Title: Finding Her Sweet Baboo Part 21
Author: Trista aka dustytiger
Rating: T (it's hard but it's staying T)
Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal minds. Pitty. I am a poor barista don't sue me. PS I also don't own Peanuts.
Timeline: Sometime in season one, before the season finale tho.
Summary: Garcia is feeling lonely and ends up at Reid's, where will it lead?
Notes: Garcia comes clean, and it's baby time. These next few parts are a little jam packed. Because the last five are more or less the epilogue (parts 26-30). I hope you are still enjoying the journey.
When her husband came through the door he looked slightly haggard. She went over and kissed him softly. He kissed her back, his hands went right to her belly. She knew she had to tell him that she had been talking with his father, and how he wanted to come see the twins after they were born, but he looked so tired. She didn't want to tell him the truth after they were born.
Garcia had been put on bedrest and Reid had moved everything that she would need into their bedroom. He sat down at the edge of the bed after he had kissed her. He the put his hands on her belly, grinning when he felt the twins moving around. They were getting so strong.
"I love you," he told her. "All three of you." He gently touched her belly.
"We love you too, Spencer," she told him, kissing his cheek.
"Do you mind if we order in tonight?"
"That would be fine, I have been craving Chinese all day."
"All right, great. I'll go get the menus."
She watched him go down the stairs. He found the menu for their favourite place. They each picked out what they wanted and he called for their dinner. Glad that neither of them had to do much work in order to have dinner that night, it wasn't long before their food arrived, and they ate together on the bed.
Garcia knew she had no excuse for not telling him the truth. The case he had come home from had ended well, he seemed relaxed. She couldn't wait until William Reid showed up on their doorstep to tell him she had been taking to him for four months without telling her husband.
"Spencer, I need to tell you something," she told him, taking his hand.
"Is there something wrong?" he asked, worried.
"No, no, nothing is wrong. I just need to tell you something."
"You know you can tell me anything."
"I've been emailing with your father."
"What why, how?"
"He got my email address from Bennington."
"He's been visiting my mother?"
"No, they won't let him, they think it will upset her, besides you approve her visitors."
"Did he contact you to see her? Because she's in no state to see him after all this time."
"No, it's you he wants to see, it's you he wants to know, well us."
"Us, why?" he asked.
"Because he's your father, and he wants to know his family."
"I don't want him to know our family. He lost that right a long time ago!"
"He wants to make things right between the two of you. If I thought for a second he was going to hurt us I would have annihilated his cyber universe Spencer, you know that."
"I want you to do that. I don't want him in our lives. I don't want him anywhere near our children."
"He's learned from his mistakes. Just read what he's sent me, please."
"Those are just words on a screen! They don't mean anything."
"Spencer why are you getting so mad at me?" she asked.
"I'm not mad at you!"
"You're yelling at me!"
"I'm sorry, but you should have told me about that he contacted you, so that I could have told you not to listen to anything he has to say."
"I can form my own opinions of people. I've been fairly good at over the years, despite my not being a super-genius profiler!"
"I didn't say that. I'm just saying I don't want you talking to him. Please Penelope!"
"He's not that bad, please try to understand that. He wants to make it up to you."
"It's too late now! It's been seventeen years! I don't want him to be a part of our lives."
"Don't I have a say in this?"
"No, Penelope you don't, not with this. I don't want you to email him anymore, and I don't want you to tell him anything else about me or our children."
"Since when were you such a caveman!" she snapped.
"I'm not acting like a caveman!" growled Reid. "I'm protecting my family from him! That's what you do when you love a person!"
"They deserve to know all the grandparents they have."
"My father doesn't count. He's not a part of our lives."
"Spencer!" she cried.
"I'm sorry Penelope but you'd understand. It took a long time to get over what he did to us, and I am not able to forgive him."
"Even for our kids?"
"I'm doing this for them, please see that."
"I can't Spencer, all I can see is you depriving them of another person who could love them."
"I'm not they will fall in love with him, get used to having him there and then he'll leave."
"You don't know that for sure."
"And you don't know that he won't. You shouldn't be getting upset about anything right now. How about we agree to disagree for now, and then we'll have a proper discussion about it after the twins are born?"
"Okay, but can I still email him?"
"I can't stop you, but I wish you wouldn't. I also don't want you telling him anything more about me or my mother."
"You're being unreasonable! He doesn't seem that bad."
"I'm not doing this right now. I don't want him in our lives!"
She let out loud growl. "So you're saying I can email him but only impersonal stuff! That sounds to me like you're stopping me from talking to him!"
"I want you to respect my feelings on this Penelope!"
"I need you to explain this to me."
"I can't!" he snapped. "I can't do this right now."
He stormed into the library that was adjoined with their bedroom. Garcia was going to follow him but he had already pulled out a book. She sighed and shut the doors, and curled up onto their bed, hugging his pillow close as the babies moved around. Reid meanwhile had tears in his eyes, and was unable to read. He just couldn't seem to collect his thoughts. He went into their room an hour later and kissed her forehead.
"I love you Penelope," he whispered.
"Mm, Baboo," she sighed. "Are you coming to bed?"
