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Harper didn't know how to process everything. Most the time she spoke in Italian which confused everyone. Spencer explained to everyone that since it was technically Harper's first language that her grief was causing the language barrier.
Rossi and Spencer however were more than happy to help translate for Harper to the rest of the team when Harper became to emotion or overwhelmed with the funeral preparations. They held the funeral shortly after they return to Quantico.
Harper knew what her mother wanted already and quickly got everything taken care of with the help of the entire BAU. On the day of the funeral, Spencer walked into the room Harper was getting ready in and Spencer walks over and places his hands on Harper's shoulders before kissing the top of her head.
"Are you ready?" Spencer asks. Harper shakes her head as she gets up and hugs Spencer.
"I know. Lets go" Spencer says.
Harper follows him out to the car the funeral home sent and head to the cemetery. Spencer, Morgan, Rossi, Hotch and two other men carry Emily's casket while Harper carries Amelia behind them. The rest of the people follow Harper until they come to stop at the grave site. They placed the casket on what will lower it into the ground.
After the minister speaks a few parting words, one by one each member of the people attending the funeral place a red rose on Emily's casket. Harper stands with Spencer and Amelia while the crowd around the funeral starts to lessen. Spencer takes Amelia from Harper after he places his rose on the casket. Harper picks up the last rose and looks back at the BAU team who stood near her husband.
Harper looked at the gravestone that read: Emily Prentiss, Oct. 12th, 1970 to March 7th 2011.
"Until we meet again" Harper whispers and leaves the rose before walking back over to Spencer. Harper noticed that Penelope held Amelia while she and Spencer were talking.
"Penelope is going to watch Amelia for us while we get everything with Emily's apartment taken care of" Spencer says.
"Thank you Penny" Harper says.
"No problem. Let me know when Sergio is on his way over to my place and I'll have Ami here ready for you" She says.
Harper hugged her husband when Hotch walked over. "Can we talk in private?" Hotch asks the entire team.
"Sure" Spencer says as everyone nods.
After the funeral, Hotch gathered the entire team within the round room.
"What I'm about to tell you all doesn't leave this room and can't be spoken to anyone outside of this team" Hotch says very serious.
"Aaron what's going on?" Rossi asks as he keeps Amelia entertained.
"Emily made it off the table, her surgery was a success" Hotch says gaging everyone's reactions.
"Wait...what are you talking about?" Penelope asks shocked.
"Emily is alive. We faked her death and waited to tell everyone until after the funeral in case Doyle was watching" Hotch says as JJ moves to stand next to him.
Harper looks between the two, "So why are you telling us?" Harper asks.
"We knew that Doyle would keep tabs on the funeral and feel safer if he knew that Emily was dead. For now we've got other agencies looking for him but Emily has gone into hiding as well. She may or may not try to make contact depending on her covers" Hotch says.
"So we need to still act like Emily is dead?" Spencer asks looking at his wife's demeanor and trying to gage her reaction.
"Yes, because to the rest of the world she is dead" Hotch says looking around at everyone.
"I understand that you'll all need time to process this, Strauss has given us a few days to collect ourselves. If you have any questions please ask me" Hotch says.
Everyone nods, unsure how to take this latest news after everything they had just gone through.
Harper had spent the next few days recovering from her ordeal. Spencer made sure she got plenty of rest and took care of Amelia majority of the time.
Ten Weeks after Emily's 'death'...
Soon after Emily's 'death', the entire team including Harper and Amelia, had gone to Ashley's graduation. Causing Garcia to celebrate, to try and give everyone some normalcy without Emily around. However, that didn't stop the team from taking on more cases.
Once they headed out to work a case in Portland, is the case that made Harper worry more about Spencer. Spencer had struggled the most during this particular case, not only with his headaches but with Emily's absence but with Harper. Although Harper was happy that Emily was alive, but she felt like she was constantly looking over her shoulder for Doyle.
Only Spencer knew that Harper was constantly have nightmares about when she was held captive by Doyle and what he had done to Emily. He was constantly catching her awake in the middle of the night, walking around the house or checking on Amelia.
Spencer understood all of this but it caused him to worry about his wife. On their case, they discovered quickly that their UNSUB suffered from some sort of schizophrenia, and Harper knew that this case would hit home for Spencer more than any of them.
