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I was so pissed off at how Spencer's teammates neglected him at the end of Face Off since he should have stayed at the hospital overnight in Reno or one of his teammates should have went home with him or insisted that they stay with him/her instead of going home to their wives, go home to his dogs, or go get drunk to celebrate. So this is my fix it for And In The End.
Don't read if you haven't seen Face Off and And In the End Yet.
I'm going to have it that it has been two months since Date Night. Spencer and Max met on November 23rd of 2019 because of Max talking about making turkeys from hands and Date Night happened during the second week of January of 2020. So it's the first week of March in 2020 in this story.
Spencer did move into another apartment building after he got out of prison.
At 6:00 AM Max was knocking on her boyfriend's door and cocked her eyebrows when she didn't hear Spencer's footsteps causing her to dial Spencer's cell phone number only to hear a faint ringing of a cell phone in the apartment. After hearing the ringing of Spencer's cell phone she had a weird feeling forming in her stomach as she thought about Spencer telling her that he was OK after being a victim of a bombing and she insisted on coming to his apartment as soon as she got home from Boston. She grabbed a bobby pin and started to unpick the lock. As soon as she opened up the door, she gasped when she saw Spencer laying on the ground unconscious while dried blood was below her boyfriend's nose.
"Oh my gosh," said Max as she quickly sighed in relief as she felt a pulse and pulled out her cell phone and called for an ambulance.
A half-hour later Max was rushing into the emergency room with her boyfriend as she looked at the attending doctor at Bethesda General Hospital, "I'm Spencer's girlfriend Max and I found him unconscious in his living room."
"Do you know what caused him to end up unconscious?" asked Dr. Kiyomura.
"Spencer's an FBI agent and he was knocked out by a bomb in Reno yesterday. He told me that he hit his head on the ground and was unconscious for about a minute," said Max.
"Did he get checked out at the hospital for a concussion?" asked Dr. Kiyomura as she checked Spencer's eyes with a flashlight.
"He was checked out by paramedics, but they cleared him to fly home right away instead of making him stay overnight for observation," said Max.
"I'll run some tests. Does he have any parents I can call?" asked Dr. Kiyomura.
"His mother has schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease and he hasn't spoken to his father in over 10 years," said Max tearfully before glancing at Spencer, "I'm so furious at Spencer's teammates for not offering to stay at his apartment with him or take him to one of their houses since I was in Boston and couldn't board a plane until 4 AM."
Dr. Kiyomura rested her hands on Max's shoulder, "Either way, your boyfriend is one lucky man to have you as his girlfriend. He most likely wouldn't have been found for another few hours if you didn't stop by his apartment when you did. He has a smaller chance of needing surgery thanks to you."
A few seconds later Max was kissing Spencer's lips before Spencer was taken away for some tests while Max ended up calling Diana Reid's hospital before she called Spencer's teammates only to get no answers.
Two hours later, an angry Max looked at Emily, Garcia, JJ, and Tara who were all wearing sunglasses while Rossi, Luke, and Matt all looked fine as she tearfully glanced at Spencer's hospital room in the Intensive Care Unit, "I am highly disappointed in all of you since you guys consider Spencer family. With how stubborn Spencer can be, he should have stayed overnight in the hospital for observation in Reno since he was just diagnosed with a fractured skull and intracranial hemorrhaging. The doctor said that he shouldn't have flown home last night. Since he insisted on coming home, one of you should have insisted on staying with him or take him home with you so he could have been brought here as soon as he collapsed. You guys should be lucky that I showed up at Spencer's apartment when I did because he had a seizure on the way to the hospital. Even though they stabilized him and given anticonvulsants and medication to reduce the bleed in his brain, he's in a coma and no one knows if or when he's going to wake up or if he'll need surgery to reduce the bleed," snapped Max.
A chastised JJ wiped the tears that were falling down her face as she glanced into Spencer's hospital room, "You're right. I should have made sure that Spence went to the hospital after he regained consciousness after the blast."
Emily glanced at JJ, Garcia, Tara before looking at Max, "One of us could have stayed with Spence instead of choosing to get drunk."
"As someone who lives alone, I should have gone home with Spencer," said Luke.
"I could have placed him in my guest bedroom so Krystall and I could have kept an eye on him," said Rossi.
"Either way, I don't want any of you near Spencer or me right now. You guys neglected Spencer big time and he could have died if I didn't show up when I did," said Max.
"If you don't want any of us here, do you want me to get Spencer's mom here?" asked Garcia.
"I already got Diana here. So please just go since Diana wants to scratch all of your eyes out," said Max before she entered Spencer's hospital room so she can continue her bedside vigil with Spencer's mother and closed the door.
A few hours later during Spencer's hallucination, Spencer and Maeve were standing in Spencer's hospital room listening to Diana and Max talk when Maeve looked at Spencer, "She's cute."
"Her nephew Sammy played matchmaker on us after I calmed him down by doing a magic trick," said Spencer.
"I watched you two meet and I'm glad that you took the chance of wanting to date Max," said Maeve before seeing that Max rested her hand on her flat stomach, "You should choose to return to Earth. You're finally happy and you shouldn't break her heart by choosing to stay with me. Look at where her hand is."
Spencer's eyes landed on Max's hand that was laying on her stomach, "I got her pregnant?" asked Spencer.
Max nodded, "You did. So instead of being like your father and choose to die, you should go and be with Max and your child," said Maeve before she started to quote E. E. Cummings, "Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody but yourself."
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight and never stop fighting," quoted Spencer before and Maeve hugged as he heard his mother's and Maeve's voices as he saw his eyes flutter.
