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 6:
Anthrax
Gabriella was still undecided on joining the FBI. On one hand, she'd get to spend professional time with Spencer and on the other, she realized that she may have been burnt out by law enforcement in general. Spencer didn't pressure her to make a choice either way. Of course, when her leave was finished, she'd have to make that choice. For now, she was content with her life.
"You okay, sweetheart?" Spencer asked as he cooked dinner. Gabriella had just seen her doctor to make sure she was healing correctly and with Spencer's attentive care, she was.
"Yeah...I was just thinking." She replied as she grabbed the dry erase marker on the table and tossed it between her hands. "I hope that your boss hasn't been giving you too hard of a time because I haven't made my mind up yet."
"Hotch isn't like that, Gabby. He understands that you need time." Spencer replied.
"I'm content with spending time with you. I may quit my job." She admitted. Spencer shot her a half smile as he put their dinner onto plates.
"Why, so we can start a family?" He joked as he handed her the plate.
"Spencer..." She groaned, resisting the urge to put her face in her food. "I haven't forgotten what you wrote me about Diana." The mention of his mother sobered Spencer. "What I meant was that I was burned out by law enforcement in general."
"Actually, my mother wants grandkids, Gabs." Gabby frowned as she considered the thought. She'd never even thought of having children with the man that she loved. "You're the only woman that I'd consider..." Spencer frowned as he thought of what to say.
"Knocking up?" Gabriella asked, wondering how her genius would respond to the crude comment.
"Gabriella!" Spencer exclaimed, glad that he hadn't taken a bite of his dinner yet. He was already three sheets of red to the wind. "I meant you were the only woman that I'd consider to be the mother of my children."
"Spencer, it's no secret that you don't want children." Gabby replied, setting down her fork. The genius was staring at his salad as he thought about it.
"I'd consider having them only if you were the mother, Gabs." he reiterated again. Dizzy with embarrassment, she couldn't meet Spencer's rich brown eyes. It felt like he was trying to read them. And the thought of her having their child would not leave her mind.
"You're joking." She stated as she speared one of her meatballs. "You must be joking."
"I'm not." Spencer answered her in a matter of fact sort of way. "I love you and I know that you want kids." Gabriella had a feeling that Spencer was only saying that to make her happy.
"Well...I know that you don't want them, Spencer." Gabby retorted, making Spencer wince. Talking about children made her think things that she oughtn't think around Spencer. "Lets drop this and eat." Silence reigned throughout the rest of the meal.
The last thing that Gabriella Chambers expected to get the next day was a phone call from the hospital. "Hello, is this Gabriella Chambers?" A woman's voice asked. Gabriella frowned and looked at the clock. Spencer was supposed to be home by now to cook dinner. They traded the job every week.
"Speaking." Her throat went dry. Spencer not being home equaled – in her mind, at least – something terrible happening to him.
"Spencer Reid was just admitted into the hospital. As far as we know, you're the only person he lists as an emergency contact in his wallet." The only reason she was even listed was because it had been at her insistence that he do so. His mother was in a sanitarium, located in Las Vegas and couldn't help him anyways.
"I'll be there. Is he at Rose Valley Memorial?" After getting an answer in the affirmative, Gabby got off the phone and sat down, wondering just what Spencer had come down with. He had been as healthy as a horse, so to hear that he had been admitted to the hospital had been shocking.
It didn't take her long to get to the hospital that Reid had been admitted to and then find the room he was in. She stopped at the door to observe Reid. Reid's normally pale skin looked like he was lying at death's door. The white hospital gown didn't help the situation either. "Gabriella Chambers?" A dark-skinned man asked. She looked into his charismatic eyes.
"Yes." Gabriella tersely answered, nervous.
"I'm SSA Derek Morgan. I work with Spencer in the BAU." He introduced himself. "I apologize for asking the hospital staff to call you against Reid's wishes, but..." He trailed off and Gabby focused her gaze on her boyfriend laying in the hospital bed. "We were on a case in DC when Spencer contracted the aerial form of anthrax." Gabby gasped. Anthrax was particularly troublesome.