Once the team gave their profile of the UNSUB to the police force, and Harper could see Spencer struggle with the information that the team was giving out to the officers and the information that he himself contributed to the profile.
Once they finished, Spencer immediately left the room. She went to follow him but noticed Morgan went after him as well. Harper followed as Morgan followed Spencer into the men's room and she waited outside, hearing their entire conversation.
"You know that profile makes it kind of sound like schizophrenia leads to serial killing" Spencer says after turning off the water.
"That's not what we said at all Reid" Morgan says.
"My mom has schizophrenia, there are many different types" Spencer says.
"I know that" Morgan says.
"Catatonic, disorganized. Just because someone suffers from the inability to organize their thoughts, or bathe or dress themselves, doesn't mean that they would stab somebody in the chest 30 times in the chest postmortem" Spencer says getting slightly agitated.
"Reid. What's really going on?" Morgan asks.
"Our UNSUBs hallucinations aren't fractured like a typically schizophrenic, they're vivid and clear. Leading me to believe that we're missing an important variable somewhere. Rather than making crazy conjectures, I think that we should try and figure out what it is" Spencer says.
"You listen to me. I know this is a scary age for you. It's when schizophrenic breaks happen. Have you talked to anybody about this?" Morgan asks.
"Harper. Emily" Spencer says.
"Have you seen a doctor?" Morgan asks.
"They all say I'm fine" Spencer says.
"Then why don't you believe them?" Morgan asks confused.
"Because predicting ones chances of developing a genetic condition is like trying to find a penny in the ocean. I have terrible headaches, I can't sleep at night, I can't focus on our cases. I only read five books last week" Spencer says dejected.
"What else?" Morgan asks.
"Its Harper. She won't talk to me about Emily being gone, she misses her and is worried about Doyle" Spencer says knowing Morgan would read in between the lines.
"Look kid you've got to cut yourself and Harper some slack. You're dealing with Prentiss' situation and I get it, we all are, especially Harper. Reid I miss her every day and I can only imagine what Harper is feeling about all this. But if your mind really was splitting do you think that you would have been able to figure out that this team is missing a variable?" Morgan asks.
"I'm just speculating that we are. I need to prove it" Spencer says.
"Then you do that. The moment you are wondering around the street aimlessly, that's when I'll be concerned about you. Come on pretty boy, we need to get you and Harper talking more. Let's get to work" Morgan says as the two of them leave the bathroom, Morgan stops short of opening the door.
"Doesn't seem like you'll need help" Morgan says.
"What do you mean?" Spencer asks looking over Morgan's shoulders to see Harper standing there, tears in her eyes.
Morgan quickly steps aside, "Harper, what's wrong?" Spencer asks coming to stand in front of her.
"I'm so sorry Spencer" Harper says before hugging him.
"I'll give you two a few moments" Morgan says smiling at the couple as he walked away. Harper and Spencer walked over to the office the BAU had been using for some privacy.
Spencer closed the door before locking his arms around Harper, "How much that did you hear?" Spencer asks resting his chin on her head.
"All of it. I've been so stupid, ignoring you and everyone else when I shouldn't be so worried about it all" Harper says burying her head into his shoulder.
Spencer slightly nods in understanding, "Its ok, you needed time to accept everything and understand that there are people looking for Doyle and you are safe" Spencer says looking down at her.
"That doesn't excuse what I've done. I'm sorry" Harper says again into his chest.
"I know what all this did but please don't shut me out, not anymore" Spencer says turning Harper's face to his.
Harper nods, "I was stupid to think I could deal with this on my own and have everything be normal" Harper says. Spencer leans down and kisses Harper. Hotch walks into the office, coughing to break them up.
"We've got another victim" Hotch says when the two break apart.
"Ok, go I'll be ok" Harper says wiping her face. Spencer kisses Harper on the cheek before nodding to Hotch and leaving with Spencer.
"I'm glad to see you two back on track" Hotch says.
"Me too" Spencer says looking back as Morgan walks over to Harper with a smile. After they apprehended the UNSUB, the team notices that Harper and Spencer are talking once again.
Once Spencer and Harper return home, Elizabeth Prentiss notices the change immediately and tells the two she'll see them in a couple of days. Once their case had finished, Hotch had made Harper and Spencer take time off to focus rebuilding from what happened in March. Over the course of a few weeks, they finally found some normalcy.
