Undercover Family
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Chapter 27.
Saturday morning falls and the family wakes up and prepares to get ready for the party that afternoon. They put on dresses and suits and prepare for their guests. Derek is able to join the family and has had the knee brace taken off. Spencer is also able to do things well, since they had his cast taken off his arm and he so excited to be able to play with both arms. The party is more than just a time for enjoyment, because grandpa has some very important political people attending and will be having a meeting with them later. Many times the most important decisions are made at the least likely of places.
The children are running around and moving throughout the adults in the garden area. There are some senators, congress people, ambassadors and diplomats working among the other invited guests. Some of these guests are people that you wouldn't necessarily meet around the high political guests that are there.
One of them is Spencer Reid's father, a man who is not sure if he belongs there as he goes around watching his son. He was told that Spencer was undercover and that he would look like a four-year-old child, but the reality of it was even more amazing when he saw his young son playing. It was an unusual sight for when he was a young child; his father did try to get the boy to do some normal childhood things even though it was clear that he wasn't very athletic or normal in intellect. This was a boy who could feel more at ease doing things with adults than with children. His wife was a good woman, but had difficulty in staying focused on what is reality. For years, he felt bad that he didn't take Spencer with him when he left; he loved the boy immensely and was extremely proud of him. From a distance he kept his eye on his son and saw him become a fine young man. He is now seeing that boy playing and not being encouraged to be just smart and intellectual, but to be a boy, not a young man who had the weight of the world shoulders. His son was a boy who had to grow up too fast and didn't really get a chance to be a child. Mr. Reid did not show himself to his son, but just watched him be young.
He really enjoyed watching him play with another little boy about the same age as he is, they are currently playing tag with the other children. The littlest child is just running around, he is not playing tag, just running around the legs of the guests. That child tripped and lost his balance however and grabbed hold of the pants of one man, a man who does not like children and pushes the child away. The child loses even more balance and grabs hold even higher and the man gets mad and kicks the child away.
"Ow." The baby starts to cry from falling down and is grabbing at his leg. The adults standing around try to soothe the boy but he just screams louder when ever anybody came close to him. "MOMMY!!!" Momma comes running to the spot and sees her baby on the ground screaming and clutching his leg, she bends to pick him up. He struggles against her until she talks low to him and brings him to her breast. He knows that this is momma and he is safe now. He stops screaming but is still crying. She takes her baby into the house into the kitchen and started to check out her little man for any injuries. She notices a knot beginning to form on his leg.
"Sean, bring me an icepack please." Sean goes to the freezer and brings a pack over to her.
"What happened? Is he alright?"
"Something happened outside and he fell down and it looks like he got hit in the leg. There's a knot forming and I want to reduce it with the ice pack." He is still crying. Sean goes and gets some baby aspirin to help with the pain. He crushes it and dissolves into a bottle of juice which he puts into Aaron's mouth. Momma picks up her baby holds him while he drinks the medicine in the juice. He calms down and starts to feel safe and tired in her arms. He falls asleep and starts his nap. Sean looks down at his older baby brother and takes him from her arms.
"I'll take him upstairs to his crib."
"Thank you, be careful of his leg."
Momma heads outside to check on her other children. When she finds Spencer, she finds him playing on the swing set about to fall off because he is tired. The other little boy has already been taken by his mother to take a nap and now it is Spencer's turn. Momma sees Mr. Reid watching the boy and summons him over. Like the other people, he can't seem to resist it when she summons.
"Would you pick him up; he needs to take his nap now. How about helping me put him down? Have you talked to him?" He picked up Spencer.
"No, I have just been watching him play. It is so great to see him playing and happy. He was always so serious and to see him carefree in wonderful. I have you to thank for that and I do thank you. Also, thank you for inviting me here today."
"Let's get him down to his nap."
"Mommy!" is heard by the two adults. Momma turns around and sees her little angel girl, Emily running toward. "Is Aaron okay? I heard him crying earlier."
"Aaron makes sure that everyone hears him cry and yes he is okay, he fell and hurt his leg but he is okay and is now taking a nap. I see some eyes ready to close here, about taking a little rest and getting up later to play some more."
"Okay, I am tired." Momma, Mr. Reid with Spencer and Emily head into the house and go upstairs to put the young ones down for naps. After laying Emily down, momma goes into the boys room where Mr. Reid is still standing holding Spencer.
"He sleeps on the lowest bed." Mr. Reid puts Spencer onto the bed. Momma checks on Aaron in the crib.
