Disclaimer: I do NOT own Criminal Minds. It and it's characters are sole property of CBS. I only take credit for my characters
A/N: Once again This Is A Sequel to A Fresh Start, so yeah make sure you read that first please
Chapter One: He Wouldn't Be Anywhere Else
Spencer Reid let out a tired groan as he shifted in the plane seat below him. He had finally come to the conclusion that commercial airlines were hell and long flights like this were the devil.
He glanced over beside him grateful to see that she had somehow fallen asleep. Though it was only because she had taken some kind of herbal sleep aid before they had boarded their flight.
She had always been so afraid of flying and the idea of todays flight had horrified her. Actually the idea of any flight completely frightened her. She claimed it was because when you were up in a plane simply riding along you had no control of the situation.
Reid hesitantly reached out running his hand through her dark red hair making her shift a bit in her seat but still remain fast asleep. He took her hand in his running his thumb over the silver wedding ring that she had only been wearing since yesterday afternoon.
He stared down at his own matching wedding ring not helping but to smile. The same thought he'd had floating through his head for the past twenty four hours, ran though his head once again. She really was all his.
He was pretty sure that she would personally kill him herself if she ever heard him claim her out loud, but he couldn't help but to think it.
Never once in a million years did he ever come close to thinking that there was someone out there that would end up being Mrs. Reid. Especially not Natalie.
Anyone whom might look at the two of them together right now would probably have never guessed that they were a married couple.
Natalie was dressed fully ready for their Hawaiian honeymoon in a bright short sleeved turquoise cotton sun dress and a pair of comfortable strappy sandals. She was wearing a pair of big lensed sunshades never mind the fact that they were inside and her hair was pulled up with a hair clip.
Reid however was dressed as though he was planning to drop by the BAU at any given moment. He had foolishly decided to wear a pair of navy blue slacks and a dress shirt with one of his favorite gray sweaters.
Natalie had giggled at him when she had seen him get dressed this morning at the hotel though she hadn't fully explained to him what was so funny.
Now he understood her giggles though seeing that everyone else on the plane was dressed casually in shorts, tank tops, summer dresses. He knew that he must stick out on this plane like a sore thumb.
He wasn't surprised to feel Natalie grip onto his hand as the plane hit a tiny bit of turbulence. He looked over at her too see that she was now wide awake and her entire body had tensed up.
He ran his thumb across the top of her hand making an attempt to soothe her and hoping that the herbal pill hadn't worn off.
He was grateful to see almost all the tension leave her body as the turbulence finally died down. They released each others hands gently.
She looked over at him and spoke trying to ignore the fact that her nerves were still frazzled. "Hey why don't you try to get some sleep? I mean we still have about what three more hours until we land".
He nodded his head knowing that the average flight time from DC to Hawaii was about six hours, but they had arrived at the airport early this morning.
They hadn't gotten much rest yesterday since it had been their wedding day. They had probably gotten only a few hours of sleep last night before they had to leave the hotel early this morning.
To make things even more exhausting there had been a delay on their flight so they had left DC a bit later than they'd intended. Exactly three hours later than they had intended. So needless to say they were both more than a little bit tired.
"I just couldn't sleep". Reid stated shrugging his shoulders.
Though he knew the truth was that he was too excited to sleep. He never really got to have a real true vacation.
The people upstairs at the BAU apparently weren't to thrilled that he had so much unused vacation time. So Hotch had been at him for a while to take some time off and use up some of the vacation time he'd racked up.
He was actually pretty happy that he was now getting to do just that never mind the fact that it had taken his honeymoon to get him to take a little time away from work.
Hotch had been more than willing to give Reid the two weeks off he'd asked for. So they would have all the time in the world to relax. Reid knew that Natalie wasn't going to let him get away with keeping them cooped up in the hotel for two weeks.
Natalie was already planning on dragging him to the beach at least once, and they had both brought their cameras so they might be able to do a little sightseeing and go on some tours.
Reid was taken out of his thoghts as Natalie let out a small nervous laugh probably still rilled up from the turbulence. "Yeah I can see why you probably couldn't sleep. I'm surprised I could. You should probably still try to get a little nap though".
He nodded his head giving her a soft smile as he reached forward pulling a thin pillow out of the seat pocket in front of him. He gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before he laid back attempting to get comfortable withough kicking the seat in front of him.
She was probably right he could use a little sleep.
Reid and Natalie both widened their eyes in amazement as their small blue rental car finally pulled up to the resort. It was beauitiful. It was a impressive stone structure with plenty of palm trees and other vibrant plants out front. The beach was even right across the road.
They had thankfully found a decently priced room in a nice resort. The room price had probably been because the resort was away from most of the tourist hot spots and the other bigger more extravagant resorts and hotels.
