Chapter Five
Not to say he didn't enjoy spending time with his husband but nearly a week had gone by and he was ready to pull out some hair. "Derek can you please find something to do?"
"I would but Hotch wont answer my calls." Derek huffed as he made what had to be his thirtieth pass around the livingroom.
"Well seeing as you haven't stopped calling him since your suspension started I wouldn't be inclined to answer you either." Reid sighed as he placed his book to the side, he was on manditory medical leave and instead of enjoying their inpromptu vacation Morgan was making the time they had nearly miserable.
"I agree that it wasn't the best idea to attack Denson like that but eight days, that punishment way past exeeds the crime." Derek finally gave in as he sank to the couch next to Spencer. "I could be doing something useful right now."
"There making an example." Spencer offered simply as he stood going to his desk. "And you still could be doing something useful." He returned to his spot passing his laptop over to Derek.
"Like what?" He asked as he stared down at the blank screen Spencer had opened.
"I've book marked a few websites for adoption but I can't really start anything until we decide which route is best for us." Was said as he opened them up to let Derek see what he was talking about.
"Explain it to me." The twelve webpages that had appeared already had him feeling overwhelmed as he passed the computer back.
"Well you've got your three basic types, private agency, independant, and public angency adoption. With the private agency we essentially just find an agency that we're willing to work with and that's willing to work with us, we hire them and they do the rest." Spencer stopped to make sure Derek was really following before he continued. "In an independant adoption it would be are job to locate the child we want to adopt."
"I don't see that happening, it's not like we come in contact with a lot of children that are suddenly needing parents." Derek shook his head to that. The children they did come across that ended up orphans usually went to other family members and even if they didn't he didn't want to look at his child with the memory of some gruesome tale of their parents murder.
"True, though going independently is less expensive than an agency unless it falls through, then we're left with the financial burden." Spencer was already narrowing his results from that deduction.
"What's the other one cause I don't see the Independant route working for us."
"Public agency"
"That's the foster kids right?" Derek wasn't even bothering to look at the things Spencer was pointing at as he scrolled down the page so fast it was nothing more than a blur of lights to him.
"Yes it's usually through a foster-adopt process. A child would be placed with us on a foster care basis and if he becomes available for adoption and the DSHS consents to our wanting to, the adoption will be made final." Spencer explained as he leaned over to grab his mug, Derek was clearly sorting through all the information he had been given.
"What do you mean if he becomes available?" That if was sticking like a thorn in his side.
"We would be providing a home for a child that is in clear need of an improved situation but it sometimes can take months if not years for the child to become legally free to adopt. Other foster kids never become available to adopt, some even get removed from their foster families and returned to their biological parents."
"I know I said I'm willing to foster Spence but this is going to be our first child." Derek looked him straight in the eye continuing when all Spencer did was nod in agreement. "I want it to be ours, theres no way that I'm taking the chance of getting attached and then having it pulled away. I'm one hundred percent for fostering but not our first baby, if we do this I want to be guaranteed that that child is mine to torment as I wish for the next eighteen years."
"Really? If you plan on tormenting an innocent child for nearly two decades I might have to rethink things." The scowl on Dereks face was priceless.
"You know what I mean." Derek tossed a throw pillow at him annoyed with Spencers joking with his feelings. "I guess that means we're going through a private agency."
"Alright, so that brings the next question, Domestic or international?"
"Domestic of course." Derek let out before Spencer even finished the question.
"Why?" Spencer doubted Derek would be against raising a child that didn't share his ethnicity but he had answered fairly quickly.
"As cute as we'd be raisin' a little Asian baby there's enough kids right here that need homes and I'd like to provide one of those."
"Alright, so next would be, Are we going in completely open? A lot of agencies have highly religous backrounds and though they will help out homosexual couples it tends to be only one of the parents actually goes through the actual process of adopting the child, the other left more in the shadows." He wasn't to thrilled about that one but it was an option that would most likely get them a child quicker.
"Once again Spencer it's our child and we're doing this together, the other ways might be easier but we're equal in this." Derek assured, he wouldn't want it any other way.
"Did you know that single mothers who are actually informed of a homosexual couples interest in their child are more likely to show interest in said couple over a heterosexual one? It has certain appeal to them that if their baby is adopted by a gay couple then they will get to continue being the childs only mother." It was an assuring little bit that made Derek smile, as always Spencer put all the information out there before giving it a spin that worked pleasently to their advantage.
"Well of course it has appeal, you're very appealing, add me and there's no way she wont approve." Derek leaned in for a kiss.
"Who's approving what?" Garcia watched as her two best men jumped apart in surprise.
"Garcia!" Derek shook his head at the woman who was standing there with no remorse. "There's a reason doors get locked and an even greater one for the invention of the door bell." Now thinking of it he had indeed locked the door, how'd she get in?
"I used the backdoor." She shrugged simply as she sat down on the armchair across from them. "Now who's approving of what?"
"Some guard dog you have." Spencer huffed, clooney was in the backyard and hadn't made a sound.
"What are you doing here?" Derek had closed the laptop with a simple ease as he tried for nonchalant while slipping it onto the side table.
" Hotch had me screening his calls but after you started bothering Rossi it was an unofficial order to come distract you." She nearly laughed at Reids face and the hint of embarassment that Morgan was showing. "Now quit avoiding the question."
" I don't need a babysitter and if I need a distraction I know where one can easily be found." His smirk was playful as he tried to drag her into some harmless flirting, it wasn't that he didn't want her to know but their adoption process was going to be a long one and he didn't want her to join the group if they ended up disappointed, which would probably happen multiple times.
