By Malinga and Kalnaman
As/N: Thanks to those who given us review. Here's the last chapter. We hope you like.
Everyone was more than a little shocked, scared and furious and it clearly showed on each of their facial expressions. Hotch's lips were pursed tightly in concealed rage and fear and Gideon's eyes were wide with disbelief. Garcia and JJ had tears in their eyes and shocked looks on their faces, as did Emily, who was speechless and even though she was obviously trying to hide it - visibly disturbed. But Morgan's reaction was definitely the most explosive. He quickly shot to his feet, banging both palms on the desk in front of them and yelled at the doctor to back off and dared him to lay a hand on his 'little brother' with the promise of dire consequences for him if he did.
Gideon put a hand on Morgan's shoulder to calm him down. He then turned his attention to Dr. Nimoy. "You may think that's what's best for Spencer, but as his 'family' we know that it isn't. Since Agent Hotchner and I do have the power of attorney over him we have the right to decide what's best for him. So we ARE going to take him home today. And you won't be able to change our minds," Gideon said and looked over at Hotch for confirmation.
Dr Nimoy sighed, "I wish you would reconsider this, people. I do believe it would be in Spencer's best interests."
"Sorry. It won't happen." Gideon said firmly.
The doctor nodded, not liking the arrangement, but realizing that if Agent Hotchner and Gideon had power of attorney over Spencer, there was little he could do. He would have to accept their decision and hope they were right.
"Okay then, please make arrangements for Spencer to be released into our care," Gideon said.
The doctor sighed and reassured them he would take care of it, and that they'd be able to take Spencer home in a few hours. "I still think this is a bad idea," the doctor added as he saw them to the door.
"You'll see. In a few days you'll have changed your mind," Gideon said.
With that the team left the office to join Spencer in his room and get things ready for their departure. They were anything if not eager to leave that hospital as soon as possible.
Dr. Nimoy gave instructions on how to give Spencer the shots themselves, and told them if it bothered them, they should hire a nurse to do it. Gideon and Hotch agreed to learn how to do it.
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Gideon sent the others home to make some more arrangements for Spencer's homecoming. They weren't happy to leave before seeing for themselves that Spencer was okay, but they were told that Spencer was sleeping and that he needed the rest, so they reluctantly left the hospital.
Hotch and Gideon stayed at Spencer's bedside while he slept. When he finally woke up a few hours later, he looked worriedly into his daddies' eyes. Gideon stroked him gently on his cheek.
"Don't worry, baby. You're going home today." Spencer let out a deep sigh of relief. Then suddenly he looked pleadingly at Gideon and started becoming restless.
"Do you need the bathroom?" Gideon asked, remembering Spencer's bathroom routine and today was the day he had to do number two.
Spencer blinked twice with his eyelashes.
While Gideon pulled the blanket down he said, "Okay. Afterwards I'm going to help you with a bath…" Then Gideon noticed Spencer's not to happy look at that statement and a one blink of his eyelashes as a no. "Sorry, baby. But you do need a bath and afterwards you can get out of these boring scrubs and into your own pajamas. How does that sound? Garcia has brought you your Einstein pajamas." Spencer's face lit up and he blinked twice with his eyelashes. Gideon smiled brightly and lifted the light weighted young man into his arms, while Hotch was getting everything ready in the bathroom.
When Spencer was done on the toilet, Gideon wiped him. While Gideon was holding Spencer, Hotch took off his gown and helped Gideon to get the boy in the tub.
"I'll go back to Spencer's room and pack his things. If you need me, just shout," Hotch said.
"I will, thanks," Gideon said while starting to wash Spencer.
Minutes later Hotch hurried back into the bathroom when he could hear a loud scream from Spencer. Hotch was relieved though when he saw it wasn't anything serious, well maybe for Spencer it was as Gideon was busy washing Spencer long curly hair. "Sorry, Spencer but you need to get your hair washed; now calm down," Gideon said firmly. Spencer calmed down but only a little. Instead of screaming, he cried. Gideon hurried to finish and got Spencer out of the tub and wrapped him in a big towel and carried him back to his room. He dried him off and put clean boxers on him and then the pajama bottom and finally his pajama shirt. All the while Spencer was still crying, not forgetting about the hair wash. And it got even worse when Gideon started to brush his hair, which was a mess after lying in bed for hours. Gideon just ignored the crying as it was a task that needed to be done, but afterwards he comforted him. Sadly just after Gideon was able to calm him down, Dr. Nimoy came into the room with a needle.
"It's time for your medication, Spencer."
Spencer then started to cry again and Gideon let out a sigh of frustration, and the expression Gideon gave Dr. Nimoy was like a father that scolded a stranger for just messing up calming a child down. Dr. Nimoy looked apologetically at him.
As Spencer hated needles, he was fighting it. It hurt both Hotch and Gideon that they were forced to hurt Spencer like that. They weren't happy that they would have to give Spencer more than one shots a day, even one was one too many. They could hire a nurse to do it, but they didn't want a stranger to come and take care of him.