After a while, there is heard a cry from upstairs on the baby monitor that is currently set in the kitchen. Sean goes upstairs and checks in the girls' room, Emily had already gone and so he went to the boys' room, where Spencer had already gone but the cry came from the boy in the crib. When Sean goes to the crib and sees his brother crying from the pain he still felt from the knot in his leg. Sean knew that Aaron needed momma and not him. He picked up his brother and went downstairs to find momma outside in the garden. He looks around and tries to find the woman and finally sees her across the way and walks toward her. He is intercepted by Grandpa.
"Let me take him and you go finish that great food that you make."
"Well, I was trying to take him to momma. I think he needs her, he needs to be changed and I don't think that he would like someone else doing it. Remember a few days ago?"
"I can change him and you need to get back to work."
"Yes sir." He hands Aaron over to the man.
"Aaron, how are you feeling boy?" Grandpa heads back into the house with him and goes to change him in the bathroom.
"No, only momma changes."
"That is not what I asked agent Hotchner." Aaron opened his eyes wide and stared at grandpa.
"I thought momma asked you not to call me that?"
"Are you capable of doing some profiling today?"
"What do you mean sir?"
"I am about to attend a meeting with some high officials and I want an assessment of their actions and words as well as to the paperwork we may be looking at. A baby who supposedly cannot read or understand what is being said might be useful. Are you up to doing the job my sweet baby grandson?" The director looks at him with interest and a spark of full understanding came into Aaron's eyes as he smiles at his grandpa and says, "I think I can do the job sir." Grandpa finishes changing Aaron and the two head into the library where the meeting begins to take place.
The meeting has about 14 people attending, there some politicians and directors of other agencies. They are discussing a situation about national security. When the director enters with Aaron in his arms, there are some questioning looks.
"My daughter and grandchildren are visiting, this is nineteen-month-old Aaron, he fell earlier and hurt himself, I'm just trying to give her a break from his clinginess. She has six others to deal with without him hanging on her the rest of the day. He won't be a problem." The adults begin to talk among each other about what the problem is. Aaron begins to walk among them and observes their movements and tells. His only problem is that he is hungry, but he doesn't want to go baby on the director. He just doesn't know how to tell him that he is hungry.
Momma is worried because she can't find the baby monitor and when she went to check on her baby; he wasn't there. She has begun to walk around and look for her missing baby. The locator that she has indicates that he is in the area, but she can't seem to find him among all the people. She has found some of the other children and has them looking for him as well. She is surprised that he is not letting her know where he is, she would assume he would be at the food table, since he is probably hungry, but she has checked over there three times. The locator does indicate he is in the house, but where she has not yet found. (The library is swept for bugs and has some wavelength blockers to prevent spying. It is dampening out the locator slightly.) If momma put the computer locator on, she would have a stronger signal and be able to pinpoint better, but she just has the pdf style on her right now. Going into the kitchen, she finally finds the baby monitor.
"Sean, did you hear when Aaron woke up?"
"Yes, I went up and got him and was bringing him to you, but grandpa intercepted me and said he would care for him and take him to you. Didn't he take him to you?"
"No, he didn't, but I know where he is. Thank you Sean." She fixes a tray of foods for Aaron as well as a sippy cup of juice with some more pain reliever in it and heads to the library.
At the library, there is a security guard at the door to prevent unwanted visitors into the room. She ignores the man, who grabs her arm. She gives him a withering look of try and stop me fool. She unlocks the door and enters the room. Everyone looks at her.
"Rebecca, what are doing here?"
"I am looking for my baby, who needs his afternoon snack."
"Mommy!" Aaron goes running over to her. She picks him up and walks over to her father and puts Aaron in his lap.
"I don't mind him being here with you, but he needs his snack." She places the tray in front of Aaron, who immediately begins to pick up the food and eat it. He had a look of thanks and gratefulness on his face, especially when he turned and gave grandpa a big wet dirty kiss. Rebecca kissed the head of her father and her son before leaving the room. Aaron finished up his snack and then drank his juice. The adults returned to their discussion. Aaron sat in Grandpa's lap as he looked around at all the people there.
A klaxon begins to blare, as cell phones rang and pdfs beeped. The people in the room began to answer their machines, when the people who were in the garden began to be herded into the house. It seems that a threat was called into the press that a bomb was in the area. It is unknown exactly where in the area, but with so many VIPs in the area, it was taken as a real threat and the area was now being filled in with the bomb squad and the National Guard to protect those in the house.