"A distraction is all you consider me?" The raised eyebrow was supposed to show seriousness but the humor in his voice ruined most of that emotion.
"Well Pretty boy I'll have to take that into consideration but I'm thinking there's a few more categories you can be squeeezed into." With that he leaned in to finish what Garcia had interrupted.
"He just got out of the hospital hot stuff, are you really trying to put him back?" As much as she loved them she hadn't come over to watch them make-out on the couch like teenagers.
"Yeah..um... coffee?" Reid showed his mug to let her know that he planned on refilling his own cup.
"Sure?" He had nearly fell off the couch, and she had a feeling whether she accepted his offer or not he'd use it as an excuse to take some time for the flame to leave his ears.
"You'll be bored pretty soon Baby girl, we don't have any plans for the rest of the night." He leaned closer to Garcia still amused with their reactions, Spencer wasn't so much shy as he was guarded around others but as much as Garcia liked to talk she still held an air of innoncence and could even be considered a blushing little girl at heart.
"We'll have to change that then. Spencer get out here we're leaving!" Penelope Garcia did not wear bored well and she wasn't going to allow these two to lounge around and waist the night either.
"Where to?" He hadn't even started a new pot of coffee yet.
"We'll get something to eat and figure it out from there."
"I'm not really..." but she had already grabbed her bag and left. "hungry."
"Looks like you are now." Morgan patted him on the shoulder before following Garcia. "You get some shoes I'll get clooney."
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"What about a movie?" They were walking alongside a strip mall and had yet to agree on something to do.
"I don't really feel like it Baby girl." He didn't really care either way but he doubted sitting in a chair for nearly two hours would be good for Spencers collarbone, not to mentioned what the surround sound would do to his head.
"Well then what do you want to do?" She had warmed her way into the middle of their group and was currently wrapped around both of their arms.
"Go home." Spencer mumbled as they received yet another strange look, he would have sworn people stared less when it was just he and Derek holding hands.
"Not an option, and since you two are dragging your feet so much I guess that means I pick." She had started toward a shoe store but something else caught her attention. "Look how cute!"
Spencer was about to remind her that it was bad manners to point but he too saw what she was refering to and it brought a slight smile to his face. Walking toward them was a younger couple but in between them was what was the center of attention, they had a little girl by either hand and she was clearly taking what had to be some of her first steps. They were off balance and she was nearly tripping at times but she was smiling brightly clearly feeling accomplished, he brought his attention back to their group when the little girls father lifted her and they crossed the street.
"That was adorable, we need another little baby on the team." The suggestion was clearly heard but Morgan redirected it instead.
"Yes we do, when are you and Kevin going to get on that?"
"Oh no you don't, you're the married one." She was staring at Spencer now as he wasn't saying much. "Don't you guys want kids?"
"Of course we do." Spencer shrugged as he directed his attention to one of the store windows.
"Well?"
"Well what? You can't just go out and buy a child Pen." So he obviously didn't like sharing the subject with others but it was clear that Spencer wasn't ready to either as he hadn't said anything.
"I know that, just trying to light a little fire see if anything sparks." She had noted that they both had seemed uncomfortable while talking about starting a family but she didn't know if it was because they weren't in agreement on that subject or her presence made that discussion an uncomfortable one.
"Why don't we go look at some of those shoes you were eyeing." Spencer never thought he'd willingly suggest shoe shopping with Garcia but he wanted to break the heavy silence that had fallen upon them.
"Oh you'll so regret that suggestion."
"I'm sure he already does." Morgan laughed as Reid seemed to slow his pace even further instead of fastening it to catch up with Garcia.
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"I think Garcia forgot one of her bags." Spencer lifted said bag as he sank to the couch with a sigh. He hadn't been expecting her to spend nearly three hours in the store let alone for her to buy six pairs of shoes.
"I'll take it to her later." Derek tossed it carelessly onto the table as she had only bought shoes but regretted the action as the contents fell out and he had to get back up to lift them from the floor. "Or not."
"Why?" Spencer lifted his head from the couch to glance at Derek who was reading a note of some kind.
"Here" Derek tossed the retrieved box onto the couch not even bothering to get Spencer to try to catch it. "She says to think of them as an incentive and that we better not let her money go to waste."
"I guess it's a good thing we already plan on doing just this." Spencer wasn't sure what else to say as he stared at the tiny white shoes that were cloth with white lace for ties.
"You think we'll actually get a baby that tiny?" Derek had lifted one of the shoes surprised to see that it was smaller than his thumb.
"I don't know, but I hope not." That thought was extremely scary.
"Why?" He had taken the shoes from Spencer and pulled his attention to him instead.
"I trip over my own feet all the time and your like a big ball of pure muscle not to mention the fact we both stand over six feet, we'd be like monsters to a baby that little." He crossed his arms as Derek started laughing.
" I'll admit that it's scary to think about but we wont know until we get there." He whispered pulling his husband against him as he rested in the crook of the couch. "I can tell you for a fact though I'm more excited than anything else."
"Me too." They were really starting down the path to creating their family and Dereks enthusiasm had Spencer greatly amused, he might be able to turn him into a stay at home dad yet.
E/N: Hope you enjoyed and now it's up to you the reader to decide where we go next. What do you want to see? Should I start steering this boat back toward our start, the death or should I continue on some? Suggestions are awesome!