Meanwhile, with Max and Diana, Dr. Kiyomura looked at Max and Diana, "He's putting up one hell of a fight. But it's still too early to know for sure. I need to keep him here for tests," said Dr. Kiyomura as she watched Spencer's smiling mother stroke her son's hair as she lovingly looked at her son.
Max looked at Dr. Kiyomura, "Even though visiting hours will be over at 8 P.M., may I please spend the night?"
"I was already planning that you stay the night because of the reason why you fainted this morning. I already scheduled you an appointment with Dr. Carson here tomorrow at 9 AM. Hopefully, Spencer wakes up so I can let him join you," said Dr. Kiyomura before she left the room.
Two hours later, Max looked at Diana after they talked about clouds that Max had her students make with cotton balls and the time Diana would watch clouds with her son, "I wish that Spencer would finally wake up so I can see Spencer's beautiful eyes. It's hard to think that they're brown with gold on the outside."
"They're brown with gold on the inside," said Diana before she released tears when she saw her son's eyes open causing her to tear up as she ran a hand through her son's messy curls, "I'm glad that you came back to me, Spencer."
"I heard you. Forgot how much I loved those clouds, Mom," croaked Spencer.
"Well, maybe I can come back tomorrow and we can watch clouds together," said Diana.
Spencer blearily looked at his mother and Max as he realized that staff members at the hospital removed his contact lenses, "Am I alive, or is this heaven?" asked Spencer.
"Sweetie, you are very much alive," said Diana.
Max smiled, "Now there are the eyes that captivated me into exploring a relationship with you."
Spencer smiled at Max, "I know that I got you pregnant."
Max gasped as she kissed her boyfriend, "How did you know? I found out six hours ago that I'm most likely six-weeks pregnant when I fainted after hearing about the seizure you had after your MRI."
"I was having hallucinations like Ebeneezer Scrooge who was being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. One of the ghosts from my past who visited me told me that you're pregnant and I should be with you," said Spencer before looking at Max, "Even though you wanted to go slow, but after almost dying I want to do the right thing so you, the baby, and I can be a family together. Even though I don't have a ring right now, will you marry me?" asked Spencer.
Max nodded as tears fell down her face, "Yes, and we can pick out a ring together when you're released in a week," said Max before kissing her fiancé.
After breaking out of their kiss that caused Spencer's heart monitor to go up and made Spencer's doctor check Spencer over and told the newly engaged couple to stop kissing, Max looked at her fiancé, "I did unleash my pregnancy hormones on your teammates for neglecting you earlier. They should have made you stay in the hospital overnight in Reno or they could have offered to stay with you last night or took you home with one of them instead of going home to their wives, their dog, or have a ladies night to celebrate that Lynch was supposedly dead and get drunk."
Spencer chuckled, "Luke did say never to piss you off."
"Speaking of being pissed off, if you ever hit your head the way you did again please insist on going to the hospital for some tests," said Max.
"I love you," said Spencer.
"I love you too," said Max.
Diana smiled at her son, "I like Max, so please don't ever divorce her after the wedding."
"I won't since she saved my life and I can't be like my dad and leave my wife and child," said Spencer as he gave his mom a tired smile, "I'm sorry that I'm scared you."
"What matters is that you're alive," said Diana before shaking her head, "I hope that you choose to stop working with the fascists who neglected you since I had to fight the urge to scratch out their eyes when I heard Max yelling at your teammates about not getting you proper medical care and leaving you alone for hours."
"After the crossroads, I was in between life and death and had to decide if I should stay where I was or come back to you and Max, I'm going to leave the BAU and work a desk job. I can't be like my dad and abandon my family," said Spencer before smiling tiredly at his mother, "I love you, mom."
"I love you too, Spencer. Now get some rest so I can see about us cloud watching in the garden here tomorrow," said Diana as she kissed her son's forehead before looking at Max as they watched Spencer fall asleep, "Even though you're carrying my grandchildren, you better take good care of Spencer or I'll scratch your eyes out."
"I promise," said Max.
A few minutes later Diana was being taken back to her care home while Dr. Kiyomura and one of the male nurses brought in another hospital bed and had it placed next to Spencer's hospital bed while moving medical equipment around before looking at Max who was updating her father, her sisters, and Garcia on Spencer.
"I thought that you could use a bed to sleep in so you're more comfortable in your condition, Max," said Dr. Kiyomura.
"After being angry about Spencer being alone and requesting that no other visitors than Diana, my father, my sisters, and my nephew are allowed, I appreciate you for letting me spend the night," said Max.
"You're pregnant so you had a right to unleash the hormones you're dealing with at the people who angered you this morning. One of the nurses will be bringing you some dinner, but then you should get some rest too," said Dr. Kiyomura.
"Thank you for everything," said Max.
"As I said earlier, your fiancé is one hell of a fighter to come back to you and his mother. Now take care of yourself and the baby so you have the strength to take care of your fiancé during his recovery," said Dr. Kiyomura.
A few minutes later Max was eating dinner before she fell asleep while holding Spencer's IV free hand.
A/N: Spencer only had one seizure instead of two seizures in this fix it story since he got to the hospital four-six hours sooner than he did in the finale.
Nichole: It didn't even look like that Spencer went to the hospital and stayed for observation in Face Off since he was wearing the same clothes he wore during the explosion and he would have most likely been wearing a change of clothes from his go-bag. Plus JJ didn't tell the doctor in And In The End if Spencer was checked out at the hospital in Reno since she would have mentioned if he saw a doctor. A few readers agreed that Spencer shouldn't have flown home the same night and stayed in the hospital for observation or gone home alone and Maeve would have still visited with him. The writers did a crappy job on the procedure after head trauma. I had open abdominal surgery a year ago and my surgeon, one of my hematologist's nurses, and someone from my insurance company all made sure that I had someone to stay at home with me when I was released two days later.
