Hey everybody sorry about the almost month long absence. Mere days after my last update, the drama surrounding 'M' rated stories began here on FFN. Then I was on vacation for two weeks... a girl needs to rest and recupperate her brain sometime.

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And now, without further adieu, I present chapter 12.

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"Shhh… I know baby, I know." JJ said talking to Joshua as he fussed on the changing table and kicked his legs as Mommy put a fresh diaper on him.

She bent his arms up as she wrapped the blanket over his belly and tucked it into under his shoulder; then she repeated it with the other side as she swaddled him up. "You like that huh baby boy? Does this feel better huh?" she asked as she lifted the bottom of the blanket up, making sure to leave enough room so that Joshua would be able to kick his legs and wrapped that around him as well. "There, all done." She said smiling at Joshua as he happily sucked on his fingers now that he was all swaddled up.

"Let's go see what Daddy, Chloe, and Henry are doing." JJ said as she picked up Joshua and cradled him in her arms as she headed out of the nursery and downstairs.

"Hi guys" JJ said as she walked into the living room and sat down next to Spence on the couch.

"Hi" Spence replied and leaned in to kiss her hello. Then he leaned down and kissed Joshua on the forehead. "Hey buddy."

Chloe and Henry stopped playing with their toys and wandered over to say hi to Mommy and their baby brother.

Chloe climbed up on the couch next to Mommy and just watched her baby brother.

JJ smiled as she wrapped an arm around Chloe and rubbed her back. At three, Chloe was mesmerized for several minutes at a time by her baby brother who looked just like one of her baby dolls. "Hi sweetie."

"Hi Mommy" Chloe replied, never breaking her gaze from her baby brother. "Mommy why is Joshua all wrapped up wike that?"

"Well, this is called swaddling. It makes Joshua feel safe and warm. He still isn't quite used to being outside Mommy's tummy so this helps remind him of what that felt like."

"Oh" Chloe replied and nodded.

"Here Doshiea" Henry said as he climbed into Daddy's lap and thrust a stuffed dinosaur towards his baby brother.

Mommy took the stuffed dinosaur from Henry. "What's this for ba… big boy?" JJ asked, catching herself just as she was about to call Henry baby.

"It to Doshiea tan pway dinotaurs wit me." Henry explained eagerly.

JJ smiled at the adorableness of their little boy. "That's very nice of you Henry. You're a very good big brother, but it's going to be a while yet before Joshua can play dinosaurs with you."

"Oh" Henry replied sadly. "We pway dinotaurs tomowwow?" he asked.

"No it will be longer than tomorrow Henry." JJ replied. "Joshua is too little right now. He needs lots of sleep because he's growing. In a couple of months though, he'll be able to stay awake longer and I bet he'll love playing with you and Chloe."

"Otay" Henry sighed sadly at losing the playmate that he thought he was going to have for the afternoon. Chloe was fun, but she didn't like dinosaurs. She always wanted him to play house or dolls and he didn't like it. He didn't like it at all. He liked dinosaurs, and trucks.

"Do you want you dinosaur back?" Mommy asked as she held Henry's stuffed dinosaur out to him.

"No Doshiea teep it." Henry said as he shook his head. "Den we pway when he bigger."

"Are you sure?" Daddy asked. "That's your triceratops. I though he was your favorite."

"He is, but he teep Doshiea tompany 'til we tan pway. Den I 'tare aww my dinotaurs." Henry replied.

JJ smiled proudly at Henry for being such a generous little boy. "That's very sweet of you Henry. I'm sure that Joshua will love having your dinosaur to keep him company until he's big enough to play with you."

"Tell you what big guy, how about if Daddy plays dinosaurs with you today?" Spence asked.

"Weawwy?" Henry asked with big eyes as he looked up at Daddy.

"Sure, for a little while." Spence replied.

"Otay!" Henry replied, excited that he was going to get to play dinosaurs with Daddy. Daddy made the best roar sounds for all the different dinosaurs. He scrambled down from Daddy's lap and headed over to his dinosaurs.

JJ glanced down at Chloe. "How about we have a tea party sweetie?" JJ asked.

"What 'bout Joshua?" Chloe asked as she looked up at Mommy.

"Joshua is asleep for right now so I'll put him in his bassinet and then you and I can play." JJ said as she leaned down to kiss Chloe on the top of the head.

"Okay!" Chloe exclaimed and then scrambled off the couch to go set up for a tea party with Mommy.

