Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds.

A/N: Shout out to tannerose5, Chermayne, Hippichic81 for reviewing chapter seven.

This chapter takes place the morning after the Reids arrived in Las Vegas since they arrived the evening before until Thanksgiving, and with one of the events that is mentioned in this chapter you readers will realize that I'm not going to have Spencer end up in jail at all.

I'm sorry about the delay for this chapter since I was dealing with writers block and my family and I had to put our beloved seven year old Charcoal lab Cleatus (the Labrador in my avatar photo) to sleep since his epilepsy has gotten so bad that he would have a couple of seizures a week and with all the medication he was on he could barely walk. I held his paw during his last moments, and boy did I cry when I was told that he's gone.

RIP Cleatus

Born on 11-14-2009 and he died on 07-17-2017.

May you enjoy being free of your epilepsy while getting to spend time with my late aunt Cathy who will burp you for me.


Spencer and Olivia were finishing getting dressed for the day, and Spencer looked at his wife who was wearing maternity jeans, a maternity blouse, and had her long light brown hair pulled into a ponytail.

"I want to go see my mom alone today since it wouldn't be safe for you or the kids to see her." said Spencer.

"It's OK that you want to do this visit alone, but does Diana know that we're out here for seven weeks?" asked Olivia.

"She knows since I told her over the phone, and she's a bit excited about us being out here for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years." said Spencer just as they heard a knock on the door.

"Mommy. Daddy." said Piper.

"We'll be out in a minute, Goober." said Spencer.

"Uncle Gordon say that breakfast is in 15 minutes." said Piper.

"OK sweet pea, and daddy and I will be doing yours and Ava's hair as soon as we're out." said Olivia.

15 minutes later Spencer and Olivia were sitting around the dining room table with Gordon, William, Piper, Albert, and Ava eating breakfast and Gordon looked at his nephew.

"Do you want me to come along?" asked Gordon.

"I want to go see mom alone." said Spencer.

"You go see grandma?" asked Piper.

"I am, but right now she can't see you, mommy, Albert, and Ava since I don't know how sick she is." said Spencer.

"Grandma has a virus?" asked Piper as she thought about what her daddy explained to her when she had to get vaccinations.

At that moment all four adults exchanged glances.

"Something like that." said Spencer.

"When you go see grandma please give her a hug and a kiss and say that it's from Piper." said Piper.

"I will." said Spencer.


Over three hours later Spencer was stepping into his mother's room, and looked at his mom who was writing in her journal.

"Hi, mom." said Spencer.

Diana looked up at Spencer, and after three seconds she finally recognized her son.

"What are you doing here, Spencer?" asked Diana.

Spencer choked back his emotions as he realized that his mom didn't recognize him for three seconds.

"I had some vacation days saved up and I'm on leave until January 11th of next year since I wanted to spend some time with you before Daniel is born." said Spencer.

Diana looked at her son, confused.

"I'm going to be a grandma?" asked Diana before she noticed the gold wedding band on her son's left ring finger, "I have a daughter in law?"

Spencer realized the possibility of dementia, making him think of another question he could ask.

"How old am I?" asked Spencer.

Diana looked at her son.

"You just turned 29, and I don't recall you being married." said Diana.

Spencer closed his eyes before he knew that it was dementia.

"Mom, I turned 34 last month, I have been married for over four years to a girl named Olivia who you instantly liked when I introduced you to her, you have a three year old granddaughter named Piper, a two year old grandson named Albert, a two year old granddaughter named Ava, and Olivia is nearly 22 weeks pregnant with your second grandson who's going to be named Daniel Jason." said Spencer.

At that moment Diana started crying as one of her worst nightmares came true, and a few seconds later Spencer was sitting by his mom comforting her as nurse Elizabeth and Dr. Jesson came into the room where they saw Spencer comforting his mom.

"So you figured it out?" asked Dr. Jesson as nurse Elizabeth gave Diana a sedative before Spencer helped his mom lay down.

Spencer started explaining the conversation he had with his mom, and as soon as he reached the end he looked at her doctor.

