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I apologize that this chapter is very long (getting to 4,443 words and 13 chapters). It was the longest and hardest chapter ever to write so I appreciate some serious feedback for this chapter.
So without further ado...
Chapter 14
The next morning Spencer's phone alarm went off and he reached over to shut it off. Groaning he shook Derek.
"Derek, it's time to get up.
"Mm, not now."
"Derek, you gotta leave for work or you're gonna be late."
Derek groaned but didn't move. Spencer chuckled and climbed outta bed taking the covers with him. That woke Derek up.
"Fuck, Spencer, its fucking cold."
"Figured that'll get you up. Come on, you need to leave."
Derek sighed, "Fine. I'm gonna jump in the shower. Wanna join me?"
Spencer smirked, "If I did then you'd definitely be late. No."
Derek just shook his head and jumped in the shower. Spencer put on the pair of boxers and jeans he had on last night. He sat on the bed and sighed. Twenty minutes later Derek emerged from the bathroom wearing a towel. He rummaged through his go bag and grabbed an outfit. He got dressed and he glanced at Spencer.
"You okay, babe?" He asked pulling on his jeans.
"Yeah, just gonna miss you."
Derek chuckled, "I'll miss you too, babe. Why don't you come by later and we'll go out for lunch granted we don't have a case."
"Okay, I guess that'll give me time to start putting stuff away around the house."
Derek nodded, grabbed his jacket and keys, kissed Spencer on the mouth, and headed out the house.
Once Derek left Spencer jumped in the shower and dressed in a pair of sweats and a t-shirt. He put on a pair of sneakers and grabbed his jacket and his wallet to go to a coffee shop since their dishes weren't unpacked and they needed to go shopping. He found a close enough diner and sat down.
"Morning sweetie, what can I getcha?" The waitress asked him.
"Yeah can I have scrambled eggs, toast, bacon, and a large coffee?"
The waitress chuckled, "Someone's got quite the appetite, huh? I'll be right back."
Morgan entered the bull pen just as Hotch was calling the team into the conference room. He looked at Morgan and frowned. Everyone looked at Morgan when he entered the room and sat down.
"Where's Reid?" Hotch asked.
"He's not coming."
"Is he sick?"
"No, Strauss fired him," Prentiss explained.
"What? Why? When did this happen and how come I wasn't notified?"
"Yesterday, you were busy taking care of Jack, we decided to wait until the morning to talk to you," Rossi said.
"Why did she fire him?"
"Well, according to Reid, she felt that because of what happened to him and his frequent outbursts prevented him from doing his job efficiently and somehow she found out about him and Morgan."
"I'll have a word with her."
The waitress returned with Spencer's meal and he heartily dug in. She smiled.
"Someone's hungry."
Spencer swallowed and blushed embarrassed, "Sorry."
"Oh no need sweetie. I perfectly understand. The name's Nicole. Call if you need anything."
What is she talking about? "Um, Nicole?"
Nicole turned and smiled at Spencer, "Yes? Can I get you anything else?"
"Um, no. I was wondering, what did you mean when you said you understand?"
Nicole giggled, "Oh sweetie. You have that glow."
Huh? "What glow?"
Nicole giggled again and leaned close to him, "The same glow I had when I was pregnant with my daughter."
"Uh, I-I think there's been some sort of mistake. I'm not pregnant," Spencer frowned.
Nicole just nodded and walked away. Spencer continued his breakfast but his mind was thinking about what Nicole had said. When he was done he paid for his meal, thanked Nicole, and headed back to his and Derek's house. He grinned like a little kid when he thought that. Back in the house Spencer decided to do a bit of unpacking. He decided to start on the kitchen items first. He got halfway through unpacking the first box when he felt nauseous and stood to throw up in the sink.
Was the waitress right? I can't be pregnant can I?
Morgan was glad that they had gotten called onto a local case because he didn't know how he would deal if he was away from Spencer for too long. Hotch walked over to Morgan.
