Bless The Broken Road - 27
The next morning, Jane gave Jack a call to fill him in on what was going on.
“Jane! Thank god! You never came home last night. I was worried!” Jack exclaimed as soon as he answered her call.
“Relax, I’m fine,” she assured him. “It’s kind of a long story, but I ended up at Spencer’s last night and we got back together.”
“Seriously?! Jane, that’s great!” he cheered.
“Yeah, I know,” she agreed, smiling.
“Do you think you’ll move back in right away? I’m free tomorrow to help.”
“That’d be great, Jack. I’m planning on coming over to grab some things at some point today. I’ll see you later.”
She hung up and returned to the living room, curling back up on the couch next to Spencer. She’d need to get some of her hygiene items like shampoo, etc. as well as a change of clothes later. For the time being, Spencer let her borrow one of his shirts to lounge in.
“Jack offered to help move my stuff back here tomorrow,” she informed him, resting her head on his shoulder and wrapping an arm around his torso.
“Are you sure you want to move back in so soon? I’d understand if you wanted to take more time,” Spencer said, reaching around to wrap his own arm around her.
“I’m sure. This way, we can pretend the last three weeks and two days never happened.”
He kissed the top of her head. “Sounds like a great idea,” he told her.
On Monday morning, there was no one in the bullpen when Jane and Spencer arrived, meaning there was no one to notice that they had arrived at the same time.
They spent the morning working on paperwork at their own desks, therefore nobody suspected anything had changed between them.
Around mid-morning, Garcia came over to Jane’s desk.
“Jane, I am so sorry about Friday! I shouldn’t have pushed you so hard to go out and I definitely shouldn’t have set you up with someone I’ve never met personally and-” she paused in her apology, examining Jane’s face. “You don’t seem that mad anymore.”
Jane laughed and shook her head. “I’m not mad. It’s alright, Penny.”
The blonde stood there, perplexed by her friend’s happier mood. She hadn’t seen her like this in weeks. “What happened after you hung up on me Friday?”
To answer her question, Spencer came over, placing a fresh mug of coffee on Jane’s desk.
Jane’s eyes brightened even more. “Thank you!” she cheered. He bent down and gave her a peck on the lips before turning to look at Garcia. Both of them couldn’t help but smirk at the look on her face.
“What? Are- are you two- Are you two back together?” She finally spat out.
The two smiled and nodded before sharing a look.
Garcia let out a shriek, gathering the attention of the others in the area. “Oh, this is so exciting! I am so happy! This is the best thing ever!”
“What’s going on, baby girl?” Morgan asked as he and JJ decided to get up from their desks and join the conversation. He looked to Jane and Spencer and his brow furrowed. “Hold on, did you two make up?”
“Yes, they did!” Garcia cheered.
Both Spencer and Jane laughed at their friends' excitement.
“That’s great! Good job, man!” Morgan gave Spencer a brotherly punch in the arm.
“That’s so good to hear!” JJ cheered.
“Thanks, you guys! We should probably all get back to work, though,” Jane told them.
They all agreed, repeating their congratulations one more time before walking off.
Jane smiled to herself as she returned to the file she was working on.
It was like one second she was reading the file and the next her mind flashed back to that dreaded basement again.
“Jane!” Spencer broke her out of it. He’d come back over to say one more thing before he went back to work. Jane shook her head and looked up at him standing next to her desk. “Are you alright?” he asked.
Before they could talk about it, Hotch had come out of his office to tell them a case had come in.
Jane stood and brushed past Spencer to head to the briefing room.
The team was able to solve the case and return back home in time for the weekend.
In the middle of the night on Friday, Jane was woken up by a nightmare. She slipped out from under the covers, making sure not to disturb Spencer, and silently tiptoed to the bathroom. Taking a seat on the bathroom floor, she silently cried and tried to calm down.
The next morning, Jane was still tired so they decided to devote the day to watching movies.
That night, more nightmares came.
