Summary: Spencer calls you when he’s missing home.
Warnings: pregnant!reader x husband!spencer, reader is in her second pregnancy and they already have a 3 y/o daughter, spencer is, again, a huge softie, calls you sweetheart, he's called away on an urgent case and misses you, reader is almost in third trimester, they fall asleep on the phone, cuties, inspired by sweet creature by harry styles, fluff and comfort
Category: Fluff x Comfort
Word count: 1.1k
Author's note: Spencer Reid deserved to get married and have children but he has to be a girl dad and I don't make the rules. I just know he would be the most sweet, caring and loving husband/dad in the world. Anyways I kind of had to do something to this song because I saw it live (Wembley N4 I’ll miss you forever). Enjoy!!
You were exhausted, both emotionally and physically. Being 7 and a half months pregnant and taking care of your 3 year old daughter alone had never been part of the plan. In fact, Spencer was supposed to be working either in office or from home during the later stages of your pregnancy, but a serious case meant that he was needed urgently by the BAU. With only 8 hours notice he was in Florida, and suddenly he was approximately 920.4 miles away from you.
It was around 9pm, and you’d been eagerly awaiting a phone call from your husband. You’d blame your anxiety on the hormones, but you knew it wasn’t just that. You’d always been like this whenever he was away, and you never quite managed to properly adjust to how much travelling his job required. Lizzie, your daughter, was laid next to you in the bed you and Spencer shared, asleep on his side of the bed. She was the same as you whenever her dad was away, even if she didn’t quite understand his job. She was a daddy’s girl, and if sleeping on Spencer’s side of the bed helped her to feel that little bit closer to him when he was away, you would let her. Her curly light brown hair was sprawled across the pillow which she drooled on, unconscious.
Your phone was on silent so the ringer didn’t wake her up, but as soon as you felt the persistent buzzing and Spencer’s name appeared on the screen, you stood, stretching slightly before leaving the room and quietly closing the door behind you, simultaneously swiping the button to answer the call.
“Hi.” You whispered softly, cautious not to wake up your sleeping three-year-old who was in the next room.
“Hi sweetheart. How are you?” Spencer’s sweet voice spoke over the phone.
“Hanging on. I managed to settle Lizzie after she cried because you couldn’t tuck her in tonight.. Little one has been quiet for now, but I just know that she’ll start getting active as soon as I attempt to sleep.” You spoke with a soft smile on your face at the thought of the little life growing inside of you whilst you tiptoed down the stairs and into the living room, sitting down on the sofa with a hand on your round bump, rubbing it gently.
You heard Spencer sigh over the phone. “I miss you. I saw the three of you this morning and it feels like I haven’t seen you in months.” He chuckled. Spencer was alone in his hotel room, and it felt strangely quiet. Unfamiliar. If Spencer was home, you’d be asleep in his arms by now, your soft snores echoing in the darkness of your bedroom. Pregnancy was tiring, after all. But you struggled to sleep without each other, and you knew that. Your house may as well have been cold and empty to you without him there. Your house wasn’t your home. Spencer was, and you knew that he felt the same way about you. That was why he’d called.
“Any new symptoms? At around the seven month mark, you should expect to experience some shortness of breath, discomfort which may lead to difficulty moving, frequent urination, lightheadedness caused by the baby putting pressure on your blood vessels which can slow blood flow, fatigue-” He began to reel off pregnancy symptoms until he was cut off by your sleepy laugh.
“Spence, you’ve been gone for less than a day. You don’t have to worry about me. I feel the same as I did earlier.” You giggled.
“And that is?” He questioned. You could picture him furrowing his eyebrows, and the thought of it made your heart warm.
“Achey, tired, like a whale, hungry..” You listed, and you already knew he was going to give you advice on how to deal with your symptoms. He’d done more than enough research on pregnancy when JJ was first pregnant with Henry, and since then he’d unexpectedly found himself helping a woman give birth on a case.
“You need to rest. It’s late and that’s one of the only things that could help with your symptoms right now apart from physical activity, but I doubt you’d want to do any exercise at the moment,” He instructed, and you knew that he was being serious, even with his light tone. You’d think that you’d know more about pregnancy than Spencer, with you being mid-way through your second pregnancy, but he knew everything. Whilst anybody else might have been surprised by that, you weren’t. He’d done extensive research on the topic, after all, and he continued to. “And I can also guarantee you that you don’t look like a whale.” He added, and you could hear his smile in his voice.