Spence turned to look at JJ. "Have fun with your tea party." He said with a light smirk on his face as he helped her to her feet.

JJ smiled sweetly at her husband as she stood in front of him. "I will baby. You have fun playing dinosaurs." She whispered against his lips as she leaned up on her tippy toes with Joshua in her arms. She quickly closed the distance and gave Spence a quick peck on the lips.

"Baby girl, this doesn't even look good." Derek said as he held up the crooked and oddly gapped beginnings of a scarf.

Penelope giggled. "Not as easy as it looks huh hot stuff?"

Derek glared down at the knitting needles in his lap. "No, no its not… how is this even relaxing for you?"

"Well I've been doing it so long that I don't really have to think about it anymore for the most part." Penelope replied as she held up the project that she was working on to show it to her husband in all its detailed glory.

"Okay, now see that just isn't fair." Derek said as he looked back and forth between Penelope's project and his own.

"Aww… Don't be discouraged D. It took me years to be able to do this… and trust me, my first few projects looked a lot worse than that." Penelope said as she sat her own project off to the side.

"Thanks baby girl…. I think." Derek replied as he looked at the hideously awkward mass of yarn that his attempt at a scarf consisted of.

"Besides, you are trying my chocolate god…" Penelope said as she took the beginnings of the scarf, the ball of yarn, and the knitting needles out of her husband's hands and lap, "and that definitely deserves to be rewarded." She said as she set everything off to the side and then scooted closer to Derek and leaned in and kissed him.

"Mmm" Derek moaned as Penelope sucked on his lower lip. "I like the way you think baby girl." Derek growled as he deepened the kiss and lowered Penelope back on the couch and hovered above her.

"Oh baby boy, I think it time for much more than thinking. I think it's time for show and tell." Penelope said as she worked to pull her husband's t-shirt up his torso. Then she squealed and giggled at the feeling of Derek's goatee on her tender skin as he placed random kisses on her neck and worked his way down to her chest and cleavage.

"I am fine with that baby girl, as long as we're taking turns." Derek told his wife as he continued to place random kisses.

"I have hundreds of teal wagons" Penelope said as she removed her tea leaves from her cup while speaking over the phone with the team who were in Tampa Bay working on a case where a woman had walked into a gun shop and shot down the gun shop owner and four other customers in the store that morning. The case had quickly spiraled from there, "none of the registrations match the physical description of our unsub."

"What about the gun store?" Morgan asked as he walked back across the conference room they were working in from filling up his cup of coffee.

"Mm" Penelope replied as she took a sip of tea, "and then there's that. I searched the entire history of Larry's Gun Shop. Nothing of significance has ever happened there aside from this morning's massacre. And on top of that, you know those 600 plus registered .38 owners? They bought them all over the city, so we're pretty much screwed unless you can think of some other kind of connection." Penelope said speaking more quickly with each word as the caffeine took hold in her system.

"Then the date only means something to her." Ashley said as she looked around the conference room table at the rest of the team.

"Penelope we profiled that it was a major loss. Run accident reports, look for young victims." Morgan said as he swung back and forth in his chair.

"She seems to be going after heroes." Reid added.

"Okay, you guys I'm doing that now, but this will take foooorever." Penelope said as she simultaneously sighed in frustration. "Tampa's got almost half a million people. Everybody's got a story. How'm I even supposed to…" Penelope continued trailing off as the results of her search parameters popped up in a window on her screen. "Oh"

"Oh?" Ashley asked as she shifted in her seat.

"Oh sounds promising." Elle said as she leaned forward in her seat.

Emily nodded. "Oh is usually followed by PG wowing us with her tech goddess skills." She said with a small smile.

"Well, then I guess we like 'oh'" Zoe added with a smile.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah…. My super skills just squelched my pessimism." Penelope replied as she took in the details of the accident currently on her screen. "I have a couple of accidents here that happened in the last few years that happened on or around today's date. Please hold while I deduce." She explained as she flipped through a few screens. "Oh, this looks promising. Okay, there was a high speed traffic chase in West Tampa last year, a policeman was killed."

"Who were they chasing?" Morgan asked.

"Uh, Hanley Waters" Penelope replied.

"Maybe he's the target?" Morgan suggested.

