Part 4
"So I forgot to ask how did you locate me so quickly?" Spencer asked after breakfast had been delivered. "I figured I could get on the train before you even knew I was missing much less had a chance to locate me."
"Penny," Dave and Aaron answered at the same time.
"I told you she was a computer expert, which is true," Dave explained. "What I didn't tell you is she's also an expert hacker and though she doesn't use her talents very much ever since I hired her a few years ago she still has those skills. I had heard of her of course, and I wanted her as my computer, expert since my other one had left and I managed to convince her to take the job. The fact that I offered her very good pay was very hard to resist. I offered her double the amount she would have gotten at some other company, as a starter package and now she makes far more, but she certainly earns every penny of it. I have numerous projects and many people working for me. She keeps an eye on those projects to make sure that I'm not taken advantage of and lets me know if there are any problems."
"Like someone trying to skim for instance," Spencer suggested shrewdly and Dave nodded.
"Exactly, because if people want to work for me they had better be honest as I have a reputation to maintain. I won't accept shoddy workmanship, just so they can skim off some of the money. I own, or have interest in many businesses."
"Alright, I understand how you located me so quickly," Spencer said, as he dug into his waffles that had chocolate chips embedded in them. "Penny must have hacked and just looked for my name. It's not like I thought to use a false name, but that was only because I figured you'd be glad to be rid me. I never dreamed you'd come looking for me."
"That's obvious or you never would've left in the first place," Aaron snorted. "You feared Dave's reaction to the little episode in the library so much that you left in the middle of the night with only a note of explanation. You didn't even bother to stick around to see what Dave's reaction would really be before you decided you had to flee."
"I figured he was going to fire me anyway so that's why I left before he could make it official," Spencer shrugged nonchalantly. "I didn't think he'd want me around, as I figured I would be to much temptation and the same thing might happen again. You don't keep someone around that is a temptation to your spouse after all. You don't keep someone like a maid or a very pretty housekeeper or even a nanny or au pair if the couple happen to have children around if you notice your spouse interested in them in a sexual way instead of just seeing them as an employee or at most a friend. Of course, I won't claim that some wives and husbands aren't fairly oblivious particularly the males, to the sexual vibes going on between the hired help and one of the spouses, but that's another matter altogether. At the very least you watch them very carefully or perhaps warn them about consequences if they were to do something you don't like, like make a move on their spouse if you don't fire them because they haven't actually done anything wrong."
"That's a very good point," Dave agreed having been mostly silent.
"Still, I admit that I overreacted," Spencer said.
"Which we can blame your upbringing for," Dave said and Spencer nodded in agreement.
"Partially anyway," Spencer said. "I never learned how to handle the type of situation that I found myself in, which was also partially responsible for my overreaction."
"It doesn't matter anymore you agreed to let Aaron and I court you and that's exactly what we intend to do," Dave said.
"You have a empire to run though," Spencer pointed out.
"I have a second-in-command that takes over when I'm busy elsewhere," Dave said. "Someone I trust, so that I have time for a private life. Of course, I check over everything they made decisions about just to make sure it's what I would've done and so far I haven't had any problems."
"Have I met them yet?" Spencer asked.
"No, you haven't, her name is Emily Prentiss. I have been intending to have a dinner party with everybody that's on my personal staff, just so I can introduce them to you officially, because really the only ones you've met are Derek and his wife Penny. She's the chief operating officer while Aaron is technically the chief executive officer."
"Emily is a pistol and is perfectly capable of handling multiple situations and duties," Aaron smiled. "You'll like her I'm sure just like you like Derek and Penny."
"There is also JJ who's the public face of the company and although a lot of people know I own it I mostly stay in the background," Dave added.
"A lot of people still know that you run the company and are loaded," Spencer gently teased him.
"That's because before the last 60 years I was the public face of the company," Dave explained. "It was a very different job in those days, because there were no TVs or video cameras. Still, that doesn't mean that people didn't know who started my company and even though I make sure that somebody creates documents with my name on it every few decades, except with a change in the number after my name I thought it was a good idea to stay out of the public eye with such things as videocameras or even an ordinary camera and also cell phones that can snap a photo. Someone could take my picture and compare it to a old one which is why somebody else is the public face of the company now. It might be strange that I share the same name with my ancestors, but not unusual as that's normal in some families. It's normal to name a child after an ancestor as it is supposedly honors them."
