can't help falling in love- spencer reid

thirty five

a/n: trigger warning! there are mentions of child
loss

"it's beautiful, spence." evelyn says, admiring the ring spencer had just slipped on her finger. he had proposed in a....unique way and evelyn of course said yes. "i'm not going anywhere spencer, you're stuck with me for the rest of your life." she says softly. spencer laughs softly "i'm okay with that, as long as you agree to be my wife." spencer says. "of course i will, you just have to prop-oh you just did didn't you?" evelyn says, spencer nodding with a laugh. "so is that a yes?" spencer asks. "yes, spencer walter reid, i will marry you." evelyn laughs, spencer kissing her softly. "i knew i had to get one that wasn't the standard shiny diamond because you're not into that stuff, so this is what i got instead." he explains. "i love it." she smiles, admiring the ring. "really?" spencer asks softly. "really." evelyn replies, kissing him softly. "i was actually going to ask you tomorrow, i planned a whole day for us that would end with me asking you to marry me, but i decided just to do it then because you gave me a perfect segway." he explains. "jj was gonna take grayson and we would have the day off, even if we got a case." spencer continues. "well, we could still do that, just minus the part where you propose. or you could propose again for the pictures." she jokes. spencer laughs and nods. "we'll see about the proposing again part. as for the rest, it's a date. i'll take grayson tomorrow morning so i might not be here when you wake up." he says, crawling in bed with evelyn. evelyn takes off the ring and puts it back in the box for safe keeping, rolling over to face him. "don't forget to cover those tomorrow." evelyn says, motioning to the dark hickeys on his neck. "okay so then maybe i will be here when you wake up because i'm gonna need you to cover these for me." spencer says, pulling evelyn close to him. "good luck getting me up." she laughs softly, burying her face in his chest and quickly falling asleep.

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"evelyn. wake up." spencer says softly, shaking evelyn awake. she groans softly and swats his hand away, rolling over so her back was facing him, but she was now also facing the window. spencer walks over to the window, opening the blinds. "spencer." she groans, once again rolling over. spencer goes to her side of the bed once again, kneeling down in front of her. she opens her eyes and rubs them. "what do you need, spence?" she asks. "i need you to cover my hickeys, remember?" he says, evelyn groaning. "later. i'm sure jj won't be bothered by it." she says. "come lay with meeeee." she whines, trying to pull him into the bed with her. "when i get back." spencer laughs, getting up. "you can go back to sleep after." he bribed. evelyn groans and gets up, limping to the bathroom. they had had a very spicy night, resulting in evelyn being especially tired, her neck and chest covered in hickeys, and not being able to walk properly. evelyn gets out the products she needed, spencer sitting in the counter. "spence, we've been through this before, you're a literal giant, please sit on the toilet." evelyn says, closing the lid. "your hair is a mess." he laughs, sitting on the closed toilet. "yea, which is why i don't sleep with wet hair usually because this is how it is when i wake up." she says, beginning to cover his hickeys. once she was done he kissed her cheek as she has yawns. "thanks." he says getting up and following her out of the bathroom. "no problem, that'll be 3 more hours of sleep." she mumbles, limping back to the bed and getting in. "hey, close the blinds while you're at it." she mumbles tiredly, pointing to the still open blinds. spencer laughs softly and closes the blinds, kissing her head. "bye, love you." he says as he walks out. "love you too." she replies, quickly falling back asleep.

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spencer returns about an hour later, picking up some food from her favorite breakfast place. he noticed how quiet it was as he went in, realizing she was still asleep. he kicks off his shoes before putting the food in the fridge, making his way up to the bedroom, quietly opening the door and going in, shutting the door behind him. she was conveniently in the middle of the bed, spencer sliding in next to her. she began to wake up, mumbling "spencer?" as he crawled under the covers with her. "go back to sleep." he says softly as evelyn laid her head on his chest, immediately falling back asleep to the sound of his heartbeat. spencer smiles softly, running his hand through her hair as she slept, quietly watching a documentary he found on tv.

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"good morning, caterpillar." spencer says softly as evelyn sleepily looked up at him. about an hour had passed, spencer not moving from his spot. "what time is it?" she asked, moving slightly so she was more comfortable. "10:36 am." spencer says, running his hand through her hair. "can we just- lay here for awhile?" evelyn asks, looking up at spencer. "of course we can, is everything okay?" he replied. "yea, you're just really comfortable." she laughs softly, spencer laughing as well. "no stop laughing i was comfortable." evelyn says, holding back a laugh. spencer tried his best to stop laughing, eventually stopping. "i brought you breakfast from your favorite place by the way." spencer says softly, running circles on evelyn's arm. "we can get it later, i just wanna lay here." she says, spencer raising an eyebrow. "are you sure you're okay?" spencer asks, looking at evelyn. "i'm okay, i promise. i just kinda don't wanna do anything except lay here today." she admits, worried spencer would be mad. "okay, we can lay here for as long as you'd like." he said. evelyn nods, a comfortable silence falling between them. "what about gray?" evelyn asks, breaking the silence. "what about him?" spencer asks. "when are we gonna get him?" evelyn replied. "tonight, maybe tomorrow, we haven't had an entire day alone to ourselves since he was born." spencer says, kissing her cheek. "well that's because the last time i left my child alone she-" evelyn cuts herself off, not wanting to say it.  "okay but evelyn, that wasn't your fault." spencer says, sitting up. "so you're trying to tell me, me leaving madison here with someone who obviously couldn't defend herself while i fly to a different state, something that could've easily been avoided, wasn't my fault? spencer, are you fucking hearing yourself? michael reyes was stalking us from the moment i woke up. he waiting until i left the state to make his move. TRIGGER WARNING if i didn't go to texas, madison would've still been alive." TRIGGER WARNING OVER evelyn snaps at spencer. "you went to texas because of me." he says softly. "so then maybe it's your fault she's dead." evelyn hisses. "evelyn, i got shot in the neck!" spencer exclaims, slightly raising his voice. "well then maybe you should've been more careful!" evelyn exclaims, a little louder than him, getting up, beginning to walk away. "where are you going?!" spencer exclaims, following her. "away from you!" she replies, walking down the stairs. "come back upstairs" spencer huffs, still following her. "no!" she says harshly. "come back upstairs!" he repeats, snapping at her. "i said no, spencer!" she hisses. "evelyn!" spencer yells, grabbing her by the shoulders, turning her around and slamming her against the wall, pinning her to it, the force making the pictures fall on the floor and break. spencer huffs at her angrily, not realizing what he had done, evelyn's face immediately changes from anger to a combination of fear and sadness, the first time she's genuinely been scared of him. "spencer." evelyn whimpers, tears welling up in her eyes as the pain set in, spencer's face softening as he realized what he had done. "evelyn...." spencer says softly, immediately letting her go. evelyn runs up the stairs, throwing on one of her own sweatshirts and slippers, going back down the stairs and out of the house, driving to jj's, ignoring spencer following her and calling her name.