"We need to get my mom tested for dementia as soon as possible, and so far I know that her twin brother Gordon hasn't been showing any symptoms." said Spencer.

"I will get your mom tested as soon as she's alert, but you should have Gordon get here since I want to test him just to be safe." said Dr. Jesson before she looked at Spencer who looked like he was very upset, "And you should head over to your uncle's and spend time with Olivia and the kids."

"OK." said Spencer.

A few minutes later Spencer was calling his uncle, and after explaining the test that Dr. Jesson wanted him to take, causing Gordon to tell him he would be there as soon as possible, Spencer hit the road to head back to his uncle's ranch.


Over a half hour later Spencer entered his uncle's ranch house to see Olivia and Ethel sitting on the couch knitting, and Spencer looked at Olivia.

"Where's dad and the kids?" asked Spencer.

"The kids are taking a nap, and your dad headed to Bennington with Gordon since he decided to get tested too just to be safe." said Olivia.

"You haven't called any of my team and told them that my mom's getting tested for dementia and possibly Alzheimer's?" asked Spencer as he made his way to sit by Olivia.

"Not yet because I would never call them without your consent." said Olivia before looking at her husband, "How are you doing?"

"I'm upset that there's a possibility my mom will eventually forget me." said Spencer as he explained the questions that he asked his mom before he quickly got up and rushed outside, and a few minutes later he was mounting himself onto Nikola and riding around the ranch.


Later that night Spencer, Olivia, William, and Gordon were sitting in front of Dr. Jesson, who was looking at a file.

"Diana does have dementia and possibly Alzheimer's, and it's not early onset since she's 65 years old." said Dr. Jesson before looking at Gordon, "And with you explaining that there's no family history of Alzheimer's and dementia, it's not genetic since your test results were negative." said Dr. Jesson.

"OK." said Gordon.

"What about me?" asked William.

"Your test results were negative." said Dr. Jesson before looking at Spencer, "And I am not going to run any tests on you because of your age, and with there being no family history of Alzheimer's and dementia in your paternal and maternal side of your family you have the same chance as anyone else."

Olivia looked at her husband.

"None of my grandparents had a history of Dementia or Alzheimer's so the kids would have the same chance as the both of us." said Olivia.

Spencer sighed in relief as Olivia squeezed her husband's hand and made eye contact with him.

"We will get through this together Spencer." said Olivia before groaning when she felt DJ kick.

"The baby just kicked?" asked Dr. Jesson.

"He sure did, so how about you try and see if DJ will kick for you." said Olivia.

At that moment Dr. Jesson got up, and a minute later she smiled when she felt the baby boy kick.

"Having grandchildren has helped Diana over the past three years, and with you two having another baby on the way I would suggest that you guys try to convince Diana to move to a hospital out east to make things easier for you." said Dr. Jesson.

"We will try." said Olivia.


An hour later all four adults plopped on the couch when Ethel came down the stairs.

"I just put the kids to sleep an hour ago." said Ethel as she noticed the sadden faces that all four adults were showing, "So is it Dementia and possibly Alzheimer's?"

"Yes, and mom's starting new medication in the morning so it's been advised that no one visit her for a week while she's monitored." said Spencer as he yawned and Olivia looked at her husband.

"We should head to bed ourselves since you had a long and exhausting day." said Olivia.

A few minutes later Spencer and Olivia were getting into their pajamas, and as soon as they got into bed, Olivia noticed the tears that were threatening to fall and looked at her husband.

"You need to let these emotions out instead of bottling them in." said Olivia as she hugged her husband the best she could despite her pregnant belly.

Spencer started crying, and after sobbing for 20 minutes Spencer cried himself to sleep causing Olivia to help her sleeping husband lay down before she rested her head against his chest.


The next morning Spencer woke up in an empty bed, and after getting dressed he headed downstairs to see Olivia, his kids, his dad, and his uncle Gordon eating breakfast and after giving Olivia and the kids each a kiss he fixed a plate of breakfast for himself.

"Why you look sad, daddy?" asked Piper.

At that moment Spencer looked at Olivia, who nodded at him.

"Grandma's much sicker than we thought." said Spencer as he explained dementia and Alzheimer's in a way for Piper, Albert, and Ava to understand.

