A Mother's Love

Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds or any of the characters except for AJ

Chapter 1:

2000:

A young and very pregnant college student was rushed into the hospital with her friends at her side. "She's going into labor." one of the friends told the lady at the counter. They got her in a wheelchair and took her away.

"Where is the father?" The nurse asked the girl as she took her into a room.

"He passed away." The girl said softly.

"I'm sorry to hear that." The nurse told her before leaving the room to get a doctor. Four hours later the girl was finally able to hold her first born son. Her friends soon joined her in the room looking at the adorable little boy in her arms.

"Congratulations JJ!" Her best friend, Alice, told her as she finally looked up from the child. "What did you name him?"

JJ smiled as she continued to stare at her son, "Anthony Joseph Rodriguez Jr, AJ for short." All of her friends smiled as they heard the name of her first love and father of her child and the nickname so similar to her own.

"I'm sure Tony would have loved that." Alice told her.

"I know he would have." JJ said, a tear in her eye that she refused to let fall. She looked at her son who looked just like his father but with her blue eyes.

2007:

JJ walked into her house from her doctors appointment to find complete chaos, her son was chasing her best friend around the toy filled room with a water gun. JJ looked back at her boyfriend who was standing in the doorway watching with an amused look on his face. "Hey what is going on here?" JJ asked as she took everything in.

Spencer and AJ stopped what they were doing and turned to look at her with smiles on their faces. "We were playing water tag Mommy!" the little boy told her excitedly letting out a small gasp as he felt his uncle scoop him up and put him on his shoulders.

JJ smiled at her son before looking at her best friend, "Spence, you know I don't like him playing with guns and why are you playing that game inside."

"Sorry Jayje, he wanted to play it and it was too cold outside I'll clean this place up." Reid told her with a small smile on his face. They all started to pick up the place and dry the water off the wood floor. "So how did it go?" He asked, referring to the doctors appointment to check on JJ's growing baby.

"It went well, everything is normal and we can most likely learn the sex of the baby by the next appointment." Will told him through his barely understandable accent.

"That's good, when is the next appointment?" Reid asked as they finished up.

"In three weeks." JJ answered this time.

"Great, well I'd better get going, I'll see you tomorrow." Reid told her as he went to hug AJ goodbye.

"Thank you for the toys and ice cream Uncle Spence!" The boy shouted in a hyper way.

"Oh god Spence you gave him ice cream, how much did you give him this time." JJ asked dreading the answer as she looked at her jumping son.

"I'd better go we have work early, goodbye everyone." Reid said as he rushed out the door. JJ laughed as she looked at Will then AJ and wondered how she would get the boy down for the night.

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The next day JJ walked into the BAU looking extremely tired, she glared at Reid as he looked at her with an apologetic smile. Morgan came over to her with a small smirk, "Late night with Will?" he asked with a raised eyebrow, getting the attention of most of the group.

"No, Spence decided to give my son, who has an eight o'clock bed time, three scoops of cookie dough ice cream with whipped cream, hot fudge, and sprinkles at seven. Suffice to say he didn't go to bed at eight." JJ told them all through gritted teeth as she continued to glare at Reid.

"Sorry, that little boy is really good at talking people into stuff. How did you even know that's what I gave him?" Reid told her as everyone laughed at the two.

"He told me about three times, along with some facts that he read online and heard from you, I swear you two are the same person. Why couldn't you have just had a Star Trek marathon like last time?" JJ sighed as she sat on Reid's desk.

"We've seen them all over the past few times we're probably going to start Doctor Who next time." JJ just laughed and went to her office. She went through her daily routine and was half way done for the day when she got a call from her son's school. She answered the phone and was surprised and furious with what she heard. She quickly told Hotch the situation and headed out.

She got to the school quickly and headed inside to the principal's office. She knocked on the door and entered to see AJ looking at her with sad eyes and a small pout. "Would you like to explain what happened AJ?" The principal asked the little boy who shook his head.

"Anthony Joseph, tell me what happened right now." JJ told him with her hands on her hips.

"I may have gotten into an argument with the teacher." AJ told her leaving out part of the story.

"Tell her the rest of the story." The principal encouraged in a stern tone.

AJ looked up and sighed, "The argument got kind of heated and I may have thrown something and walked out." JJ looked at him in surprise, he never caused trouble at home but he had been doing it constantly at school.

