"I thought you couldn't wait to get back home?" Rossi asked after swinging open his front door and raising an eyebrow, his other five teammates were smiling sleepily back at him as they gathered together.

"We'd be back there already if it weren't for Garcia practically dragging us here" Emily grumbled while stepping inside and leading the party inside and into the main living room.

Rossi couldn't help but smirk at that comment as he collected six glasses from his kitchen and brought them to the group. "What's the gathering for then, Garcia?" He asked once everyone was settled with a drink.

"Well…" Garcia began as she tried to hide her excited smile. "I thought after the amount of cases you had been rushing off on lately you might need a little break… So, I had a word with Strauss and-"

"What?!" Morgan, Emily and JJ questioned in unison, stopping the tech queen in her tracks.

"You actually talked to Strauss about us being overworked?" Emily added with a small spluttering laugh splitting through her voice.

"Yep" She announced proudly. "And I managed to convince her that you guys have been working way too hard and if she wants you in tip top condition she has to give you a little break"

"And she agreed?" JJ asked in a slightly squeaky voice from surprise.

"Well, who could say no to me?" Garcia said and grinned widely. The entire group smirked at her and congratulated her on the impressive feat before raising their glasses and toasting to a long fortnight without interruption.

"We should take her on our cases, you know?" Morgan added with a wide smile. "If Strauss can't say no then how could an UnSub?"

Garcia pulled a face and patted Morgan's cheek. "Not my area, sug. I dish the dirt when I'm in my lair. Leaving my screens isn't in my job description" She stated which made the team smile even more.

"So when does our leave start?" Rossi questioned.

"If we can finish up all the paperwork tomorrow then we should be free by the next day. Strauss'll probably run it by us tomorrow anyway" The tech queen answered.

A doorbell ringing interrupted the joking and Rossi rose to answer the late caller. He got an uneasy feeling when he looked through the peephole and saw no one there but proceeded to pull the door open slightly anyway.

He let out a breath of relief when he saw the gloomy shadows didn't hold the monster his mind had concocted and was about to close the door when a baby's cry rang out. His eyes immediately dropped to the ground and found the source of the crying, a small baby boy wrapped in a thin blanket and placed in a cardboard box.

Rossi didn't hesitate in dropping to his knees and scooping up the little boy, not even thinking what he was doing until the boy was safe in his arms.

"Must've been a prank" The senior profiler distantly heard Morgan suggest as he hushed the infant and carried him back to the living room.

The group took a few moments to process what was in the man's arms before they burst into questioning.

"Is that a baby?"

"Where did it come from?"

"Whose is it?"

Hotch held his hand up for quiet when the baby let out another cry and everyone feel silent. He took a deep breath then approached the dazed man and looked down at the child.

"He was on the doorstep" Rossi mumbled while staring down at the bundle in shock.

Hotch watched the baby for a moment longer then made his way out of the room, down the corridor, to the door, picked up the box then brought it back to the group.

"A real doorstep baby" Garcia murmured as she took out a stained white blanket that had been left in the box and examined it.

JJ silently picked up the letter left in the bottom of the child's container, opened it and began to silently read it.

"He can't be older than a month or two" Emily said as everyone, minus the media liaison, gathered round the baby.

"It says he was born on October ninth…" JJ stated as her eyes glided through the words.

"That was only three weeks ago" Rossi mumbled as he soothingly rubbed the upset baby's back.

"What are we going to do with him?" Garcia asked in a soft voice as Hotch moved next to JJ to read the letter.

"What kind of person leaves a baby on a doorstop?" Morgan growled as he ran a hand over the back of his head. "It's freezing out there!"

Mumbled agreements spread through the group but no one dared say anything more. A few minutes later Rossi adjusted the baby in his arms and realized he'd fallen asleep, his facial muscles relaxed and his breathing steady.

"We can't put him back in that" Emily muttered as she held up the flimsy cardboard box and tossed it aside.

"What else can we do with him?" Rossi questioned as the baby boy let out a deep breath and stirred in his arms.

JJ thought for a moment then dropped the letter on the coffee table and led the group through the house and into one of the guest bedrooms.

"Em, help me get these pillows round the side" The blonde instructed as she began pulling the bedding off, folding it and creating a smaller, padded area for the baby.

The raven haired woman nodded diligently then took the pillows from the head of the bed and surrounded the prepared space.

A few minutes later the two women took a step back and examined their makeshift crib. "It'll do for tonight" Emily said as Rossi laid the baby down in the centre and placed a small woollen blanket over the boy.

Hotch walked into the room a few moments later and studied the child's current sleeping arrangements before making his way to the group. "We've got to call social services in the morning" He stated to Garcia's dismay. "Whoever left him made perfectly clear in the letter that they aren't coming back for him"

"They also said they wanted us to look after him" JJ added which brightened some of the team up.

"What are we going to do on cases?" Hotch questioned. "Take him with us and surround him with every horrible crime that could be thought up?"

"Of course not!" JJ growled angrily.

"So we'll just pass him from person to person then. That's a great idea, isn't it?"

"It's better than being stuck in a system that will never find him a home!" The media liaison finally snapped. "At least with us he'd be loved and cared for"

Hotch thought for a few moments then rubbed his head and sighed in defeat.

"Why don't we talk about this in the morning?" Morgan suggested. "It's been a long day and we're all too tired to think sensibly when we're this tired"

"You can bunk down in the other spare rooms if you don't want to leave" Rossi added when the women didn't look like they were going to budge. "There are two single beds in one room and another with a double bed and sofa if that appeals to anyone"

"Emily and JJ can have the single beds" Hotch finally instructed when no one said anything. "Garcia can have the double bed and Morgan can sleep on the sofa in Garcia's room"

"Where are you sleeping?" JJ asked as the others left for their rooms.

"The sofa in the living room… I'd rather be close to the door encase whoever dropped the baby off comes back" Hotch answered in a quiet voice as she checked the baby again before leaving.

JJ stepped up to the crib and ran a finger over the sleeping baby's cheek. She hadn't noticed in the rush some of the smaller details of the boy that she now was taking in. Chestnut hair was springing from the top of his head; his cheeks were a slightly darker shade of pink compared to the rest of his skin and the corner of his eyes crinkled when they were closed. She smoothed out the few strands of hair and softly kissed his forehead before whispering a goodnight and leaving for her own bed.

So I've already got a LOT of fics I need to update but I've had a big bout of writer's block and this is one of the few things I've been able to write so I decided to post it. Encase anyone didn't guess, the little boy is Reid! There are no ships in this story and it's just a nice fluffy family type thing. If you have any requests for more or less of certain characters or if there's any areas you think I've gone wrong with baby Spencer (I'm not around babies that young too often) I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me know. Please review if you've got time!