AUTHOR'S NOTE

This story takes place somewhere during season 4 when Emily is still present. Somehow, Spencer Reid got caught in the experiment of one UNSUB and got turned into a child. I am so sorry to change the story a bit where Hotch is not married. There will be no Haley, Jack, Will or Henry.

English is not my first language so I want to apologize for any error in grammar or vocabulary. I hope you enjoy and review. Thank you.


Previously,

Carefully, JJ kissed him on the forehead and after a moment of hesitation, she turned sideways and gave Hotch a peck on the cheek before immediately rushed to the door and went out, leaving Hotch dumbfounded. After a while of staring at the door, he just shook his head and continued to read the files in front of him but all the time, the smile never left his face.


By the time JJ got back to the station, 2 hours has passed. She just received a message from Hotch saying that he needs to go out and had to leave while Spencer was still asleep. He even sent her a picture of him sleeping cocooned in his blanket. It was so cute that she could not resist setting it as her wallpaper in her phone.

She walked as fast as she can through the police station, eager to get to Spencer. Even when she greeted the police officers and their children that she met on her way, all she could think about was her Spence.

Before her hand could grab the door handle, the door itself opened to reveal two boys coming out of the room. Obviously, they were related to each other. JJ was confused as to why they were coming out from that room and they looked shocked, almost to the point of afraid to see her there. Both of them appear to be 8 and 6 years old.

"Well, hello there. Did you come from playing with my son, Spencer in there?" JJ's smile turned to frown when she noticed they were fidgeting in front of her.

"Errr... yes ma'am. We were just leaving. Our dad must have been... looking ...for us." Then they just ran from there, leaving JJ puzzled with their behaviour.

She then proceed to open the door and saw Spencer sitting up on the couch, like he had just woken up. He looked kind of troubled with a faraway look on his face. That look was quickly broken when he saw her coming in, as he tried to make a run for her. JJ realized that he was about to jump of the couch, immediately stopped his effort. With an amazing speed that she did not know she possessed, she crossed the room to where Spencer was and immediately picked him up.

"No Spence, you can't put weight on your feet just yet." JJ softly chastised him. The only respond that she got was him burying his face in her neck and tiny arms were wrapped around her. For some unknown reason, he was trembling and she could not figure out why. She looked around the room to search for the possible reason but nothing stood out. She then took a seat on the couch and positioned him on her lap.

"I see that you have finished your snacks. Do you want some more?" JJ asked as she attempted to distract him but she didn't receive any answer from him. She was desperate to ask if he was okay but knew that he was not going to answer her. The small boy remained clingy to her, as she took the opportunity to clean up the table and his sleeping place and times past by in silence as Spencer refused to talk or acknowledge her but at the same time would not let go of her.

"Hey, The team are ready to give the profile and Hotch requested your presence outside."Emily said as she stood in front of the opened door.

"Hey, Em. We didn't notice you guys are back already." JJ replied.

"Yeah, We just got back and were talking to sheriff Adam and we have new lead and Hotch wants to give the profile now and he wants you there. Is everything okay?" Emily explained as she walked towards them. She too, could see how frightened Spencer looked. JJ realized that Hotch was waiting for her but at the same time, Spencer will not want to be left alone, so there was only one thing that she could do.

"Nothing is wrong. Could you watch him for a while?" JJ asked Emily to which she nodded her head. Then she turned to the small boy in her arms. "Sweetie, Hotch wants to see me, but Emily will sit here with you, okay? I will be right outside if you need me." JJ waited to see his reaction to her idea, and fortunately, he did not put up any fight. He let go of her neck and reached for Emily instead. Emily quickly took him from JJ and wrapped him in her embrace.

"It's okay, handsome. Let's sit here and I have a video that I want to show you. You will love it, I swear." Emily gushed out ah she reached for her phone in her pocket and then she was pushing some buttons. Both her and Spencer's attention was focused on the screen of the phone when JJ quietly sneaked out from the room so that none of them notice her leaving.


Based on their profile and combined with the help from the local officers, they managed to narrow down their suspects to 5 people ; Ben Kimberly, Richard Cook, Michael Burdock, Jason Hampton, and Luke Wayne. Hotch then asked Garcia to do a background check on those 5 people to see which one of them has any connection with the victims. They also ask the local officers to look out for all 5 of them.

After giving their profile to the police officers, they made their way back to the room. From outside the door, they could hear the sound of laughter of Emily and Spencer. True enough, when they opened the door, they saw Spencer on Emily's lap and they were both watching a video in Emily's phone and were laughing. JJ felt relieved to see Spencer was back to his happy self again.

"What are you watching, pretty boy? Mind if I watch it too?" Morgan interrupted their moment.

"Tome tuick, Emily found a video on youtube bout animals funniest videos. Thewe was this video whewe the ownew pointed a watew gun to his cat and said 'fweeze' and the cat actually waised its paws and stood still. You have to watch it. Wossi, tome look." Spencer excitedly explained.

Before long, Rossi and Morgan each took a seat on either side of Emily and not even seconds later, all of them were laughing leaving Hotch and JJ to watch them from the doorway. They could not help the smile on their face. Sometimes they felt more like a family than co-workers.

"Mommy, daddy, tome and see." Spencer's little voice brought them out of their daydream as the rest of the them were watching them, waiting for the couple to join them on the couch, in which they did just that and all the stress from the day eventually fade away.


The next morning, around 7, JJ made her way to the hotel room where Spencer and Hotch were staying. Spencer's bandage on his feet can be taken off this morning and Spencer requested her help saying that she was gentler than Hotch. The scandalised look on Hotch's face when he heard him made the others laughed so hard.