"Will he survive?" Gabriella asked.
"They're working on locating the cure now." was all Derek could tell her. "How long have you and the kid been dating?" The question took her aback. It was obvious to her that Derek Morgan cared about Spencer Reid in his own way to even ask her that.
"We've been dating for about three months." She honestly answered the agent. "It's as long as I've been out of the hospital for my near death by gunshot." Morgan nodded.
"Well, I'm gonna go get something to eat. Want something? I'm sure Reid wouldn't forgive me if I starved you." Gabby laughed at the joke that Morgan inserted about Spencer, although Spencer would be madder at her in truth for starving herself. She glanced at Spencer. There were some things that she needed to say to him without Morgan there. Her throat constricted at the quickly approaching possibility of losing the love of her life before she could tell him that she loved him as much as he loved her, if not more.
"How about this...you go get yourself something to eat while I watch Spencer and when you come back, then I will go and get myself something to eat while you keep an eye on moronic genius over there." Morgan chuckled at her response. Really, she didn't think it was that funny.
"Deal." He commented before leaving. Gabriella pulled up a chair.
"Spencer...I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm sorry that I haven't said that I love you to you yet. I love you, Spencer. I've always loved you." Gabriella bit her lip as she looked at the ceiling. She was embarrassed that she was acting like an idiot to an unconscious Spencer. "God help me but I love your rambling when you're embarrassed, upset or just plain interested in a subject. Don't leave me, Reid. I need you around to tell me useless facts about life. Like that time that you told me love didn't exist except as a chemical reaction in our brains. That was really useless." She laughed.
Even then, she'd known that Spencer was the only one for her...even if the genius hadn't known it himself yet. When had she first thought of it? It no longer mattered. "You make me laugh, even when it's one of your stupid chemistry jokes that I never will get no matter how long I live. I need someone to watch Star Trek with me, someone who's willing to hold me in his arms and whisper in my ear behind the scenes secrets."
A smile filled her features at that comment as she interlaced her hand with his. "You can beat this, Spencer, I know you can." After that last sentence, Reid gently squeezed her hand to mean I love you too. "Don't you dare leave me, Spencer." She reiterated.
Spencer awoke to find Morgan eating his jello again. "Where's Gabby?" he asked, his voice raspy. The older agent looked up. "Morgan, where's Gabby?" If anything had happened to her while he was unable to protect her, he'd never forgive himself.
"Calm down, man. She's talking with Hotch." Derek cautioned, then gestured to where the pair were standing, Hotch listening to Gabriella. "I guess your time with her was more telling than both Rossi and I guessed. She turned down Hotch's offer and I think she's retiring from being a police officer. Oh and I should warn you, she's royally pissed off with you about the anthrax ordeal." Derek laughed. "How you became friends with her, I'll never know, but I'll tell you what I do know about her. She is very protective of you, Pretty Boy."
"Pretty Boy? That's new." Gabby muttered as she stood at the door, her eyebrows raised. She leaned against the frame with a smile on her face.
"Morgan!" Reid exclaimed. He was not happy with the nickname being repeated in front of his girlfriend.
"He's mine, Derek. Go find your own Pretty Boy." Reid stared at the two, Derek grinning like an idiot. Gabriella was staring at the older agent with a death glare, the sort of glare Spencer had learned to avoid when growing up.
"Whatever, Princess." Morgan replied jokingly as he left the room.
"Princess? Is he flipping serious?!" Gabby rolled her eyes and sat down. She rubbed her face with both hands. "You scared me, Spencer. I thought I was never going to see you alive again." Spencer read the fear and anxiety on her face. "I love you, damn it." Spencer looked at her incredulously. "What?"
"You just said that you loved me. Say it again." Gabby shivered, remembering how Roxi had told her that Spencer was Alex and Alex had a compelling personality with certain people that could be interpreted as forcefulness.'
"I love you, Spencer. My pretty boy."
"Okay, now that's just insulting." Spencer muttered and Gabby grinned. Calling him pretty boy would be payback for scaring the living daylights out of her.
