Summary: It's the sequel to "9 Months" and follows Harper's and Spencer Reid's daughter Autumn through stages of her life, 500 days of her life to be accurate. See how she grows up a genius and finds love where she would have never expected it.
Because isn't it weird to fall in love with someone you've known all your life?
The days will be mixed, meaning: we'll have one chapter like this one below of her life as a child, then maybe one as a teen, then one as a toddler, then one as an adult etc., you get the picture.
I hope hope hope you enjoy :) next chapters will be longer!
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(500) Days of Autumn
Chapter One
(30) Days of Insomnia
"Your turn", Spencer's voice came muffled from the sheets as Autumns demanding shriek came through the baby monitor and the thin walls of the apartment. Really, they wouldn't even need a baby monitor, Autumn was perfectly loud enough on her own.
"Oh no, baby, I've picked her up last, it's your turn", Harper smirked and let her hand trail over Spencer's back as he lay on his stomach and buried his face in the pillows.
They'd been at home with their daughter for a good week and neither of them had slept properly in days. That moment Spencer was just happy to be on paternity leave so he wouldn't have to get up early to go to work.
"JJ didn't say she would be that bad", he moaned and turned over to look into Harpers sleepy eyes.
"Well, we certainly can't return her, now go, don't let her wait", commanded his fiancée and nudged his shoulder towards the door, "go"
Reluctantly Spencer left the cozy sheets and stood on weakly tired legs in his boxers and a t-shirt facing the door. If anyone had told him a year before, he'd be a Dad soon, he would've laughed and turned away. But now there was no turning away and he didn't want to, but it was still a weird feeling, suddenly having this huge responsibility and this little creature in his life that demanded both all his attention and all his love. She was so precious, though a mess in the nights, during daytime she was the best baby ever, she hardly ever cried, she slept a lot but when the night came their timid, peaceful baby was replaced with an unhappy complaining diaper-wasting monster that didn't grant her parents more than two or three hours of sleep.
On stumbling feet Spencer scuffled towards his old study, which was now Autumns nursery and approached the source of the crying.
With her toothless mouth wide open Autumn cried heartrendingly and didn't stop when her father came into view to pick her up cautiously. Only when he felt her warm body coming to peace on his shoulder, the screaming ceased and Spencer could tell the reason for her discomfort.
"That's a diaper change coming up", he whispered and carried her over to the changing table. Eventually Spencer had become pretty good at changing diapers, though Harper was still faster than him, he did it swiftly enough, without hurting Autumn and to everyones satisfaction and he couldn't say that this didn't make him proud.
When he put a fresh diaper on his now clean baby daughter, he caught the clock on the wall. At four thirty he put her back into her bed and stroked her little face with one finger while she closed her eyes peacefully. No matter how much sleep she took from him, he still loved her beyond words. She was the one reason he didn't crash at Harper's coma, she was the center of his life, he'd begun to think that all his life had led up to this point, that she was the reason, that he'd have her one day, that she would turn it all around. With her, they finally were a proper family and Harper had adjusted to her role as a Mom at the most impeccable speed, if you'd seen her carrying her daughter through the apartment, singing to her, you'd think she'd never been anything else than a mother.
He threw one last look at his daughter before slurping back to bed where he let himself fall beside Harper and cuddled up against her body.
"She alright?", she asked removing some curls from his face.
"Just needed a diaper change", he replied and put his arm around her tiny body to what she responded by nestling herself close to his chest, kissing his neck slightly.
"Well then, let's hope she grands us some sleep", she whispered and he nodded, holding her until both of them were vast asleep.
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The light of the morning hit their bedroom right before Autumn, too, woke up and this time, Harper went to get her while Spencer prepared breakfast. He made pancakes and watched Harper eat happily while rocking their daughter on her lap.
"I've been thinking about going to the BAU today", he said after finishing his own breakfast, "Garcia said they'll be returning from a case at around one pm"
"Yes, I'd love to", Harper answered and the smiled down at Autumn, "You wanna go see your friends?"
After finishing the dishes and watching a bit of news while Harper read to Autumn, they put her in the push chair and took Harper's car to Quantico where Garcia already waited with a warm and tight hug and hovered immediately over Autumn, saying how amazingly cute she was with her already curling brown hair.
"And she looks so much like you, Harper", Penelope smiled up to her.
"Even more like my brother, she's got this kind of tan already, that's just how my brother looks. I'd thought her to be paler", she shrugged and tugged her arm under Spencer's.
"Oh, look, here they come", Garcia said happily and pointed at the opening doors. They didn't see them yet, standing in the conference room but it wasn't long until Emily spotted them. The rest of the team followed her up the stairs and across the way to where the others waited.
"Reid", Morgan said, coming forth with JJ and Rossi, both smiling at the sight of their guests, "man, you look tired"
"That's because I am", Spencer sighed.
"Is she keeping you up badly?", JJ asked compassionate, keeping her eyes locked on Autumn.
"She's brilliant during daytime, hardly ever cries but as soon as we put her to bed, it's mayhem", Harper said.
"I bet she's afraid of the dark", mused Emily.
"Like her dad", laughed Morgan with JJ joining in.
"It's still seems a bit unreal,doesn't it?", Emily tilted her head and looked at the picture Harper, Spencer and their daughter made, "that our little G-man would turn out our family-man"
"I said it before and I'll say it again, they're the best that could've happened to me", Spencer smirked and pulled Harper yet tighter.
Next up: (10) Days of Confusion