I'm sure you've all already figured out that we aren't getting to the holidays of season 7 by the end of 2012. Where did last year go? We'll get there as quickly as I can make it happen - then we'll take a little hiatus from the roads series so I can work on some other things... but don't worry - we'll definitly be back :D
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Morgan bit his lip as he sat on the edge of Emily's desk watching Reid's reaction to the note he'd left on Reid's desk while he went to get coffee. His prize of this prank securely tucked away in his bottom desk drawer in his office and prepared for phase two, to take place after their next case away.
Dearest Spencer,
I'm writing to inform you that I've decided to take a vacation. I simply can't go on lugging and toting things about day in, day out. I long to see the world beyond the grisly, grueling, cases that take you and I across the country.
Have no fear. I shall return, hopefully a little lighter in my bearing and once again happy to bear my burden as your dutiful servant.
Yours faithfully,
The messenger bag of Dr. Spencer J. Reid; PHD; PHD; PHD; BS; BS; BS; BS, BA; Agent FBI, BAU division.
"What 'cha got there pretty boy?" Morgan asked with a nod to the note in Reid's hand.
Reid scowled at Morgan over the top of the note, refusing to acknowledge Morgan with an answer. He stood, folding the note and placing it in his pocket and then grabbed his coffee cup and his cell phone. He had a stop to make at Home Depot over lunch. Two could play this game.
Morgan laughed as he watched Reid walk away at Reid's clear distraught and upset over his precious messenger bag being 'on vacation'.
"Why are we sitting here with the engine turned off?" JJ asked in confusion as Spence pulled into a different parking space from where they'd parked that morning and turned off the ignition. "I'm fine with going parking, but can you at least take me for dinner first, I'm starving… plus I think there are more romantic places to go parking than the Academy parking ramp." She teased as she reached over and squeezed Spence's hand, sure that there was some other reason he'd stopped the car in the ramp.
"Shh, watch." Spence said as he nodded to a person walking out of the elevators and into the parking ramp.
"Is that Morgan?" JJ asked, still confused about what was going on.
"Uh huh" Spence replied gleefully about what was about to happen.
Morgan was lost in thought as he left the elevator and headed into the parking ramp. He'd just left the gym and his headphones were on as he pressed the button his key fob to unlock his truck. He slid the strap for his duffle bag off his shoulder and blindly threw it, without looking, in the bed of his truck. He paused in shock when instead of landing with a thud in the back of his truck bed, it bounced back towards him. He barely managed to catch it as he stood there in shock looking at his shrink wrapped truck.
JJ turned to look at Spence. "What just happened?"
"Behold the tensile strength of industrial plastic wrap." Spence answered gleefully.
"You saran wrapped Morgan's truck?" JJ asked, her eyes going wide in appreciation for the levels this prank war was reaching.
"Mm hm" Spence replied. "At least I didn't take his truck and hide it somewhere for who knows how long."
"What are you talking about?" JJ asked in confusion.
"Morgan left a note on my desk from my messenger bag saying it was going on vacation." Spence replied, pulling the folded up note out of his pants pocket and handing it to JJ.
JJ bit her lip to keep from laughing at the note and shook her head. "So are we going to stay and watch Morgan unwrap his truck?"
Spence shrugged. "Nah, it's going to take him at least an hour, if not longer with all the rolls of plastic wrap I used. Let's go pick up Henry."
"Mommy!" Henry squealed in delight at hearing Mommy's voice at the door.
"Henry!" JJ replied, equally enthusiastic as she dropped to her knees to catch her charging toddler. "Did you have fun with Daddy today?" she asked as she stood up and settled Henry on her hip.
"Uh huh" Henry nodded. "We wen' to da park."
"You did?" JJ asked. "Did you happen to tell Daddy what you want to dress up as for Halloween?" she asked as she glanced at Will.
Will shook his head. "We talked about how big boys get to pick their own costumes, but we weren't able to narrow it down. Maybe you an' Spencer will have better luck than we did getting' 'im to pick what he wants to dress up as."
