Okay chapter 21 is done! This is a very long chapter and I think it's pretty good. But you are the readers and you'll be the judge of that ;) So read on my good people and enjoy as always!
I was laying in the hospital bed the next day, when I heard somebody come in. I looked over and saw Reid standing with his mother.
"Diana!" I said. She leaned down and hugged me, then looked at Gregory who was currently wrapped in my arms and sleeping.
"Oh Spencer he looks just like you when you were a baby! Aside from the hair I mean. That must be what he got from his mommy." She said.
"How are you here?" I asked.
"They agreed that if I was with you guys I could come visit." She said. I was overwhelmed with joy. Now Diana got to see her grandson and Reid got to see his mother.
"Here you wanna hold him?" I asked her, and handed Gregory over. Reid started to say something but I shook my head at him and he remained silent. She cooed at her grandchild and Gregory giggled. I smiled and looked at Reid, who seemed very leery about letting his mother hold our child. I however didn't care. She was Gregory's grandma and I wasn't excluding her.
"I haven't held a baby on such a long time. Ever since Spencer was a baby actually." Diana said. I smiled at her. After that She and Reid left to go take her bags to the house, and I got another visitor. There came JJ, Will, and their son Henry walking through the door.
"Hi guys." I said. Henry had only met me once and that was at my wedding quite awhile back. Regardless he came right up, curious about the baby in my hands. JJ looked at me and I nodded. She lifted him up and sat him next to me on the bed.
"Don't wiggle too much son. Aunt Chealsee has an owie right now." Will said, putting it into terms a child would understand.
I looked at JJ and said, "Aunt Chealsee?"
"Well sure if Spence is Uncle Spencer then you are Aunt Chealsee. Don't worry we've explained to him that you and Spence love each other and that you are married just like Mommy and Daddy. Right Henry?" JJ asked her son. He looked at her and nodded.
"He's little." Henry observed upon looking at Gregory.
"You were that little at one point too." I said. He looked at his Mommy and she nodded.
"What his name is?" He asked in a cute childlike way.
I laughed a tiny bit and said, "His name is Gregory but you can just call him Greg if you want." I said.
"Does Greg play with toys?" He asked. I shook my head.
"Not yet. He's a bit to small but when he gets bigger you guys can play." I said.
"Okay big guy lets go." Will said lifting him off the bed very carefully.
"Bye bye Aunt Chealsee." Henry said.
"Bye Henry." I said to him and then he and his Daddy left.
JJ sat in the chair next to my bed and asked, "So how fussy is this little guy on a scale from peaceful to baby screech owl?"
I laughed and said, "He's pretty good. He's only cried a few times and that was the first time Reid held him and when he got tired of being passed around the room from team member to team member."
"Then you might get some sleep the first few nights. We didn't with Henry that's all I know." She said. I smiled at her. "I have to go. Will and Henry are probably wondering where I am by now. Feel better Chealsee." She said and gave me a hug, then was out the door. The nurse came in and took Gregory back to the nursery after JJ left, and then I leaned my bed back and tried to catch some sleep before it was time for him to eat again. I had opted to use baby formula simply because I figured it'd be easier to feed him in a public place or when we had guests that way.
It was what felt like only five minutes later when I woke up. Reid was sitting in his chair beside my bed reading by lamplight, and Diana was sleeping on the air mattress they'd brought in for Reid.
"You know you could've let her sleep at the house on the fold out couch like I was planning." I told him in a groggy voice. We had the guest bedroom made into a room for the baby and put the all the animal's stuff in different places. The beds were in our room, the toys and scratching posts and stuff were in the living room, and sadly we no longer had a guest room. I felt bad about Diana having to sleep on the fold out couch, but I was sure she wouldn't mind. And if she did I'd giver her my side of the bed.
"I wouldn't dare leave her alone." Reid said, responding to my earlier comment.
"Is it that bad?" I asked him, referring to his mother's schizophrenia he'd told me about.
He nodded and said, "When I was a kid I never wanted to go to school even. I was afraid to leave her alone even at that age. Don't get me wrong she's a lovely mother, but it was like I took care of her rather than the other way around. At first her episodes scared me but now I'm used to them." I reached up and rubbed his arm.