4 months Later...
Harper stood at the cemetery, looking down at her mother's gravestone. Emily had often had someone leave notes to pass onto Harper here and it also kept up the appearance to anyone that may be watching that she was grieving her mother's lose. Though it had been difficult for Harper to believe her mother was alive until she'd spoken to her on the phone.
She and Spencer had also spoke with Hotch, along with the rest of the team and made sure they were made aware of Emily's recovery. Though they couldn't know her movements after she left the hospital for her safety. Most of the team did well making sure that they played up their grief but Harper knew it was all a show just like Hotch had asked them.
However, Harper still worried constantly however on the fact that Doyle was still out there. She continued working on cases until Hotch could find a replacement for Emily but she knew that Hotch wasn't focused on that particular issue at the moment.
During that time everyone knew Ashley was a graduate from the FBI academy and she didn't qualify to be a replacement for Emily and would still have to find someone for the team. Since Ashley was only a probationary agent after her graduation and not an experienced enough profiler to be apart of the BAU.
Present...
Here it was the end of June and Harper was staring down at the pregnancy test in her hand. She couldn't believe her eyes. She had been feeling a bit off but didn't want to raise any concerns until the smell of coffee had hit her that morning and she knew. She played sick and ushered Spencer off to work, saying she'd take care of Amelia and acting as if nothing was wrong, before going straight into their bathroom and grabbing a pregnancy test from under their sink.
Harper had waited impatiently for the next 3 minutes, for the results. Pacing with Amelia, all around the house in the process. After the three minutes, she looked down. Harper called the doctor and made an appointment for that very day and went hoping that the test was just a false positive. Amelia was about to be 9 months old and yet here she was, possibly pregnant with another baby on the way.
After her appointment and the conformation of another baby, Harper didn't know how to tell Spencer. She was barely 5 weeks pregnant, with her due date in late February, early March. She knew that this was a good thing, Spencer and her had wanted more kids but hadn't discussed anything since they were still focused on Amelia at the moment.
She knew Spencer would be over the moon happy but with everything going on with Emily, Harper knew this would be a much harder pregnancy. Thinking it over, she picked up a shirt on her way back with Amelia that said 'big sister', taking it from Spencer's idea to propose to her with a onesie on her godson. And made her way back home to dress Amelia in her new shirt.
Amelia and Harper waited until Spencer got back from work, "How are you feeling?" Spencer asks after setting his back down and kissing Harper.
"I'm feeling better. Dinner is almost ready, could you go grab Amelia for me?" Harper asks making everything seem normal.
"Sure thing" Spencer says walking off to get their daughter from her play pen which was in eyesight. Harper waited with pregnancy test and sonogram picture in hand while she waited for Spencer to read the shirt.
"Hi pumpkin, how's daddy's girl?" Spencer asks walking over to Amelia. Amelia smiled up at him, reaching for him and making some baby noises and that's when he noticed the bold lettering on her shirt.
"You're not a big sister" Spencer says before turning to see Harper holding up the objects.
His eyes go wide after recognizing what Harper held in her hands, "You...you're pregnant?" Spencer asks his voice unsure.
"Yes" Harper says, tears instantly forming in her eyes. Spencer walks over and hugs her, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her again.
"How far along are you?" Spencer asks.
" Around 5 weeks, the doctor says. I'm due in February or March" Harper says as Spencer wipes away her stray tears.
"That means Amelia and the baby will be 14 months apart" Spencer says pausing to think.
"Yes" Harper says thinking how close the two would be in age. Spencer keeps asking the normal questions and knows that coffee is out of the question for the next 3 months because of Harper's pregnancy with Amelia.
"How are we going to tell the team?" Spencer asks.
"I was thinking with the t-shirt. Makes it easy to have a cutie like Amelia tell them but I was thinking telling them closer to August" Harper says as Spencer goes and picks up Amelia, who is thrilled her dad is home.
"I can't believe we're going to be parents again." Spencer says.
"Me either. Do you think we're ready?" Harper asks as they head to the kitchen.
"Yes" Spencer says placing a small kiss on Amelia's cheek before gives Harper another hug.
Later that week...
The group of 5 chat as they walk out of the movie theatre.
"It wasn't necessary. There's to much blood and gore. Ewww" Garcia says.
