September 1, 2012
If she hadn't been so tired, Leah would have been bouncing off the walls. For the first time ever, all of her children were out of the hospital. On top of that, Rossi had made a huge gesture, and invited everyone who had been in the waiting room for her when the babies were born, out to his mansion for a barbecue. Barbecue courtesy of Morgan and Caleb. What this meant for Leah was that they would finally tell the names of the babies.
People flocked to their van when Spencer and Leah arrived at Rossi's. Leah couldn't help but laugh as Hotch and Rossi babbled to a couple of them. It was amazing what the sight of a baby could get a person to do.
After dinner, Garcia demanded, "I must know baby names."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Leah's mother encouraged. "I'm so tired of saying 'baby two' or 'baby five'."
"The poor things are going to start thinking that those are their names." Elle added.
"You're right." Leah agreed. She took the oldest from Spencer and cradled her for a minute while she said, "A couple of them could be named after more than one person, but I'm not telling you who and neither is Spencer. Little one here is a good example. This," she handed the dark-haired baby girl to her mother. "Is Emilia Aeryn Reid."
Strauss' mouth dropped open. Leah knew she saw tears in her mother's eyes, and she thought, maybe, in Hotch's.
Spencer took the second one, a dark-haired boy and gave him to Gideon. "This is Gideon Ross." The eyes of both of the older profilers bugged out a little.
Leah took the third, a girl with reddish hair, and handed him to her father. "This is Johanna Kaylee." She looked at Curtis. "It was the closest we could find to 'Caleb'.
Spencer gave the middle one who had fought so hard to live, a blonde boy, to Katie Cole, introducing him as Ashton Cole Reid.
Leah handed the fifth, a blonde girl, to a bouncing Garcia telling her and JJ the baby's name was Nellie Jennae.
Spencer handed the last boy, who had black hair, to Jordan Todd, announcing that his name was Ricky Todd, and telling Morgan not to turn his kid into a player.
Leah took the youngest, a fourth girl, this one also with reddish hair, and handed her to Ambassador Prentiss, saying her name was Andi Elisabeth, "and yes, that could be after Elle too."
"Welcome to your big crazy family kiddos." Leah murmured, watching Jack carefully kiss Emilia, now in Hotch's arms, on the head.
Please review! You'll make my day (really, I'm not just saying that)! Thanks to everyone who has read and reviewed. It means a lot that you all have stuck and/or put up with me for this long. By the way, sorry these chapters have been so short! Also, this story is done and is probably going to be the last of this Leah/Reid series for now. I have a couple of spinoff projects though, that I'm considering for later. For right now, though, I'm bidding Leah and the other OCs a fond farewell. :) and :'(.