“That’s what you think. I can hardly move, and when I do I waddle. I waddle, Spencer!” You pouted, and you could hear him laugh.
“Well I’m sure you look beautiful whilst you waddle.” He teased.
After a few quiet conversations between the two of you, 9pm turned to 11:30pm, and you could feel your mind wanting to drift off as your conversations slowly turned into Spencer spouting off random facts whilst you listened, his voice soothing you as though he was there with you. You decided to go back upstairs and tuck yourself into bed whilst he talked, placing your phone on the nightstand. He wasn’t really next to you, but it was close enough. You knew Lizzie wouldn’t wake up between Spencer’s soft words, the low volume your phone was on and her tendency to be a heavy sleeper. However, Spencer soon realised you were responding to him less and less.
“Sweetheart?” He said quietly, and you hummed in response, already drifting off. “Do you want me to hang up?” He asked, and your eyes snapped open. “No. Uh, I mean, I’d like it if you could just… stay on the line.” You said quietly, and he understood what you meant.
“Of course,” He responded, “Good night. I love you.” He said, and you said it back.
Soon enough, you fell asleep, and if he closed his eyes, he could picture you there next to him, your soft snores echoing around his hotel room. That was all he needed to relax, and Spencer soon found himself drifting off to sleep, feeling like he was at home. Feeling like he was with his home.
Hi! I been following for a while, I’m a baby larrie and I see lots of people freaking out with harry singing sweet creature do you have the lore and meaning behind it? Thank you:)
Hi love. Here’s my SWEET CREATURE tag for lots of background lore.
When HS1 came out, Harry made a point of talking about how important the sequencing of songs is to him (ie: the order in which songs appear on an album). Two Ghosts was track 4, Sweet Creature was track 5.
It seemed very clear SC was a follow up to TG. Thus, two songs about a romantic relationship—the first focusing on a time of struggle, the other a reminder that no matter what happens, as long as they’re together, everything will be alright.
He wrote TG four years before starting work on HS1. He knew he was putting it on the album. And the first thing he did when he got to Jamaica was write them follow up, Sweet Creature.
James Corden’s face when Harry sings “we don’t know where we’re going/But we know where we belong.”
Beyond that, the phrase “Sweet Creature” is taken from a scene in Shakespeare’s Othello and has homoerotic undertones.
In the second of half of his tour for HS1, Harry added a “B stage” where he sang his heart out making it very clear that Sweet Creature is a love song and that If I Could Fly is a song written for that same person.
Honestly, scroll through that first link I gave you. There’s so much in there, it’s really hard to sum up in a single post.
SWEET CREATURE surprise song debut! This is the only time a HS1 song has been sung this tour, aside from Sign Of The Times.
Think he has us all relating to his infamous quote "Physically I'm fine…emotionally I'm bruised"
Across the tour, we've had 9 setlists, and Harry has sung a total of 28 different songs.
🔗ALL Harry setlist stats(feel free to share it)
some thoughts I had tonight (all of em are in the tracker):
i'm already feeling tearful and we're only at Golden 🥺
CUR hits harder tonight 🥹🩷
i still wanna know the story behind the bicycle. like who ran harry styles over. speak up!😂
when in doubt, macarena it out i guess
Oh the keep driving lights started IMMEDIATELY! well done london!!!
the sparkly silver tanktop is insane btw!
thats london's record-breaking synth-dj right there!
THANKING NIALL LIAM LOUIS AND ZAYN!!
do you ever think about how 6 months ago we had just seen the piano video on youtube and now we're at the last wembley tour show. we BLINKED and 6 months passed 🤯
string medley: night changes ✅ history ✅
Harry said he was going round and round like a satellite spinning out waiting for "ya"
Louis said chasing satellites.
he's literally chasing the satellite that's spinning out. it's just another version of "when I run out of road, you bring me home". or "if I could fly I'd be coming right back home to you" or "I'll make this feel like home"
Habit by Louis mentioning Princess Park is fr twinning with Sweet Creature by Harry with two hearts in one home.....that home being Princess Park of course
