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A/N: Thanks to MrsReidDiNIzzo25 for helping me add onto this chapter
Harper's POV
I woke up at 8:30 AM to Rachel making breakfast and coffee. I walked into the kitchen and Rachel noticed that I was nervous.
"Are you nervous today Harper?"
"Yes."
"Don't be, he wouldn't have proposed if he did not think it was right, or if he did not love you."
"I don't know Rach, what if he only proposed because his mother wanted him to?" she asked as Rachel passed her a cup of coffee.
"You are such a worry woman, Harper, he wouldn't have proposed if he didn't think you were perfect, or if he didn't love you."
"You really think so?" she asked biting her lip.
"I don't think," she said as Harper frowned "I know, because I seen the way he looks at you and the way you look at him." she said with a smile.
Spencer POV
I woke up at 9:30 AM knowing that I am getting married today and Ethan was still sleeping on the couch. I looked up at the clock that said I had almost four hours before I needed to be at Rossi's. My stomach growled so I set about to making breakfast and decided to make tea to calm my nervousness. Ethan woke up to the smell of breakfast and joined me in the kitchen.
"Reid are you nervous today?"
"Yes, Ethan, I am. The last time I was this nervous was my first day in the BAU and before that was when I graduated from the FBI academy."
"I do not blame you for being nervous on your first day at the BAU because you were the youngest agent there, and you were worried whether some of your teammates would accept you or not."
"Hotch and Gideon accepted me right away because I was handpicked for the unit. It took Morgan a few days because he heard about the waivers I was given for the physical training until I sprouted off needed information and he learned about my degrees. And I have proved my worth in the field a lot since I started at the BAU. Morgan didn't learn about my mom until I was in the BAU for almost four years, but Hotch and Gideon knew before I started at the BAU."
"Are you glad years ago when you asked me why I quit training for the FBI after one day you didn't end up quitting. Because if you had quit the BAU you would never have met Harper."
"I didn't quit the BAU after I had that talk with you, even though I almost left the FBI when I got shot in the neck. One of my former coworkers ended retiring since I got shot in the neck when I tried to pull her away from the dead sheriff in that shootout in Texas. I am going to call you by your last name because the coworker that retired because my shooting brought up flashbacks of her dead son Ethan who passed away when he was nine. He would have been my age and you are a few years older than me."
"Yeah I agree that you should call me by my last name, I usually call you by your last name because you are always called Reid at work."
I saw that the clock said 11 AM and decided to go and get in the shower. 30 minutes later I was dressed in my regular clothes since his tuxedo is at Rossi's for safe keeping.
I pulled up in Rossi's driveway where three other cars were parked, furrowing my eyebrows I thought of who it could be. I rang the doorbell, Ethan rocking on his heels behind me, when the door clicked open and a familiar face looked at me, this face was of course that of the one and only Emily Prentiss.
"Reid!" she said engulfing me in a hug.
"Hey Emily, it's nice to see you again but it would also be nice to be able to breathe," I managed to choke out trying to get out of her death grip, which was like an anaconda tightening every time I breathed or moved.
"Oh sorry, come on in," she said making way for us to enter.
"Um this is an old friend of mine Ethan," I introduced as she shut the door.
"Hi, Emily Prentiss, me and Reid worked together for a while."
"Nice to meet you," Ethan said shaking the offered hand.
"Reid, I heard about your mom, I'm so sorry."
"I'm fine now. Harper and the team helped a lot."
"That's nice I can't wait to meet her, she sounds lovely."
"She's amazing."
"Oh I almost forgot the others are waiting for you."
"Others?" I looked into the living room, where I saw Kate, Chris, Meg and her son, Blake, her husband James and their two year old son Ethan, along with Elle, another guy and a little boy.
"Reid," they all said in unison.
"Hey guys," I said walking into the living room as Ethan and Emily chatted over drinks, everyone greeted me with hugs and handshakes one at a time.
"Reid, it's nice to see you again, congratulations," Blake said as the others went back to their business giving us a chance to chat.
"It's nice to see you too, congrats to you too, on Ethan I never got to congratulate you properly."
"Thank you, so you finally found someone, she must be a great catch if she could put up with you," Blake joked as we waked through the long hall way of the mansion.
"She is, she's the greatest, she's been perfect, she showed me how to have fun and be the child I never got to be," I said thinking back to the first time me and Harper kissed in the rain at the park with a small smile on my face, I could see Blake smile at me from the corner of my eye.
"She sounds great, I heard about your mom, I'm really sorry for your loss."
"I'm fine now, somewhere between all the hustle I managed to find my father, even though I lost my mom."
