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3. It's been announced that there's a wedding in the finale. Write two characters you'd love to see get married. Can be any two.

Wedding Bells Are Ringing

She was nervous. Although she had always wanted a nice traditional wedding she never thought that she'd actually ever get it. Never in her wildest dreams had she thought she could ever give herself completely to one man, love him with her heart and soul. She'd always run away from getting hurt but didn't want to run from him, not again. They'd always had a connection but she had always displaced and denied that they could ever be anything more than friends; because of this she just settled. At first it was enough, she still saw him and they were still really close. The problem was that they continued to grow closer at a rapid pace. Unintentionally, she had gone out with him for drinks; they got a little tipsy and wound up having sex. She could deny her love for him, but she couldn't deny how he made her feel that night. She couldn't deny how right it felt or that she'd never had anyone better; especially considering they all thought he was a virgin. Later he claimed that he was. Luckily, their 'mistake' went unmentioned and everything went back to normal. She went back to her life as a media liaison that was dating a cop, and he went back to being the awkward genius who spouted off statistics at every opportune moment. However, he began to plague her thoughts, it started off that she would dream about his skin, his voice, but then it started occurring whilst she was awake. It disrupted her concentration from cases, work in general, her home life; everything. Then she fell pregnant. Honestly, she had no idea who Henry's father was, even to this day. That's partly why she made her soon-to-be husband the godfather; because she felt guilty for not knowing.

"Hey Jayje." Garcia sang as she rushed into the room. "You ready for the dress?" Emily was tailing her along with Charlotte, JJ's old best friend. Emily was the maid of honour, the other two bridesmaids. She wouldn't have it any other way, it was perfect.

"Yeah." She smiled at the trio as she finally realised that everything would stay the same but be so different.

"I can't believe you're actually getting married. It's crazy." Emily told her, a crazy grin on her face, as she, Pen and Lottie began removing the dress from its packaging. The blonde couldn't help smirking as she thought of the day Spence and her got engaged. It was typically Reid.

"Hey Spence." JJ smiled at the young man, as she kissed him on the cheek.

"Uh, hey. We've gotta get to work or we're going to be late." He walked around her and grabbed his badge and gun, picked up the car keys and left. It'd been like this for the past week and she was getting sick of it. He would constantly run away from her or find something else that was more important that prevented him from chatting. He was distant and would stay up later than her – hours later. She had no idea what she had done; they hadn't argued and everything was as it usually was, except for him. She couldn't help the alarm bells going off in her head, the thought that he was going to break up with her. She didn't think that he'd do that though, he was still the same with Henry. He still read to him at night and played with him. Heck, Henry called him 'daddy' and would tell Spence how much he and mummy loved him. Her boyfriend spent every possible moment with JJ and her son. He treasured it and loved them. Will was out of the picture, had been for 2 and a half years. There was no doubt that the man loved his son but he missed New Orleans, he missed not having the responsibilities it takes to raise a kid, but he knew that he never had JJ's heart. He told her so before he left, he told her that the only man she could ever love, has ever really loved is Dr Spencer Reid. So she thanked him and went running to him, she had no second thoughts or doubts about it. Will called regularly for 10 months but then they were less frequent until there weren't any. He sent birthday cards for his son and ex, sent Christmas cards and anniversary cards for Spence and JJ. He was a sweet man, a great man and he deserved so much more than what she had given him.

"JJ, we've got 10 minutes to get to the BAU. Hurry up." Spencer poked his head around the door as he scolded her, refusing her the path down memory lane.

The car ride was silent with the exception of the radio. The music was softly surrounding the couple but the tension between them was like torture. She was getting desperate especially when he didn't look at her. Usually, he would talk about the origins of pop music or about Henry or where he wanted to take them that night. Not today. Not for the past week. It was killing her.

"Oh by the way, we're going out tonight. Me and you. Wear that dress you got, the black one that you brought last month but never got the chance to wear." Spencer commanded. On any normal day she would smile at his confidence but at that moment it was just irritating.

"You haven't said two words to me all week and now you actually want to spend some alone time with me. You sure you can handle that?" She replied sarcastically. Granted, she didn't want to upset him. No, she did want to upset him; she wanted him to hurt just as much as she was.

"Erm, Jayje, I have said two words to you, I have just now and just then and then I've told you I loved you every day just like I usually do-"

"It was just a saying Reid." He had improved in his rambling, he even got when people were being sarcastic and making jokes. He still had his moments though.

"Sorry. Please just do this for me, please Jen." He looked at her then, pleading with her. He took her hand in his and squeezed it before smiling. She couldn't resist agreeing and she hoped this would fix things.

He took her to her favourite restaurant, and true to his word he acted completely natural. He spoiled her; payed for whatever she wanted and complained about how unhealthy she was just so she'd complain about him. He only did it so that he could end the argument with a kiss. This, he did very regularly as well as interrupting her whilst she spoke by kissing her, making her lose all train of thought. Secretly, she loved him for it and he knew it.

