Title: Feels Like Home
Author: Trista Groulx aka dustytiger
Rating: T same at the show
Disclaimer: I don't own NCIS or Criminal Minds sadly. I remain a poor barista and artist who is borrowing all these lovely characters who belong to their network, creator, writers, actors and actresses who bring them alive, to play out a fan fueled idea.
Summary: Spencer Reid meets Abby Sciuto at a lecture, and things grow form there.
Notes: Time to tell team BAU. Soo it occured to me I forgot about Abby's brothers. I feel like putting them in now would be a little to round peg square hole. My muse gave me something last night for a little later but no sorry for that.


Reid was excited to tell everyone about his trip. He hoped they would all understand why they had eloped instead of having ceremony with the people they loved. He was also trying to stay optimistic about how Hotch might react to the news but it was hard. Abby kept reminding him to not let one person's negativity affect him, but was hard sometimes. He was glad that Garcia was the first person in.

"Hey boy wonder, what's up, I can hear you thinking from over here," she told him.

"There's something I need to tell everyone, but I'm not sure how to get the words out," he explained.

"It's only me right now, so there's less pressure, what's on your mind?"

"Abby and I went to Las Vegas this weekend," he began but was interrupted.

"Come on kid," joked Morgan. "You're banned from most casinos, how much damage could you have done on your home turf?"

"Actually we got married while we were there."

Garcia hugged him tightly. "Omg! I'm so happy for you! I'll have to call Abby later. Wow! Congratulations sweet pea!"

"Thank you, we're going to plan something so we can celebrate with everyone, and see the photos and video."

"That sounds amazing."

"Reid, my man I didn't think you had it in you, but congrats! You and Abby are great together," Morgan told him, awkwardly trying to give him a fist pump.

JJ joined them. "What did I miss?" she asked after witnessing the attempted fist pump.

"Our boy has some big news from his weekend," Morgan told her.

"That sounds intriguing," Rossi agreed as he came down the stairs from his office to see what was happening.

"Abby and I decided to visit my mom and while we were there we found a beautiful little chapel and decided to get married. She was struggling with the idea of having a ceremony without her parents. Since my mom was having a really good day she decided she needed to be there and it happened. She looked amazing."

He showed them a picture he had put in his wallet. Reid had never been one to keep big pictures on his desk. He liked to keep the photos that mattered to him close. He had an old one of him and his mother, a few with various members of the team, some of Henry as he continued to grow, and now his wedding picture. He hoped he would one day add pictures of his own children, but he wasn't ready to tell everyone about that yet.

Hotch came out of his office, "conference room," he told them.

"Aaron another minute or two isn't going to change anything," Rossi reasoned.

"If Reid wants to tell everyone how he decided to be impulsive and naïve over the weekend he can do it on his own time. While we are here we work Garcia go set up the projector."

She nodded and went into the conference room. The rest of the team followed not wanting to incur the wrath of their boss. Hotch stopped Reid. Reid sighed softly, not wanting to do this. He didn't care if he supported the choice they'd made, he knew it was the right thing and that's all that mattered. He still treated Hotch with respect while they were working, there was no use bringing personal problems into the field.

"You said yourself we have work to do. I can keep pretending like nothing changed," Reid told him, walking away.

He sat down and listened to the briefing. Before they headed to the airstrip he texted Abby to tell her they had a case in California. Everyone focused on the case while they were in the air, but what happened was still looming. Reid knew what mattered were the people who did support his choice, but he had hoped that being married would prove to Hotch that what he shared with Abby was real. Everyone else could clearly see how good she was for him, and that the way she dressed was just another part of who she was.

Reid was already looking forward to getting home already. She always seemed to find a way to find the positive in anything. He didn't want to talk to Garcia about it, since it wasn't her issue to deal with since it involved Hotch. He loved his job, and the people he worked with and he wasn't going to let one perso cost him that, even if he was the boss. Eventually he knew Hotch would see what all the people who mattered most to him did; that Abby was the only person for him.

Notes: I'm not sure I'm gonna show Hotch turning around. Let me know what you think. HUGZ and hearts all!