JJ nodded her head. "At least we have about a week to figure it out. What do you say Henry? Should we go home?"
Henry nodded. "Sunny, Sunny, tome on Sunny we going home wid Mommy." He said as he called his dog.
Sunny popped up from where she was sunning herself in the living room and ran eagerly to her master, pressing doggy kisses all over his face.
Henry laughed as Sunny pressed against him and licked his face.
JJ laughed as she watched Sunny and Henry together. "Do you have all your stuff?" JJ asked, brushing Henry's hair out of his eyes as she took the leash Will held out to her and clipped it onto Sunny's collar.
"Yep" Henry replied hopping over to where his backpack of favorite things was and picked it up.
"Okay bud, have fun with Mommy and Uncle Spencer and I'll see you in a few days okay?" Will said as he knelt down and helped Henry with his backpack.
"Uh huh" Henry nodded. "Bye bye Daddy." He said as he hugged Daddy goodbye.
"If it's a stranger abduction the first 24 hours are critical. This kid's already been missing twice that long." Reid stated.
"Which is why we shouldn't waste any more time." Hotch said as he looked up from the case file. "Let's go."
"Saint Louis… oh probably a couple days…I'll let you know…can't wait. Bye." Rossi spoke into his phone and then turned back to the team, tucking his phone into the inside pocket of his suit coat as he took a seat with the team. "What?" he asked as he took his seat and caught the smirks on Emily and Morgan's faces.
"Nothin'. Just somebody's got a little extra pep in their step this morning, that's all." Morgan grinned.
"Probably doubled up on his vitamins." Emily said.
"Oh he doubled up on something alright." Morgan teased.
JJ laughed, enjoying the familial teasing that lightened the mood a bit as they prepared to go over the case.
"Garcia, what have you got on the mother?" Hotch asked, getting down to business.
"Hey pretty boy, looks like you have a package." Morgan said with a grin as he nodded to Reid's desk where a box sat.
Reid studied the box, unsure about what could be inside. "There's no return address." Reid replied in concern and confusion.
"Well it has to be okay if it was delivered here right?" Morgan asked. "All the packages delivered here get screened, so I don't think you have anything to worry about."
Reid used his keys to slice the packaging tape on the top of the box and then pulled back the flaps. His eyes widened at the sight of a very familiar and missed item, his messenger bag. On top of his messenger bag rested a thick padded envelope. He pulled out the envelope, opening it to find a letter and a stack of photos.
Dearest Spencer,
Ah to be home again! I heard you were in Saint Louis this week, and am surprised that our paths did not cross. I must have just missed you. I can tell you, traveling on a commercial jet offers little of the comfort we have on the BAU jet, especially when compared to the luggage compartment of a commercial airplane. The indignity! As you can see, I would rather ship myself back via FedEx than suffer the injustice, disrespect, and dishonor of the luggage compartment one more time.
I took plenty of photos to share my travels with you. I sincerely hope you enjoy them and that my absence did not hinder you in the least.
Yours with renewed purpose,
The messenger bag of Dr. Spencer J. Reid; PHD; PHD; PHD; BS; BS; BS; BS, BA; Agent FBI, BAU division.
JJ chuckled as she read the note over Spence's shoulder and then saw the photos as Spence flipped through photos that must have been photo shopped of Spence's messenger bag in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal, and several other world renowned landmarks. Clearly Morgan had enlisted Garcia's help in this prank.
"How about ten pairs of shoes, that has to be enough right? Ten?" Spence asked JJ, clutching his returned messenger bag tightly as they led the rest of the team down the hallway to the elevators.
"Ugh, Spence, it's different with the ladies. We need them to match our belts, our handbags, our skirts, and fashions change with the seasons." JJ said as she looked at her boyfriend.
"Yes, boys are so boring," Garcia sighed as she reached over to brush a stray piece of lint off of Morgan's leather jacket, "Pants, shoes, out the door."
