"Hey! It's great to see you, Uncle Spencer!" cried three young voices as they exited the private shuttle after it had landed.
"It's great to see you too," Spencer told them, even as all three of them hugged him at once.
"How are you Lizzy, Chet, Dougie?" Spencer asked his godchildren with a smile on his face. He hadn't seen them in several months ever since he had come here to London and met Emily.
"We are fine Uncle Spence," Lizbet told him, even as Spencer picked her up and she kissed his cheek affectionately.
"Of course you are Lizzy, sweetie," Spencer told her giving her a tight hug before putting her back beside her brothers.
"Hello Spencer," Bellamy greeted Dave's son in all but DNA
"Hello Bella," Spencer greeted her, kissing her cheek. "Here, let me help you with the luggage Dave," Spencer said, as he noticed Dave dealing with numerous bags.
"Don't worry, I've got it son," Dave said, waving away his foster son's help. "This is just the carry-on bags. The rest will be gotten and will be waiting on us on the luggage carousels."
"So where is this Emily Prentiss that Dave told me about?" Bellamy asked was Dave had disappeared inside the private shuttle again.
"She's at work of course," Spencer told Bella me smiling. "She's pretty nervous about meeting you and Dave and usually she's not the nervous type."
"But a lot of people are nervous when they're merting someone's family for the first time so it's not like it's unusual," Bellamy said.
"It's just that Emily is usually very confident in herself and her skills, but she's nervous about meeting you and Dave, though not so much about the children. I mean, Dave is basically a father to me and you're more of an aunt instead of a mother figure," Spencer tried to explain to Bellamy.
"That nervousness will fade once she meets us," Bellamy suggested gently, and Spencer nodded.
"I know it," Spencer agreed. "Once we get this first meeting out of the way hopefully, everything will be fine. She'll likely be less nervous the second time she meets you and after the third time she'll probably lose her nervousness entirely."
"So everyone ready to head to get the rest of the luggage," Dave inquired once he exited the shuttle with several carry bags over both his shoulders.
"I am if you are," Bellamy agreed knowing better than to try to carry one of the bags as Dave would never let her carry anything herself and not because he thought she was weak, but because he was a gentleman and always carried her bags for her whenever they were traveling. Dave would never allow her to lift a finger to carry more than a shopping bag or to lift a spoon to her mouth.
He treated her like a queen, his queen. Bella was so happy that she had said yes to Dave all those decades ago now as she was more happy than she would've been if she had turned him down. Yes, immortality was a hard concept to believe was real, but Dave had proven it to her with Spencer's help and because she had her life was just perfect.
"Let's go then," Dave said as he led his family to the luggage carousels.

~~~Spencer and Emily~~~

"It's nice to meet you. I'm David Rossi and this is my wife Bellamy," Dave told Emily his smile warm and his hand shake firm, but cordial. "Spencer has been telling Bella and I all about you.
"He has nothing but good things to say about you," Bellamy added, even as she also shook Emily's hand.
"Spencer's also often spoken of you both and your children with affection," Emily said.
The whole group was seated at a five star restaurant and Dave had already declared that he'd get the bill for everyone and told the waiter as much. Since Emily knew from everything that Spencer had told her about about his foster father that he could well afford to pay for everyone, she didn't protest.
Emily was a very beautiful woman with long dark hair and brown eyes, her figure athletically trim, Bellamy thought.
"When is the food going to get here daddy?" said Douglas. "I'm hungry."
"You and the others had a snack on the shuttle Douglas," Bellamy told her son gently but firmly. "You cannot possibly be that hungry as it hasn't been that long since you ate."
"When has that ever stopped our children from saying their starving sweetie?" Dave asked Bellamy smiling. "We must remember that that they're still growing and they're going to be hungry more often than we are."
"True," Bellamy sighed, as she ruffled her son's hair affectionately.
Emily watched the pair and realized quite quickly that Spencer had been absolutely correct and that his father and Bellamy were very deeply in love. It made her wish suddenly that her mother had been more like Bellamy loving, gentle, kind, and tender, but unfortunately she had ended up with a mother that was arrogant, domineering, often rude, and many other negative descriptive phrases.
"The food should be here soon," Dave said checking his watch. "If you're patience son, and that includes you two as well, we'll order dessert after we eat or lunch."
"You spoil them," Bellamy told Dave with a little smile.
"What can I say? I never imagined I'd have a wife and children to lavish my affection and love on," Dave shrugged not looking the slightest bit guilty for his words, even as his lips turned slightly upwards in a slight smile.
All three children were suddenly quiet, Emily noticed so Dave offering to get them dessert after they ate lunch if they behaved was apparently a treat they didn't want to miss.
"So Emily, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself," Bellamy suggested.
"Well, I grew up traveling to different places as my mother was an ambassador and diplomat," Emily began. "I often had a tutor instead of actually going to school like most children do if my mother was traveling somewhere for her job. I didn't really have long term friends, because of all the traveling though, because I was always leaving them whenever Mom was posted somewhere else."
