I know you've all been waiting for this all week, so here it is. Chapter 16! I know I haven't been updating with quite my normal frequency - but my hope is that once I get my annual review for work written this weekend (who doesn't love a little goal setting for work over the weekend ...ugh...) that things will calm down a bit in the real world and I'll be able to work on getting you all and update or two during the week as well as a few over the weekends. :D
I don't own Criminal Minds - but you didn't come here to hear me say that or hear about my personal life - so on with the story!
Happy reading and enjoy :D
JJ sighed as she entered the bedroom it had been a long few days since Brian Matloff woke up from his coma. Spence had been staying in Roanoke with Hotch while they helped the prosecutor with the case. Luckily, after the events of the day today, Matloff changed his plea to guilty, which meant Spence would be home soon.
She peeled of her blouse and dress pants, eager to take a shower and change into comfortable clothes, but she paused in thought in front of the full length mirror in the corner of the bedroom. She studied her body for changes, signs, dead giveaways that she was now two months pregnant. They'd agreed to tell the team about the baby once she was in her second trimester just to be on the safe side. She was just hoping that her body wouldn't decide to give away the secret before they were ready. She also hoped that by the time they needed to tell the team about the baby, they were ready to tell the team about them. That was a conversation that she was dreading.
That was where Spence found her when he arrived home a few minutes later and headed for the bedroom to unpack his go bag and change. He paused in the doorway, watching as his girlfriend stood in front of the mirror in only her bra and panties. She stood facing the mirror, and appeared to study her reflection for a few minutes. Then she turned sideways and studied her reflection again. After a few more moments she turned again to look at her other profile in the mirror.
Spence set his go bag down just inside the door, laying his jacket and tie, which he had taken off during the flight back from Roanoke, on top of his bag. He stepped quietly over to JJ, and stepped up behind her as she stood once again facing the mirror, one hand on her belly, with her head tipped to the side as she contemplated her reflection.
JJ smiled as she watched Spence step up behind her in the reflection in the mirror. She relaxed back into his embrace as he wrapped his arms around her and shivered as the soft skin of his forearms, which were revealed by his rolled up shirt sleeves, brushed against her belly.
"Hi" Spence whispered as he buried his face in soft golden locks.
JJ turned her face towards him and rested her cheek on the soft cotton of his well-worn shirt. "Hi." She replied softly, a smile creeping on her face as Spence's hands began to wander.
Spence's head dropped down as he moved to press soft kisses along his girlfriend's graceful, swanlike neck while his hands slid and shifted across her torso. One hand moved to her hip, his long dexterous fingers tracing the line along the top of her panties from her hip to the center of her belly and back again with feather-light strokes against her satiny skin. His other hand moved up and cupped her breast through the satin and lace of her bra.
JJ gasped as Spence's thumb moved across the satin and lace cup of her bra. Her breasts were incredibly sensitive now and feeling of her boyfriend's thumb brushing the material of her bra again her nipple sent an electric current through her belly, her nether region, and down to her toes, causing them to curl into the carpet as she sagged back against Spence.
"Spence" JJ panted, reaching up and clutching at his hand, holding it in place.
"Shh… let me take care of you." Spence whispered in her ear as he continued to nuzzle his face against her neck while his thumb continued its torturous circuit back and forth across her nipple.
JJ twitched in Spence's arms as she felt his hand slide from her hip and across the front of her panties in his quest to please her. She groaned and tipped her head back on his shoulder as his fingers teased her through her panties.
JJ became a writhing mass of sensation as Spence's talented fingers slowly coaxed her closer and closer to the breaking point. It was all she could do to remember to draw in one heavy breath after another as Spence continued his delightful torment of her body.
Spence could tell JJ was close as he held and supported the quivering mass of her body in his arms. He kissed her temple and then slid his lips to her ear. "JJ, babe, open your beautiful eyes for me."
