I AM BACK! Sorry for not posting in a while. I've had writers block, which couldn't have come at a worse time. Anyway, here is the big chapter 20. Enjoy.

Rubbing his eyes, Jack looked at the clock on his bedside table. He realised it was 10:30am, nearly 3 hours later than he usually woke up. He shot out of bed and opened the curtains.

"Henry!" He called, opening the younger boy's bedroom door. When he found him asleep, he was a bit puzzled. Had everyone slept in?

He shook Henry and turned him over.

The 8 year old rubbed his eyes. "Do I have to test?"

"No," Jack said, opening Henry's curtains, "it's 10:30, we're late for school."

Henry jumped out of bed and threw on his t-shirt.

"Is anyone else up?" The younger boy asked.

"I don't know," Jack said, "but I'm going to see if mom and dad are up."

He crept down the hallway until he reached his parents' bedroom. He put his head up to the door and listened in. He could hear his dad talking, maybe on the phone. It wasn't easy to tell.

He knocked and stood there.

When his dad opened it, he had a phone to his ear.

"Yes," he said, "okay, thank you."

Hotch threw the phone onto the bed and walked over to the door.

"You never got us up for school!" Jack expressed, quite angry. He never missed school.

"That's because you're not going," JJ said, holding the bottom of her belly, "you're going to the hospital with us later."

Jack's eyes widened. "You're having the babies?"

"That's what it looks like," Hotch said nervously.

"Uh...d-do...do you need anything?" The boy asked.

JJ groaned. "An epidural."

"Alright," Hotch half laughed, "I need you to get the other kids up, uncle Spencer is coming over right now. He'll be here in a few minutes."

"Can't you just have the babies at home?" Jack asked, "I've seen it before, like on TV, and in the movies. They have babies at their house, and my friend Austin was born at home."

JJ breathed through a contraction. "That's...because...this is–" she held onto the dresser for support, "this is...twins. It's a lot more...a lot more dangerous."

"Oh," Jack said, "so when are you going to the hospital?"

"Whenever Reid gets here," Hotch said, "which is why you need to get everyone up while I help your mother."

"Uncle Spence!"

Reid turned around when he heard his god-daughter's voice.

"Gracie, can you hang on a second? I'm just gonna help your mom and dad, okay?" He said.

"Are they going to the hospital?" Grace asked, dropping onto the top step of the staircase.

Reid helped JJ out the door. "Yes, your mommy is having-"

"The babies! Mommy's having the babies! I have to get ready!"

"You can't go," Hotch said, "you can't be in there when she has them. You're gonna come later."

Grace sighed. "Okay," she muttered, figuring out how to properly pull herself up without wearing her ankle-foot orthotics.

"I wish they'd give me the damn epidural already," JJ groaned.

"You're not far enough along yet for that," Hotch said, "and besides, you could end up having an emergency c-section."

JJ rolled her eyes and looked at her husband. "No," she said firmly, "I am not going for another c-section. After the triplets, I was done. I have such an ugly scar under my belly now!" She whined.

"It's barely noticeable," Hotch assured.

"It better– okay, yeah, grab the nurse," JJ said, feeling an intense contraction hit.

Spencer Reid was quite shocked when he walked in on Grace playing one of Jack's Beethoven pieces on the piano.

"I didn't know you could play Beethoven," he said, standing behind her.

"I can only play this song," Grace said, going through her folder, "but I can play Mozart better."

Reid sat down beside his god-daughter and watched as she played.

"You know, this is probably one of the last times you'll get a good practice in without worrying about disturbing any babies."

Grace nodded. "I know, but daddy said he's gonna take us to real music lessons soon."

"Oh, well that's good," he said, "are you going to go with Ben and Tyler?"

"Uh huh," Grace said, "and I also have to go to violin lessons."

"You," Reid said, pinching Grace's nose, "are one very talented girl."

Later in the afternoon, Jack and Henry's friends called by. The kids were out playing around the neighbourhood. That left the younger 4 children at home. Luke was having his nap, Tyler was watching a movie, and Ben and Grace were drawing in the office.