Spence turned to look at Garcia as she spoke, hoping her words would shed some light on the enigma of women's footwear. 'Nope, no help.' He thought as he followed JJ the last few steps to the elevator, turning as JJ pushed the button and Emily began to speak.
"Although it's not like men don't have their thing. I dated a golfer once. He had twelve putters in his closet." Emily said as they stood waiting for the elevator. "But this conversation is reminding me that I need new boots." She said pointing at JJ where she stood next to Reid.
JJ pointed back, and then glanced up as the elevator dinged and the doors opened, then she stepped into the elevator.
"Oh! They're having a sale on at De Mills on those tall shaft kitty heals. You like those. Do you want to go?" Garcia asked Emily as they followed JJ into the elevator.
"Yeah" Emily replied, looking over her shoulder at PG.
Morgan wrapped an arm around Reid's shoulders. "You gettin' all this kid?" he asked as they moved to follow the ladies into the elevator.
"No" Reid replied holding his messenger bag tight in his grip, now more confused than ever about why JJ, or any woman for that matter, needed all the shoes that were in their closet at home.
JJ smirked; a plan formulating in her mind for how she could help enlighten Spence to at least one of the reasons women owned so many different shoes as he stepped into the elevator and stood next to her.
JJ knocked on the doorframe of the open door to their home office where Spence currently sat behind the large mahogany desk, his head down working on an article he'd been asked to write for a journal. He'd been writing at a furious pace to finish the article by the deadline. Apparently all of his notes had been in his messenger bag, whereever that had been for the last week. "Hey, are you almost done?" she asked and then leaned against the doorframe, waiting for the moment she'd have Spence's attention.
"Yeah, almost I just need to…" Spence trailed off as he looked up at JJ, left speechless by the sight of his girlfriend and her attire. It was sexy. It was shimmery. It was shear. Then his eyes trailed the length of her lean tone athletic legs to the very high heels gracing her feet, and his jaw dropped while his eyes rose, reversing their course up along her body until he met hers.
JJ smiled and chuckled as Spence's jaw dropped at the sight of the strappy six inch stiletto fuck-me-now heels encasing her feet. Mission accomplished. She strode across the room, her shear lavender lingerie and matching fuck-me-now stilettos accentuating her blond hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion.
Spence swallowed as JJ crossed the room and stopped in front of him. Then she leaned back against the edge of the desk. He had to swallow again as she gracefully lifted herself up to sit on the desk in front of him and crossed her legs, the toes of one of her well pedicured feet and the tip of her shoe tracing along the inseam of his pants. "I… JJ…what…oh…" he moaned.
JJ mercifully pulled her foot away, allowing Spence's genius brain to catch up to rest of his body. "So, this is just one example of why we ladies need multiple pairs of shoes Spence. Besides needing them to match our belts, handbags, and skirts, it's also a nice effect when they match our lingerie." She purred as she watched the gears turn in Spence's head, her hands bracing herself as she leaned back on the desk.
Spence's brain suddenly caught up and his mouth snapped shut. "Yes, yes it is." He replied as he leaned forward, kissing JJ's knee where it rested across her other thigh, his hands sliding along her smooth creamy thighs as he moved the wheeled desk chair closer.
JJ moaned; her head rolling back on her shoulders as Spence kissed her crossed leg at the knee again. Then, he gently lifted her leg from where it rested across her other thigh, kissing and nuzzling as he did so. He moved back and kissed the arch of her foot. His tongue laved at her ankle. His forehead and nose grazed along her calf. He kissed behind her knee, humming slightly as he nipped at a pulse point.
Spence took his time working his way up her thigh, and then when he reached the apex of her thigh, he lifted her other leg and repeated the process as achingly slow as the first time.
JJ lowered herself to rest on her elbows as she watched Spence through half lidded eyes.
Spence kissed and nuzzled at the crease of one of JJ's thighs, followed by the other, his hands sliding up underneath the shear lavender baby doll and cupping her ass. Then, he lifted his head and grinned at JJ as he patted the side of her ass. "Lift up babe."
