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A/N: shout out to fishtrek, criminalmindsrocks, and AmberSawyers95 for reviewing chapter 24.
Writer's block sucks
This chapter starts three weeks after the last chapter. So Emily is 25-weeks pregnant at the beginning of this extremely action-packed chapter.
Spencer and Emily woke up to Declan wiggling himself between then.
"Happy Thanksgiving, Mommy. Happy Thanksgiving, daddy," said Declan before kissing his foster mother's baby bump, "Happy Thanksgiving Serilda, Kalina, and Xander."
Emily groaned as she felt her triplets kick, "Declan, you woke up your siblings."
"The babies were sleeping?" asked Declan.
Emily looked at the alarm clock by her nightstand, "They haven't kicked or moved around for over six hours."
Spencer who had already slipped on his glasses looked at his wife, "Need help getting out of bed to use the bathroom?" asked Spencer.
"Yes, please," said Emily.
A few seconds later Spencer helped his 25-week pregnant wife get out of bed.
Diana who was stirring pudding for desert looked at Ambassador Prentiss as they, Spencer, Emily, Declan, and William worked on preparing a Thanksgiving meal together, "As a U.S. Ambassador, don't you usually have chefs who usually prepare Thanksgiving meals when you're here?" asked Diana.
Ambassador Prentiss nodded, "I do, but this year I thought that we could all work together on preparing a meal together."
Diana looked at her daughter-in-law who was sitting on a stool chopping carrots, "Have you stopped flying yet?" asked Diana.
Emily nodded as she covered Declan's ears, "After the two cases Spencer and I worked last week, my doctor ordered me to stop traveling for work."
Diana thought back to going out to eat with William, her son, daughter-in-law, and Declan when her son got the call about Garcia being shot, "Is Penelope OK?" asked Diana.
"She's recovering," said Spencer before smirking a bit, "One thing I'm glad about is after what happened last week, she and Derek finally admitted their feelings for each other after the laugh that I had when Emily was 18-weeks."
"What did you laugh about?" asked Diana.
Spencer covered Declan's ears, "My former section chief decided to call Penelope and connected the phone to speakerphone right before Penelope answered 'Talk dirty to me'. JJ and I were able to contain our laughter while Derek face-palmed."
A laughing Emily looked at her husband, "That was before Aaron and I showed up?" asked Emily.
Spencer nodded, "Yes."
A laughing Emily smiled as she rubbed her baby bump, "This pregnancy I would have peed my pants if I was in that room when Penelope said that," said Emily before groaning, "Excuse me, but Serilda, Kalina, and Xander are messing with my bladder."
Spencer quickly helped his wife get off the stool before he helped her walk to the bathroom.
Ambassador Prentiss looked at her son-in-law who was going to be in charge of carving the turkey, "You can say what you're thankful for last before you carve the turkey and fix your plate first," said Ambassador Prentiss.
"OK," said Spencer.
"I'll go first," said Ambassador Prentiss, "I'm thankful that my only child finally got married to a man that I'm proud to call son-in-law and that I'll be a grandmother to four children."
Diana raised her glass of sparkling cider, "I agree about being thankful for my only child getting married to a woman I'm proud to call my daughter-in-law and that I'll be a grandmother to four children."
William looked at his family, "I'm thankful that my ex-wife and son were willing to give me a second chance after I abandoned them for 15 years while I'm going to be a grandfather to four children who are or will be smart and intelligent as their parents."
Declan grinned at everyone around the table, "I'm thankful that Spencer and Emily will be my mommy and daddy on December 21st while I'm going to become a big brother to Serilda, Kalina, and Xander.
Emily smiled, "I'm thankful that I'm working my dream job while I finally found someone to fall in love with and help me follow my dreams of becoming a mother."
Spencer took a breath, "After the year I just had, I'm thankful to be alive while I now have the family I always wanted," said Spencer before looking at Emily, "If it wasn't for you, I don't know where I would be right now, so I'm thankful that I met you."
"Me too," said Emily before she kissed her husband.
"Ewww," giggled Declan causing everyone to laugh.
A few seconds later Spencer was cutting the turkey before everyone started to eat their Thanksgiving dinner.
Four weeks later on December 21st of 2007; family court judge Judge Beverly Klein banged her gavel as she looked at everyone who came to support the adoption hearing of Declan Jones after Spencer and Emily answered her questions to her liking and Declan stated that he wants to have Spencer and Emily be his parents while he wants to be a big brother to Serilda, Kalina, and Xander looked at everyone in the court room, "I now pronounced Declan Jones as Declan Spencer Reid."
Spencer was lifting up Declan so he and a 29-week pregnant Emily could kiss their newly adopted son Declan Spencer Reid while his teammates, his mother-in-law, his parents, and his Aunt Ethel, uncle Gordon, and his cousins who came out to D.C. for the adopting hearing and Christmas cheer.
