Title: Planning The Big Day Part 1: The Dress
Author: Trista Groulx
Rating: T (like the show)
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters they belong to their creator, network, writers and actors and actresses who make them real.
Summary: Prentiss and Reid are beginning to plan their wedding, first Prentiss needs a dress.
Notes: okay so this has been the most irritating part for me to write cause I HATE weddings. I was going to skip it but I felt you guys deserved it. After this there might be some drama. Let's face it life is not gumdrops and rainbows. Obviously this one will have an M rated epilogue. Please let me know if you are still digging this. Oh right, this is a part of my series starting with "Wedding Date Blues" if you've not read the other parts you just need to know that Prentiss and Reid have been together a year and they're getting hitched!
Prentiss, Garcia, and JJ were all sitting at a coffee shop, sipping on coffee and snacking on cookies while they waited for the bridal shop across the street to open. Prentiss wanted to bring her friends when she picked out her wedding dress. She had agreed with Reid that eloping would be their best chance at not having a huge wedding full of politicians they didn't know.
JJ and Garcia had seemed surprised when she had asked them if they could go dress shopping on their next day without a case. Prentiss didn't want to be the first person in the store, but she wanted to get there early enough to spend some time with Reid on a rare day off.
"Have you two set even a date yet?" Garcia asked, swirling her spoon in her coffee cup.
"Um, no, but I still want to get a dress," replied Prentiss.
"Nothing like setting a fire under Spence's butt," laughed JJ. "You get a dress and suddenly he realises that you want to more then just a ring on your finger."
Prentiss laughed. If only she could tell her friends the truth. Reid had been plotting going to Las Vegas since the day the day he proposed. After a week long case it had been easy to get Reid to spill the beans about what he was plotting for their one year anniversary. It hadn't been easy for her to pretend like she didn't want him when they got home. Of course it hadn't taken long for him to break. She never would have thought that Reid was so motivated by her, but she enjoyed it.
"I didn't even think about that," Prentiss sighed. "I just wanted to find the dress first. It seems like the first thing to get done and then everything will fall into place."
"I'm kind of surprised you're actually going to have a whole big wedding, wedding," Garcia mentioned.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I saw the pictures from that wedding you went to with Reid last year. There were so many people there. It just doesn't seem like your style. Seriously your mother knows like half the universe, and she kind of strikes me as the kind of person that invites everyone to everything so she won't offend anyone. I know I wouldn't want like five hundred people I hardly know at my wedding."
"My mother is not the person who is going to be planning my wedding. Spencer and I are going to do that. So I don't think I'm going to have to worry about that."
"All right, if you say so."
Prentiss sighed she knew that her friends knew that she was deluding herself if she thought for a minute that her mother wasn't going to plan her whole wedding for her. She knew that if she did tell them the truth they might slip up and tell her mother. Elizabeth Prentiss was a woman who was very hard to lie to. JJ could see that Prentiss did not like where the conversation was going.
"So what kind of dress are you looking for?" asked JJ.
"I don't know. Something Spencer can't get off of me in thirty seconds flat," Prentiss replied.
"What?" JJ's eyebrow raised in surprised.
"You wouldn't know it by looking at him, but the sweet and innocent Doctor Reid knows how to get a woman out of her dress before she even realises he's done it. One minute he'll be kissing me, the next my dress on the floor and he's giving me this adorable look, so I can't even stay mad at him. So I'm looking for something with maybe a corset or like a zillion buttons so that I can feel what he is doing and figure how is getting it done."
"Our little Reid?" asked Garcia. "I'm shocked."
"We all know how he likes magic tricks. Whenever I ask him he tells me he's magic, and a magician never reveals his secret. He's so geeky."
"But you love it. Getting a woman out of a dress is not a magic trick. It takes a lot of skill, and probably quite a bit of practice. I bet Morgan isn't even that skilled."
"I'm telling you, he's not as shy and geeky as he likes everyone to think. That first night at the wedding last year, let me tell you he was full of surprises. That dress trick was just one of many surprises I had in store for me that night. Not that I am complaining."
"Then there was that whole boxers thing. Which is something I still kind of kinda want to see for myself," giggled Garcia. "Some of those ties he wears I just want to check to see if he really does match."
"Trust me. He has a pair of boxers that matches every tie he owns."
"There have been times that I have almost started to laugh in the middle of a briefing when he comes in with a new and strange tie," JJ mentioned. "Sometimes I wish you had never told us that little fun fact."
"You two were the ones who were bugging me for details. I gave you some details."
"Spence being full of surprises was the kind of details that I was more the kind of thing I was asking about about. So how does he surprise you exactly?"
"We want details. After all we didn't tell the boys about his boxers," Garcia explained.
"I'm actually surprised that hasn't gotten around the office, not that either of us is complaining about that."
"I don't always share the wealth of juicy gossip I have stored up here you know?"
"You're not going to believe what I have to say," Prentiss assured the two women.
"Try us," challenged JJ.
Prentiss played with the handle on her almost empty coffee cup. "When we're together Spencer is always ends up taking control."
Garcia giggled. "Sweet little naïve Reid who has trouble talking to women?"
"I told you that you wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"It's just so hard to believe. He's always seemed so shy around women," JJ mentioned. "I had to go on a date with him once, and I never thought he might have a Cassanova side hiding inside that tiny body of his."
