Undercover Family

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Chapter 6.

Sunday

The agents have now been children for one full day, can they make it through the next several months while they search for the children and the person taking them. Also, will the doctor be able to find the missing prototype of her device. Although it is possible the two things might be connected, let us not assume that. The Sunday morning, began similarly to the day before, momma checks on Aaron before going upstairs to get the agents up. She gets out the clothes that she wants them to wear that day, she will eventually allow them to choose their own clothes for the day, but she is new at being a mother and reveling in deciding these things. Although, they do not attend church themselves, she has decided that this family will attend the St. Joseph's Catholic Church on Sundays. So today they dress up a little. The girls will be in pretty frilly dresses and the boys in nice slacks and shirts. She reminds David to let Spencer clean up first, he's seems to be slower than others.

Heading back downstairs, she checks on Aaron again and he is still sleeping. So she heads to the kitchen to fix pancakes for breakfast. JJ comes down in her frilly dress.

She says "Do I really have to wear this?"

Mommas answers, "What's wrong with it?"

"It is really frilly and girly."

Well, you are a girl. Can you help me out and set the table for breakfast."

"Why are we getting all dressed up anyway?" She gets the dishes down and takes them to the dining room.

"It is Sunday and we are going to church." Derek and Spencer have come down by now.

Derek says, "Church, I have been to church regularly for years. I don't want to go to church."

Spencer pipes in. "I never went to church; we did others things on Sundays."

Momma answers, "Going to church will solidify us more as a family and introduce to a wider spectrum of the community. It would be good for you to see others you don't have children and some of the other people in the town."

Derek says, "It makes sense but I'm still not comfortable with the idea." The people look out the kitchen when the baby monitor makes sounds. JJ takes over at the range and Derek and Spencer finish getting the table ready, while momma heads to take care of Aaron.

In the bedroom, she picks him up and changes him; she places a cute little vest style suit on him for church. Taking him to the dining room and putting him in the high chair, the others had come down and were looking great. They had all sat and JJ brought the pancakes in while David had brought in a carton of orange juice and Penelope brought in milk for anyone who wants some. Momma reminds them to keep themselves clean, so they don't have to change to go to church.

Finishing breakfast, they clear the table and wash the dishes. While the older kids finish up the dishes, she makes sure the younger ones are dressed as she wants them to be, she prepares some bags to take with them to church, i.e. diaper bag, toy bag, snack bag. She calls everyone together and they head out to the car. In the car, they kept their thoughts to themselves about actually going to a catholic church.

Arriving at the church, it is quite a scene with momma coming in holding Aaron and followed by the six others. She heads to the front of the church and finds an empty pew, motions the children into the pew, after which she genuflects and goes into the pew herself, placing Aaron on the seat, she kneels to pray and the others follow suit. Those who have been to a catholic church before, David, Emily and Derek, know that this is the proper way to begin. They bow their heads and fold their hands to pray. The others mimic their actions, but are otherwise unsure of what to do. They sit on the pew quietly and somewhat unsure of the process of what to do. The mass begins, after a while the little ones do begin to get fidgety. Many times that occurs throughout the church with little ones, ours are not so different. Momma keeps the kids quiet with the bags that she brought. She knows how important it is for them to be reverent in the church and keep them quiet. Momma is an observer of human behavior and has watched mothers and their children in the church for years. She believes she knows how to handle it. I don't think this week will be a problem, but we'll see if our children are as reverent each week as they should be.

After church, Momma and the others stick around and she talks to the father and learns about the schedule for Sunday school, CCD and confession times. It is quite some time before they head to the car. While she is talking with the father, our agents are milling around, talking with other children and listening to the adult conversation around them. They don't really learn anything that day, but there is always the possibility of learning something in the future about the child abductor.

Back at home, the kids go upstairs and change into more casual play clothes. It has started to rain outside, so playing outside was not an option. They instead set up a game of monopoly in the dining room, yes, there are a few who are supposedly too young for the game, but let us remember they are really adults in child form. So a game of seven played on the table. Momma went into the kitchen to begin dinner. She is making pot roast with potatoes, carrots, onions and green beans. After setting it to begin cooking, she goes and just watches as the agents play the game. She was invited to play, but declined at this time. It was more interesting watching them interact with each other as adults but sometimes that child shows through. Like when Spencer kept going to jail, after the fourth time in a row, he had the cutest pout on his face. Penelope didn't like to see that, so she kept trying to cheer him up, even going so far as to tickle him. He reacted very young, with his arms and legs going all over, when JJ and Emily joined her, he started giggling so hard that he actually fell off his chair with a thud. "Ouch." That's when momma stepped in and went to her little one to check that he was okay. The girls went back to their chairs feeling a little guilty for hurting their 'little' brother. There was no damage just more of an embarrassment that he fell off the chair, of course he was more embarrassed that he actually had an accident and wet his pants from all the laughing. Momma actually picked him and took him upstairs to help him clean up and change his pants.

