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Spencer Meets the Morgans	By : KTT2123 Category: 1 through F > Criminal Minds Views: 4229 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Full Summary: Derek takes Spencer to meet his family. Spencer is obviously nervous to meet the Morgans again as Derek's boyfriend. To add to that it will be his first family Christmas since his Dad left. Expect some nice Christmas fluff, a bit of angst, and some smut.
Notes: Part of the He's the One That I Want Verse.I've had this chapter written forever, Spencer meeting the Morgans. It was finished way before I posted my first story. littelprincess on fanfiction (who loves to give me awesome prompts) suggested a holiday/Christmas fic. I made minor changes to add the Christmas aspect. I expect this to be a multiple chapter story. I anticipate it won't be finished in time for Christmas but I'm going to write it anyway. I really have no idea if this little chapter is any good. I've read it so many times that I cannot judge its quality anymore!
This takes place a few months after Spencer and Derek first get together.

Spencer Reid and Derek Morgan step off the plane. They are here. Chicago. Spencer is meeting the Morgans, as Derek’s partner. For Christmas. The first family Christmas he’s had since his dad abandoned him and his mom.
*This is it.* Spencer starts fidgeting, his body twitching and jumping with anxious tension. His nervous energy is overwhelming and he can’t seem to do anything to settle himself. Derek notices as his boyfriend starts to seriously freak out. He gently grasps his face, forcing Spencer to look at him. “Pretty Boy, breathe. Breathe! It will be fine, they will love you.” The lithe genius gasps for air. He realizes that he had forgotten to breathe in his panicking. He has never met a partner’s family before. Spencer’s eccentricities usually ended relationships rather quickly. No one had wanted to deal with his trust issues or touch issues or his job or his genius mind. That is until Derek of course.
Reid’s nervousness is provoking his insecurities to flare up, making him doubt himself and his worthiness of Derek. He doesn’t want to see disappointment in the eyes of the Morgan family or shame in Derek’s. It does not seem matter that he knows his reaction is irrational, Reid is still afraid. Morgan makes him so happy and he is terrified of losing that. To lose the first and only person to ever love him back.
Sucking in air and exhaling in deep shuttering breathes, he begins to calm down. Spencer no longer feels like he is either going to explode or run away screaming as fast as he can. Of course if he had run, Derek would have just chased after him. It would be easy for Morgan to catch him. He lives to chase down (and tackle) perps, unlike Reid who relies on his wits. No, the team genius does not do chasing or diving tackles of suspects. Judging by Morgan’s smirk, the older man knows exactly how close Spencer had been to running away.
He asks, still smirking fondly, “Better, Babe?” Reid doesn’t know how this happened, how his beautiful, dark skinned love got to be the confident one in their relationship. It isn’t fair. Before they got together, Derek had been terrified of relationships and avoided them like the plague. He’d never brought anyone home to meet his family before and hadn’t once even considered doing so. Yet, almost from the start the older man had completely lost his fear and become as confident in their serious, committed relationship as he is at work and in life. No big gay freak out or uncertainty in being in a relationship with a man, with Spencer. Derek had transitioned seamlessly from a completely straight, ladies man to a man in a committed gay relationship.
Sometimes, Reid reasons that is just unfair, Morgan has charm to go along with his infernal confidence. The genius wouldn’t know how to charm someone if his life depended on it. With his stuttering and rambling, his general nerdy awkwardness, Spencer can pull off endearing but definitely not charm. Reid had wasted almost five years hiding his love for Derek to avoid being rejected and losing their friendship. In the end, instead of losing him, Spencer found out that Morgan loved him back.
Spencer is trying to battle his insecurities: the nasty voice inside himself that is telling him that he’s not good enough for Derek, that his love’s family won’t like him. Yet, inside his head he can hear Derek’s smooth, confident voice calmly disproving each and every thing the nasty voice says. For once in his life, he has someone to help protect him especially from himself.
