Clara is at home and Ellie just dropped her off since Spencer was gonna be home soon. She looks up when she hears the door unlock and turns to watch her dad walk in.
"Hey." Spencer smiles, Clara giving him a small smile back. "I have a surprise."
"Surprise?" Clara asks.
"You're gonna love it." Spencer promises making Clara's eyebrows furrow. Her eyes widen when Emily walks into the apartment.
"Hi, honey." Emily smiles.
"Aunt Emmy!" Clara jumps off the couch, racing over to her. She crashes into her, Emily grunting at the impact and stumbling back.
"Hi." The woman laughs at her excitement, hugging her back.
"You never greet me like that anymore." Spencer frowns.
"I see you every week." Clara dismisses him.
"Wha--" Spencer pouts.
"How long are you here?" Clara asks, looking up at Emily.
"Just for the night, I have a flight in the morning." Emily says making Clara pout, her shoulders dropping. "But, since we knew how much this would mean to you, and since I wanted to see you so badly, we thought you could come to dinner with the team. We're getting Mexican."
"I can?" Clara looks at her dad.
"Mm-hmm." Spencer nods.
"Yes!" She grins, quickly grabbing her jacket and putting her shoes on at a lightning speed. "Come on. Let's go." She grabs Emily's hand, intertwining their fingers, and pulling her out of the apartment.
"Oh-- okay." Emily chuckles at the girl's enthusiasm.
"She doesn't do that with me either." Spencer mumbles to himself, a sad frown on his face as he shuts and locks the door. "Hey, wait up!"
"Hurry up!" Clara retorts.
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Clara sits between Emily and Hotch at dinner, the girl refusing to leave Emily's side.
"Can I try that?" Clara asks, pointing to Emily's drink.
"No." Spencer immediately answers, having heard her despite being on the other side of the large round table.
"But--" Clara starts.
"It's a margarita. That's alcohol, so no." Spencer says, giving her a stern look.
Clara huffs, resting her chin in her hand. She listens to everybody talk and laugh, jumping into the conversation when she can.
"Can I try it? You're the cool aunt." Clara quietly tells Emily.
"Nice try. You're 12." Emily says.
"So?" Clara shrugs.
"Maybe in a couple years, sweetie." Emily says, stroking her cheek with her thumb for a short moment. Clara sighs, but accepts it, continuing to sip on her root beer.
"Hey." Emily gets her attention. "So I'm gonna spend the night at Penelope's, and I talked to your dad, and he said you can come with us if you want."
"Yes." Clara grins. "Yes, yes, yeah." She excitedly nods.
"All right." Emily softly laughs.
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The team are going different ways after dinner, Clara going with Emily and Penelope.
"Bye, dad." She tells Spencer.
"Bye, honey. Be good." Spencer tells her.
Clara starts to let Penelope lead her to her car, but the girl quickly breaks away and runs back over to Spencer.
"Wait, wait!" Spencer turns to her voice, grunting when she crashes into him, her arms tightly wrapping around his waist. Spencer softly smiles, tightly hugging her back.
Pulling away, Clara pulls him down and kisses him on the cheek.
"I know she just came here for a case, but this was a really good surprise." Clara says, grinning. Spencer scrunches his nose at her and then kisses her forehead.
"I love you. Go have fun." Spencer tells her.
"Love you, too." Clara says, running back over to the two women. Emily and Penelope wave to Spencer who waves back, watching the three walk off.
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"Keep your eyes on him. He's very sneaky with his cards." Penelope warns. She and Clara are sitting on one bench while Henry and Jack are on the bench by them. Spencer is kneeling in front of the boys, doing a magic trick.
"There's nothing sneaky about it. It is merely magic." Spencer says. "I need you to blow on this card, please." He holds the stack out to Jack and he blows on them. "You blow." He holds them out to Henry who blows on it. "And this is your card." He takes the top card off.
"No." Jack denies.
"That's not your card?" Spencer asks. He puts it down. "Wait. Hold on. Okay." He flicks the cards and taps on them twice before doing a weird hand movement that makes Clara quietly snicker.
"This is your card." Spencer holds the next card up.
"No." Both Jack and Henry answer.
"Are you serious? That's not your card?" Spencer asks, dropping the card. He shuffles through the rest of the cards. "Hold on." He looks at Penelope. "Oh..." He takes a Queen of hearts card out from behind Penelope's ear. "Is that your card?"
"Ohh!" Penelope exclaims. "How did you do that?!"
"Wait, wait, don't move." Spencer tells Clara as he stands up.
"What?" She frowns, leaning away from him a bit.
"Oh, no." He mumbles.
"What? It's not a bug, is it?" She dreads.
"What? What? What are you doing? What's in her hair?" Penelope asks.
"Oh, my God, you have something in your hair!" Spencer exclaims while pulling out tissue paper garland from behind her ear. Everybody laughs as it just keeps going and going. Clara laughs, watching him continue to pull it until it reaches the end.
"Holy guacamole!" Spencer exclaims. After getting it all, he tosses it up into the air, Henry and Jack both jumping to grab it. The two boys throw it at Spencer and he pretends it attacks him, falling to the ground.
Jack and Henry playfully attack him while Clara and Penelope remain seated and crack up.
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never grow up, criminal minds
Fiksi Penggemar[ criminal minds -- seasons 1-15 ] Clara Reid Stand Alone: Never Grow Up I DO NOT own Criminal Minds, any of the show's characters or storylines. I ONLY own my OCs and their storylines.