But nevertheless, she intend to keep her promises so she wake up early and got ready before waking up Emily to tell her that she was going to Spencer's room. Even if she just woke up and was still a bit dazed, Emily could not pass the opportunity to tease JJ about it, in which JJ just ignored her and got out of the room and headed towards Hotch's room which was two doors down the hall. She knocked and waited for Hotch to open the door seconds later. By the look of it, he was getting ready for a shower.

"Come in, Spencer was still asleep. Would you mind wake him up? I want to shower before I got him ready." Hotch made way for JJ to enter. JJ headed straight towards the bed where Spencer was sleeping peacefully. When she got near him, she was surprised to see him sleeping on his side, cuddling his stuffed bear.

"I guess the no toys punishment is already over." JJ commented.

"He has been a good boy the last few days. Besides, I feel guilty of having to leave him at the station and I think it will be better if he has his toys with him." Hotch explained just before he entered the bathroom and closed the door.

JJ was in no rush to wake her 'son' knowing that she still got some time until Hotch finished with his shower. She looked around the room and she could not help but noticed that the other bed was perfectly made as if no one was using it last night, so that means that Hotch put Spencer in his bed with him. JJ giggled at that thought as she laid down next to the slumbering toddler and rubbed his back slowly, trying to rouse him from his sleep.

"Spence, wakey wakey..." she said in a sing song voice. Spencer just scrunched up his face and turned the other way around, facing away from her. JJ stifled a laugh and turned him back around facing her.

"Come on, sweetie. It's morning already. Time to wake up." JJ tried again. Spencer sneaked open one eye and saw his surrogate mother lying next to him. Without thinking much, he climbed on top of her and after finding a comfortable position, he let out a content sigh and closed his eyes again. This time JJ did let out a laugh at his cute action.

"No you don't, sweetie. Open those beautiful eyes again." JJ bounced him a little. After a few more coaxing, he did open his eyes with so much difficulty. JJ noticed that he was not completely awake yet so she tried to engage him in conversations hoping that would make him more alert. Then she slowly started to undress him, getting him ready for his bath. She stripped him from his pyjama pants and shirts leaving him in nothing but pull ups and bandage on his feet. Suddenly her hands stopped moving in her attempt to unwrap the bandage when she noticed a few bruises on his upper arms and she could have sworn that it was not there two nights before so that must have mean he got it yesterday. Before she could ask him from where did the bruise come from, the door to the bathroom opened and Hotch came out of it wearing a suit pants with a long-sleeved button down blue shirts.

"I already prepare the water in the tub, buddy. Let's put you in the tub then I will give you five minutes to wash before I came and take you out okay, buddy?" Hotch leaned down to pick him up from the bed and heading to the bathroom. After removing his pull ups, he gently deposited him in the tub and gave him a washcloth to wash himself. He made sure to put everything that Spencer might need within his reach before going back out.

"Hotch, I noticed some marks on his upper arms and I think he might have gotten them yesterday. Did you know something about it?" JJ asked as she moved to put away his pyjamas and take out his clothes for today.

"Marks? As in bruising? How did he get it? As far as I know he only hurt his forehead yesterday, not his arm."

"That is what I am trying to figure out. You didn't see it when you changed him for bed yesterday?"

"No. He insisted to dress himself for bed and I let him. Maybe he fell down in his sleep?"

"I am not sure but I don't think he will answer if we ask."

"Yes, you know how he is. Speaking of him, I better go and retrieve him. He tend to get carried away seeing as how much he loves to play with water." Hotch said before going back to the bathroom. JJ had just finish putting a red t-shirt, blue jeans, underwear and socks on the bed when Hotch came out carrying a shivering Spencer and put him on the bed, before he himself took a seat next to him. Together, JJ and Hotch work together to dress the boy who kept jumping around on the bed.

Hotch shook his head as he saw how active his son was this morning. They were having a hard time to ask him to sit still but he kept jumping around after they finished putting on his clothes. He had already given up and left the task of getting their 'son' ready to the capable hands of his 'wife'. He decided that he might as well finish getting ready to leave to the station.

"Come here Spence. I need to brush your hair." JJ called from the edge of the bed as she stood there with a hairbrush in her hand. Spencer stopped jumping just enough for JJ to brush his hair before he resumed back to jumping on the bed. JJ just sighed as she began putting back all the supplies into the diaper bag, after a quick advice of 'be careful'.

Seeing Hotch was putting on his tie, suddenly JJ got great idea for revenge. Determined to put her plan into action, she quickly walked to stand in front of Hotch. She was so close to him that he could felt her breath on his neck and causing his hand to stop and his heart to accelerate. Taking advantage of his hiatus, JJ gently removed his hand from the tie and let his hand fall awkwardly at his side. She then took hold of the item and proceeded to fasten it properly, while taking her sweet time. After completed it, she brush nonexistent wrinkle from his suit and leaned up on her toes to whisper teasingly, "Now, you look hot, darling."

"Wut bout me? Do I loot hot too?" Spencer's question pulled them out of their trance. He jumped towards them. Seeing that he was about to jump on them, JJ turned just in time to catch him.

"Oooof, Spencer, Didn't I just tell you to be careful?"

"Sowwy. You didn't answew my question. Do I loot hot lite daddy?"

"Of course, sweetie. Morgan would be so jealous of you. In fact, lets go and show Morgan right now." JJ said as she carefully balanced him on her hip and headed toward the door.

"We'll meet you at the car. Don't forget his bag. I already packed all his things." JJ instructed before exiting the room with an excited Spencer giving room for Hotch to finish getting ready.