Full House

JJ plopped herself down on Rossi's Italian sofa and sighed "I don't know who gave them sugar but Henry and Jack are hyper as hell"

"It was probably Reid" Morgan smirked sitting next to the blonde.

"No, he had an alibi, he was actually watching tv with Rossi and Hotch" JJ responded

"Really? Why? I didn't think Hotch or Rossi liked sci-fi" Garcia laughed and shoved Morgan over so she could sit too.

"They don't, but they did have a substantial amount of popcorn and chocolate" They all laughed as sed genius walked through the large stain glass doors.

"There's really no point in having these inside" He said indicating to the doors "Stain glass is only really beautiful in direct sunlight"

"That so?" Morgan asked to which Reid bobbed his head and began to explain how stain glass worked and where it originated from.

"Okay, okay genius no need to get so excited" Morgan placated after about three seconds

"Sorry" Reid said quietly

"Looks like the kids weren't the only ones having too much sugar!" Garcia laughed.

Prentiss walked in with Henry on her hip and Jack walking behind her with a HUGE grin on his face.

"Hey guys" JJ said and took Henry from Prentiss gently

"Hi" Henry said and cuddled into his mom.

"Uncle Spencer can I get some chocolate from your purse?" Jack asked politely and Morgan chuckled and Reid frowned in confusion

"This?" He asked holding up his messenger and Jack nodded rapidly "It's called a messenger bag, how do you know there's chocolate in it?" Reid asked

"Grampa Rossi told me" Jack pointed towards the Italian walking in the door.

"Who are you calling Grampa?" Rossi asked while Hotch threw him a rare smirk

"Can you blame him?"

"Che, I'll bet anything that you taught him to say that!" Rossi accused

"Aside from that, did you steal the sweets from uncle spencer's bag?" JJ asked Henry who looked down and mumbled incoherently

"I'd say that's a yes" Reid opened his messenger bag and gasped "WOW you guys took a lot!" Reid exclaimed "Wait why are you asking for chocolate now when you had already taken it?"

"Kid tactics, Reid, kid tactics" Morgan placed a hand on Reid's shoulder and Reid looked confused as hell, then just shrugged it off.

"What did they take?" Rossi asked and JJ braced herself while Reid did a 2 second head count of all the sweets remaining in his bag.

"5 twizzlers, 25 (heroes) chocolates, 13 toffees, 68 strawberry laces, 2 bags of pure sugar (for coffee), 3 lollipops, 4 bags of skittles and 1 big marshmallow" Reid said all in one breath.

"Why do you even have those in your bag?" Asked Emily incredulously as Morgan laughed his head off and JJ looked as if she were about to faint.

"In case I get hungry" Reid shrugged

"Of course" Morgan laughed and rolled his eyes

"Let's just put a pin in the whole Reid surviving on sugar thing" Reid pouted at this despite himself "Why don't we focus on how to get these guys asleep?" JJ said

Everyone went deep in thought

"Okay Reid, tell us how you sleep with all that sugar in you" Morgan said

"And how you're still skinny!" Garcia felt the need to add

"Erm… well about the sleep thing I normally don't have any trouble sleeping, actually statistics show that sugar doesn't really make kids hyper" Reid said, at the doubtful looks everyone shot him Reid sighed "Well if I do have trouble sleeping I just listen to something that bores me, like sports …. Though that doesn't work very well most of the time since nothing really bores me, even though I suck at sports it still seems interesting"

"Of course" Morgan said again

"And why am I still skinny even though I eat loads of sugar?, well there is this theory that your brain can actually burn calories like any muscle in your body, most people don't notice because they don't use their brain enough for it to be significant" Reid explained

"So what you're saying …" Rossi started

"Is that we're all fat and stupid?" Morgan glared but dropped his façade as Reids' face grew panicked and he tried to explain how that wasn't saying that

"It's cool Reid, we know what you meant" Hotch smiled and Reid sighed in relief.

As that happened the clock stroke midnight and they all looked up unsurprisingly Garcia was first to raise her glass

"MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!" She cheered and they all raise their glasses except JJ, Jack and Henry who looked panicked

"You guys better hurry off to bed before Santa decides to skip us" Emily said and Jack and Henry bolted up to their rooms.

"WOW" Reid said after they left "Do all kids do that?"

"Don't you remember being excited about Christmas, Mr photographic memory?" Morgan asked incredulously

"Eidetic" Reid corrected automatically then continued "We never really celebrated Christmas in our house since my Mom thought Santa was a pervert sent by the government to spy on people, and she also thought that a Christmas tree was a great place to hide cameras, I spent most of my childhood trying to convince my Mom that Santa wasn't real, I never thought he existed" Reid explained calmly and Emily, JJ and Garcia went "awwh"

"Why'd she think Santa was a pervert?" Rossi asked

"He sees you when you're sleeping…" Reid sang and Rossi nodded with Hotch.

"So did you celebrate any holidays?" Morgan asked hoping the answer was yes.

"Well… we celebrated birthdays before my Father left but after that I really didn't have the time or energy, no matter how much sugar I ate" Reid smiled sheepishly.

"That's awful!" Garcia exclaimed and wrapped Reid in a HUGE bear hug and Morgan was worried he heard a snap that sounded like a certain genius being crushed to death.

But alas he was fine… relatively speaking.

"Well then, how's your first Christmas?" Emily asked with a smirk

" Good?" Reid offered and they laughed at Emily pinching him and telling him to be more imaginative.

"Ok let's get all the gifts ready" JJ whispered and looked up the stairs to see any sign of the two boys

"Yea" They all agreed and set to work, like little elves as Garcia pointed out.

Reid decided as Morgan was hit with yet another cuddly toy (courtesy of Emily)

Christmas is fun

Authors note

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