Hotch stood in the office they were been given to work in after hanging up the phone

"We got two leads Reid come with me, Morgan and Dave Garcia's sending you GPS coordinates to the second lead now, JJ the press is having a field day I need you to keep them under control" everyone nodded and set out to do their assigned tasks.


Hotch and Reid pulled up in front of an old dilapidated house and got out

"You take the back entrance I'll take the front that way if he runs out front I'll be able to stop him," Hotch told Reid who nodded and went to the back, he slowly opened the door and went in where he saw a man in his mid thirties sitting with a pack of cards playing solitaire in the dark

"Edward Johnson?" he asked approaching slowly, suddenly and unexpectedly the man pulled out a gun shot at him and took off through the door "Hotch he's coming from the left," Reid said into his handset holding his shoulder, the bullet hit his shoulder, the vest stopped it but it still hurt as hell, he wandered out front where Hotch arrested the man and police and backup were pulling up, some other officer's came outside with the three girls they were searching for, each one in worse condition than the other

"You alright?" Hotch asked approaching him

"Yeah the vest stopped it," he said pulling off the vest Hotch looked at his chest where he saw slight blood oozing from a wound not much but it was still bleeding,

"The vest stopped the bullet but there was still impact," he said pointing to the wound "Go get that checked out, and that's an order," Hotch said with a soft smile "Go on I'll call Harper and tell her what happened,"

"Thanks Hotch," he smiled before going over to the paramedics


Spencer wasn't able to call Harper the night they caught the unsub, because Hotch sent him to the hospital because he got shot in his vest and it was standard procedure to get checked out by a medical doctor if you got shot in your kelvar vest. Hotch promised to call Harper and let her know that he is alright but slightly bruised from a bullet impacting his vest. Hotch decided to give Spencer a few days off because he has a feeling that Reid is going to be facing the wrath of Harper and a few days off will help Reid avoid his teasing teamates. When Reid made it to his apartment he saw Harper sitting on his couch waiting for him, he guessed that Hotch called her to let her know that he was almost home.

"Spencer take your shirt off now! I want to inspect your bruises do I can ice your chest. Hotch gave me your doctor's instructions so remove your shirt for me to take care of you and don't you dare say you're okay because you're not,"

Spencer obeyed though he was nervous about Harper seeing him shirtless for the first time, he knew that when he was hobbling on crutches and the physical therapy he was forced to have a few years ago helped him build some much needed muscles and made him look less scrawny and according to Morgan "Like a wet rat".

"Oo la la Spence, getting shot in the leg a few years ago helped you build some muscle and I like what I see despite the bruise. I hate it that you hide your body in your sweater vests."

Spencer winced when Harper placed the ice on his chest and decided to sneak a deep kiss on her lips while she is holding the ice on him. She pulled away after a few seconds

"Naughty boy," she smirked "You are now a resident in my personal dog house during your next couple of days off. I am going to take care of you." she said strictly pointing her index finger at him

Spencer gulped and knew he needs to obey Harper.

A few days later it was the day of brunch at Rossi's. Spencer and Harper went to the store before driving to Rossi's and Harper was impressed with the mansion Rossi lives in. They arrived a half hour before Hotch and Jack arrived. JJ, Will, and Henry arrived a few minutes later. And Morgan and Garcia arrived last. They saw that Spencer was already cooking up a storm in the kitchen and Hotch and Rossi thanked Harper for helping Spencer out when he had that flashback almost a week ago. A short while later Spencer was done cooking everyone sat at the table and started eating. Rossi decided to comment on his cooking.

"Great cooking Reid, I know that you learned at an early age because of taking care of your mother and her delusions forced you to cook from scratch because of her fears of bugs being placed in her food."

Morgan, JJ, and Garcia gulped when Rossi brought up Reid's mother. They forgot how bad her delusions were and what Reid had to put up with during his childhood and his teenage years. Hotch decided that everyone should get to know Harper.

"Harper, why don't you tell everyone about yourself."

"I bet everyone is wondering what my IQ is which is 169. I graduated high school when I was 15 years old. I could have graduated when I was 13 but my parents thought I should graduate with my older sister Rachel and have a few years with classmates close to the same age as me. I only skipped grades 4th , 5th, and 6th. I went to college at Georgetown and then Virginia Tech. My parents were killed in a car crash where there were no survivors when I was 18 years old. The NSA decided to employee me at age 20 because of my math skills and I have been working there for eight years already so that tells you that I am 28 years old."

Rossi decided to ask Reid how he met Harper, because he knows that Reid met her on his own without a team member trying to play matchmaker. Everyone was glad they Spencer was able to find a genius who can keep up with her.

"The day I met her was the day Hotch allowed me to leave work earlier because I was having a bad day. I was wearing matching socks that day. And I chose to walk home that day and the song Bad Day was playing in my mind, and I heard someone singing that same song I was thinking about. I was watching her mesmerized by her voice and she apologized for singing, and I told her she has a beautiful voice. She told me she was having a bad day. I told her I was having a bad day too. Then she told me it was because she was wearing matching socks and that got me hooked on her more and told her I was wearing matching socks too. It turned out we had the same incidents with coffee, chairs, walls, and she also got permission to leave work early from her boss too, and we were both thinking about the odds about the same things happening to us I ended up asking her out for coffee and we only shared our first names first and it turns out our mom's both liked literature based on my first name and Harper's first name, but when she asked me about where I work and I told her I'm a profiler she was shocked that she was talking to me since she has seen and read all the news articles about me. When she told me she works for the NSA I realized I was talking to Harper Crawford because I read all the news articles about her and we had our first kiss a few hours later, it was the best kiss ever well...apart form her sister finding us and threatening me, you don't wanna know the threat then I asked her out to dinner."