JJ blinked as she fought against the hazy feeling of being on the brink to acquiesce to Spence's request. Then she moaned low in her throat at the sight of their reflection in the mirror. Spence's tall lean form was pressed close behind her, his shirt sleeve clad arms with his forearms exposed were wrapped around her. He was palming one breast with one hand while his thumb continued it ministrations. The other hand, which had previously been teasing her through her panties, now playfully hovered momentarily above her belly and then his hand slid inside her panties. JJ swallowed and blinked at the sensation of Spence's hand cupping her and the skin on skin contact. She finally allowed her eyes to fall shut as the waves of pleasure washed over her, drawing her further and further out into the ocean of bliss.
"No, JJ, open your eyes." Spence whispered as his fingers slid against her, trailing teasingly against her, as his hand moved slowly under the cloaked disguise of her panties. He watched the effect his hands were having on her. Her breathing hitched at the indulgence of his hands repeatedly stroking over her body. Her long golden locks were tousled in sexy disarray and a rosy blush had bloomed across her skin.
JJ reopened her eyes and fought every instinct that told her to close her eyes as the bliss mounted. She found Spence's eyes in the mirror and held his gaze. She licked her lips seductively as Spence continued to push her closer and closer to the edge. Then with a crook of his fingers while his thumbs circled their respective tender buds of flesh, JJ gasped as Spence's endeavors reached their culmination and she fell apart in his arms.
Spence watched as JJ's endlessly electric blue eyes flashed in the final moments as her orgasm exploded through her. He always enjoyed watching as she peaked, knowing that he could do that to her, that it was him causing that reaction in her.
Spence slid his hand out of JJ's panties and slid his hand down behind her knees as he bent down slightly and lifted a very relaxed JJ into his arms as she sagged against him. He turned and laid her on the bed.
JJ whimpered in a needy manner as Spence pulled away. "Baby…"
"It's okay babe. I'm just going to get undressed." Spence replied as he bent down and kissed JJ softly.
JJ was only too eager to help Spence undress as he bent over her unbuttoning his shirt; she reached out and unfastened his belt buckle, unbuttoned his pants, and unzipped the zipper. With just an ever so slight push from JJ, Spence's pants fell into a heap around his ankles.
Spence laughed. "Someone is anxious."
"I missed you while you were in Roanoke the last few days." JJ pouted as she slipped her fingers into the waist band of his boxer's and tugged them down from his hips just as Spence undid the last button on his shirt.
JJ smiled wickedly up at Spence as she took in the sight of him naked from the waist down, at least as far as she could see at the moment, and his now open button down shirt exposing his abs and chest. She winked at him from where she lay on the bed as his erection sprung out to greet her. "I would say it looks like you missed me too, baby." JJ reached out and ran her hand up and down his length her fingers trailing lightly along his sensitive flesh.
Spence simultaneously attempted to remove his shirt and kick his feet free of his shoes. However, this caused him to topple forward onto the bed and land next to JJ with his legs tangled in his pants and his arms tangled in his shirt.
"Baby, are you okay?" JJ asked as she rested a hand on his hip, biting her lip to keep from laughing.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Spence replied a bit sheepishly as he rose slightly off the bed as he managed to fight his way free from his shirt sleeves. "But it would be really nice if my girlfriend wasn't laughing at me and my predicament." He said as he crawled forward and held himself above JJ on his arms while he tried to kick his shoes off of his feet.
"I'm not laughing" JJ shook her head and continued to bite her lip as a small giggle escaped.
"Oh really?" Spence asked. "And I suppose you're just biting you lip thoughtfully." He kicked his legs free of his pants and boxers and working off his socks.
JJ lifted a hand and pressed her pointer finger to Spence's chest. "Well my sexy boyfriend is above me, naked right now… so maybe I'm biting my lip to keep myself from mauling him." JJ teased flirtatiously.
