Somebody's Watching

Chapter 11

Spencer and I head back to the house, the baby isn't allowed to leave the hospital yet.
"I'm sorry Spence, our date nights been ruined." I look up at him.
"No it hasn't, just put on hold. I'm gonna get some ice for your lip, it's split." I take the ice happily and we sit down on the couch. "I ordered your favorite." He smiles.
"Oh yeah, what if I wanted to try something new?" I ask giggling, looking up at my boyfriend.
"I could call back and change it if you want." I giggle and kiss his cheek.
"No, babe, I'm giving you a bad time." Once we finish our dinner, I look at Spencer. He hands me a specific fortune cookie. My brow furrows, but I open it. 'Will you marry me?' I notice the ring in his fingers. "Of course." He kisses me. Over a few days it becomes clear that something is seriously wrong with the baby. Since I had adopted her, I noticed how small she is, and how she seems underdeveloped. "What can you tell me about what's going on with the baby?"
"It appears your sister smoked through her pregnancy, the baby has more carbon dioxide in her blood stream than oxygen, her heart is working overtime to compensate. She's not out of the woods yet. She is fighting for her life." The doctor tells me.
"What's the likelihood of her dying?" I ask.
"Right now, she's not looking good at all, I'd say about 80-90%." I feel my heart breaking. I'm not sure if I can handle a second baby dying. I decide to go to work, and distract myself, I have my engagement ring on, which means I'm playing with it. We walk in and see Hotch calling everyone into the conference room. I sit next to Spencer, Morgan sits on the other side. I had taken the ring off and put it in my pocket. I don't draw attention to the few days I took off, I'll talk to Hotch about that before we get on the jet. Halloween weekend. Spencer has been talking about going to see a phantasmagoria, Of course he bought two tickets.
"We're going to Detroit."
"But it's Halloween weekend." My fiancé objects.
"City officials found a three year trend where our unsub kills in the three days leading up to Halloween."
"Devils night." I get put with Derek and Emily. As we drive away from the crime scene, Derek starts to heckle me about the days I took off.
"So why'd you take off? Pretty boy make you not able to walk for a few days?" I roll my eyes and chuckle.
"No my sister gave birth and I adopted the baby, Lana died in childbirth and her baby daddy picked a fight, so I had him arrested." I answer not looking up from the file, something in my gut tells me this is all about revenge.
"Pretty impressive, what's with the new indent on your ring finger?" I ignore the question. I figure out everything quickly and notice everything they're both doing. After we arrest Kaman, the unsub, we get back on the jet to get back to Quantico. We go back to the office and Hotch calls me into his office.
"Ashlynn, what happened?" He asks.
"My sister gave birth, and her boyfriend attacked me, she passed away, and I adopted the baby, the baby is still in the hospital and probably will pass away. I know that everyone knows that Spencer and I are dating, we got engaged as well. If it's an issue, I'm willing to leave the BAU." I answer spilling my guts.
"Where's your ring?" Hotch asks, I notice a smile forming on his lips. I pull it out of my pocket. I show him the ring that Spencer got me. "Wow he definitely got you a beautiful ring."
"Thank you." I put the ring back on my finger.
"There's no problem with you two being together and working together." He answers. "All right, if you need time off just let me know, you have a lot of time on the books." I nod and head back to the bullpen. Spencer looks at me and the smile lights up.
"You're wearing your ring." I nod, and smile back.
"Let's go watch that phantasmagoria, my nerd."