Morgan, JJ, Garcia, Rossi, and Will smiled about the story of how Spencer and Harper met. They are surprised that she has the same quirks about wearing mismatched socks as Reid and thought that Harper is a perfect match for Spencer and they were glad that they didn't have to play matchmaker for Reid. And they all thought that Harper and Spencer would probably create cute baby geniuses who will inherit the same habits of wearing mismatched socks like their parents when they are ready, but they will let him continue his relationship with Harper at his own pace because they know his mother raised him to be a perfect gentleman to respect women.

"Well Harper sounds like the kid finally found the right one," Will said in his thick southern accent raising his glass

"I'd like to think so," she she smiling at him

"Does this mean you're my new aunt?" Henry asked as Jack nodded, this rendered Harper speechless as the other adults raised their eyebrows waiting for Harper's response

"Well um, I-I...that kind of..." Spencer decided to step in as she struggled for words

"Yes, but only if you guys want to call her that," he said as she smiled gratefully at him

"Yay!" he screamed running over to her and hugging her, she chuckled and lifted him into her lap

"Well, since your uncle Spence has time off how about we go somewhere you guys want to go, just us over the weekend so we can get to know each other better," she suggested looking at Jack

"Yeah, I wan go to the zoo to see the pigeons," Henry said with his adorable little smile

"The pigeons?"

"Last time my mom took him to the zoo and apparently his favorite animals were the pigeons," JJ explained, Harper chuckled

"I have a better idea, how about we go to the park after this and feed some pigeons?" she suggested brushing a strand of hair out of his eyes

"Really?" he asked in awe

"Really," she chuckled

"Cool, you're the best aunt ever," he said hugging her causing Garcia to make a somewhat amused and offended face "Except you aunt Penny," he said as he noticed her face\

"Aw, that's my little man," she said smothering him in a hug

"Can't...breathe, need...air," he joked, causing the others to laugh as she let go

"What about you Jack, do you wanna come along?" Spencer asked sipping his juice

"Sure why not," he said casually before putting a piece of bacon in his mouth


They'd finished eating and Morgan and Garcia were chatting aside as JJ and Will spoke, the other men talked and Spencer played with the kids, Harper stood watching Spencer play with Jack and Henry as if they were his own kids in awe, as JJ approached her

"Hey," she said snapping her out of her daze

"Oh hey,"

"He's really good with them isn't he," she said with a small smile as they looked at him

"Yeah,"

"You know he wants kids of his own some day, imagine Spence as a dad,"

"I can, he mentioned it already," she let out a small laugh "He want's four,"

"Four?" JJ asked shocked "And you agreed to this?"

"Well not exactly, we just talked about it, he wants two girls and two boys, he hated being an only child,"

"Trust me on this one, pregnancy is not easy," JJ said caressing her now forming baby bump

"Yeah but I didn't want to crush his spirit,"

"Hey ladies what are we talkin' bout?" Garcia asked as she approached drink in hand

"Spence wants four kids,"

"Wow, but before we get to that shouldn't we be talking about something else," Garcia said raising one eyebrow

"What do you mean?" Harper asked as JJ and Garcia practically gaped at her

"Bedroom," Garcia said

"Oh..Oh that, no we never...actually y'know," Harper felt the blood rush to her cheeks as she looked at them

"Seriously?" JJ asked Harper shook her head innocently

"I kinda promised my parents I wouldn't have sex before marriage, can't break a promise to my dead parents,"

"Oh..well...he got shot through his vest so you probably saw him without a shirt on what's he like under the sweater vest?" Garcia asked bouncing her eyebrows

"Um, let's just say physical therapy did good things for him," she said as Spencer approached with Henry in one arm and holding Jack's hand with the other

"You ready to go?" he asked as he approached

"Yeah let's go," she said taking Henry


Spencer pulled into the park a couple blocks away from Rossi's mansion and got out to help Jack out as Harper helped Henry

"So boys what do you want to do first?" she asked as they guided them to the playground

"Pigeons!" Henry exclaimed as he took off to a bench where pigeons were gathered in front of an old lady, Harper shook her head and followed him with a brown paper bag she took and filled with small pieces of bread,

"Well Jack what do you want to do first?"

"Swings?" he half asked half stated as they headed toward the playground

"Was that a question or a statement?"

"I don't know,"

"It's up to you bud I'm just here to supervise,"

"Can you teach me how to play chess?" he asked noticing two elderly men playing chess

"You want to learn how to play chess?"

"Yeah, it looks cool and dad says people who play chess have sharper brains,"

"Alright well let's go," he said taking his hand


A little while later the bread for the pigeons got over and Jack was almost able to play chess on his own so the kids were on the swings with the adults pushing them all four laughing as they were pushed and pushing