Spencer was the first to wake on Sunday morning. He got up and got breakfast ready while Jane continued to sleep. Just as he was turning off the stove, he heard her screaming coming from the bedroom.
Spencer ran into the bedroom and rushed to her side. She was still asleep but was screaming and thrashing around in her sleep. He tried to gently wake her. When her eyes flashed open, there was a moment in which she didn’t realize where she was, as if she was still inside her nightmare and he was her abductor. Jane shoved him away.
The sound of his voice brought her back to reality.
“Spencer, I’m so sorry!” she apologized immediately. She sat up and hugged her knees to her chest.
"That’s alright. You didn’t mean it.” He moved to sit next to her. “Jane, I know you’ve been having nightmares again, along with some other stuff,” he told her softly.
She sat there, saying nothing.
“I think you need to talk to someone. It doesn’t have to be me, but I think you need help.”
“No I don’t,” she denied, though tears came to her eyes.
"It takes time, but it’ll only get better if you face it rather than ignore it.”
Jane remained silent, her eyes focused on something only she could see off in the distance.
“I made breakfast. Why don’t we go eat?” Spencer suggested, changing the subject.
She nodded and allowed him to take her hand, help her out of bed, and lead her to the kitchen.
“I’m going to run some errands and grab lunch. I’ll see you later,” Spencer informed Jane.
Jane spun in her chair to look at him as he moved to walk away. “Well, wait! Do you want me to come with you?” she offered.
“Not this time. I want to go alone,” he told her. “I’ll be back in a bit.”
Jane stared at him as he walked away, thinking it was a little suspicious but chose to ignore it.
An hour later, Garcia and Jane were having a conversation at Jane’s desk.
“Woah,” Garcia exclaimed randomly.
Jane raised an eyebrow. “Um, woah what?”
Spencer approached from behind Jane and cleared his throat. She spun around in her chair and her eyes widened. Spencer had traded in his ‘boy band’ haircut for a much shorter style.
“Spencer, wow!” Jane spoke.
His cheeks went red and he looked down, scratching his neck, embarrassed. “You hate it,” he said.
“What? No! It’s just different,” Jane insisted. “But it looks really, really good.”
“Uh...yeah! Totally!” Garcia cheered. “You, boy genius, are one tall drink of water.”
Jane got up from her seat. “I’m going to go grab more coffee from the break room. Spence, do you want some?”
“That sounds great!” he agreed, going to grab his cup from his own desk before following Jane to the break room.
“See ya, Garcia!” Jane said as the tech analyst also left Jane’s desk and broke off from the group.
The room was empty when they entered. Jane moved to the counter and began brewing the coffee.
“I’m serious, Spence. Your hair looks great! It’s so sexy,” she told him, turning around to face him, leaning against the counter.
He smiled at her, speechless.
Jane pulled him closer to her and lowered her voice to say, “I cannot wait to get you home and all alone tonight.”
She pulled his face down to hers and kissed him, running her hands through his new, short hair.
The door to the break room opened and Garcia entered, causing them to jump apart.
“Thought I’d warn you that Rossi is coming this way,” she told the pair with a wink.
“Thanks, Garcia,” they murmured. They hurried to get their coffee refilled before heading back to their desks and getting back to their files.
Every once in a while, Jane would glance up toward Spencer. More than once, he caught her staring at him, biting her lip. Upon seeing this, he’d turn red and look away again.
At one point, Jane decided to gather up the files she’d finished so far and go turn them into Hotch in his office. On the way back to her desk, Jane passed Spencer’s desk, reaching out to brush her hand across his head. When she returned to her desk, she looked back at him and smirked before shooting him a wink and going back to work. He chuckled to himself before also going back to work.
Upon arrival home from work, Spencer took Shortstack outside and Jane began to work on cooking dinner. When it was ready, they sat down and ate, making small talk and forcing themselves to remain patient.
