OK I had this idea a couple months ago, but it was only one kid and they were normal. So I decided it wasn't a very good idea and pushed into the back of my brain with all the other little monsters. But then today I had the idea again, but I decided it needed something extra so I spiced it up a little. Okay, maybe I spiced it up a lot but it got spiced up none the less.

Chapter 1

"COUSIN SPENCIE!" three childish voices shouted. One voice was flat, one was high pitched, and one was normal.

Spencer Reid turned around and was caught in a tackle from two of them. The youngest and only girl, Maxi, stood awkwardly, her hand wound through the leash of a huge yellow dog. A tall and thin woman walked in gracefully.

"Aunt Mae, what are you doing here?" Reid asked.

"You agreed to watch the children this summer, remember?" she said.

"I thought you were going to drop them off after work," Reid said, struggling out of the grip of his little cousins. Aunt Mae shook her head.

"What's going on Reid?" Hotch asked. The BAU was stand beside Spencer's desk looking confused.

"Well I've got to go now or I'll miss my plane," Aunt Mae said. She kissed each child on the forehead, handed Peter two suitcases and left.

"Umm guys," Reid said digging through his pockets. "Here's two dollars. Go buy a snack out of the vending machine." He gave the money to Peter who ran in the direction he pointed with Alex following slowly. She waited several seconds, but Maxi followed as well.

"Who are they?" Morgan demanded.

"They're my little cousins. My Aunt Mae is going to New York for the summer and I agreed to watch the kids. I thought she was bringing them this afternoon," Reid said trying to get it all out before the kids came back in.

"I didn't really plan on you guys finding out. Maxi has Asperger's, Alex has cerebral palsy that only effects his legs and ankles and maturity problems, and Peter is ADD. They take their dog, Justin, with them everywhere. He keeps them from rough housing too much, helps teach them responsibility, and helps give Maxi something that always stays the same," he said. The BAU nodded.

"How old are they?" JJ asked.

"Alex is thirteen, Maxi is eleven, and Peter is fourteen. Aunt Mae's fine now, but when she was pregnant with them she had drug problems. She hardly had a problem with Peter, but it got worse for the other two."

The three kids walked back in, each holding a bit of a candy bar that Peter had broken into thirds and passing around a bottle of water. Reid thought fast, trying to think of something for them to do.

"There's a TV in there," he said pointing. Normally the TV was used to watch the news during a case but it got other channels. "Watch TV and hang out in there for," he glanced at the clock, "about an hour and we'll go home."

They walked into the room and Reid and the rest of the team went back to the paper work they were working on. Thirty minutes passed before the heard anything coming from the room.

"I want to watch SpongeBob!" Alex shouted.

"No! It's time for Shake It Up!" Maxi said. Her schedule said it was time for Shake It Up.

"Stop fighting. Maxi's right, it's time for Shake It Up," Peter said. He didn't like the show, but he understood the importance of the schedule.

"We always watch that. I want to choose a show."

Reid left his desk and went into the room. Maxi was sitting with her back against the wall while Peter yanked on the remote trying to get it away from Alex who held it tight to his chest. Justin sat by Maxi who was petting him rhythmically.

Spencer grabbed the remote and held it above his heads. All of the kids were tall, but Reid was taller. "Stop fighting," he said calmly. "Watch two episodes of Shake It Up then watch SpongeBob until we leave, okay?" The boys nodded and he handed the remote the Peter who put it on Disney Channel and sat beside Maxi.

Standing to make sure everything was fine Reid went back to his desk and continued working. "You handled that well," JJ said.

Spencer shrugged. "I used to watch them sometimes a couple years back. I learned to keep to the schedule and keep calm."

"Why does she like watching Shake It Up so much?" Emily asked.

"It's just part of her routine. Every school day she watches one episode of that and one of Dukes of Hazzard. On weekends and in the summer she watches two Shake It Ups and one Dukes of Hazzard," Reid explained.

"Hey Spencer," Peter said the next day. "Isn't there like a shooting thing in the basement where you take the test things for carrying you gun?" Reid nodded.

"Sweet," he said then yelled to Alex. "We can bring them."

Alex came out carrying three airsoft guns. Spencer looked at them quizzically.

"It's part of the routine," Peter explained. "We have fun and it helps with Maxi's motor skills."

The team found in unusual, but while the kids were in the basement they caused no trouble. Every now and then when someone had a few minutes of free time they would go down and watch them. Surprisingly, Maxi was better than Alex and about as good as Peter. Honestly they gave the agents some competition.

The kids had… interesting interest. Peter liked ice skating, Alex liked world studies, and Maxi, to the teams interest, liked criminal behavior.

"We can't take them with us," Aaron said to JJ. "They're children."

"Spence has already tried a million times to get someone to just watch them for a few hours while he works. There's no way someone would watch them for a few days," she replied.

Aaron was thinking. "We're dealing with someone who kidnaps children and adults. The kids would be safe with us and if it became necessary we could-"

"You aren't using Reid's cousins as bait," JJ cut him off.

"I was merely implying that if we figure out who the Unsub is we could give and address that was supposedly theirs and fill it with cops," Hotch said.

"Fine. So we're taking them with us?" Hotchner nodded.

"And we'll just let them hang out in the police station or hotel or somewhere."

"Okay, let's tell Reid."