Agents with Kids (Spencer Reid x reader)

Part 27

You flick on all the lights. Reid groans, but you helpfully remind him that he can still have caffeine.

You call Hotch back and shove the phone between your face and shoulder while you rummage through your bag.

He gives you the address and tells you to get there as soon as you can. You've still got the keys to the SUV you took back to the hotel the previous night.

"Reid! We gotta go!" you remind him as you start to strip out of your pajamas. From the bed, he slides his glasses on and turns to look at you.

"Hey, look at that! Your linea nigra is showing. Technically, women always have them, but they become apparent during pregnancy due to increased melanin production."

"I appreciate the update, doc, but right now I need you to put a tie on so we can go look at some dead bodies." You desperately hope the sarcasm covers up how sweet you find it that he was checking on your bump. It wasn't quite as sweet that he wanted to talk about the dark line approaching your belly button, but still, it was a sweet interaction.

He finally does head to his room to get dressed while you finish getting ready. While you wait for him, you poke at the shitty coffee maker and manage to get him a cup made in the cheapest feeling to go cup you've ever held.

You drive and find the scene is already crawling with crime scene technicians. Hotch is standing off to the side, waiting for the two of you.

You process the scene and talk through it with Hotch, noting the items taken and the items left by the unsub.

"This isn't a copycat, is it?" you ask him quietly.

"No. It isn't." Hotch says in an equally quiet voice. Reid and Hotch stay on scene to oversee the transport of the victims to the examiner while you get directed back to the station.

Before they leave, Hotch pulls you aside again. "This unsub doesn't gain anything from killing anymore. He wants power over the investigation. We can't risk having you in the field this time. You're with JJ from here, alright?"

There's no room for argument, so you don't bother. When you make it to the station it's just shy of 7, so the rest of the team hasn't quite started their day. JJ texts you that she'll be at the station by 7:30, and that everybody else has been directed to various field locations.

The station is buzzing with activity, but nobody from the reaper case is still here, so you head to the conference room. You flip the lights off and slump down at the table to rest before JJ gets there.

The buzzing of fluorescents stirs you from your half-sleep state.

"Here." JJ slides a mug of what looks like herbal tea over to you.

"Has the news broke yet?"

"Last night's bodies? Not yet. I just spoke to local PD and they agreed to leave it up to us to announce it. I'm going to call a press conference after we get some info from the M.E."

You take a sip. It's peppermint.

"So what do we do now?"

She looks at you over her own mug.

"Now we wait until somebody needs something."

JJ drafts some possible press conferences, depending on how the examination goes, while you poke around at the leads from yesterday.

You call Garcia and ask her to send you any of the research she did yesterday, and she tells you it'll take her a little while to put it together while fielding calls from the rest of the team.