"Spencer, where are we going?" JJ whined as he led her through the streets of Quantico. It'd been a 10 minute walk already from the restaurant to wherever they were and he refused to tell her, his only words were 'it's a surprise'. She hated surprises with a passion.

"You'll see." The genius replied with a delicate, wavering smile. "We're nearly there." He was nervous. Oh god. She was running through all the places they could go and why he'd be so nervous but she was stumped. She didn't have a clue and it annoyed her.

"Ok close your eyes." He stood behind her and put his hands over her eyes as she had a habit of peeking.

"Spence. What's so important that I can't look?" JJ continued to whine, eliciting a laugh from him. They walked for a couple of minutes longer, Spencer directing her. So far she'd had to go straight for 10 steps, go right, climb up 14 steps and walk straight a further 3.

"Ok. You can officially open your eyes." He informed her as he uncovered her eyes. She gasped as she realised where she was. It was where he took her on her first date – a pretty hill-like area overlooking the river. The lamppost s brightened up the walkway and the bench. Purple flowers surrounded it. It looked pretty during the day but beautiful at night. "You know in the US in 2009, there were a total of 2,080,000 marriages and only 840,000 ended in divorce. That means that approximately 1,240,000 stayed married. Providing you were to marry me I'd say we had a pretty good chance, don't you?"

JJ just stood there for a moment, shocked. This worried Spencer a lot, why hadn't he thought about how she'd feel.

"You know, as of February 29th, 35,664 people worked for the FBI. 13,778 of these are special agents. 15,644 of all FBI employees are women, 8 thou-"

"Spencer." JJ interrupted, she really didn't care for FBI statistics. She was way too caught up about the marriage thing. "Are you, erm, asking me to marry you?" She had no idea as to what made her so nervous. He was the perfect guy, she loved him and so did Henry, they'd been going strong for over 2 and a half years and he was devoted to them.

"No." He replied simply which slightly disappointed her. "I was just saying because you seemed a little, distracted? Anyway it's getting late and I want to get home to Henry." He began to lead her by the hand away from her memories of their first date. She had to smile at his desire to see her son.

As soon as they got through the door, Henry came barrelling towards them, Spencer catching him and lifting him up. "Hey Henry. Aren't you supposed to be in bed little man?" The young boy chuckled at his daddy's joking tone before nodding his head at him and turning to his mummy. He handed her a velvet box.

"Mummy, open it! Open it!" Henry whined: one would assume he was more excited than she was. She raised an eyebrow at the giddy, and wide awake at 10.30 little boy, before proceeding to open the box, revealing a white gold diamond ring. The centre had seven diamonds clustered into a flower shape, and several smaller diamonds on the rings shoulders. It was truly beautiful and must've cost him a bomb. "Mummy! Daddy wants to know if you'll marry him." He was bouncing up and down in his dads arms with a grin plastered on his face.

"It's been 2 and a half years and this is going great. I love you, I love smiler here," he nodded his head towards Henry, "and I can't give you much, but I can give you my love, my promise to be yours and trouble's forever." The child giggled again before burying his head in his neck. "So, Jennifer Jareau, will you marry me?"

"I…" She couldn't believe that she would be, could be marrying Spence soon, it was a completely surreal moment, he really did think of everything. "Yes. Yes. A million times, just yes." He laughed before kissing her sweetly, catching her with his free arm. That night was the best night of her life. She couldn't believe that she had ever convinced herself that he was just her friend. Although, for the life of her, she couldn't fathom out where things had changed, at one point they really were just close friends and then suddenly, oh so suddenly, they were starting a relationship and Henry started calling him 'daddy' and everything spiralled out, turning perfectly into this moment. To be honest, she couldn't think of anywhere else that she'd rather be. She couldn't think of anyone else she'd rather be with.

"JJ!" Garcia shouted, effectively breaking her out of her thoughts. "Dress." The girls seemed a little bit concerned but she waved it off. Her dress was a strapless, A-line gown with a corset closure. The skirt was panelled with flowers running down the bodice. It was beautiful and this one was simple, but perfect for her. She carefully stepped into it as the three women surrounding her pulled it up and pulled the corset closed, until it was tight around her. She finally glanced into the mirror; shocked at what she saw. Her blonde hair was softly curled and only two strands fell to the front side of her face. Her make-up was minimal and natural looking. The shoes that weren't visible under the dress were simple white strappy heels, about three inches. Her friends were clapping and smiling, taking several pictures of her.

"You look beautiful!" Charlotte exclaimed as she bounced on the spot a little in excitement,

"Spence won't know what's hit him when he sees you." Emily announced. Unfortunately, she suddenly wasn't so excited anymore – she wanted to run and hide. She thought she wanted to get married but now? Now she wasn't so sure.

Sorry had to guess statistics based on 2009 marriage/divorce rates based on

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Oh and the hill with the water thing is made up cos I have no idea about Quantico etc so yah know.

I got the FBI employees statistics off the FBI website and spent time on the 'fun & games' bit lol – the FBI are so thoughtful ;)

The dress :- .?style=R1108

The ring :- ./webstore/d/5966752/18ct+white+gold+half+carat+diamond+cluster+ring/