Spence groaned as JJ dragged her finger down his chest and across his abdomen. "Nice try." He said as he shifted to rest on his side and twisted to face JJ, "but I don't quite believe you." Spence continued as he wiggled his fingers against JJ's ribs.
JJ shrieked with laughter as Spence began to tickle her. She wiggled and squirmed as she attempted to get away from the onslaught of Spence's punishment for laughing at him.
Spence smiled as he stopped tickling JJ, figuring that she had learned her lesson. JJ however took advantage of the reprieve from Spence's wiggling digits to wrestle him beneath her as she proceeded to tickle him, her fingers moving teasingly across what she knew to be his most ticklish spots along his ribs, under his arms, and along his belly.
Spence's head was thrown back as he gasped to catch his breath into between peals of laughter while JJ tormented him mercilessly. Then he gasped as she shifted her position straddled above him.
JJ forgot all about tickling Spence as she felt him brush against her inner thigh when she moved. She braced her hands next to Spence's shoulders on the bed and leaned down to kiss him as his hands gently gripped her thighs.
She shifted, using her hands to hold herself up against his chest as she crushed her lips against his in a heated, torrid kiss. They both moaned into the kiss as she slid backwards just a bit; one hand slipped down his chest, across his belly, and wrapped itself around him, guiding him as she sank down joining their hips.
JJ moaned into the kissed and pulled away from Spence's lips to gasp for a few breaths, resting her forehead against Spence's, as he gripped her thighs and rolled his hips, pressing into her more deeply and then pulling back only to repeat the motion again and again at the sound of her moans.
After their very passionate welcome home for Spence, the young couple lay in each other's arms discussing their week as well as cuddling together.
"So I have my first prenatal appointment this weekend." JJ bit her lip as she looked up at Spence from where her head was propped up on his chest. "Do you want to come with?"
Spence nodded. "Yeah… yeah, I do." He trailed his fingers lightly up and down her back.
"Okay." JJ nodded and snuggled back into Spence's side and fell asleep. Hey body was busy building a person after all.
Spence's eyes grew wide as he watched JJ's doctor put a condom and gel on the ultrasound probe and then inserted it into JJ. At least he assumed so when she squeezed his hand after the probe slipped beneath the sheet that was covering the lower half of her body as she lay on the exam table with her feet in stir ups. He really hadn't been sure what to expect when he ageed to come to her appointment, but it certainly hadn't been this.
"And there's junior." The doctor said glancing over her shoulder to look at JJ and Spence as the image of the fetus, their baby came up on the screen.
JJ gasped and covered her mouth with her free hand as she teared up a bit. "Damn hormones." She muttered as she wiped at her eyes.
Spence tipped his head to the side as he studied the grainy image on the screen.
The doctor smiled at seeing the expression on Spencer's face. It was an expression she saw on almost every new Dad's face the first time they saw their baby on the screen. "The baby is right here..." She said using the tip of her pen to point out the baby on the screen. "the kidney bean sized and shape spot right there."
Spence shook his head. "No, no I see it… I was just thinking it looks more like a sea monkey right now than a baby."
JJ giggled and shook her head as she looked back and forth between Spence and their still incredibly small kidney bean sized baby on the screen.
"Yes, yes I supposed it does." The doctor said with a smile realizing that this new Daddy was just a bit different than most, but in a good way.
"You know, you're right. The baby does look a lot like a sea monkey right now…" JJ said as they sat curled up together on the couch after getting home from the doctor.
"Yeah," Spence said wistfully as he reached out and ran a finger over the baby's first picture ever. "but it's our sea monkey."
JJ smiled. "You know, maybe we should give the baby a nick name until we know if it's a boy or a girl and we can pick a name. I hate the idea of spending the next several months calling the baby 'it'"
"Uh, you mean like peanut or…" Spence paused as he struggled to come up with another nickname that he'd heard the women in waiting room at the doctor's office use to refer to their unborn children.
