Chapter 1 – Picture Surprise
The team had been placed on stand down duty after being on three consecutive high profile cases over the space of a month. Sitting in the bullpen JJ, Morgan, Blake, Reid and Emily were working through the mountains of case files and consults that flooded their desks.
Emily and Hotch had been dating in secret ever since Emily had returned after the Doyle situation. They had been dating for eighteen months, recently moving in together for a month.
No matter how hard she tried Emily couldn't resist placing her hands on her slight four month pregnancy bump. Nobody on the team knows she is dating let alone pregnant! Reluctantly removing her hands from her bump, Emily pulled on her suit jacket, which only just hides her baby bump. She was wearing a black skirt suit, with a pink pin stripe white open collared shirt, and three inch black heels. Emily collected a group of completed case files together and made her way to Hotch's office.
Knocking before entering, Emily walked in and closed his office door behind her. Before placing the completed files on a clear space on Hotch's desk, and sitting down on the sofa in the corner of his office, all without saying a single word, Hotch just watched his pregnant girlfriend's antics.
"Em, are you ok? Is the baby alright?" Aaron asked in quick succession, whilst making his way to the sofa, crouching in front of Emily.
"Yeah, we're fine, great actually my bump is starting to show more and now I can't resist putting my hands on it," Emily explained with a smile planted on her face, her hands on her baby bump. "I don't think we can keep it from the team any longer, baby Hotchner wants to be known," Emily stated with a childlike giggle, whilst grabbing hold of Hotch's hands, placing them on her bump.
"I know, I still can't believe we are having a baby, Dec, Jack and I are so excited for the new edition," Hotch smiled as he felt this and Emily's child gently kick from within the womb. "If you want to tell them, then I want to tell them, Rossi already knows so it shouldn't be difficult to tell the rest of the family," with that Hotch pulled Emily into a tender embrace closing the gap between himself and the women he has fallen in love with.
Meanwhile, back in the bullpen Garcia had since joined the rest of the team and was now sitting at Emily's desk, when she noticed the small sonogram image that had fallen on the floor under Emily's desk. Garcia picked up the image and studied it for a moment and then spotted ' ' written in the top right hand corner along with Emily's birthdate and medical details.
"Guys!" Garcia practically shouted which gained the other team members attention. "I just found this under gumdrop's desk," Garcia stated as she held up the sonogram for everybody else to see.
"That's a sonogram, but Em isn't pregnant is she? I mean that sonogram is at least sixteen weeks, we would have noticed," JJ stuttered.
"I seem to remember you keeping your pregnancy a secret for five months," Reid exclaimed earning himself a glare from JJ, he quickly went quiet knowing fully well what she was capable of.
"I didn't think Princess, was seeing anybody, she has Declan now," Morgan said as he looked at the sonogram.
"She's still a women hot stuff," Garcia playfully swatted Morgan's arm.
"I think Emily has a right to her privacy, but I have noticed she has been spending a lot of time with Hotch in and outside of work." Blake offered an explanation. Blake had become a good friend to Emily the moment she joined the team.
"You think Emily is with Hotch?" JJ asked with a quirk of her eyebrows.
"If they are together the baby would be so cute," Garcia gushed happily as she thought about what the baby would like.
"I can't imagine Hotch breaking the rules, if they are dating they have hidden it well especially at work, I mean when Hotch got shot she didn't overreact or show anything." Morgan added, referring to case six months ago when Hotch had taken four bullets, three in the vest and one in the arm.
The rest of the team members continued to chat about the possibilities of the new BAU baby and who the father may be, when Rossi came out of his office wondering what all the commotion was about in the bullpen.
"What is going on down here?" Rossi asked no one in particular, but he was utterly confused as to why they had all gathered.
"Garcia found a sonogram image, it's Emily's, she's pregnant," Blake filled Rossi in on what was going on.
"Oh," Rossi said in reply, knowing that she as in fact pregnant the day she found out.
Emily had been feeling dizzy and collapsed in a car park whilst on a case two months ago, only Rossi was with her and he drove her to the nearest hospital. It was there; where she found out she was pregnant. Rossi had been like a father figure or mentor to her since he re-joined the team, so she told him about everything, the relationship with Hotch, the pregnancy whilst still at the hospital. He had taken the news well and has kept their secret ever since.
Watching the commotion unfold from Hotch's office window, Hotch held Emily's hand as a gentle show of support. Emily turned to face him and placed a soft kiss to Hotch's lips.
"I'm going back to my desk and face the music, feel free to join me Special Agent Hotchner," Emily joked as she gave her boyfriend a cheeky wink and left his office.
Hotch just rolled his eyes at the comment, and followed Emily down into the bullpen, where Rossi had joined the rest of the team.
It was time to come clean.