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 Aladdin and 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 5:

Home

Spencer walked into Gabriella's hospital room. Since she could talk now, she primarily used the dry erase board to draw on. "Hey."

"Hi." She greeted in return, looking up. "I'm going home today."

"That's great. Um, Gabby…have you been unhappy working for the police?" He asked as he took the seat next to the bed. Gabby looked up at him, her eyebrow raised.

"Somewhat. I'm not sure if the police force is where I belong, Spencer. Especially after John's wife visited me yesterday before your visit. She told me that he was pronounced DOA." DOA meant dead on arrival, Spencer knew from his own experience with the Behavioral Analysis Unit. "I didn't want John to die. He has two daughters, aged fifteen and eight, and a son who is barely three years old!" She sobbed. Spencer gathered her into his arms.

"It's not your fault, sweetheart. You were almost dead when they brought you here." Spencer tried to calm his sobbing girlfriend. "He was shot five times. You were shot twice." His voice wavered at the thought of losing her, but he pushed it away from his mind. "It's not your fault. What else did she say?" he tried to keep her talking.

"She said that I shouldn't blame myself because John wouldn't want me to, that I was still welcome at their house for Sunday dinner since John considered me as one of his daughters…I just don't want to look those kids in the face because doing so would mean that I couldn't save their father." Gabby shook her head. "If I could've done something to save him…"

"It's not your fault, Gabs. You did all the best you could in that moment." He said as he gently cupped her face with his hands. "I should introduce you to Derek Morgan. He's seen a few cops murdered in front of him, plus his father was killed in the line of duty." He murmured as a way of thinking. Derek might be able to help her with the blame that she seemed to be placing on herself.

"Why did you ask if I was unhappy with the police force?" She asked, ignoring his rambling.

"Because your police chief is recommending a transfer to the BAU…to my team in particular. Hotch, my Unit Chief, wanted me to try my hand at convincing you to take your chief's recommendation." Spencer answered. He noticed that she was fiddling with the marker, tossing it from hand to hand loosely.

"Convincing me, huh?" She smiled at him and shook her head.

"Yeah. I mean, you'd see more of me there then you'd see me in the police department. Wouldn't it make our dating a whole lot easier?" He was astonished to hear her laugh all of a sudden. That was another thing he could tack on his list of wants – to make her laugh more often.

"What about the rules my father helped put in place?" She asked. If there was one time before this that Spencer had cursed the rules, he couldn't remember.

"Screw the rules. You're mine." She laughed again at his outburst.

"I never thought I'd see the day that Spencer Reid became a rebel..." She murmured, shaking her head. "And I'm yours? Last time I checked, to quote Jasmine from Aladdin, I'm not a prize to be won." No, she was better than that.

"I didn't mean it that way." Spencer stood up and crossed his legs as he leaned against the wall.

"I know you didn't, Spencer." She said as the nurse took out her IV from her arm. "We'll finish this discussion when we get to my house."

"In another hour, do you want help changing your bandages?" Spencer asked as he stepped through the threshold of Gabby's house. He was relieved to finally have her home, where he could kiss her without anyone looking at him funny for doing so.

"Yeah, that would be nice." She agreed as she set the bag containing her personal effects down.

"Gabs, what you said at the hospital about you not minding me touching you..." He looked at her as he willed the images that he had in his head away. "What exactly did you mean by that?" She turned around in alarm at his question.

"Spencer, my first two boyfriends broke up with me because I wouldn't...in their juvenile words, put out." Spencer frowned and wrinkled his nose in disgust.

"They broke up with you just because you wouldn't have sex with them?!" He exploded. She hadn't been ready and they'd tried to...God, he had an irrational urge to beat the crap out of those guys. He stamped the urge out.

"Yeah." She murmured before she sighed. Spencer watched her turn around and pick the bag back up so she could put things away.

Spencer walked up behind her and grabbed her by her waist. "Gabby...I, uh, I'm sorry about those guys. They shouldn't have treated you like that." He whispered into her ear. "I love you."

"Can I put my things away before you start on having your way with me first?" She asked shyly. Spencer let her go after pressing a quick kiss to her neck. He settled on the couch, waiting for her. It didn't take her long and she came back into the living room, settling herself next to him on the couch with her back against Spencer's side. "Working with you is going to be tough." She surmised as she looked at the wall. Spencer's arm snaked around her waist as she sighed.

"Why's that?" Spencer asked.

"I won't be able to show you how much I love you." Another sigh followed, but this time it sounded much more content to Spencer as he caressed her face.

"You think that you'll have it bad...but what about me? I'd be looking at you and having to deny myself the urge to take you into the break room and make out with you." He teased, although the joke did have a ring of truth to it. And he'd be doing more than just denying himself the urge to kiss her in the break room...

"Mm...that does sound bad." She murmured. "Almost fun."

"Almost fun?!" Spencer cried out. Gabriella snorted when she saw the look on his face. He looked like a kicked puppy. It didn't take much for her to do or say to get that particular look on Spencer's face, she remembered.

"Mm – hm." She hummed in agreement. "Almost as in we couldn't do anything about it until we got home." She explained to him when she looked up at him.

"Gabs, I never really realized how devious you were until now." Spencer groaned. Gabby smiled, then giggled softly. "So much time lost between us because of your mother."

"Admit it, you appreciate my deviousness, Spencer. And it wasn't her idea to move...it was my dad's and you know it." Spencer frowned, really disliking James in that moment. He had really liked James Chambers as a child, especially since James was his Sunday School teacher for a couple of years. And he had always thought Gabriella pretty.

"Maybe." he answered as he traced shapes on her arm with his fingertips.

"Maybe, he says." Gabby retorted as she looked at the wall. "When did you start believing in soul mates, Spencer?"

"I don't really know when I started believing, Gabs. When you moved, you left a void that was impossible to fill. Every time I thought about you, wondered how you were doing..." He paused to gather his thoughts, then continued, "It hurt that you were out of my life for good."

'Those had been Alex's feelings for Roxi...the overwhelming pain that led to his suicide' Gabby realized as Spencer continued drawing shapes on her arm. "But I'm not, Spencer. I'm here, I pulled through." She wanted to lessen his pain.

"You almost didn't." The genius insisted, his brown eyes boring into her blue ones. "You don't know how it made me feel to hear you had been shot at. I felt helpless, angry that I couldn't save you, sad you'd never know that I finally knew that you were meant to be the love of my life." When Spencer said 'love of my life', her heart beat even faster. "I'll never love another the way I love you, Gabs...I mean it."

"That's all well and good for now, Spencer, but if I do pass on..." She shook her head and continued, "No. When I do pass on, I'll want you to fall in love again. Be happy." She faced Spencer. "If you passed on, you'd expect me to do the same." She kissed him and even though it took Spencer a minute to recover from the totally unexpected kiss, he happily reciprocated.

"I love you." Spencer murmured.

"I..." She couldn't say the words to him. She felt them at her core, but when it came to saying them to the man she loved more than life itself, she couldn't.

"One of these days, you will, I promise." Spencer promised. He felt bad that he couldn't have shielded Gabriella from the idiots that had hurt her but he would give her the time, love and patience that she needed to heal with. Rossi trusted Spencer with her and if the older agent hadn't, he obviously wouldn't have reunited them. He smiled as she snuggled into him.

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