A/N: *grins * So my CM muse has come back after seeing the preview for Season 7... This chapter won't be long as it's pretty much a prologue but I have the rest of the story finished already and it's only about nine chapters long total... This is my take on the whole Emily situation... It will eventually be H/P but it doesn't start out like that right away... Hold on to your seat folks you're in for a ride...

Disclaimer: I don't own CM!

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Prompt: Everything's Changed – Lonestar

Emily couldn't help but think that everything's changed. As she stared up at the building that she was getting ready to walk into. She had no doubt that everyone was going to be surprised to see her especially since the majority of them thought she was dead. She sighed as she wondered for the thousandth time if she shouldn't have called and let JJ know that she was coming.

She hadn't liked that she didn't get the chance to everyone she loved goodbye but she knew that it was for the best. She knew that if she had, had the chance to tell them goodbye that they would have tried to stop her and she knew that with as weak as she had been feeling that they would have won. She didn't want them to get hurt so she had left instead and every single day that she had been gone it had killed her because she missed them.

And now she was back. She was back because she was tired of running and hiding. She was back because she needed those around her that she knew cared and loved her in order to do what she had to do. She was the only one who could end this game of cat and mouse and she was going to but she wanted it to be done on her terms. In the months that she had been gone Ian Doyle had almost caught up to her and she wasn't sure how.

As far as she knew the only ones who knew that she was still alive was JJ, Hotch and her Handler with the CIA. She knew that it wasn't JJ or Hotch that had leaked that she was alive and her location so it had to have been her Handler or someone else who worked with her Handler. She knew that coming here was the right move but she wasn't sure of what kind of reception she would get. She only hoped that her team would listen to her and let her explain things before they automatically threw her out.

She needed them if she was going to survive her upcoming meeting with Doyle. She needed them if she was going to find out who in the hell was trying their damnedest to make sure that she died. She needed them to keep breathing because for the last couple of months the loss of her support system has crushed her. She needed them like she needed water and air to keep living because without them she wasn't living she was merely existing.

She took in a deep breath and let it out and then opened up the car door and stepped out. She checked her purse and made sure that she had her gun on her and she made sure that her knife was in her boot and then she made her way into the Federal Building. She saw the moment the security guard recognized her because his eyes widened and his jaw fell open. She gave him a tight smile and then a relieved smile when he let her pass with a nod and then she headed to the elevators and in and pressed the button for the floor she would need. She kept taking in deep breaths and letting them out as the elevator made it's ascent.

When the doors opened on the floor that she needed she exited and walked to the glass doors that housed the BAU and took a deep breath in and held it as she pulled the door open and she knew the minute when her team members spotted her because Penelope yelled "Oh my God it's Emily!"


A/N 2: I know that this is a short chapter but I wrote it the way I wanted it... Click the button and let me know what you think!