"AJ will apologize to his teacher tomorrow. Is it okay if we go?" JJ said while giving her son a pointed look.

"Actually, I'd like to talk to you alone. AJ could you please wait outside for a minute?" The principal asked, getting a small nod from AJ before he got up and left the room. "AJ is a very intelligent boy, he's already been moved up one grade, but I think that the class is still moving way to slow for him. We want to get him tested. I think he needs to be moved up more. I think your boy is a genius." The principal told her with a small smile.

"Wow, do you really think that could be his problem?" JJ asked, a smile growing on her face.

The principal nodded her head and answered, "I'm pretty sure it is."

"Alright, so what kind of trouble is he in?" JJ asked remembering why she had come in the first place.

"We're just sending him home for the day, according to his teacher he can hold a pretty good argument for a seven year-old." They both smiled at that and said their goodbyes before JJ left the room. She called AJ over and they went to the car together.

"I have to go back to work and Will is at work as well so you are going to come with me over there." JJ told him. "Your behavior recently has not been acceptable. I am not going to tolerate you disrespecting your teachers. You will apologize to your teacher, not only for today but for all of the behavior you have displayed recently. Will and I will discuss your punishment this afternoon, but for now no electronics you will sit in my office or with one of your aunts or uncles and do your homework. Got it?" JJ finished up her lecture while still in the school parking lot and looked to the backseat to see her son looking at the floor.

Finally, he looked up and answered quietly, "Yes, ma'am." JJ smiled and reached back to him giving a small pat on his shoulder before starting the car and leaving the parking lot. They drove to Quantico in silence. When they got there JJ asked Reid to watch AJ for a minute while she went to talk to Hotch. She then went to his office and knocked on the door, when she heard him speak she came into the room.

"How did it go?" Hotch asked as he looked up from his paperwork.

"It was okay, AJ got into an argument with his teacher and left the classroom." JJ told him sounding stressed.

Hotch looked slightly confused at this, "Oh, I don't get it, AJ has always been one of the most well behaved kids I've ever known, do they have an idea of what's going on at school?"

"They think he might be bored in class and that is why he is acting out. They want to get him tested to see if they need to move him up." JJ told him with a small smile.

"But, he has already been moved up a year. How much further would they be moving him up, are you looking at a Reid thing or just another grade up?" Hotch asked looking out his window to see Reid showing AJ how to do a magic trick.

"I don't know. I guess it just depends on what the results of the test are." JJ said looking out to see what Hotch was looking at. "You know, I always tell Spence that my son is a miniature version of him but know, what if he is, what if he ends up in high school at eight or nine, Spence tells us about how those kids picked on him. What if they do that to my son."

"You know the difference between what Spencer went through and what is going on with AJ is, if AJ does end up to be more gifted than we originally thought and ends up in high school at a young age. AJ has a detective dad and a mom and a whole bunch of aunts and uncles who work for the FBI, if those kids pick on your son, it will be a one-time deal if I have anything to say about it." Hotch told her flashing her his rarely seen smile.

"Thanks for that, I better get back to work, I think I found us a new case." JJ smiled at him before heading down to get AJ and going to her office to get back to work. The rest of her day went by slowly but it finally ended and she was able to leave. The two got home to the smell of burning food. When they went into the kitchen they saw Will attempting to make dinner.

"Hey, honey I think you somehow managed to burn the soup." JJ told him through a small laugh.

"Oh, did I know." Will laughed thinking she was joking, he stopped laughing when he saw that the bottom of the pot was black. "How about we order some pizza." He said in a defeated tone.

"Alright, but in the meantime I think AJ has something he needs to tell you." JJ told him while looking down at her son.

"What kind of trouble did you get into at school this time?" Will asked, crossing his arms and raising his eyebrow.

"I left the classroom after getting into an argument with my teacher and throwing something." AJ told him quickly and quietly.

"You've got to stop disrespecting your teachers and causing trouble at school. I don't understand it, it's not like how you are at home, what is going on buddy?" Will sighed looking at the boy that he thought of as a son.

"I don't know, I'm sorry sir I promise I won't cause any more trouble at school." AJ told him looking down at the floor.

"Alright, you better not." Will said. After their talk dinner came quickly and soon the quiet of the night overcame the house.

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