Title: Feels Like Home
Author: Trista Groulx aka dustytiger
Rating: T same as 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: Okay so yes, this will be a 55 part fic, so we're in the home stretch. Thank you for all the support guys it means the world to me. Abby goes back to work. Perhaps not realistic but whatever this is fic.


It had been two weeks since Artemis was born, and Abby was ready and cleared to go back to work. She still didn't know how Gibbs had gotten Vance or anyone else to agree to this, but she was happy she had. She wanted the chance to bond with her daughter but couldn't accept someone being in her lab for months. When she got in the lab she smiled, everything was how she'd left it. She looked down at Artemis who was staring up at her, her hand in her mouth.

"Hi sweet girl," she whispered. "Do you wanna see mommy's lab?"

She began to show Artemis everything in her lab, telling her what each machine did. Her eyes began to get droopy so she put her back in the sling she'd found, and put her soother in her mouth, trying to stop her from sucking on her hands. She heard the elevator bing and turned around to see who was there. Gibbs was with someone she'd never seen before.

"Hey Gibbs! What have you got for me?" she asked.

"Bullet fragments," he told her. "This is Carrie Hill, she usually works as an agent afloat."

She nodded smiling at the new agent. "My favourite! Anything to test fire against?"

"Not yet, we need you to tell us where they could have come from."

"On it!"

The two of them left the lab. The agent seemed very surprised to see what she had seen. She was sure she saw something moving in the dark red sling the unique woman had been wearing. She had heard from other agents about the goth forensic scientist who worked at NCIS headquarters but never thought she'd actually meet the woman.

"Did she have a baby in there?" agent Hill asked.

"She's the best forensic scientist we have, and she needs time to bond with her daughter, so we approved letting her have Artemis with her until she's comfortable putting her in daycare."

"Just when I thought I'd seen it all."

"I hear that a lot when it comes to Abby."

She laughed. "I've heard about her, I always thought it was an exaggeration.'

He nodded. "She's real. I forgot something I'll meet you upstairs."

He went back into her lab, glad that her music seemed to be toned down with the baby so close. He was glad they had been able to let her work with her daughter close by. As much as McGee could work the lab he needed him in the field more than he did in the lab. Abby never would have allowed anyone else to work in her lab so this was a perfect solution, even though it was unorthodox.

"I'm good, but even I'm not that good," Abby told him.

He kissed her forehead. "There's another cradle behind your desk if you need it. Garcia made another blanket so it should remind her of being at home."

"Thank you Gibbs. Artemis would thank you too if she knew how."

"Are you all right?" he asked.

"Spencer's on his first case since she was born. I thought I'd miss him less because I wouldn't be going to an empty house anymore. But I'm going to miss watching him with Artemis. He's amazing with her and I hate that he's going to miss parts of her life because of his job while I get to have her here with me for at least the next few months."

"He has other options if he decides it's too hard to leave, but right now you know he loves what he does, and understands the sacrifices it takes. He wouldn't want you to feel guilty he'd want you to focus on that little peanut."

"I know you're right. I guess I just needed to hear it from someone else."

He kissed her forehead. "Let's find whoever is hurting these Marines."

She nodded. "Thank you Gibbs for everything."

He smiled at her and left her lab. She into her office and sure enough there was a cradle there, with a blanket that looked very similar to the one they used at home. She decided not to disturb her daughter, and to lay her down in the cradle as well as let her fall asleep close to her, like they did at home. She began to examine the bullet fragments and then started to search her databases for where it could have come from.

Notes: So there we go! I hope you liked it let me know heart and hugz all