"Grandma will forget me?" asked Piper as she started to tear up.

"Eventually she will, but for now grandma will take medication to help manage her condition like her medication did for her schizophrenia." said Spencer.

Olivia looked at Piper, Albert, and Ava.

"So please don't freak out if grandma doesn't remember you guys, but I want you three to remember that grandma Diana always loves you three and baby DJ." said Olivia.

"OK." said Piper, Albert, and Ava all at once before Piper looked at her daddy.

"Can I see grandma today?" asked Piper.

"Grandma's not able to have visitors until next week since she's starting on new medication today, but hopefully she will be stable enough to see you three next week." said Spencer.

"OK daddy." said Piper.

"But what do you say about you and I do something today?" asked Spencer.

"Yes." said Piper.

Spencer looked at Albert and Ava.

"I will be having individual dates with you two tomorrow, and the next day." said Spencer.

"Yay." said Albert as he clapped his hands.

"Yay." said Ava as she clapped her hands.


Two hours later Spencer and Piper arrived at one of Spencer's favorite childhood parks, and a minute later Spencer was pushing his oldest daughter on the swing while thinking about the times his mom pushed him on the swing.

"Higher, daddy." said Piper.

"You ready?" asked Spencer.

"I am." said Piper.

Spencer started pushing his oldest daughter a bit higher, and he couldn't help but smile at Piper's giggles while thinking about how having Olivia and the kids in his life has been helping him over the latest obstacle he has to deal with.


Two hours later Spencer and Piper were sitting in Ethel's diner, and after Spencer took his and Piper's orders, Ethel came over to them and looked at her great niece who was wearing a purple dress, purple leggings, purple converse sneakers, her long curly hair pulled into two fishtail braids with two purple ribbons, and her purple polka dot glasses.

"You're so full of purple today, Piper." said Ethel as she gave her great niece a kiss on the forehead.

"I like purple just like daddy." said Piper before she decided to start coloring on the activity mat that the waitress gave her.

Ethel looked at her nephew.

"How are you doing, Spencer?" asked Ethel.

"I'm hanging in there, and it's hard that mom can't have any visitors right now." said Spencer.

"But spending time with Olivia and your kids are one of the best things you can do right now while you wait." said Ethel.

"I know." said Spencer.

"Have you talked to your team about what's going on with Diana?" asked Ethel.

"We decided to wait until we head back to DC since I'm still trying to digest the information that I was given." said Spencer.

"So what are you two doing after lunch?" asked Ethel.

"We're going to the Discovery Children's Museum." said Spencer.

"Andrew loves taking Rachel there whenever he, Joanna, and Rachel come down from Reno." said Ethel.

"Andrew has told me about the museum." said Spencer.

"Have you told Andrew about his aunt?" asked Ethel.

"Gordon is taking care of notifying Andrew today." said Spencer.

"When will I see Rachel?" asked Piper.

"You will see her during Thanksgiving, Piper." said Spencer just as a waitress came over with their meals.


45 minutes later Spencer and Piper were enjoying the sights at the Discovery Children's Museum.


Later that night Spencer and Olivia were listening to Piper saying her prayers, and Spencer had to hold back his emotions when he heard Piper mention her grandma.

"I want Nana to be all better so daddy can smile and laugh again." said Piper through the cracked open door.

As soon as Piper, Albert, and Ava were all asleep, Spencer and Olivia were getting ready for bed when Olivia looked at her husband who was pulling on pajama bottoms.

"Are you OK?" asked Olivia.

"During the day with Piper, she kept asking me if I was OK." said Spencer quietly as he pulled a t-shirt over his head.

"She's always been a daddy's girl since one of her most favorite questions she asks every day when you're on a case is "when is daddy coming home."" said Olivia.

"Piper's extremely happy that I'm not going away at all for the next seven and a half weeks." said Spencer as he looked at the clock, "With it being 10 PM we should get some sleep since tomorrow Ava's having a date with me."

"As soon as you have your date with Ava and then Albert, are we going to have a date of our own?" asked Olivia flirtatiously as she played with the waistband of Spencer's pajama pants.

