Let me check… nope still don't own Criminal Minds.
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Kevin Lynch will be mentioned in this chapter, I might do a Garica/Kevin pairing in later chapters. In honor of the fact that Nicholas Brendon (The actor who plays Kevin Lynch) has signed as a reoccurring character on Criminal Minds.
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"JJ baby, wake up." Spencer said gently shaking his girlfriend awake.
"Spence? What time is it?" She asked, her hair was stiff from sweat. To say the least it had been a long night of nightmares and tears.
"It's almost nine am." He said, "You okay?" He asked, his eyes were filled with concern.
"Yeah, will he ever get out of my mind?" She asked, her blue eyes welling up with tears.
"Eventually." He said, a tear ran down her face.
"I can't take this! It's only been one night and I am afraid of every man that even glances at me! That and Kyle won't get out of my dreams! I can't close my eyes without seeing his face." She sobbed. Spencer pulled her delicate body into his arms.
"I know what it's like, really I do. I mean I wasn't raped but still, I was hurt emotionally and physically. Let me tell you the one thing I do know for sure, you will get through this, we will get through this. I will never leave your side as long as there is a breath in my body." He said, kissing the top of her head.
"That's a little excessive, especially considering our job, and the fact I will be out of work for a while." She said laying a hand on her stomach. Spencer now sat cross-legged on the bed and JJ sat in his lap, resting comfortably in his arms. He rested his hand on top of hers.
"When I'm not around Garcia will be watching you like a hawk." Spencer said with a smile.
"Sounds heavenly, just so long as this doesn't happen again." She said, looking around at the hospital room, the kidnapping played again and again in her mind. She didn't care if Spencer locked her in a glass bubble for the rest of her life just so long as she never had to go through it again.
"I promise you, I will never let anyone harm you or our child ever again." He said earnestly.
"Promise?" She asked.
"Didn't I just say I promise?" He asked.
"Yeah." She sighed, relaxing in his loving and caring arms.
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"Sorry to interrupt." A doctor that they had never seen before said. He had brown hair and light blue eyes. "My name is Dr. Lawrence. I am here to make sure Jennifer is well enough to leave." He said walking to the bedside. JJ instantly pulled herself from resting position to cling to Spencer. He wrapped his arms around her, as she looked at the doctor with nothing but pure terror in her blue eyes.
"JJ it's okay, he won't hurt you." Spencer said rubbing her stomach soothingly.
"I don't care, the always seem so normal." JJ said.
"Ma'am I understand your fear of me but rest assured that I will not hurt you. Besides this young gentleman will be here the whole time." The doctor said, JJ shook her head adamantly.
"JJ in order to leave you have to let this man have a look at you, I am right here, I will make sure he doesn't hurt you." Spencer said. Spencer felt JJ sigh, she slid out of his lap and faced the doctor.
"Get it over with." She said, though the doctor and Spencer could both hear the slight tremble in her voice. The doctor worked quickly and was extremely gentle. Once he was done he informed them she could leave in three hours.
"Thank you doctor." Spencer said as the doctor left the room. "How are you feeling?" He asked JJ, who had climbed back into his lap.
"Honestly I don't know." She said leaning back into his arms.
"Well you need to get some rest before the flight home." Spencer said, gently laying JJ down on the bed.
"I don't want to sleep." She said tearfully. "If I sleep I'll dream about it, and I don't want to, please don't make me." She said, tears streaming down her face. It broke his heart to see her so upset.
"It's okay, I'm here, the dreams can't hurt you." Spencer told her, wiping away her tears.
"But they seem so real…" She said.
"I know they do, believe me I know, but I didn't have anyone there to help me through it. You do." He said laying down next to her. Soon she was breathing rhythmaticly in his arms. After a while she began to moan in her sleep. Not again. He thought, every time he saw the terror in her blue eyes it ripped his heart in two. He couldn't bare to see her like this. He tried to wake her but she was sleeping to deeply. After a while she began to sweat and soon her hair was plastered to her head. "JJ baby wake up." He said loudly. She sat straight up in the bed, breathing rapidly. "Sh baby it's okay, I'm here." He said, pulling her into his arms.
"Spence?" She asked tearfully.