The two managed to find a decent parking spot and gathered their luggage out of the trunk before making their way up the wide steps towards the resort entrance.
It didn't take them long to check in and make their way upstairs. They both stood admiring the room as soon as they entered it. Neither of them had been too sure what the room would really look like since they had paid for their room over the phone a few weeks before the wedding.
It was a large room with a couch and a large TV, a small fridge and microwave, a bar, and a tiny balcony. The bed was big and looked to be pretty comfortable. It had a heavy tan comforter, lots of pillows, and what looked to be some sheets with a higher thread count than their sheets at home.
Natalie leaned over and gave Reid a quick soft kiss on the lips as she spoke up "I don't know about you but I'm still exhausted. Sleeping on that plane doesn't equal a good rest".
She made her way over to her suitcase taking opening it and searching through it for something that she could sleep comfortably in.
All she had packed for the trip not counting the obvious casual dresses, capris, shirts, sandals, and bikinis, were plenty of white, pink and lilac baby dolls, sheer bras, thongs, and boy shorts that were a bit more revealing that her usual choice of cotton boy shorts.
Needless to say she knew her husband enough to know not too pack too many things that she wouldn't be wearing outside this room.
Natalie finally found something decent. She took it out of the bag before she managed to reach up taking her bright pink lei that she'd recived at the airport off.
Reid's lei had been a bright yellow and white, but he'd taken the colorful garland off a long time ago and shoved it somewhere into the glove department.
"I'm going to go find a snack machine so I can see if I can get us some things that wont cost us an arm and a leg to eat". Reid stated motioning over to the mini fridge that was probably stocked up with expensive little bottles of booze, sodas, pretzels, chips, and candy.
She nodded her head knowing that they were both pretty hungry since airplane food and peanuts didn't make for a fullfilling meal.
Knowing them they would probably just end up ordering room service tonight so they wouldn't have to worry about getting dressed and going out to find somthing. At least not tonight anyway.
It didn't take very long for Reid to come back and find that Natalie was already fast asleep buried under the comforter.
He deposited the snacks and cokes on the bar before he managed to change into his favorite blue fleece pajamas.
He got into bed beside her and wrapped his arms around her attempting to get comfortable. She was wearing probably the most conservative sleep thing she had packed for this trip.
Though it wasn't all that conservative considering it was a white slip that barely made it down to her mid thigh.
Reid wasn't too disappointed that they weren't doing anything but sleeping right now. It wasn't like they hadn't done anything the night before.
It had actually been quite the opposite seeing that last night had technically been their wedding night.
It was still kind of hard for Reid to believe that they had only been married since yesterday. The wedding had been perfect and the reception had been even better.
When they had left the chapel to head to the hotel where the reception was being held they had been literally pelted by birdseed by all their guests.
Reid was actually pretty sure that Morgan had enjoyed throwing the birdseed a bit too much seeing as he'd thrown most of it in Reid's general direction.
By the time they'd made it to the limo they both had quite a bit of birdseed still clinging to them, and they'd both come to the conclusion that they probably should've given their guests bubbles to blow at them instead of birdseed.
Once they had made it to the hotels ballroom they had been pretty busy greeting and thanking Natalie's aunts,uncles, cousins, second cousins, and even a few third cousins, not to mention a few others.
They had been busy thanking people for coming though most of dinner as well.
They had somehow managed to survive all the people long enough to cut the cake, drink to a few toasts, open more than a few gifts, and dance.
When They had cut the cake and exchanged bites they had gotten more than enough icing on eachother's faces thankfully none of the icing had gotten on their clothing though.
They'd had their first dance to 'At Last' by Etta James and Reid had somehow managed to make it though the entire dance only stepping on her foot once.
Yes At Last might be a bit overused for couples first dance, but it was actually the only thing they could figure out how to slow dance to without too many mistakes.
Reid and Natalie had been practicing slow dancing since they had gotten engaged and they had always used that song for Practice. He was grateful to see that all that practicing had worked for the most part.
Reid had even nervously danced with Natalie's grandmother and her neice. Which hadn't been for very long since Natalie's neice had quickly abandoned dancing with him to go dance with Morgan.
The camera had been passed back and forth between Natalie's brother, Garcia, and Natalie's grandmother. So hopefully they had gotten enough footage of the wedding ceremony and the reception for Reid's mother.
Things had been even more amazing when they had made it upstairs. Natalie had changed in the bathroom gently folding her wedding dress up and putting it in a old round keepsake box her grandmother had given her.
She had emerged from the bathroom wearing a sheer ivory chemise that she's purchased for the occasion. Reid had been more than a little pleased with it.
It had been a long night.
Reid leaned forward and kissed Natalie's forehead as he felt his eyes finally beginning to grow heavy. He couldn't think of anywhere he'd rather be right at this moment.