"Actually baby, I was thinking that you came up with a pretty cute nickname."
"I did?" Spence asked in shock.
"Mm hm" JJ hummed. "I was thinking monkey would be a cute nickname for the baby."
Over the course of the next few weeks, JJ and Spence agreed that they should find a house as they didn't want to raise the baby in an apartment. They wanted the baby to have a yard and a neighborhood with other children to play with. After looking at houses for a couple of weeks they'd stumbled across their ideal house in a great neighborhood. It even had a pool and a pool house, as unique as that was for Virginia. Not only had it been the ideal house, but while the downturn in the housing market was a sad affair, it had placed a house that would have been somewhat of a stretch for them budget-wise, well within their budget and financing was easily approved for them.
Spence sat stretching his hand. "I don't think I've ever signed my name so many times before in my life, not even doing paperwork at work."
"Ah, but the good news is these now belong to you." their real estate agent said as she held out a key ring with all of the keys to the house as well as the garage door openers. "Congratulations."
"Thanks" JJ replied with a smile and then glanced at her watch. They'd been lucky to be able to schedule an early morning closing before they had to be at work, but now they really did need to get to the office.
"So, uh, what's your flight number?" JJ asked Will over the phone as she sat in her office preparing for their daily case briefing. Fortunately, no cases had crossed her desk that looked urgent, so it looked like it would be an office day filled with case files, case files, and more case files.
"JJ don't worry about it. I'll get a taxi or somethin'" Will replied.
"No, Spence and I are gonna come pick you up." JJ replied. "Since you'll be doing manual labor with helping us both get moved and then getting yourself settled once the movers get here with your things… the least we can do is pick you up from the airport."
At that moment Hotch appeared at the door to her office. "JJ can you get the team together? We have a case."
"Uh… nothing's come across my desk." JJ replied in confusion as she looked up at Hotch.
"This one came directly to me." Hotch replied and then turned and headed for the round table room.
"JJ" Spence said and nodded his head towards the alcove of the hotel lobby where Will sat in a chair.
JJ turned around to look where Spence was nodding and walked toward Will. "Will, what are you doing here?"
"You forgot to give me keys and considering the movers are going to be here in the day after tomorrow, well I might need those." Will replied with a shrug as he stuffed his hands in his pockets and the strap of his bag settled across his chest.
"Right… sorry, I wasn't thinking; I could have overnighted them to you." JJ replied as she opened her purse and pulled out the key ring holding the keys to her and Spence's newly acquired house that even they hadn't had an opportunity to use as the closing had been just that morning before they came to work. She handed the keys over to Will.
"Detective" Hotch said holding out his hand to shake Will's.
"I'm sorry about showing up like this. I know you're workin'" Will replied as he shook Hotch's hand. "But I needed keys." Will said as he held up the keys. "I'll see y'all when you get home, but be careful, especially with what's goin' on." Will said cryptically.
"Is there a problem?" Hotch asked in a concerned voice.
JJ sighed and turned catching Spence's eye, sending him a distressed look. "Uh... I'm pregnant." This was not how she'd wanted to tell the team… she and Spence had still been trying to figure out how to tell the team about them being together… this was definitely not the ideal situation they'd been hoping for. She could see that Spence was thinking the same thing based on his facial expression.
"Oh my god, JJ! Congratulations." Emily said cheerfully as she stepped closer and leaned in to hug her.
"It's okay, we'll set everything straight later." Spence whispered in her ear as he wrapped her up in a hug.
JJ nodded against his shoulder.
"We'll, uh, give you both some privacy." Hotch said in shock.
JJ could sense that Hotch just didn't know how to respond to not having been informed. She followed after him, not sure if she was brave enough to have him be the first to know her and Spence's secrets or not. "Hotch"
Hotch turned on his heel to face JJ. "JJ, you could have told me."
"I know" JJ replied in an unsure manner, as she really wasn't sure how to tell Hotch or what exactly that would mean for her and Spence.