"Hey, did I scare you? I could tell you were dreaming." He said.
"No you didn't scare me." She said, burying her head in his chest.
"Good." He said. "Hey we need to get ready for the flight."
"I don't want to ride public transportation." She said, her blue eyes filling with fear.
"No, no of course not. Hotch sent the jet back to pick us up." Spencer said, reassuring the woman he loved.
"Okay then, all my stuff is at the motel." She said.
"No it's not, it's in the car." Spencer said.
"When'd it end up there?" She asked.
"I grabbed it while you were sleeping." He said.
"Y-you left me here. Alone?" She asked, the fear that had just left her eyes reappeared.
"Only for a minute." He said. She glared at him, but didn't say anything.
"Well let's get out of here." She said, getting up off of the bed.
"Yeah."
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"Would a woman like this?" Spencer asked, observing the ring he held in his hand. They had been hope for only a few hours. Everyone was at the house so Spencer used the opportunity to go to the store.
"Yes sir that is a very popular ring." The clerk said.
"How much?" He asked.
"Six hundred." The clerk said, he bit back a laugh when he saw the look on the man's face.
"Okay." Spencer said, he pulled six, one hundred dollar bills out of his pocket and handed it to the clerk.
"Cash huh?" The clerk asked.
"Yeah it's convenient. Though I should probably be saving my cash for when I go out of town…" Spencer said.
"Hey I've seen you before." The clerk said.
"Oh really? Where?" Spencer asked.
"On the news, do you work for the FBI, the b-b-something analysis unit?" The clerk asked.
"Yes, SSA Dr. Spencer Reid, and its the behavioral analysis unit." Spencer said.
"What does SSA stand for?" The clerk asked.
"Supervisory Special Agent." Spencer informed the clerk.
"That's so cool. So do you say 'Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Spencer Reid' when you are on the job?" The clerk asked.
"Sometimes, most of the time we just say SSA." He said.
"That's a mouthful." The clerk said.
"Yeah, I got to go. Bye." Spencer said turning and walking out the door. He stuck the black velvet box in his pants pocket.
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"Jayje you okay?" Garcia asked her friend. JJ had been on edge ever since Reid left.
"Huh? Yeah." She said, she watched everyone moving boxes from the van into the house.
"Jayje tell me." Garcia said sitting down next to her friend. Emily came over but stopped ten feet from the couch where JJ was sitting.
"It's stupid." JJ said.
"Nothing is too stupid to tell me, come on." Garcia said, putting her arm around her friend.
"I know they won't hurt me, I mean their all my friends! But without Spence around I am scared." JJ confessed, tears welling up in her eyes.
"It's understandable." Emily said.
"Yeah but I've known most of them as long as I've known Spence, so why am I scared?" JJ asked.
"You went through a tough ordeal, Reid has been here by your side every second since they saved you. Without him here you feel exposed." Garcia said.
"You know something, you could get a job as a profiler." JJ told her friend.
"Nah, I love my babies, I could never leave them." She said.
"You're too attached to those computers. You won't go out with Kevin because he messed with your computers." Emily said.
"That's not completely true!" Garcia said defensively.
"Uh-huh." JJ said teasingly.
"It's not!" Garcia insisted.
"Name one other reason." Emily said. Garcia thought long and hard but she couldn't come up with anything. So she threw a pillow at Emily. Then to get back at her Emily threw some ranch dip at her, getting it all over her shirt.
"Hey, hey guys! Come on." JJ said as she dodged a pickle that came flying towards her head.
"What's going on in here?" Morgan asked. "Food fight?"
"Garcia started it." JJ informed him, getting up off the couch so she wouldn't be hit by stray pieces of food.
"Did not!" Garcia insisted, dodging the carrot that Emily threw at her head.
"Well she threw the pillow, causing Emily to throw the dip." JJ said. Hotch, Morgan, and Rossi all watched the two girls throw food at each other, just them Reid walked in.
"What is going on in here?" He asked coming to JJ's side.
"Garcia won't go out with Kevin because he messed with her 'babies', but she says there are other reasons. So Emily tells her to name one other reason, when she couldn't she threw a pillow at Emily. Emily threw a spoonful of dip at her, I almost got hit in the head with a stray pickle." JJ explained, Spence looked at her like they had all gone insane.
