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A/N: Shout out to Angel Wings00, tannerose5, TVHollywoodDiva, E. J. Morgan, and fishtrek for reviewing chapter 28.
Sorry for the delay on this chapter because I promised myself that I would not update this story until I posted a few chapters for my other in progress story. To make up for the lack of updates, I hope you readers love it that I have two season 10 characters appear because of the two year age difference between Diana and a certain teenager from season 10.
My family and I ended up adopting a one-year-old Basset Hound named Fred, so I hope that you readers can figure out what movie series has a Basset Hound named Fred because Fred is named after a dog from a movie series.
I didn't draw my new avatar photo for this story myself because one of my new readers asked me if she could draw a picture of Spencer, Clarissa, and little Diana together and I gave her permission. So here's a shout out to Rookblonkorules for drawing the picture
This chapter starts on February 7th of 2008 and will take place during the first two weeks of February of 2008. The next chapter will be my AU version of Somebody's Watching, but Lila won't hit on Spencer at all.
Diana looked at her tired daddy as she ate breakfast with her parents and Lucy.
"Are you OK daddy?" asked Diana.
"I didn't get a lot of sleep last night," said Spencer.
"Why?" asked Diana.
Spencer looked at his four-year-old daughter.
"Do you remember visiting me in the hospital a year ago?" asked Spencer.
Diana nodded as her curly pigtails bounced.
"You had a band-aid on your head and a big white cast on your foot," said Diana.
"I did, but I had some mental injuries that the monster who hurt me deal with forever," said Spencer.
"Are you better?" asked Diana.
"I'm much better than I was a year ago. I always talk to mommy, your uncle Aaron, and Lucy about the nightmares, but today I'll be seeing a psychologist and talk about what happened to me a year ago," said Spencer.
Diana thought about her school's guidance counselor who talks to her and her classmates about being nice to other children.
"Like Dr. Annie at my school?" asked Diana.
"Exactly," said Spencer as he gave his oldest daughter a high five.
Over two hours later Dr. Merrill looked at a slightly drained Spencer.
"How are your daughters doing?" asked Dr. Merrill.
Spencer grinned as he realized that Dr. Merrill was done with the questions she needed to ask.
"I'm sad about Diana is finally four-years-old and that Bridget turned six-months-old today," said Spencer as he showed Dr. Merrill a picture of Diana and Bridget together.
Dr. Merrill smiled at the picture of Diana who had an open book on her lap sitting on the couch with Bridget sitting up next to her with the help of a pillow.
"Children do grow fast, and the rumor mill has it that you and Clarissa are expecting baby number three," said Dr. Merrill.
Spencer nodded as grinned.
"Clarissa is 18-weeks pregnant with my firstborn son," said Spencer.
Dr. Merrill smiled as she watched Spencer's eyes twinkle with excitement.
"Congratulations on the upcoming new addition," said Dr. Merrill.
"Thank you, and a name has already been picked out," said Spencer.
"What's your firstborn son's name going to be?" asked Dr. Merrill.
"At first Clarissa and I were going to do Gabriel Evan Reid, but with what happened to me a year ago, there's no way I would name my firstborn son after an archangel," said Spencer before smiling a little bit, "I ended up deciding that my firstborn son would be named Evan Aaron Reid because Hotch has helped me immensely while I recovered from Hankel," said Spencer.
Dr. Merrill looked at Spencer.
"You did a great job recovering from Hankel," said Dr. Merrill.
Spencer slightly chuckled.
"Clarissa told me that if I ever went through a traumatic experience in the field, I better cooperate with her, my brother-in-law, and the psychologists that are assigned to me or she would forbid me from drinking coffee for a year," shuddered Spencer.
"Then it's a good thing you listened to your wife," laughed Dr. Merrill.
"Diana and Bridget were huge motivations on why I accepted help because I wanted to be back to my normal self by the time of Bridget's birth," said Spencer.
Morgan and Emily looked at Spencer.
"Are you going to join Garcia, JJ, and us for lunch?" asked Emily.
Spencer shook his head.
"I brought my own lunch and I want to work on more of my consults because I know that you two added consults to my pile while I had my appointment with Dr. Merrill," said Spencer.
"OK," said Morgan before he and Emily walked away.
A few minutes later Spencer was heating up the chicken stir fry that Clarissa and Lucy made for dinner the night before he headed back to his desk.
A half-hour later Spencer heard a familiar voice causing him to look up from his desk and grin when he saw Lucy coming towards him with Bridget on her hip.
"Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada," said Bridget.
Spencer quickly got up from his desk and made his way to Lucy and Bridget.
