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"I'm so bored!" Jasmine whined to Spencer through the phone.
"I know, I know. I'll be home in a few hours, I promise."
"Why can't I just go to the BAU with you? I hate being home alone." Jasmine continued to complain.
"I know that, too. But you're only a couple of weeks away from your due date, I'm sorry." Spencer apologized. He truly understood Jasmine's frustration of being home all the time and not being able to go to work anymore.
"Fine. Hurry home so we can finish assembling the baby's crib." Jasmine finally hung up.
Jasmine looked around the new apartment. She and Spencer had moved in just a few weeks back and it still needed to be decorated. Penelope had been over to help her during the weekend but the team had been called on a case that required Penelope to fly with the team and she had been left alone.
A few hours later Jasmine rushed to the door when she heard Spencer turn the door knob, to her surprise, the whole team had come along with him.
"Whoa! I wasn't expecting all of you!" Jasmine said displaying how excited she was to finally be surrounded by people again. Staying home alone all day was worse than solitary confinement.
"Hey Jazzy!" Morgan said as he hugged Jasmine and nearly picked her off the floor.
As soon as she was put back down she was greeted by Rossi with yet another tight hug.
"Dam! I'm going to get squeezed to death here!" Jasmine yelled as she was pulled away by Emily and hugged again.
"Look what I got the baby!" Penelope squealed as she held up a pink gift bag.
Jasmine took the bag and pulled out a frilly, baby sized, purple dress that had been bedazzled by hand.
"I put the gems and little mirrors on it myself!" Penelope said proudly.
"I see…" Spencer said with a weird look on his face, "Thanks to you my daughter is going to look like a disco ball…"
Everyone started to laugh including Hotch who had managed to stay unnoticed until now.
"Hey Hotch!" Jasmine said running over and hugging him, "I totally missed you despite the fact that you're totally depressing to be around." Jasmine said with a huge grin on her face.
"I'm going to go ahead and take that as a compliment…" Hotch said as he continued to laugh. He, unlike most people, understood Jasmine's twisted sense of humor.
"I'm so glad you're all here! I was going crazy by myself!" Jasmine admitted.
"Well, Penelope mentioned you were in the middle of decorating the baby's nursery when we got called on that last case. So, we decided to get together and help you." Morgan said kindly.
"Yeah. And besides, if we let Spencer do it on his own he won't be finished until the baby is 5 years old." Emily said.
"Geez Emily, lay off the insults." Spencer said without being able to keep a straight face.
"Aw, you guys are the best!"
"Alright then let's get cracking!" Penelope said as she made her way to the baby's room as everyone else followed. It had already been painted hot pink before Penelope had left, and all the baby's furniture was black.
"Okay… Morgan you're going to help Spencer put the crib together. Rossi and I will finish painting the baby's name on the wall." Penelope said and stopped to think about how the rest of the tasks would be handed out.
"You're going to paint the baby's name on the wall?" Spencer questioned.
"Yeah… In silver paint." Penelope said as her eyes shined bright with absolute excitement.
"Um… I don't know about that Pen…" Spencer said worried.
"Why not? This room has to be fit for a rock star!"
"It's okay Spencer, chillax." Jasmine said.
"Fine."
"Okay. Meanwhile, Emily you can start organizing the baby's closet." Penelope thought hard on what light job to give Jasmine, "Jasmine, you can bedazzle the knobs on the drawers."
"What about me?" Hotch asked.
"Um, here." Penelope said handing Hotch a roll of large shiny star stickers, Put these around the room."
Hotch shrugged, it wasn't much of a job but it was better than nothing. He went around the room placing the stickers randomly around the wall. He finished rather quickly and decided to join Jasmine who was in the kitchen placing tiny crystals on to a bunch of black knobs with a glue gun.
"Need help with those?" Hotch asked as he took a seat next to Jasmine at the table.
"Um, sure." Jasmine said giving him a small bag with hundreds of tiny crystals.
"Are you excited?" Hotch said trying to start conversation.
"You mean about the baby? I guess a bit more nervous than excited." Jasmine confessed.
"Well don't worry everything is going to be fine." Hotch said as he continued to pick out only the star shaped crystals and leaving the round and heart shaped ones in the bag.
Jasmine looked over at Hotch. He looked hilarious trying to pick up the little crystals as they kept slipping and falling back into the bag. He was also the last person she expected to have this type of conversation with.
"I know." Jasmine said quickly looking away trying to conceal her smile.
"It's okay to be nervous. Honestly, I was terrified about having Jack when Hailey was pregnant."
"Really? Why?"
"I was afraid that I wouldn't be a good enough dad. I remember that after Jack was born, Hailey asked me if I wanted to hold my son, but I said 'no' because I was scared to drop him. She laughed at me, and made me sit on the side of her hospital bed and put Jack in my arms. "Hotch paused for a while and saw Jasmine had stopped working and was instead paying close attention to him.
