This chapter was like pulling teeth and I don't know why. Spent all day fiddling with it and am now at my wits end, it is as long as it is going to be, as well as it can be and I am not spending any more time one it.

Either way, it is still about the same length as the others and should satisfy your chapter needs for the night. Another chapter tomorrow hopefully if I can get the creative juices flowing more freely.

Enough mumbo jumbo from me,

Chapter Five, Shopping Trips

A wailing cry shocked Spencer into the waking world for a fourth time when he finally decided that he obviously wasn't getting any more sleep so he might as well get up and start his day. He blearily picked up the crying girl from her bed and began to rock her while rubbing the crust from his eyes. Once he was finally awake he laid the girl on his bed and changed her diaper and redressed her in an outfit that Penelope had brought the day before. He grimaced slightly, she was wearing what had to be the brightest pink shirt on the planet. We will have to get her some softer colours, he thought decisively.

Spencer plucked her girl off his bed and placed her back in the playpen so he could change himself and use the washroom. Upon returning from the bathroom, Spencer was feeling much more awake despite the lack of sleep. He smiled at Isadora before he picked her up and made his way to the kitchen.

After breakfast for each of them Spencer found himself standing in the living room wondering what to do next. Isadora seemed content to sit in his arms and look about, yet he felt restless, a need to go out.

His resolve to wait until noon to call JJ for a hand crumbled quickly and he found himself rocking the girl with his phone pressed to his ear waiting to hear his friend's voice from the other end of the line.

"Agent Jareau, how may I help you?" JJ's voice sounded from the speaker immediately after the click of the line being answered.

"Hey Jayje, its me Spencer." He said somewhat awkwardly, he never really called anyone he realized with a small frown.

"Spence! How are you? Are you okay? Why are you calling? Did something happen?" JJ's voice became almost frantic by the end. Spencer grimanced, it must have been a really long time since he had called her socially.

"I'm fine, really." He took a breath and looked at the little girl in his arms who sat looking right up at him. "I could use a favour though. If you aren't busy that is."

"What do you need Spence?" She asked sounding relieved.

"Could you come get me and take me to a store?" He paused for a moment. "Could you put Henry's old car seat in your car too?"

There was silence for a moment and a door closing on the other side of the phone. "Spencer William Reid, why do you need Henry's car seat?"

"Long story. Short version is that I am now the guardian of a little girl about three or four months old." He said, flinching slightly anticipating a screech.

A pause, the door again and some talking that he couldn't make out. "I'll be there in half an hour Spence, be ready." And the line went dead.

"Looks like she is a wee bit upset with me, Isadora." He shook his head, shaggy hair swaying around his head. "She will like you though."

True to her word JJ pulled up in front of Spencer's apartment building half an hour later. He had been waiting just inside the buildings door for her, and left its confines to go to the car. He opened the back door and began strapping the baby into the seat he found there. He heard JJ's door open and close and he looked over his shoulder to see her standing behind him.

"I remember how to use this seat, Jayje." He said hesitantly. Her eyes narrowed. He gulped. Yup, she is not happy with me, was the frantic thought that crossed his mind before JJ spoke.

"I am sure you do. Would you care to explain now?" Her arms crossed just below her bust, her weight resting on her right foot, her left leg bent slightly.

"I found her. She was outside my door and I couldn't let CPS take her. I don't know why she was left at my door as apposed to anyone else's, but she was." Spencer clipped the final strap into place before giving the harness a firm tug to make sure it was tight enough, but not too tight on the infant. "I asked you to come give me a ride because you are the only one with a child anywhere near her age that had a possibility of having a car seat that would hold her safely."

JJ was silent for a moment before she nodded. "Alright, but I wish you would have called me earlier." She paused. "Like last night, I hate to think of you with CPS and the police alone Spence."

"I wasn't, Penelope came over. She brought some clothes, formula and even her playpen for Henry." He made his way around to the passenger side of the car. "I didn't want to take you away from Henry when you had just gotten home."

JJ sighed, nodded and all was forgiven. She could not fault him for being thoughtful. JJ drove to the nearest department store and parked the car in the closest spot she could find. The pair exited the car and JJ had Isadora out of the car before Spencer had made it around the fender. JJ smiled at the baby and led the lanky man into the store.

"So, what is her name?" She asked as she settled the baby into a cart with a baby seat.

"For now just Isadora. She will have a last name at some point I am sure, no one knows what it is right now though." He said as he watched his long time friend expertly buckle the seat and steer the cart in the direction of the baby section.

"I like that name, its sweet." She said and the pair were silent until they reached the department they needed. JJ led the man through the aisle of the baby section picking up various items as she went and depositing them into the cart. When they finally reached the car seats, the cart was already half full. Spencer spent a few minutes reading and comparing the car seats available before turning to his female company. He motioned to a seat that was covered in brown and pink fabric. "This one," he motioned to a second seat in purples, "or this one?" He asked.

JJ pretended to think for a moment before raising her eye brow at him. "Why ask when you and I both know that the purple one is going in the cart?"

Spencer grinned back at her and plucked a still boxed seat and set it in the cart. "You're right, no point at all."

The two spent another half an hour choosing clothes for Isadora as well as a proper crib and a few toys. Spencer made sure to pick up some baby blankets and anything else he saw that he hadn't thought about but needed. Once all was said and done at the store, they all tromped back to JJ's car and drove back to the apartment.