Note- Thank you to everyone who has taken time to review this story. You make writing fanfiction fun for me. Right now I don't have any plot bunnies for Reid and Emily fics so I might not be able to write one for a while. Maybe season seven will get the muse interested again.

Its been a while since I wrote any Morgan/Garcia so you may see a fic about them from me next. Just depends on what sparks's the muse.

Thank you for taking an interest in my work and for being supportive.

Sara

On My Own Too Long

Reid and Prentiss

Chapter 15

October 2011

Almost a month after they were born the twins were released from the hospital. Reid and Prentiss decided to drive them to Las Vegas and stay there for week visiting his mother.

He had written her that he was a father in many letters but it wasn't until she saw the kids that Reid was able to find out her reaction to the news, since she had never written him back or called him. Diana had her good and bad days but he knew that she treasured his letters and would read them over and over so if it was a good day she would understand that she was a grandmother now.

"Mom, this is Emily and these are our children: Calliope and Alexander."

"Homer's muse. You always were fond of mythology. I see they both have the Reid chin. A good, strong chin. It will serve them well." Then she looked Emily up and down. "So you're the one then? The woman who has stolen my son's heart. I warn you right now that you better treat it right or I'll cut yours out."

Spencer told Emily "She doesn't mean that. My Mom can be a bit over dramatic sometimes."

Diana winked at Emily "It helps around here to make them all think you're the craziest one in the bunch. Then no one messes with you. But don't hurt my son because I would make sure you suffer greatly if you do."

"No, ma'am, I won't hurt him. He's the best man I ever met and me and the kids need him around. I couldn't do this without Spencer."

"I take that to mean its serious between you two then. So when is the wedding? I need to get myself a new outfit."

"Mom! Please stop. You're making Emily uncomfortable."

"She looks perfectly comfortable to me. You're the one getting nervous. You have two children with this woman, Spencer. You need to do the honorable thing."

"We'll get married when and if we're ever ready," Reid told his Mom. "We came here to show you the babies, not be grilled about our plans."

"Well if you get married this week then I can attend. Don't you think I deserve the honor of attending my only child's wedding?"

"You'll attend my wedding if I ever get married but I'm not getting married this week. Emily and I haven't even talked about marriage. We're not ready for that yet."

"You haven't talked about it? And you have not one baby but two? I would have castrated your father if he treated me that way."

Emily said "Things are complicated because we had to spend six months apart recently so we're just getting back into the groove of things with each other and having the kids born over a month early really make them our main focus right now. Maybe we'll talk marriage one day though, you never know."

When they were back in the car, with the kids strapped in their car seats, Reid told Emily "I'm sorry about my mother. I swear she embarrasses me on purpose."

"Your mother is a barrel of monkeys compared to mine."

"A barrel of monkeys?"

"Just an expression. Its not important. I like your Mom. If Callie or AJ came to me with twins but no spouse I'd probably ask the same kind of questions."

"No, you wouldn't. You're not old fashioned and either is my mother. She was just being nosy and trying to push me to reveal if we're thinking about marriage."

"Don't let it bother you. Its way too soon for us to talk marriage. I'm just trying to make it from diaper change to diaper change right now."

Reid gave her a small smile. "I know the drive here was rough but we can extend our stay in Vegas so we don't have to make a cross country drive again in a few days. I know how hard it is to get into a routine with the twins when we're on the road. Lucky that my headaches have eased off so we don't have that to deal with too right now."

"Maybe you need to really consider changing careers if our job was the cause of your headaches."

"I think unhappiness was the cause. I was so miserable before and I couldn't face that. Deep down inside I was lonelier than any man can stand to be. But no more, Emily." He glanced back at the babies and then stared into Emily's eyes. "And that is because you said yes when I asked you to see Solaris." He lifted her hand and kissed it. "Its because I love you."

Just then a baby started to cry and Emily had to lean back to soothe AJ. They spent a few minutes talking about why he might be fussing before Reid pulled the car out of the parking lot and they headed for the house they had rented to stay in while in Vegas.

That night, once they kids were napping, Emily walked up behind Reid and looped her arms around his waist. "I need you to know...you amaze me...you make my life so much better...I hope it always feels like this between us...This is why I love you, Spencer, because no one else has ever made me feel like this, ever made me want to have his baby, ever made me happy like this, ever understood me...ever made me this hopeful...ever made me feel like being a nerd was okay...ever got me like you get me...no one knows me like you, no one has ever loved me like you do...I'm even more crazy about you today than yesterday."

He turned around, wrapped her in his arms and started to kiss her as she whispered "I love you," against his lips over and over.

It would be another two months before they made love, as they struggled to get their apartments set up for the babies back in Quantico and to get into a rhythm of sharing custody and responsibilities, but finally they had a night together when JJ was watching the babies.

Emily asked Reid to go to foreign film and dinner at a nearby tapas bar afterwards. When they got back to her apartment she put on music and they sat on the couch together cuddling and listening to it, his hands slowly stroking over her body, massaging and caressing, as they shared gentle kisses.

Reid told her "We don't need to rush into anything, Em, okay?"

"Its been over nine months since I've been with you, that's not rushing. Its more like slow torture." She pressed her hands up under his sweater and raked her nails across his skin, as she nibbled on his ear. "Put me out of my misery, please...Spencer," she blew on his ear "I need you so much tonight. I even bought new panties just for you. Don't you wanna take them off me?"

Soon they were making love on her living room floor, like two desperate people who were about to be parted for months or years. But they weren't about to, thank God, because they were much happier together than on their own.

They had both been on their own for way too long before that night last winter. Though things were still new between them, even with having two babies, each day made it seem more and more sure they wouldn't be on their own ever again.

THE END