The Sweetness and the Courtesy

It was a lovely day, colored cerulean and green. Garcia was happily snuggled in bed, listening to the sounds from the living room.

She and Dave had found a penthouse apartment in Quantico that accepted dogs-Mudgie was sleeping on the foot of the bed every night, Garcia's side. The guys had spent a day remodeling one of the bedrooms into a nursery for their baby girl.

After several months of waiting, getting fat, working cases that left them mentally winded, and-to quote Garcia herself-defeating the Evil Pentagon Plan to Steal JJ, they had had their baby.

Cassandra Carolyn Garcia-Rossi.

And right now, Dave was out in the living room making all sorts of noises to get his daughter to gurgle, using voices and probably faces in his campaign.

Mudgie whined from Garcia's ankles.

"Come on, sweetie, give Daddy a big old grin. How about a little bitty one? Hmm? Just a hint of a grin for the old man? Come on, sweetie."

Mudgie whined again and buried her nose in the quilt over Garcia's feet.

"I agree," she told the hunting dog, who looked up at her with annoyed eyes. "He was like that when I got fat, remember?"

Dave appeared in the doorway, holding the small pink bundle, a cloth draped over his shoulder in the event of spit-up. Cassandra was apparently going for nomination in the 'most spit-up' category, and nothing was sacred, even the poor dog.

"Morning, honey."

"Mudgie has disowned you," she informed him. "She wants to be my special house pet from now on."

"Aw, Mudgie, didya have to do that to me? Who's gonna help me teach Cassie to hunt?"

"My baby is NOT going to go learn to kill Bambi and Thumper," Garcia told him firmly.

"What about fishing?"

"Fishing is even more disgusting then hunting. At least the hunting smell wears off. Fish is like, forever."

Mudgie whined and nuzzled Garcia again.

"See? Mudgie wants to give up a life in the woods with you to stay here in the lap of luxury with me."

"Outgunned by three females," Dave announced happily.

Love leaps up from them,

As music sprang from Mozart

And they can have it all.

FINIS

Author's Note: The quote above is from 'A Couple on the Street', from 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keller, a truly awesome writer, but I like his poetry best. Go out and read to book-I've gotten 2 fics from his poems! Review?