"Listen, I understand if you need to take some time…" Hotch said in understanding.
"No…" JJ replied as she froze for a moment. "I… I want to be here." She replied.
"Okay" Hotch nodded, "7 am." He said and then turned and headed for the elevator to head to his hotel room.
Spence hung back as Emily followed after Hotch towards the elevators. He rubbed JJ's back inconspicuously and reached down and briefly took her hand in his, squeezing to silently let her know that everything would be okay. "I'll be up for a while if you want to talk." He whispered.
JJ shook her head. "When we get home. You go ahead I'll be up in a few." And then she turned to face Will pinching the bridge of her nose.
"JJ, cher, I am soooo sorry. I thought you an' Spencer had already told your team. I should have called…" Will apologized for giving away half of JJ and Spence's secret.
"I know you're sorry Will and trust me, Spence and I aren't mad. We'll figure everything out once we get home."
"Alright, well I should get going. It's going to be late as it is when I get back to DC." Will replied as he hoisted his bag up to his shoulder.
"Are you sure you don't want to crash here and head back in the morning? It's awfully late."
"No, I'd hate to be stuck on a train and have the movers call to say they're almost there." Will explained.
Then JJ realized something. "Wait, Will you'll need these too." JJ said as she pulled the keys to her apartment out of her purse. "I made up the guest bedroom for you last night." She said referring to the second bedroom of her apartment.
Will nodded. "Thanks cher. I imagine sleeping on the bare floor at the house wouldn't have been too comfortable."
JJ smiled. "Hopefully we'll wrap this case up quick and see you in a day or two."
JJ leaned her head against the window of the jet as she thought about how terrifying and horrible the case in New York was. Kate Joiner was dead. Hotch and Morgan were driving home due to the damage to Hotch's ear in the blast that had killed Kate. And then there was the horrifying experience of driving through New York City back to 26 Fed and not knowing what had happened. Her heart fell through her stomach when she heard Shelly say that there had been an explosion nearby… that she didn't know where the team was... that meant that she didn't know where Spence was in all the mayhem.
Spence leaned back in his seat studying JJ while he listened to Dave and Emily and Garcia banter and joke back and forth about a variety of things on the flight home as his mind drifted back over the last couple of days. The case had been intense even by their standards. His heart had been in his throat when the news announced that it had been a black SUV that had blown up and the rest of the team was unaccounted for… JJ was unaccounted for…
Rossi stood up from his seat just after the jet touched down. "You know what, take the rest of the day off. It's Friday and we just wrapped up one hell of a case. I'll let Hotch know."
"Oh we should do lunch!" Garcia exclaimed. "Emily, Jayje… lunch and some shopping?"
"Oh I think JJ has better things to do than go to lunch and shopping with us." Emily teased.
"What could possibly be more important that shopping on a Friday afternoon off?" Garcia asked as she glanced at JJ who hadn't really been herself for the last several weeks.
Emily grinned. "I am sure she wants to get home and spent some quality time with her baby daddy."
Garcia head swiveled back and forth between her two best female friends as she attempted to put the pieces together. Then she erupted into a high pitched squeal. "Jayje! You're pregnant?... Wait you're pregnant and you didn't tell me?"
"I…" JJ paused and glanced sideways at Spence as she grimaced slightly.
"Oh… who am I kidding, this is nothing to be anything less than thrilled about. We're having a baby!" Penelope squealed again. "Congratulations to you and the baby daddy." She replied with a wink and then they all turned and headed down the aisle of the jet to enjoy their now three day weekend.
Rossi's eyebrows rose on his forehead at the news JJ was pregnant. He mussed over all the pieces of information he had, what he'd noticed, and he pondered, but kept quiet about what he was thinking. There was plenty of time for him to determine if what he was thinking was true.