Spencer groaned when he felt his body react.

"Not here Olivia, since we're dealing with a full house, but when we have our date we can stay at a hotel overnight." said Spencer quietly.

"Promises. Promises." purred Olivia.

A few minutes later Spencer and Olivia were fast asleep in their bed.


Three days later, Spencer and Olivia were entering Binions, and as soon as they were waiting for their meals, Olivia looked at her husband.

"How long are we not going to tell your teammates about your mom's diagnosis?" asked Olivia.

"I want to wait until the case that my teammates are working on outside of cases they are called in for is closed, and I was told in a cryptic text message from Hotch that we can't contact Garcia at all." said Spencer.

"Why?" asked Olivia.

Spencer quietly told Olivia about what was going on and the orders that Hotch gave him about just staying where he was and come back to work the day he's supposed to return, and when he was finished talking, Olivia looked at her husband.

"Aaron's right that you need to focus on your mom right now, and Garcia is safe where she is." said Olivia.

At that moment a waitress came over with their chicken fried lobster, and after finishing their meals and eating dessert they were leaving Binions as Olivia was rubbing her now 22 week pregnant belly.

"That chicken fried lobster has really hit the spot since I was craving it." said Olivia.

"So are you ready for us to stay at the Bellagio?" asked Spencer.

"Yes." smirked Olivia as she thought about the shopping trip she did when Spencer was out with Piper three days prior.

A half hour later Spencer and Olivia were undressing each other before they started making out in their hotel bed.


A couple of days later Spencer entered his mother's room, and Diana looked at her son.

"Hello, Spencer." said Diana.

At that moment Spencer sighed in relief as he realized that his mom's new medication was helping her.

"Hey mom. Do you remember how old I am?" asked Spencer.

"You turned 34 last month, I have three grandchildren, and you and Olivia are expecting my second grandson next March." said Diana.

"You are correct, and speaking of Olivia and your grandchildren, are you ready to see them today?" asked Spencer.

"Are they here?" asked Diana.

"They're downstairs in the lobby." said Spencer.

"Please have them come up." said Diana.

Spencer pulled out his phone and sent a text, and a few minutes later Diana was hugging Piper, Albert, and Ava, and after Diana had a moment with each grandchild, she looked at Olivia and gasped when she saw Olivia's 22 week pregnant belly.

"Has the baby been kicking?" asked Diana.

"Daniel's been kicking since I was 16 weeks pregnant mom." said Olivia as she hugged her mother in law, "And I think that Daniel wants you to feel him kick for the first time."

Diana rested a hand on Olivia's growing belly, and a minute later she was tearing up when she felt Daniel kick before she looked at her son.

"I want to take your offer of moving out east so I can live the rest of my life making memories with you guys since it's going to be hard for you two and William to travel back and fourth with four kids." said Diana.

"I will let Dr. Jesson know today so we can start making arrangements." said Spencer.

At that moment Piper looked at her daddy.

"Can we please go outside and play?" asked Piper.

"I think that's a wonderful idea because I want to see you practice your cartwheels." said Diana.

"Yay!" cheered Piper as she hugged her grandma.

A few minutes later Spencer, Olivia, Diana, and the kids were in the garden and all three adults watched Piper, Albert, and Ava run around. Diana smiled when she watched Piper do an occasional cartwheel while teaching Albert and Ava how to do somersaults before she looked at her son.

"May I tell you something really important, Spencer?" asked Diana.

"What is it?" asked Spencer.

"Even though you guys are going to move me out east, I don't want you to go through the trouble of trying to find a cure for my dementia and Alzheimer's because I accepted my diagnosis so I just want to spend the rest of my life making memories with you guys." said Diana.

Spencer realized that his mom was right since he should accept the fact that his mom is eventually going to be gone.

"OK, mom." said Spencer.

At that moment Piper, Albert, and Ava ran towards them, and Piper looked at her grandma.

"Did you see my cartwheels?" asked Piper.

"I sure did Piper, and when I move to a hospital out east maybe I can come and watch you practice your gymnastics since I've seen the videos of you practicing." said Diana.