"But a picture is different," Spencer said Dave nodded
"Exactly," Dave said pleased at Spencer's quick understanding. "My family might be considered eccentric using the same name every generation for the supposedly oldest boy child, but to have my picture taken and then compared with another old picture well that would be no way to explain why I looked exactly the same, as my presumed ancestor. Sure, you might get a similarity in looks, that's even likely, but you wouldn't be that ancestors exact identical twin, same face shape, nose, chin, eyes, cheekbones, body, height."
"Same fingers and hands," Spencer said and Dave nodded.
"It would likely only be a head and shoulder shot, but still, there might be a lot of similarities, but the faces shouldn't be identical as genetics is just too random. I do admit that some children come out looking like their parents doubles, except for a few subtle differences, but not generation after generation. Technically, I'm David Stephen Rossi the 8th at least on paper, because the company has been around for the the last 400 years."
The three of them finished their breakfasts in silence keeping a close eye on making sure no one approached their table so that their conversation wasn't overheard, as it would be strange to anybody, except the three of them at least or at worst it would make someone suspicious.
"That's a good long run for any business," Spencer said a little admiringly. "The ones that get past the first few years usually don't last more than 25 or 30 at most and the ones that do...well, they're correspondingly few that last more than 100 years or so. In your case though, since it's the same person running the company generation after generation instead of having the son or the grandson do so I can see why your company has lasted so long. Most families that own large businesses don't necessarily last generation after generation, because the person's descendents who started the company might not have their ancestors business acumen. You also must've done a great deal of keeping an eye on what's popular and done what you can to keep yourselves current, not allowing yourselves to get stuck in the past, like so many people do. That really says something because if I was a nearly thousand year old immortal, well, I'm not sure I would be able to keep myself as current as you seem to at least enough that your business doesn't stagnate and your profits drop."
"Thank you I do my best," Dave said pleased at the compliment, "and since I'm the one in charge of the company and I'm not going to die anytime soon I'll be able to keep the company going for several more centuries. I'd like to keep it going forever since I've managed to build it into a worldwide organization that helps millions of people, but I'm not sure how possible that is," Dave said. "Of course, I've had plenty of help with that task, over the last four centuries, even if yes, I'm the one that started the company with Aaron's help."
"Of course, you have, as you can't run such a big organization without a lot a help," Spencer said. "I never said you did it all by yourself with just Aaron, as that would be impossible. You have numerous loyal employees that help make it a success."
"Millions," Aaron added smiling at the conversation. "We are a significant part of the economy, as we supply millions of jobs."
"Which is why I would like to keep it going," Dave said, "though that's getting harder because the world has changed considerably from when I was first born. I try to stay up on current events, and developments in every area, but that's not always easy."
"Which is why you need bright young minds like myself," Spencer said smiling.
"Exactly," Dave said smiling. "Of course, even if you weren't so intelligent Aaron and I would still need you."
"Well, you sure do know how to boost my confidence," Spencer said smiling showing that he was teasing.
"It wasn't meant that way, but if you'd like to take it like that, that's fine with me," Dave said. "Really, I was speaking nothing, but the truth even though I know you don't see yourself that way."
"I think it's time we pay the bill and get out of here," Aaron said quietly, because he had seen how Spencer was trying to hide his yawns.
"I suppose all that emotional upheaval from yesterday has left me more tired than I thought," Spencer admitted. "I didn't sleep very well."
"No wonder you were miserable, as you fled in the middle of the night. I know you felt you were doing the right thing, but you really weren't," Aaron told him bluntly refusing to couch his words. "I understand what you were thinking at the time, but still, if you had stopped to think you would have realized that both Dave and I had been giving you signals for weeks, ever since you arrived actually. You would've thought about the fact that Dave bought you a whole new wardrobe and he wouldn't've done that for just any employee. Yes, we are expected to dress fashionably and not like a retro reject." Spencer winced subtly at the term retro reject, "but he might have issued a memo about appropriate dress to that employee if he had seen them and informed their boss, but he wouldn't have gotten personally involved."
