Who Knew, Huh?
Chapter Thirty Six (36): Bloodline
Spencer woke up panting heavily, his eyes wide with fear, and he was dripping with sweat. Only second later after waking up like this, he looked to his right and saw that Emily was fast asleep. He leaned against her, his chest meeting her back and wrapped his arms around her. This of course stirred her up, but she thought of nothing of it, before she felt her back slightly getting wet.
"Spencer?" she asked with sleep in her voice.
"I'm fine"
"No you're not" she said as she turned to face him and saw that he was dripping with sweat, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing just a nightmare" he told her, before he let his head fall onto his pillow.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I don't even remember it" he lied and she saw it.
"Sp-" then the sounds of three babies crying in the monitor was heard, "Be right back" she told him as she got up and made her way into the triplets room, "What's wrong you three?" and just like that all three of them stopped crying, making Emily laugh, "Attention hogs" she told them while making sure that they were alright.
"Are they okay?" Spencer asked, wearing only his black boxers.
"Yeah they just wanted some attention" she told him, with a soft smiled on her face, "What time is it?"
"Almost five, so I have time to help out if you want"
"Well I'm pretty sure that they want to spend some time with their father before he runs off to his second wife, also known as BAU" she teased him, while holding Matthew who laughed out for no apparent reason.
"Oh really now?" he said while smirking at her, before taking Matthew in his arms and kissing Emily sweetly on the lips, "Morning to you too honey" he chuckled.
"Come on Aria" Emily held her now, before staying close to William, who was whining, "Believe me when I say that I'd pick you up right now sweetie but mommy can only hold one baby at a time"
"Honey he doesn't understand you" Spencer told her, in a matter of fact voice.
"They know I'm their mother and that I love them, hence why they stopped crying when I talked to them"
"They know your voice and smell"
"My, my aren't we Dr. Brainiac this morning" she stated in a teasing way, making him chuckle.
"Mommy?" Cassie asked, while walking quietly towards her brothers and sister's room, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"Hey baby girl, did we wake you up", the little girl nodded, "I'm sorry, we woke you up"
"Ale awake too but he won't come out of his room" Cassie stated.
"Alessandro, it's okay to come out" Spencer said, and just after speaking those words Alessandro walked out and made his way to his father and hugged his legs, "Morning Ale"
"Hi daddy" the little boy spoke while grinning up at his dad, before going to his mother and doing the same thing, "Hi Mommy"
"Hi sweetie, I'm sorry we woke you and Cassandra" Emily said while stroking her son's head.
The rest of the early morning was interesting, especially after the kids ate. They were all over Spencer, both trying to pin him onto the floor and tickle him silly to playing ambush daddy when he's not looking. Emily just shook her head, when she saw her husband playing with their two eldest children, while she bottle fed the triplets. She had fed William first, then Aria and now was halfway through feeding Matthew.
"Spencer, it's almost six"
"Awww" both Cassie and Ale knew that it meant that their dad had to leave for work.
"What do you mean 'aww' you're coming with me to the daycare, okay?"
"YAY!" both cheered up before tackling their father again, this made Emily laugh and think back to when she was carrying Cassie and Spencer told her about his fear of children and the whole Reid-effect. Things had certainly changed since then and she was glad that his Reid-effect disappeared, because he turned out to be a wonderful father and an even better man. That was something Emily never thought was possible, because he was already a great man and that it was impossible to be even greater, but she was wrong and was glad to be.
"Come on and get your bags you two" she told her kids, while gently patting Matthew's back until he burped, "There that's a good boy" she told him softly before setting him in a bouncy chair that she knew he loved.
The kids grabbed their bags, and waited patiently for their father at the front door. Spencer grabbed his messenger bag and go bag, before walking over to Emily and kissed her deeply.
"Love you"
"Love you too, Spencer and we'll talk later?" she hadn't forgotten about this morning in bed, and he knew there was no way to get away from her stubbornness.
"Yes dear" he told her in defeat, and she smacked his butt playfully, "See you later"
"You jinxed it" she told him.
