AN: I own nothing this is just for fun! This chapter is maybe three to six months after the first one. Enjoy and please review! I put the story graphic on my profile so check it out ! Thanks!-Meg
The heart has reasons, reason cannot know -Pascal
"Julie, I don't… what's wrong with the way I dress?" Spencer almost whined.
"Well nothing I suppose but it is casual Friday and well," Julie inhaled and looked him over with a critical eye. " That isn't casual babe its…proffesor-ish"
"Huh?"
"You dress like my fifty year old lit professor honey… not that there's anything wrong with it per say its just will you trust me this once and if you don't like it you can dress however you like for casual Friday from then on?"
"Sure…" He replied not at all sure of anything.
"Do you own jeans Spence?" She asked and he felt like she was looking at him as though he were a science experiment.
-/-
He walked into the conference room of the BAU. "Sorry I'm late got side tracked what did I miss?" He looked over to Hotch for answers only to realize he was being stared at by all of them. He looked down he didn't think his attire was that different. A Georgetown University T-shirt, jeans, sneakers, his messenger bag. "What? My girlfriend did it."
"Girlfriend?" J.J. asked.
"Barista girl, alright man!" Derek smiled and Spencer tried to make sense of the slapping five thing that passed for a hand shake.
"Barista girl ? What's she like?" Emily asked.
"Pretty little blonde girl works at the coffee clatch." Morgan answered.
"Gimme a name I'll do background checks." Garcia piped up from the speaker phone.
"No need I like finding out who Julie is the non techie way Garcia, now lets get to the case."
-/-
He sat looking over a file when J.J. leaned her hip against his desk in the bull pen.
"Figure it out yet?"
"five more minutes… there is significance in the way the unsub numbers his victims…I just can't…its like a bar code or something…"
"You gonna introduce me to your girl?"
"Yeah,"
"Good we are all going to the company picnic bring her."
"If she's free I will she teaches dance to little girls at the Y on her days off from the clatch, and the school paper."
-/-
The group watched as Julie and Reid approached them talking to each other. Julie wore a blue and white striped three quarter length cardigan, a white tank top and khaki shorts aviators sitting on the top of head. She pinched off a bite of pink cotton candy popping in it her mouth. She looked intently at Reid as he told her something.
"She's not what I was expecting…at all "Emily murmured.
"What were you expecting a argyle sweater wearing girl in knee socks and horn rimmed glasses?" Morgan asked with a smirk.
"Well yeah its Reid…"
"What do you mean you've never seen the Flintstones? Everyone has seen the Flintstones." Julie told him.
"My mother thought cartoons were childish, pointless, brain rotting crap."
"You poor neglected thing you…" Julie teased as the group came into their sight sitting under a sprawling live oak.
"Oh hi guys… this is Julie, " Everyone nodded at the girl.
"Julie, that's Derek Morgan, you met him already, that's Jennifer but everyone calls her JJ. The little guy Penelope is holding is JJ's son my god son Henry… the brunette is Emily Prentiss, Aaron is playing Frisbee with his son Jack, and the guy getting a hot dog over there is David Rossi."
"Hi nice to meet you all."
-/-
A while later,
"Anybody up for a game of touch?" Derek asked.
"I'm in just don't tell my Dad…" Julie said.
"Why?" Spencer asks
"Because I tend to act like I detest football when actually I really love it I just don't like how it has a tendency to make gods of ordinary men in Dillon."
"Gods of ordinary men huh?" he replied smiling at her.
"We won state my freshman year."
Julie got up dusting of her shorts. "Can I be QB for my team?" She looked at Morgan for an answer.
"If you think you can handle it little girl."
"Oh its in my blood never underestimate my prowess."
"Well alright then Four on four girls against guys… first team to twenty one or more wins."
"Henry is our mascot you get Jack…" JJ added.
They divided off end zones and boundaries. Spencer watched as Julie waited for the snap. "No getting distracted by all the pretty." Morgan warned him and then became distracted as she stepped back and let off a perfect spiral right into Emily's hands. She shot up the field only to be stopped by Hotch.
"Where'd you learn to throw like that?" Derek asked adding a low appreciative whistle.
"Dad's a football coach it's a life requirement that I be able to throw a decent spiral. Told you not to under estimate me didn't I ?"
The game was nineteen twenty and it was the girls ball, Julie decided to go with the sprint option knowing that the only one who was close enough to take her down was Spencer and she didn't think he would. After all Spence was more a know every single stat in football and less about the contact of it kinda guy.
She faked the throw and ran through Garcia's block of Morgan. Then ran her feet eating up space. She felt arms go around her waist and she was lifted off her feet. She squealed. "I was to the trees it counts."
"You were not and don't underestimate me either Jules." Spencer set her on her feet. She turned. "Ha! We win!" he kissed her firmly on the mouth and walked away.
"Not so fast you still need one point." her competitive nature taking over.
"We're losin' light little girl gotta call it a game… next time though your on my team. Smarter to have you with me than against me." Morgan grinned at her.
-/-
They'd stopped in a books a million store for coffee. Morgan found Reid in the philosophy section.
"Something wrong Reid?" he asked taking in his friends perplexed face as he flipped through a book.
"Do you believe in love?"
"Hm, given the right person, yeah I think love exists. Why do you ask?"
"I used to think love was just chemicals produced in the brain, I mean if you can find those same chemicals in food how real can love be? But now…I'm not so sure…"
"So you are in love with Miss Julie huh? Best thing to do which is next to impossible for you don't analyze it just feel it and tell her, because its always nice to be told when you are loved."
-/-
Julie sat watching a movie as Spencer walked in. "Hey baby, how about Chinese for dinner?" he looked close at her seeing tears in her eyes. "Julie."
"This movie is sad, this guy was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to death but he didn't really kill her, they were activists against capital punishment she had cancer and killed herself and they set it up to make it look like he was guilty to prove that the death penalty is fallible. Why do you have this movie anyway? its fuckin' depressing."
" I like it. One in seven are wrongly convicted by the way but with Dna Testing its much less common."
"You know that thing about terrifying me with your brain your doing it."
" I love you Julie." She looked at him like he'd lost his mind. "I think you inhaled to many formaldehyde fumes Spence,"
"No, I'm serious I love you, my timing was probably poor but its true."
She cocked her head smiling. "I love you too." she got up off the couch and kissed him. "Chinese sounds fine…"
"Just so you know I don't really deal with embalmed bodies, just behavior patterns usually."
Julie laughed. " Life with you is never boring Spence."
He watched her walk away in her tinkerbell pajamas. "Don't forget to order exta fortune cookies be back I gotta pee."
"okay." Spencer thought to himself it was nice to be understood and accepted and to feel safe with something other than the worlds created his books.