It went unsaid that he also wouldn't have paid for it all, but Spencer understood what wasn't being said, though Dave might have given that person an advance on their salary if necessary.
Spencer realized that he really had been blind, because Dave had done so many things for him. Buying him a whole new wardrobe, making sure he didn't skip meals, paying him more than he thought necessary, just for organizing the library, allowing him to read as many of the books as he wanted. Dave had demonstrated again and again and that he was a generous, kindhearted man and while Spencer had no doubt that Dave was generous courteous and kindhearted to everybody he met unless they made him angry or annoyed him, he wouldn't have gone so far out of his way to show that.
"I really have been blind," Spencer admitted.
"Yes, you have, but in your defense some people are like that and that you didn't have the best upbringing didn't help. You weren't looking for love and really expected to spend the rest of your life alone," Dave said. "It's all corrected now though."
"Even if I had decided to get married I would've tried to convince my wife to have no children unless they were adopted, as I would've been too afraid of them getting my mother's disease," Spencer shrugged. "Now, since I'm together with you at least for the present, well, I'm not going to have to worry about children. As for the library I want to continue the project and not just because I'd like to read most of the volumes, but because seeing a library in such a disorganized state drives me crazy. I know it'll take me awhile to have it sorted out, but still I can do it."
"I never doubted you could," Dave said calmly. "If you want to continue with the project that's just fine, as I already know you're the best person for the job. You'll have it sorted out in a couple of years, maybe a little longer depending on how many hours a day you spend on it, but you will be doing other things with Aaron and I as you're not going to stay mewled in the library or in the penthouse all the time. I know you enjoy reading, but still you need to do other things if only to give your eyes a rest. You deserve a real life, not one where you stay isolated from the rest of humanity. You had a job, but no real conversations with the people that you spoke with."
"Nobody can live their whole life without friends, as that just makes them miserable or at least lonely, even if they don't realize they are," Aaron added.
"I know you tried to ease your loneliness by reading so much or getting involved in a research project, but that's not enough," Dave said.
"It was my life," Spencer shrugged.
"What there was of it," Aaron snorted cynically and Spencer actually smiled at that because Aaron was right.
"Well, that's going to change now," Dave said firmly and he looked so determined that Spencer silently groaned wondering what he had gotten himself into. "Aaron and I will make sure that you get out more, even if we have to drag you kicking and screaming."
"I know you're right, but that doesn't mean I want to," Spencer sighed. "I'm only 30, but still, I'm fairly set in my ways."
"Then we'll unset them no matter how much of a struggle that will be," Aaron said. "You're a young man not someone who's 60 and has trouble getting around, because of a gimpy leg, or some other infirmity."
"But that's exactly what you've been acting like," Dave added by way of agreement. "I know that some people are born with old souls and you're one of them, but still, if you get some real fun in your life it will transform you."
"Reading is fun," Spencer protested.
"That might be true, but it's also a one person activity," Aaron said. "You don't have to be around people just to read a book or a newspaper or a magazine. Even reading in public basically says you want to be left alone."
Spencer mentally groaned, but since he knew that Dave and Aaron were right he knew that didn't give him a leg to stand on. He had known for a long time that he needed to try to be around people more, but since crowds always made him distinctly uncomfortable he had given it up as a lost cause and gone back to his solitary ways. He hadn't tried very hard though to overcome his aversion, but he knew he would have to really try now. Crowds made him nervous, because he was around so many strangers, people he didn't know and since strangers had never treated him kindly it was no wonder he hated being around a lot of them at the same time, especially crowded around on all sides.
"I know it's no fun to be forced out of your comfort zone, but it needs to be done if you're truly going to become happy with your life and with yourself," Dave said. "You're just drifting through life now, not really participating anymore than you have to and that's not very healthy, mentally at least and I'm sure you know this."
"I did try to get over my aversion to crowds, but I admit I didn't try very hard," Spencer sighed, as he put both his elbows on the table top, then rested his head in them. "You seem determined to drag me out of my nice, solitary life."
"Of course we are, because it's exactly what you need and you know it, even if you are reluctant to go ahead with it," Aaron answered.
