Mid-November 2011

Emily woke to the sound of fussing over the baby monitor. Sitting up and pulling the covers back she checked the clock, 5:45.

'Such good timing, clever girl' Emily smiled.

Emily grabbed the nightgown off the hook and gently opened the door, trying her best not to wake her sleeping husband. Creeping down the hallway to the nursery, she stopped suddenly when she heard whispering start to mix with the fussing.

"Shh, Evie its ok, I'll get Mommy." Jack turned to see Emily standing in the doorway smiling.

"It's okay sweetheart, mommy's here" Emily smiled going over to the cot. Bending down Emily gently lifted the 3 week old infant from the cot.

"Good Morning Evelyn" Emily said smiling. "Somebody needs a diaper change." Emily said kissing the tiny girls cheek. Emily carried the baby over to the changing table and began to undo the Winnie the Pooh sleep suit she'd gotten from Aunt JJ just days previous. "Jack, could you get me a new diaper sweetie?"

"Yes" Jack smiled and happily ran to the diaper bag, grabbed a diaper from the bag and hurried bag just as Emily undid the current one. "Thanks sweetie. A little warming Jack, you may want to look away." Emily said quickly.

"Eww, gross" Jack scrunched up his face as the smell hit him. "I'm gonna go watch cartoons" the seven year old said running off down the stairs.

"Ok honey" Emily laughed finishing the diaper changing; she quickly buttoned up the sleeper and picked Evelyn up to rest in her arms. Emily moved to the other side of the room and sat in the yellow rocking chair. She carefully moved her nightgown out of the way and moved the little girl towards her breast.

"Here you go sweetheart" she whispered and smiled as the baby latched on. Emily looked down and watched as her baby fed, thinking about her life always made her happy.

Emily looked up at a dresser next to the crib and looked at an old team photo taken right before the reaper began his reign of terror. It had been taken by Rossi's neighbour at one of BBQ's in 2010, there was Will holding Henry with an arm around JJ's waist. JJ stood next to Kevin who had his arm around Garcia who reciprocated by wrapping her arms around his waist. Rossi stood next to them with one hand on Hotch's shoulder and Hotch had his arms around Emily, Jack stood in front of Emily holding onto her hand. Morgan stood on the other side of Emily with Reid in a headlock.

It was almost 3 years since she and Aaron had started dating and now she was married with a stepson, and a baby girl that she'd given birth to just over 3 weeks ago. Garcia and Kevin were still going strong, recently moving into a two bedroom house together. JJ and Will were still together and Henry had just turned 3, four days ago. Morgan had matured a lot over the past year and had considered settling down stating 'the dating game was getting boring'. He currently had his eye on Heather Daniels, a British girl working as a midwife at George Washington memorial hospital, the same midwife who had delivered Evelyn just weeks ago. The most shocking change to all of the team was that Reid now had a girlfriend that he had been with for just over 5 months and seemed to be settling down nicely.

Emily heard Evelyn whimper and slowly pulled the tiny girl away and fixed her nightgown. Leaving the nursery, Emily walked back to their bedroom to see her husband still out for the count. She walked around the bed gently whispering to the baby, "Shall we wake Daddy? Yeah I think we should, because Daddy has work today" Emily smiled as the little girls arms twitched gently. Sitting down next to the bed, Emily watched Aaron's sleeping face as gently.

"Aaron" she chimed in a gentle singsong voice while using her free hand to turn off his alarm clock. "Aaron" she repeated as he started to stir. She watched as he rolled over to face her, opening his eyes. "Somebody wants to say hello" Emily smiled.

"Good morning Sweetheart" he gently shuffled towards the middle of the bed. He patted the bed for Emily could lay the baby down and gently kissed the baby's head.

"Are you looking forward to going back to work?" Emily asked as she lay down behind him wrapping an arm around his waist.

"Not really, you're lucky you get the next five months alone with her" he said stroking her arm.

"Well if it helps your separation anxiety, I'll come by the office for lunch" She smiled kissing his neck softly and moving away. "I'm gonna go heat up a bottle and then do you some breakfast."

"Okay" he answered.

Aaron gently scooped the baby off the bed and handed her back to Emily before grabbing a towel and going into the bathroom to shower.

"Jack! Sweetheart, we have to get you to school!" Emily called up the stairs.

"I can't find my other shoe" he shouted back down. Emily could hear all kinds of banging and didn't even want to think of what was being thrown around in that room. Spying a shoe near the table, she picked it up and shook her head, smiling.

"Jack, sweetie is this it?" she called back up the stairs and waited for Jack to come to the stairs. He smiled sheepishly when he realised it was the matching shoe to the one he had on his foot. He quickly moved down the stairs to put it on and then slipped into his coat, hat, scarf and gloves before venturing out into the cold Virginia weather closely followed by Emily with the pram.

"Are we gonna show Evie to my friends today Emily?" Jack said smiling as they walked to his school.

"Yeah, you're really excited about this huh?" Emily asked. Jack had been asking if he could show his baby sister to his friends since Emily had got out of the hospital.

"Yeah! When I told my friends how small she was, they didn't believe me" Jack answered. Emily smiled at her young stepson as they turned into the Brookway Elementary School and straight into Jack's first grade class.