Title: Forever His

Author: pikachucranstongirl

Story Category: Criminal Minds

Rating: Teen

Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds, which is owned by the Mark Gordon Company. I just own Alexander Langston, Gabriella Chambers and Roxanne Hammond...I also don't own Nickelback's Far Away, N'Sync's Gonna Be Me, and a quote from Saturday's Warrior...so please don't sue.

Inspired By: Nickelback's Far Away in a twisted reincarnation sense

Summary: He's always loved her as Alexander Langston and Spencer Reid. When it comes down to it, he will find her...because she was always meant to be his.

Characters: Alexander Langston(OMC)/Spencer Reid, Roxanne Hammond/Gabriella Chambers(OFC)

Pairings: Alexander Langston/Roxanne Hammond, Spencer Reid/Gabriella Chambers

Universe: AU with Canon ties...

Chapter 3: Her Perfect Ten

"Who's Spencer, Chambers?" John asked again after a few minutes had elapsed.

"A friend of mine. Last night, we had a heated discussion and I asked him to leave, but I think he's serious about this, John." She closed her eyes in embarrassment. "Serious about loving me." John looked at her. "But I'm so burned."

"Love isn't without its fair share of risks, Gabriella." John offered, watching her drum her fingers on her desk. "What's this Spencer like?"

"He's smart, kind, cautious, caring…funny when his jokes actually make sense." Gabby shook her head as she thought of Spencer. "He has this habit of rambling when he's interested in a particular subject or upset. Has the inability to keep his mouth shut." John laughed when he heard the 'inability to keep his mouth shut' part of her comment.

"Sounds like you love him too." John commented as Gabby worked on some paperwork.

"I might have loved him once upon a time, John but…those days are long gone. We've both changed too much for a relationship."

"Loved him once upon a time, Gabriella?"

"Well, what would have turned into love at some point if my parents hadn't moved me here." Gabby looked up and put her pen down. "My point is that he's too perfect for me to be real, John." Her partner chuckled as they headed to the patrol car they used.

"Love, if it's true, waits. You still love him."

"I don't love him. I have three exes to prove that, one of which who is in jail for repeatedly offending." Gabby insisted as she buckled up. John shot her a glance.

"May I remind you that you practically breathed his name when you read the accompanying card?" John asked, making Gabby frown. She did not do what John suggested. Breathing Spencer's name…that was absolutely ridiculous.

She wasn't sure how she got here, just that she and John had attended a domestic disturbance call…She stood in an area of nothingness so white, it hurt her eyes. There was no color around her as she looked in every direction. "Where am I?" she asked.

"Your physical body is healing." A petite woman, who looked to be about 5'11 with brunette hair, olive skintone and blue eyes told her. "Many spirits come here when their bodies are too weak to hold them."

"You think they'd get a decorator." Gabby muttered.

"That was the first thing I said when I arrived here for my permanent stay. We're more alike than I previously thought." The woman laughed. "Comments like those always made my Alex laugh." She shook her head.

"Your Alex…who are you?"

"I used to be you in a previous life, Gabriella. I found my soul mate and had seven years with him before I -" She tried to explain.

"The Roxanne Hammond case?" The woman nodded.

"I am Roxanne. Roxi to Alex, my family and friends." She introduced herself. "It's hard to explain, so I will show you what happened." The scene passed by and Gabby watched with horror, wondering if Spencer was by her bedside as she lay there in a coma.

"If I'm you, then Spencer is…" She struggled to wrap her mind around the concept.

"Yes. Don't make him wait any longer, Gabriella. You won't get a more perfect man than who's waiting down there for you." Roxanne advised. "It may have taken him a little longer to get used to the idea…" Gabby looked at Roxanne, realizing that the woman before her may have been responsible for the disastrous conversation when she was nine.

"You somehow manipulated me into saying that, didn't you?" She asked as she tapped her hand against her leg in irritation. Roxanne laughed.

"I did, but you have to admit that it worked out for the best. That conversation has been on his mind since eighteen, when he first searched for you." The fact that Spencer hadn't given up on her yet was heartening. "He's not going to wait forever for you, you know. Three years from now, if you still haven't given him a chance, he will move on. The promise we made him make back when he was Alex weighs heavily on his subconscious mind." Roxanne told her.

Then she was slammed back into her body, without any warning. Her hearing was the first sense to return.

