As soon as Briar Rose was in the kitchen and he was sure that Dahlia was sleeping, Hotch turn a stern glare to Reid who shrunk slightly under his gaze.
He leaned closer to the younger man making sure to keep his voice low, "You lied to me."
Reid shook his head hesitantly "I told you I knew the family."
Hotchners glare deepened. "You didn't tell us it was to this extent, and don't even pretend that I couldn't tell immediately that she got that necklace from you."
Reid winced while the team watched on carefully gaging his reactions. "You wouldn't have let me help." He said his voice barely a whisper.
Hotchners face softened just barely at the confession.
"Quinn was like an older brother to me, we went to high school at the same time, and even though we were both only freshman, he protected me." He looked up meeting the eyes of each of them as he spoke.
"He protected everyone especially his family, and he's not around to do it anymore. I know I can't physically fill that void but I at least want to help the way that I can." He said resting his cheek on Dahlia's head.
"It's the only thing I'm good at." He pleaded.
"You know that's not true Reid." Morgan commented, "You're good at plenty of things and obviously they feel very safe with you." He said with a smirk motioning to the little girl in his arms.
"You can help." Hotch relented, "But Reid you cannot let your emotions get in the way of this." He warned.
Spencer's eyes lit up and the team all chuckled at the poorly hidden happiness, "I can handle it." He promised.
Just let music flooded into the room from the closed kitchen door and Spencer sighed in relief, "I was hoping that I would've been saved from that conversation by that." He confessed with a laugh.
Rossi laughed at that one, "Nice try kid." He complimented.
"What is this about?" Prentiss asked with a hint of amusement in her brown eyes.
"Come see." Reid said the amount of amusement on his own face causing them to follow him into the large marble kitchen in curiosity.
Briar and Silas stood at a large counter both of them mixing bit bowls of waffle batter, and bouncing along to the electronic beat of the song.
Briar grinned when she saw them looking younger then what they saw earlier with the light expression on her face. "I thought a little tribute to sin city was in order to welcome you team here." She laughed.
Spencer chuckled and shook his head at her letting down Dahlia who had woken up and wiggled out of his arms for the music.
Spencer led the team to a large breakfast table in the kitchen right across from the counter watching the three siblings dance and sing around the kitchen with them. His heart beating faster with happiness. He always missed this when he left.
"Break out all the mechanical. Step right up to the freaky and tangible. Hands uncuffed, take the leash of this animal. If it's getting hyphy hit me with a night stick." Silas sang along while Briar swung her hips and Dahlia jumped around the kitchen.
"Slip right into your stripper shoes." Briar sang kicking her leg out, "Roll the dice, I got snake eyes and déjà vu. Popping off, fire melting with bally-hoo?" She leaned down grabbing Dahlia hands and bouncing in time with the Lyrics.
"Tune in (Tune in)" Spencer echo with little reluctance when the three Redmond siblings pointed at him, "Turn on ( Turn on) Drop out!"
"Going down the rabbit hole! Get away from all you know! Come on follow. Come on and follow me. Going down the rabbit hole. Even hoes and gigolos! Come on follow. Come on and follow me."
"What are gigolos?" J.J asked through a chuckle watching Silas strike a playful 'ganster' pose at the name.
"They're pimps. Vegas Style." Reid informed them.
"Quick slow high or low. Your never gonna know for sure. See in stereo. Down the rabbit hole."
At this point they had actually started making the waffles and Dahlia was standing on her tippy toes trying to steal strawberries and still bounce along to the music.
"Catnip and honey. Teatime and all over town. (all over town, all over town. Houses of candy. Build 'em up and then burn 'em down (burn 'em down, just burn 'em down)."
Briar set a plate down in front of Spencer first running a hand through his newly cut hair as she did so.
"It melts in your face and not in your arm? It starts in the bass and it ends in the crystal ball. Yeah!"
She seemed to warm up to them if only slightly as she set a plate in front of every one of the team members sending them a smile.
"Going down the rabbit hole, get away from all we know. Come on, follow. Come on and follow me. Going down the rabbit hole. Even hoes and gigolos. Come on follow, come on and follow me."
Silas brought his plate to the table smiling tightly at Morgan while he sat down next to him. Briar Rose lifted Dahlia into the seat next to Reid and hopped up to sit on the edge of the table on the other side of her.
Reid grinned up at her offering Dahlia a bite off his fork. Garcia froze at the picture they made, wondering just how deep his 'connection' was to Briar Rose.
….
The sun was coming up by the time they all finished, Briar Rose had moved down off the table and was dozing against Reid's shoulder and Morgan kept shooting him looks that he was trying to avoid.
Silas had taken Dahlia back upstairs to her bed, and was now walking back into the kitchen with a confused look on his face and a yellow envelope in his hand.
"Silas?" Morgan questioned seeing the look on his face.
"What's that?" Prentiss asked.
"I think you should all see this." He said tossing it onto the table in front of them, handing the note taped to the top to Hotchner.
"Agent Hotchner. You have no idea how little you know about your boy genius. I intend to change that. I'll be sending more of these over the course of your time here. I assume you'll be waiting. Enjoy the video."
Their was a DVD inside the envelope labeled "Spencer's Anger Issues."
They all looked toward Reid seeing the look of shock on his face.
"I don't think we should watch that."