Disclaimer: I don't own criminal minds or any of the characters you recognise. If I did we would see a lot more gummy bears.
Turning off the shower and reaching for a towel, Spencer glanced at the clock, they would be here in two minutes, he quickly dressed and started to run the towel over his head to dry his hair when there was a knock on the door. He quickly exited the bathroom and still drying his hair, opened the door to reveal a frazzled looking JJ and a bouncing Henry.
"Hey Henry, how's my best godson today?" He said with a grin on his face.
"Hi, I uh, I, I gotta go to the bathroom!" Henry said running quickly past spencer and around the piles of books.
JJ and Reid heard the bathroom door slam, and they both winced.
"Sorry about that, I asked before we left but he said he didn't need to go." JJ said with an apologetic grin on her face.
"Don't worry about it, when you gotta go, you gotta go." Reid responded stepping back to allow JJ to walk into his apartment. He walked over to the couch and started looking underneath it for his converse. "I'll be ready soon I just have to find my shoes." He said
"That's fine, take as long as you need." JJ said, looking down the hallway for her son. She heard the toilet flush and the door open. "Hands Henry." She said as a reminder to her son.
"Oh right!" he said before slamming the door closed again.
JJ turned to look into the lounge room to find a very frazzled looking spencer holding one neon blue converse.
"I have to go check my room for my other shoes, feel free to come along, just don't mess up any papers you see. I'm working on my next doctorate." He said leading the way down the hall.
"What's this one again?" she asked picking up a stray book and placing it on a table next to spencers door.
"Psychology, and don't even try to talk me out of it, I can handle he work just fine." He said grabbing two mismatched socks out of his draw. He pulled them on quickly and started looking for his other converse, or a different pair.
"Mommy, Uncle Spencer? Where are you?" called a slightly worried sounding Henry.
"In here Hen" JJ called back, then talking to spencer she said " why would I think you can't handle the extra work, I just feel sorry for Emily, she might actually have to do her own paperwork for once, how will she manage?"
Suddenly Henry ran into the room and launched himself onto spencers bed. He sat up and looked at the two adults expectantly. "When are we going?" he said.
"Just as soon as your uncle spencer finds his shoes." JJ said in reply.
"Oh well there is a blue one in the kitchen, and it smells bad in there, yucky!" the little boy said while twisting his face in disgust, just to demonstrate how bad the kitchen did actually smell.
"Well I can't find any other ones, so I'm just going to have to wear the blue ones I guess." Spencer said after looking everywhere in his room for any other pairs. "I'll just go grab that one and then I'm ready." He quickly exited the room.
There was a comfortable silence for a minute while JJ re-tied her son's shoe laces, then Henry asked a question that made JJ smile.
"Is Uncle Spencer my dad?"
"No baby, Uncle Spencer is your god father, not your dad." She said standing from the kneeled position she had adopted to tie the laces.
"Well, why don't I have a dad?" the boy asked innocently.
JJ's blood ran cold and all the colour drained from her face. She had been dreading this day for almost five years. Spencer who had been on his way back from the kitchen heard the little boy's question and hurried into his bedroom.
"Hey Henry, do you want to do me a favour? I left my bag on the couch; do you think you can go grab it for me?" He asked with a smile on his face.
"Okay!" The boy replied.
Spencer slowly walked over to JJ and pulled her into a sitting position on the bed. "You're going to have to tell him one day Jay, you know this." He said gently
Tears welled up in her eyes and she looked at him sadly.
"How can I Spence? How can I tell my son that his dad died?" she said with a sad smile.
A/N: Hey guys! I just feel the need to point out now that I am in no way a Will hater, it's just that for the story to work he has to be dead. And in my little world Emily has not left the team. She never had, and never will. Sorry if this upsets anyone but this is the way my world works. =] . Anyway thanks for all the alerts and emails I got, I really appreciated them. I hope you like this chapter, I will explain the will thing in more detail next chapter and the next one will also contain the trip to the mall. So drop me a review letting me know what you think, free gummy bears if you do. =]
