Opening the door to the quaint two story house, Nina certainly wasn't expecting to be attacked by a 5-year-old in ducky pajamas.

"NINI! NINI! YOU CAME BACK." Hope belted in her ear and her small arms wrapped around Nina's neck and her legs around Nina's waist.

"Hey, Bug!" Nina stumbled back into Spencer and he put his hand on the small of her back to steady her.

"You were gone for three WHOLE days. I have so much to tell you, in school Mrs.Stone made us paint and-" Hope's rambling was cut off when she realized her big sister wasn't the only one in the doorway.

Her big brown eyes looked at Spencer, she suddenly became very interested in the strings of her big sisters hoodie.

Nina smiles at this, Hope was a bubbly kid but it always took a while for her to warm up to Strangers.
"Hope, this is Spencer" she turned so that Spencer could enter the house and so that Hope could look at him without craning her little neck. "Spencer is a friend of mine, he's very nice." She reassured her little sister.

Spencer gave the little girl a small smile and bent down to her level. "Hi Hope, your sister has told me a lot about you." He gives her a small smile. Hope returns his smile and gives him a small wave.

Nina felt her heart practically burst at this cute interaction.

"Hope,please don't yell it's Saturday and Saturday's are for sleeping in." Ethan says padding down the stairs slowly, his cancer had made exerting too much energy hard for him.

He was wearing pajamas with Superman on them. He gave Nina a tender hug, "I missed you." His voice muffled by her chest.

"Me too, bud, so much." Nina says giving him a squeeze.

He turns to Spencer with a funny look on his face. "Are you Ninas boyfriend?" He asks him, crossing his arms. This made Nina laugh, her little brother looked like he was about to give Spen a lecture. That was almost enough for Nina to ignore the longing in her heart that wishes the reply to that was 'Yes'.

Spencer gave Ethan a warm smile and shook his head, "Your sister is my friend." Spencer said. This made him feel warm inside, Nina was his friend, and he was so grateful to be able  to call her that, he practically worshipped the ground she walked on as Derek had once teased him.

Ethan grinned and nodded, happy with this answer, turning to his sister he put on his puppy dog eyes.

"Can you make us pancakes please?" He asks his big sister. Nina laughed at this, it was Saturday tradition in the Charleston household to have a big, family breakfast. Even though Aunt Jean usually worked on Saturdays, the three siblings kept the tradition alive.

"Of course I can!" She tells him lovingly.

"Hope you wanna help me?" She asks her sister who was still clutching her hand.

Hope's face lights up "Yeah! I want blueberries in mine." She exclaims. Giggling the two girls move to the kitchen, Spencer watches Nina's frame as she walks away and ,man, was he thankful for Joseph Shivers, the inventor of leggings because the way Nina's yoga pants clung to her legs made Spencer practically drool.

"Hey Spencer?" Ethan asks, Spencer reluctantly tears his eyes away, feeling a little bit shameful and upset at his stupid man-brain for objectifying her. No matter how beautiful she was.

"Yeah?" He replies to the young boy. Who suddenly looked a little nervous.

"Do you like magic?" Ethan asks, looking at Spencer hopefully, he'd gotten a magic kit for his 12th birthday and he'd been obsessed ever since.

This cause Spencer to smile, "I do! I love magic." He says happily, causing the boy to smile. "In fact," he says pulling a coin out of his pocket and making it 'disappear', "I'm a magician." Ethan's eyes were wide with wonder.

"Nina," He called out, causing his sister to look up from her pancake batter, "Your friend is so cool."
Nina laughs,a little bit of flour on her cheek Spencer notices, reaching over he wiped it away gently, the two of them locked eyes. Nina felt everything slow down for a minute, her breath caught in her throat.

"Yeah." She breaths out, "he's pretty amazing."

It was now Spencer's turn to blush, Nina thought he was amazing. This made him feel like his stomach was turning over in his abdomen. He couldn't stop smiling.

The moment was quickly ended by Ethan demanding Spencer show him how to do the trick and Hope drawing her sisters attention back to her by babbling on about her friends at Kindergarten.

"Now a magician never reveals his secrets." Spencer tells Ethan, watching his face drop he quickly adds, "However, every magician needs an apprentice. How 'bout you be mine?" Ethan's head practically flew off his shoulders he nodded so hard.
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Once the pancakes were eaten and the bellies full, the kids insisted that Spencer stay to watch Saturday cartoons, with no complaint from Nina, because even though she and Spencer had spent more than 12 hours in each other's presence, she really wasn't ready for him to leave. The annoying voice in the back of her head kept reminding her 'it's cause you liiiiike him.'

Thus the kids sat on the floor eyes glued to the screen and Nina and Spencer shared the couch, slowly gravitating toward the other. By the end of the first Cartoon,Nina and Spencer were side by side with Nina's head resting against his shoulder.

Watching the cartoons on screen Spencer whispers to Nina, "this isn't scientifically possible you know." Causing a loud giggle to escape Nina, who was quickly sushed by the kids. She turns her head to look at him.

"So you'e telling me that Turtles can't mutate to become crime fighting Ninjas?" She smiles up at him, putting her hand on his cheek, "Thank goddess you're here, I would've believed it." She teases him.

Spencer feels his heart hammer in his chest as every feeling he's felt about Nina since she started working for the BAU two months back flashed through his head.

Every time he'd rake his eyes up Her gorgeous body practically clinging to every curve, the dreams he'd have, the way he'd blush everytime she she'd compliment him, the way his skin felt like it was on fire everytime she touched it, the sense of comfort that he had when she was around him.

He liked Nina, more than he'd ever liked JJ and certainly more than he'd ever like Lila Archer. Fuck.

Looking down at her, feeling her soft hand on his cheek and seeing her honey-brown eyes look up at him with a teasing glint in her them, he wanted to tell her everything he felt but he didn't think there were enough words in the English language.

Instead he just smiled back down at her and lamely said, "you know, technically, they'd be Tortoises." Nina buried her head in his chest to stifle her laugh and Spencer knew he was a goner.