A New Life

I would love to hear your opinions and look to working further on the story. This is a follow-up to Undercover Family. How do they survive being children?

I do not own or have connection with the "Criminal Minds" program or its characters.

Chapter one.

It took a few weeks but everything got unpacked at the house and legalities of our agents was straightened out. Their apartments and homes had been kept up during the assignment but now that is was over and they don't know how long they will be like this now. The apartments were cleaned out, the furniture was sold and the personal stuff was brought over for each of our agents.

All the while this is happening momma is checking out the machine to find out if it is actually repairable. She has finally decided that she needs to go to the institute to check it against the main machine there and check on Ross's and the assistant's reports. She also wants her 'children' to be examined by the physicians to determine their health and development levels are what they should be.

Penelope was originally placed as a nineteen-year-old she has started back at the FBI in the main office downtown Washington as a technical analyst for another unit. She decides to stay with momma and the others just because she likes being part of a family and being the oldest is good too. Also, if she wants to return to her regular age she needs to stay in the loop with the family.

Sean is thirteen and is not able to return to his life in New York so they have him be with momma as the oldest boy. He is not happy and did not expect to have to relive his teen years not yet understanding that until momma fixes the machine he won't actually get older and will be thirteen for the rest of his life. He has been helping momma out with unpacking her room and moving all of the Aaron's stuff and toys from his room to hers since Aaron wanted to be in her room and not share with his brother. Sean is learning how to be the oldest and that there are six younger siblings to watch out for. He was always the younger one and it's a little disconcerting sometimes to be the older one and having more responsibility. It has definitely given him a little more respect for Aaron when growing up.

Our next child is JJ, who is now known as Jennifer and has talked to Will, who has been finally fully told about the operation and what has happened. He has come over with Henry once a week so that she can spend time with him. She is twelve years and does her best to give him as much of her time and love as possible. She is the mother-hen of the younger children and tries to not let her feelings of not being able to be a true mother to Henry but she tries to maintain a good relationship with Will and Henry.

David is frustrated as he lived on the earth for more than fifty years and yet he was now a child of eleven years under the doctor who created the device that made him eleven and now calls her mommy. He hasn't called anyone by that title in a long time and is still uncomfortable about doing so. He hopes that she doesn't make him go back to school since he hated it the first time. He hated it the second time and doesn't want to do it a third time.

Derek in not sure of what his role really is as the middle child of a large family at eight-years-old. He doesn't feel that he can protect the younger ones like he should and feels it is wrong when others try to protect him. He is sharing a room with Spencer who sometimes drives him crazy with his continuing chatter and sometimes young way of viewing the world. He works at protecting his little siblings.

Emily is a sweet five-year-old little girl who is not sure of whether she likes this situation or not. She grew up as a single child of diplomats that traveled the world. She never had a true part of land to call home or siblings to watch over her or play with. She always had to make new friends or fit in to a new place where they spoke a different language and had different customs. She kind of likes waking up with sisters and brothers around and having a mommy who doesn't have to go out all the time but will sit and read stories and play games with her. She is learning to like being five years old and not just being called a little princess but being treated like a little sister. She likes to play with Spencer who is only a year younger than she.

Spencer is not sure of how he feels and what he wants since he has been enjoying being a four-year-old. He liked going to the pre-school classes. He likes sitting in mommy's lap and she reads to him like his mother used to do. Only mommy reads books for children not just classics and great literature. He likes having brothers and sisters to play with and do things with. He is still reading and learning and knowing how to profile but he enjoys having a home without responsibilities of taking care of others.

Aaron, our youngest at 15-months-old is the boss of this unit. He is frustrated because he wants what he can't have and yet isn't going to give up trying to get it. He is the boss still and others do defer and talk to him but he is also a baby who still takes a bottle, sleeps in the crib in momma's room and wears diapers 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. He has difficulty in climbing the stairs and doesn't walk far before getting tired. He is tired of being a baby.

Momma gathers her children together to take the bus to the institute. The car is not big enough now that Sean is with them and momma wants Penelope to be checked out as well. So they take the bus to the institute. Upon arriving momma and the children walk to the fourth floor where the medical personnel and she begins to talk to Dr. Hovde about checking the children out and making sure they are at the correct developmental level. He begins to do physical medical exams on the children beginning with Aaron, who does not want to do it.

He did what he could to be a problem for them trying to measure his height, weight, inches of waist, chest, inseam, seat, head, neck and all of the parts of the body so they could compare them to what is considered normal for a child of the age he is supposed to represent. They take his blood pressure, temperature and then had to take blood which is what finally caused him to cry like the baby he was. Although they use the smallest syringe needles possible for babies, they still hurt excessively to be poked in their tiny arteries and veins. After the blood was taken momma held her baby to comfort him from the examination while watching Spencer and Emily now having their physical exam vitals and then more crying when syringes enter small bodies to take blood. She takes these three little ones to another floor while Derek and David begin their physicals.

On the first floor is the daycare center for the employees of the institute and momma planned on dropping off her three little ones there while the others have their physicals and she then heads to her office and begin to process the thousands of reports and paperwork waiting for her. Arriving there she talks to Director Amy Larson about the child agents and how she wants them to taken care of. Spencer is put in the early four-year-old class with his teacher, Ms. Eidenschink. Who welcomes him and shows him his own cubby hole for his stuff and then introduces him to the other children in his class, which is currently in reading time, where the teacher assistant was reading stories to the children. Emily is in the five-year-old class with her teacher Ms. Green. Who welcomes her and shows her where to put her things and takes her outside where her class is playing in the playground. Momma then goes into the toddler room to meet with Ms. Olson and introduces her to Aaron, who refuses to look at her or get out of momma's arms. Although momma did not drop him off that day, she wanted to meet the teacher of the room.