"I'm sorry to interrupt you at work, but Bridget kept on saying 'Dada' and she wouldn't calm down while I played the recordings you made. So I decided to bring her here because of not getting a phone call about leaving for a case," said Lucy.
Spencer shook his head as he accepted his youngest daughter from Lucy.
"Its lunchtime right now, and because of having a psych evaluation earlier I decided to eat my lunch at my desk while I work on my consults," said Spencer as he headed back to his desk and sat down before standing up Bridget on his lap, "Are you missing me so much that you kept on chanting 'Dada' as your way to ask your nanny if you can come here and visit me?" asked Spencer as he blew a raspberry on Bridget's cheek.
Bridget laughed before she gave her daddy a huge grin causing the 26-year-old genius to laugh.
"I've been missing you today too, and I really can't believe that your finally six-months-old," said Spencer.
Bridget smiled at her daddy before she decided to try and grab her daddy's glasses before her daddy stopped her.
"No grabbing daddy's glasses, Bridget," said Spencer as he started to lightly bounce Bridget on his knee causing Bridget to laugh, "Your laughter is one of my most favorite sounds, Bridget," chuckled Spencer.
"I loved it when I heard my three children laugh when they were babies too," said Strauss as she walked over to him with Hotch.
Spencer stopped bouncing his youngest daughter as he looked at Strauss causing him to realize that Strauss went into Hotch's office while he was eating.
"Chief Strauss," said Spencer.
Bridget grinned at her uncle Aaron causing Spencer to hand his daughter over to her uncle.
"What are you doing here, Bridget," said Hotch as he pecked his niece's cheek.
Bridget lifted up her head and gave her uncle a big grin causing Hotch to smile down at his youngest niece.
"Bridget missed me so much that she wouldn't stop chanting 'Dada'. So Lucy decided to bring Bridget here and see if Bridget would calm down if she saw me in person," smiled Spencer.
Strauss gave Bridget a small smile.
"Seems like you're a daddy's girl just like your big sister," said Strauss.
Bridget smiled at Strauss.
"When it comes to both Diana and Bridget having me wrapped around their little fingers, I know that I'm going to be in so much trouble as they get older," said Spencer.
Strauss took in the sight of the baby girl who had her mother's and uncle Aaron's hair color while having her father's brown eyes and curls.
"I can't believe how big she's getting," said Strauss.
"I know, but I'm looking forward to Evan's birth in less than 22 weeks," said Spencer.
"Isn't Bridget six-months-old now?" asked Strauss.
Spencer nodded.
"She turned six-months-old today, and she's hitting all of her milestones either early or on time," said Spencer.
Bridget looked at her daddy.
"Dada," said Bridget.
Spencer looked at his youngest daughter.
"Yes, Bridget?" asked Spencer.
Bridget babbled as she made a sign to tell her father that she wants a bottle.
"Is that so Bridget Mackenzie?" asked Spencer.
"Aye," said Bridget.
Spencer looked at Lucy who had Bridget's diaper bag slung over her shoulder.
"Bridget wants a bottle," said Spencer.
"I'll quickly go heat one up," said Lucy as she walked away.
Spencer looked at his brother-in-law.
"I wish that I could keep Bridget here with me until its 5 PM, but I know that isn't possible," said Spencer.
Strauss looked at Spencer.
"Mind if I hold your daughter until Lucy comes with her bottle?" asked Strauss.
"Go ahead," said Spencer.
Strauss gently took Bridget from Hotch and she smiled at the six-month-old baby girl.
"Holding you reminds me of when my children were babies," said Strauss.
Bridget started to babble causing Spencer to smile at his youngest daughter.
"Are you telling Strauss about what you like and dislike?" asked Spencer.
"Aye," said Bridget just as Lucy came over with Bridget's bottle causing Spencer to take Bridget from Strauss.
"As soon as I'm done feeding you, you need to go with Lucy," said Spencer glumly as he saw Morgan, JJ, Garcia, Emily, and Rossi come into the bullpen, "I see your godparents coming towards us, but as soon as I'm done feeding you, you'll be burped by your uncle Aaron before you're passed around before going home with Lucy," said Spencer.
While the rest of the team started to come towards them, Lucy quickly grabbed a burping cloth and passed it to Hotch who quickly placed the cloth over his shoulder.
"Is Bridget coming to visit the reason why you skipped going out to eat with us?" asked Garcia.
Spencer shook his head.
"No," said Spencer as he started to explain what led to Bridget coming to visit before Bridget was full of her mommy's milk, "I'm going to hand you over to uncle Aaron so he can burp you," said Spencer.