"Tell me what happened."
Morgan shrugged, "We had all gone out for lunch, when we came back, Strauss asked to see Reid in her office. When he came out he said he had gotten fired."
"We'll see about that. Oh and I heard you two moved in together, congratulations."
Morgan nodded and headed toward Garcia's office. Hotch walked to Strauss' office.
"Hello, Aaron, how's your son?" Strauss smiled as he entered.
"Jack is fine. Tell me how come you fired Reid? You know that you should've come to me."
"I have noticed that he's had problems focusing on his job."
"Because of what happened to him? Erin, in case you haven't noticed, which obviously you haven't, Reid despite of his situation, he's been able to do his job perfectly fine."
Strauss shook her head, "Not with the way he's jumping down people's throats or screaming out of the blue."
Morgan entered Garcia's office grinning at her, "Hey baby girl."
"Hey, Thunder god, how goes it?"
Morgan shrugged, "Hotch is talking to Strauss now. Listen, can you get me a list of anyone in the area who owns a black, four door, Lexus?"
Garcia nodded and typed on her keyboard. After a minute a screen came up, "Sweetie, that's a long list. Got anything to narrow the search?"
Morgan groaned, "Unfortunately not right now."
"Erin, all due respect but let me ask you something. If you had been held captive and raped by the very same person who kidnapped and raped you when you were younger, would you really be able to hold it together? Erin, Reid is doing better than I expected him to be doing. He's gonna have flashbacks especially due to his inability to forget things, but that doesn't mean he can't do his job."
Strauss nodded, "Okay then, let's talk about Reid and Morgan's relationship."
"What about it?"
"You do know it's against company policy, right?"
Hotch sighed, "So you want to fire him for something that's not our business? Yes, I know it's company policy, but I also know that it shouldn't bother us as long as both agents are able to not let it interfere with their jobs, and both Agent Morgan and Dr. Reid haven't let it interfere. What I don't get is why would you fire Reid but not Morgan?"
Back at home, Spencer had finished about half the boxes and decided to take a break. He pulled out one of his favorite books, put on his glasses and lounged on the couch with it. Just then Clooney jumped on the couch knocking the book from his hand.
"Clooney!"
Clooney barked and Spencer sighed, "Bored, buddy? Wanna go for a walk?"
Clooney barked again and ran to the door. Spencer laughed and put his book down. Getting off the couch he rummaged around until he found Clooney's leash. After making sure the leash was on, Spencer and Clooney set off down the street. Spencer knew that he didn't want to stay out too long since he was supposed to be meeting Derek for lunch. As they continued down the street they passed by a house whose window was open. Spencer could smell something baking that churned his stomach badly. He rushed to the side of the street and puked. He sighed and wiped his mouth.
"Alright, boy, I think it's time to go back."
"Did Garcia find anything?" Rossi asked as Morgan reentered the bull pen.
"Yeah and it's a long ass list of names who own the same kind of car."
"How are we gonna narrow this down?" Prentiss asked.
Morgan shrugged, "Where's Jayj?"
"Still talking to the family. And yes, Hotch is still with Strauss."
Just then Hotch exited Strauss' office with his signature frown fixated on his face.
"That can't be good," JJ said entering the bull pen.
Hotch made his way to the team. "Any luck?" he asked.
Morgan shook his head, "Not really, I mean Garcia found a list of people who own the same kind of car but its long."
"Yeah and according to the parents, Kyle was supposed to be spending the night with his best friend. I questioned the friend but he had never heard from Kyle. So nothing on that end."
Hotch sighed, "Okay. I say we take a break, grab something to eat, and try to return to the board with a new outlook."
The team nodded. JJ went to grab Garcia and Morgan dialed Reid.
"Hey, Spencer."
"Hey, Derek, guess what?"
"What, babe?"
"I completely finished unpacking all our boxes."