"Yay." said Piper as she hugged her grandma tightly just as Dr. Jesson approached them and looked at Spencer.

"Nurse Elizabeth mentioned that you wanted to speak to me in private." said Dr. Jesson as nurse Elizabeth came forward.

"I will stay with you guys while Spencer talks to Dr. Jesson." said nurse Elizabeth as she looked at Piper, "I have to see you do a few cartwheels since I've seen the videos that your mommy and daddy sent your grandma." said nurse Elizabeth.

"OK." beamed Piper.

A few minutes later Spencer was sitting across from Dr. Jesson in Dr. Jesson's office, and Spencer looked at his mother's doctor.

"My mom requested that she gets transferred to a hospital out east so she can make memories with Olivia, the kids, and I." said Spencer.

"Well it's a good thing that I ended up doing some research this past week because there are a couple of hospitals willing to take in your mom that are either in Washington DC, Virginia, or Maryland." said Dr. Jesson as she grabbed the information she printed out and passed it to Spencer.

After spending 10 minutes reading the information, Spencer looked at Dr. Jesson.

"Even though Johns Hopkins is tempting, with my work hours and Baltimore being an hour away from DC and 90 minutes from Quantico I would only be able to handle going to Baltimore at least once a month, so I will do Georgetown University Hospital since mom stayed there for two weeks after Piper was born." said Spencer before smiling at his mother's doctor, "Plus it's helpful that I am friends with Dr. Harris since I once saved her son's life."

"I will contact Dr. Harris and get everything transferred to her." said Dr. Jesson as she picked up her phone, and 15 minutes later she looked at Spencer.

"It's all set that your mom will be transferred to the inpatient clinic at Georgetown University Hospital on January 10th of next year, and they're faxing the required paperwork for you to fill out." said Dr. Jesson.

"Thank you Dr. Jesson." said Spencer as Dr. Jesson's fax machine came to life.

"You're welcome Spencer, and even though I'm going to miss having your mom as a patient, moving her out east will be the best thing for the both of you so she can continue making memories with you, Olivia, and the kids until her Alzheimer's get worse." said Dr. Jesson.

A few minutes later Spencer was with his mom, Olivia, and the kids again and Diana looked at her son.

"So which hospital am I becoming a patient at?" asked Diana.

"You remember Dr. Harris who took over your care for two weeks after Piper's birth?" asked Spencer.

"Did I like her?" asked Diana.

"You did like her." said Spencer before he took a deep breath, "You're going to be an inpatient at Georgetown University Hospital which isn't far from where I live, and when I have weekends off I will check you out so we can visit tourist attractions when you're having a good day." said Spencer as three sleepy toddlers came towards them.

"I sleepy daddy." said Piper.

At that moment Spencer and Olivia looked at each other.

"We should head back to uncle Gordon's since it's nap time for the kids." said Spencer before looking at his mom, "We're going to be spending the next couple of weeks packing up and getting you a warmer wardrobe because next month when dad, Olivia, the kids, and I drive back to DC, aunt Ethel and uncle Gordon can probably work on transporting you east." said Spencer as he scooped up Piper while Olivia helped Albert and Ava get into their strollers.


The following Thursday, Spencer, Olivia, William, the kids, Gordon, Ethel, Andrew, Joanna, and Rachel, and Diana were sitting around the dining room table at Gordon's enjoying their Thanksgiving Day feast, and after dinner was cleaned up Gordon looked at everyone.

"What do you guys say about getting my artificial Christmas tree set up?" asked Gordon.

"Yay." cheered Piper, Albert, Ava, and Rachel all at once.

A half hour later everyone was decorating the Christmas tree before Spencer had to take his mom back to Bennington.


A/N: Let's just say that during Spencer's day with Ava, he took Ava to the library and Red Rock Canyon and for his day with Albert he took his son to the Discovery Children's Museum since he realized that Albert would enjoy the museum as much as Piper did and Shark Reef Aquarium.

Next chapter will deal with Christmas and New Years so the chapters that will deal with Entropy will start during chapter 9 since Entropy will be dealt with in more than one chapter since it was a huge Reidcentric episode in season 11.