Reid wasn't quite sure where to go. Each child was very independent and knew how to handle themselves. He figured he'd earn brownie points in he did something fun with them.

"Hey," he said, walking into the kitchen, "if any 5 year olds in particular want to make cookies, come to the kitchen!"

It hadn't even been 10 seconds and all 3 children were jumping up to the counter.

"Chocolate chip!" Ben exclaimed.

"No! Banana!" Grace exclaimed.

"But I want chocolate!" Tyler nearly shouted.

Reid was quite stunned. He'd never had this many people talking to him before.

"Okay, well, why don't we bake all 3 of them?" He suggested. JJ and Hotch had to deal with them somehow.

"Yay!" They exclaimed.

And it just so happened they had mix for chocolate chip, banana, and chocolate cookies.

"You're 6cm dilated, Jennifer," the nurse smiled, watching as an annoyed JJ threw her head back onto the headrest.

"And my water hasn't broken yet," she muttered as she rolled her eyes.

The nurse laughed. "If it doesn't break in the next couple hours, we'll have to break it for you...but when we break it, labor usually comes on very rapidly."

"Oh God," JJ groaned, "please do!"

The nurse left, leaving Hotch and JJ behind.

"How do you feel?" Aaron asked, placing his hand over hers.

"I want to go home," she whined. "Not deal with–"

Her knuckles went white as she held the bed railings.

"How bad are they?"

JJ glared at him. "Bad."

"What are we going to do while we wait for them to come?" Hotch asked.

"We could always get them to break my water."

At this point, JJ was on her side, half crying. She wasn't sure if her husband would agree with her choice to have her water broken. Luckily, he did.

"Can we go swimming?" Grace asked, peering out of the back window.

Reid picked her up and carried her over to the kitchen counter. "Not until the summertime, Grace," he said. "It's November. The pool is cold!"

Grace whined. "But I wanna go swimming!"

"It's cold," he said firmly. "It's also time to test, I have a feeling you're a bit low."

"Just 'cause I wanna go in the pool doesn't mean I have a low sugar!" She complained.

Reid laughed a little as he got Grace's lancing device out of the drawer. "This is exactly what your mommy and daddy told me about. Usually you're very good, but when you have low sugar, you get cranky and–"

"Uncle Spence! Look! It's 'nother tooth!" Ben exclaimed, running into the kitchen.

"That's like his hundredth tooth!" Grace said.

Reid pricked his god-daughter's finger and submitted the blood into the meter. He turned to her brother and took the tooth from him.

"Mommy tells me you put the tooth under your pillow and wait for the tooth fairy, right?" Reid said, pouring water for the 5 year old.

"And we get money!" Ben exclaimed.

Grace put her left pointer in her mouth and wobbled her own loose tooth. "I'm getting money soon," she said.

"Wow, you guys are going to be rich!" Reid exclaimed, giving Ben his water. "You have to rinse your mouth out."

Grace picked up her glucose meter and read it. "Is that nine?" She asked.

"Ninety," Reid corrected. "That's a bit low for you, so we need to get you a snack."

"Mommy always gives me icing," Grace said.

Reid laughed. "That's for when you're really, really low," he said. "How about skittles? You only need about 15 carbs."

Grace moved along the counter. "But they have to be yellow."

By the time it reached 8pm, JJ had just about delivered the twins. It was an exhausting 14 hours, but for JJ, it was worth it.

"Hello," she said exhaustedly, as one of her sons was placed on her chest. "Hi, I am so happy to meet you!"

It wasn't long before she delivered her next son. He was placed onto her chest, too.

"Hello, baby boy," JJ cried, cuddling him.

After a minute, the boys were taken away to be weighed and banded.

Hotch stroked JJ's sweaty hair back and looked into her watery eyes. "I am so, so proud of you, Jen," he whispered.

"And I did it without an epidural!" JJ half-laughed.