"No, he's in jail. He started a whole mess cause he decided to do an armed robbery at a liquor store and then have a high speed chase with the cops. Oh there's video. It's 365 days ago to the dot." Penelope continued as she watched the video on her monitor. "I'm sending this to your tablets. Observe and prepare yourself."

The team watched on the tablets as Hanley Waters' car t-boned another vehicle in the middle of an intersection.

"Who was it that got hit?" Hotch asked.

"Tampa mom Shelley Chamberlain." Penelope said as she looked through all of the notes regarding the incident. "She was unhurt…" Then Penelope gasped as she read the next line, "her six year old Damian died."

Ashley nodded, "That's her."

"Oh, and today is Damian's birthday." Penelope said as she pulled up Damian's death certificate.

"Your son enters and leaves your life on the same date. That's one hell of a stressor." Rossi said, speaking from personal experience.

"Explains why she went on her spree today. All her good and bad memories are hitting her at once." Morgan said.

"And to add salt to it all, the fallen policeman was the only one who got any attention. Damian was like a footnote."

"If Shelley Chamberlain is our unsub and the man caused this is in jail, then who's her target?" Reid asked.

Elle couldn't help but feel for Shelley Chamberlain. As the others sat discussing the Elle couldn't help but think of her own son's birthday just last month.

It had been a small affair. They'd wrapped up the Ian Doyle debacle just a few days earlier and then waited at the hospital in Boston as JJ gave birth to Joshua. Billy and Joshua were now just a few days shy of being exactly a year apart in age.

"Hahahahahaha" Will chortled as Billy, his boy, his son, gleefully fisted his blue Cookie Monster birthday cake between his fingers.

The youngest LaMontagne was covered head to toe with blue icing. His round little baby face was blue, his tongue was blue, his hands and arms were blue. There was blue frosting up his nose and in his ears. Somehow Billy had managed to get blue frosting on his little toes where they peaked out from under the tray of his high chair. His hair stood straight up on end due to the amount of 'Cookie Monster blue' frosting coating his short dark locks that looked so much like his father's.

"I told you that a blue Cookie Monster birthday cake for Billy's first birthday was a bad idea Will." Elle told her husband.

"Boys will be boys cher. 'Sides, it's a rite of passage for a one year old to smear his birthday cake all over himself ain't it? Let's just enjoy the moment cher." Will whispered in his wife's ear as he wrapped his arm around her.

Elle sighed as she leaned back against Will's chest and then she laughed. Her son did look really cute; even if he was going to need to be thoroughly scrubbed down to get all of the blue out of his hair and off his skin. "Just so we're clear. You're giving him his bath tonight."

"You okay?" Emily asked softly as glanced at Elle.

Elle startled briefly at Emily's question and then replied softly. "Yeah, just thinking about how horrible it would be to lose a child, let alone on his birthday." So much could change in 365 days. Life turned on a time in minutes, mere seconds… 366 days ago Shelley Chamberlain had been the happy mother of an almost six year old. Damian Chamberlain had been looking forward to his birthday… and then the events of 365 days, one year ago today had happened and life was forever altered for that family and anyone that their lives might ever touch. It had brought them to the events of today.

"Garcia, what's Shelley Chamberlain's marital status?" Hotch asked.

"Don Chamberlain, city firefighter, filed for divorce three months ago." Penelope replied.

"A local hero, like some of the others she shot." Rossi added.

"But the pain of losing a child destroyed the marriage." Ashley added.

"Could be the next target of her rage; the man who didn't bear witness to her grief." Morgan theorized.

"Morgan you find him. Dave, Emily, and I will go to Shelley's house."

Joshua was happily snoozing, all swaddled up in his baby seat on the table while Mommy cleaned up the kitchen from his big brother and sister having lunch. His little face occasionally scrunched and un-scrunched as he slept.

JJ smiled as she turned to look at Joshua, asleep in his chair on the kitchen table. Then she heard a loud screech come from the living room that sounded like Henry. Concerned that he'd been hurt, she picked Joshua up off of the table and headed for the living room.

"NO, NO, NO" Henry shouted as he pouted and stomped his foot and then began sobbing as he became more upset.

Chloe sat holding the DVD for Barbie and attempting to ignore the ruckus her brother was causing as she looked at the pictures on the DVD box.

"Hey, buddy what's going on in here?" JJ asked as she crossed the living room and laid Joshua down in his bassinet. Then she walked back over and knelt down in front of Henry. "Baby, what's wrong? Are you hurt?"

