Thank you all for your wonderful words and reviews. I am so glad you are enjoying this story. I am having a blast writing it. Dolohov will play a very important part later. One of the reviews I received mentioned the difference between Hermione and Spencer. That is what I love about these two. Even though they are so similar Hermione manages to have a confidence that Spencer has never been able to achieve. Part of that is because Hermione had people surrounding her who were supportive where as Spencer was bullied and had no one. Spencer's confidence is growing thanks to the team but everyone has their moments.
As always I do not own Harry Potter or Criminal Minds.
The next morning Hermione woke up having slept through the rest of the day and night. She jumped in her shower and then got dressed and headed for work.
"Hermione your back!"Emily called over out as she saw Hermione enter the office.
Hermione put her bag at her desk and turned to face her friend. "Yup got in yesterday and then slept until this morning so I should be good to go."
"Hey come on up to the conference room. And catch us all up." Emily said as she started walking towards the stairs indicating Hermione should follow.
Hermione reached in her bag and pulled out several pictures she had taken with a muggle camera and then started to follow the black haired woman,
"Hey everyone look who I found in the pit!" Emily said as she entered the room stepping to the side to reveal Hermione standing behind her.
Hermione smiled as she heard her team call out her name and Penelope cry out "MI my darling!" As she rushed to grab Hermione into a hug.
"Oh I missed you all so much" she said as she sat down in a chair at the table.
"Did you enjoy your vacation kiddo?" David asked with a smile on his face.
"Oh very much. I brought some pictures to show everyone."
"Bust those things out. I want to see you in your bridesmaid dress." Penelope said excitedly.
Hermione put the small stack of photos she had in her hand on the table. She picked up the first picture and turned it around for the team to see. "This is Ginny, the bride Luna, Tonks and myself at a pub in London." She said as she passed the first picture to Penelope. Hermione had used a spell on any picture with Tonks to make sure she had the same hair color in every picture. She did the same thing with Teddy so to the rest of the group those two had brown and blonde hair respectively. She also added another charm to make anyone wearing wizard robes look like they were wearing muggle clothes. It was a tricky piece of magic but professor Flitwick had helped her with it.
"This is the Weasley family." She said pulling out the next photo. "Goring from left to right we have Mr and Mrs Weasley, who were a second set of parents growing up to me as then more when my parents died. Their oldest Bill with his wife Fleur and their daughter Victorie, then Charlie the next oldest, Percy with his wife Audrey and their new baby Molly, then the twins Fred and George and their wives Angelina and Alicia, Ron and Luna and then Harry and Ginny with little James."
"Wow that's a lot of kids. And I thought Henry was a handful" J.J said as the picture reached her.
"7 children plus me and Harry during the summers and other school holidays. But there was never a lack of love in that house." Hermione said "The Weasley's have the biggest hearts of anyone I know. Here is a picture of my godson Teddy with his parents Remus and Tonks."
"Cute kid" Morgan said "So you have 2 Godchildren?"
"Yes I have Teddy and James. Ron is James' godfather and Harry is Teddy's." Hermione looked at the next couple of pictures and smiled. "Here are a few of me dancing at the wedding. I think one of the twins had the camera."
The first picture was of her dancing with Remus while the next two were of her dancing with Harry then Ron. The last one was of all three of them dancing together. It was Hermione's favorite one of the group.
"Hermione you look beautiful in your dress." Emily said as she looked at the pictures.
"Thank you. It took forever to get my hair to go up like that."
The next picture had Hermione wanting to cry from the joy it brought. Ginny had taken this one. It was a picture of Hermione in the Burrow's living room surrounded by the children and James in her arm as she read to them a story. Victorie was holding little Molly and Teddy had hid head in her lap. At the time Hermione did not know this picture had even been taken. She had offered to read the children a story before nap time and Ginny had snuck in the back door and saw them curled up on the floor reading so she took the picture.
Hermione did not say anything as she passed the picture around.
Spencer saw the picture he could tell that Hermione was great with children. He could see it clearly in the pictures and the fact that two separate people had named her godmother to their children. He also saw it when ever Henry or Jack came into the office. He had to wonder if there was a reason Hermione did not have kids of her own yet.
Just then Hotch came into the room.
"Hey Granger glad you are back. I trust you had a good vacation?" He said addressing Hermione.
Hermione stood as she replied. "Yup got back yesterday. And it was lovely thank you for asking. I had a wonderful t I me visiting with my friends."
"That's good. I am sorry to interrupt but J.J and David I need you two to help me go over some things from this last case. I have the paperwork on my desk."
"Sure thing Hotch" J.J said as she stood up and handed the photos back to Hermione. "We have to have our girls lunch again soon. And you can tell us more about England." And she and David walked out the room.
Hermione was busy fixing the photographs and she did not notice Morgan, Penelope, and Emily all slip put of the room leaving her alone with Spencer, or the wink Derek had sent Spencer's way before he left the room.
Spencer took a deep breath before he spoke. "Hermione" he said.
Hermione looked up from her task and noticed they were alone as she turned to Spencer. His face was white as a sheet.
"I wanted to apologize for the way I have been acting these last few months. I know I hhave not been myself."
"It is okay Spencer. I figured you had something on your mind and when you were ready to tell me you would." Hermione said
"Yeah I did but I think I have worked it out now. Anyway I have some classes at Georgetown today that I have to leave for soon and I was wondering if maybe afterwards you would like to go to dinner with me?" Spencer said. He was trying not to hyperventilate as he asked.
Hermione was pleased. "Sure." She said."What time?"
Spencer could almost not believe his ears. She said yes. He thought quickly and said "My last class is ends at 5, so I can pick you up at 6 if that is alright?"
Hermione could barely contain her excitement as she answered. "6 o'clock then."
"Great." Spencer said as he stood and made his way to the door after checking the time. "I should get going if I am going to make it to my class today."
"Good luck" Hermione said as he made his way out the door. Hermione could not believe what had just happened she had a date with Spencer. Then a frightening thought came to her mind. What was she going to wear? It had been so long since she had been on a date it was laughable. She had nicer clothes but nothing that was nice enough for a first date. This required help and shopping. She rushed down the stairs and grabbed Penelope and Emily who were standing at Emily's desk and had seen Spencer rush out the office.
"I need your help. Lunchtime we need to go shopping" She said as she stared at the two women who held amused smiles on their faces.
"Why?" asked Emily innocently
"Spencer is taking me out to dinner tonight and I have nothing nice enough." Hermione said catching the look of fake innocence on their faces and knowing they had something to do with it.
"I know just the place" Penelope said smiling like the cat who just caught the canary.
Say it with me FINALLY! Up next we will see Spencer's and Hermione's date fun times. Leave me a review and let me know what you think they should do after dinner if you think they should go for a walk or if they should stargazing. That is still up in the air.