"I'll call you if I did jinxed it" he smirked at her while heading out with the kids, "And JJ's stopping by to help out!" he told her before closing the door so that she couldn't argue about it.
"You're daddy's silly, but that's why I love him" she told the triplets who had their pacifier in their mouths. Aria had a pick one, that Garcia got her of course. Matthew had a dark blue one that Hotch had given him. And finally William had a special Chicago Cubs pacifier that Rossi had given him. Emily knew that JJ had successfully turned Cassie in a Redskins fan, so the clash of which sport was cooler.
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"Hey kid, something's bothering you?" Morgan asked Reid who wasn't making a lot of progress in his work at the moment which was a clear sign of something bothering him.
"Not here" he told him best friend as he stood up and made his way to the break room to refill his third cup of coffee.
"Alright so talk to me, kid"
"I've been having dreams lately... nightmares actually"
"Is it about the job?" Morgan asked, knowing that a couple of years ago, Reid had those kind of nightmares but had subsided after Reid and Emily got together.
"No..."
"Come on, you know you can tell me anything"
"We arrive at the hospital, 'cause Emily's giving birth to the triplets..."
"Yeah..."
"Then when JJ tells me which room she's in, I run down the hall... I find the room and when I get inside, there's Cyrus watching and even holding one of my babies... and when I look to Emily, she's dead and her eyes are looking right at me..." he couldn't continue afterward.
"Have you talked to Emily?" he asked him.
"No... I couldn't"
Before Morgan could say anything else, Jordan came in, "Guys get your go bags and head for the Jet, we have a 10 year old girl that's been taken in a home invasion, parents were murdered in their sleep"
"How long as she been missing for?" Morgan immediately asked as he left the break room.
"Eight hours"
"I'll get my bag and call emily to let her know that I won't be for a while" Reid said as he went to his desk and dialled at home.
"Hey, you have a case" she told him.
"Yeah, an 10 real old was taken from her home, and has been missing for eight hours now"
"Alright be careful, baby"
"Hey are you talking to Em?" Garcia asked, he nodded, "Tell her I'll drive the munchkins back home"
"Emily, Garcia just told me to tell you that she's driving the kids back home when she can alright?"
"Alright, love you"
"Is that to Garcia or to me?"
"You, Dr. Brainiac" she laughed.
"I love you too" he said before hanging up and meeting Morgan at the elevator, "Thanks Garcia"
"Anytime my love!"
"Hey!" they heard Morgan exclaim just as the doors of the elevator closed, making Garcia laugh.
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"Do you have any kids?" Mr. Shern asked Dr. Reid.
"Five" this caused Mr. Shern eye's to widen in shock.
"How old are you?"
"27, almost 28"
"Do you sometimes feel like a failure to them?"
"Every time an UnSub... killer... gets away"
"Does that happen a lot?"
"We catch them but..."
"It takes a while" he finished Dr. Reid's sentence.
"Yeah, it does"
"I'm going to do whatever it takes to make sure that nothing like this happens to my daughter again" he said before walking off to get more water.
~How are you and the kids doing? SR~
Minutes later his phone vibrated and looked to see the text he had gotten, knowing that it was from Emily.
~They're all napping, and I'm exhausted. Did you find her? ER~
~We did, I gave her a cognitive interview, and we're now trying to find any RV or trailer parks near where they dumped her SR~
~Wait they dumped her alive? That's weird ER~
~Yeah it is. Listen I have to go, so that u can rest okay. Love you SR~
~I will thank u :P ;) lol and I love you too ER~
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The team took the rest of the night off, so that they could hit the ground running the next day, while being well rested. Rossi and Hotch were sharing a room, while Jordan and a room to herself, which left Reid and Morgan to share the last room together.
Feeling someone shaking him roughly, Spencer opened his eyes and sat up, but a little too quick, because the next thing he knew, Reid had a big headache.
"OW! Reid man!" Morgan whined, while rubbing his forehead, "Damn, you head's hard" then a knock came from a near by wall, "Guys that sounded wrong!" said the voice of Jordan, making Morgan laugh out.
