A/N It took me so long to finish this chapter because my muse went on vacation and forgot to take me. But now even though MableReid said she got rid of the psychotic plot bunnies but they attacked me this morning and at least I got this chapter finished.

Chapter 7

The tables were finally set up with pink, purple, yellow or blue table clothes and balloons tied to them. With the other ladies help Lila managed to open many bags of chips, cookies and condiments to put on a table at lunch.

"Thank you all so much for helping me, I would still be here opening stuff. Which I think you all will be taking some home with you" Lila said as she rubbed the small of her back

"It was no problem, now you need to go sit down while it is still quite" said JJ as she took Lila's arm and lead her to the living room.

Gideon got up quickly and gave her the armchair he was sitting in.

"Thanks Jason" Lila said as sat down.

Gideon just smiled and sat down in the cushion metal chair beside the couch. Lila looked around at the people that had let her become part of their family. Reid has always looked to Gideon as a mentor and a father figure. Angel also adored her 'uncle Jason' and Gideon lovingly called her his Angel. For that Lila was grateful. Derek and Penelope Morgan sat on the couch his arm was around her shoulders and her hand was resting on his leg. Lila had become closet to them. Since Derek is Spencer's best friend Penelope quickly took Lila under her wing. When she was pregnant with Angel and Spencer was on a case Pen would stay the night, call in the middle of the day to chat, or bring food over to the house. These actions helped a lot. Now Lila was happy to keep Lucas for them when they were on a case or just needed a weekend alone. Angel had a box in her play room that she kept cars, balls and trains for him to play with so he wouldn't get bored and by the box she kept blocks that he loved to play with. Derek and Pen were watching Angel and Lucas race a toy car across the coffee table to see who could knock it on the floor first. Spencer had let Angel get the car out of the playroom so she could see her castle. She quickly began to move her dolls in when her daddy reminded her it could be done later and she came out to play with Lucas. JJ and Will were sitting on the love seat. JJ was talking to Emily and Will was talking to Spencer and Ryan. When Will was on a case the same time as JJ Lila kept Trace. The three children got along wonderfully. For a three year old Lucas shared his toys well with Trace. But Lila made sure she had toys for Trace like a ball drop toy, light up toys, pop beads and pop up toys. JJ made sure to leave one of his favorite pop up toys for him and of course his (bibi) blanket. Lila smiled Trace was on the floor in front of his parents playing with his popup toy and his bibi right next to him. Emily was sitting in a chair near JJ. Lila was glad that Emily wanted to be involved in the children's lives. Lila, Pen, and JJ all agreed that Emily spoiled the children rotten. She was constantly bringing them toys or clothes. She was also a good shopping partner. Ryan was helping Spencer tie strings to balloons as he filled them up. She really didn't know Ryan that well, Spencer said that he was a really laid back guy and a hard worker.

"Mommy" Angel said bringing Lila out of her thoughts.

"What baby?" asked Lila

"Can we play in the backyard yet? Angel asked excitedly

"No, you don't want to get tired before your party even starts do you?" asked Lila smiling knowingly

"No I guess not" she said sulking

Spencer got up to go start the grill when the door bell rang. He opened the door to see a small little girl standing there.

"Hey Emillie, come on in" said Spencer smiling

"Hi Dr. Reid my grandma couldn't remember what time the party started so she sent me down here" Emillie said softly

"That's fine the party starts in a few minutes Angel's going to be glad you're here" he said as he lead her in to the living room, then went to start the grill.

Emillie was a new neighbor that lived three houses from them. Even though she was six she was no taller than a four year old. She was thin with a round face, big dark brown eyes and thin shaggy brown hair. Emillie stayed with her only living relative, her Grandmother. Unfortunately her grandma's health was getting worse. Angel immediately took shy little Emillie under her wing. Emillie followed Angel everywhere; Angel didn't seem to mind as long as Emillie played with her.

"EMILLIE!!!" squealed Angel then ran to hug the little girl.

"Happy Birthday Angel" said Emillie as she hugged her then handed her a gift bag

"Thanks" Angel said as she put the gift on the table with the others.

"I want you to meet my family" said Angel as she pulled Emillie towards the adults

" This is my uncle Jason" said Angel then leaned in and whispered "He's really smart"

Gideon smiled warmly at the little girl as she gave a small smile and wave. Angel lead Emillie around the living room introducing her to the rest and watched as Emillie smiled bigger when she realized that these were the people Angel was always talking about.

"This is my Aunt Emily, she spells her name different than you" said Angel

"How do you spell name" asked Prentiss

"E-M-I-L-L-I-E" she said patiently

"That's very pretty" said Prentiss

Emillie just smiled. Lucas ran up to them followed by Trace.

