On the Jet the next morning the team were all sat around talking. "Would any of you like a BBQ round mine tomorrow?" Rossi asked.
"Sure!" JJ replied first.
"I'm definatly in on that one." Morgan responded.
"Sounds like a plan." Hotch added, accepting the invitation.
"I'm in." Reid responded.
"Rox? You going to come?" Rossi asked, noticing there was something going on with her.
"I might pass on this one Rossi..." She responde.
"Oh come on Roxy! It'll be fun." Morgan added, hoping she would come.
"No... Sorry to spoil the fun guys but I'm not feeling great. I'm sure you'll have fun without me."
"You should really go a doctor." Rossi told her.
"I have... I'm anemic and they gave me iron supplements which make me feel sick to my stomach." She explained; giving half of the story.
"Wait, your anemic!" Morgan exclaimed, having had a history with Roxanne he knew she ate healthier than most people so it couldn't be due to a nutritional deficiency.
"Yes Morgan, but hopefully things should level back out soon and I'll be off the supplements."
"Ok, well you should still come to the BBQ. Even if you don't eat because your feeling sick. We'll miss you otherwise." He persisted. It wouldn't be the same if someone was missing.
"I'll think about it." She compromised.
"Great, your in." Rossi responded and looked at her, there was definitely more than just Anemia bothering her.
"Hey you wouldn't mind if I invite a friend along do you?" Morgan asked, having plans to meet up with Savannah once he got back.
The team looked at Morgan questionably. Since when did he have a "friend." The way he said friend would be suggesting this person was more than a friend and since when was he in a more than one day relationship with a girl.
"No, not atall Morgan. Everyone's invited." Rossi clarified.
Arriving home from the case Roxanne opened the door of her house. "I'm home." She called.
"Hey." Tyler greeted and hugged her.
"Where's Lottie?" Roxy asked.
"In the play room." Tyler replied, still hugging her. "How are you?"
"I'm good Ty, hey how about we have that fun tonight." She suggested.
"Sure. I'm up for that." He replied pausing. "Wait you are aloud right?" He asked.
"Yep I'm aloud." She responded before going to see her now 10 month old daughter.
"Momma!" She exclaimed excitedly.
"Hey darling." Roxanne replied and sat next to her daughter and played with her.
Roxanne played with her daughter for a couple more hours before giving her her dinner. "Rox are you going to eat with us tonight?" Tyler asked as he was about to cook dinner.
"No. I'm just going to have some toast, my stomach feels a bit strange." She responded.
"Side effects of the supplements?" Tyler asked.
"Yep."
"Your still up for tonight, right?" He questioned knowing if she was feeling off she probably wouldn't be.
"Always." She told him before kissing him.
"Dana's worried your going down the same route as Ashley..." Tyler told her once they'd finished kissing.
"I'll go and talk to her." Roxanne responded. "Where is she?"
"In the basement bouldering I think." Tyler replied.
"Thanks, maybe cook me a little dinner just to keep her from worrying too much." Roxanne told him before going down to talk to Dana.
"Hey..." Roxy greeted, standing by the door. "Can I talk to you?" She asked.
"Sure... Come in." Dana replied and got down from the wall.
"Tyler said you were worried about me.." She started.
"I am mom... Your not eating..." She responded. "I'm scared."
"Scared of what?" Roxanne asked.
"Scared I'll lose you too..." She responded.
"Hey, darling. You won't lose me." Roxanne replied and hugged her. "You won't lose me."
Dana hugged her back and sighed. "Will you eat?" She asked.
"I do eat Dae. I don't have much of an appetite right now."
"I know mom... I just worry and now with Clara... what if I lose her?" She asked.
"Clara will be fine." She reassured her. "Are you going to come to the BBQ at Rossi's tomorrow?" She asked.
"Yes!" Dana replied.
The next afternoon everyone was at Rossi's place for 2pm.
"I'd like you to all meet Savannah." Morgan said, introducing her to everyone, all who proceeded to greet her warmly and welcome her into their group. Roxanne smiled and looked at morgan, a lot had changed about him in the past 9 years.
Henry and Jack got Dana and Clara to play frisbee with them, Hotch smiled - rare for him "I think Jack is going to be a frisbee player when he's older."
JJ Watched them play also smiling. "He's getting good." JJ commented, noticing how much both Jack had improved at frisbee playing since the last time she saw him play.
"He'll be on the ultimate frisbee team at high school." Roxanne added.
"What's ultimate frisbee?" Hotch asked; having never heard of it before.
"Ultimate Frisbee begun in the late 1960's. It is a game involving a disk, which would be the frisbee. Points are scored by passing the disk to a player in the opposing end zone, the main rule is that players must not take steps while holding the frisbee." Reid explained before continuing on. "In 2012 there were 5.1 million players in the USA."
"You play?" Savannah asked, not yet knowing about his eidetic memory.
"No, I have an eidetic memory and an IQ of 187." He told her.
Savannah looked at him slightly scared. What Morgan had said was right, this guy really was a genius. "So any of you actually play ultimate frisbee?" Savannah asked.
"None of us, Dana's on the school team." Roxanne answered.
"Is it a good team?" She asked.
"Yes, very good actually, they won the championships 2 years in a row." Roxanne responded.
"Wow, that is good." Savannah responded.
"Is Jack still playing Soccer?" Rossi asked Hotch.
"Yes, he is. They're actually winning a few games now." He answered.
"A definite improvement there then." Rossi replied, knowing that at a point they were so bad that they didn't keep score. "What about Henry?" He asked.
"Starting Soccer in September." JJ responded. "Alex does Clara do any sport?" She asked.
"Yes, trampolining." Blake responded.
"You know that can be very dangerous, especially if she's challenging herself on the garden trampoline. In 2006, trampolines caused an estimated 109,522 injuries. Of those injuries, children from 4 years old and younger sustained an estimated 15,541; children from 5 to 14, an estimated 71.265; older children and young adults 15 to 24, an estimated 14,571; adults 25 to 64, an estimated 7,836; and adults 65 and older sustained an estimated 309 injuries. About 104,729 of those individuals of all ages who were injured were treated in emergency rooms and released. The rest, an approximately 4,793, were either hospitalized or dead on arrival. reports six trampoline-related deaths since 1990." He added, giving pointless ramblings about the danger of trampolines.
"Reid. You really know how to scare someone." Blake told him. "I don't let her somersault on our garden trampoline and we have a net so she can hardly fall off."
"Where did you read that?" Roxanne asked, still not quite over how much he knew.
"It was part of an article online." Reid replied. He did not use the internet much as he prefered hard copy's of things but the didn't mean that he didn't use it atall.
"Oh ok." Roxanne responded, despite having known him for 2 years he never failed to amaze her.
For the next few hours the group ate and talked. The Blake family were the first to leave as James hada flight to Catch that evening. Soon after everyone else slowly left Rossi's. The BBQ itself was incredibly succesful, the food was good and everyone enjoyed themselves.
A/N: I'm going away for 5 days on monday so I'm not sure if I will get anything updated until next weekend. We will see. I have tons of random chapters planned out.
Birthdays, Shoppping trips, Christmas. You name it.
