A/N: And now the conclusion! One quick thing: If you need a visual picture of Peter Mirren, just picture Christian Bale.
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February 14th, 2014
Spencer stared in shock. She had the same suspicion. "JJ, do you actually think that Henry might be my son?"
"It would make sense. He seems so much like you. I noticed something was off about Will being Henry's father the second you first held Henry. He was calmer in your arms than Will's. I always thought about it, but Will kept sweeping me away with how much he cared about Henry that I kept losing that thought. When we decided to split, he said he knew it was because I couldn't love him the way I loved someone else. He also said that Henry looked a lot like you. You, Spence."
Spencer sighed. "I know. That night I got drunk after you got married to Will, I told Danny the same thing. I've always known, I think. The date was exactly the right length away. I'm sorry I never said it earlier. I didn't want to break up a family. I don't want Henry ending up like me."
"I understand. I just wish I had told you in the first place."
"It's okay, you couldn't have known."
"No, I've always had that suspicion since I found out I was pregnant. My gut said Will, but my heart and mind said you. My gut got me into a relationship based on obligations of a child that might not be his. My heart and mind got me into a relationship with you."
Spencer swallowed. "I understand. I've always thought the same thing. I just didn't want to take a chance and find out Will's Henry's father and him leave Henry without a father. I couldn't do that."
JJ felt tears welling up in her eyes. "In case we don't make it out, I need you to know that I love you, Spencer Reid. I always have and always will. I wish I had told you before."
Spencer was in tears now. His only response was, "I love you too, Jennifer Jareau. I always have and always will."
"Well, isn't that just cute," said a menacing voice. "Confessing your undying love for each other in your last hour together."
"What do you want with us?!" JJ yelled.
"You don't remember, do you JJ?" the voice said. "All those letters I left for you. All those times I wrote that I loved you. All for you just to reject me." The man whom the voice belonged to stepped into the light in the room. "Remember me, Jennifer?"
JJ was shocked. "Peter Mirren? You did this?"
Peter Mirren just smirked. "Yes I did. I was always there for you. Instead you reject me and find this scrawny, weak, nerd and a cop who did nothing but flirt with you. Then, you have a kid with one of them. Which one, I don't give a damn to know. Speaking of which, I have another little surprise for you." JJ stiffened at the thought that was now going through her mind.
Peter pulled up another chair. In this one was a smaller figure with a paper bag on its head. "You obviously know this one." He lifted the bag off the figure in the chair that was now sitting the light.
In the chair was young Henry, terrified for his life.
"You monster!" JJ yelled at her former crusher. "Let him go!"
He pulled out a gun and pointed it at Spencer's head. "Let me tell you exactly what I'm going to do. I'm gonna kill this weakling, and then I'm going to kill your little precious baby boy, with you watching. Then, I will finish it off by killing you."
JJ starting tearing up and yelling "Don't you hurt my little boy you son of a bitch!"
Peter pointed his gun at Henry. "I'm the one who's not tied up here. I call the shots. So maybe I'll kill your son first, instead. Destroy you enough to watch your son die."
"Henry, no!"
"Mommy…" Henry said as tears rolled down his cheeks.
JJ now started crying. "It's going to be okay Henry. Everything's going to be okay," she choked out.
Peter smirked, the gun still pointed towards Henry. "Any last words?"
JJ spoke. "I love you, Henry."
Henry began crying "I love you too, Mommy." He looked over at Spencer. "I love you, Daddy."
That did it. Spencer wasn't gonna let this son of a bitch get away wtih his plan to murder a little boy. Specifically, his little boy. He didn't care who Henry's DNA matched up to. Henry was his son and he wasn't going to let this bastard win.
"You just made some very serious mistakes," Spencer said. Peter quickly turned and walked over to Spencer.
"Really?" he said. "What mistakes have I made?" he asked, now pointing the gun at Spencer.
