"Hey Spence," JJ said walking into the break room.
Reid turned from the coffee machine, raising his mug to drink, and smiled at her.
"Hey JJ. What's going on, new case?"
"No, but I need your help. A favor actually."
Reid choked on his drink when he heard the word 'favor'.
"Um, sure. What do you want?"
"Will and I are going out this weekend and-"
"Do you want me to babysit Henry? I'd be glad too." Reid's smile grew; babysitting his Godson was a great joy for him.
"Thanks, but no. I need to go shopping today and I have to take Henry. And since he's been asking for his favorite Godfather…"
"I'm his only Godfather."
"Anyways," JJ said with a grin, "why don't you come with us?"
"Shopping?" said a skeptic Reid. Shopping was definitely not a great joy for him. He walked over to the fridge, a pleading JJ at his heals.
"Come on Spence, for Henry?" JJ gave him her best puppy-dog-eyes look.
Reid sighed, "For Henry."
"Great! Thanks. I'll take you with me after work to get Henry from daycare, and I'll drive you home when we're done."
"Okay."
"Great. See you in bit." JJ grinned, success.
Spencer nodded to her and she left. He opened the fridge and quickly closed it.
"Smells fishy."
"Let's go Spence," JJ whined, watching as her friend read over reports. "You ready yet?" Once again, she peered at her watch. It was already half an hour past 5pm. If they didn't hurry soon, they wouldn't have much time at the mall.
"Uh yeah. Let me just finish these last few-"
JJ snatched the files from his hands and threw them into the inbox at the corner of his desk.
"Hey!"
JJ ignored his protest. "No, no, no. You can do that tomorrow. We have a busy night shopping ahead of us. We'll see you soon Emily."
Emily Prentiss winked at the pair of them and continued on her way to Garcia's office.
"What's going on?" asked Reid as he stood up and started putting his other reports and laptop into his messenger bag.
"Nothing, come on," JJ said, pulling on Spencer's arm.
Reid barely had time to close his bag before being lead away from his desk and towards the elevators. The Media Liaison impatiently stabbed the down button and started tapping her foot. Soon they heard the ping!noise as the elevator arrived and they moved out of the way for the passengers. JJ tugged at Reid again as Morgan stepped out from inside the elevator. He snickered at Reid's predicament.
"Have fun getting pretty, pretty boy." Morgan said winking at JJ and walking back towards the bullpen.
Reid called out a "What?" before the doors closed and they started to descend.
a/n: Hello. This is my first criminal minds fanfiction story. I would very much appreciate any thoughts and or criticism. I wanted to thank andnowforsomethingnew for reviewing and everyone else who put this story on alert and added this story to their favorites; it means a lot. I'm sorry it took a little longer than expected to update.
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