"This is Lucas and Trace there my little buddies" Angel said as she put her arm around Lucas

"I not little I a big man" Lucas said sounding offended

Derek and Penelope started laughing.

"He's talking about a game we play. Watch" said Derek

"Lucas who's a big man?" asked Derek

"Me" he said smiling as he turned towards his parents

"Who's a strong man?"

"Me" he said as he held his arms up to show his muscles

"Who's my big strong man?" asked Penelope

"Meeee" he squealed as he ran toward the couch

Derek easily caught him and tossed the giggling boy over his head. He squealed again when Penelope took him from Derek and started tickling his sides. He then lay in her arms panting. Trace ran over to his daddy who was happy to toss him in the air.

"Who else is coming?" asked Emillie nervously

"I hope Katie, Stacey, Jonny, Bekha, Marvin, Josh, Kelly, Dorothy, everybody but Jake Riley he could go to the moon for all I care" she said

"Angel Rose" Lila said sternly

"Mom I try really hard to be nice to him but he's just mean" Angel said defensively.

"Maybe he likes you sweet pea" said Penelope

"No, I already like a boy" she stated proudly

Lila almost laughed when she heard Spencer choke on his drink from behind her.

"Who?" Spencer asked

"Jonny Collins, daddy" Angel said with a 'duh' look, sense she talked about him everyday

To everyone's amusement Reid actually paled after hearing his six year old liked a boy. The real reason was he didn't have a clue who Jonny Collins was or many of the other friends she had just named. It scared him that he didn't know her friends or especially their parents. He looked at his watch; he guessed he would meet them soon. He almost panicked when the door bell rang. He quickly followed as he watched Angel drag Emillie with her as she went to answer the door.

Soon three blurs ran past him and in walked Aaron and Hayley Hotchner. With Jack who seemed to be sulking. Jack was now ten, tall, thin, and looked exactly like Hotch. He was captain of his soccer team and did not want to be at a six year old girls birthday party.

"Hey Reid, which way did my tornado blow in here" said Hotch shaking his head

"Three of them just blew into the playroom" Reid said smiling

Hotch actually smiled and headed for the playroom. As he headed down toward the room he heard muffle voices and a loud one that he knew to well. He stood in the door way for a minute watching the girls play.

"Katherine" Hotch said sternly from the door way

"Yes sir "said a small voice

"Come here please" said Hotch as he stepped into the hall the little girl behind him

Hotch kneeled down so he could look his daughter in the eyes and gently put his hands on her small shoulders.

"I know your excited but you can't just run in to people homes with out saying hello to everybody and you were the loudest one I could hear down the hall you have to calm down and use your inside voice or your going to have to whisper the rest of the day. OK" he said firmly

"Yes sir" she said softly sighing; she then bounced toward the packed living room.

Hotch just shook his head as he followed her.

Katherine Amber Hotchner, Katie, is seven years old has dirty blonde hair, brown eyes, slender body and was a drama queen. This drove Hotch crazy that she was always loud and never walked or sat still, she usually bounced, skipped, and jumped, or anything else she could think of. He just couldn't understand why she was so flamboyant and Jack was the opposite. But all she had to do was give her daddy a smile and he was wrapped right back around her little finger.

"Hi everyone" said Katie as she entered the living room

"There's the pretty girl, I knew you couldn't be far" said Penelope as she held her arm out for a hug

The little girl quickly gave a round of hugs to everybody and answered there questions the best she could. Then she looked for her escape. Only to see Angel and her friend come into the living room carrying shiny things.

"Here Katie your shirt reminded me that I haven't past out the tiaras and crowns" said Angel as she handed Katie a pink tiara.

Katie wore a black tank top with a sparkly silver tiara on it and white shorts.

Angel walked over to Lila and held a tiara up to her. Lila lowered her head down so Angel could put it on her. With her head still bowed she gently rubbed noses with Angel. Soon all the girls had tiaras and the guys had crowns. Will was on the floor trying to convince Trace to wear his crown.

"Look buddy now daddy has two crowns" Will said as he put the second one on top of his head

Trace laughed and reached for the crown. Will lowered his head so Trace could reach. Trace took it off Will's head then laughed and put it back on.

"Your turn buddy" said Will as he went to put the crown on Trace

Trace began to whine and shake his head until Will picked him up and took him to the mirror in the hall.

"Now you look like daddy see" he said as he put the crown on Trace's head

Trace began to laugh and point at their reflections. Will felt an arm slip around his waist and smiled when JJ's reflection appeared next to his.

"Look at my handsome little prince" JJ said smiling as Trace reached for her " and my handsome King" JJ added as she pinched Will's butt then quickly took Trace and headed for the living room. With Will right behind her.

As JJ and Will came back into the living room Lila was letting the kids go into the backyard. Angel was the first one outside she stopped and stared at her present.