"In your dreams Jordan" he laughed out, before turning his attention back to Reid, "You okay man? You were crying out Emily's name, and it wasn't to good kind, especially when you sweat like that"
"First of all, get your head out of the gutters, and secondly, I that's how Emily knows that I had a nightmare and it's the same for me, especially when I forget them for a little while"
"Was it the same one you told me int he break room back in Quantico?"
"...Yeah it was"
"Does Emily know?"
"She knows I've been having nightmares every night but she doesn't know about what's happening..."
"Are you going to tell her?" he asked with concern in his voice.
"...Yeah, because she's not going to drop it and she can withhold me from any intercourse activities for a longer period of time"
"Huh?"
"Sex, he's talking about sex!" Jordan shouted at them.
"Jordan, why are you yelling the word sex in the middle of the night for?" Rossi yelled from his room, that Jordan and the guys heard.
"Oh for Pete's sake!" Jordan cried out in frustration.
This got Morgan and Reid to laugh out.
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Hours later, after the Jet landed back in Quantico, after Spencer worked for a little while to get some of his reports out of his way for tomorrow, he grabbed his things and then went to the elevator and saw Jordan waiting for it.
"You're heading back to Counter-terrorism?"
"Yeah, this turned out to be too much for me and JJ couldn't wait to start up again"
"You are going to be missed you know"
"Thank you Dr. Reid"
"Spencer" he told her, while smiling softly at her, before they both entered the elevator and made their way down.
After the twenty five minutes drive, Spencer parked the Lexus in the driveway, got out of the car and slowly made his way up the five steps onto the porch and unlocked the door before entering his home.
The only light on was a very dim light upstairs. He put his go bag in the laundry room, his messenger bag in the closet near his coat, removed his shoes, and untie his tie as he made his way up. Spencer couldn't help but peek in Cassie's room and saw that she was fast asleep, with her little mermaid night light on. He did the same with Alessandro and saw his Aladdin night light was on as well. And then peeked in the triplets room and was glad to see that they were fast asleep.
He entered his room and saw his wife fast asleep with an opened book on her chest, which only brought a smile to his face. After stripping to his purple boxers, and put his contact lenses in their little jars to soak, Spencer slid into his side of the bed, save the page Emily was on and placed it on her nightstand. Just then she turned towards him and wrapped her arms around him, and pulled him close to her.
"Hey" she muttered, her voice dripping with sleep.
"Hey" he said before placing a kiss on the top of her head.
"How are you feeling?" she asked him, while snuggling into his chest.
"Exhausted, didn't sleep well"
"How come?"
"... I've been having nightmares every time I would fall asleep" Emily then opened her eyes and looked at him.
"What are they about?" she asked him.
"I get to the hospital and in the delivery room just to see Cyrus around our kids, and you were dead, but your eyes... it was like you were staring right at me with accusing eyes. Like it was my fault"
"Shhh" she pulled herself up, just enough so that she was now facing him, "Hey it wasn't your fault what happened that day at the hospital or on that stupid liberty ranch"
"I got you pregnant"
"Well it takes two to tango honey"
"I'm not talking about dancing"
"...I'm not going to reply to that because you're in pain" she saw that he was going to reply, so she cut him off, "Emotional pain, Spencer. We both knew this was a high risk pregnancy and I thought it was safe to do desk duty, and I was wrong" she told him, "And for Cyrus I told you that it was my decision, because I didn't want you to get killed or beat up like what Tobias put you through. He would have killed you honey and we both know it"
"Yes, but what he put you through... again"
"I know but I'm not sorry. Okay? So don't feel guilty for either of these issues because we have three beautiful babies, that are still sleeping thank god, and I wouldn't trade them for the world, even it would have meant not going through that sort of pain and almost not making it" she then kissed him, before hugging him tightly and he returned it. She knew that he would now change the subject, and she was right.
"Did JJ tell you that she was coming back?"
"Are you kidding me? I thought she was going to do a backflip on our porch, when she talked to Jordan" she joked, which made him laugh.