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After being given all the necessary instructions by the doctors and learning how to administer the shots for Spencer from Dr. Nimoy, they were soon packed and on their way home with a much happier and relieved Spencer.
Dr. Nimoy demanded that they agreed that he continued the sessions, though this time it wouldn't be at his office but at their home. Neither Gideon, nor Hotch minded as long as they weren't held in an institution.
Once they were back home and the team was back at the BAU - much to their displeasure, as they'd much rather have stayed by their ailing 'brother's' side, but Hotch's argument that they couldn't all leave the office at the same time had convinced them otherwise - Hotch and Gideon proceeded to settle the by then, slumbering Spencer back in bed, which they had reconditioned so it would resemble some sort of big crib so he wouldn't accidentally fall out while he slept.
Spencer wasn't happy at all when Hotch had put him in a bed that resembled a big crib and cried loudly to let him know.
Hotch had fortunately been able to calm him down enough by reassuring him this was only for his own protection and that none of them would think any less of him for it, and stayed with him until he'd calmed down enough to fall back to sleep.
With Spencer soundly asleep, Hotch and Gideon sat in the living room, enjoying some much needed coffee and discussing how they would deal with this new turn of events.
"I don't see what use those sessions are gonna be now," Hotch broke the uneasy silence suddenly. "He can't speak at the moment."
"Yeah it sounds strange, but I guess it's because he still can hear. Hopefully Dr. Nimoy knows what he's doing."
"Yeah," Hotch agreed, although not fully convinced yet, "I hope so too."
"I'm happy that JJ, Prentiss, Garcia and Morgan are helping us to take care of Spencer."
"Yeah, I must admit it's quite a relief. I was starting to wonder how we'd cope already."
"Yeah me too, me too. I don't hope Spencer will be like this too long, though."
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Three weeks later Spencer was frustrated, even though he could say a few words now and even move a little, but he wasn't able to walk yet or take care of his own needs. He didn't want to wear stupid night diaper, which Hotch was about to put on him. "No!" he yelled, while moving away from him.
"Spencer, please." Hotch tried to reason with him, "it's just for the night."
"No!" He continued his tantrum.
"You'll either stop this tantrum now, young man, or there will be consequences." Hotch shot him a meaningful look.
As it been quite awhile since Spencer had received any type of consequences, he didn't believe Hotch, so he continued his tantrum. "No! No!"
Hotch decided he'd let this go on for long enough, he could see Spencer was testing the boundaries with him, so he'd better show him he meant business unless he wanted a repeat of this every night.
He quickly grabbed him by the arm and flipped him over, delivering a series of hard, well placed smacks on his pajama clad bottom.
"That is enough, Spencer Reid! You need to wear this diaper, it's only for the night and you I won't have you throwing tantrums every time," he lectured in between swats, "this is for your own good, young man. So stop this behavior, now!"
Spencer screamed as loud as he could while he tried to kick his legs as best as he could with his uncoordinated moves.
Hotch simply held him fast and continued delivering the hard swats until he could tell Spencer had started crying and truly feel sorry for his behavior.
Once he'd made sure Spencer would stop fighting him, he stopped the spanking and turned him back around to face him. "I hope we won't have to have a repeat performance of that, young man. But I'll let you know I won't hesitate to do it again if I believe you deserve it, understand?"
Spencer nodded sadly while sniffing. He then put his thumb into his mouth while rubbing his sleepy eyes with the other hand.
"Good. Now, will you let me put the diaper on you, or should we go on with our little 'talk'?" Hotch asked, seriously.
Spencer shook his head frantically. He was too tired to fight anyway.
Hotch nodded and hugged him close murmuring softly, "I know this is hard, son. But you have to trust we're doing only what's best for you," he assured, and then proceeded to change him into the diaper and get him ready for bed.
And the moment Spencer's head touched the pillow he was out like a light. Sleeping peacefully with his Teddy in one hand and with the other he held his thumb in his mouth. Hotch smiled gently at the sight, planting a tender kiss on his 'son's' forehead, bidding the now sleeping form a good night.
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Many months went by, and Spencer's makeshift family never left his side and little by little, Spencer condition started improving. Like a growing child, his abilities started to come back one by one over the course of time. In a week he had learned how to eat by himself again, and soon after that he was walking again and using the bathroom on his own again.
Hayley and Jack had returned about a month ago and accepted Spencer a part of their family, and Jack didn't even hesitate in giving his 'older brother' his teddy bear.
Though he used the toilet on his own, he was still not allowed to be alone in there, as he still wasn't cleared of the suicide watch, though Dr. Nimoy was confident that he soon would be, as he'd made some great progress. Not long after Spencer had come home from the hospital, Dr. Nimoy had to admit that Gideon had been right. He was happy that he hadn't committed Spencer to the mental health facility. Now he understood what the BAU team had been trying to tell him all along. Spencer was indeed better off with his family than he would be in the most prestigious institution. And time had soon confirmed that. Besides Dr. Norman had told them to take action and that they had done. Spencer was on the right track to recovery.
The End (for now at least)
As/N: We're are evil but not that evil to commit Spencer in an institution. Thanks for reading. Hope you agree with the ending.