"When I get my hands on Morgan…" Spencer mumbled. Gabby knew that Spencer hated whatever nickname Morgan usually gave him.
"Does that mean I can call you Pretty Boy?" Gabby also knew she was pushing Reid, who was still in recovery from the anthrax. He looked so deathly pale, but Morgan was right. Spencer still looked like a model rather than a FBI agent.
"In public, hell no. When we're alone…" He coughed for a second before he continued, "yes. I don't mind if you call me that in private but I'm still mad at Morgan for saying that in front of you." He wordlessly gestured to the seat next to the bed. Gabby nervously sat there and Spencer interlaced his hand in hers. "Why'd you turn down Hotch's offer?"
"I feel that I can still make a difference with the Police Department here in DC. John said that I was a damn good cop and I'm going to try to live up to his expectations." Spencer smiled and caressed her cheek with her thumb. "I'm a big girl now Spencer, you don't have to protect me." She got up. "Get some rest."
After he had recovered from the anthrax and came home to find that Hotch was keeping him out of the office for three weeks, Spencer rarely saw his girlfriend except when she came home and he was already asleep. So it was a surprise when he came home and found her reading a book. "Gabby?" He whispered, afraid that she had fallen asleep after all.
"Spencer.'' She put down the book, got up and kissed her boyfriend. "We need to talk.''
"Please tell me that it's not you wanting out.'' Spencer blurted. If it was that, he couldn't handle it in the long run. He'd do anything, be anything for her just to prevent that.
"No. It's just...after watching you with Henry the other day..." Spencer watched her bite her lip as she figured out what she wanted to say. "It made me realize that you're going to make a great father..." Spencer didn't realize that he had tuned his girlfriend out in order to avoid hearing what he thought she was saying.
'Sounds like a breakup to me' Spencer thought defensively. "And you'll be a great mom." he complimented.
"So we can try?" Gabby asked nervously. Spencer frowned as he tried to process what had just happened. It was painfully obvious that Spencer hadn't paid attention to what Gabby had been asking in that second.
"Wait, what?" he asked, shocked.
"I asked if we could try to have a baby, Spencer." Gabby reiterated. "A mini-version of us running around the house." Spencer stared at the floor. He had wanted to finish that conversation once Henry had left, but Gabby had shut herself down. "Forget it then." She started to stomp off and Spencer quickly grabbed her wrist in an attempt to keep her from leaving the room.
"I'm sorry." He apologized, looking at her.
"What did you think I was saying, Spencer?!" She snapped. Spencer gulped as he tried to find a way to say what he wanted to say without her getting mad at him.
"I thought you were breaking up with me because I didn't want kids." He commented with an amused smile directed at her.
"No!" She exclaimed. "Just because I – mph." Spencer kissed her, effectively cutting her off. He knew she hated being interrupted but he really didn't care at this point. He didn't want to hear a lecture from her.
Her phone rang. "Ignore that." Spencer commented.
She shook her head. "It's my mother, Spencer. Despite not letting her come over here, I still have to take her phone calls." Spencer sighed. He hated how Marcie treated her daughter. "Gabriella Chambers." She listened while Spencer raised his eyebrows. "Mom, what is it? I'm in the middle of something right now. No, Rossi needs to butt out of my love life. I don't have a boyfriend right now." Spencer had to bite back a laugh at the lie Gabby fed her mother. "Mom!" She sighed. "She hung up.
"Why did you lie to your mother about me, Gabs?" He asked.
"I had hoped to tell her myself, rather than Rossi blurting it out that I'm suddenly dating after I'd made my feelings clear about men. Anyways, she and Rossi have something to tell me, so would you go with me?" Her clear blue eyes sparkled as she looked at him pleadingly. Spencer shook his head. Gabriella was the only woman he could never say no to. "Please, Spencer?"
"Fine, but I'm only going because I love you." He agreed. She grinned at him.
"Thank you Spencer." She murmured as he gathered her into his arms. Spencer smiled, knowing that Gabby tended to bowl him over at these moments.
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