"Aunt Penny!" Henry hugs the woman's legs when JJ opens the door.

"How is my favorite little munchkin?" Garcia asks, picking him up.

"We were just eating breakfast." JJ tells her as they walk back towards the dining area. Garcia sets the boy back down in his seat.

"I eat cheerios!" Henry says, picking one of them out to show her.

"Use your spoon." JJ tells him as he picks at his food again. He pouts, but listens.

Garcia ruffles his hair as she sits next to him. "He's kinda got the Reid, circa gun shot hair going on."

JJ rolls her eyes. "I'm not cutting his hair. Plus, Spencer pulled it off quite well. So can Henry."

Henry's eyes widen at the mention of Spencer. "Penner come over, mommy?"

"No, buddy. Spencer's busy today." She tells him and he frowns.

"Someone loves their god father." Garcia muses.

"He's been over twice this week, Henry's loving it."

"Hmmm." Garcia hums, happily and JJ gives her a look.

"What does that mean?"

"Oh, nothing." She singsongs. "Just that a cute little genius might be crushing on a specific liaison hottie again."

"He does not. Shut up." She laughs.

"Oh please. He only stopped because one, you got all preggo, and two, Bartender-now-Chef Austen."

She makes a face. He and Austen had had a relationship for a while after she had moved to DC after the Viper case. The two had been close until she graduated culinary school and got a job offer in California. They had broken up a month or so ago, Spencer unable to deal with the long distance relationship. She remembers, because he had started to visit Henry much more often after that.

"Has he talked to Austen again?"

Garcia shrugs. "She's called a few times, but I don't think he's answered."

"I didn't like her, anyways."

Garcia raises an eyebrow. "Oh, really?"

JJ shrugs, watching Henry as he finished his cereal and tried to drink the milk in the bowl. She takes it from him, giving him his sippy cup instead. "She wasn't right for him. They were just…weird together."

Garcia grins and JJ rolls her eyes. "Oh don't even think what you're thinking, because it's not true."

"How do you know what I'm thinking unless is true!" She stares down the woman for a minute before she gasps. "Oh my god, since when?"

JJ glares before picking up her son. "I have to get Henry dressed and then we can get going."

"Oh, no, no, no. You are not just walking out of this conversation like that." Garcia follows.

"I do it, Mommy!" Henry says when she starts to pull his pajamas up. She smiles at him, taking a step back so he can undress himself. She gets his clothes ready to put on as she looks at Garcia.

"I don't like him, so drop it."

Garcia gives her a look. "Oh come on, Jayje. I may not be a profiler, but I can read my best friend. Something happened between you too."

JJ sighs, looking at the little boy as he struggles to get out of his bottoms, but eventually succeeds. "I don't want to talk about this. Will's going to be back from the gym soon and if he hears you, he's going to get mad."

Garcia rolls her eyes. "Because you think someone else is cute? Me and Kevin would have been over years ago if he got angry at every lewd comment I made about Morgan."

"Mommy help!" He cries, trying to get his head through a sleeve. She chuckles and helps the little boy, who gives her a big grin when his head pops through the right hole. "I good now."

She nods, but still offers her hand for support as he puts on his khakis. She looks back up at Garcia. "You know that Will already doesn't like You-Know-Who. I don't want to add fuel to that fire."

Garcia shakes her head. "He needs to get over that. It's ridiculous and you know that if you ever did decide that you weren't going to deal with that…I'd be there for you. I just want you to be happy, Jayje."

After the boy gets on his pants, JJ scoops him up, hugging him close. "I am happy. I have a great family and I'm not going to mess that up because I might have noticed that…You-Know-Who has…"

"grown up into one fine ass genius who I would like to strip, cover in chocolate sauce and then lick clean." She teases.

"Penelope!" She says, covering the little boys ears, who wiggles away from the touch.

"I have chocowate sause, Mommy?" He asks, hopefully.

"Oops." Garcia chuckles before taking the boy. "I bet if you be a good boy today at the zoo, Mommy will let me get you some chocolate ice cream."

JJ groans as Henry cheers.

Criminal Minds || Life

JJ rests on a bench as she watches Penelope and Kevin, who had joined them earlier, play with Henry and the animals. They were petting and feeding a goat and Henry was absolutely enthralled.

"What's up?" Spencer asks, sitting next to her and she jumps.

"What are you doing here?"

He frowns, looking back at Garcia. "…Garcia called me and told me to come, that you guys were going to lunch. She said she was inviting everyone on the team."