They finished eating and worked together to get the dishes washed and put away. Jane put the last plate in the cabinet and shut the door before turning and smiling at Spencer.
She took his hand and guided him back to the bedroom, shutting the door after them.
Spencer woke up the next morning to Jane kissing his lips. He smiled under the kiss, causing her to pull away to look at him. He opened his own eyes to see her leaning over him slightly, smiling down at him.
“Good morning,” she greeted.
He reached up and kissed her again. “Good morning.”
Jane laid back down to rest her head on his chest. “Ugh, I don’t want to go to work today,” she complained.
“We could probably call in if you really wanted to,” he suggested.
“No,” she shook her head slightly. “We better get up and get ready.” She moved to sit up and slip out of bed, the cool air creating goosebumps on her bare skin. Spencer sat up and watched her. “I’ll go shower first,” she told him, heading into the bathroom.
Jane had just finished rinsing out her shampoo and was about to begin rubbing conditioner in her hair when she heard the bathroom door open and close.
“I took Shortstack out to go to the bathroom and gave him his food,” Spencer’s voice called over the sound of the water.
“Good.” She stopped rubbing her hair and pulled the curtain back a bit so she could see him.
“You know,” she began with a smirk. “We could probably get ready faster if we just showered at the same time,” she suggested.
Spencer grinned and stripped his clothes back off before stepping into the shower with her. Jane grabbed his shampoo from the corner and put some on her hand before reaching up to rub it in his hair. He had to bend down slightly for her to reach it properly. Unable to resist the temptation, she leaned forward and kissed him.
Needless to say, showering together proved to be counterproductive for the couple, causing them to arrive at work around forty-five minutes late.
As Jane sat at her desk working on paperwork, she couldn’t help but notice a few of the others gathered over at Morgan’s desk, talking in hushed voices and laughing occasionally.
Jane chose to ignore it and continued to work.
A while later, Morgan came over to her. “Hey, sweetness,” he greeted with a grin.
“Hey,” she replied back. “Why are you smiling at me like that?”
“No reason,” he chuckled, walking away before she could interrogate him further.
People continued glancing at her throughout the next few hours until Garcia finally decided to end the teasing and take her into the bathroom.
“Garcia, you couldn’t have just told me out there?” Jane complained as the door closed behind them.
“No, I couldn’t,” Garcia argued. “Look at your neck.” She gestured to the mirror and Jane obliged, gasping in realization as to why everyone was behaving the way they were. There was a very obvious hickey on the front of her neck.
“I guess someone had a good time last night,” Garcia giggled as she handed Jane some concealer to help her cover it up.
Jane shook her head. “This wasn’t here this morning.”
“So when did you get it?” Jane hesitated to answer, but Garcia figured it out in the moment of silence. “Oh!” she exclaimed. “Is that why you two were late?”
Jane finished with the makeup and handed it back to Garcia. “Thanks for telling me but I don’t think we should continue this discussion.”
She turned and hurried out of the bathroom, a bit embarrassed.
Later in the day, Spencer apologized to Jane about the situation. “I didn’t mean for you to get embarrassed,” he told her.
“That’s alright. It’s too late to change anything now,” she assured him. “We’ll just be extra careful next time.”
Hotch entered the bullpen and announced that there was a case.
The case lasted a few days and fortunately helped distract the team from being able to tease Jane and Spencer anymore.
Spencer woke up and followed the smell of pancakes out to the kitchen where he found Jane cooking.
“Good morning!” she chirped, taking another pancake off of the frying pan and placing it on the stack. Before pouring more batter to make the next one, she moved over to Spencer, reaching up to plant a kiss on his lips. “Happy one year anniversary!”
He wrapped his arms around her waist, keeping her close. “Happy one year anniversary to you too,” he repeated with a wide smile.
Around a week ago, the couple had decided to not count the near month that they had spent broken up and therefore would still consider June 20th to be their anniversary.
“I’m making pancakes!” Jane said as she broke away from him and went to continue making breakfast.
