This is the sequel to "Changes for the Better". I suggest you read it first. But if you don't let me catch you up to speed:
In the beginning JJ found out she was pregnant with Reid's baby. Then while she is on a case she gets kidnapped nearly killed, she wasn't JJ anymore. She had changed. Then she died in childbirth. The end.
It's depressing I know but bare with me ok?
I love JJ, ok? She's my favorite character (well second favorite). But I was stupid and killed her in the end of the last story. And then I came up with this idea.
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"Daddy, Daddy can my friend come over tomorrow?" JJ asked running to her father's side. Jennifer Jareau Reid was five and a half years of age. Her silky golden hair flowed two inches past her shoulder and her crystal blue eyes sparkled as she looked at her father. Dr. Spencer Reid. JJ, or Jenny as most of her friends called her, had never met her mother, well Spencer's fiancée, the late Jennifer Jareau, had held their daughter before she had died. But only for a moment.
"Whose this friend?" Reid asked pulling his daughter into his lap.
"Her name is Isabella, she goes to my pre-school." Jenny answered.
"Jayje, baby, I don't know." Reid said.
"Please dad!" Jenny whined.
"What did Isabella's parents say?" Reid asked.
"Her mom said it was okay and to give you this number." Jenny answered pulling a phone number out of her pocket.
"I'll give her a call." Reid said.
"Yay!" Jenny yelled jumping off of her father's lap and running down the hall towards her bedroom. Reid sighed and pulled his cell phone out of his pocket; dialing the number his daughter had given him.
"Natalie Johansen speaking." A distracted sounding woman said.
"Hi Mrs. Johansen, my name is Spencer Reid, my daughter Jennifer Reid gave me this number." Reid said.
"Oh yes, hi." She said. "Izzy keep it down! I'm trying to talk on the phone!" Natalie yelled.
"My daughter informed me that our children are trying to set up a play date. JJ said you okayed it?" Reid asked.
"Yes I did, I just wanted to speak with you to deal with the details." Natalie said.
"You could follow me to my house after school tomorrow?" Reid asked.
"Sounds great, now I have to go to the store. See you tomorrow Mr. Reid." Natalie said.
"Bye." Reid said hanging up the phone. Once he did he spotted Jenny's golden head peaking around the corner from her bedroom. "She can come over tomorrow." Reid said.
"Yay! Thank you daddy!" Jenny said running down the hall and into her father's arms.
"Your welcome. Now, do you want to go to daddy's work?" He asked.
"Yeah!" Jenny said running towards the door of their new house.
"Jennifer Reid! Wait for me." Reid scolded as his daughter ran out of the house, though he had a small smile on his face.
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"Aunt Penelope!" Jenny squealed running out of the elevator of the BAU and into Garcia's waiting arms.
"Hey there Kitten, how are you liking the new house?" Garcia asked.
"It's bigger than the apartment." Jenny said.
"Hey Jenny." Jack said walking up to her with his father at his side. Today was "bring your child to work day".
"Hey Jack!" Jenny said wiggling out of Garcia's grasp and hugging her friend. Jack was a spitting image of his father, the same black hair and calm brown eyes. He was calm and very level headed for his age. Everyone found it amusing to watch Jenny and Jack interact, because Jenny was so full of light and energetic and Jack being so level headed. It was almost always a comical interaction.
"Where's Kat?" Reid asked Penelope. Kat was Kevin and Garcia's three-year-old daughter.
"With her dad, she'll be up here soon." Garcia said.
"Oh, JJ, do you want to go say hi to Aunt Emily and Uncle Morgan?" Reid asked.
"Okay." Jenny said walking towards the bullpen.
"JJ get back here." Reid said.
"Why?" She asked turning around to look at Reid.
"Just come here." Reid said catching up to his daughter and taking her hand. They walked into the bullpen together. Morgan and Emily both smiled when they saw them walking up. Emily was nearly six months pregnant with her first child. She had been secretly dating some guy from Langley for a while, they had gotten engaged a month before Emily found out she was pregnant.
"Aunt Emily!" Jenny said releasing her father's hand and running to hug Emily.
"Hey there Sweetie, how are you?" Emily asked.
"Good." She chirped. "Tomorrow Izzy and her mom Ms. Rester are coming over."
"Wait, Ms. Rester? I talked to a Mrs. Johansen." Reid said.
"It's the same person Daddy, Izzy's daddy died in the war a year ago. All the teachers call her Ms. Rester." Jenny explained. Morgan gave Reid a look.
"What's that look for?" Reid asked.
"There is a single mother coming over to your house tomorrow?" Morgan asked with a sinister smile.
"Yeah." Reid said sitting down at his desk. Morgan continued to smile at him. "What?"
"Nothing... nothing…"
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"This is your house?" Izzy asked getting out of her mother's car. Izzy was roughly JJ's height with long wavy brown hair and green eyes.
"Yep, do you like it?" Jenny asked.
"Yeah." Izzy said. The two girls ran to the front door.
"Hi, I'm Natalie Johansen." A skinny brunette woman said reaching her hand out to Reid. Natalie looked just like an older version of her daughter, with her green eyes sparkling.
"Dr. Spencer Reid." Reid said shaking her hand.
"Doctor?" Natalie asked as they started to walk towards the house.
"Yes, I work for the behavioral analysis unit of the FBI." Reid said.
"You're a profiler?" She asked. Reid nodded. "Wow, so where's your wife?" She asked.
"JJ died in childbirth five years ago." Reid said sadly.
"Oh my." Natalie gasped.
"It's okay. She was suffering down here on earth anyways. She had worked for the BAU too, and while we were on a case she was kidnapped. She was never the same after that." Reid said.
"My husband Jonathan died in the war a little over a year ago." Natalie said sadly.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Reid said. Natalie shrugged.
"It's okay I suppose." She said as Reid opened the door and let her in to the couch.
"Jen?" Reid called.
"Yeah daddy?" She called down the hall.
"I just wanted to see where you were at." Reid said before sitting down on the couch, Natalie joined him.
"How do you manage raising Jenny and working for the FBI?" Natalie asked.
"Oh, well one of my colleges is a technical analyst, they don't go into the field. So she normally takes her. Besides, JJ loves hanging out with Kat." Reid said.
"You named your daughter after your wife?" Natalie asked, Reid nodded.
"Fiancée, but yeah." Reid said looking down at his hands.
"Oh."
"And my other college is pregnant so if Garcia has to go with us Emily takes Kat and Jen." Reid said referring back to the topic at hand.
"Lots of kids." Natalie said.
"No, not really. And our unit chief has a eight-year-old son. But Jack lives with his mom most of the time."
"It's sad isn't it? That people would willingly give up their husband and take their child away from them." Natalie said.
"Yes it is."
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Okay I'm going to stop there, tell me what you think!
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