Nina and Spencer walk up to Nina's home. Spencer having to shush Nina's loud babbling about her 'very cool and badass scar.' She claims she now has because of her 'battle injury.'

Opening her front door after fumbling the keys Nina turns to Spencer.
"Thank you." She tells him, pressing her lips to his, relishing the feeling of them.

"Of course, you should head inside before we wake up your family." He tells her, giving her one more quick kiss.
"Goodnight." He whispers  before turning to leave.

Nina doesn't know why her heart sinks to the pit of her stomach seeing him turn away. She didn't want to admit it but every time she'd been alone tonight, she felt afraid that she would turn around and see the man who tried to kill her. Even if logically she knew that was impossible, that fear still seeped into her chest.

Swallowing her pride she calls out, "Spen, wait." She reaches out to grab his arm.
"Could you um..." asking for help was harder than she thought, especially since Nina was always the one doing the helping, never the helped.

He looks at her with a knowing look on his face. Spencer knows what Nina's feeling all too well. Except before Nina had showed up at his apartment that one night after one of their first cases together when he'd come back from cases there was no one to stay with him to make him feel safe.

"You want me to stay?" He asks and She nods sheepishly, "you don't have too." She tells him not wanting to seem to needy, she hopes he does though.

Pulling her into a tight hug he says, "I still haven't seen your room."
Making Nina laugh into his shoulder, she felt as if a boulder had been lifted off her chest.

"We must change that." She says stepping inside the quite house. Putting her finger to her lips to show that they should be quite,Nina leads Spencer up the stairs.

Stopping by a door with the letters H&E on it She whispers, "I'm just gonna check on them."
Spencer nods and watches her as he leans against the door frame. She kneels beside Hope softly moving her hair away from her face, gently placing a kiss on her forehead. Moving to Ethan's bed, she laughs silently at the funny position he had found himself in while asleep, moving him slowly and placing his discarded covers over him, also giving him a kiss on his forehead.

Spencer can't help but imagine a future with Nina as he watches this unfold. A future with children and a nice house in the suburbs and suddenly that's all Spencer wants. A future like that sounds like a dream.

"You ready?" Nina whispers closing the door softly behind her, snapping Spencer out of his fantasy.

He just nods at her, still reeling from the thoughts he'd just had.
Moving further down the Hall there's another door, this one plain. Opening the door he sees a nice double bed, fairy lights stung up above the headboard. A tall bookshelf stood on one wall and a small vanity-like desk and a closet stood on the other. Any other empty wall space was filled with photos and trinkets on shelves.

"Don't judge, I haven't changed it since I left for college." She whispers to him, a bit embarrassed at her teenager-like room.

"I like it." He whispers back and he did, it have him an idea of what teenage Nina was like.

A yawn escapes Nina as she rubs her eyes. Spencer smiles at this, "let's head to bed,yeah?" He tells her, seeing the signs of exhaustion.

This earns him a nod from Nina, the events and emotions of today are definitely catching up to her. She feels as if she might fall asleep where she stands.
Taking Nina's hand he leads her to her closet and unbuttons her shirt and pants. "Okay step out." He tells her once her pants are on the floor.She sleepily does what she's told. Grabbing a big T-shirt he slips it over her head, kissing her nose he leads her to the bed and tucks her under her covers.

Quickly changing himself in pyjamas from his go-bag, he joins her under the covers.
Nina instinctively reaches out to him, snuggling herself into the crook of his neck.  Spencer's fingers brush up her arm, "I'm glad you're okay." He whispers.
Nina nods, "Yeah, me too. I-i was scared."She mumbles into his neck, Spencer stays silent but tightens his hold on her.
"I love you." She whispers so softly that Spencer almost thinks he imagines it.
"Me too." He replies but Nina's breathing is already heavy, she's fast asleep.

...
Nina peels her eyes open to the sound of laughter coming from downstairs.  Reaching out she feels around for Spencer only to find an empty bed.
After much self encouragement she manages to get out of bed, groaning at the pain in her neck. It hadn't been too deep of a cut but she still had four stitches.

Padding down the stairs she's quickly tackled into a a bear hug. Hope practically clambers her way into Ninas arms.
"Good morning, Bug!" Nina exclaims, tightly hugging her little sister.

" Spencer's making breakfast!" Was the elated response Hope gave her.

Indeed walking into the kitchen there was Spencer, frying bacon in a pan with an apron tied around his waist that said 'Kiss the Cook'. Helping Ethan with maths at the same time.
Nina couldn't help but laugh at the sight, making him look up from the stove, with a pout in his lips.

"What's so funny?" He asks, hand on his hip and spatula in his other.
At this point Nina was shaking with laughter, "N-nothing. I d-don't know why I'm l-laughing ." She manages to gasp out.

"It's called a fou-rire. It's French and translates to 'crazy laughter' and it's when someone starts laughing and can't stop for no apparent reason." Spencer rattles off.
Nina finally catches her breath, wrapping her arms around him and pressing a soft kiss on his lips.

