After making their decision, the pair of men followed Clara back to her office. They had to fill out a little bit of paperwork before Clara told them what would happen next.
"At a later time, preferably next weekend, you two will need to meet with Bennett again and ask him if he would like to be adopted by you two." She smiled. "Assuming he says yes, you guys will be able to take him for weekends, starting the weekend after next." She shuffled her folders around. "And your paperwork to file to foster him has been submitted."
Spencer grinned and squeezed his husband hand. "Thank you so much."
She smiled. "You're welcome. I'm glad I could help you two." She stood. Now if you don't mind, I must be going. I have to go meet with Bennett's foster mother."
The men stood up and shook her hand. After exchanging more thank yous and goodbyes, the happy couple was on their way out the door.
Once out the door of the office, they stood there, still trying to grasp what an important decision they'd just made.
"This is happening," Spencer said. "I can't believe it." He wrapped an arm around his husband's waist.
"I know, baby. But I think we made the right decision." He pressed a kiss to the top of Spencer's head as they made their way to the car.
"Me too." He smiled. "God, he's so cute. I don't understand how anybody could give something like that up."
"Some people just aren't meant to be parents, I guess. But here's to hoping that it'll all work out in the end."
That night, the men decided to stay home and relax. The day had been had quite exciting. The next day though, they went out for brunch with the rest of the team and their families.
At the large table, Spencer sat next to Derek with Henry on his other side, with Derek on the end. On the other side of Henry sat JJ and Will. Across from them were Rossi, Hotch, Jack, Prentiss, and Garcia, in that order.
The table was noisy with the large amoubt of people, the two children especially. Henry was busy telling Spence and Derek about all the cool things he'd done at the park the day before, while Jack was bragging about how he was ahead of his class in math.
Really though, everybody was anxious to hear about how their visit at the agency was. Finally, once everyone had their food and drink, Garcia asked, "Tell us! How did it go? Were they cute? I bet it was hard to choose."
Derek smiled at her and shook his head. "Not exactly. One of them had an isse with our... life choices," he said. He didn't want to say anything outright in front of the children present. The adults nodded understandingly.
"Did you make any definite decisions?" JJ asked.
Spencer smiled and nodded. "Yeah, we did. His name is Bennett."
"Aww, that's such a cute name. Is there a photo of the little guy?"
Derek nodded and pulled out his phone. He found the picture that he'd taken of Bennett's photo in the file and handed his cellphone to Penelope.
"Look at him. He's adorable."
Derek nodded. "He is."
"So what do you guys do now?" Hotch asked.
Spencer told them all about the next steps, and where they'd go from there.
Everybody seemed satisfied with that, and went back to their breakfast. At times like these, they were all able to enjoy having such a close family. It was nice to have people to lean on and to support you.
And ot was really apparent just how close-knit they were.
Especially when they noticed Garcia giving Prentiss a sly grin when she noticed how close the brunette was with little Jack, helping him with his food. He'd called her Emmy.
When they were all finished, and it was time for everyone to head home, they all exchanged hugs, as well as congratulations for Spencer and Derek.
On the way home, they made a quick stop at the grocery store for stuff for dinner, before finally heading home. They decided that today was another lazy day, considering that they could be headed anywhere the next day.
They lay on the couch, Derek spooned behind Spencer. They were watching a movie, content with the warm feeling of being near each other.
Derek tightened his arm around Spencer's waist and pressed a kiss to the younger man's ear, sighing happily, sending shivers through Spence.
"I love you so much," Derek said.
"I love you too Derek," the other man whispered.
The rest of the night passed quickly. They simply laid on the couch watching films, making out, and enjoying each other's company. It was quite nice.
They slept contentedly until the silence of early morning was broken by thw ringing of Spencer's phone.
"Hello?"
"We've got a case," JJ said without even a greeting. "Hotch said it's a bad one. We're wheels up in forty minutes."
Spencer sighed. "Okay. We'll see you guys there." He hung up and turned to wake his husband.
The day wasn't off to a very good start.
A/N: Okay so this is probably the shortest chapter ever. I wrote this during a bad bout of writer's block, so forgive me. The next one will probably be up tomorrow.