"Cwoe" Henry sniffled "'atch Bawbie" Henry sobbed as he pointed at the DVD in his sister's hands.

JJ sighed a breath of relief that nobody was hurt. "And you don't want to watch Barbie?"

"Noooooooo" Henry said as he shook his head and hiccupped.

"What do you want to watch?" JJ asked.

"Dino…" Hiccup "dinotaurs" Henry replied continuing to hiccup as he ended his crying jag.

"Chloe sweetie, why don't we find something that you and Henry both want to watch?" Mommy asked as she looked at the shelf that held all of Chloe and Henry's movies and DVDs.

"But Mommy… I wanna watch Baaaaaaaaaarbiiiiiiieeeee" Chloe replied in a whiney voice.

"No Bawbie…. Dinotaurs!" Henry replied.

JJ sighed. It was going to be one of those afternoons. Then Joshua woke up from his nap, disturbed by the yelling, crying, and tantrums that his older siblings were having.

"Okay, since you can't agree on a movie, its nap time." Mommy said as she took the movie from Chloe's hand and put it back on the shelf.

"Noooooooooooo I don't wanna take a nap Mommy" Chloe cried as she flopped backwards on the ground.

Henry plopped down on his butt next to Mommy on the floor and started crying again.

JJ took a deep breath stood up, pinching her nose as she took a moment to collect herself as all three of the kids cried at once. Chloe and Henry were mid-melt down and their being upset was rubbing off on Joshua. She paused as she thought about what to do. Then she made a decision and bent down and picked up Henry.

Henry went limp in Mommy's arms as she held him and he sobbed against her shoulder.

JJ placed Henry in the big overstuffed chair and then knelt down in front of him. "Baby, I know you're upset and that's because you're tired. You need a nap. Can you do Mommy a favor?"

Henry hiccupped and sniffled as he continued to cry. "Wu wu wu wu wu wut?" he sobbed.

JJ reached out and wiped the tears from his cheeks. "Stay right here and I'll come back and get you okay?"

"Uh uh uh uh huh" Henry sobbed.

JJ sighed and then went over to where Chloe was laying on the floor and picked her up as well.

"Mo mo mo mo mo mommyyyyyyyyyyyy do do don't wanna ta ta ta take a nan a naaaaaaaaaap" Chloe half whined half cried while she sobbed.

"I know baby girl, but you're cranky right now. You need a nap." JJ said as she kissed her curl covered head. She carried Chloe over to the couch and laid her down. "Sweetie I want you to lay here on the couch until I come and get you okay?"

Chloe sniffled. "Bu bu bu but I do do don't wa wa wanna ta ta take a na na nap" Chloe whimpered.

"Chloe that's enough." JJ said softly. "Just lay here for me okay?"

"O O Okay Mo mo mo mo mommy" Chloe sobbed.

JJ leaned down and kissed Chloe on the forehead. Then she stood up and collected Joshua from his bassinet and carried him upstairs. She figured he would be the easiest to settle so she started with him.

As JJ sat rocking Joshua and breastfeeding him, she could still hear Chloe and Henry sobbing downstairs. It was a sound that broke her heart, but she also knew she needed to get Joshua down. She had a feeling Chloe and Henry might end up crying themselves to sleep.

A few minutes later Joshua was fed, changed, and sleeping peacefully in his bassinet in Mommy and Daddy's room.

Then JJ went downstairs to see about getting the next little Reid to bed for nap time. As she knelt down in front of the chair Henry was sitting in, he was still sniffling. She scooped him up and carried him upstairs. She paused in the bathroom and sat Henry on the counter while she wet a warm wash cloth and washed his face. Then she carried him into Joshua's nursery and sat down in the rocking chair, humming and singing softly as she rocked him to sleep. She noticed that Henry's breathing had gotten deep and even. She leaned back to glance down at his face that was buried in her neck, while his little hand held a fistful of her shirt. Seeing that he was asleep, she stood up and carried the sleeping little boy to his room and tucked him in his bed. She paused above him and kissed him on the forehead as she whispered. "Mommy loves you Henry."

She stopped in the bathroom and rinsed out the wash cloth she'd used to wash Henry's face and then ran it under warm water and brought it downstairs with her to deal with her toughest customer of the day. Her baby girl had definitely inherited her stubbornness.

JJ sat down on the couch next to where Chloe was laying.

Chloe looked up at Mommy with big brown eyes that matched her Daddy's. "No nap Mommy."

