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"Okay now tell me exactly how you think that looks like a tree?" Athena said sarcastically as she pointed at the mush of paint Morgan had attempted to do on the wall of the nursery whilst she had been sleeping.

Athena had slept the majority of the week, making up for the lack of sleep she had gotten the many weeks before- sleeping peacefully was not her strong suit but as she got closer to the end of her 2nd trimester the need for sleep hit her like a truck and had caused her to knock out as soon as the team got back from a case in Indiana. 

She slept for almost three days straight until Morgan had to wake her up with concerns that she would sleep forever. Athena was more concerned with the fact she had slept through two workdays without Hotch bothering her.

Rhiannon Richards had dismissed Athena's original deal with the council she made to get JJ time off work, Athena would still have to keep her contract as a speciality case CIA agent but she was allowed time off when she needed it.

Rhiannon couldn't swing it so that she would be paid and Athena still wasn't allowed paid maternity leave, something that the team were trying to get through lawsuits, but she was allowed to take time off now without the threat of being fired or thrown in jail for violating a contract. Still, she knew how rare it was to take time off and actually get your time off in this job. Usually her time off was interrupted by an emergency case or kidnapping that made her drop everything and have to go into work- Morgan made sure that Hotch knew no matter what he wouldn't call Athena into work and would let her rest this week.

After Carlos's funeral a month ago, she had grown weak. Thrown herself into work to distract herself, thrown herself into trying to be more open with Morgan, thrown herself into trying to keep up with the teams and their many invitations to hang out- she had taken on too much and forgotten to take care of herself. She felt immensely guilty when the doctor ordered her to stay home for a week after a bad case, not only because she would be leaving the team to try and handle all the extra work that came from her absence since she was the one who had taken over JJ's work, but she also felt guilty for not taking care of herself and not taking care of the baby like Morgan had asked her too.

To her surprise, he wasn't mad at her. He was mad at himself for not looking after her, for not being able to notice that it was getting harder for her the more the weeks went on. She was dealing with intense pregnancy symptoms, the morning sickness was now constant and aggressive, the headaches were permanent and her body was changing more than she was used to.

Morgan was delighted when she came into the room and showed him her bump that had now grown to the size it should have been at the end of her last trimester, the doctor said it was fine that she was still smaller than she should be at this point and that the baby was healthy but Morgan was still concerned. He knew how hard it was for her to deal with her body changing, to see a growing bump on her stomach but she was dealing with it surprisingly well- or seemingly was.

"You look great! How do you still look so hot?" He complimented as she walked in from getting changed into her pyjamas, she pulled back her t-shirt to her body to show the bump he loved to see and did a mocking pose.

"It's not fair, when am I meant to get the pregnancy boobs everyone talks about? I've still got the same old stupid boobs as before. I have to grow this little shit, I might as well get a free boob job with it" she joked and walked over to the bed and sat near where Morgan was led.

"Your boobs aren't stupid" he laughed.

"They aren't exactly smart."

"I don't think anyone has ever described anyone's breasts as 'smart' before" he teased as she crawled up to the top of the bed and sat by him.