Bridget laughed while Hotch accepted his youngest niece from Spencer, and after Hotch burped his niece, Bridget was passed around before Lucy took her home.
Later on that evening Spencer looked at all the agents and police officers that were in the room.
"Hello. My name is Spencer," said Spencer.
"Hello, Spencer," said everyone who hadn't met Spencer before.
"Some of you in this room are aware that I never had a problem with drugs and alcohol, but both my wife and boss ordered to attend these meetings because a year ago I was held captive for two days by a suspect who physically and mentally tortured me while repeatedly injecting me with Dilaudid. A year ago today was when Dilaudid was last injected into me, so I knew that I needed to come here on the one year anniversary of one of the worst nights of my life," said Spencer before he took a deep breath, "Because of it being the one year anniversary of my abduction and torture, I'm dealing with PTSD symptoms. On the bright side though, I haven't felt the urge to find a dealer and buy Dilaudid because having a wife, two beautiful daughters, and a son on the way are some of the reasons why I didn't get addicted to Dilaudid," said Spencer.
John got up and approached Spencer.
"Even though you were never addicted to Dilaudid, practically everyone in this room agreed with me that you deserve a one year medallion of your own because you showed an amazing amount of strength of not getting addicted and accepted the help that was offered to you when the case that exposed you to a dangerous substance could have made you addicted," said John as he passed Spencer a one year medallion.
Spencer accepted the medallion.
"Thank you, John," said Spencer as he shook hands with John.
Two days later Clarissa looked at her husband as she put on her scrubs.
"I hope you aren't upset about me filling in for another nurse today at the hospital," said Clarissa.
"I'm OK with you filling in for another nurse, Clarissa. Even though I'm happy about you being a substitute nurse at Diana's school, I'm also happy that Children's National asked you if your willing to fill in for nurses who can't make it on weekends until Evan is born," said Spencer.
Clarissa walked towards her husband and kissed him on the lips.
"What did I do to deserve a wonderful husband like you?" asked Clarissa.
"You decided to approach your crush when you saw me sitting on that bench in tears and ask me if I'm OK," said Spencer with a cheeky smile on his face.
"Smart ass," said Clarissa.
Bridget who was crawling around on her mommy's and daddy's bed looked up at her parents.
"Ass," chirped Bridget.
Spencer and Clarissa exchanged horrified looks before Spencer looked at his wife.
"Other than knowing that we have to be careful about what we say around Diana and Bridget, we both know that Bridget broke her older sister's record for swearing," said Spencer.
Clarissa laughed as she thought about the time that two-year-old Diana swore.
"We didn't know that Diana would get out of bed to use the bathroom while we were having mommy and daddy time causing her to hear me said a certain F word and say it the next morning during breakfast," said Clarissa.
"I can never forget the look on your face when Diana told us how she heard you say that word," laughed Spencer.
Clarissa slapped her husband's shoulder before looking at her husband.
"I better head off to work, so please don't let me come home to any messes from any science experiments that you show Diana," said Clarissa.
Spencer gave his wife a cheeky smile.
"Yes, ma'am," said Spencer.
Over six hours later Spencer was sitting on a bench as he watched a slightly older little girl join Diana on the playground equipment when he heard a female voice.
"Mind if I join you on this bench while I watch my niece play?" asked the woman.
"Go ahead," said Spencer.
The woman joined Spencer on the bench.
"How old is your daughter?" asked the woman.
"Diana's four and my six-month-old daughter Bridget is currently at home with the nanny," said Spencer.
The woman pointed to her niece who was about to go down the slide.
"Meg will be seven in a few months," said the woman.
At that moment Spencer's cell phone rang causing a sighing Spencer to quickly grab his phone from his navy blue pea coat and answer it without checking the caller ID.
"Dr. Reid," answered Spencer professionally.
"Why are you sounding professional for your own wife?" asked a teasing Clarissa.
Spencer continued to watch Diana.
"I didn't check the caller ID, so I thought that I was possibly getting called in," said Spencer.
"You're forgiven, Spence," said Clarissa.
"How is it going at work?" asked Spencer.
"I'm currently on a snack break because of craving a blueberry muffin, so I wanted to make sure that everything is going OK at home," said Clarissa.
Spencer rolled his eyes as he noticed that the six-year-old niece of the woman sitting next to him was pushing his daughter on the swing.
"Everything is going fine, Clarissa. I'm currently at the park with Diana while Bridget stayed home with Lucy. It seems like Diana's making friends with a six-year-old girl who is pushing her on the swing," said Spencer.
"Do you have Diana's asthma inhaler with you?" asked Clarissa.