Morgan laughed, "Bored aren't you?"
"God, yes. I went and took Clooney for a walk and now I'm reading."
"Well, I'm on my way to come get you. We're all going out to lunch."
"Sounds good."
Morgan hung up the phone just as JJ and Garcia came out of the office. They took one of the teams SUVs and stopped by Reid and Morgan's new house. Hotch smiled.
"This is yours? You built this?"
Morgan nodded as he exited the car and used his key and entered the house. Hotch followed and whistled.
"Nice, Morgan."
"Derek!" Spencer called running into him.
Derek chuckled and kissed him, "Hey, babe, ready to be saved from boredom?"
"Please."
Derek chuckled and the team made their way to Amici's. Spencer tried not to order a whole lotta food to alert the team, but he was starving. He decided to just go with the Chicken Marsalla and a Cesar salad.
"So, is there a job you guys are working on?" He asked biting into his salad.
"Yeah, but luckily it's a local one. A fourteen year old kid seemed to have disappeared from home after telling his parents that he was gonna spend the night at his friends house. We've found many leads that suggest this kid was taken and had not run away but everything else keeps coming up dry," Morgan explained.
"Hmm."
"So, Hotch, what did you and Strauss talk about?" Prentiss asked.
Hotch didn't answer and took a bite of his pasta.
"Hotch, you're avoiding the question, which means it can't be good," Rossi frowned.
Hotch shook his head, "There's nothing I can do."
Reid nodded while Morgan and Garcia frowned, "What! C'mon, Hotch there's gotta be something," Morgan said.
"Morgan, she's above his head. I kinda figured this would happen. Excuse me," Reid said rushing to the bathroom. JJ sighed thinking that he had gone to cry.
"Hotch, isn't there anything we can do?" she asked.
"I'm sorry, I tried."
Meanwhile Reid was in the bathroom puking his guts out. Morgan had entered the bathroom because he too thought Reid was crying. When he heard puking he changed that thought right away.
"Baby, you okay?" he called walking into the bathroom.
Reid opened the door wiping his mouth and flushing the toilet, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just not feeling well."
"Babe, why didn't you tell me you weren't feeling well? I would've stayed home."
"No, it's fine, I'm okay. Oh, um, I thought I'd tell you that we're gonna need to go shopping."
Morgan nodded, "Okay, we can go after I get off of work. Listen, are you sure you're okay?"
"Derek, m'fine. I'm a little upset that I'm no longer working but I'll be fine."
Morgan nodded and the two left the bathroom. Prentiss grinned.
"I was wondering what took you boys so long. Did you boys have fun?"
Reid blushed and Morgan groaned, "Prentiss for one day of your life get your mind outta the gutter and stop embarrassing my boyfriend."
Prentiss laughed. They continued to eat and talk about what they're gonna do for Thanksgiving."
"Unfortunately, I have to spend Thanksgiving with my mother and her new boyfriend. So, not looking forward to it," Prentiss said.
"Try an entire household of people asking 'Derek, why aren't you married?' or 'Derek, you need to start thinking about your future.' I swear my entire family is crazy."
"Yeah well, this year you'll have Spence with you, right?"
Reid shook his head, "Oh, no. I don't think so."
"Why not, pretty boy? My family would love to meet you."
"I was kinda thinking about going to Vegas and visiting my mother."
"Not alone you're not. How about this: We go see my family for Thanksgiving and then the day after, we'll fly out to Vegas?"
Reid sighed, "Okay."
After everyone had finished their meals they headed back to the BAU.
"I guess I'll just head back home. There's a couple things I need to do."
"Like what, pretty boy? I thought you said you unpacked everything already."
Reid nodded, "I did but now the house needs some sort of organization to it. Plus I wanted to stop by that corner store."
"For what?"
"Uh…nothing special just wanted to really check it out. Besides, if Strauss sees me here, she might think that Hotch went behind her back."