Spencer kept a straight face. "One, you just threatened a small boy whose mother is a dangerous FBI agent; two, you just pissed off both her and the boy's father," JJ froze. Spencer had just declared himself Henry's father. No DNA test was needed to show that Spencer was a father to Henry. She wanted to smile, but Henry and Spencer's lives were still on the line. "and three…" Spencer paused for a second. "You didn't restrain my legs." Spencer's leg swung around the leg of the chair and stomped on his foot. Peter recoiled in pain from the pain and hunched over, giving Spencer the opportunity to kick him in the face. He got on his legs and raised the chair from the floor. He swung around and hit Peter as he stood up, knocking Peter to the ground. He ran backwards toward the wall and destroyed the chair on contact. He pushed down the rope restraining him.
Meanwhile, Peter got back up and made his way over to Henry, gun in hand ready to kill. Spencer followed closely behind. He reached Peter before he could hurt Henry. He grabbed Peter's shoulders and turned him around.
"Get away from my son," he said. He threw a punch to Peter's face before punching him in the gut and pinning him against a wall. He landed three more punches on Peter before hitting him the gut once again and finishing with a knee to Peter's groin.
Spencer ran over and untied the knots restraining Henry. Henry immediately threw his arms around his father, tears streaming down his face. "Thank you!"
"You're welcome, my little Henry. Come on, let's go free mommy."
He picked up Peter's gun and he ran over to free JJ. He pointed the gun at Peter as he shuffled to the chair where JJ was tied up. Once she was free from her bonds, she quickly embraced Spencer in a hug. Spencer hugged her back. JJ picked up Henry and included him in the hug. Peter was able to lift his head and despised what he saw. It was all topped off when JJ pulled Spencer's face closer to hers and engaged her lips in a battle with his.
This did not sit well with Peter. He reached down to his leg for the knife he concealed in his pants leg. He unsheathed it, lifted himself up to his legs, and lunged into a run toward the two, yelling as he did.
"Daddy, look out!" Henry cried out.
The kiss broke at the sound of his yell. Spencer quickly whipped around to face Peter, gun in hand.
"Henry, cover your eyes!" Henry did as he was told. In a moment of terror for his, JJ's, and Henry's safety, he quickly pointed the gun at Peter's head and fired.
Peter Mirren fell; face first, towards the floor, dead as could be; a bullet hole in his head.
Meanwhile...
The team had finally arrived with addition forces at the place their UnSub was most likely holding JJ and Reid.
"Our UnSub has Agents Jareau and Reid, and Agent Jareau's son Henry. We must stop Mirren before anything happens to any of them. Blake, Rossi: check the house for anything odd or suspicious." They ran off to do their job. "Morgan, Danny: the three of us set up point here with the police."
About ten minutes later, Rossi's voice came over the radio. "Hotch, we found something."
"What?" Hotch asked.
"He has walls lined with pictures of JJ. And of us as well. Pictures of you, me, Morgan, Blake, Emily, Elle, Will, Henry, Jack, Jason, Danny, Spencer. Everyone. He even has photographs of JJ's sister. They look like the ones we found in Jonathon Matthews' home when we arrested him last month."
"He probably stole the remaining photos from the house."
"I not so sure about that, Hotch. Either way, it looks like he's been stalking the entire BAU since she joined. This bastard even has pictures of the six members you lost in Boston in 2005."
Hotch paled. They hadn't even spoken about those six since the Boston incident.
"Boston? You mean Adrian Bale?" Morgan asked.
"Yes. Hold on. He's even got videos of us all."
"What kind of videos?"
There was a silence followed by what was apparently Rossi trying to keep his lunch down.
"Videos of a lot of things. Including a certain party with graphic images."
Danny gagged a little. "That sick little perverted bastard. What the hell is wrong with him? Does this kind of stuff excite him? He stalks JJ and the rest of us and even videos her in the middle of her relations with Reid. What kind of sick pervert does that?!"
"Rossi, look for anything else we can use against him in court."
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out.
"Oh, shit," Danny murmured.
Hotch turned around. "Move in!"