"Whoa" little Emillie said as she summed up what everyone was thinking

In front of them stood one of the biggest playground equipment they had ever seen. It was bright red, had four slides, two big ones in the front and two smaller ones in the back, monkey bars, three swings, tunnels, and different climbing obstacle to get onto the equipment. The children took off at a full run to see who could get on it first, Katie won.

Lila stood at the door to watch the children play. She sighed, in her parents minds nothing was to big for their grandchildren, no matter how much Lila protested but she was glad see Angel was having fun. She felt Spencer wrap his arms around her and rest his hands on her tummy. It was on days like this that Spencer wished Angel knew who his mother was. He had told Angel that she lived in a hospital that was why she could not see her. He still wrote his mother everyday and told her all about Lila, Angel, and the new baby but she never seemed to respond when he wrote about them. He guessed in her mind they did not exist.

"Hey there is no frowning allowed at birthday parties Dr. Reid, I know it's big but you know how my parents are" said Lila breaking his thoughts as she turned around in his arms to face him.

"What… no it will be fine Angel loves it and that's all they wanted" Spencer said and then smiled when he saw Angel come down a slide with Lucas on her lap.

"What was the frown for?" she asked, her voice full of concern.

"I just kind of wish my mom would acknowledge the fact that she has a grandchild and one on the way" he said softly looking down and gently rubbed his thumb over her tummy when he felt the baby kick.

"I know I'm sorry baby but we can still keep sending pictures and maybe one day…" she was cut off by Spencer kissing her

They heard someone clear their throat politely. They parted to see everyone in the room was grinning, expect Jack who was sitting in a chair looking at the floor intensely.

"May I point out that was their second make out session today in front of company" said Penelope holding up two fingers for effect.

"We have company"? Lila asked boldly

Reid was still blood red when he mumbled something about checking on the grill and rushed out the back door. This caused chuckles from around the room.

Lucas ran in the room holding a ball.

"Jack come play with me, pees" asked Lucas

"What do you want to play" asked Jack

"Socker" said Lucas holding up the ball

"Sure" said Jack glad to get out of the room.

Soon more kids showed up and Lila made sure to get numbers from the parents for just in case of an emergency. A little while later Johnny Collins showed up. He had curly white blonde hair, blue eyes and a thousand watt smile. Lila quickly went to get Angel and Spencer from outside.

"Hi Johnny" Angel said shyly

"Hey Angel, Happy Birthday" Johnny said as he handed her a gift

"T Thank you" she said nervously

Lila watched as Angel did what Lila called the Spencer dance. She rocked back and forth on her heels and played with her pockets while the two six year olds stared at each other.

"Wanna go play out side" Angel finally blurted out

"Yeah" he said smiling as he grabbed her hand and they ran out the door

"Ok that was just cute" said JJ smiling

"Well there's no doubt that she's Reid's child" teased Morgan looking right a Reid

"yeah I was starting to wonder" chuckled Penelope

"All right guys if you are done picking on my husband. We need to go start setting up the games" said Lila

Spencer followed Lila out to the back yard to set up the games. One game was for the girls and the other was for the boys. The girls game was a pink blown up castle that they tossed gold rings at to get points. The boys game was similar it was a gray castle that was Velcro and balls were thrown at dragons for points. They were getting ready to start playing the games when Lila saw a women come out of the house with a boy.

"Hi I'm Sara Riley and this is my son Jake. I am so sorry we are late" she said politely

Sara was short with red hair and kind blue eyes. Jake was the complete opposite. He was the size of an eight year old with strawberry blonde hair and ice cold blue eyes.

"I'm Lila and this is my husband Spencer. We were getting ready to play games then have some lunch and cake" said Lila as she shook Sara's hand.

Spencer noticed that the kids got quite when Jake went towards the jungle gym. Jake was a big kid for his age but it was his eyes that were intimidating. They were full of anger for who ever got in his way. Reid could see, even though it was sad, his team was profiling the six year old. They knew the reason why the boy was so angry. Reid hoped Jake wouldn't cause any trouble for Angel's Birthday. Lila got Sara's number and walked her to the door.

The games went surprisingly smooth. Jake seemed intimidated by the males especially Morgan and Hulk. He did push a couple of kids but Morgan put him at the back of the line and he stopped. Everyone won prizes which made the kids happy. Lunch went just as smoothly. Lila let the kids go play while everyone finished lunch then they would sing and cut the cake. Hotch watched Katie, Angel, Lucas, and Emillie get on the platform to the monkey bars, the platform was open on both sides; one side was the monkey bars and the other side was a drop. Katie had somehow got Jack to stand under the bars and help them across. No one saw Jake climb up on the platform.

The team was in the house when they heard shouting. Reid's heart stopped as he watched Angel fall to the ground and not move.