"Garcia it's a slasher film, how do you do a slasher film without violence?" Spencer ask walking with Harper, hand in hand. Harper couldn't help but laugh at Penny.
"You imply it" Garcia says moving her arms about.
"Baby girl, the movie is called Slasher 6. What were you expecting?" Morgan asks.
"A refreshing beverage with a twist of comedy. I'm going to have nightmares a week" Garcia says walking between Harper and Derek.
"Everything we see and do on a daily basis and that got to you?" Ashley asks from the other side of Spencer.
"Listen nub, you may be all Sigourney Weaver, ass kicking tough. Which is awesome but the mystical maidens of innocent, like myself, jump at things that go bump in the night" Garcia says.
"Why are you worried, I'm sure that Morgan will protect you as long as he's not jumping out of his chair like a prepubescent school girl" Spencer says, causing everyone to laugh.
"The only reason I jumped is because you guys woke me up" Morgan says.
"How could you sleep during that?" Garcia asks.
"Easy. You dragged me out after 12 hour work day, for what? You can't tell me that girl didn't know that the UNSUB wasn't waiting for her upstairs? Come on" Morgan says.
"Villain" Spencer says.
"What?" Morgan asks.
"In movies the UNSUB is referred to as a villain" Spencer says.
"My bad. Are you going to let them tease me like this Harper?" Morgan asks the girl next to Spencer.
"Yes" Harper says hiding a yawn behind her hand.
"See even your wife, pretty boy, was falling asleep during the movie" Morgan says.
"How?" Garcia asks turning to look at the women with raven waves.
"Like Derek said, it was a long work day and its something I'm used to seeing. Don't get me wrong, I like my horror movies but a there were so many things wrong with them" Harper says not adding that her new morning sickness was the cause of some of her exhaustion.
Spencer nods and kisses his wife on the cheek, "She could tell you everything that was wrong with just the way the killer stabbed the victim" Spencer says.
"Really?" Ashley asks shocked.
"Yes. I impressed Spencer on our 4th date when we watched a few horror movies at his place" Harper says.
Spencer felt Harper stiffen, "What's wrong?" Spencer asks.
"I'm ok. Promise" Harper says smiling at Spencer, trying to hide her nauseous stomach. She had managed to keep the smell of popcorn from making her puke but nachos was another story.
He looks at her but nods, "Ok. Well let's get home and get Amelia in bed" Spencer says.
"If my grandmother hasn't already" Harper says.
"Isn't that little girl going to be 9 months old soon?" Morgan asks knowing the two were talking about Amelia.
"Yes, next week" Spencer says grinning ear to ear at the news they had yet to tell the rest of the team.
"Don't remind me" Harper says, not believing that time was passing so quickly or that she was pregnant again.
"I can't wait until her first birthday" Penelope says.
Harper can't help but laugh, "You only want to give her presents and plan the party, which I am more than happy to let you do. Especially for the soon to be one year old that won't remember a thing" Harper says.
"You know it" Penelope says winking at Harper.
Causing her to laugh. Spencer looked at his wife, she had begun to laugh more and talk more about the future without looking sad about what Emily would be missing while she was out of their lives. However, they had agreed that they would wait until closer to August and spring the announcement on the team so that Penelope couldn't throw them a party since Penelope was already planning one giant party for Amelia's birthday and they didn't need to add another to that list.
Though Spencer couldn't feel more happy than he did at this moment. The group continued talking before they all went their separate ways. Saying their goodnights to each other before being called in for a case the next day.
They returned to work the next day, Ashely, Spencer, Rossi, and Garcia all walked with Harper as Spencer explained the horror movie to Rossi.
"Speaking of horror" Rossi says seeing Strauss in Hotch's office.
"What is Strauss doing here?" Spencer asks.
"Whatever it is I cast my vote on not good" Garcia says.
"Seconded" Harper says. The team walks towards the round room. Everyone takes their seats in their usual spots when Hotch walks in.
"Let's get started" Hotch says.
The team heads to San Diego. Once they arrive in San Diego, Morgan and Spencer to the latest crime scene, Rossi and Hotch went to the medical examiner and Harper went with Ashley to interview the roommate. Once everyone returned to the station, Morgan turned to look at Harper who, Spencer had gone to sit next to.
"Hey Harper how old were you when you went to college?" Morgan asks.
