Monday afternoon Lisa found herself way too close to a man who desperately needed a tic tac. Slowly she waddled out of the plane with the rest of the passengers. When she could finally breathe again, Lisa let out a sigh of relief. The first thing Lisa saw as she exited baggage claim was her father looking around through the crowds for her.

"Daddy!" she yelled, her dad finding her immediately.

Lisa all but ran to her dad who waited with outstretched arms.

"Gummi Bear!" her dad yelled hugging his daughter. "How are you?"

"I'm great. How are you?"

"Better with you here." Lisa smiled.

Their happy moment was interrupted by the clearing of a throat beside them.

"Don't I get a hug?" A very polished looking woman asked.

"Hi mom." Lisa said giving a hug to the woman.

"How was your flight honey?" her mother asked, as they began to walk to the car.

"It was alright." Lisa told her.

"We're glad to have you home." Her dad said slinging an arm around her.

"Glad to be home." Lisa said looking up and smiling at her dad.

The ride home to her parents brown stone was long thanks to the DC traffic, but it was pleasant enough, Lisa and her father dominating the conversation on the ride. When they got home Lisa was left alone to relax and unpack before they went out for dinner.

When her things were unpacked, Lisa laid down on her bed. She was happy to be home, really she was, but she had a constant knot of worry in her stomach that had been there since the moment Spencer had agreed to meet her parents. She closed her eyes and tried to will the knot away, but it wouldn't budge, so giving up she changed into something more suitable for dinner and went downstairs.

"So Lisa," her mother began as the waiters had finished serving them their entrées, "When are going to be meeting Spencer."

Lisa had to give her mother credit for waiting this long to ask. "I don't know yet." She said, knowing without even looking, that her mother's lips were pursing together. "He's currently out on assignment. He's supposed to call me the second he gets back into town, so that you can meet him."

"Very well." Her mother said putting a fork full of food into her mouth.

"I for one am excited to meet him, you know you've told us almost nothing about him." Her dad said.

"There's not much I can tell you. We haven't been dating long." Lisa said, feeling very uncomfortable.

"Alright, then I'll just have to grill him when we meet him." Lisa's head shot up, only to see her father wink at her. At least she knew her dad would approve.

Spencer sat watching Rossi interrogate the man they were certain was their unsub. The others were all out searching the man's place. Spencer knew they'd find where the man was keeping the bodies, he was messy and disorganized, he was just waiting for their call.

The detective in the room with him had caught him glancing at his watch one too many times for his liking and had taken it as a sign of worry from the young doctor.

"Should they have called by now?" the detective asked, now beginning to worry himself.

"No, a proper search should take a while longer." Spencer said, not taking his eyes off of Rossi.

"Then why have you been looking at your watch so often?"

"Sorry," Spencer said turning and walking over to a chair. "My girlfriend's flight is just supposed to land soon."

"You have a girlfriend?" the detective asked shocked.

"Yes," Spencer answered slightly offended at the detective's shock.

The detective snorted, "What is she an astrophysicist?"

"A nurse actually."

"Right." The two were interrupted by Spencer's phone going off.

"Hotch?" Spencer answered. "Okay, good."

"They found it." Spencer told the detective before going to tell Rossi.

By the time they were done with everything at the local police department it was too late for the jet to take off, so they would have to wait until morning. Spencer was actually a little relieved that they had to wait, he was in no rush to return home, because he knew that when he did he would have to meet Lisa's parents and that terrified him more than the monster of a man that they had just put behind bars.

Lisa had mentioned her parents once or twice before, but he knew very little about them, and not knowing something was not something that Spencer was used to. He didn't like not knowing things. He did know that Lisa's father's name was Georg and her mother's name was Rose. He also knew that Lisa was much closer to her father. Outside of that he knew almost nothing. Hopefully Lisa would tell him something more before they met.

Lisa was sitting on the floor in her pajamas playing a game of cards with her dad, her mother sitting in a chair nearby reading, when her phone rang. Checking the caller id Lisa quickly excused herself into the kitchen to take the call.

"Hey Spencer."

"Hey."

"You back already?" she asked.

"No, our pilot can't leave until the morning, I should be back before noon."

"Thank God, my mom's already bugging me about meeting you." Lisa said hoisting herself up onto the counter.

"Yeah? You know you haven't told me much about them." Spencer said, hoping to get some information.

"Well my dad's an attorney and my mom works as an event coordinator for the National Museum of Natural History." Lisa told him.

"Right," Spencer said, suddenly a lot more nervous.

"You're not intimidated are you Spencer?"

"Of course I'm intimidated, they're your parents, what's not to be intimidated about?" This was the first time since Lisa had told him that her parents had wanted to meet him that Spencer had made any sort of mention of being nervous. Knowing that he was just as nervous as she was, somehow made some of that nervousness disappear.

"Yeah well don't worry, my dad will love you."

"What about your mom?"

"Your guess is as good as mine there." Lisa told him watching her feet as she swung them back and forth.

"Great" Spencer said sarcastically. Lisa chuckled. "I should probably get to bed soon, I've got to get up early if I'm going to get make that flight."

"Yeah, wouldn't want to miss that. So we'll do dinner tomorrow? Give you some time to relax before throwing you to the wolves."

"Sounds good. I can't wait to see you."

"Me either, good night."

"Good night."

Lisa smiled and hung up the phone. She happily walked back into the living room where her mother and father were sitting. "That was Spencer." She said gaining their attention. "He'll be back tomorrow, so I thought we'd all meet for dinner if that's alright."

"That'll be just fine." Lisa's mother told her smiling.

Lisa smiled back and then took her place back playing cards with her dad. "You didn't cheat did you?"

"I plead the fifth." Her dad said, smile on his face.