"It's nice to know you have someone to support you through all of this," she said as Elle approached from the other direction.
"Hi, can I talk to Reid for a minute?" she asked.
"Sure, I'll go check on Ethan," Blake said leaving.
"Hey," Elle said as they continued to walk.
"Hey."
"So, things have changed a lot."
"Yeah, they have, do you mind me asking who that little boy and the other guy is?"
"My son, and my...husband," she said looking at him.
"Wow."
"Yeah."
"Um congratulations,"
"Thanks, I can't believe we met on your wedding day almost what five years since I left or more?"
"Yeah something like that," he said not wanting to ruin the conversation.
"It's been a long time."
"Yeah."
"I heard you went through some rough years, and lost your mom and all that."
"Yeah but Harper and the team have been great support."
"That's nice to know, well I better get back, we'll talk later?"
"Sure," Elle smiled and walked off.
A few hours later
When it was time for Harper to come down the aisle I held in a breath, beginning to turn blue.
Ethan saw that I was holding my breath when he saw Harper walking down the aisle.
"Breathe Spencer," Ethan said as Morgan smirked when he saw Harper walking down the aisle in a beautiful ivory lace and silk wedding dress, her mother's dress which Rachel had re-sized, she smiled nervously at him as she approached, she looked at him looking dashing in his tuxedo as the judge spoke.
"We are gathered here today to join Spencer and Harper in Marriage," the judge started. "Does anyone object this marriage, if you do speak now."
"If anyone speaks up I will ruin your cyberlife." shouted Garcia and Hotch glared at her.
"Spencer and Harper wrote their own vows" said the Judge "Spencer, you may start."
Spencer took a deep breath and started talking like he was giving a profile in a press conference.
"Harper, before I met you, I never had a happy life. I was a 12 year old child prodigy in a Las Vegas Public High School who dealt with severe bullying, and then a 13 year old at Caltech where I had to deal with prank wars. I never had a chance to be a kid because I had to act like a little adult because of my home life being unstable. I had to move across the country to get to where I am today. Even though my job has some sadness, some of the happiness I got from my job was saving lives. The day I met you you have brought a new level of happiness into my life, I was having a bad day at work because of wearing matching socks. I was playing the song Bad Day in my head, and I heard someone singing it with a beautiful voice and I thought I was going crazy, but I looked at you and you were love at first sight. We ended up clicking right away because the same events I went through at work happened to you too. I do not regret asking you out for coffee and dinner later. You have brought me happiness and given me a reason to laugh and smile more and have been there during some of my stressful moments. I promise to keep you happy and stay by your side. We will work together to keep our marriage stable. I will continue to communicate with you and not shut you out like I did to other people in the past, and if I shut you out I will do whatever it takes to be on your good list again and not in your dog house."
All the women in Rossi's backyard had tears streaming down their faces. Harper wiped a tear that was sliding down her cheek thankful that she didn't wear any mascara and eye liner, and recited her vows.
"Spencer, before I met you, I dealt with being a child prodigy too, but I didn't have to deal with severe bullying like you did. Even though I had a stable home life my parents lives were taken away from me when I was 18 and I had to deal with the sadness of my parents death. It was the tenth anniversary of my parents death on the day I met you, I was also having a bad day at work because of wearing matching socks. I was standing in the rain singing Bad Day when I sensed someone watching me, and there you were walking towards me and smiling. I apologized to you for singing, but you told me that I have a beautiful voice. You were love at first sight, and I was wondering if my parents sent you to me to finally give me some happiness. I do not regret you asking me out for coffee and dinner later, and I was right, you were my chance at happiness. You have brought me some much needed happiness to finally get over my parents deaths, and I am glad that I brought you some happiness and taught you to live life. I promise you that I will stay by your side when you are dealing with stressful moments. I will keep on making you smile and laugh more. We will work together to keep our marriage stable."
Spencer placed his finger on Harper's cheek and wiped away another tear while smiling softly and Harper smiled softly back.
"Spencer, do you take Harper to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
"I do."
"Harper, do you take Spencer to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
"I do."
"May I have the rings Young Henry?" asked the Judge to Henry as the little blonde boy grinned up at him.
"Wedding rings are an unbroken circle of love and significance to all the union in this couple's marriage."
"Harper, with this ring I thee wed."
"Spencer, with this ring I thee wed."
"I now pronounce you Dr. and Mrs. Spencer Reid."
"Spencer you may now kiss the bride."
Spencer swooped Harper into a deep kiss and the crowd cheered and Henry covered his eyes, peeking through a space between two fingers giggling behind his hands.