"My eidetic memory never makes me forget to grab Diana's asthma inhaler, Clarissa," said Spencer as he didn't even realize that his companion was giving him a wide-eyed glance.
"I just worry about, Diana," said Clarissa.
"I worry about Diana too, but we're both aware that her asthma attacks are more frequent at night than during the day," said Spencer.
"Other than deciding to check on you, Diana, and Bridget; I decided to let you know that I'm going to pick up some pizza on the way home from work for dinner," said Clarissa.
"Pregnancy cravings?" asked a teasing Spencer.
"Yes, but I have to get back to work. I love you," said Clarissa.
"Love you too," said Spencer before hanging up.
As soon as Spencer pocketed his phone, the slightly older woman looked at him.
"Did you say that your name is Reid and that you have an eidetic memory?" asked the woman.
"Yes," said Spencer.
Six-year-old Meg Callahan stopped pushing the swing that Diana was on just as Diana started to wheeze while her usual rosy complexion started to change.
"Are you having an asthma attack?" asked Meg.
"Yes," wheezed Diana.
Meg quickly helped Diana get off the swing and grabbed Diana's gloved hand.
"We need to get you over to your daddy," said Meg as she started to pull Diana to where her aunt Kate was sitting with Diana's daddy, "Aunt Kate! Mr. Reid!" shouted Meg.
Spencer's and Kate's heads went up when they heard Meg calling them causing Spencer to quickly get off the bench and quickly sprint towards Diana and Meg only to hear his daughter wheezing.
"Are you having an asthma attack, Diana?" asked Spencer as he knelt down to Diana's eye level.
"I... can't… breathe… daddy," wheezed Diana.
"Is Diana going to be OK," cried Meg as she hugged her aunt.
"She will be as soon as I help her use her inhaler, Meg," said Spencer calmly as he quickly took action by grabbing Diana's inhaler from his jacket pocket and uncapped it before putting the bottom of the inhaler into his oldest daughter's mouth and pushed the button that was on the top, "As the medicine takes effect please take a few deep breaths and you'll be feeling better soon, Diana," said Spencer calmly as he coached his oldest daughter through her breathing exercises.
A few minutes later Diana regained her breath, causing Spencer to give his oldest daughter a gentle hug.
"Feeling better, Diana?" asked Spencer as he removed his daughter's glasses before he used his thumb to wipe Diana's tears.
Diana nodded.
"Do I have to go to the hospital?" asked Diana.
Spencer gave his daughter a small smile as he thought about Diana inheriting his dislike for hospitals as he helped his daughter put her glasses back on.
"I don't think that a trip to the emergency room needed, but before I allow you to play with your new friend a bit, you need to sit down and rest for a bit," said Spencer firmly as he lifted up Diana causing the four-year-old girl to wrap her legs around her daddy's waist as she wrapped her arms around Spencer's neck.
Meg looked at her aunt.
"I want to sit by Diana," said Meg as her aunt lifted her up.
As soon as Spencer and Kate were sitting on the bench with Diana on her daddy's lap while Meg was on her aunt's lap, Spencer looked at Meg.
"Thank you for alerting me about Diana having an asthma attack," said Spencer.
"Your welcome, Mr. Reid," said Meg.
Diana looked at her new friend.
"My daddy likes to be called Dr. Reid," said Diana before she looked up at her daddy, "Meg said that her aunt is an FBI agent just like you. I was about to come tell you when I started to have an asthma attack," said Diana.
Spencer who was now stroking the hair that wasn't underneath Diana's winter hat looked at Meg's aunt.
"If my wife wasn't at work right now, she would say that this is a small world," said Spencer.
"Before your daughter had an asthma attack, I was going to ask you were SSA Dr. Spencer Reid because I know that there's only one FBI agent in the DC and Virginia area with your last name while having an eidetic memory," said the woman.
Spencer nodded.
"I'm the agent your thinking about," said Spencer.
"Kate Callahan and I work for SSA Andi Swan," said Kate.
"Even though I have never worked Agent Swan yet, I've heard about her," said Spencer.
"Don't you work on the same team as your brother-in-law?" asked Kate.
"I do, and my marriage was kept a secret until I got injured a year ago because I ended up being in the hospital for five days and my wife had to fly out to be with me while the rest of the team was called back to Quantico," said Spencer.
"Why was your marriage kept a secret?" asked Kate.
"I was only 22-years-old when I joined the BAU and my brother-in-law, former Unit Chief, Chief Strauss, and the Director were worried that there would be agents would think that I got into the BAU due to nepotism when it comes to being my current Unit Chief's brother-in-law. So certain information about me was locked up tightly while my brother-in-law and I were ordered not to reveal that we're brothers-in-law to anyone. Luckily everyone understood why my marriage and parental status was kept a secret," said Spencer.