"Mmh, kiss the cook indeed." She tells him with a grin, glancing down at his apron Spencer chuckles.
Both Hope and Ethan groan at their display of affection, Nina sticks her tongue out at the two of them, making them giggle. She turns and begins to take plates out of the cupboard.

"Spencer?" Ethan calls out from the table, "what's the square-root of 12?"

"3,46."Spencer response without hesitation.

Nina giggles at him, "you know, he's not gonna learn if you give him the answers." She whispers to him.

"Just this once." Spencer responds, watching her as she starts to set the table.

"Careful, That's how he gets you." She tells him, a wide grin etched onto her face.
...

Breakfast had been lovely and the kids even insisted on cleaning up afterwards because Nina had what Hope had very cutely referred to as an 'Ouchie'. and although the sentiment was very sweet both Spencer and Nina ended actually cleaning up after them.

"I'm having a sense of deja-vu," Spencer says as they lie on the couch full of eggs and bacon with a cartoon playing on the TV.

Nina looks up at him from his lap, "Yeah? Probably because you've joined us for this wonderful tradition before." She smiles at him. They stayed like that for an hour, with Spencer pointing out any possible scientific inaccuracies and Nina making stupid comments about how the characters could easily solve the problems they were faced with. Both of them were often met with shushes and groans from the two siblings in front of them.

By the second hour Spencer has seemed to drift in his own thoughts, a frown making its way on to  his face. Nina furrows her brows at this, "What's on your mind Spen?" She says softly as to not disturb the kids.

His hand stops playing with her hair as he snaps his head to look down at her, eyes looking sadly at the bandage that contrasts harshly against her skin. He opens his mouth but no words come out, he just wished it wasn't there because every-time he looks at that bandage he sees the knife against Nina's throat. 

"I-"

Whatever he was going to say was interrupted by the front door opening and Jean walking into the house. Nina gets up to greet her Aunt only to be pulled into a bone-crushing hug.

"Oh Nina! Your friend Penelope told me what happened, I wanted to stay to see you when you got home but she said you and the team were going out and I had the late shift." Jean rambles on checking Ninas face for any injuries and stops at her neck, pulling a face at the bandage covering her neck.

"Please, Jean." Nina says pulling her hands away from her neck, feeling a bit uncomfortable with all the fussing being done over her, she wasn't used to being fussed over, in fact she was usually the one doing the fussing.

"Spencer," her Aunt smiles at him, he awkwardly response with a small wave. He'd never actually spoken to Jean all that much and he knew that she's important to Nina so he was always a bit nervous around her.

Especially now that Nina got hurt on the job where HE was supposed to protect her. he wouldn't be surprised if she hated him after what had happened, hell, he kept replaying every possible scenario over and over in his head. Every time he caught a glimpse of Ninas bandage he couldn't help the feeling guilt crawling up his throat, he should've know there was two unsubs, he was a genius for fucks sake and what's the use in that if he couldn't even insure that nothing would've happened to Nina.

Much to his surprise Jean pulls him out of his self-deprecating thoughts and into a tight, motherly hug. "Penelope told me you shot him. Thank You-thank you for saving my baby." She tells him, relief floods over him but so does the guilt and anger, he wished that man could rot in jail for what he'd done.
Nina had left them to talk

"How 'bout you stay for that dinner We've been meaning to have with you?" She asks.

"Y-Yeah that sounds great." he says finally finding his voice.

"Alright I'll head upstairs, you kids can go play outside." Jean smiles and heads up the stairs as Ethan and Hope run to the small back garden.

Nina walks over to Spencer and wraps her arms around his torso. Resting her cheek against his back she says "I sure hope she's talking about the actual children in this house and not us." She feels Spencer's back vibrate from his laughter and she smiles at this feeling.

"Spencer! Spencer! Look!" Ethan came running up to him, "I think I've got the trick you showed me." He exclaims, an ecstatic smile on his face as he turned to Nina.

Trying to put on a serious face he goes, "look at this coin, I will make it disappear!" He says, as Nina watches him with an amused smirk.

"Okay,I'm watching." She says, keeping her eyes on the coin. Ethan does some flamboyant hand movements and makes it 'disappear'.

(Nina saw him slip it into his sleeve but she certainly wouldn't ever tell him that.)

Putting on a surprised face she smiles at her brother, "Woah, you're getting really good, Buddy."

"Did you see Spencer?" He asks him.

"I did, blow it up." Spencer tells him, reaching out his fist for a fist bump which Ethan enthusiastically reciprocates before running off to show Hope.

Nina can't help but beam at their interaction. Slipping her hand in his she can't help but feel at peace.

The rest of the afternoon and evening was spent playing with the children, cooking together and talking and laughing over dinner.
Nina couldn't stop smiling, so much so that by the end of the night her cheeks hurt. As she stands in the doorway, still a bit dazed from kissing Spencer goodnight, she can't help but think that if this is what domestic life with Dr. Spencer Reid is like then she's certain she doesn't want anything else but that.

(A/n so sorry for the late update, life's been pretty hectic lately BUT I tried to make it extra fluffy and cute + the next chapter is already in the works. Love you all lemme know what you think 😘)