Spencer drums his fingers, picking at his clothes, touches his glasses, combing his fingers through his hair before repeating the process. He almost wishes he still had his long locks to hide behind. Morgan takes his hands to stop his restless fidgeting. “Stop worrying so much. They already liked you before, Pretty Boy, when you were just my co-worker, my friend. You know how happy Mama was when I told her about us, how excited she was when I told her I was bringing you home. My family knows you make me happy and that alone will make them love you. So, calm down, okay?” Derek’s hand strokes his hair in soothingly. Reid closes his eyes and takes another steadying breath. He smiles genuinely for the first time since they landed, “Thanks, Der.” Morgan smiles back, wrapping his arm comfortably around the thinner man, as they walk toward the exit, where the Morgan family is waiting for them.
Desiree is the first to see them, she lights up at the obvious happiness written all over Derek’s face. He is the picture of contented bliss. She rushes toward the two men. “Derek! Spencer!” Desiree jumps into her brother’s embrace. Reid instinctively steps back, unsure whether it is because he’s scared she will hug him or that she won’t or a little of both. The youngest Morgan doesn’t give him time to ponder that, as she dives from her brother’s embrace right into Reid, enthusiastically hugging his lithe frame. Spencer is stunned; he hasn’t experience much physical affection in his life and it takes a second before he awkwardly hugs her back.
In the meantime, Sarah and Fran have approached. Sarah had been the least supportive of the Morgan family when Derek had told them about Spencer. She doesn’t understand how an almost forty year old man can suddenly turn gay. Because despite what Derek says about Spencer Reid being his exception, Derek is gay; he is having sex with a man and that makes him gay in Sarah’s book. But looking at Derek with Spencer, she finally gets a glimmer of understanding. Her brother is radiant with Spencer at his side, happier than she has ever seen him. Sarah cannot deny it, seeing it with her own eyes. Derek stands proud and protective next the lithe genius.
Despite the tension between them from her lukewarm response to Derek’s news, Sarah gets a bear hug from Derek. He loves her and has every confidence she’ll come around. Once she spends some time with them, she will understand what he sees in Spencer and how happy his Baby makes him. Derek gives his mother a kiss on the cheek and a gentler hug, while Desiree finally releases Reid.
Sarah immediately hugs him, although much less enthusiastically yet just as affectionately. The older Morgan sister is trying to be a little more sensitive to Reid’s issues with touching while showing him that she accepts him as he is. She knows sooner or later Spencer is going to have to get used to the easy affection the Morgan family has for those they love. She says warmly, “It’s nice to see you again, Spencer.” A little surprised at her affectionate welcome, he’d braced himself for a much more stilted and unhappy greeting. The genius smiles back, “You, too, Sarah.” His shy smile is absolutely adorable.
Reid meets Fran’s eyes. He can read such kindness, love, and a spark of humor in her green eyes. The genius stands awkwardly. Surprisingly, he finds he wants to hug her, to thank her for helping the two of them get together. The Morgan matriarch smiles kindly and wraps Reid in a warm hug. Her arms feel like pure love wrapping around him. After a second, she eases back “So good to see you again, Spencer.”
He smiles genuinely, “It’s good to see you too, Mrs. Morgan.”
“Fran, please call me Fran.”
“Fran,” he echoes shyly.
The Morgan matriarch pulls him close again, and softly whispers in his ear, “Thank you for waiting for him, Spencer. For not giving up on him. Thank you for loving him.”
Reid starts a bit at the earnest thank you. He can feel tears prickling his eyes as he answers honestly, “I couldn’t stop loving him if I tried. How could I not love him?”
Fran squeezes him tighter. She is over the moon that her son has found someone worthy, someone that loves him as he deserves, as he needs.
Spencer returns the hug gratefully. “Thank you for giving him a push, for making him see me. Without you, we wouldn’t be together.” Truer words could not be spoken. Without Fran’s wise words, Derek would not have realized how deeply he cared for Spencer…certainly not before Spencer had disappeared. Both Spencer and Derek will always know they owe Fran more than they can ever repay.

I will probably focus more on Spencer Will Be Mine but I am hoping posting the first chapter will give me the inspiration to start the second chapter of this story.
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