A/N I got this idea while doing dishes, started laughing like an idiot, then wrote it as soon as I was done. Idk bout this one... Set season 7 post Emily comes back, pre Kevin/PG breakup. Edit: I changed Emily's truth bc someone pointed out that she wouldn't have talked about her abortion. Thank you to my friend Shannon for helping me re write that. Hope you like it though! Thanks for all the reviews, keep 'em coming!
"Guys! My birthday is Saturday, you're all coming over, right?" Penelope asked, running up from her office to the rest of the team.
The BAU team had traditions for each of their birthdays. The birthday tradition started the year Emily joined the BAU, and had yet to be broken five years later.
For each of their birthday's the team would come over to that persons house and have an evening of whatever the birthday person chose. For Morgan, this meant pizza, hot wings, drinks and watching football. Garcia and Reid would struggle to figure out what was going on, Morgan, Hotch and JJ would try and tell them, an Emily and Rossi would say how soccer was way better. Rossi's and Emily's parties would be a dinner party with expensive wine. Hotch and JJ would both have a huge family dinner where Jack and Henry could play together and Reid would make them all watch Star Trek and eat Chinese food. Garcia's party was like a middle school party. Truth or dare, charades, board games and all.
"Of course we will, babygirl," Morgan said.
"I'll be there," Emily added.
"Same. Henry will stay home with Will. He's off," JJ said.
"And Jack will stay with my sister in law," Hotch assured her.
"Yeah I don't have plans... As usual," Reid said, warning a laugh out of everyone.
"Rossi?" Penelope asked.
"I have a meeting with-uh my book publisher," Rossi said.
"You can't reschedule?" Penelope asked.
"It's her only free day," Rossi replied, before leaving the room and walking to his office. Garcia stared after him and pouted until they all saw Strauss walk into his office.
"A meeting with his publisher my ass," Hotch said with a laugh.
Garcia stopped pouting and said, "Well I guess that's an acceptable reason for ditching."
When Saturday rolled around, everyone was woken up at two on the morning to the sounds of their cell phone going off. They had a case.
"No," Garcia said to them as they got ready for the briefing. "No it's a tradition!"
"Sorry Penelope," JJ said, clutching her coffee.
"You're going to have to reschedule babygirl," Morgan added.
"Well at least this means Rossi can come," Reid said.
"No, my publisher wants to see me as soon as the case is over," Rossi said.
"Sure she does," Emily said with a smirk.
Throughout the case, every time someone would call Penelope she would answer with "Truth or Dare?" and would refuse to hive them answers until they played a round. The best was when Morgan called for info on a suspect and she made him go up behind Reid and hug him while he was working on the dry erase board. And Garcia got video.
When the case was finally over, Garcia managed to get everyone to her house for her party.
"No more truth or dare, right?" Reid pleaded and Morgan nodded.
"Oh honey, truth or dare is first. Now get your food and sit down," Garcia said with a smirk, earning groans from the two men and sighs from the rest of the team who hadn't been the victim of Garcia's dares.
Everyone got their Chinese food off the table and sat in a circle in the floor as per Penelope's instructions.
"Spencer, truth or dare?" Garcia asked.
Reid hesitated. "Truth," he said.
"Okay. How old were you when you had your first kiss and who was it with?" Garcia asked.
"I was... Uh... 23," he said, glancing almost imperceptibly at JJ. But he was in a room full of profilers, so the gesture wasn't missed by anyone.
"No..." Morgan said with a laugh, looking between the two.
"Are you serious?" JJ asked him.
"Wait, when were you guys a thing!" Emily asked.
"Technically we weren't," Reid said, blushing.
"The Redskins game?" Hotch asked.
"Yeah," Reid replied.
"Wait, you were his first kiss?"Garcia asked JJ, laughing.
"Well I didn't know that at the time! It was a peck!" JJ replied.
"Well then, Spencer. It's your turn to truth someone," Garcia told him, still smiling.
"Emily truth or dare?" Reid asked.
Instead of answering, Emily turned to Garcia. "Penelope, I think it's time to bring out the alcohol," she said.
"Oh come one. It won't be that bad," Garcia replied.
"Truth," Emily said to Reid.
"What was your worst date?" Reid asked her.
"Oh God," Emily laughed. "Seriously Penelope, time for the alcohol."
"How bad could it have been?" Morgan asked.
Emily sighed, "It was bad. So one of my friends set me up with this guy and I was supposed to meet him for the first time. The guy dressed really weird for starters. Like he was wearing suspenders and let me remind you, we were in our twenties. This guy turned out to be the type of guy we would have arrested for something. Anyway, so he was staring at me the whole time, and then every time our waitress came he would hit on her in front of me. She was like 16. I ended up purposely spilling my soda on myself to have an excuse to leave. But before I left he asked me to ask the waitress out for him. I went up to her, told her to call the cops, have her a huge tip, ten blocked the creep's number from my phone," Emily said, barely able to finish the story she was laughing so hard.
"Well it's your turn to pick someone," Hotch said, as everyone tried to regain their composure.