Declan who was wearing a suit that looked just like his father beamed at his new parents, "I love you, mommy. I love you, daddy."
"I love you, Declan," said Spencer.
"I love you, Declan," said Emily.
Six days later Spencer and a 31-week pregnant Emily were gathered in the living room waiting to watch the ball drop when Spencer looked at his wife who was happy to be spending her time on bed rest in the living room, "Are you OK, Emily?" asked Spencer.
Emily nodded as she rubbed her very swollen baby bump, "I just can't wait for Serilda, Kalina, and Xander to be born since I feel like that I'm carrying a 10-pound bowling ball in my uterus."
Spencer looked towards Declan who was asleep on the chair, "We should probably wake up Declan so he can watch the ball drop soon."
"We should," said Emily before she felt a few kicks that caused her to groan in pain.
William who was sitting in a nearby armchair looked at her daughter-in-law, "Are you OK?" asked William.
Emily looked at her husband, "We better get to the hospital for an emergency C-section now since my water just broke."
Spencer's eyes went wide, "Let's get going."
A few seconds later Spencer and William were helping Emily into the SUV that Spencer and Emily bought together before Spencer drove Emily and himself to the hospital.
30 minutes later Spencer who was wearing scrubs was sitting on a stool as he held Emily's hand as they held eye contact until Dr. McGuire and a few NICU doctors and midwives who were part of the triplets' delivery team got Emily cut open and started removing Serilda, Kalina, and Xander.
After Emily was closed up and taken to her private hospital room, Spencer entered his wife's hospital room with a smile on his face when he saw that his wife was awake from the hysterectomy she had after Serilda, Kalina, and Xander were delivered.
"How are Serilda, Kalina, and Xander doing?" asked Emily tiredly.
"Even though all three babies are in their incubators in the NICU until they're eating on their own and are at an ideal birth weight, Baby Girl Reid A was born on December 31st at 11:59:55 PM. Xander looks just like me while he was born today at 12:00:05 AM. Baby Girl Reid B looks like you and was born today at 12:00:30 AM. All three babies are exactly three and a half pounds, their hearts are working perfectly, their lungs are working fine, and they have full heads of hair," said Spencer.
"That's good and hopefully they can leave the NICU as soon as they're at a good weight," said Emily before grinning, "I like the idea of one of our daughters not sharing her birthday with her siblings while Xander gets a college scholarship if he ended up being the first baby born in 2008 here," said Emily.
"Me too," said Spencer before grinning, "Xander ended up being the first baby of 2008 born here, but the hospital decided that all three babies will get college scholarships because of their births being seconds apart while we're going to be getting a year's worth supply of diapers for the triplets."
"Nice," said Emily before thinking about her triplets that she briefly saw before they were placed in incubators to help them survive, "Did you get to take any pictures of Serilda, Kalina, and Xander while the placentas were getting removed and I was getting closed up?" asked Emily.
Spencer nodded as he pulled out his phone, "Aside from being allowed to hold each triplet for a minute as long as I wore a protective gown over my clothes, gloves, and a mask so Serilda, Kalina, and Xander can know that I'm their daddy; I took pictures of Serilda, Kalina, and Xander so you can see them and the NICU needs to know which girl has which name."
"Please let me see them since I have to wait with going to the NICU," said Emily.
A minute later Emily was releasing tears at the pictures of her triplets who had multiple tubes attached to them to help them eat before looking at Baby Reid A who looked so much like her father, "Baby Girl Reid A looks like a Serilda Elizabeth Reid to me."
Spencer nodded, "I was thinking about our female mini-me looking like a Serilda too."
"Then my mini-me will be Kalina Diana Reid since she looks like a Kalina," said Emily before smiling at the picture of her baby boy who was wearing a too big onesie that said I'M GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL'S FIRST NEW YEAR BABY!, "Xander looks so much like you and I love that onesie he's wearing."
Spencer chuckled, "The nurses in the NICU insisted that Xander wears that onesie when it was announced that Xander was the first baby born in 2008 in this hospital."
"Either way, I can't wait to eventually tell Serilda that her birthday is on December 31st while Kalina and Xander were born on January 1st," said Emily.
Emily yawned, "I should probably get some sleep because as soon as the spinal block wears off the nurses will get me walking around."
Spencer pointed at the armchair, "I'll sleep right there," said Spencer before kissing Emily on the lips, "Even though we kept an eye on the clock and kissed at midnight, Happy New Year, Emily."
"Happy New Year, Spencer," said Emily.
A/N: As much as I'm sad to say this, but the next chapter will be the epilogue since stories have to come to an end at some point.