Morgan nodded, "Fine, I'll drive you back home."
"Derek can we stop here really quickly?" Spencer asked as they passed the corner store.
Derek frowned but he parked the car. Spencer went inside and immediately went into the aisle that had the condoms and pregnancy tests. After checking each one, he grabbed one and paid the cashier for it. He slid it into the pocket and headed back to the car.
"Find what you were looking for, babe?"
"Uh…no."
Derek frowned but didn't say anything. He drove Spencer back to the house. Spencer gave him a quick kiss and headed inside. Derek just stared after him for a minute. Is he having flashbacks and not telling me? What did he need to get from the store that he didn't want me to know about? Oh gosh, I really hope he wasn't meeting a supplier. Derek shut off the car and ran inside.
"Spencer!" he yelled as he ran through the house almost knocking into Clooney.
He heard Spencer's muffled voice coming from the bathroom. He banged on the door, "Spencer, open the door! Now!"
"I'll be out in a minute, Derek."
"Spencer, either you unlock this door and let me in or I'm gonna bust it down."
Shit! "Alright, hang on," Spencer said tossing the test in the trash and unlocking the door.
Derek pushed inside and grabbed Spencer's arms, "Alright where is it? And don't fucking lie to me."
"What are you talking about? Derek, you're hurting my arms. Let me go."
"Not until you tell me the truth."
"What truth?"
"You're doing drugs again, aren't you? That's what you didn't want to tell me about. Thinking it would help with the pain of the flashbacks? That's why you were feeling sick earlier, isn't it?"
Spencer looked at him shocked and began to cry. Derek looked at him in amazement. He let go of Spencer's arms and just stood there.
"You really think that? I thought you trusted me! How could you think I would be doing drugs again?" Spencer sniffed and used a tissue to wipe his eyes.
Derek sighed, "Babe, obviously you're hiding something from me."
"And you automatically assume I'm doing drugs? I can't believe you, Derek."
"If that's not what it is, then tell me. Please, baby, we promised, no secrets."
Spencer turned around and bent to grab the test from the trash. He stood up and tossed it to Derek, "Here! That's what it is, okay!" he yelled and pushed past Derek and walked into the living room.
Derek looked down at his hands and noticed that it was a pregnancy test in his hands. And from the looks of it the test read positive. Oh. He walked out the bathroom still holding the test and found Spencer sitting on the couch petting Clooney.
"Spencer…"
"Don't you have to go to work?"
Derek shook his head, "I'll talk to Hotch later. Look…"
Spencer shook his head, "No, go. They can't afford to be two men down. We'll talk about it when you get home."
"Spencer…"
"Go, Derek."
Derek sighed, "Okay, we'll talk later," he said and tossed the test in the trash before exiting the house.
Derek made it back to the station just as the rest of the team was finishing up the profile. Hotch frowned at him.
"Where were you?"
"At home. Sorry, Spencer and I had a little argument."
"Is everything alright?"
"Yeah, we're good. I won't let it happen again."
"Don't worry about it, Morgan. Is Reid gonna be okay?"
"Yeah. He's gonna be fine." He'spregnant.
After Derek left Spencer went into the bedroom and took a nap. Unfortunately for him it was anything but pleasant.
"It would be easier if you just give in."
"I'll never give in to you! I don't belong to you."
Frank was ruthless with his pounding. Spencer screamed.
"Derek!" he screamed jerking awake. He sat up panting for breath. Itwasonlyadream.Itwasjustadream.
Spencer lay back down. He was so tired but he didn't want to fall back asleep and dream about Frank again. After a while he got up and went into the kitchen. He started organizing everything into a place that looked nice. After a while he walked into the living room and sat on the couch. Clooney jumped on the couch and laid his head on Spencer's lap. Spencer started to pet him as he began to drift off again.
"You deserve to be punished for what you did."