"Baby girl can you tell Mommy why don't you want to take a nap?" JJ asked in a soft voice as she used the wash cloth to wipe off Chloe's tear stained face.

Chloe shrugged. "I don't know."

JJ smiled softly at Chloe and shook her head. "You know Mommy's going to take a nap too."

"You are?" Chloe asked with big eyes.

"Mm hm" JJ murmured. "I need one today for sure." JJ said softly under her breath. "Come on sweetie." JJ said as she picked her three year old up off the couch.

JJ carried Chloe to the nursery and sat down in the rocking chair with Chloe. She hummed and ran her fingers through her over tired baby girls golden blonde halo of curls as she rocked her.

Chloe fidgeted and fussed, fighting sleep as long as she possibly could, but eventually her tired little body couldn't take any more and she fell asleep against Mommy's shoulder.

JJ breathed a sigh of relief as she felt Chloe go slack in her arms as her little girl finally gave into exhaustion and slept. She stood up from the rocking chair and carried Chloe to her room and laid her down on her bed, covering her with her blanket. She sat down on the edge of Chloe's bed and brushed her curls back from her forehead and then leaned down kissed Chloe on the forehead and told her that she loved her.

JJ went downstairs one last time to check that everything was secure and that the door was locked then she made her way back upstairs and flopped face first onto her and Spence's bed. She hoped that Chloe and Henry took a nice long nap today. They definitely needed it and so did she.

"Good job Seth. Keep going buddy." Emily said as she sat on the floor playing with Avery and Seth while Aaron ran out to pick up take out for dinner. Seth was walking behind a push toy.

Avery stood up from where she sat on the floor not too far away. She glowered as Seth used her push toy. "Mine" she said as she pushed Seth away from the toy.

A surprised look crossed Seth's face as he stumbled backwards and fell down on his tushie. His little eyes watered and he started to cry from the shock of falling down.

Emily scooted over and picked up Seth and rubbed his back. "You're okay Seth; you're okay." She said as she calmed him down. After a couple of minutes he calmed after realizing the Mommy was right; he was okay. Emily sat Seth down in the middle of some toys and then turned to look at Avery.

"Avery Grace Hotchner, why did you just push your brother?" Emily asked as she leveled a steady gaze at Avery.

Avery met her Mommy's gaze with one of her own. She patted the handle of the push toy. "Mine."

"Avery Grace, we don't ever push. It's not nice. And we need to share. You need to tell Seth you're sorry and give him back the toy." Emily explained calmly and rationally.

"NO MINE!" Avery yelled and stamped her foot as she glared at Mommy.

"Avery Grace apologize to your brother, please." Emily said.

"No" Avery replied defiantly as she shook her head.

Emily took a deep breath. "I'm only going to count to 3. 1…"

Avery stood staring down Mommy.

"2…" Emily continued counting as she raised her eyebrows and continued to look directly at Avery.

The scowl on Avery's face deepened.

Emily stood up. "3" she said as she moved towards Avery.

Avery's eyes widened and a soft "Uh oh" escaped her lips.

"Avery Grace Hotchner, you are going in time out for 5 minutes." Emily said as she grabbed a chair from Avery's play table and pulled it far away from the toys in the corner of the room as she led her daughter to the corner of the room. Avery could see the toys, but she couldn't reach or play with the toys. She could see Seth playing with the toys though. "I want you to sit here and think about how you would feel if someone pushed you down and took away something you were playing with. Pushing is dangerous. You could have hurt Seth."

At that moment Avery heard the door open and close, meaning only one thing. Daddy was home. Avery squirmed away from Mommy's grip and ran towards Daddy as he entered the room. "Dada" she cried. "Mean Mama" she said as buried her face in Daddy's pant leg.

Aaron rested his head on the top of Avery's head where she was crying into his pant leg and looked curiously up at his wife who stood with her arms crossed and a very displeased look on her face.

Emily raised an eyebrow at Aaron's questioning look.

"Avery?" Aaron asked getting Avery's attention.

Avery sniffled and looked up at Daddy.

"Do you want to tell Daddy what happened?"

Avery's face scrunched up. Then she turned and pointed at the push toy sitting in the middle of the living room. "Mine. No Seff. Mine."

Aaron looked up from Avery's tear streaked little face to Emily's looking for a translation on what happened.

