SUMMARY AND WARNING!
This story takes place somewhere during season 4 when Emily is still present. Somehow, Spencer Reid got caught in the experiment of one UNSUB and got turned into a child. I am so sorry to change the story a bit where Hotch is not married. There will be no Haley, Jack, Will or Henry.
English is not my first language so I want to apologize for any error in grammar or vocabulary. I hope you enjoy and review. Thank you.
Previously,
After finished with that, Hotch grabbed his go bag and made his way out of his office, where he met with Morgan, JJ, Emily and Rossi who were on their way to Garcia's office to bid goodbyes to Spencer before flying to California to catch the unsub before another child is found dead.
"You guys ready?" at this, Hotch received several nods from his team members.
"Then lets do this." Together they made their way to Garcia's office.
Unknown to them, Spencer was just falling asleep less than 5 minutes ago and has not fallen to a deep sleep yet. So when Morgan opened the door to Garcia's office, Spencer was startled awake causing Garcia to stop what she was typing and glared at them for waking up her baby boy.
"You better have a very good reason my furry friends who are not going to be so fluffy anymore for waking my boy wonder here. You know as well as I do trying to put him to sleep is way more difficult than catching a serial killer but due to my proficiency, I managed to somehow do that and you disturb his beauty sleep? Urghh, provide a good reason before I sic..." Garcia's grumble was interrupted by Morgan.
"We are sorry mama. We did not know he was napping. We did not mean to wake pretty boy from his rest." Morgan and the others looked apologetic. They knew how difficult it was to put Spencer down for a nap. Nap time was still an issue for young Spencer. He always protests that a big boy does not need a nap and that he still has a lot of work to do.
Said boy was currently sitting up in his nest while trying to rub the sleep from his eyes. Said nest is courtesy of Garcia consist of several pillows arranged in circle to avoid Spencer rolling around in his sleep and getting injured. The others chuckled lovingly when they saw how his hair was sticking all over the place. Spencer then looked around at whoever has woken him up and his eyes landed on his team members.
'That's weird. I can understand if one of them coming here to check up on us, but coming together is unusual. Unless..' Spencer thought as he looked down at their hands and true enough each of them was carrying their go bag. Understanding instantly downed on him that they had a case to get to so he better grab his go bag quick so they could be on their way.
"Is it new case? Are we going now? Let me go and get my bag and then we can go." Spencer said as he jumped up and ran towards the door. Having anticipated the move, Hotch had no problem stopping him before he could ran out of the office.
"No Spencer, you are going to stay with Garcia here. I am sorry but we could not bring you with us this time. Garcia, would you mind looking after him for a couple days? Everything he needs is in a bag in my office." Hotch said as he balanced the shocked toddler on his hip.
"Of course boss man, Don't worry about baby genius here. You just go and work your magic and catch the bad guy." The tech analyst assured her boss.
"But... but... I can help with the investigation. Why can't I go too?" Spencer pleaded as he turned his famous puppy dog eyes toward his father figure.
"No can do handsome. You can also help with the investigation from here with Garcia. Besides, we can't exactly bring a child to a crime investigation. What would the local polices say when a bunch of FBI agents bring a child?" Emily tried to reason but failed miserably as they watched Spencer's lower lip wobbled and before long, tears started to run down his cheek.
"I want to go. Sobs. Plis don't liv me behind, JJ." Spencer turned to his head toward his next target seeing that his father figure was not going to change his mind anytime soon. Maybe JJ could help him but she too appeared to agree with Hotch in the matter.
"I'm sorry Spence. Its too dangerous for you to come with us. You will be a whole lot safer here. But don't worry, we will try to come back as soon as possible." JJ was trying to console him but she also failed as his sobbing did not go any quieter.
"Yeah pretty boy. We will be home before you know it and then we can go out and have fun, okay?" Morgan tried next.
The only response they got was Spencer crying louder and grabbing a hold of Hotch tighter using all of his arms and legs as if that could stop them from leaving him.
"It's okay Spencer. I promise to call you every night before you go to bed. And we will finish the case immediately then I will take you home again okay buddy?" receiving a head shake from his surrogate son had the father sighing sadly. This was harder than they had imagined initially. He always knew that Spencer has always had abandonment issue and hate to be left behind. But they had no choice this time, it is too dangerous for him at as the unsub might still be looking for a new victim.
Taking a deep breath and preparing himself for what he was about to do, Hoch slowly but forcefully pried those small arms and legs away from his body and hand the struggling over to the bubbly tech analyst.
"Garcia try to put him back to sleep. I will call you later and inform me if anything happen. I don't care if it is in the middle of the night or anything just call he needs anything."
Garcia did not waste anytime and quickly take her baby wonder, wincing when the boy started to cry louder and struggle in her embrace, desperately reaching for Hotch again. The other could only gaze in sympathy at the bawling toddler and took it as their cue to leave quickly before things become worse.
Even after they had already closed the door to Garcia's office, they could still hear the sound of Spencer crying and it was so miserable that it broke their heart and when they heard their baby boy crying out their name and begging them to not leave him, it was almost enough for them to change their mind but they immediately stopped themselves. They reassured themselves that Spencer is better off being here safe and sound away from a killer that was targeting young children. With heavy heart, they tried to ignore the crying sound and made their way towards the elevator.
Unknown to them, the day did not go as planned.
