Guys, I'm so sorry for the delay. I had writer's block for this story because I was just going through the chapters which I had written and I hated them because for a while, I noticed that I had filler chapters and those were not good enough for you guys. Also, I broke my arm and sadly, it was my dominant hand and I don't know how it's possible but literally, my whole arm including my wrist was broken, from the forearm down to the wrist. I fell down the stairs after suffering from dehydration due to the recent British bipolar weather but I'm fine now! I just have to type with my left hand and that's okay because I mastered that ages ago but it still hurts because I can't literally write anything at the moment. Anyway, enough about my depressing life, haha, enjoy the chapter x
"Just give me a minute," Spencer told his wife and he rummaged through his pockets for the keys.
JJ tilted her head, her hands gently resting on top of the pushchair's handles. "Spence, have you lost the keys to our new home?"
Spencer chuckled nervously. "No! Of course not! I must have left them in the car, just a minute."
The blonde chuckled and looked down at her eldest child who was engrossed in the new game, Pokémon Go. She rolled her eyes at his obvious lack of attention.
"Got it!"
She laughed and watched as Spencer made his way back up the short steps. "Nope, I'm sorry, I can't find them."
"Really, Spence?!"
But she was met with a smirk when he opened the door anyway. Soon after, she heard 'surprise!' yelled into her face.
"Welcome home, JJ!" Penelope grinned, popping a party popper in the air.
JJ stood shocked as she watched her friends and family grin at her, Morgan taking the steps to officially hand her the house keys.
"Welcome to your pad, Blondie," he said, giving her a hug as she broke out of her reverie and started to laugh.
She went around hugging everyone as they stopped to also swoon at the twins.
"Ready for the grand tour, Mrs. Reid?" Spencer asked her, taking her hand.
"What about-"
"They're fine. Look, Garcia's playing that game with Henry." He gestured to where Penelope and Henry were screaming as they had 'caught another one!'. He then nudged his head over to where Savannah and Morgan were happily tending to the twins, in preparation for their own baby.
JJ giggled and nodded for him to lead her around the house. The final room was their room.
She let go of his hand and gasped at her surroundings. There was a white and light brown theme in the room and a large photo stood proudly against the wall where their bed was. A family photo of her, him, Henry and the twins. They seemed to be cut off from the world, unaware that the picture was even being taken.
"How...?"
"Hotch saw us at the hospital when he came to visit. He didn't actually show me until he came over to help with the house."
JJ smiled through her happy tears and kissed Spencer on the lips, leaning their heads against one another's. "It's so beautiful!"
"That's not the only photos we've got in this room."
He then showed her handmade photo frames containing pictures of their three children, alone in their nostalgic bubbles. He then showed her a photo in a white wood hearted frame of them on their wedding day.
"I don't know how to thank them so much!"
"They know. I can't stop either. Especially the guys at the baseball club at work. They came over every practice to help out. One of them had a brother-in-law who fixed all our bathrooms for free."
JJ shook her head in disbelief. They truly were gifted with such wonderful friends and families.
"We're home, Jennifer."
She nodded, blushing as she realised that during the past couple of months, she wasn't the most patient of wives. "I... I'm sorry, Spence, for being such a wife-zilla lately."
Spencer chuckled. "Is that even a thing?" He teased her, causing her to hit his arm with a cheeky smile.
"It's just... a small house with three children? It was bound to drive us insane but you know what? This house was totally worth the wait. Look at how big the garden is! Henry can catch all the Pokémon he wants and add a little bit of soccer in that. Look how wonderful you've personalised all of our children's rooms to make them unique and able to settle in easier. Look at the kitchen, we can host more dinner parties where all of us mothers can bitch about how you fathers don't understand how much stress we're under being 'housewives'."
"By the time you end your tirade, I'll be asleep, probably everyone downstairs will, too." Spencer joked, blushing. He was genuinely grateful for her apologies and thanks and that made him love her even more. "Look, JJ... You don't have to apologise or thank me-"
"But I do. If you hadn't gotten sick, and I know how horrible this sounds but hear me out, if you hadn't gotten sick, we would not be here. Married, with two beautiful children and our Henry. If you, Spencer Reid hadn't have gotten sick, we won't have lived happy lives. You probably would have, with another woman but I sure as hell, know I wouldn't. I'd still be a single mom who was struggling every day to forget the horrors of her nightmares."
She was silenced with a gentle kiss. "I love you, Jennifer Jareau-Reid but sometimes you ramble too much." He whispered, making her blush a deeper crimson colour.
"And I love you too," she whispered back, bringing a hand to rest on his left cheek. "Sorry, it's just... We've come so far from those days of sadness and loneliness and I'm glad to be here with you."
"Same here."
...
"Thanks, Momma and thanks, Dad." Henry yawned, settling into his new bed that night.
Spencer smiled, kissing his head before JJ kissed her son's cheeks. "Sleep tight, Little Man."
"Dream about the stars, Henry," Spencer added.
"And Pokémon?"
His parents playfully rolled their eyes before nodding. "And the Pokémon." They told him.
"Good. Nighty-night."
"Night."
"Goodnight, Henry."
JJ and Spencer then left the room, turning off the main lighting in the process. They then quietly went to their new room and hovered over the cribs which laid beside each other peacefully.
"They're so beautiful when they're sleeping..." Spencer whispered, placing two kisses on his children's foreheads.
His wife nodded in agreement. "Won't be long until they simultaneously cry at 3 AM."
Her husband turned to face the digital clock. "It's 9:30, now. So, we have five and a half hours."
"To...?"
"Christen the bed," Spencer gently whispered to her.
JJ blushed, looking down at their sleeping children. "We can't! The twins are with us and Henry's just next door!"
"Sound proof walls and I think they're old enough to sleep in their own room. Alexandria's is just next door and you bought those new baby monitors. They can be together."
JJ contemplated the idea. It had been months, probably even a year, since she and her husband had been intimate in that nature and truth be told, she craved him. It was driving her mad every morning when he came out of the shower, clad in a towel, and she had to restrain her animalising ways so he could go to work to provide for their young family.
"I really want you..."
As soon as she said that, Spencer gently carried his daughter out of her crib and placed her into JJ's arms before doing the same with James. He then proceeded to get the pack 'n' gos next to the cribs and exited the room, JJ following.
He set up the temporary cribs and took James from his mother before gently placing him in a crib as JJ placed their daughter in the one beside it.
"I'll go get the baby monitor."
"I'll watch them," Spencer smiled, kissing the side of her head. He could hold on for just five minutes.
It seemed like forever when JJ finally returned and strapped the contraption to one of the cribs, between the twins. "Let's go before they find out that we moved them."
And after that, they made sweet love.