"Any change?" David Rossi asked whoever was in the room.

"No. Her chances of ever coming out of this coma unscathed is getting slimmer by the day." Spencer's voice answered. "I wanted to punch that guy's face in at the very least." She heard David Rossi laugh at Spencer's angry retort.

"You weren't the only one, kid. You should've seen the department chief's face when he was told that Gabriella was critically injured from a response call. He looked murderous." Another man replied. Gabby knew that if Rossi was so inclined, he would shoot her attacker.

"…Hey Rossi, why did you give me her address?" Reid asked.

"Reid, I'm not as stupid as you and Gabrielle seem to think I am. My god-daughter has a picture of you on her mantel and every time she looks at it, she sighs. If my god-daughter doesn't love you back, then I'm a monkey's uncle." Rossi replied.

Her body was slow to awaken, but finally she was able to open her eyes, and felt the pain she was in. Something protruded in her throat. Spencer was instantly by her side as he noticed her eyes flutter open. "Gabs?" He asked, then left. He got the nurse and doctor. As they came in, Spencer was holding her hand. "Everything will be alright."

The doctor said that they'd take her feeding tube out tomorrow if there wasn't a relapse back into the coma.

The next day, Spencer brought a dry erase board, markers and eraser for her to use. Gabby uncapped the black marker and wrote, 'Thank you'.

"You're welcome." He replied softly as she erased the comment. His honey - brown eyes never left hers. "Dave's going to be happy to see you awake too."

'Rossi's nuts.' Her comment had Reid give her a half smile.

"Apparently, he thinks that you're in love with me." She looked into his brown eyes, remembering Roxanne's warning. She didn't want to lose him. He was hers, for better or worse. "Load of baloney, right?" He asked her, so he could be sure of her love for him.

'He's right, Spencer…I love you' She told him, her eyes tearing up.

"I love you too, Gabs." He murmured, running his thumb over her cheekbone. Gabby closed her eyes as she leaned into his touch. She could get used to Spencer touching her like this. Getting closer than she had allowed any man previously to do to her.

'Will you go out with me when I get out of here?' she asked. Spencer smiled at her as he took her hand and caressed it with his thumb.

"You giving me a chance?" He asked in return.

'Yes. Spencer, the reason that I held you at arm's length after I hugged you…' she paused in her writing to gather her thoughts.

"Gabby…it's okay. You don't have to explain." Spencer tried to soothe her. Gabby shook her head. He needed to know this. If they were going to make a relationship work, then this needed to be told.

'No, you need to know this. I was sexually molested at eleven.' Spencer stared at the dry erase board for a while before she started writing some more. 'It never graduated beyond heavy…petting because one of my former elementary school teachers recognized the reticence, the failing grades…I was a classic case. I never let my boyfriends touch me if I could help it. You're the first man besides Rossi that I have voluntarily let touch me aside from the practice of shaking hands.' She capped the marker.

"Gabs…" he whispered as she erased the dry erase board before uncapping the marker again and writing.

'And I…I don't mind you touching me.' She glanced down at his tie, frowning at it. 'That is the ugliest damned tie ever...' Spencer laughed. Gabby wasn't the only one to tell him that the tie he was currently sporting was ugly because JJ and Prentiss had expressed similar concerns over his fashion sense before. 'It's an eyesore, Spencer.' He took the board, marker - capping it in the process - and eraser.

"We'll talk later." He murmured, lightly brushing her forehead with his lips. "You're going to get that tube taken out now."

She had fallen asleep after the surgery due to the pain medication they'd given her to manage the worst of it and Spencer had left. Gabby looked around wildly for the slim agent, wondering if his reaction last night about what had happened to her had been a lie. She picked up the dry erase board, reading the message Spencer had left behind.

Gabby,

I had to leave to get ready for work. If you wake before I get back there, go back to sleep and I'll see you later if the team doesn't have a case. I love you, sweetheart.

- Love, Spencer

Gabby smiled, set the board back on the rollaway table, and drifted back to sleep. He was her perfect ten, and she wouldn't change one thing about him…

Author's note: Thanks for the reviews and support for this story. I wasn't sure how this would be received with the whole reincarnation idea. Spencer is an integral part of the CM team and if you have an idea that screws up the character, you mess with the whole balance of the team. Please read and review!