"14" Harper says like it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Wait, really?" Morgan asks surprised.
"Yeah, I got accepted just before my 14th birthday and went the following fall" Harper says.
"So you couldn't drive either" Morgan says smirking at Spencer.
"I told you Morgan, I rode a bike because the government wouldn't issue me a license" Spencer says.
"What about you Harper?" Morgan asks.
"My grandmother was the Senator, I was driven to class everyday by some of the people who worked for her for security reasons" Harper says sighing at the memory.
"You are both so odd" Morgan says looking at the two of them.
Harper nodded, "Its why we're perfect for each other" Harper says, kissing Spencer on the cheek and getting back to work.
Once the team figures out that their UNSUB is going after certain victim type, they give their profile. Ashely looks over at Harper while they are discussing the UNSUBs profile, noticing her distance. Ashley gets Spencer's attention and motions to Harper. Spencer nods, and gives his thanks.
"He's stalking his victims, maybe because they represent something to our UNSUB" Harper says.
"Most likely locating them through the means of internet" Hotch says and continues with their discussion of how the UNSUB finds his potential victims. Harper has flashbacks to Hank, causing Harper to shutter. Once they finish, Ashley and Spencer walk over to Harper.
"Harper are you alright?" Spencer asks after the team gives the profile, noticing she had turned pale.
"Just having some unpleasant memories brought up by this case" Harper says a hand going to her belly but it goes unnoticed by everyone.
"Hank?" Spencer asks sitting next to Harper.
"Yeah. You'd think I'd be a little used to it by now. Its been nearly 6 years since this all started" Harper says shuttering. Spencer takes hold of Harper's hand and kisses it.
"It'll be ok. You're probably going to be out best insight into this case" Spencer says.
"Who's Hank?" Ashley asks.
Harper glances at her and takes a deep breathe, "A person I thought of as a friend who turned out to be a killer and my stalker before I meet the BAU. It's a long story" Harper says.
"Sounds like it" Ashely says looking between the couple.
She could tell there was more to the story and felt like its how the two originally met but didn't ask any further questions. Once they caught the man, thanks to Ashley, they saved his stepmother from meeting the faith of his other victims. Harper and Spencer returned home to relieve her grandmother and tuck Amelia into be.
"She's gotten so big" Harper says watching Amelia sleep.
"Yep, time flies" Spencer says standing next to her. Harper couldn't help but smile at the family she had and all thanks to Hank Torres, she knew that ghost may never rest but she was at least a little thankful for what she went through to make it to this moment.
A month later...
Harper and Spencer had begun getting Amelia used to the idea of a new baby in the house, but were glad she couldn't make complete sentences or they both knew the entire team would know about their newest addition. Though the team had been given the news that Strauss had left temporarily and place Hotch in charge until her return.
Though shortly after that news, Hotch had asked Harper to continue coming back on full time with the team and then they next case came. And with that time around the team it got harder to hide her morning sickness. A few close calls but so far, no one else knew about it. Especially Rossi and Penelope, she loved the BAU family she had but she swore Penelope was asking about things as if she knew about the pregnancy.
Brushing it off since she was only two months along, Harper focused on the newest case. The team ended up in Jacksonville with 9 adult bodies, all skeletonized, and Harper in over her head even with the forensic team sent to help her and Spencer. Hotch calls the entire team together and they meet on the plane, and debrief quickly. The team arrives only hours after the first body is discovered. Harper immediately gets to work, leaving Spencer to do his own work.
"Based on the parasites, the UNSUB killed as recently as a month ago. Which means he's still active" Spencer says to Hotch as he comes into the tent where Spencer is analyzing the sea water and Harper to trying to put together the skeletons.
"How were you able to establish a timeline so quickly?" Hotch asks.
"By reverse engineering Mother Nature. Each year a pile of sand and sediment cover up the remains making up layers on the ocean floor." Spencer says.
"That makes sense. The deeper the pump dug, the older the remains" Hotch says glancing over at Harper who was analyzing a skull.
"9 victims in 9 years means he has control of his urges" Spencer says.
"Any sense in the victimology?" Hotch asks mainly to Harper.
"Only that he likes variety. Pelvic width, tells us that he's killed both mean and women. And due to certain features on the skull, we can tell that he's crossed racial lines but won't be certain of that since the skeleton can't tell exact ethnicity" Harper says.