"You have a wonderful mother Spencer. I've never seen one of her episodes but when she's not having one, I can tell she loves you very much." I said. He smiled at me.
"You should go back to sleep. It's 11:00pm." He said.
"Oh my gosh I didn't feed Gregory." I said, and started to sit up.
He pushed me back down and said, "The nurse came in with him and a bottle but I told her I'd feed him since you were finally sleeping soundly."
"Thank you." I said.
"We're partners. We both need to help out. Now go back to sleep. You need rest." He said and kissed my forehead.
"Can you lay with me?" I asked.
He got a look on his face like he didn't really want to and said, "I don't want to crowd you or end up hurting you."
"You won't crowd or hurt me. I'd actually probably sleep better if you laid with me." I said.
He sighed and said, "You win." Then closed his book and climbed carefully my bed next to be. It was a tight fit but not too tight where it was uncomfortable. Reid rubbed my forehead and no matter how hard I tried to keep my eyes open, I just kept drifting off and finally, I fell asleep.
In the morning I awoke very happy. They cleared Gregory and I to go home, so we were packing up all my stuff I'd brought with me and the stuff the team members had given me as congratulations gifts. Once Reid loaded all that into the car, I was released with Gregory and we were headed home. Bailey went absolutely nuts when I walked through the door. Reid held her collar and once she calmed down we let her great Diana and then me, and then finally, the baby. She sniffed at him and cocked her head when he wiggled a little. Then she sat and just watched him. I knew Bailey would never hurt him, so I was fine with her sitting next to his little fold up crib while we showed Diana around. The day passed slowly and it was very family oriented. We played board games and watched a few movies, then sat around and listened to Diana talk about when she was little and about when Reid was little.
"I could get used to this." I thought. Looking forward to Christmas and thanksgiving. At one point Reid had to run to the store and took me aside.
"Okay if anything at all happens just play along and call me. I'll be back as soon as I can." He told me.
"I'll be okay." I told him and then we kissed real quick and he was off. It was like a trigger of something because literally ten minutes after he walked out the door, Diana started acting very odd. Rocking back and forth and looking around.
She looked at me and said, "Where's Spencer?"
"He's at the store. He'll be back soon." I assured her, and then went over to get Gregory.
"No…no he's not at the store they're saying he's dead! And you will be too if you don't leave soon!" She yelled.
"Diana who…" She interrupted.
"They're gonna kill you!" She yelled even louder. I retreated to the other room and pulled out my phone. I'd told Reid I could handle it but frankly it was scaring the hell out of me. Almost to the verge of tears. I dialed his number and it rang and rang until finally he picked up.
"Dr. Reid." He said.
"Spencer it's me." I told him.
"Hey Chealsee what's wrong?" He asked obviously hearing the shakiness of my voice.
"It's your mom. She's freaking out." I said.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah I'm fine but…please come home…she's really starting to scare me." I begged him.
I could hear her in the other room yelling, "Go away!" over and over.
"Alright just sit tight and I'll be right there." Reid said and then hung up. I went back into the living room and sat with a very crazed Diana until Reid came walking through the door. She ran over to him.
"Spencer I thought they killed you!" She said.
"No Mom I'm right here. Nobody wants to kill us." He told her. Like a light came on, she came to her senses just like nothing had ever happened.
That night as we laid down in bed, with Gregory in his fold out crib on my side of the bed, I said, "Spencer? Are you still awake?"
"Yeah what's wrong?" He asked and even though it was dark I could still feel him scoot closer to me and put his arms around me.
"That…that was really scary." I said.
"I know. It is really scary. But I've learned to live with it. I promise I won't leave you alone with her again." he told me. It was a welcome offer. The experience had scared me that bad.
"Thank you. Goodnight Spencer. I love you." I said.
"I love you too Chealsee. Goodnight." He said, and we both drifted off to sleep.
Okay what did ya'll think about that? Did I get the "episode" Reid's mom had right? I wanna hear some feedback! :D Sorry there was no song in this one. I figured it was long anough without one ^_^