The Secret Social Life of Dr. Spencer Reid Chapter 23

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"We want to throw a baby shower for Kathryn so you have to keep Reid occupied on the day of." Garcia told the male members of the team. She had dragged them, along with Prentiss and JJ to the conference room to talk this out. She'd ensured that they come in early so the couple in question wouldn't be suspicious of anything.

"What? What the heck would we do that he could possibly be interested in?" Morgan protested.

"Take him to some nerdy convention or something." Emily suggested, a slight smirk playing on her face as the men looked at her in disbelief that she could even suggested such an absurd thing.

"How could you even joke about that?" Rossi asked, his face made it seem as though they were in a horror movie.

"I wasn't joking." The woman laughed.

"Maybe we could-" Hotch started before the man himself walked through the door; his pregnant girlfriend being led by the hand.

"Maybe we could what?" He asked as he sat down, still holding Kathryn's hand.

"Do we have a case or something?" The brunette woman asked, she hoped not. Although she felt conflicted over that as the team should be helping people who were getting killed but she just wanted to sit and relax. Well, she'd rather do paperwork than have to work a case – they had, after all, just gotten back from a child abduction case. It was sad, looking at the parents faces as they wondered if they'd ever get to hold their four year old boy again. His name was Ryan, when they found him he'd been sexually assaulted and beaten, but he was alive. He'd be 'okay', physically perhaps; emotionally and mentally not so much. It made her wonder what it'd take for someone to do something like that to someone so innocent; who could take a childhood away and ruin a four year olds life – what did he do to deserve such a cruel fate.

"Oh my god!" Garcia exclaimed as she ran to hug the couple. "Congratulations!" Her excitement was the equivalent to that of a child at Christmas.

"What are we congratulating us on?" Kathryn looked at Spencer with a confused expression, apparently she'd missed a lot during her reflection.

"I just told them the sex of the baby. Thought you were listening, sorry." He replied sheepishly, feeling a little bit guilty at not ensuring that she was listening. Sometimes it was hard to know what she was thinking, but she'd been doing this a lot recently. Zoning in and out of conversations, he thought it was strange but left her to it. He really didn't want to annoy her, a normal annoyed her was bad enough but a hormonal and pregnant angry her was a no go. She'd kill him and then revive him to clean up the mess and kill him again. The whole thought of it scared him, making him shudder. She gave him a half smile before accepting the hugs from everyone in the room.

"Congratulations, he seems a lot happier now." Hotch commented as he hugged her. "It's good, maybe he just needed to talk. Are you happy?"

This stunned the woman for a minute, no-one had asked her that before and she wasn't sure how to answer. "I'm having a baby with the man I love, why wouldn't I be?" She smiled at him but with how close the two had gotten, he could see through it. He'd become a surrogate father to her, almost. Sure, she disliked him and they butted heads when she first joined but now she respected him and could talk to him about anything. Her relationship with him was almost like Reid and Gdeon's relationship but Hotch treated her more as his daughter than a mentee.

"That's not an answer." Luckily, the team were talking to a grinning Spencer and Aaron and Kathryn were out of the way. She looked to the floor before sighing.

"It is what it is. He's happy, I love him and it'll be good for him. I could never get an abortion Hotch. I'll love the kid and do everything a parent's supposed to do. It's all I can do." She confided. Somehow, she felt as though she was betraying the child and her boyfriend by saying it aloud, it felt as though she was telling them that she didn't want them, hated them even.

"I didn't think you were, I felt the same way you know. Now I can't imagine Jack not being in my life. While Haley was pregnant I would wonder whether it would have been easier for both of us if she wasn't having a baby." Equally, that was the first time he'd ever said that aloud. "She just seemed so happy, just like Reid and so I acted just like you. I smiled and did everything I could for her hoping that it'd be enough, hoping that she wouldn't see through the wall I put up. She never did, and nor has Reid." He wrapped an arm around her for comfort. "It's ok to be scared and to want something different. It makes us human."

"I can't tell him. It could destroy him, he looks so happy and I can't take that away from him. You're the only person that knows, the only person that's noticed. I want to keep it that way. Maybe things'll change once I've had the baby, I'll have to quit Aaron." She trailed off towards the end, her emotions were difficult to get hold of now with her being pregnant and she didn't want anyone to see her cry. He frowned at her slightly.

"You don't have to do anything you don't want to. Once Haley had Jack it changed my outlook on life. I can't look at a case concerning children and not think about him, I feel the need to want to protect him from everything despite knowing that I can't. It gets increasingly harder to leave him to come to work and I can see the disappointment on his face but he encourages me. He thinks I'm some kind of hero. Once you hold your child for the first time, you'll forget about your worries and be happy, you'll forget about what life was like before and be happy. It's like everything falling into place and it's good. But Kathryn, don't do anything you don't want to do, do you understand me?" His fatherly voice came out at the last sentence to make her understand what he was telling her. She knew.

"Ok. I guess everything happens for a reason, that's what Pen believes anyway. You know, we were talking and we want Dave and Emily to be the godparents. I think it'd be good for them, even Derek was considered. I figured that I'd make sure you got to see our kid very regularly but Dave and Emily seem like they'd make good parents but they haven't had a chance. This way they'd have one. You don't mind do you?" She looked up at him again and he could see how lost she was, it was all in her eyes. He felt sorry for her.

"Why would I mind, as long as you don't encourage your child to call me 'granddad' or something then it's fine. I wouldn't miss seeing your kid for the world, never." He kissed her on the forehead. "You know, you're more responsible than you think you are, sure you occasionally have a bad attitude and a bit too big for your boots but that doesn't make you irresponsible and it doesn't mean you can't be a mum. You're great with Jack, with Henry and with Katie (Lindsey's daughter). If there's anyone to worry about it's definitely Spencer. If the kids anything like him then god help you. All I can say is good luck to you." They both laughed slightly at the mere thought of two geniuses running around the house.

"Now that's a scary thought, even more so than you think taking Spencer to a 'nerdy' convention is." She laughed at Hotch's shocked face before bumping her hip into him lightly.

"How do you know about that?" Aaron smiled; she just winked at him, his arm still tightly around him. It always made her feel safe and secure; protected from the world.

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