When a man comes in, "Agent Hotchner, excuse me. We've found three more remains" the man says and leaves.
Hotch turns to Spencer, "If he's been dumping this long, its not just out of convenience but there has to be an emotional tie as well" Hotch says.
"He'll change his MO because he has to but he won't be happy about it" Spencer says.
"And then he'll have the entire Atlantic to choose from" Hotch says. The team continues investigating while Harper and Spencer work with the forensics team.
Later that day, Hotch catches up with the investigation and goes to check in on Harper and Spencer.
"You nail down the victimology yet?" Hotch comes in.
"No but I've found a unique evolution actually. The earliest victims appear to be high risk. These lesions are consistent to syphilis's, most likely a prostitute. This one had severally ground and missing teeth, commonly seen in methamphetamine abuse. And then all of a sudden out of no where you see healthier and strong victims all the way to number 12" Spencer says.
"Lower risk, harder for him to hunt. What do we know about the first victim?" Hotch asks.
"That one's tough, he or she as been in the water so long that there are only bone fragments are left. I can attempt to reconstruct" Spencer says.
"You have 3 hours" Hotch says pulling out his phone.
"I can do it in 2" Spencer says.
Hotch looks up from his phone, "Make that 1, pull Harper in if you need her. Otherwise let her keep working on the other remains" Hotch says leaving as Spencer grabs all the bones.
Hours passed and Harper sat out in one of the tents after finishing yet another set of remains, she makes sure everything is photographed and set off the labs for DNA testing. When Hotch checks on her progress before going to talk with Spencer.
"On this first victim, the more I work on this skeleton, the more I question its completion. The ocean floor preserved the other remains well, I think something else caused this" Spencer says.
"Could it just be the age of these bones compared to the others?" Hotch asks.
"Well you see these bones are significantly older. And the arthritis in his bones, puts him in his late 50s. But that doesn't account for this degree of break down. In fact, nothing in the ocean would" Spencer says.
"The UNSUB is responsible. Maybe he didn't disarticulate this victim, but instead tore him apart" Hotch says.
"And look at this. This bone is has a defensive wound in it, like he held it up before the blow came down. I think the bone smashing occurred while the victim was still alive" Spencer says.
"Overkill" Hotch says.
"He worked out a lot of aggression on this victim but he didn't do that with the others. This would indicated a personal relationship with this particular victim" Spencer says.
"Father?" Hotch asks.
"That would be my guess and not a good one based on the low calcium levels consistent with alcoholism" Spencer says.
"Once you're done here met us back at the police station" Hotch says.
"What about Harper?" Spencer asks knowing his wife's morning sickness was terrible all day but some how had managed to hide it from the BAU. Some forensic techs had been sworn to secrecy but they congratulated the couple on their baby.
"Let her and the recovery teams finish their work and then she'll join us as well" Hotch says leaving to help find the identities of the victims.
At the end of the day, they make potential matches to many of the remains. Hotch notices Spencer returned hours ago but Harper has yet to.
"How is Harper doing?" Hotch asks Spencer as they look at the boards.
"She's going on little to no sleep but she's nearly done with helping extract the DNA from the bones and sending them off for testing. Then she's going to join us here" Spencer says not adding the morning sickness that keep getting to her all day. Just has Spencer said this, Harper walks through the door with her hair up and bags under her eyes.
"Welcome back" Rossi says from the table.
"Hey" Harper says walking over to Spencer and sits in his lap.
"Is everything finished?" Hotch asks ignoring the fact that Harper was using Spencer as a chair.
"All DNA has been collected and sent to the lab, all we need to do now is send samples to be compared to it. Since we've already identified victim #10, the lab knows that this case takes top priority and should be only a few days to get confirmation on the other remains" Harper says.
"Good" Hotch says before turning to the rest of the team.
"Well everyone needs to get some rest. We'll start fresh in the morning" Hotch says.
Harper went to grab something and nearly fell over, "whoa there" Spencer says catching Harper, "You alright?" Spencer asks.
"Yeah, sorry, just tried I guess" Harper says sighing.
"Did Amelia keep you up late last night?" Spencer asks knowing it wasn't only Amelia and had become their code word for their new addition.
"A little, among other things" Harper says.
"Well come on" Spencer says and picks Harper up.