"Frank, please," Spencer cried as Frank pounded into him for the third time that day.
"Please, what? Please fuck your tight ass harder? Hmm? Please love you?"
"Please, stop!"
"I don't think so, Spencer. You're mine!"
Frank continued his hard pounding. Once he came he pulled out of Spencer. Spencer took a deep breath, he had thought Frank was done. But Frank wasn't done. He spread Spencer's legs wider to the point where it hurt and began to enter him again. He thrust in hard and deep causing Spencer to scream for all he was worth.
"Frank, Stop!" Spencer screamed waking up and falling off the couch. Clooney whimpered.
Spencer whined and curled into a ball on the floor, "Frank, stop. Frank, stop. No, please."
Clooney stared at Spencer as he rocked himself back and forth.
Around 5 Garcia came out of her office to see Morgan still sitting at his desk. She walked over to him and placed her hand on his shoulder. He jumped a little.
"Thunder God, you okay? Shouldn't you be getting home to wonder boy?"
"Huh?"
"Derek, what's on your mind? I mean the case is over, so what's wrong, sugar?"
Morgan sighed, and was about to speak when Hotch came out of his office, "What are you guys still doing here? Go home, luckily the case was an easy one and it's over."
Garcia nodded, "I know, that's what I'm trying to tell Morgan."
"What's wrong, Morgan?" Hotch asked.
Morgan shrugged, "The argument Spencer and I had."
"What about it sweetie?"
"I accused him of doing drugs. I was angry because I thought he was hiding things from me and that's the first thing I thought."
"Well, was it true?" Hotch asked.
Morgan shook his head, "No. Reid's…he's…"
"He's what, Morgan?"
"He's pregnant."
"Oh. Wow."
"Yeah."
"Well, I still don't see what's wrong? I mean you should be happy."
"I am, Hotch, believe me. It's just that I feel bad about accusing him of doing drugs."
"Sweetheart, it was an honest mistake, and I know Reid, knows that, except you can always show him," Garcia grinned.
Morgan chuckled and nodded, "Thanks, guys."
Hotch nodded, "Now go home."
Morgan did just that. He drove home and for a minute he started to get worried when he didn't hear any noise but he just chalked it up as Spencer being sleep that is until he opened the front door and he heard whimpering.
"Spencer?"
Clooney ran up to his master. Derek chuckled and patted Clooney on the head.
"Hey, boy, was that you whimpering? Where's Spencer?"
Derek made his way into the living room and stopped short. Spencer was on the floor, curled up into a ball rocking back and forth. "Spencer?"
Spencer didn't seem to hear him. He kept rocking back and forth whimpering, "Frank, stop. Please, stop. Frank, please."
Derek sighed. He must've had a flashback. He walked over and got on his knees. Gently he placed his hand on his shoulder hoping it would bring him out of it.
"Frank, No!" Spencer screamed.
"Spencer, baby, it's me, Derek. C'mon, baby, snap outta it." This is all my fault. If I hadn't left him alone for too long. "Baby, can you hear me?"
Spencer continued to rock back and forth whimpering. Derek sighed. Now what? What the hell am I gonna do? Why the hell was I so stupid? I should've known something like this would've happened.Derek gently picked Spencer up causing Spencer to scream.
"Noo! No more! No more! Leave me alone!"
"Spencer, you gotta snap outta this. Baby, it's me, Derek, snap outta it."
"Stop! Please, no more, I'll do whatever you want, just please no more," Spencer cried.
Derek sighed and gently laid Spencer on the bed despite his cries. He kissed Spencer on the forehead and left the bedroom and went into the living room. He sat on the couch and put his face in his hands. What now? I thought he wasn't having anymore flashbacks. Clooney jumped on the couch and laid his head in his master's lap. Derek smiled and petted him, "I know boy, this is all my fault. If I hadn't been away for too long he wouldn't have had a flashback just now. And if I was there to protect him in Vegas, none of this would be happening."