JJ glares at Penelope who waves at Spencer before paying attention to the goat. "Oh. She hadn't told me."

He frowns deeper. "Oh. Well, I mean… I can go." He stands up and she shakes her head.

"No. Of course not, Spencer. You're more than willing to come eat with us. Henry would love that."

He sits back down, slowly, looking unsure. "I thought Will would be here today."

"He's trying to stick with his sleep schedule." She explains. "He's got to work tonight. "

He nods, fidgeting. "How's that working out?"

She looks at him. "It's not bad. He seems to like it and he was right, he spends the same amount of time with Henry that he did before. Henry's doing real well too, being quiet and all."

He nods again. "He seemed very observant that Will was sleeping when I watched him. He's a good kid."

She smiles, watching as his eyes move to Henry before he focuses back on his hands. He's clean-shaven now, although she can still see a shadow of a moustache. He's in a more normal outfit, slacks and button-up without a tie though. Her eyes go back to his face though, noticing his jaw line and cheekbones that Brandi had gushed about. She was right, the weight gain and muscle building had changed his baby face into that of a man's. He must feel her looking at him because he glances over at her and blushes when she sees him looking at her. She chuckles, slightly when he rubs his face.

"What?" He asks. "Did I miss a spot or something?"

She shakes her head. "No, I just… you've changed a lot over the years, Spence."

He looks at her confused. "I'm still me."

She smiles at him. He was still the same Spence. Maybe a little more confident in his skills and work, but still the same good man he had been all those years before. "You are still you. Just a little better."

He doesn't know how to take her words, she sees the a sea of emotions fly over his face before he smiles, eventually. "Thanks."

She leans in and ruffles his hair. "Although, I have to admit, I miss the long hair. You look too adult with the short cut."

He frowns. "Morgan says it makes me look younger."

She shrugs. "From the really long hair, yea. You looked distinguished with the long curly hair and the cane. It was kinda hot." She says before she can stop herself. She flushes. "I mean, you know…"

He watches her before he runs his tongue over his bottom lip, analyzing her words. She knows that's exactly what he's doing, she's seen the move a thousand times.

"I was just being silly, Spence. It's… I mean, You are attractive…but I'm…"

"PENNER!" Henry screams, running over to the duo.

"Thank God." She mutters, hiding her face. Spencer casts another look towards her before picking up the boy.

"I tush the GOAT, Penner! I tell Kebin I eat him cause I dinosaur, but he not let me. You let me eat the goat, right Penner? RIGHT?"

He smiles. "Dinosaurs would probably eat goat if they could, but you're a friendly dinosaur, right?"

Henry thinks about it. "Yeah, I nice."

"Then you can't eat that goat. All those kids would get sad. How about we go to a restaurant and get you a nice cow, though?"

Henry's eyes widen. "I eat a whole COW? MOMMY! Penner get me COW!"

JJ looks up at Spencer and Henry and smiles, weakly. "How cool."

Kevin laughs as the three boys start begin walking to the car, Kevin and Spencer talking about dinosaurs, Henry chiming in every now when he understands something they say.

"What happened over here? You're bright red."

"I don't want to talk about it." JJ says, grabbing her purse and Henry's bag before following the men.

"Oh no. Spencer was blushing too. What happened?"

She sighs, knowing Garcia isn't going to let up. "I told him he was hot."

She squeals, causing the men to stop and look back at her. She waves him to continue before looking back at JJ. "Give me every detail!"

JJ tells her what happened. One minute she had been just talking and the next she had been imagining him at Haley's funeral, suit and cane, jaw set, emotion in his eyes. He was beautiful. He was hot and had been for awhile and she just said it. God, she had said it and he knew that she thought that way. He hadn't said anything at all either. What did that mean? Garcia giggles as JJ rambles, distraught that she was having these types of feelings about her best friend.

"It's really not that big of a deal, JJ. You just think he's cute. You're just noticing what the other BAU women have been noticing for at least a year now."

JJ nods, still stuck in her thoughts. It might not be a big deal to Garcia, but if Will ever found out, she knew that it would be awful. She sees Reid look back at them, curiously and she smiles at him. He smiles back and turns back to his conversation with Kevin and Henry. It wasn't a big deal. He was attractive. That was it. Okay, he was attractive and sweet and great with Henry. But she had a boyfriend and that sound end any kind of questions right there, but it didn't, which only added a whole lot more to think about. She shook away the thoughts. She was only thinking this way because she and Will were still working on a few things. It would get better and then the thoughts of Spencer would go away. She just had to continue to work on her relationship with Will and everything would go back to normal.