Scarlet Rose

11

I sat at my desk in the BAU three weeks later talking to JJ and Garcia about the upcoming wedding later today.

"I still can't believe you're getting married today." JJ said. "And it's your's and Spencer's."

"Me neither. But I'm glad it's today."

"You nervous?" Garcia asked.

"More than you know, Garcia." I nodded.

Someone knocked on my door and JJ let that person in, Spencer walking in.

"What're you three talking about?" he asked.

"Our wedding." I replied.

"Well, as much as I'd love to talk about it with you, we got a case. Hotch just called us to the debrief room."

"Looks like the wedding talk will have to be later, girls." I said as the four of us exited my office and went into the debrief room.

"What's the case?" JJ asked as we all sat down.

"No case," a familiar voice answered.

We turned around and saw Emily standing at the entrance, a smile on her face.

"Emily!" JJ ran over and hugged her friend. "we've missed you."

"I missed you guys too, JJ." Emily said, "time for me to say hi to the soon-to-be bride."

"Hey, Em." I pulled her into a hug and her arms went around me.

"Hey, Vanessa. How's my favorite lovebirds doing?" Emily asked as she glanced at me and Spencer.

"We're good. We're getting a house to raise our babies." Spencer said, his hand resting on my small baby bump.

"Babies? You're having more than one?" Emily asked.

"Twins. We just found out three weeks ago." I replied.

"Congratulations, guys!" she said, pulling both of us into a hug.

I smiled at her, then looked back at Aaron. "So, because there's no case, what do we do?"

"Talk about your wedding." Aaron replied. "After what we do for a living, I think we could all use a break."

"That sounds like a nice change of plans." Morgan said.

So that's what we did. We sat around the table and talked about the wedding and told stories of the past, laughing at each other's weirdest memories.

"Okay, I got a question for you, Vanessa." Aaron said.

"Go on." I said.

"What did you first think of Reid when we first brought you in?" he asked.

"Yeah. What was your first impression of me, Vanessa?" Spencer asked as he looked at me.

"Let's see......the first thing I thought about you was......., he's hot, but I can't show it."

"You really thought that about me?" Spencer asked with a little laugh.

"Hey, it's true!" I protested, laughing along with the others.

Once the laughter died down, I asked Spencer the same question about what he thought of me.

"That's easy." He said, "I thought, how could a person that beautiful commit such a crime like this?"

"That's a straight-up lie, Spence." I said, leaning over and kissing him. "But I do appreciate you saying that."

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