"Let me pay the check and we can get out of here," Dave said. "I think we've monopolized the table for a long enough. I'm sure Penny is frantic with worry by now, even though I told her to go back to bed once she had located you, but she wouldn't have obeyed."
Spencer just groaned, but knew he had a coming, so he would just have to accept his fate, for worrying one Penelope Garcia Morgan.
~~~Dave, Aaron and Spencer~~~
Spencer stood in the living room and waited for Penny to run down. He only half listened as she blew off steam about how worried she had been and how dare he worry her and everybody else like that.
"Alright, Penny, enough!" Dave said finally, but with a smile. "Spencer gets the point and in fact, if truth be known he's looking rather frazzled right now he's just too polite to say anything. He's already promised he won't do it again and Aaron and I have forgiven him for panicking."
Penny nodded though, she still looked as if she wanted to continue hugging the life out of Spencer while lecturing him.
"I'm sorry for getting you up so early," Dave continued once he saw that Penny had visibly calmed down.
"It's okay bossman, it was important and I know that," Penelope said much more calmly than she had been previously. "I understood that you had to find him before he did something stupid."
"I only planned to go back to Richmond that's all," Spencer tried to protest.
"Don't you understand that Dave and Aaron love you?" Penelope asked incredulous. "That they would be devastated if you had just disappeared leaving only a short note behind?"
"I didn't," Spencer admitted, "I figured that Dave at least would be glad to get rid of me."
Spencer didn't mention the incident in the library that had made him run in the first place and Penelope didn't ask, but still she was a sharp lady, so she might figured that it was something along those lines that had made him flee. "Also in my defense I didn't really understand the feelings I was having about them both and when I did well threesomes never work out, so I didn't see how it could be any different this time."
"But we've told him everything now," Aaron added.
"Everything?" Penelope inquired her gaze suddenly sharper.
"Everything," Dave confirmed smiling a little.
"Well, in that case welcome to the family, Boy Wonder," Penelope said.
"I haven't decided if I'm going to accept the offer though," Spencer protested, knowing what Penny was talking about immediately.
"But you're still in the know," Penelope told him, "and it's not the kind of secret you give out lightly or that you tell just anyone."
Penny had a point, Spencer admitted. Immortality wasn't a secret you told to just anyone.
"So how many people are aware of what you are?" Spencer asked his question directed at Dave.
"All our personal staff the ones that are the most trustworthy," Dave answered immediately. "Penny, her husband Derek, JJ and Emily."
"They are now all immortal themselves as they accepted Dave's offer," Aaron added.
"Wow!" Spencer said actually shocked.
"I know that it's pretty amazing and shocking," Dave said smiling. "but from my point of view you don't find the kind of loyalty or honesty that those four have very often. I want them to be part of the company for a long, long time and keep it running for centuries to come. With them taking control Aaron and I and you of course, can do some traveling or whatever we want to do, though we'll of course keep our hand in. However, I know that if we decide to at least partially retire, that the company's in good hands with all of them at the helm."
"Oh, stop bossman, you're making me blush," Penny said smiling, and she was actually blushing a bright red.
Dave smiled and kissed her cheek affectionately. "Why don't you go tell Derek that Spencer has been found and that he's fine, as I'm sure he's just as worried."
"Why would he be it's not like we know each other very well," Spencer said. "I'm just a stranger to him after all."
Penelope slapped him on the back of the head and glared at him, though Spencer looked rather shocked at Penelope's actions. "Why can't you accept that people care about you? And not just because they care about Dave or Aaron either, but for yourself? The only reason that JJ and Emily aren't worried as well is because Dave didn't drag them out of bed."
"There was no need to, as it was your skills I needed, though I'm sorry I got Derek out of bed as well," Dave said, then turned to Spencer with a serious look, "And Spencer if I ever hear you make a comment like that again I will be very upset with you. You need to accept that people can and will care about you. You need to open yourself to being loved and to love in return instead of closing yourself off from your emotions to stop yourself from getting hurt."
"Give him time," Aaron suggested gently, cooling Dave's temper. "This is all new to him, so you need to give him time to realize that he's just a likable and lovable as anybody else. I suspect that he's been told so often that nobody will ever want him for whatever twisted reason that person's mind came up with, as a child he believed it and nobody has come along before now to convince him otherwise."