"I don't think anyone can beat that," Garcia said, laughing.
"JJ, truth or dare?" Emily asked.
"Dare," JJ replied quickly.
"I dare you to... Try to outdo me in shots," Emily said with a smirk.
"We have to get home somehow, you know," JJ replied with a laugh.
"Oh we all know this is gonna last till at least 4am. We'll be sober by then," Emily said.
"Actually, it takes at least two hours to sober after one beer which is equal to one shot, so depending on how many shots it could take-" Reid started, but Morgan cut him off.
"A long time. We got it pretty boy."
And ten minutes later, JJ had called it quits and let Emily win.
"Hey, I have to watch my son tomorrow. Will is at work," she said and everyone laughed. "Okay, Penelope. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth," Garcia answered.
"Hmmm... are you and Kevin ever going to tie the knot?" JJ asked.
"I don't know! Maybe eventually but I like things the way they are right now," Garcia replied. "Everything has just gotten good again with us all together."
"I hear that," Morgan said, glancing at Emily.
"Okay chocolate thunder, truth or dare?" Garcia asked.
"Come in babygirl, you know I pick dare," Morgan answered.
"Even with Penelope's dares?" Hotch asked, remembering some of the fiascos of the past week.
"He's just afraid of what he would have to answer if he picked truth," Emily said with a smirk.
"I am not!" Morgan said.
"Okay, okay. Penelope just give him the dare," JJ said.
Garcia looked between Morgan and Emily and smirked mischievously. Morgan's smirk faded a bit as he said "Keep it Rated PG Penelope."
"How about PG-13?" She fired back.
"Penelope," Hotch warned.
Garcia pouted. "Fine boss-man. Morgan. I dare you to kiss Emily." Everyone's mouths dropped open.
"Penelope!" JJ said, laughing.
"Aw no... Come on Pen..." Emily said, averting her eyes from Morgan's.
"That's so unprofessional," Morgan said.
"So is me trying to outdo Em in shots but we did it," JJ said.
"Yeah come on Derek. I thought you were great with the ladies," Reid teased him.
"Come on handsome, it's a dare," Garcia said.
"I'll go get more alcohol," Hotch said, his way of condoning the dare.
"Hotch didn't say you couldn't you have to now!" Garcia said.
"Hotch! Tell them no!" Emily called. There was no answer. By this time, JJ and Reid were laughing so hard they were crying, Emily and Derek were bright red and Garcia looked smug.
"Penelope..." Emily whined.
"Sorry Em," Garcia said.
"Fine. Just a peck," Morgan said.
"No you have to actually kiss her! Ten whole seconds," Garcia complained.
"Penelope..." JJ said warningly, yet smiling at the same time.
"Guys come on. Can't you pick something else?" Emily asked Garcia.
"Well I could, but I think you'll like this better," Garcia said.
"Really Penelope?" Morgan sighed and she just gave him a look. "Come on Princess," he said to Emily.
"There will be payback for this Penelope," Emily said, as Morgan leaned in to kiss her. A real kiss. A longer than 10 seconds kiss. JJ, Reid, Garcia, and even Hotch whistled and cat called at the two.
"There Penelope. Happy?" Morgan asked when they broke apart.
"More than! You breathing there, Em?" Garcia sled Emily, who was bright red and not looking at any of them.
She nodded, and said, "I'm fine. I mean Morgan isn't that great of a kisser," she joked.
"The 26.7 seconds you two kissed says otherwise," Reid said smirking. "You only had to kiss for 10."
"Shut up Spencer," Emily said. Reid moved to say something, but Morgan cut him off.
"Hotch, truth or dare?"
"Truth," Hotch said.
Morgan laughed,"Okay I feel you. Umm... How's Beth with Jack?" he asked. Garcia, JJ and Reid were still silently laughing.
"She's really good with him. He loves her. He asked her to spend the night the other day," Hotch said with a laugh.
"Will you three knock it off?" Emily said to JJ, Reid and Garcia who were still laughing.
"Princess, they're never gonna let this go. Just grab another shot," Morgan said. Hotch chuckled and handed a drink to both Emily and Morgan.
"You're lucky it's not on camera, knowing Garcia," Hotch said.
"It is," Garcia said. "I had my...phone out."
"Garcia I swear to-" Emily started.
"Don't worry cupcake it won't get posted. Just blackmail. I only started recording after 10 seconds," she said.
"Of course you did," Emily mumbled.
Morgan grabbed cups and poured them all drinks. "To Garcia's birthday," he said, and everyone followed suit.
"Hands down, best birthday ever," Garcia said and everyone smiled.
"Sure was," JJ agreed and everyone (minus Emily) nodded.
"Come on Princess, smile," Morgan said to her.
"Oh shut up Derek," Emily said, but she smirks anyway, and secretly she too believed it was a pretty good night.
A/N I'm so sorry for how OOC that probably ended up, but I was laughing like an idiot the whole time I was writing it, so I hope it at least made you chuckle. Review pleaseXD Love ya'll. Next chap will be more normalXD