"Ahhh," said Kate before looking at Diana who was happy to be on her daddy's lap, "Is Diana going to be OK?" asked Kate.
"She will be. She just needs some rest before she can start playing again," said Spencer.
"Daddy?" asked Diana.
"Yes, bumble bee?" asked Spencer.
"Can I have a snack?" asked Diana.
Spencer reached into his jacket pocket and found a small package of animal crackers and opened the bag and passed the bag to Diana who pulled out a cracker and passed it to Meg.
"Here," said Diana.
Meg took the animal cracker.
"Thank you," said Meg.
Three days later Spencer, Clarissa, and Diana entered Sarah Barry's hospital room and Clarissa smiled at her best friend from church who was holding a baby boy while her husband sat in a nearby chair.
"I would like to introduce you guys to Dominic Nicholas Barry," said Sarah.
"He's beautiful," said Clarissa.
"He has your hair, Peter," said Spencer.
Sarah and Peter looked at Spencer and Clarissa.
"We want you two to be Dominic's godparents," said Peter.
Spencer and Clarissa smiled at each other.
"We're honored," said Spencer before he gently took Dominic from Sarah.
"Seeing you hold Dominic is making me very excited about giving birth to Evan," said Clarissa as she rubbed her 19-week pregnant stomach.
Peter looked at Spencer and Clarissa.
"Hopefully Dominic and Evan will become best friends like our daughters did," said Peter.
Two days later Diana grinned when she saw her very first heart-shaped locket.
"Can I put a picture in my locket like mommy does?" asked Diana.
"I already put one of your favorite pictures in the locket," said Spencer as he opened up the locket causing Diana to grin when she saw a picture of her giving her daddy a kiss on the cheek, "I thought that you would want this picture in," said Spencer.
A wide-eyed Diana nodded at her daddy.
"Did you profile me, daddy?" asked Diana.
"I just know you very well because you insist on having pictures of us together in your room while knowing that pink lilies are your favorite flowers," said Spencer as he gestured to the small vase of pink lilies that Diana came downstairs to that was by the vase of roses that he got Clarissa.
Later on that afternoon at 4:30, Spencer hurriedly pulled on his suit jacket before his navy blue pea coat causing Morgan to look at him as he slung his messenger bag around his shoulders.
"Have a good date night with Clarissa and Diana," said Morgan.
"Thanks, and don't forget to use protection if you and Garcia start practicing for babies tonight," smirked Spencer before he ran off causing Emily to laugh at Morgan's shocked face.
"With how you spent the past year teasing him about his sex life, I'm glad he finally got back at you," laughed Emily.
An hour later Spencer smiled as Clarissa who was wearing a new purple knee-length dress that showed off her 19-week baby bump with Diana who was also wearing a purple dress coming down the stairs together causing him to look at his six-month-old daughter who was on his hip.
"Mommy and your big sister are extremely beautiful just like you. In a few years you'll get to join in on the dates I take your mommy and big sister on," said Spencer.
"Aye," said Bridget as she babbled.
Diana ran over to her daddy.
"How do I look, daddy?" asked Diana as she twirled around in her new dress.
"You look beautiful, Diana," said Spencer before handing Bridget to Lucy before he took Clarissa's and Diana's hands, "I'm the most luckiest guys in the world to be taking two of the most beautiful girls in the world out to dinner," said Spencer.
A few minutes later Spencer was driving Clarissa and Diana to Olive Garden.
A half-hour later Clarissa's eyes went wide when she saw Hotch leading Emily towards a seat before Hotch kissed Emily on the cheek.
"No way," said Clarissa.
"What?" asked Spencer.
Clarissa looked at her husband.
"Do you know if Aaron started dating again?" asked Clarissa.
"I've noticed that he got closer to Emily," said Spencer.
"Aaron is here with Emily right now," said Clarissa before looking at Diana, "Even though your uncle Aaron is here right now, that doesn't mean that you can get out of your chair and go say hi to your uncle," said Clarissa firmly.
"Yes ma'am," said Diana with a cheeky grin on her face.
Spencer burst out laughing causing Clarissa to glare at her husband before she looked at her daughter.
"Please don't call me ma'am in the cheeky way your daddy occasionally does," said Clarissa.
"Sorry mommy," said Diana.
"Its OK, sweet pea," said Clarissa just as their food arrived.
For the next half hour, Spencer listened to Diana tell him about how her day at preschool went.
A few hours later Spencer and Clarissa were falling onto their bed fully clothed as they started a heated make-out session
