My version of the Doyle Saga. I don't own anything CBS related, if I did, Emily and JJ would still be on the show and that Rachel Nichols chick would be gone!
Picks up at the beginning of episode entitled Lauren.
Emily had left the BAU, not saying a word to her colleagues, her friends. She said a silent prayer to herself that they remained safe through all of this, because she was going to end this once and for all. She made her way to Boston just as the team began to dig through her background.
"I don't understand" Reid said, sadly and slightly confused, "We are her family why would she just leave, we could help her."
"For exactly that reason" Rossi said, turning to face the young agent, "We are family and Doyle is killing families. She left to protect us."
"She knows everything about us and how we work" Derek said, slightly angry, "We know nothing about her"
"That's why I called in someone who could help" Hotch said turning and facing the team
"Who?" Garcia asked
Just then they saw Hotch look towards the doors and they all turned to see JJ walking in. She smiled slightly before saying,
"Let's get started"
JJ brought the team up to speed on what exactly Emily had been a part of and how now, she was his main target. The most important target of all.
Morgan and Rossi were the ones to go to Emily's apartment and search through her things to see what, if anything, they could find.
Rossi was in the bathroom and came back out with a necklace he had found in the toilet. He held it up to show to Morgan, who just shook his head in anger.
While Morgan was busy brooding, Rossi bent down and pulled out two envelopes from Emily's safe. He opened them up and pulled out a piece of paper. His eyes grew wide as he studied it before looking up at Morgan.
"What?" Morgan questioned shrugging his shoulders
"This is a birth certificate" Rossi said, holding it up to face Morgan
"So?" Morgan shrugged again, "Is it a fake one for Lauren Reynolds?"
Rossi shook his head, "No…it's a birth certificate for a boy…born March 5, 2005"
Morgan's head snapped up and their eyes met, "No way"
Morgan began to pace, angrily, "There's no way Rossi. She said she didn't have any kids. Plus, there's no sign of a kid living here. Look around" Morgan said as he spread his arms and turned around in a circle.
Rossi stood there calmly, and said, "The name on the certificate is Ethan Tyler Prentiss"
"No" Morgan said again shaking his head
"Born at 4:40am, weighing 7lbs 3 oz…Father is listed as unkown"
Morgan stood there still shaking his head before looking up at Rossi with tears evident in his eyes, "Why wouldn't she tell us?"
Rossi shrugged his shoulders as he handed the birth certificate to Morgan, "Maybe she gave him up for adoption, knowing he would be in too much danger, because you and I both know who the father is"
Morgan stared at the birth certificate trying to understand just who this woman, he had called his friend and partner, was.
"It's like we didn't even know her Rossi" Morgan said quietly
Rossi dumped the rest of the contents of the envelopes on Emily's bed, revealing a Lauren Reynolds passport and lastly a small wallet size picture that landed face down on the bed. Rossi reached down and turned it over, expecting to find a picture of Emily or Doyle, but instead his eyes grew wide again and all he could get out was,
"Oh my God"
"What?" Morgan looked away from the certificate and looked down to see what Rossi was staring at.
Morgan's eyes grew wide as well before he ushered the exact same words.
"We have to get back to the office…NOW" Rossi said as they grabbed the stuff they had found and ran back out the door.
Back at the precinct, Morgan scanned and uploaded the birth certificate and the picture they had found before pulling it up on the screen in front of the entire team. First the birth certificate, and then Rossi clicked to the picture they had found. As soon as the picture popped up everyone simultaneously gasped, and some 'oh my gods' got thrown out there.
"He…he looks" Garcia began but couldn't finish
"Just like her" JJ finished for her
On the screen in front of the entire team was a picture of what the entire team was 100% sure was Ethan Prentiss. There was no information on the back of the picture, but the boy in the picture was no more than 4 years old and was the spitting image of Emily. He had her dark, wavy hair and deep brown eyes, as well as her nose and mouth. If they were to compare a 4 year old Emily with this four year old, they would be practically identical.
"If Doyle knows that Emily had a child, his child, he's going to do everything in his power to find him" Reid stated
"Yeah but he must be hidden somewhere, or was adopted or something" added JJ, "And Emily would never tell him. She would die first"
"Garcia" said Hotch as he turned to look at the technical analyst
"Yes sir"
"I need you to find out everything you can and more on this child. He's in danger too now"
"Yes sir" she answered before getting up and heading back to her lair.
Soon they found out more on Emily's background, or Lauren Reynolds background really, and they packed up to head to Boston, where they were sure they would find her, if it wasn't too late.
On the flight over to Boston, Garcia found little information on the boy named Ethan, so she widened her search to try to find some family member or close friend whom Emily trusted enough to take care of and raise her son. After they finally landed and got settled in Boston, Garcia finally found something connected to the boy, or so she was hoping.
"Sir" Garcia said as she hurried into the room where her team was
"What is it?" he asked as he turned to face her, along with the rest of the team.
"I may have found something" she said, as she sat down at a computer and pulled up the information she found.
"I found a Sarah Conners living outside Seattle who has a six year old boy named Ethan" she said looking up at her boss
"Garcia" Morgan began but was cut off
"This Sarah Conners is a cousin of Emily's. She is three years older than Emily but their mothers are sisters and I pulled up the picture and this is what I found" she said as she clicked a button making a picture of a woman pop up on the screen, causing yet another round of gasps in the room.
"If that's not a relative I don't know what is" Rossi commented
They were all looking at a picture of woman who could pass for Emily's sister, they had so many similarities. The only differences were Sarah's nose was smaller and rounder, her eyes were more hazil than brown, and her hair was longer, the way Emily's used to be.
"Okay how do we know this is the Ethan we are looking for?" questioned Hotch
Garcia smiled slightly before saying, "I did a background check on Sarah, she's never been married and the birth certificate I found for Ethan has been altered. I mean for someone with an untrained eye they wouldn't notice it, the only reason I did is because I am me! The time stamps for Ethan's birth are different on this birth certificate" she clicked to bring up the birth certificate she had found listing Sarah Conner as the mother, then compared to the original one that Emily had, "See the differences"
The team looked very carefully before the noticed that the one Sarah Conners had was a slightly different font for the time stamp, something most people wouldn't pay attention to.
"And besides that the name on the birth certificate that Sarah Conners has, lists the boys name as Ethan Tyler Conners. What are the odds?" she questioned as she looked around at her team
"Do you have an address?" Hotch asked
As he was asking the question Garcia had already pulled up the address for the team to see.
"Okay, Rossi and JJ I want you two to fly to Seattle and check in with Sarah and Ethan make sure they are okay and get the real story from Sarah. But be extra careful that you aren't being followed. We don't want to be the reason Ethan gets found" Hotch told them
JJ and Rossi nodded before Reid added, "But Doyle already has Emily. Do you think he's really looking for Ethan?"
"I don't know Reid. And we all know that Emily isn't going to tell him, but I would rather be safe, just in case he has eyes and ears out somewhere nearby or near Seattle. This isn't any normal case. This is one of our own" replied Hotch