

"I can fill out all the paperwork!" Garcia offered pulling a pink feather pen from her purse. "No need to bother the mama to be with that stuff." She scurried out the door before anyone could argue.

"Normally I'd say yes, but Spencer is having his wisdom teeth removed at the moment, so he won't be able to be here for a few hours at least."

"All right, well you've just started getting steady contractions it can still be hours before anything happens. In the meantime I'll get your doctor and tell her you're ready for your epidural, and we'll try to keep you as comfortable as possible."

"Thank you," Prentiss said, as the nurse left the room.

"I'll keep calling the dental surgeon's office to see when Spence will be ready come join you," JJ told her friend. "You just focus on having this baby."

"All right, thank you JJ," Prentiss replied. "I hope it doesn't happen too soon, I really don't want him to miss this. Even if he's going to be a total wreck, I still want him to be here."

"I know, and we'll get him here as soon as we can."

Garcia came back into the room. "All right you're all checked in. Now we just need to wait for this baby to come."

"I'm going to go make some calls," JJ said. "Do you want me to call your mother?"

"She's on vacation right now, I think she's in Paris right now, she's decided to visit everywhere she's been assigned, so that she'd be ready to be a good grandmother when she came back. Her contact information, and itinerary are in my planner, so is my cell phone if you need it."

"All right, I'll leave a message for Spence's mother as well," JJ assured her friend.

"Thank you so much, you two are being amazing."

Garcia leaned over and hugged her friend. "It's easier to be a substitute husband when you're two women," she laughed.

"You're right, but I still want Spencer here. I was kind of looking forward to him being all scattered brained for once in his life."

"So was I, but apparently Baby Genius has other ideas in her head. She's kind of stubborn like her mommy don't 'ya think?"

Prentiss laughed. "Yeah, she is."

Prentiss tried to make herself comfortable as they waited for the doctor to into the room. She was so worried that Reid was going to miss it. She was also feeling guilty because she knew that she would not be able to be there when he woke up from his surgery. She knew she couldn't change it. She rubbed her belly, and hoped that this would take a while. She wanted Reid to be there so he could witness the whole thing.

End Part 1

Notes: All right, I know this was a little evil, I'm sorry. Good thing I update daily eh? Reid being in an operation when the baby was born has always been part of the original plot bunny. Please don't hurt me. Love to hear what you think as always heart