"Spencer, if I remember correctly I told you years ago that I can walk just fine" Harper says.
"And like I told you. No" he says. The team couldn't help but laugh. Spencer carried Harper to the SUV that Rossi drove, taking them back to their hotel. Harper starts to fall asleep in the car as soon as they take off.
"What's got her so tired?" Rossi asks Spencer.
"She stayed up taking care of Amelia last night and after a day like today, she's exhausted" Spencer says as his wife's eyes droop closed. Spencer looked at Rossi, if anyone would figure out their secret first it would be one of the pregnancy watch as Harper called them.
"I see" Rossi says unsure but began pulling into the hotel parking lot.
Spencer gets Harper up to their room for the evening when Harper wakes up.
"Come here" Harper says to Spencer after he tries to change his clothes. Spencer walks over as Harper sits up. When she takes Spencer by surprise and kisses him on the lips. Spencer instinctually leans into the kiss when Harper then runs her hands through his short hair.
When he remembers how tired she is, breaking the kiss, "You need to get some sleep" Spencer says in a husky voice.
"Not yet, not without you" she says pulling off his sweater vest and beginning to unbutton his shirt.
Spencer tries to reason with Harper, especially since she's pregnant, but she keeps ignoring him and finally he gives in. Heating up the kisses and pulling her shirt over her head. When both of them have their clothes removed, Harper manages to push Spencer down onto the bed. Passionately kissing him, they both enjoy an evening together before they both fall fast asleep in each other's arms, exhausted.
During the next few days they identify more victims and eventually find their UNSUB, however. The team's next case involved a human trafficking ring where people would choose different ways to murder those who had been abducted. Harper helped where she could and in the end they busted the trafficking ring and help many potential victims.
Though Ashley had the hardest dealing with the case. Hotch however sent everyone home to get the rest they all deserved after working this case, Hotch leaving before anyone else.
"Any one hungry?" Spencer asks.
"Starving" Ashley says.
"There is this super good Indian restaurant, it's a little ways away but its open 24/7 and they have this amazing chicken tandoori" Spencer says.
"I'm in" Harper says, knowing Spencer only mentioned it because of her cravings. The team files out of the room and leaving. When Rossi walks to his office and notices JJ inside. Closing the door, he walks over.
"You said we needed to talk but at 2 am" Rossi asks.
"I saw the lights were on" JJ says.
"And you couldn't sleep? Which tells me you've given some thought to what we discussed" Rossi says.
JJ nodded, "I haven't stopped thinking about it" JJ says.
"So?" Rossi asks.
"I'm coming back" JJ says.
The next day the team learned that JJ had come back to the BAU.
"That's wonderful. We're going to have to go celebrate" Penelope says.
"Yes I agree" Harper says.
"Hold on guys, we've still got to get through today and then we'll talk about celebrating. On me, as long as my granddaughter comes" Rossi says eyeing Harper and Spencer.
"I'll see what I can do" Harper says laughing, knowing Rossi was suspecting something from the young couple. Harper and Spencer exchanged looks and both knew that Harper was going to have to tell Rossi.
"Dave can I have a minute?" Harper asks as the team starts getting to work.
"Sure thing kid. Come up to my office" Rossi says. Harper follows and closes the door behind them.
"What did you want to talk about?" Rossi asks.
"You know don't you?" Harper asks, not saying anything that might give away incase he didn't know. Though when Harper saw Rossi get the gleam in his eyes, she knew that he had figured it out.
"Know what?" He asks raising an eyebrow, acting innocent.
"You do know" Harper says sighing.
Rossi laughs, "Congratulations on the new addition" Rossi says in Italian and walks over and hugs Rossi.
Harper hugs him back, "You can't tell anyone" Harper says.
"Why?" Rossi asks.
"Spencer and I don't want Penny to know since she's already planning Amelia's birthday party so we're going to tell everyone in August just before I start to show" Harper says.
"Oh ok. But I'm the first to figure it out?" Rossi asks, excited.
"Yes" Harper says laughing as he celebrates.
"Does Emily know?" Rossi asks.
Harper shakes her head, "I'm waiting to tell her until the next time she calls but I have no idea when that will even be" Harper says.
"Tell me everything" Rossi says. Harper tells Rossi everything she knows and knows the older man is happy, much like Harper knew Emily would be too if she was there.
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