Undercover Family

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Chapter 40.

Spencer is sitting on the bus seat trying to be as small as he can be. He didn't want to go with this man, he wanted his brothers and sisters and he wanted his momma, his father, his mother, anybody to get him out of this. He wondered idly if Jason would care if he went missing. Would anybody really care? Everyone babies him and doesn't think he can do things by himself. That he must be protected all the time. How can he get out of this to show that he is able to take care of himself? Is he always the one who needs to be found? Aren't I a man that can take care of me? I got through the agency trials on my own, so I don't shoot well. There are more important things. You don't need a gun to kill or hurt someone. I can get out of this. He looks around at the other children but can I get them out of this?

At the hospital

The doctor comes to see momma about Aaron that he has an ear infection which has progressed into Pneumococcal Bacteremia or Bacteria in the blood which is what is causing the high fever. They are giving him antibiotics to clear the infection. He should be kept quiet and warm and hydrated. Momma explains that they don't live around there, but when they go home she will have him at his pediatrician immediately. The doctor releases Aaron since he does not need to stay overnight. She goes in and sees her baby and is ready to take him home. She puts him in his snow suit that she brought with her. He tells her that he hates this, can't he have a regular coat. She answers no. He whines and she carries him out to the car and puts him in his car seat. The other children follow happy that Aaron will be okay. Momma heads to the airport now to check on her other missing child.

At the Airport

The unsub arrives at the airport and unloads the children off the bus and leads them to the airline hanger. While on the bus Spencer talked to the few children around him and convinced them to run with him when they got off the bus. Just before heading into the hanger the kids broke and ran in all different directions. The man growled and ran after the smallest and slowest of the children. He was able to catch a few of them. Not that it will do him any good, the FBI is in the hanger and arrests him the moment he entered the building. Once they find out that some of the children were missing because they ran off. Agents began to beat the bush around the area for the children. Eventually, they were able to find all except one and Spencer. They kept looking and beating the bush calling out the names of the two children. It was in this scene that momma arrived at the airport. Bob sees her come up and walked over to see her, the others got out of the car. Bob looked into the car to see Aaron in his car seat sleeping.

"Is he alright?"

"Ear infection which became bacteria in the blood, he has to take antibiotics for awhile and keep his head covered when he goes out in weather like this. Where is Spencer?" The weather is gray, cloudy and snowflakes have begun to fall.

"We have found all the children except him, for some reason he won't come out of the bushes. The children ran when they arrived not knowing that we were inside the hanger ready to take them home. The others have been sent already, we just need Spencer." Momma looks at her tracer and heads to a certain location on the far side of the airport. After walking quite a distance, she comes to a copse of trees and looks around. She looks at her tracer then around the area and finally looks up into the tree above her. She smiles as she sees her little man curled up in a branch sleeping. He just couldn't go further. Bob catches up and looks up, he calls for a ladder from the hanger to be brought. Within ten minutes, momma had her sleeping boy in her arms. She kissed the top of his head as she begins to walk back to the car with her precious cargo. He is so tired that he has yet to wake up.

When she got back to the car, the rest of the family is relieved and happy to see him as well. Bob told them to stay there; he didn't want to go searching for them as well. The older kids had bundled up Emily and made her stay in the car where she curled up and fell asleep. They stayed in the car until they saw momma coming with a bundle in her arms. Of course when they got out of the car, they weren't very quiet and woke up Aaron and Emily. When momma got to the car, she placed Spencer in the middle of the front seat and buckled him in. She put a bottle into Aaron's hands and had Emily curl up on the second seat buckled in, Derek got in beside her and buckled up. She kissed the top of the heads of her other young ones and had them get in the car, Penelope got in the back with David and JJ while momma got in the front seat passenger side and Bob got into the driver's side. Out family is once again intact and heading home to Harvard.

Spencer wakes up half way there, he looks around frightened until he sees momma and he hugs her with relief. She kisses him on the head.

He says, "I missed you mommy thank you for finding me."

"I missed you too baby." He continues to sit there and eventually fell back asleep.

It is early Monday morning when they get home. A group of tired and hungry bodies enter the house. Bob had Emily in his arms and momma had Spencer on one shoulder and Aaron on the other. Penelope had to practically pull Derek into the house, he was so tired. Momma heads upstairs with Bob to put the three little ones down in their beds. Derek followed momma into the boys' room and crawled into his bed.

"Let's put your pajamas on first Derek." He groans and goes to get his pajamas. Momma placed Aaron into his crib and then took Spencer to the changing table and stripped him of his clothes and put his pull-ups on and then a blanket sleeper to keep him warm. After placing him in his bed, she went to help Derek; he was so tired that he couldn't seem to get his blanket sleeper on. (She has all the children in sleepers over the winter time.) He kept missing his getting his leg into the leg of the sleeper. She sets him up and gets him in his sleeper and into his bed. David has come up and is now getting into his sleeper. He hates wearing it but could not convince not to make him do it. He climbs into bed and is asleep the moment his head hits the pillow. Momma heads over to her baby in the crib still in his snowsuit. She leaves him in it for now and walks to the girls' room. She makes sure Emily is well dressed in her sleeper and gives her a kiss on her forehead. JJ is in her sleeper and has crawled into bed and curled up by Emily after getting her kiss.

"Good night momma."

"Good night sweetheart." Momma goes to check on Penelope next. She is in a set of warm flannel pajamas and is getting into bed when momma comes in.

"Hi, momma. It's good we've got the children back, all of them."

"Yes, Penelope, it is very good that we have all the children home with their families. Have a good night sleep sweetie."

"Good night momma."

Momma heads back to the boys' room to finally get her baby put to bed properly. She takes off his snowsuit and cleans him up and changes him before getting him into his blanket sleeper. He wakes up while she is doing this and smiles wanly at her.

"Hungry momma." Momma got a bottle out and took her little one to the chair to feed him. She would sit in that chair holding him until the sun comes up. She thinks about the past eight months and how she has gotten to know this group of people and is grateful to have her children back. She wonders though if Bob is right, has she gotten too close to these people, can she really give them up to return to their adult lives? What if she didn't?