Two weeks later, they had successfully doubled all the baby furniture and they'd also put a couple of bassinets in their room so that they could be close to the twins for the first few weeks at least.

Finally they decided that it was time to tell the others, at last, what was going on. So one night, Reid got everyone to stick around for a little while. It only took Maeve about ten minutes to arrive at the BAU after the actual work for the day ended.

"I know you guys have been wondering why I've been kind of weird lately…."

"That's only what we've been asking you for the last almost five months!"

"I know guys and I'm sorry…"

"So you're finally gonna tell us what's up?" Morgan asked, getting way more satisfaction than the others because his nagging was finally going to come of something.

"Do you guys notice anything different?" Maeve asked in response, she was showing fairly obviously now.

"Hm…" they were analyzing her intently, even though the answer was right in front of them.

"Guys…come on! It's not that hard to see." She said.

"What is it?"

"I'm pregnant…"

"Oh my God…you guys…Congratulations!" JJ exclaimed, hugging them both.

Rossi and Hotch just stood their grinning from ear to ear, they weren't at all surprised.

Meanwhile Garcia was spazzing out, happily squealing and jumping for joy, then she hugged them too.

"Any idea what you're having?" JJ asked.

"Actually we just recently got the answer to that…" Reid replied

"So which is it?" Rossi asked.

"Both, or rather…one of each, we're having twins…"

The team's eyes grew wider, their smiles bigger. This was better than anyone had imagined the truth could be.

"Why keep good news like that on the DL? This is amazing!" Garcia asked.

"Sorry we kept it from you this long but we wanted to wait until we knew what exactly we were having…we didn't know there were twins until two weeks ago. Otherwise we might have said something sooner…"

"So is that…why you of all people got a dog recently?" Hotch asked. He was more familiar than most to the usual discordant reaction between Reid and animals.

"How did you know that?"

"There's been little red dog hairs on your clothes for the last few months… I'm guessing a shorthaired breed, maybe a hound of some kind. Most likely a puppy if it's still small enough to climb all over you…"

"You're right, a four and a half month old female redbone coonhound puppy… named Peanut…"

"Oh! She sounds darling!" Garcia, who was more of an animal lover than any of them and could just imagine Reid sitting in his chair with a small dog snuggled in next to his leg, being stroked gently by her master as he sat there reading a book.

"I have to admit, she is pretty cute…" Reid said.

"She's a handful though, kind of like a practice run…"

"When are you due Maeve?" JJ asked.

"In July, probably around July thirtieth. That's the actual due date anyway…"

"Well Reid, if it happens while you're here just tell me… I'll order you to go…" Hotch told him…