"I am standing right here you know," Spencer said finally blushing bright red at being discussed so openly. "All I can say is I'll try that's all I can promise right now. I've thought of myself as unlovable and undesirable for a long time now, over 20 years, so it's not going to be easy to break the pattern."
"That's all anyone can ask," Dave said finally calming down. He didn't like it when Spencer unconsciously put himself down, but realized that his childhood had been such that it was automatic. He probably didn't even realize what he was doing it most of the time, because he'd been doing it for so long. It was just going to take time and a lot of loving care to break the habit something that he and Aaron were more than willing to provide.
Penelope left a few minutes later and once they were alone again Spencer headed straight back to bed as he was exhausted. He hadn't cried in over 20 years, but still it had felt good to release his emotions, even if it was still exhausting and at least no one had seen him do so, but the evidence afterwards had been obvious. Dave and Aaron had seen that the tear tracks on his cheeks, but hadn't commented on it or called him weak for crying like a baby. They might be thinking it, but at least they hadn't said so out loud.
"We need to make some plans," Aaron said softly once Spencer was out of earshot in his suite and Penny had left.
"Yeah, we do," Dave said sitting down on the couch Aaron at his side. "This was a close one, to close."
"Yeah, it was," Aaron agreed his tone sober. "But we managed to convince him to at least let us court him and that's a major accomplishment."
"Yeah, I regret that we weren't more honest with him sooner," Dave said.
"I do too, but you can't predict human behavior a lot of times because we are an unpredictable species, especially when our emotions are overwhelming us and we're not thinking straight. We aren't emotionless androids, because if we were then of course, we could predict every move someone made," Aaron said. "There are thousands of different ways that someone can react to any thousands of different situations and neither one of us thought that Spencer would do something so drastic, which just shows we really didn't know him as well as we thought. We had no idea that he would be so eaten up with guilt that he would flee as if the hounds of Hades were on his tail."
"Now there's a very colorful description," Dave snorted. "You do have a point though. We are going to have to be very careful from now on until Spencer truly trusts us."
"No, more ambushing him until we're sure he's ready to be ambushed," Aaron said grinning a little, as he remembered having one of the strongest climaxes he'd ever had when he'd cornered Spencer in the library. It was definitely something he'd love to do again sometime.
Dave laughed at that, because it had been his idea originally for Aaron to ambush Spencer in the library. He thought it would show Spencer that he and Aaron wanted him as part of their lives and instead it had nearly ended in disaster. Dave hadn't taken into account Spencer's lack of self confidence in his own desirability or the fact that he was to honest to have sex with someone who was already taken no matter how much he wanted it. He should have realized that Spencer wouldn't take Aaron assurances to heart, that he wouldn't believe that what his partner had done had been with his full approval.
They had managed to save the situation, but Dave was not going to make that kind of mistake again so he and Aaron were going to have to be very careful.
Still, he was up to the challenge and he knew Aaron was to.
~~~Dave, Aaron and Spencer~~~
"Full House," Spencer announced, as he carefully laid down his cards.
Dave and Aaron both groaned dramatically, as Spencer had been creaming them for the last two hours.
"Well, we'll know not to play cards with him in the future," Dave said only halfway teasing.
"Another game gentleman?" Spencer asked smiling at his two boyfriends and yes, they were boyfriends in every sense of the word, except sexual.
"Where did you learn to play so well?" Aaron asked.
"It's all math," Spencer explained while still smiling innocently. "I did grow up in Las Vegas after all, but really mom taught me thinking it would be a good experience though we didn't play for money or anything, but for cookies. I nearly always won, because while she was pretty good once I learned the rules of the game I quickly became much better. I quickly realized that it was nothing but math something I excelled at in school, well, I excelled in all academics, though not sports actually."
"Well, you're certainly going to take Emily by surprise as she loves to gamble," Dave said smiling. "I know she's been to Atlanta more than once whenever she has free time and it's not because she needs the money since I pay her quite well."
"We ought to invite her up for a game sometime and see Spencer clean her out," Aaron snickered. "I'm sure Emily will be shocked, because he doesn't look like the type that knows how to play very well at all."
"We might have to do that sometime soon," Dave chuckled. "Playing four handed poker is certainly more fun then playing two handed or in this case three handed."