“I see that,” he chuckled.
“I think I have enough batter left to make two more and then I’ll be done. Go sit down.”
Spencer obliged and Jane joined him a few minutes later.
After breakfast, Jane received a call from Garcia.
“Hey! I was wondering if you wanted to join me in shopping at the mall today?” she asked.
“Oh, not today, Pen,” Jane told her. “It’s Spencer and I’s first anniversary. Maybe next weekend or something?”
“I was really hoping to go today!” the blonde insisted.
“No, I’m sorry. I gotta go.” Jane hung up and returned back to the living room. “That was Garcia. She wanted me to go shopping with her,” Jane informed Spencer.
“You should go,” he told her.
Her brow furrowed. “You want me to spend our anniversary shopping with Garcia?” she questioned.
“Don’t you want to spend it together?” Jane crossed her arms.
“I do, but you and Garcia haven’t had time to hang out in a while and we live together. We can celebrate later,” Spencer insisted.
“OK...” Jane gave in, suspicious. “I’ll call her back then.”
Jane spent the entire day shopping with Garcia.
Garcia guided Jane to a specific store and encouraged her to get a specific dress, telling her that she would pay for it for her.
“Garcia, it’s beautiful, but I can’t ask you to buy it for me! It’s way too expensive,” Jane argued.
“But if you get it, then we could go back to my place and you can put it on and I can help you do your hair and makeup all nice to surprise Spencer with!”
Jane narrowed her eyes at her. “OK, what’s going on?”
“Nothing’s going on,” Garcia lied.
“Garcia, you know I can tell when you’re lying.”
Garcia groaned, “Fine. Spencer’s preparing a fancy dinner for you back home and Morgan and Rossi are helping him. He asked me to keep you busy all day and he gave me money to buy this dress for you.”
“Oh my god, that’s so sweet!” Jane exclaimed.
“I guess I have to let him know the surprise is ruined.”
“Well, don’t tell me any more details. That way I can be partially surprised,” Jane suggested.
They found the dress in Jane’s size and purchased it before heading back to Garcia’s to get Jane ready for the dinner.
Right around six, Jane arrived home. She opened the door to find a trail of rose petals on the ground and Shortstack sitting in front of her with a little bowtie on.
“Well don’t you look handsome,” Jane laughed, setting her stuff aside and kneeling down to greet the pup. Shortstack barked and turned to walk towards the balcony, the same direction as the trail of rose petals.
Out on the balcony, Spencer stood by a table with candles and flowers on it. He was wearing a tux.
“Happy anniversary,” he told her, coming forward to give her a kiss. “I love you so much, Jane.”
“I love you too, Spencer. I can’t believe you did all of this for me!” she told him, embracing him before he took a step back to take in her attire.
“You look so beautiful,” he told her.
Jane blushed. “You look great too. Thank you for buying the dress for me. Garcia’s not a very good liar,” Jane chuckled.
“You’re very welcome. Shall we?” he gestured toward the table and she moved forward to one of the chairs. Spencer pulled it out for her before walking around to his own chair.
“The food looks delicious. Did you make this?” Jane asked.
“With Rossi’s help,” he admitted. “I figured I’d learn from an Italian food expert.” Jane laughed. “Morgan helped too with setting things up.”
“Remind me to thank both of them,” she said as she went to take her first bite.
“How was your day with Garcia?” he asked, also digging in.
“It was fun, but I missed you. This is lovely and I really appreciate the effort you put into it, but I felt guilty spending our anniversary away from you,” Jane admitted.
“Don’t. It was all part of the plan,” he insisted. “Wine?” he asked as he grabbed the bottle.
“Yes, please.” Jane held out her glass and he poured both of them a glass before raising his. Jane mimicked him. “To one year of being together,” she began. “It wasn’t all full of happiness, but it was all worth it because, in the end, I get to be with you. I love you.”
“I love you too,” Spencer repeated back. “Cheers.” They clinked their glasses.
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