She went back up to where the physical exams were being done. The boys, including Sean were done while Jennifer was in the exam room and Penelope had started her exam in another area. Momma left Aaron in Sean's arms while she went to check on Jennifer and made sure that she was not being made uncomfortable by the invasiveness that can occur for girls about to become young women. But Jennifer and Penelope get through their physicals fine and now momma will have to wait for the results of the lab tests and reports. She and the others go to the food court to get some lunch, momma thought about getting Spencer and Emily but decided to allow them to eat with their classes. After lunch, momma takes the older children to a place where they can spend time with other young people in the institute and read, play games, do artwork and whatever else they can come up with in the place. Momma takes Aaron with her to her office on the top floor and begins to work on paperwork while he sat on her lap until he fell asleep for his afternoon nap.

Aaron was just waking up when momma received a call from the daycare center. It seems one of the little ones fell down and cut their head open while playing. She picks up Aaron and heads down there. When she gets there and goes to the year five room where she sees her little girl with a tears streaming down her face mixed with some blood. There was a wide gash on her forehead from right eye to hairline.

"Hey Sweetheart."

"Mommy." she cries to her and reaches out. Momma puts Aaron down and checks out her little girl.

Talking to the director, she says, "I am going to take her upstairs to have Dr. Hovde look at it. I am going to leave Aaron with Ms. Olson. He just woke up from his nap and needs his afternoon snack. I will be back down soon to pick up my boys." She lifts Emily into her arms and takes Aaron by the hand as she walks out of the year five room and into the toddler room. Aaron balks and doesn't want to go in.

"No, mommy, let me come with you."

"I want you here and safe while she gets checked out. I can't keep an eye on you and talk with the doctor. Besides you need to get to know Ms. Olson."

"No mommy please I'll be good. Please." He looks at her with the cutest little boy face of her sweet baby but she is not buying it today.

"No, you will stay here for a few hours, they will give you a snack and you can play until mommy comes back."

"I don't want to stay here. Please don't make me stay here." Mommy looks at the teacher who picks Aaron up and he screams and tries to get down. Mommy heads upstairs to have Emily looked at by the Doctor. The doctor looks at the head and sees that it is not too bad and puts some stitch tapes and gives her a sucker for being such a brave little girl. Mommy takes her back to the office with her and Emily sits at the table in the office and does some coloring while momma continues to work on her backlog of reports and analysis. At 5:00, momma gets up and stretches and goes to her little girl and sees the several pieces of paper that she has created artwork on. Emily looks up at her and smiles.

"It's time to go home sweetie. Let's clean up." They get ready to go pick up the rest of the family.

They go to the education room where the big kids are and get Derek, David, Jennifer and Sean. Penelope actually asked to go to the main computer room to see the device and how they are analyzing and working to repair the device. Momma and the kids go to pick her up as they head to the daycare area where Spencer and Aaron are. Momma heads into year four and sees Spencer playing. She talks to Ms. Eidenschink about his day while one of the kids goes to get Spencer, who then comes running over and grabs momma around the waist. She smiles and gives him a big hug back. They head back out of the room and Spencer gets into the double stroller that momma had brought that Emily is already sitting in. Momma goes into the toddler room.

"Hello, Ms. Olson."

"Hello Doctor Anderson."

"How did my boy do this afternoon?"

"He didn't."

"Excuse me."

"He has been sitting over in a corner since you left. He would not come for a snack and when we tried to change him he screamed and bit one of the assistants. We decided to just allow him to sit and sulk until you returned. I don't know if he is ready to be in this room." Momma looks in to the corner and sees her baby boy sitting and curled up.

"Thank you Ms. Olson, I'll see you tomorrow." She walks over to Aaron and bends down to pick him up and when he feels the hands on him he begins to fight and squirm. She brings him to her chest despite his squirming. She begins to murmur soft words to him and he looks up at her face and then grabs onto to her like he will never let go again.

"I am mad at you Rebecca."

"You are? Can you tell me why?"

"You left me here when I didn't want to be here. I begged you to not leave me here but you did anyway."

"Didn't you think that I would be back for you?" He shook his head as he grabbed her tighter. She takes him over to the changing table and placed him down to clean him up and put his snow suit on him to go outside.

"Are you hungry?" He nodded his head.

"Then you should have eaten your snack with the rest of the children." He looks at with sad eyes that showed that he felt humiliated by the fact that she left him there. "I know that you don't want to be around other children your 'age' but it would good for you to do so. When we come here, I am here to work. That is the purpose. I want to check the machine and get it repaired so we can return you to your normal self. You need to allow me to do that and when you're with me I don't work as well. That is why this daycare was created. All of its employees and assistants are spouses and parents of the people who work here. All the people who work here volunteer a certain number of hours each month. We love to spend time with our children and all of us do so as much as we can but we still must work and children need structure and socialization time with others. You will come to daycare. Ms. Olson thinks that you are not ready for this classroom. Maybe tomorrow we'll try the baby room. You might like that room better." She puts him in the baby carrier that she has on her body, since the stroller was taken by the other two little ones. She meets the others in the hall and they head to the bus stop to go home.