"Well, I believe we agreed on 20 bucks per point, so that's 2,500 each of you owe me," Spencer said smiling holding out his hand.
"So we did," Dave's said with good grace. "I thought I was a good poker player as I've been playing longer then you can imagine and yet you creamed me."
"But now we know how good he is," Aaron said, as he handed over the money he owed Spencer while they did the same. "We won't be caught by surprise next time."
"Well, any other time I can clean you out gentleman I'll be happy to," Spencer said smiling, as he rapidly counted the money he had just been handed. He had just earned himself a cool $5000 which was a lot of money particularly just for poker, but since Aaron and Dave could afford the loss easily he didn't feel guilty at all.
"Well, I think I've had enough of poker for the moment," Dave commented. "I had no idea that Spencer was such a card shark."
"And this despite the fact that he hasn't played much in 20 years," Aaron said.
"I've still got it," Spencer said smiling. "I never forget anything I am taught or see or hear, well, so long as I'm paying attention, to what I hear, remember that. It might have been a long time since I've played, but that doesn't mean I forgotten any of my old skills."
"Are you sure you haven't played in two decades?" Aaron asked looking suspicious.
"No," Spencer answered being completely honest. "But as I said you have to remember my eidetic memory. I remember those games I played with mom very well, even though it's been a long time."
Spencer smiled nostalgically, his expression also tinged with just a touch of sadness. "Those were the times for just her and I when my father was at work and I was done with school. I doubt my father would've approved of her teaching me poker, though he mostly would've thought I was too young to learn something like that. He never really did appreciate my intelligence and I have to admit I wasn't really sorry when he left. We could have used a housekeeper or someone to look after mom while I was in school and also take care of the house, but I suppose it's just as well we didn't have anybody like that, because we couldn't have continued to afford to pay them once dad left. An adult would've had an easier time getting mom to take her medication at least."
"Your father will pay," Dave growled and Aaron was nodding in agreement looking just as furious.
"It's in the past, let sleeping dogs lie," Spencer suggested calmly.
"He needs to pay for what he has done," Aaron disagreed looking just as furious as Dave. "Both Dave and I grew up in more violent times then you have, and we both believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth mentality. Alright, maybe, he didn't physically abuse you, but what he did was just as bad in its own way."
"You should've grown up confident and strong. You should've had confidence in your own abilities, your own desirability," Dave said. "Your father should have given you advice on how to handle it when you were bullied for example."
"Instead of just telling you to deal with it," Aaron added.
"Please drop it for me," Spencer begged. "I won't bring him up again if this is the kind of reaction I get. Yes, I understand that both of you grew up in more violent times and I, but I just want to forget about the bastard I share DNA with. He'll get what's coming to him eventually."
"We'll give up our ideas of revenge for you," Dave said looking pained.
"Yes, we will because we love you," Aaron said who also looked pained.
"But we want you to promise that you'll talk about your childhood just to get it off your chest, that you'll be honest with us if something is bothering you. Talking about stuff that happened to you as a child and adult is often a way to exercise your demons," Dave added.
"We won't insist to see a psychologist, though you probably should, but you should be able to at least confide in us. Two people who love you with every bit of their souls, who would never even consider betraying your secrets to anybody else, not even their closest friends," Aaron finished.
"I'll think about it," Spencer promised.
"Think about it this way, it would probably help your insomnia," Dave said.
"Maybe," Spencer conceded.
"Or maybe his insomnia is because he has too much energy and if that's the case Dave and I would be happy to wear you out," Aaron grinned roguishly.
Spencer blushed at that rejoiner knowing exactly what Aaron meant. The thought of making love to both Dave and Aaron or actually their making love to him was hardly unpleasant, but he wasn't quite ready for that stage of their relationship.
Dave and Aaron knew this so didn't try to push him into anything more than he was actually ready for and Spencer was grateful.
Of course, that didn't mean that they didn't tease him mercilessly, but since he knew it wasn't maliciously intended he took it with good grace.
"I'll try to get over my aversion of talking about my past," Spencer said. "I know my past wasn't as bad as so many children's, but that doesn't mean I like to recall it."