Jasmine smiled at what her boss was telling her. He had never really opened up to her at all since she had been working at the BAU.
"Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that you have nothing to be nervous about. You and Spencer are going to be great parents for Audrey."
"Thanks." Jasmine said as she leaned over and hugged Hotch.
Penelope interrupted their quiet bonding moment with the sound of her high heels hitting down on the kitchen floor. "Jasmine are you done with those? Spencer and Morgan finally finished with the crib and the silver paint is halfway dry. All we need is to do now is put the knobs on the drawers and put the blanket set on the crib to be done!"
"Oh yeah. Here" Jasmine said handing her all six knobs.
"Awesome. " Penelope said running back to the baby's room.
"Come on; let's go check out the room." Hotch said as he stood and followed Garcia. Jasmine stayed behind in the kitchen while everyone else was in the baby's room.
Penelope ran in with the knobs and handed them off to Morgan. He carefully put them in place and screwed them on.
"Spencer!" The group heard Jasmine's panicked yells coming from the kitchen.
Spencer immediately ran out and his eyes searched frantically for Jasmine. He spotted her in the kitchen and made his way over to her.
Penelope and Hotch rushed out the room following Spencer and spotted both them standing in the kitchen.
"Jasmine, honey, are you okay?" Penelope said while making her way over to them.
"No. I think the baby is coming."
"What? Already?" Spencer and Penelope both spat out at the same time.
"Yes, already!" Jasmine yelled at both at them.
Spencer's face went pale white, Penelope's jaw dropped and Hotch did nothing, he was just frozen in place, his eyes wide and staring at Jas.
Spencer finally snapped out of it and pulled out a chair for her and helped her sit. The rest of the team made their way out of the room and in to the kitchen. They all came and stood around Jasmine, they could tell exactly what was going on.
Hotch finally came out of his trance and looked around in panic, he quickly got himself together and went into agent mode.
"Okay. Morgan and Reid you too are going to help Jasmine down to the car. Emily and Garcia go put a bag together for Jasmine and the baby-"
"Dammit Hotch! We are not on a case! I'm having a baby here! So just get me to the hospital and call my mom and make sure she gets here before this baby is born!" Jasmine rudely interrupted Hotch.
"Oh, right. Of course." Hotch said as his face went red with embarrassment. There he was 20 minutes ago telling Jasmine she didn't have anything to worry about and now he was panicking and making a complete fool out of himself.
Rossi and Morgan helped Jasmine up on her feet and led her out the door while Spencer began calling Melissa. Emily ran into the baby's room and grabbed a diaper bag she had prepared herself while organizing the baby's room. While Garcia held Hotch's arm and helped him out seeing that he was still pretty much in shock.
Once they all got to the hospital & Jasmine was admitted into the maternity ward Spencer finally let his nerves kick in. The whole ride to the hospital Spencer did nothing but try to keep Jasmine as calm as possible, but now that he was out of her sight he let himself worry just a bit.
Reid entered Jasmine's room where Penelope and Rossi where in as well.
"Hey Jasmine, how are you feeling?" Reid asked while caringly sweeping his hand across her forehead wiping away a few drops of sweat.
"Like I'm about to have a baby," Jasmine said smiling. Despite the pain she still found the ability to hold at least a bit of humor.
Reid smiled and took a seat next to Jasmine. He looked around the room and at the monitors trying to figure out what each one of them was for.
"Hey did you get a hold of my mom?" Jasmine asked Spencer.
He quickly turned and returned his attention to Jas, "Oh, yeah. She's catching the next flight here and so are you're sisters."
"Great." Jasmine smiled.
Jasmine was glad her family was coming over for the birth of her child. Although she had to admit she was a bit scared. Her mother didn't have the best reaction when finding out about Jasmines pregnancy. And her sister's still resented her for not moving back to San Francisco and let them watch her throughout her pregnancy. She had sent a couple pictures to them but apparently that hadn't been enough.
A few hours later Jasmine's contractions started to get closer together and her nurse announced it was time.
Rossi went ahead and let himself out of the room, he loved Jasmine but the miracle of childbirth was something he didn't really care to witness. As he stepped out in to the waiting room he noticed Hotch, Emily and Morgan talking to a group of women he did not recognize. He stepped closer and then was informed that they were Jasmine's mother and sisters. He informed everyone that Jasmine was getting ready to finally have the baby. It was finally the moment they had all been waiting for.
"You're doing great, honey" Spencer tried soothing Jasmine nerves. "She's almost here!"
"Tell Pen to stop taking pictures!" Jasmine shouted.
Reid signaled to Garcia to cut it out with excessive picture taking.
Finally Jasmine let out one more scream as pain took over her entire body, and then there was a tiny cry. Jasmine sighed with relief, it was finally over.
"Oh my goodness! She's adorable Jasmine, god made perfection!" Garcia shouted as she continued taking pictures with her pink digital camera.