Momma is going around looking for her children. She already had two with her, Spencer and JJ, but was still looking for the others, she knows that Aaron is still with Grandpa in the library and she heads to the library. The security guard once again tries to prevent her from entering, after showing the badge that she does carry, he allows her in.
"Father, (The director turns to her.) I would like to watch the children, while I find the other children and my special guests. Please stay in here with our important guests."
"Why don't you stay and allow to me find the missing children and your guests? I would like you to be protected, as you know the library is the safest room in this house and I want you to stay in here."
"I cannot stay here until all of my children are safe."
"Yes, you can and that is an order from your father."
"Excuse me." The director hands Aaron into her arms and goes out the door. Momma looks at him incensed that he would speak to her like that. She walks toward the door, but Aaron grabs her tightly around the neck and Spencer grabs her around the hips to prevent her from following the director. She looks at her little ones and sits down in a chair. Spencer crawls into her lap to sit next to Aaron. He looks at Aaron to try and convince him to get off momma's lap, Aaron squints at him but doesn't try to monopolize momma's lap. JJ sits on the floor next to her. All of the people were concerned as they have not been given very much information. Periodically the door opens and more people are sent into the room. Eventually, momma sees some of her special guests and finally sees David, Derek, Emily and Penelope. All of whom come over and sit with her. Mr. Reid comes over and Spencer finally sees that his father is there. He looks at him in mild shock.
"Hello, Mr. Reid, please find a chair and pull up beside me."
"I don't know why they made sure that I was brought in here. From what I can see it seems to be a place of VIPs."
"Aren't you a very important person too sir, at least to somebody."
"No, I don't think so. The only person who might consider me important doesn't really know anything about me, but I am very proud of him."
"You should be. He's done good work." Spencer decides to give his father a treat and moved from momma's lap to sit on his. Both adults smiled at his action. Mr. Reid hugged and cuddled the boy. Emily moved into momma's lap. "Of course, I am still a little worried."
"Why is that?"
"I have a few more personal guests that need to be brought her, my 'father' does not want me to search for them, so I have to wait and I am not that patient of a person. I hate waiting to see the people I need to see. When I worry about someone and I can't find them, I can begin to get frantic. I want to see the people I need to see." The door opened again and more people came in but momma couldn't see who they were as she was sitting with two children on her lap. They began to mill about with those already in the room. Momma sees Sean and then Hayley with Jack and invites them over to sit with them. Sean takes a seat on the floor and Jack gets into Uncle Sean's lap.
"Hello, Hayley, I am glad you and Jack were able to come."
"I didn't know that Sean would be here"
"Yes, he is working for us this week."
Sean did have a bag with him. When he heard the klaxon, he thought he would help momma by going upstairs and getting a bag of diapers and some bottles of juice and milk for Aaron. He didn't know Jack was here, so he didn't bring in food for the children, just for Aaron. Momma grabbed the bag from him and looked within; she smiled gratefully at Sean for his consideration and takes out a bottle, which she gives to Aaron. It is important that our people remember their roles.
The door opens again and the director and grandma came in. The director went to talk with some of the VIPs while grandma came over to her little family with Uncle Bob, not far behind.
She says, "There has been confirmation of a bomb and they are currently working to defuse it but their finding it very difficult, it is extremely difficult. We are hoping there aren't others; they are evacuating some of the bigger buildings and higher political and scientific personnel."
"That's good, make sure that they get the institute and have it set up well."
"Where is your main device and reports?"
"Upstairs in my room, why do need to know?"
"You are being evacuated."
"Not without my family and guests."
"They don't plan on taking anyone else, only you."
"They can fall off the edge of the world before I give in to what they want. I am not that important."
"Your work can be and you do keep that close to the breast."
"I still have a few personal guests missing, find them and we'll talk again. David, will you and Penelope go to my room and get some stuff." She finds some paper and a pen and wrote a list of what she wants and exactly where to find it. After which she hands it to them. The two leave.
"Rebecca, you cannot be serious about not leaving if they come and get you."
"Erin, in the eight years that you have known me, when have I not been serious or stubborn about what I say."
"But this is your life and a very important scientific breakthrough that could make a big difference in how we catch certain criminals and even possibly in the political arena and spy. We cannot let it be destroyed or damaged."
"Look around you; your best experiment for it is surrounding you. They are equally important. You are the one who suggested this team in the first place; losing them could hurt the validity of the science. I need the results of their reports and them. I will not leave without them or my guests."
At that moment a large boom rocks the house and people scream.