"O-M-G – You were both amazing!" Tovah was talking with the two girls as they stood in the lobby waiting for their group's results to be posted.
"You both deserve new dresses after that!" Penelope exclaimed as she rushed across the lobby in a flurry of color and sparkles to envelope them both. "You were great!"
"You must be Aunt Penelope," Tovah guessed.
"And you must be the super duper coach I have been hearing all about," Garcia returned with a smile. "Penelope Garcia," she introduced herself.
"Tovah Meyers," Tovah replied. "And, I honestly wish I had known you when I was competing. These dresses are beautiful!"
"She does do beautiful work," Joan agreed as she and the rest of the group joined them.
"You both looked great!" she praised the girls.
"And, this is my Uncle Spencer!" Paige announced with a flourish as she tackled Reid, wrapping her arms around him. "He's the one who knows how to spin. And you should see what he is working on for my jumps!"
"Uncle Spencer?" Tovah smiled at Reid, who was staring at her open-mouthed.
"Uncle Spencer!" Paige nudged him. "Tell her about your spins."
"Um – m – m - m," Spencer stuttered as he stared at the attractive young coach with her dark hair and eyes.
"Tovah is a Hebrew name meaning 'Good'," he managed to choke out. "It also is the feminized version of Thor in Norse mythology."
"It was my grandmother's name," Tovah told him.
"Paige tells me you have several degrees," Tovah tried again. "I would guess that one of them is in kinesiology?"
"Not yet," Reid told her. "But, I will have one – "
"You are working on it?" Tovah asked.
"S – s -soon," Reid was still stuttering and staring.
"What the heck?" Morgan whispered to JJ with a smile. "It appears that our genius is finally tongue-tied."
"It probably has to do with that one degree that he doesn't have yet," Blake was trying hard not to smile.
"He'll have it by tomorrow," Rossi prophesized.
"The day after at the latest," Hotch smirked.
"Reid?" Laurel spoke up. "Spencer?"
She waved her hand in front of his face. "Why don't you and Tovah go visit that coffee shop down the street? She likes coffee almost as much as you do."
"You'll have to drive," she told the coach. "I think Reid car-pooled with JJ coming over here."
"Coffee?" Reid said thoughtfully. "You like coffee?"
"Working in the cold the way I do, it is a necessity," Tovah replied. "I'm driving?" She took out her car keys.
"Just remember," Laurel whispered in Reid's ear. "She has to be back here by 8:00 tomorrow morning. She has some students entered in the Basic Moves competition."
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"You knew that was going to happen!" JJ accused Laurel as they watched the young couple walk out the door and into the parking lot.
"I kind of had a feeling," Laurel admitted as she put her arm around Hotch, pulling him close.
"Maybe you had better dust off that jeweler's name, Dave," Hotch smiled over at his cohort.
"Not quite yet," Blake said thoughtfully. "I imagine Reid has done all kinds of research on what makes a successful marriage."
"He has probably figured out exactly how many months he will need to court her, followed by how long the engagement needs to be," JJ commented.
"And how big the wedding should be," Garcia added.
"And, then, one morning he will wake up and throw it all away," Morgan guessed. "We'll get a phone call from him saying he is in Vegas and they just got married."
"Results are up," Garcia squealed. "They just posted them. They are up! Who wants to go look with me? Morgan, come on, you're tall enough, you can see over the crowd."
A smiling Morgan, followed closely by Garcia, Paige, and Jade, led the way across the lobby.
