Daily Secret Santa

A Criminal Minds Fanfic

By: Ewriter (Emma-lee)

Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds, if I did there would be some Reid/JJ, Emily/Hotch, and Morgan/Penelope. But alas I don't own it. Sorry.

The next day the team walked in one y one, each having a present stored somewhere on their person waiting for the time later in the day where the group would put the gifts in the center of their break room over the day and then later before everyone let they would pick them up and look at the gifts, today it was the pictures.

Hours later the team had gotten called in to a case for a little while but solved it easily and were now seated around the tale, presents in hand, waiting for Penelope to ring the bell saying it was time to open them. When she rang it, even though every one of them knew who their secret Santa was, eagerly opened the present. Though they all knew who it was from it was still unique and they still called it Secret Santa for kicks.

Penelope was the first to rip hers apart and in the beautiful light purple frame lay a picture of her, Morgan, and Clooney from Christmas eve the year prior as the three of them had sat near the tree watching Christmas movies and her neighbor had come over and taken a picture of them, how Derek had gotten it she didn't know.

The next to get the paper off the present was Reid. Inside a Macaroni frame was a candid picture of him and JJ last year ice skating, she had her little nephew take the picture and it showed him tripping and landing on top of JJ on the ice, both of them laughing, one of his favorite memories. The back of the frame read,

Dear Spence,

Andy was over last night and helping me and thought that you needed a Macaroni frame, sorry, he really wanted to make something special for his Uncle Spencer, I hope we can ice skate again soon.

Jen

Next up was Morgan. He opened the Frosty the Snowman wrapping paper to get an eyeful of a deep cherry maple frame with a pattern of twisting vines along the sides. Inside the picture frame was a picture of him and Penelope sitting on his porch sipping coffee, it was from the day that her computer was acting up, she was sitting on his lap wrapped up in a blanket and they looked peaceful, it must have been what the computer had accidentally taken.

Emily delicately took the silver wrapping paper off of the preset to find a picture of herself, Hotch, Jack, and her two nieces Emmy and Annie that someone had taken at the concert for the girls the previous week, apparently it had been with his camera, it showed them all relaxed and laughing. She was very happy that day, feeling motherly with the one she always felt she could be when near his son or with her nieces and him.

JJ opened hers next, she was looking forward to seeing which moment was selectively chosen by Spencer. She opened the paper and she gasped slightly to find the picture of them from the Christmas party last year. She had her head on his shoulder and they both had their arms around each other, she loved that moment, it was intoxicating that close to him and she wished she could do it again. It was in a white frame with little gingerbread people around it. She knew hat he had painted them all on to, no one knew but her that Spencer Reid was a very good artist.

The last one to get their present open was Hotch. He was nervous about what moment Emily had picked, he had been slightly trying to court her for the past couple of months, and since the chorus concert a few weeks prior he had been hinting even more but he still didn't know what she thought, this present would hopefully give him some insight. He opened the paper and inside was a lovely photo album, not just one picture. He looked at the cover where it read: Us. He started flipping through the pages and noticed how they were all pictures of the two of them from different places, some with the kids ad some without. Just them relaxed together outside of work. He knew with tomorrow's interesting present whatever it would be he was going to have to step it up a notch. Showing her he was serious and knew the risks but still thought it was the right thing.

After all 6 of them had been relishing in their picture memories for some time Penelope got everyone's attention to tell them the next days present idea.

"Okay guys, I think we all liked our gifts today. Tomorrow's gift theme will be giving the one who receives your gifts a ornament, one that tells them how you feel. See you all tomorrow," She said walking out with her stuff in her hands and Morgan's hand on the small of her back walking her to his car, since he was giving her a ride home. But he was also holding his picture gift from Penelope close to his heart.

As JJ, Emily, Reid, and Hotch got their stuff together they left in their pairs. Emily went with Hotch. Her head slightly leaning against his shoulder as he held her close walking her to her car. Reid looked shyly at JJ as he walked her out to her car; she was giving him a ride home. Before they got into the car though he took her stuff and put it in the trunk before quickly giving JJ a very heavy kiss on the lips and then pulling away her went over to his side of the car and got in looking out the window as a stunned JJ got into her seat with a 10000 watt smile spreading across her face.