"So I understand you were an only child just like Spencer was," Dave said.
"True, I was," Emily said
"I bet with all that traveling and no close friends because of it you were often lonely," Bellamy said with understanding in her eyes. "I was an only child as well, so we have that in common. The only difference is that I didn't travel with my parents and so I had friends, but that didn't mean I wasn't lonely sometimes."
"I distracted myself by going on outings, educational ones of course, with whatever tutor my mother hired," Emily said.
"What about your father?" Dave asked.
"My father's been dead for years, but he was into politics," Emily answered. "Let's just say we weren't very close before his death just like I'm not close to my mother."
"I don't know why some people have children if they don't pay any attention to them," Bellamy said, shaking her head in the sympathy.
"I don't know why some people marry at all if all they do is either argue constantly, or go do their own things separately," Emily said. "My father was always busy politicking, so I rarely saw him and my mother didn't care about me. She was always to busy to pay attention to me, so I was often on my own or with the tutors she hired. When I was 18 I left for college and never looked back. I haven't talked to my mother in years and don't attend to in the future. I didn't even bother to attend my father's funeral."
"It happens and often," Dave said wincing, as it appeared that Emily came from something broken home, but then, so had Spencer, so it wasn't like it was unusual, but it did show one thing his son and Emily had in common. "Spencer here, as I'm sure he's told you, also come from something of a broken home. His father resented him, just because he was so intelligent, which means he never really loved Spencer's mother at all and only married because it was expected of a lawyer."
"While that's true, there are still plenty of lawyers that do well for themselves that aren't married or at least don't have children," Emily said. "Still, I do understand, it was expected at one time."
There was silence for several minutes as everybody enjoyed their food, including the children, who weren't really paying attention to the adults just to their food that had finally arrived.
"Dessert now daddy?" Chet required of his father once everybody's food was gone.
"Yes, Chet," Dave agreed. "I did promise after all and since you all ate your food and have been very well-behaved, you each get to choose one dessert item off the menu.
"Yay!" the children cheered excitedly.
Emily watched the three children and smiled a little at their excitement at being allowed to get dessert, just because they had been well behaved until lunch was completed.
Seeing the three children so enthusiastic about being allowed to get dessert, made her wish for her own kids, though she would need to get married first before she had any.
One thing she knew though, and that was if she did marry Spencer, there was no way she was inviting her mother to her wedding nor would she be allowed anywhere near her grandchildren once they were born. Elizabeth Prentiss could simply reap what she sowed in life and since she hadn't really been a mother to her daughter, there was no way Emily was going to let her damage her grandchildren with her negative attitude or just because she had such a nasty personality.
Her mother hadn't exactly been very nurturing to her only child, so Emily often wondered why she bothered to have any children at all, though she supposed she could've been an accident and her mother had just decided not to get an abortion which was quite legal in this day and age.
Emily watched as Dave read the descriptions of each dessert with a great deal of patience while all three children listened. The children were still young enough that while they were in school, they were just learning how to read, write and do math. Lizbet was the oldest, and therefore read the deserts listed all on her own while her two brothers were still very young, and so Dave was reading the descriptions to them.
The youngest Douglas appeared to be no more than five years old so he just would've started school.
"That one," Douglas told his dad once Dave had read the description of an ice cream sundae with lots of chocolate caramel chocolate syrup, and nuts with vanilla ice cream with fudge rippled through it.
"That's quite a large dessert for such a young man," Bellamy told her son. "I don't want you getting a stomachache because you ate too much."
"He'll be fine and we can always take some of it back to the hotel as there's a fridge in the room," Dave told Bellamy knowing that his son couldn't get a stomach ache because he was immortal, but still Bella was reminding Dougie that he needed to be careful.
"Besides, Dougie has a cast iron stomach," Spencer said having been silent for the entire meal, as Dave and Bellamy talked to Emily getting to know her a little. "And is also a bottomless pit."
"True," Bellamy agreed, smiling. "I suppose one overlarge dessert won't do him any harm."
"If he can't finish it, we'll just take the rest and put it in the fridge in the hotel room and he can have it later for a snack or with dinner tomorrow," Dave declared.
Dave ordered the desserts for the three children, as well as himself, Bellamy and Spencer as Emily didn't want dessert, as soon as the waiter returned and asked if they wanted dessert and the Dave told the waiter what they had all decided on.
"Spencer, Bellamy and I have something to discuss with you Emily, but not here," Dave finally said, as soon as he had finished his dessert. "It can wait until we get back to our hotel suite."
"What we have to tell you is not for the public consumption," Spencer finally spoke up having been mostly silent all through lunch.
"Spencer speaks the truth. What we have to tell you is the secret of our family," Dave agreed.
"This must be some earthshattering secret," Emily finally said.
The seriousness on everyone's faces, except the children's clued her into the fact that it was likely going to be something huge that Spencer and his family had to tell her.
"It is," Spencer said simply saying nothing else.

~~~Spencer and Emily~~~