"I want to see her." Jasmine said searching desperately for her daughter.
Spencer let go of Jasmine's hand momentarily and was allowed to cut the baby's umbilical chord.
Jasmine could see the excitement in Spencer's eyes. It was a sight she would never forget.
One of the nurses wrapped the little baby girl in a pink blanket and then handed her to Jasmine.
"She's beautiful…" Reid whispered as he gently stroked her cheek with his index finger, "Just like her mom." He smiled before giving Jas a sweet kiss on the lips.
"Thanks, for giving me the most beautiful daughter in the world, Jasmine. I love you." Reid said trying to ignore the constant flash of Penelope's camera. Nothing could possibly ruin this moment for him.
"I love you, too." Jasmine raised her hand and placed it on Reid's cheek, "and thank you for being the most amazing and loving man in the world."
Jasmine placed a kiss on Baby Bells forehead. She was fast asleep. Jas noticed Garcia's camera had stopped lighting up the room every time she took a picture. Both Spencer and Jasmine looked up and what they saw shocked them both.
"Oh my. Penelope? Are you crying?" Jasmine said giggling at her best friend.
"No. My eyes are sweating, that's all." Penelope said wiping tears from her eyes.
"That's impossible. You see…"
"Shut up Spencer! Okay, fine I am crying. It's just that, well, you three are just so cute. You have the perfect little family of three. I have every right to be emotional if I want to." Penelope said taking out a pack of Kleenex from her purse and wiping her eyes.
"I'll let everyone know they can come in now," Penelope said hurrying out the room.
Jasmine and Spencer sat alone in the room quietly admiring their cute little bundle of joy. A few minutes later a large group of people entered the room and flocked around Jasmine and the baby.
"Congrats man," Morgan said patting Reid in the back.
"Thanks," Reid smiled.
"Let me hold her," Penelope said holding out her arms waiting for a baby to be placed in them.
"No, grandma first." Jasmine's mom said shoo-ing Penelope away.
Jasmine gently placed her daughter in Melissa's arms. Penelope went and stood next to Morgan and stuck her tongue out at Melissa whenever she wasn't looking. Finally Jasmine's sister Jackie stole the baby away from her mom and held her for a few minutes before handing her off to her sister, Jess.
"She looks like Spencer." Jess pointed out to Jas like if she had not already noticed.
"I know, she inherited his looks not mine. She looks nothing like me." Jasmine said smiling.
Just then Baby Bells opened her eyes to reveal light sky blue eyes that matched her mother's.
"Look Jasmine she has your eyes."Penelope said taking a picture. The flash made the baby's eyes shut again and she went back to sleep.
"Aw, how cute. Here Penelope, you've been patient enough." Jess said handing the baby to Garcia.
"Hey there rock star. I'm going to have so much fun with you! You're going to be like my little Barbie doll. We're going to go out to the mall, shop for Louis Vuitton heels and check out boys!" Penelope said excitedly.
"Hey!" Morgan and Reid yelled out the same time.
"I forbid you to take my daughter out. You're a bad influence, and she will not check out boys!" Reid warned Garcia.
"Yeah! And you have no need to check out other boys when you got me, baby girl."
Garcia blushed and laughed as she handed off the baby to Emily.
"Well look at you cutie!" Emily said as she looked upon the little girl, wishing she had one of her own. She held her for a few more minutes before handing her of once more to Rossi.
"Hey Principessa." Rossi looked at the beautiful baby he was holding and stroked her sandy brown hair, "I wonder if you're going to be as smart as your dad or as spunky as you're mom… I guess time will tell." He said with a laugh before Morgan asked for a chance to hold her as well.
"As soon as she starts walking, I'm going to start teaching her self defense. She needs to learn how to keep the icky boys away, especially from Aunt Penny. Huh, pretty girl?" Morgan spoke to the baby of his future plans. He hadn't even held her for a few a two minutes when Hotch intervened and took Baby Bells from his arms.
"This reminds me of when Jack was born. He was just as tiny." Hotch smiled at the little girl expecting to receive a smile back, but Baby Bells started crying.
"Uh oh. I think that means she doesn't like you. I don't blame her." Emily said jokingly.
Hotch passed the baby back to Spencer who handed her back to Jasmine.
"No, ignore Em. She must just be hungry." Jasmine informed Hotch so he wouldn't feel bad.
Jasmine began breast feeding little Audrey Isabella Reid. Everyone in the room watched the beautiful baby girl as she drank her mother's milk. This was a true miracle. Never would they have known when meeting Jasmine that this is how it would all turn out. The young enthusiastic and passionate agent was now Spencer's girlfriend and had given him a lovely child. They were sure that the once shy and socially inadequate Spencer was now gone as he prepared himself to be a great father. All of their lives had taken some pretty drastic turns, most for the better. Exact proof of that was this moment, the birth of Jasmine's and Spencer's daughter.
THE END... For now.
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