Don't Ever Look Back

As the weeks went by Emily had been discharged form the hospital, while Reid recovered from the car accident he was in the same evening that his triplets were born. Yeah, it had turned out that Emily was carrying triplets and not twins. But today was a great day for Spencer Reid; today he was being discharged from the hospital and was going home to his family.

Luckily JJ and Garcia helped out, when he couldn't help his wife with the babies, making him feel guilty about not being able to help out. After getting his right leg put into a special brace, so that he could walk around a little while being on crutches, his other leg remained in the cast.

As he left his room, David Rossi had arrived and told him that he would be giving him a lift home and then head back to Quantico to finish up the reports of the recent case they had finished.

"How are you feeling kid?"

"Pain… but I just want to head on home to help out with the babies"

"Yeah well since Hotch was able to get the team on a two week vacation, since we worked on Christmas and new years, Garcia has been over there a lot and will be since you're going to be on crutches for another two to three weeks"

After they had reached the car, Spencer got into the back seat and patiently waited for his friend to start the engine and drive as far away from the QMH.

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After he was helped up the small steps that led him to his front door, Spencer waved goodbye to Rossi who was now driving away. He then gently knocked on the door and within seconds, the thick wooden door opened and there stood Emily, holding one of the boys in her arms, while he saw Garcia and JJ trying to calm down the two others, who were crying very loudly.

"How are you?" he asked her, as he came in.

"I should be asking you this" she answered back, "I'm tired, I haven't slept the last couple of days. Andrew's the only one that doesn't make a fuss about every single thing that happens or doesn't happen" she said while closing and locking the front door.

Spencer sat along the couch, before placing pillows at the right spot at the opposite end of him to make sure that both of his legs were well balanced up. Minutes later JJ came down with Diana, who was crying rather loudly.

"I think she needs her mother instead of her aunt JJ…Hey Spence welcome back home" she said while taking Andrew and Emily took Diana who slowly calmed down after catching her mother's scent, "Do you want to hold your son?"

"Of course I want to" he said with a smile on his face. JJ then handed the young, quiet boy to his father and then went up to help Garcia, "Hey there Andrew, I'm your dad"

By the time JJ had returned down stairs with a still crying Matthew, Diana was already fast asleep, Garcia followed right behind the Pentagon agent and waved hi to Reid and welcomed him back home, before asking permission to put Andrew down for his nap, since he was already fast asleep.

"Sure go ahead Pen… You wanna hold your daughter Prestante?" she asked him politely to whom he eagerly nodded and was now holding his only daughter in his arms. At first she was making a little fuss, but it was like she slowly knew that he was her father and she soon calmed down and went to sleep, While Emily was calming Matthew down.

"Spence, is it okay if I take Diana to her crib for her nap?"

"Sure go ahead JJ, I'll see you later Diana" he smiled at his sleeping daughter before JJ went back upstairs to put the young baby girl in her bed.

Finally after another ten, fifteen minutes, Matthew stopped fussing and was now fast asleep in his mother's arms, but he also spent some time being held by his father, which surprised the ladies when they saw how fast Matthew calmed down. But eventually Matthew was taken up to his crib for his nap and all four adults relaxed in the living room.

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What felt like forever wasn't the fact that neither profilers barely got any sleep, but the fact that after spend over a month on crutches, Dr. Spencer Reid only had to carry a small cane with him, while he did some Physio therapy. He drove back home in Emily's car, shut off the engine and came inside his home, only to hear the usual fussing from Matthew and Diana, who were crying to either be held by him or Emily, were hungry, needed a diaper change, or were just moody at the moment.

Emily on the other hand was beyond exhausted, since she was pretty much passed out on the couch and didn't even hear two of the babies crying very loudly. He quietly went up to the triplets room and saw that Matthew's pacifier had fell and he wanted it back, while Diana wanted to be held by one of her parents, since she held up her arms as if saying "hold me, hold me!". He gently took his daughter into his arms and rocked in his arms, until she stopped crying and was cooing very happily at her father, who was smiling back at her.

This was maybe the hardest thing ever, but in their eyes, it was all worth their times and energy, because both of them loved their triplets very deeply and would die for them.

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"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday; Matty, Diana and Andrew… happy birthday to you!" the entire teams sung to the triplets, while the parents of the lucky triplets help the one year olds blow out the three one shaped birthday candles, after Garcia took pictures, and everyone applauded the kids.

Morgan helped out JJ on cutting the cake, while Kevin, Will, Hotch and Rossi laid back and watched over Henry and Jack playing together, Garcia was making sure the every picture looked perfect for her scrapbook and photo albums, and the parents were fussing over their kids who were trying to open their presents.

"Matty, wait until Aunt Penny is ready to take pictures" Emily told him. Matty must have understood, because after she had said this he sighed out heavily, showing his impatience, causing them to laugh. Andrew was eating the piece of cake that he had grab hold on of, before JJ had taken it to the kitchen, and Diana was already starting to fall asleep in her high chair.

"Looks like Diana is already ready for bed" Emily said to him, while handing a small piece of cake to Andrew, who immediately started eating it.

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After the team had left their home, the married couple clean up, out the rest of the kids to bed and pretty much enjoyed the quiet night in their living room, which led them to start making out on the couch; which then led them up to their bedroom and over sixty minutes later, both of them were enjoying the afterglow. Reid was fast asleep, while Emily was tired but something was keeping her awake. And that something had caused a serious argument over a week ago and she wondered if she told him tomorrow or even now, would he get angry, sad, disappointed or even thrilled? All she knew was that eventually that something would be very noticeable as the months went by.