"I see." He said, eyeing the two women who still threw food at each other. "You know we were going to eat that." He said, both of the women turned and looked at him, then they each threw food at him. "Hey!" He yelped when ranch dip landed in the pocket where he had put the velvet box. "Shit! Guys knock it off." He said, he walked to the bathroom to go clean off the box without JJ seeing it.
"What's with him?" Emily asked.
"I'll go see." Morgan said, following him down the hall to the bathroom. "Reid man, what's up?" He asked the young genius, who faced away from him.
"Nothing." He said wiping a damp washrag over the velvet box. It seemed to be cleaning up nicely.
"What's that?" Morgan asked when he saw the box. Reid shut the door.
"It's nothing." He said.
"Dude are you going to… my man!" Morgan said loudly.
"Quite!" Reid hissed.
"Can I see it?" Morgan asked.
"I am not opening this box until I ask her, I don't want to loose the ring." He said pushing past Morgan and walking out the door. He shoved the box in his other pocket. Morgan followed him back out the door.
"What is there to eat?" Morgan asked, then he picked a pickle up off of the couch and bit into it.
"Okay that's disgusting." Emily whined.
"You're the one who threw a perfectly good pickle onto the couch." Morgan countered, taking another bite out of the pickle. JJ sprinted down the hall to the bathroom.
"Nice going Morgan." Reid said then he turned and followed JJ down the hall where she was bent over the toilet. Her body heaved as she emptied the contents of her stomach in the toilet. Reid walked over to her side and pulled her hair out of her face. He started rubbing her back soothingly.
"I'm alright." She said standing up to rinse her mouth out.
"Morgan made you throw up right?" He asked.
"No, actually that was kind of funny. I think the stress and early stages of pregnancy are getting to me." She said.
"Stress? You're here among friends." He said.
"When you were gone I was kind of scared." She said.
"Oh baby, I'm sorry. If I had known leaving would make you scared…" He started to say, but JJ cut him off my capturing his lips in a passionate kiss. They stumbled out of the bathroom and Reid pinned JJ gently to the wall.
"Hey guys come on!" Morgan whined from the end of the hall. Everyone seemed to be thinking the same thing.
"Well look at it this way, PTSD will not be affecting their sex life." Garcia said, Morgan looked at her like she was insane. "It's true."
"She's got a point." Emily said. Reid and JJ walked back down the hall, she walked in front of him while his hands rested on her stomach.
"They're so cute!" Garcia squealed.
"Yeah sure whatever." Morgan said grabbing the last carrot and shoving it in his mouth. Everyone laughed.
"You guys are cleaning up this mess." JJ said, Emily and Garcia both moaned.
"It's only fair." Rossi said.
"Their right." Hotch said. Both men were relieved that they wouldn't have to clean up the vegetables and ranch dip. The rest of the day went by in a blur of activity. They finally got the living room cleaned up and everyone ate nachos and hot dogs. Though it was fun JJ was still uneasy, she knew it was stupid because they were her friends, but PTSD worked in strange ways.
"You okay?" Reid asked once everyone had left. He sat on the couch with JJ's head in his lap.
"Yeah." She said.
"You seemed uneasy all night." He said.
"I know, I'm sorry." She said.
"There is no need for you to apologize, I just want to know what's the matter." He said, brushing some of her hair out of her face.
"They're my friends, I shouldn't be afraid of them, but for some reason I am." JJ confessed.
"Sweetie, you were kidnapped by an old friend of yours, someone you trusted very much. You have every reason to be uneasy around any of your friends. I would be too if it was me." Reid said.
"Yeah I guess." She said. "When will it stop?"
"Honestly I have no clue, but we will get through it together." He said. JJ sat up and captured his lips in a passionate kiss.
"You, me, bedroom?" JJ asked once she released his lips.
"Of course." He said, he allowed her to drag him down the hall and to the bedroom. They might be alright after all.
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So I wrote this thing where they got into a fight, then I lost it, so I rewrote the chapter and decided not to make them fight. Instead I did the ring thing. Hope you enjoyed it!
Hugs to everyone in advance for reviewing!