"I didn't believe it either, until I saw it first hand. Once those doors are closed," Prentiss explained, a grin coming across her face. "Then he turns into someone completely different person."
"I know that smile. It means I you like it," teased Garcia.
"You don't kick a gift horse in the mouth. I don't know any woman who would complain about all the attention Spencer pays to her."
"Who wudda thunk that under that geeky exterior lies a sex fiend," Garcia joked. "But I guess that explains those dark circles you try to cover up when you guys get back after a case."
Prentiss blushed. "I thought I was doing a better job of hiding them."
"Make up can only do so much Emily," JJ laughed. "But I have this eye stuff that someone gave me when I had Henry. It's a girl's best friend. You don't want to have big purple circle under your eyes when you get around to getting married."
"Thank you JJ. I'll try anything."
"Well purple circles under your eyes would be better to have in your wedding pictures then Reid wearing those geeky glasses of his," Garcia mentioned.
"He will defiantly not be wearing those in our wedding pictures I can promise you that. Although that would make my mother's head spin."
"It would be hilarious to have to explain that to your future grand children," added JJ.
Prentiss laughed. "That would be pretty funny. But I'm sure that he will still own those when we have future great grand children."
"You could be right. So have you talked about your wedding party?" asked Garcia.
"We haven't talked about it," Prentiss replied. "But I do know I want you two be my my bridesmaids."
"I hope you pick us out nice dresses," JJ said.
"Of course they're going to be nice. I have some ideas in mind, and they are going to be great! Although we might have to do something crazy with Garcia's hair so her sparkling personality shines through."
Garcia grinned. "You're thinking of everything."
"I think this has got me thinking about our wedding."
"That's not a bad thing. There's a lot of stuff to plan."
"It's so much easier to elope," JJ sighed. "Spence is even from Las Vegas you even have the perfect excuse to go."
"I've thought about it, honestly. I don't know. I still want a dress, and wedding pictures, and for our friends to be there."
"That makes sense to me. I know I want a real wedding," said Garcia.
"I honestly don't even know what I want. First I guess we find my dress, and then Spencer and I decide from there."
Prentiss then went silent, wishing she could tell her friends the truth about what they were planning. She did want her friends to be there, but she couldn't risk her mother taking over her wedding day. She was getting excited as it got closer to the day they had chosen. She loved that they had picked their first year anniversary.
"Are you dreaming about becoming Missus Doctor Spencer Reid?" teased Garcia.
"Now that's a mouthful," laughed JJ.
"I guess I was day dreaming a little. I never even thought about that. I think I'm going to keep my name, although it would be funny on a case."
"You know that just once I'm going to introduce you to someone as SSA Reid to someone who knows Spence and watch them squirm. Then once then get confused ask if they were looking for Doctor or Missus Reid."
"You do have a touch of evil in you Jayje, I like it," Garcia commented. "I want to be there when you do it, or at least be able to hear it."
"I just hope I will be able to do it with a straight face."
Prentiss was staring at the ring on her finger. She had never even thought about changing her name before. There was a nice ring to Doctor and Missus Spencer Reid, but it certainly would get confusing at work. She was surprised that they had never talked about it. Of course Reid was the kind of man who would just assume that his wife would keep her name.
"Hello, Earth to Emily, come in Emily," Garcia said waving her hand in front of her friend's face.
"Um sorry. I was just thinking about what you just said. It just kind of hit me that I really am getting married. Spencer is going to be my husband."
"You scared?" asked JJ.
"No, I'm kind of thrilled. I just want to go get married tomorrow now. I think it's time to find me a wedding dress and make this more real."
"I think so too!" Garcia exclaimed.
The three women put everything away, and collected their purses. Then they walked across the street, and into the bridal shop. The three women looked around amazed by all the dresses. An employee came over to them.
"Hi!" the woman exclaimed cheerfully. "I'm Manda can I help you ladies today?"
"Yeah, uh, sure," replied Prentiss. "I don't even know where to start looking. I want something with a lot of buttons, or one of those corset type dresses. Something that's not very traditional, and kind of sexy."
"We can find that for sure," the associate assured her, scurrying off to go find get a few dresses.
"Someone is determined to make Spence drop dead at alter," JJ laughed.
"I don't want him to drop dead. I just want to get the upper-hand on our wedding night," Prentiss explained. "I'm trying to throw him off his game. Just once I want him to lose control with me."
"You could try getting him drunk?" Garcia suggested.
"He never has more then one or two drinks, that wouldn't work," said JJ.
"I wouldn't do that to him. That's not really the way I want him to lose control either."
Manda appeared with a few dresses in her arms. The three women grinned seeing the sea of white fabric. This was the kind of girls' day they wished they could have more often.
"I think it's time for you to scoot your cute little butt into a fitting room, and find your dream dress!" Garcia exclaimed.
After almost two hours the three women were all in agreement about the dress. It was the perfect one. Reid would not be able to get off her without her knowing, and he would not know what hit him as she walked toward him down the aisle. Prentiss was glad that dress fit her perfectly and she would not have to get it altered. She told her friends that she wanted to bring it home right away so that she would have something to show for what she had paid for the dress; but really she needed in a few days. She wanted to tell them so much.
End Part one:
Okay, I am evil. Did you forget? Did you really think you'd "see" the dress before Reid? Tell me what you think please. Next up is "Preparing for Vegas"