JJ's head dropped back as she used her elbows and her knees, which were currently over Spence's shoulders, to lift up off of the desk.
Spence pulled JJ's panties down, allowing her to drop back down to the desk. He rolled the desk chair back as he stood up momentarily; dragging JJ's panties down the length of her legs and over her heals. Then he proceeded to kiss his way back up JJ's legs again, pausing as he reached her knee to lean down and kiss her where she lay propped up on her elbows on the desk.
JJ wrapped first one arm and then the other around Spence's neck and shoulders as he leaned down to kiss her. Her head fell back once more as Spence moved to kiss her neck, leaving a trail of moist wet flesh in the wake of the tender open mouth kisses he pressed to her soft skin. JJ shivered as he gently blew across the wet skin.
"Spence, baby," JJ moaned as Spence reached up and removed her arms from around his neck and shoulders, lowering her to the desk as he moved to sit back down in the office chair. She quickly propped herself back up on her elbows.
Spence repeated kissing a trail of open mouth kisses along JJ's soft smooth skin, this time on her thigh. He paused every so often, his breath blowing along the moist path.
JJ moaned, goose bumps rising on her skin as she squirmed in anticipation.
They lay spent in each other's arms for more than a few moments, until JJ began to wiggle her feet against his ass.
Spence lifted up and looked down at JJ. "Are you okay?"
JJ nodded. "Yeah…I just…foot cramp." She replied with a slight wince.
Spence lifted himself out of JJ's arms and stood up, unwrapping one of her legs from around his waist as he did so. He held her foot as his fingers fumbled with the tiny buckle of her shoe. Once her shoe was unclasped, he gently pulled it off of her foot, allowing it to dangle from one of his fingers as he examined it. "I can see why." He replied as he took in the steep angle required of her foot in order to wear these shoes. He allowed her shoe to drop to the floor into the pile of clothes underneath the desk.
JJ purred as Spence grasped her foot with both hands and began to rub, his thumbs pressing against the arch of her foot and working out the cramped muscles.
Spence pressed a kiss to JJ's ankle and then gently lowered her foot and peeled her other leg from around his waist. He removed her heel, dropping it to join its companion on the floor and repeated the foot massage on that foot. After gently lowering her other leg, he held out his hand and helped JJ to sit up.
JJ wrapped her arms around Spence, nuzzling against his cheek. "So, do you have a better insight into women's shoes?"
"No, but I have a better insight into your shoes. When are you going shoe shopping with Garcia and Emily again?" he teased.
JJ laughed and lightly smacked his shoulder.
Spence grinned as he leaned back to look at JJ. "What do you say to a hot bath and bed? I'll clean this up in the morning before we go to pick up Henry." He said with a glance around at the scattered papers, pens, books, clothes, and shoes littering the floor of their home office.
"Mm that sounds like heaven." JJ replied, leaning in to kiss Spence.
Spence nodded and stepped back out of the 'V' of JJ's legs and wrapped one arm around her back and one under her knees, picking her up and heading out of the room.
"Spence!" JJ yelped in surprise, her arms tightening their grip around his neck and shoulders. "I can walk baby."
"Nope, high heels cause muscle and tendon distortion. You could hurt yourself transitioning too quickly from the tension caused in the Achilles tendon by high heels to being flat footed." Spence replied as he made his way across their living room and started to climb the stairs.
JJ tossed her head back and laughed. "And just what would you recommend Dr. Reid?" she asked in a flirty tone of voice as she trailed the fingers of one hand along his collar bone.
Spence grinned and looked down at JJ as they reached the top of the stairs. "I think a nice hot bath, a foot and leg massage, and then cuddling in bed sounds like the perfect precautionary measures." He said as he crossed the threshold of their bedroom doorway.
JJ fake pouted. "Poor me. I suppose I'll just have to take my medicine like a big girl." She teased, and then leaned up and kissed Spence as he headed for their en suite bathroom.