JJ gasped as she entered her apartment at finding it empty, completely empty except for the appliances. "Will?" she called out getting no response. Either she been robbed by the most efficient robbers ever, who had simply taken everything… or Will had taken care of moving her and Spence's things from her apartment to the house.
Spence's spine stiffened at the sight of his slightly open apartment door and pulled his gun out of the holster and pushed the door open far enough for him to be able to slip quietly past it with the toe of his shoe. "Freeze FBI!" Spence exclaimed as he pointed his gun at the back of the large burly man who was stacking boxes on a dolly, another man who was packing his things into boxes, and a third man who was taking a sip from a bottle of water.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Will exclaimed as he darted out of Spence's bedroom. "Spencer put down the gun." Will said as he approached. "These are the moving guys. I thought it be a nice surprise for you an' JJ to come home and already be moved into the house."
Spence sagged with relief. "Will… how'd you get a key?"
"It was on the key ring when JJ gave me the keys to her apartment." Will replied with a shrug. "Where's JJ?"
"At her apartment. Emily was insistent on giving me a ride home so that JJ could get home to her baby daddy sooner… they seem to think that's you, by the way." Spence said with a sigh as he pulled his phone out of his pants pocket.
"Her completely empty apartment? And wait… your team thinks that I'm the daddy?" Will asked and then he doubled over in laughter at the thought considering the turn of events since he and JJ had dated for those few brief months before everything with Charlie.
At that moment Spence's cell phone rang. "Reid"
"Baby… my apartment is completely empty." JJ said as she stood turning around in circle in the middle of her living room.
"Just be glad it was empty when you got there. I pulled my gun on Will and the movers because I thought I was being robbed." Spence said sheepishly as he glanced up at the movers who grinned in amusement now that the gun was no longer pointed at them. They were sure going to have a story for their friends over beer when they got home.
JJ laughed out loud. "Okay, you win."
"JJ, why don't you come over here? The movers are still packing and Will is here. You can change too. I don't think our clothes are all packed up yet." Spence said glancing at Will who shook his head no.
A few hours later, an exhausted Will and Spence collapsed on the couch in the living room of the house after the movers unloaded everything from JJ and Spence's apartments in the house.
"I don't think I've worked that hard in a while." Will said.
"You could have let me help." JJ said from where she sat next to Spence. "Then it wouldn't have taken so long."
"No, actually we couldn't." Spence said as he reached out and took JJ's hand in his. "I know it's hard for you to not be able to do everything you would have before… to not be as independent as you were before, but it's what's best for the baby. And by the way please tell me that after everything that happened in New York that you'll agree to stay out of the field, at least the dangerous situations until the baby comes." Spence said as he rolled his head against the back of the couch to look at JJ.
"I…" JJ started to argue, but then realized that Spence was right. "Okay. I'll let Hotch know that I want to work point from the Police stations and precincts as much as possible for the next 6 months." JJ sighed.
"Good." Spence replied and leaned forward to kiss JJ.
"Speaking of New York" Will said once Spencer and JJ broke up their kiss. "Spencer tells me that the team thinks I'm your baby's daddy?" he chuckled.
"Yeah… um, sorry about that… I just… we're not quite ready to tell the team about us. I don't know what it will mean. We could be transferred from the team and I just…" JJ sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.
Will nodded. "Well in that case cher, I'm fine with it if you want to let them continue to think it's me."
JJ and Spence glanced at each other and then back at Will… that would help relieve some of the stress and pressure off of them if they didn't have to think, at least for the time being, about how to tell the team.
"Are you sure?" JJ asked Will then she turned to look at Spence. "Are you sure that this is what you want to do Spence? I do want the team to know the baby is yours… eventually, when we're ready."
Spence pondered it in his head. "Well I think maybe we can let them continue to think what they already think for a while longer. If anyone asks point blank who the father is, we'll obviously tell them the truth. Letting them think that it's Will buys us the time we need to adjust to everything and get ready for the baby without all the extra added pressure from the team."