"In a little while I have an idea. I promise we'll talk about this after the babies are born, and I'll figure out what I'm feeling and need to tell you."
"Okay, don't stay up too late."
"I won't."
He kissed her softly then went back into the library and began to write. He was trying to collect his thoughts and get them down on paper so that he could make sense of why it upset him so much that his father wanted to be a part of their lives after all those years. After he had written for what felt like hours he picked up a book and settled into the chaise lounge that Garcia had bought him as a house warming gift. He didn't think he would use it but it had quickly become his favourite place to read. His body and brain were both exhausted and soon his eyes slipped shut.
"Baboo!" Garcia cried bolting up straight out of their bed.
Reid bolted awake, and wasn't sure at first where he was. It took him a moment to realise he had falling asleep in the library. He was glad he hadn't closed the doors when he had gone back in. His book fell to the floor as he sprang to his feet, and ran into the bedroom. He sat down on the bed, and he went pale feeling something wasn't right. His heart was racing. He wanted to reassure his wife but his emotions were getting the better of him.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"It's time," she whispered.
"It's time?"
"It's time! Yes! Spencer my water broke."
Relief washed over him as he realised that was what was on the bed. "Oh my god! It's time!"
He began to scramble for what they needed after he helped her up. He had her hospital bag slung over one shoulder and his messenger bag over the other, and even picked up her frilly pink purse. Which she took as they went toward their car. He opened the door for her, and began to go drive to the hospital, he was trying to be safe but it was hard for him not race there.
Garcia was wincing every few minutes at they drove. She had been feeling something strange for hours but it hadn't been enough to keep her awake, so she thought it had been nothing. She was glad when she saw the hospital come into view. Reid stopped the car and raced around to her side to help her. They walked into the hospital and was greeted by a charge nurse.
"My wife is labour," he told her. "Her contractions are eight minutes apart."
"You were timing?" Garcia asked.
"In my head, yes, it's important."
"Who is your doctor?" the nurse asked.
"Doctor Irons."
"He's on duty tonight I'll page him and get you set up in a room while your husband fills out the paperwork."
"Thank you."
Reid was given a clipboard and began filling everything out as his wife was put in a wheelchair and brought to another room. When he was done he handed the information back to the nurse and then went to the room he had seen Garcia go into, almost bumping the doctor as he left. Garcia was in the bed and reached for his hand.
"We can relax, it's going to be a few hours yet, unless their heartbeats change," she explained. "Doctor Irons gave me some stuff to take the edge off."
He kissed her forehead. "Are you nervous?"
"A little, but I'm more excited to meet Declan and Charlotte."
"Do you want me to call everyone?"
"Yes, Jam said he'd call my brothers when you called, and JJ said she would call the rest of the team."
"All right so Jamie, JJ and Doctor Norman, and I'll be back."
"Is something wrong with your mom?"
"I made an agreement with Doctor Norman that I would call him and he and my mother would decide when she would come depending on how she felt."
"All right, she's going to come meet them?"
"Yes, she will, it just might take up to a week."
She nodded. "All right, I don't want her left out."
"She won't be." He kissed her forehead. "I love you."
Reid left the room and went into a quiet waiting room to make the phone calls. He decided to call Jamie first.
"Hello?" a male voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Hi, Jamie it's Doc- Reid- Spencer," stammered Reid.
"Is something wrong?" asked Jamie.
"No, nothing, Penelope went into labour earlier this evening, she said that you would be able to call the rest of your family."
"Yeah! Tell her I'll be there as soon as possible, and that I send my love."
"I will, thank you."
Reid hung up the phone and dialed JJ next. He listened to the phone ring a few times before he heard her voice on he other end. "What's up Spence?"
"Penelope is labour," he told her.
"Really! I'll call everyone else, go hold her hand."
"I just need to call my mom then I'm going to be next to her every step of the way."
"You're so good to her Spence. Go call your Mom."
"Thank you."
Reid then dialed Beningtion's and began to talk to Doctor Norman. He assured Reid that his mother was doing fine, and even transferred the call to her room. Reid waited, sometimes she wouldn't answer her phone.
"Hello?" said Diana nervous.
"Mom, it's me," Reid told her.
"Is something wrong, Spencer?"
"No, nothing's wrong. Penelope is in labour."
"Congratulations, I think I am going to stay here for another few days to let things settle down. I will come visit you when things start to quiet down. I am too anxious to deal with all those people again."
"All right, Mom, are you sure?"
"Yes, Spencer I am. It's better for everyone. I want to enjoy my grandabies as much possible."
"All right. I love you Mom."
"I love you too, Spencer. Send Penelope my love."
"I will."
Reid hung up the phone and then went back into Garcia's room. She reached out of his hand which he gladly took. She squeezed it harder as a contraction hit her. Reid gently smoothed her hair. She smiled at him.
"Everyone knows, or soon will," he assured her.
"We get to meet our babies today."
"I know, I'm excited."
"I'm glad Spencer, are you ready for this?"
"As ready as I'll ever be to see you in pain."
"It'll be worth when we see them for the first time."
End Part 21
Notes: I could have been waay more evil. I took me a while to make this last timeline work, so I'm sorry for any odd stops, but I think the way I cut it up minimised the the nail biting if that help.