Will makes another surprise appearance when the team is in New York on a terrorist case. It's the first case you've worked with such a large potential for death. Every night, you go to bed almost as soon as you get to the hotel. One night, you're listening to Hotch discuss the game plan for the next day as you enter the lobby and the detective greets the group. Hotch shakes his hand and starts to ask him about his involvement in the case when Will turns to JJ. It isn't a pretty scene when he asks JJ what she's doing here. The shift in every member of the team's demeanor is obvious. Morgan and Prentiss both look like they're going to drag Will out of the lobby and into the street, Reid's face stays neutral but he straightens up, and Hotch moves to physically put himself in front of JJ.

"Is there something you know about my agent that I don't?" Hotch's tone is cool and sharp.

JJ looks a little panicked when the team goes on defense. She blurts out "I'm pregnant.".

Everybody is stunned for a moment, before Emily and Reid are moving in to hug JJ. You smile and tell her congratulations over Reid's shoulder. Hotch dismisses you all and he and JJ stick around to talk about her field work.

You all gush in the elevator about how exciting the pregnancy is. Though all of your rooms are separate on this trip, you follow Reid into his. The moment the door closes behind you, you whisper shout at him.

"Did you know she was seeing Will?"

Reid doesn't have quite the same level of alarm that you do. He must have missed out on the high school tradition of gossip. He shakes his head at you as he loosens his tie.

"Didn't know she was pregnant, either." He shrugs and loses his shoes.

"That's so crazy to think about" you muse, flopping back on his bed.

"Is it? She's an adult."

"Yeah, but she's our JJ. And she's going to have a baby. She's going to be somebody's mother!"

Reid sits on the other side of the bed and listens to you.

"I can't imagine being pregnant and doing this job. I mean, she's the liaison, so she's not in the field quite as much, but still. This is hardly the kind of job that's family friendly."

"This is a team." Reid interjects. "If you wanted to have a baby, we'd all find a way to keep you safe and working."

You roll over to look at him.

"Your mother deserves an award for raising you so well." He laughs and promises he'll tell her you said that.

You head back to your own room for the night.

The case is solved, but not without plenty of bloodshed. Everybody is glad to be back in the office when it's over.

Despite your doubt, JJ makes pregnancy at the BAU look easy. The whole team visits her in the hospital and the image of Reid holding Henry is burned into your brain. So is the image of his excitement when JJ asked him to be the godfather. Along with a thousand other moments of Reid that make your heart beat faster.

You lie in bed that night trying not to think about Henry and his adorable face. Newborns may look odd, but something about the way they look like gnomes or E.T. or any number of silly things is endearing to you. Speaking of endearing-everything about Reid was warming your heart. JJ was right to trust him as the godfather if anything happened to her and Will.

Damn your stupid hormones. The baby must have set something off in you. A biologic baby fever. You kept thinking about what a good father Reid would be. He was so smart, and hot, and strong, and he could keep your little family safe. Some primal instinct screamed that he would kill anything that tried to hurt your child and then he could do something helpful, like teach your kid the basics of quantum chemistry for toddlers.

This was the height of stupidity. You, alone, thinking about your coworker as a father.

You took a melatonin that night.