When they come back down, he goes back to playing the game and she checks on dinner. A while later, there sounds to be more trouble with the game and she goes in to watch what is happening. Aaron has accused Derek of cheating because he thinks he saw him take money out of the bank and Derek denies the accusation. There is a lot of angry words and accusations of trust and then came the childish rants and raves of being too young or too anything. Each 'man' gets up and almost come to blows. That is when David gets and goes between the 'brothers'.

He says, "That is enough, Hotch, I am the one handling the bank, I would have noticed if there had been any hands in it that didn't belong. Morgan, take it easy, he's just tired and cranky."

At that, Aaron gets even more incensed, "I am not tired or cranky, I know what I saw and I am not some child that needs to placated and calmed down."

David responds, "A child, you are right, you are not a child. Right now, you are a baby who needs to take a nap, because you are not seeing things right. I have been watching you for the past thirty minutes struggling to keep your eyes open and focused on the game. It is only because of your strong will that you have been able to fight the baby within you. But, you need to stop fighting it Aaron and take your nap."

"I do not need a nap. I want to finish the game."

JJ speaks up and says, "I think the game is over." She begins to pack up the game.

Spencer cries out, "No, I was winning."

Derek replies, "No, you weren't. JJ just kept putting more money in front of you, so that you could pay your bills."

Whining, Spencer replies, "That is not true, is it JJ." He looks at her with his cute puppy dog eyes.

JJ says, "Yes it is." Spencer puts on a pouting face.

Watching, momma smiled and was enjoying the show of the interaction between them. Although, she does agree with David about Aaron; she is not going to take Aaron for a nap yet. Let's see how young he can become before he unintentionally falls asleep. She notices Spencer is not too far from that need as well. It will be interesting if these two 'men' make it through dinner. She heads back to the kitchen and notices that dinner should be ready in about 15 minutes; it is good the game broke up.

Momma says from the kitchen, "Could you start setting the table for dinner? Derek come in and get the butter and seasonings, David get the china, JJ get the silverware and Penelope would you get the glassware? Spencer and Emily, go wash your face and hands." Momma got the roast out of the oven so that it could settle and fixed up the vegetable dishes. She felt hands reach around her, turning around, she sees Aaron. He asks if there is anything he can do to help get dinner ready. She responds that he just needs to wash his hands and stay out of the others way. He goes to the bathroom and tries to wash his hands by himself; Emily doesn't let him and helps him out. After setting the table, the older children wash their hands and get ready to eat. Momma and Penelope bring out the food, puts Aaron in his high chair and they say grace over the food. Momma places food for Aaron to eat and sets up a good meal for Spencer, since it is more difficult for these two to serve themselves.

As the family eats, both Aaron and Spencer seem to become slower and slower in picking up their food and putting it in their mouths. Both of them are getting more tired by the moment. David and Derek make a bet as to which one will fall asleep at the table first. Spencer sees them whispering and asks what it is about. Derek replies, "nothing kid, just finish eating." After a while when everyone has finished their plates, except these two, momma sends the others to clear the table and do the dishes, she takes Spencer gently from the table and washes him up, picks him up and takes him to the bedroom to lay down. He feebly fights her and says he is not tired, but the moment his head touches the pillow on the bed, he is out. She then takes Aaron from his high chair and washes him up, changes his diaper and places him in this crib. Surprisingly he is so tired that he doesn't fight her at all. The moment he is lying down, he puts his thumb in his mouth and falls right asleep. Momma goes out and the rest are finishing up the dishes, except for Emily, who went out onto the porch and started playing with some toys. When the dishes were done, David decided to find a book and do some quiet reading. Derek went to the porch and started creating a something out of Lego blocks. JJ and Penelope started to play a game of scrabble with momma.

Later that evening, momma started to get the children ready for school the following day by having them take a bath, starting with Emily downstairs and Derek upstairs. She goes to kitchen to fix a light supper that they could eat while watching a movie together. When Emily and Derek have finished their baths and put on some nightclothes, David and JJ went to take their baths. Spencer and Aaron have woken up from their naps and are feeling a lot better and in much better moods. Momma sends Spencer upstairs to David and tells Spencer to tell David, that David was supposed to give him his bath. A while later then both come down in their pajamas. Everyone sits down and chows down on sandwiches, chips, kool-aid and brownies, while watching an animated film. When the film was over, the boys and girls headed up to bed. Momma went up with them and tucked them. She enjoys doing this act of mothering.

Downstairs, there is just momma and Aaron, she gives him a bath, diapers him and puts him in a yellow sleeper. She then sets him on her lap in the rocking chair and they have their alone time, while he drinks his bottle and she hums cute little songs. He falls asleep in her arms and she puts him in the crib. A little while later, momma goes to bed just after she tells Penelope, who has been on the computer for several hours, that she should head to bed. She says soon.

I hope you like this day in the life and that you won't get offended by the fact of church and that I chose the catholic religion. Tomorrow will be the first day of school for our intrepid agents. How would you feel having to go back to elementary or middle school?