"Neither one of us can blame you for that," Dave said his lips pursed, as if he had been sucking on a lemon.
"No, we can't, but talking about it will help," Aaron said.
"Well, I would like to get some more work in on the library or it will never get organized," said Spencer rising to his feet.
"I'll call you for dinner," Dave said.
Spencer nodded, as he had every intention of coming up for every meal, when either Dave or Aaron called him or came to get him personally, as he had promised both of them that he would do so and that he would no longer hide down in the library just to avoid them.
Since they were dating this was a promise that Spencer was happy to make, since he knew the work wasn't going to just vanish, and both of his boyfriends seemed satisfied. So far he had kept his promise and appeared for every meal, without protest over the last few weeks and he was certainly gaining weight because Dave was such a terrific cook.
He had certainly noticed Dave and Aaron's appreciative stares and this made him feel all warm and good inside and also nearly blush every time he noticed their appreciation.
"Well, I think it's going rather well," Aaron said his expression hopeful.
"I think so too," Dave agreed once he was sure that Spencer was out of hearing range. "He took learning about immortality better than I believed he would, but on the other hand, we really don't know what's going on in that brain of his as he's hard to read at the best of times."
"Yeah, we had to demonstrate once we had gotten back here to penthouse," Aaron said smiling, as he remembered.
"Something we were glad to do, though we did it in the kitchen so we wouldn't risk getting blood on the Turkish carpet," Dave said.
"You know perhaps, it's time he met JJ and Emily. They're getting rather impatient to meet him anyway and are quite put out that both Derek and Penny have but they have not," Aaron suggested smiling. "You know that they'll fall in love with him immediately, although Emily will likely warn him that if he dares to hurt either one of us that she'll chop them into little bite-size bits."
"She would," Dave said smiling, as he imagined that scene. "I should probably warn her not too though, because that will likely make Spencer rather wary around her. Emily can be a tad too aggressive sometimes and that will make Spencer go out of his way just to avoid her, which in turn will hurt her, especially when she realizes that it was her own actions that caused him to."
"He'll instantly fall in love with JJ though, probably start to think of her as a sister before too long," Aaron said.
"Yeah, JJ is one of those genuinely warm and caring individuals," Dave said smiling. "I'm sure Spencer will fall in love with her to and probably adore her sons Henry and Michael."
Henry and Michael Jareau were twins that JJ had had, from the last serious relationship with a cop from New Orleans who had come on vacation to the Big Apple. The two had flown back and forth for awhile but finally JJ thought it was just too much trouble and had broken off the relationship, Mostly because she realized that Will wasn't her mate, not like Dave, Aaron and Spencer were lifemates or Derek and Penelope. It was only several months later that she discovered she was pregnant and been told by her doctor that it was twins. JJ had decided immediately to keep the babies that she had been wanting children for awhile and the good thing was at least so far Henry and Michael hadn't had so much as a sniffle, which likely meant that the immortal genes would take precedence over the mortal ones. On the other hand, JJ's immortal blood might just be making them absurdly healthy and they might need a second dose once they were older to make them completely immortal. It was something that all of them in the know worried about a little.
"Actually, I don't think Spencer's likely to be good with other children considering his upbringing," Aaron suggested, "but I could very well be wrong, because after all some people with bad childhood's turn out to be excellent parents."
"But we have to consider that he dealt with children on a regular basis at his job," Dave reminded Aaron. "Without that experience then yes, he probably wouldn't be very good with them and in any case we'll just have to see."
"That's a good point," Aaron admitted. "He might be really good with Henry and Michael after all."
"Yeah, they're simply the most adorable boys in the universe," Dave said smiling.
"You're only saying that because you're the godfather of Henry," Aaron teased. Dave loved children, but was unable to have any of his own, because neither one of his mates was female, though they had considered adopting more than once.
"Don't pretend you don't adore them, especially Michael since JJ named you the godfather for him just like she named me the godfather for Henry," Dave teased him right back.
"What can I say they're really adorable boys," Aaron said taking the teasing with a smile
"That they are and we are not prejudice at all, are we?" Dave asked rhetorically.
"Of course not," Aaron immediately denied and then both of them grinned at each other conspiratorially.
~~~Dave, Aaron and Spencer~~~