"Seth was using the push toy and walking behind it. Avery pushed him down and took it away. I asked her to apologize and give it back twice. She said no. So I told her she needed to be in time out for 5 minutes to think about how dangerous and mean it was to push Seth and take away the toy." Emily explained.

Aaron closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Avery, Mommy is right. We don't push. It's dangerous and somebody could get hurt. It's also mean."

"Noooooooo" Avery whined, upset that she hadn't gotten her way.

"Come on. You need to go in time out for…" He turned to look at Emily.

"5 minutes" Emily supplied.

"5 minutes" Aaron finished as he sat Avery in the chair. "You need to stay her until Mommy says you can get up. Then you need to tell Seth you're sorry and promise Mommy and I that there won't be any more pushing."

Avery pouted as she sat in the chair. She'd barely been there a minute when she yelled. "I NO WIKE DIS!"

"Good" Mommy said. "You aren't supposed to like it. You are supposed to learn you lesson so you don't do what you did again. What did you do that was naughty?" she asked Avery.

Avery pouted.

"Is it too early to plan on boarding school when she's a teenager?" Emily joked softly to Aaron where they sat on the couch.

Aaron quirked an eyebrow at Emily. "She does take after he mother."

"Maaaammaaaaaa I pway noooooooooooooooow?" Avery whined.

"Can you tell Mommy what you aren't supposed to do anymore?" Emily asked as she turned to look at Avery.

"No push." Avery said finishing with a very put upon sigh.

"Right. What do you need to say to Seth?" Emily asked.

Avery furrowed her brow as she looked down at her lap. "I torry and no do it 'dain."

"Okay then, you can get up and go tell Seth you're sorry." Emily replied with a sigh of relief that the battle of wills was over for now.

JJ sighed deeply as she walked out of the bathroom from washing her face. She made her way across their bedroom by the soft glow of the bathroom nightlight and climbed into bed next to Spence. She slid under the covers and curled up into Spence's side. "So how was the case?" she asked as she wrapped her arm across his stomach and rubbed his side.

"It was rough. The unsub was a mother who lost her son exactly a year ago on his birthday in a horrible car accident. She thought her husband didn't remember, that he'd forgotten because he was able to continue on with his life after losing their son." Spence replied as his hand rubbed circular patterns on JJ's back. "How about you? How was your day?"

JJ was silent for a moment, unsure how to describe how her day had gone. Then out of nowhere, she burst into tears.

"JJ what is it?" Spence asked in a concerned voice as he wrapped both arms tighter around JJ, attempting to comfort and hold her until she was ready to talk. He pressed a kiss to her forehead as he rubbed her back.

JJ sniffled as she gathered her thoughts. "I just Chloe and Henry had a meltdown today… and that woke Joshua up and all three of them were crying at once." JJ sobbed. "Do… do you think I'm a bad Mom?" JJ asked.

Spence was startled by JJ question. Then he reminded himself of the flood of hormones that were currently wreaking havoc on her system right now. "Of course not. JJ you're a terrific Mom. The kids love you and you love them. It's not the first meltdown they've had and it won't be the last. I bet you had them all calmed down pretty quick. I wish I'd been here to help. Are you okay?"

JJ sniffled again as she reached up to wipe her eyes. "Yeah, I will be. I just… it was so frustrating."

Spence nodded his head against the top of JJ's head, where it rested on his chest. "I think you maybe just need a night away from the kids in the company of adults. Everybody was talking about getting together one night soon. You want me to tell them we're in?"

JJ lifted her head to rest her chin on Spence's breastbone as she looked at him with her red rimmed eyes. "I would love a night out, so definitely yes." she said and then kissed his chin, then his nose, and finally his lips. "Can we go dancing?" she asked with a twinkle in her eyes, knowing her husband really didn't like to dance. He swore he wasn't good at it and felt like a blind, drunk orangutan with a bum leg while trying to dance. She knew there had to be a dancer inside anyone who could move like her husband could.

"We can do anything you want to JJ." Spence whispered against his wife's lips.

"Anything?" JJ asked with a quirk of her eyebrow.

Spence swallowed. "Well, almost anything as long as it's legal and doctor approved."

"Aw you're no fun," JJ giggled. "but I love you anyway." She said as dipped her head and kissed him again.

"I love you too JJ." Spence murmured as their lips parted. Then he buried his lips in her neck as her rolled her onto her back.

JJ laughed at the muffled sound of her husband's voice saying, "And I'll show you I can be a lot of fun."