After several minutes Derek got up and walked into the bedroom to check on Spencer. He seemed to be catatonic. Derek sat on the edge of the bed, "Baby?"
Spencer didn't move or respond. Derek very gently put his hand on Spencer's leg. Spencer screamed and struggled like he was struggling against handcuffs or something. Derek didn't know what to do. He wanted to stop Spencer from flailing in case he hurt himself but was afraid Spencer might think he's trying to rape him, but he didn't want to leave him either. He decided to go with the first option. Very gently he straddled Spencer and grasped his wrists.
"Baby, stop! Spencer, calm down!"
Eventually Spencer calmed down and resumed his rocking. Derek sighed and climbed off of him. He decided to sleep on the couch so he didn't frighten Spencer.
The next morning Spencer woke up alone in the bed. He didn't remember how he got there, but what he wanted to know more than anything was where Derek was. Did he not come home last night? Spencer groaned and swung his legs off the bed. He stood stretching and walked toward the living room. He found Derek sleeping on the couch with Clooney at his feet. He chuckled. He must've gotten in so late that he was too tired to make it to the bed.
"Derek?" he said shaking him.
Derek opened his eyes to see Spencer smiling at him, "Hey, baby."
"Hey, why you sleeping on the couch? And shouldn't you be getting ready for work?"
Derek shook his head, "No, I called Hotch; I'm taking the day off. As for why I'm sleeping on the couch, I didn't want to scare you."
Spencer scooted Clooney onto the floor waking him up and sat down, "Whaddya mean?"
Derek sat up and pulled Spencer close. Clooney jumped back on the couch and fell back asleep.
"Baby, do you remember anything that happened last night?"
"Um, not really. I remember taking a nap at one point waiting for you to come home. I remember having a nightmare. I remember being still tired but I didn't want to fall back asleep so I organized the kitchen and then was reading a book. After that no. Why, what happened?"
Derek sighed, "I think you had a really bad flashback. When I came home you were curled into a ball on the floor rocking back and forth whimpering. You kept repeating 'Frank, stop, please stop.' Nothing I did or said pulled you out of it."
"Really?"
Derek nodded, "Yeah, baby. So I picked you up despite you screaming at me even if you didn't realize it was me and I put you into bed."
"Oh," Spencer put his head down, "m'sorry."
Derek tucked a finger beneath Spencer's chin and made him look at him and shook his head, "No, baby. I'm the one who should be sorry. It's my fault all of this happened. I should've known something would have happened if I left you alone too long."
Spencer shook his head, "It's not your fault. No one could've known this would've happened."
Derek was about to say something else when Spencer shot up and ran into the bathroom. Derek followed and rubbed his back while he puked. Once he was done, Spencer flushed the toilet and washed his mouth out with mouthwash.
Derek led him into the kitchen where he sat Spencer down as he cooked. He pulled everything he needed to make eggs and toast out and placed it on the counter.
"You know, we're gonna need to make you an appointment, right?" Derek asked.
Spencer nodded and bit his lip, "I'm sorry. So sorry."
Derek turned around and saw tears shining in Spencer's eyes, "Whoa, baby, why are you sorry?"
"For not telling you when I found out and because I know you're not ready to have children."
Damnit, Spencer. Derek put the eggs down and walked over and kneeled in front of Spencer. He took his boyfriend's hands in his.
"First of all, tell me when exactly did you find out you were pregnant?"
"Um, not exactly until I took the test, but I had suspected it all day."
"Okay, so we found out together that's nothing to be sorry for. And second of all, Spencer, I love you no matter what. I am excited about having a baby. I've always wanted a family. I mean, yes it's true, I would've liked to wait until we were married before we had kids but it's okay."
Spencer bit his lip, "Promise?"
Derek nodded and kissed his boyfriend's nose, "Promise," he said and went back to cooking breakfast.
TBC...
