alti_angel (alti_angel) wrote in adventdrabbles, @ 2012-12-31 17:42:00 |
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Entry tags: | contributor: alti_angel, dec18, dec19, dec20, dec21, fandom: criminal minds, year: 2012 |
Dec 18-21, Criminal Minds, Gen, To the Ballet & Yule Log & Best Part of the Season & Sweet Goodness
Title: To the Ballet
Author: alti_angel
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters: the whole crew
Rating: PG
Word Count: 386
Disclaimer: Not mine
Prompt: dec 18 nutcracker
A/N: not beta read
Spencer Reid actually fell off his desk chair when Derek Morgan informed the team that he’d never seen the Nutcracker ballet. Luckily Emily Prentiss was there to right him and no harm was done.
“Not even as a movie?” Reid asked.
“Nope.”
“The cartoon?” Reid asked again.
Morgan shook his head.
Hotch ought not to have been surprised when tickets to a local dance school’s rendition of the ballet showed up on their desks, with extras in case anyone wanted to bring family or friends.
Hotch decided he and Jack would show up. He didn’t want Jack injuring one of his co-workers one day by causing them to fall off their chair in astonishment.
He was surprised when he got there that JJ had brought Henry, who was just two.
“A child is never too young to start attending performances,” was all JJ would say.
Morgan showed, without a date and Emily showed with a man Garcia started whispering to Reid about. Everyone was there, though, and Reid was beaming at being able to suggest a gathering and have people show to it. Rossi showed with several young people and a few bouquets of flowers (ended up his sister’s husband’s cousin’s middle girls were dancers.)
Hotch was surprised at how much Jack enjoyed the performance. He was amazed at how much he enjoyed the performance. Even Henry liked it. The fact the cast was mostly young people probably helped with Henry, and that the little dancers tended to run up to see their parents randomly and so were entertaining even if what was going on stage wasn’t too entertaining for the toddler.
At the end of the performance as they gathered to talk and waited for Rossi to gather the children he had with him and the flowers to give the dancers he knew, even Morgan said he was glad he had seen the ballet and everyone agreed the dance company had done an excellent job for a small studio and a non-professional group.
As they gathered to greet the dancers after the show, Hotch got an even bigger surprise as dancers and their teachers started squealing as the exited the auditorium as a team.
They rushed the man who was Prentiss’ date, a friend of her mother’s…and one of the leads of the Washington Ballet.
Title: Yule Log
Author: alti_angel
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters: the whole crew
Rating: PG
Word Count: 470
Disclaimer: not mine
Prompt: dec 19 yule log
A/N: not beta read
Garcia brought it in and Reid saw her. She winked, took her present to the conference room and set it in the middle of the table. Then she came down and sat next to Reid, angling their chairs so they could watch.
JJ walked by first and got all the way to Hotch’s office before turning around and coming back to stare into the door. She tilted her head and scratched her jaw and then went back to Hotch’s office, stating loud enough to carry through the bullpen “There’s some wood in the conference room.”
Reid and Garcia giggled and then went back to watching as Rossi walked towards Hotch’s office as well with a stack of file folders. He initially walked by, as well, but he back tracked much sooner and actually went in and leaned over to smell the item on table. He walked back out whistling and smiling cheerfully. He looked towards Garcia and pointed. She nodded and he signed ‘I love you’ her way.
“Well, Rossi apparently appreciates a good tradition.” She said.
“I’ve never actually seen or had one before, is it supposed to look so life like?” Reid asked.
“The company I got it from specializes in realistic creations.” Garcia explained.
They noticed the activity in Hotch’s office and so moved to the conference room before the rest could get there.
“We have a case….conference room now!” Hotch called to portion of his team not heading that way.
Reid and Garcia were sitting on the far side of the table so they could see the others coming in.
Hotch and JJ came in first. JJ pointed to the table. “See, there is wood in the conference room.”
Rossi snorted and sat over beside Reid and Garcia.
“JJ, I am absolutely certain no one had put wood in the conference…” Hotch was saying before he looked at the table.
He stood still and tilted his head as he caught sight of the center of the table. Blake and Morgan came in right behind him and Blake look around Hotch to see what the holdup was.
“Ah! Buche de Noel! Can we eat it before we go?” Blake exclaimed.
Morgan looked around them.
“Eat a log?” he asked.
Garcia finally laughed.
“It’s a yule log!”
“I thought you burned those.” Hotch muttered.
Reid went to speak but Garcia put her fingers over his mouth.
“Some you do. This one you eat.” Rossi said.
“But it is a log.” JJ said. “And mushrooms.”
“It’s cake! Rolled and cream filled!” Reid said.
“I had the bakers use a double fill, a cream layer and a raspberry jam on tops that.” Garcia told Reid.
“So what? It’s like a giant Ho-Ho?” Asked Morgan.
Everyone laughed and Hotch agreed they had time to eat some before they reviewed the case.
Title: The best part of the season
Author: alti_angel
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters: Morgan
Rating: PG
Word Count: 122
Disclaimer: not mine
Prompt: dec 20 Christmas cookies
A/N: not beta read
Morgan’s favorite part of December at work was the fact that people baked in December.
There were cookies in the break room, always. Often different types in different bins, open with notes telling people to take one.
Garcia and JJ and even Reid always had more cookies in the conference room (and who would have guessed Reid baked cookies? Really. ) and those were just the teams. Morgan noticed Reid only ever left his offerings there, as if he was nervous anyone not from the team would make fun of him still.
Cookies…chocolate chip, peppermint, lemon, brownies, sugar cookies frosted in bright colors.
Cookies…with butterscotch chips, bars with gooey chocolate and oats, peanut butter with kisses.
Morgan loved December at the office.
Title: Sweet Goodness
Author: alti_angel
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing: gen
Rating: PG
Word Count: 250
Disclaimer: The characters within do not belong to me.
Prompt: dec 21 mulled cider
Reid drank coffee. Or rather, Reid drank sugar with coffee and cream added to it. It was one of those things that just was. Hotch was completely certain that when people within the FBI spoke of his team, the spoke of Reid as that genius kid who always has the coffee.
Except for the last few weeks, Spencer’s mug didn’t smell like coffee when he came in in the mornings.
No, the boy was drinking mulled cider and he wasn’t bringing in enough to share!
The scent would float up, from Spencer desk to Hotch’s office. It over powered the scent of Hotch’s coffee. It overpowered everything!
Finally, at the end of the second week, Hotch had had enough. He stomped down to Reid.
“Mulled Cider?!” Hotch hissed.
“Um, it doesn’t have any alcohol in it! I kept the rum out!” Reid sputtered and then watched as Hotch drew in a deep breath and lost his grumpy look for one of near ecstasy.
“Where’s your coffee?” Hotch asked.
“It’s not like I don’t drink coffee during the rest of the day.” Reid said.
“I thought you needed the coffee to be prepared to think well?” Hotch pushed.
“I have a cup of coffee at home while I get ready for work.” Reid answered. Hotch was still sniffing the air.
Hotch huffed. “Fine!” and pretty much stomped back to his office.
Monday found a crockpot in the conference room, filled with mulled cider to share and a much more cheerful boss.