She was a mess. Her emotions were everywhere. She had just delivered two of the most beautiful boys in the world and she was proud of herself. Not only that, but she had been feeling better than usual lately, and she wanted that to last.

When the twins were cleaned up, they were taken back to JJ and Hotch to hold and admire.

Carrying both a sleeping Grace and a sleeping Tyler to the car, Reid yawned. He was tired, himself. It was nearing midnight, and JJ had woken up from her sleep. She was ready to see the other kids and let them meet their new brothers.

If he had to admit it, Spencer felt weird in a car with 6 children. It wasn't as hectic as it usually was, though, as half of them were sleeping. He realised how hard both JJ and Hotch's jobs were when he nearly forgot to test both Grace and Henry before leaving. When both of their blood sugars were low, he had to give them glucose tablets to pull their levels up.

"Does it hurt having babies?" Ben asked.

Spencer swallowed. Was this what having 5 year olds was like?

"Yeah, it does," he said. "I mean, a lot. Sometimes. It depends. Some women get epidurals."

"Isn't an epidural big and grey?" Ben asked.

Jack laughed. "That's an elephant!"

"Do epidurals hurt?" Henry asked.

Spencer wasn't sure how to answer that. "Do you want to ask your mom?"

"No, 'cause you know everything."

Reid brought the kids to JJ and Hotch and went to the waiting room to wait for Garcia to arrive.

The kids walked into JJ's room to see her holding one of the babies. Hotch was holding the other.

"Mommy had the babies!" Grace exclaimed, rubbing her eyes. "They're so tiny!"

"I did," JJ smiled, looking down at her baby. "They're not as tiny as you were."

Hotch passed one of the babies to Jack. The boy was so excited to hold his brother.

"Whoa, he's smaller than I imagined," the 12-year old remarked. "What's his name?"

"That's what we wanted to tell you," JJ said.

Hotch got the younger boys up from playing on the floor and put them on the end of the bed.

"That's Alexander," he said, pointing to the blue bundle in his wife's arms. "And this is Nicholas."

"You used the name I said!" Jack exclaimed, "I said the name Nicholas!"

JJ laughed. "That's right. We liked that name, too."

"So it's me, Jack, Tyler, Ben, Grace, Luke, Nicholas, and Alexander," Henry said.

"Yes, and we agreed you can call them Nick and Alex when they're older...like, nicknames."

"This baby is so soft!" Grace exclaimed, touching Alex's skin.

Hotch looked at JJ and grinned. It was that stupid grin that she loved so much. That's when they knew they had done good.

After Reid and Garcia had been in to see the twins, JJ wanted just Grace to come in and spend time with her.

Hotch brought her in, holding her up as she walked with her braces on. Her motor skills had gotten significantly better.

"Hi, momma," the 5 year old whispered. "Are the babies asleep?"

JJ nodded, looking down at the children laying in front of her. "Just a little, don't talk loudly," she said softly.

"What one is Nich'las?" She asked.

"The smaller one," JJ pointed out. "He's shorter than Alex. Do you see that?"

Grace nodded. "Yeah, like me?"

"Yeah," JJ said, "you're still very small."

It was quiet for a moment before JJ spoke up again.

"Listen, Gracie, are you still mad about the babies?"

Grace thought for a moment. "No," she said. "'Cause I was scared about them but now I'm not scared."

"Okay, that's good."

"Can I feed the babies? And do diaper changes? And give them baths?" Grace asked.

"Yep, when we get home, you can help me," JJ said, much to Grace's liking.

Grace crawled across the bed, right up beside her mom. "Momma, you don't have black eyelashes."

JJ laughed. "I don't have makeup on, baby," she said. "Having babies is a lot of hard work. There is no time for makeup!"

"Well, I think you look very pretty when you don't have any makeup on, mommy," Grace admitted, pressing a kiss to her mother's lips.

"I love you so much, Grace," JJ mumbled, pulling her daughter in.

"I love you too, mommy."

YAYYY SHE HAD THE BABIES I AM DANCING SOOOO GOOD! I hope you liked this story! There are many more stories to come! Xo