Hotch, Morgan, and Danny ran as fast as they could to the UnSub's holding place. When they burst in, they found their three friends huddled together. Spencer was holding a gun in his hand. A man was lying on the floor. Danny covered Morgan as he flipped over the body to see the bullet hole in the UnSub's head. He turned to Spencer.
"Nice shot, Doc," Danny said.
"Reid, are you okay?" Morgan asked.
Spencer swallowed. "Yeah. I need to get Henry out of here. He might need a little bit of an explanation. He might be slightly scarred by what just happened." He turned to JJ and took the little boy from her arms. "Come on, Henry."
"Okay, Daddy," Henry said, still slightly terrified from what had just happened.
When JJ and Spencer returned home, Henry was still somewhat traumatized.
"Hey, buddy," Spencer called out. "You okay?"
Henry shook his head. "Bad man took me and threatened to hurt me and you and mommy."
"But he didn't. And he's not going to hurt us again. He's not coming back Henry."
Henry threw his arms around Spencer. "You saved me, Daddy."
Spencer smiled. "I'll always be here for you, Henry. Besides that's what daddies do. And from what mommy tells me, I might be your daddy after all."
Henry's eyes widened. "She did?"
Spencer nodded. "Is that why you wanted to start calling me daddy?"
"No," Henry responded. "You're like a daddy to me no matter what. I want you to be my daddy either way."
Spencer smiled as tear welled up in his eyes. For a five-year old, the kid was pretty damn smart. "Thank you Henry. I love you."
"I love you too, Daddy," Henry responded.
Spencer let Henry out of the hug. He started to remember a conversation he had with Henry a few months ago. "Hey, Henry, why don't we watch some Disney?"
"Yeah!" Henry yelled. "Which one?"
Spencer smirked. "How about 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?"
Henry tipped his head. "I thought you said it was too adult for me."
"I also said when you're older. It's been a couple of months and you're a little older. Besides, I doubt anything in this movie is going to affect you after today. But I'll still be there with you and mommy, okay?"
Henry nodded.
"Come on, let's get mommy to watch it with us."
Later that night, JJ, Spencer, and Henry were all sitting in the living room watching Quasimodo be the hero he truly is. Spencer watched the film and saw how much he related to Quasimodo. He never thought he would meet anyone as kind and sweet to him as JJ. Especially one as beautiful as JJ. When he saw the end, he again saw how much he related to Quasimodo. Then he saw what he had around him.
He had JJ. He had Henry, who might actually be his son. He had his team, who were like his family. He felt like the luckiest man in the world. Henry starting falling asleep as the credits rolled.
"Tired, buddy?" Spencer asked.
Henry nodded.
"Well, then let's get you to bed now," JJ said.
They tucked Henry in and read him his story, just to help him sleep a little after the day's events. After he was asleep, Spencer and JJ stood watching the little boy from the doorway.
"You okay?" JJ asked.
"I don't how much what happened is going to affect him. He was kidnapped and held at gunpoint by a psychopath."
"But you saved us both."
"Regardless, just being kidnapped at such a young age can have an effect on him."
"Spence…"
"I don't want him being traumatized from this. Especially if he's my son."
JJ put a finger to his lips. "Let's worry about that in the morning. Right now, I want you to do me a favor."
Spencer raised an eyebrow. "What's that?"
"Make love to me, please. I almost lost you both today. Just help remind me that you both are here safe and sound."
Spencer kissed her. How could he refuse? "Come on, JJ." He led her to her bedroom and they made love.
That night, Spencer not only slept in the same bed as JJ for the first time since that night all those years ago, he had also made love to JJ for the first time since that night.
He was perfectly content with his current life.
So Reid, JJ, and Henry are safe at home once again.
Only a few more chapters to go! And next time:
JJ and Reid finally get the DNA test done on Henry to discover who his father really is.
Who do you think it is? Don't just automatically assume Reid. I might be tricking you. You never know.
See you next time!
-D.C. al Coda
