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A/N - This is Emily Prentiss's Sin to Win weekend. I've never been to Atlantic City, so I'm moving it to a fake Atlantis City. Deal!
It all started when her friends from Yale called her for their annual meet. The phone rang at 2am in the morning. She picked it up automatically and said resignedly "What is it this time JJ?" She almost fell off the bed when she hears loud squeals on the other side. She was immediately awake and grinning. Her two best friends from Yale were the closest thing she had to family apart from the BAU. Them calling her at 2am could mean only one thing. Sin to Win.
"If you guys could shut up for a second, you can tell me what the plan is." Emily said, her voice still raspy from sleep. Kate and Michela were people she had grown up with. They had similar backgrounds, with parents in politics and had taken up high stress and high risk jobs. They hardly saw each other due to the travel that was required from their jobs, but always stayed in touch through emails and many, many phone conversations.
"Atlantis City. Two weeks from this weekend. Be there. We have money that needs to be made Em. Think you can make it?" Kate said. She knew nothing was definite till the last minute, but they always made a plan and tried to plan everything else around it. As a forensic anthropologist, she knew what Emily's job entailed.
"You know I'm going to do everything I can to be there. It's been too long and I really need to let go! How have you been? Now that you've woke me up, you're gonna have to entertain me." Emily said, smirking. She fell into that category of people who can almost never go back to sleep when awoken.
"Nothing out of the extraordinary. I'm guest lecturing at Temple tomorrow, well later today. We don't have a case yet, so let's see." Kate said. Kate worked along with the National Security Agency, lending her expertise when required. Otherwise, she loved going to Peru to conduct excavations. She was a fiercely independent woman with strong beliefs and a definite faith in science. She and Emily got along with Kate more than Kayla because of this. They both thought God was a very vivid figment of man's imagination.
While they wondered at the creativity of such a creation, Kayla had a firm belief in God. As a world class trauma surgeon, she needed to know that people she couldn't save went to a better place. She didn't understand how her two other friends, both well acquainted with death could live life without believing.
"Man died, man saved, man died, man saved. Yeah. That's about it. Oh and I went on a date!" Kayla added. She waited for the expected outburst, and there it was.
"You went on a date???" Kate all but shrieked, while Emily's calm voice could be heard saying "Dish!". Kayla took a deep breath and told them about a date that could rival natural disasters on the magnitude scale. Emily and Kate were cracking up on the other lines as she told them that the date ended with her dumping the bowl of pasta on his head.
"Em, what's your love life like?" Kate asked Emily. There was a pause and Kate repeated her question, assuming Emily hadn't heard.
"That was my answer. A whole lot of nothingness. I have no love life!" Emily said, and the three girls burst into laughter. They talked for a little while, and then it was time for them to go back to reality. Emily was excited. It had been a year since Vegas, and that trip held fond memories. That trip was actually helping fund this trip. She rubbed her hands gleefully before heading in for a long bath. She had at least 3 hours before she had to be in at work, so she thought she'd put that time to good use. Kayla usually planned the whole thing and sent the ternary to Emily and Kate. She relaxed in the warm, cinnamon scented bath. It was her favourite smell. As she soaked, the call she was expecting came. It was a little after 5am when she answered the phone. "JJ! Good morning!" Emily said, getting out of the tub.
"Is everything alright? You sound chipper and I think there may be something wrong with the world. Should I look outside my window for flying pigs or something?" JJ asked, clearly puzzled.
"Hahaha. My friends had called earlier, so I've been up for a while. New case?" Emily explained. She walked over to her closet and looked for clothes she could wear to work.
"Why else would I call at 5am? New case. See you at 7?" JJ asked, rushing because she still had to call Reid, Morgan and Rossi.
"Yeah." Emily said and hung up. She chose a white shirt with her black suit. She quickly changed and went to the kitchen to make pancakes. This was going to be a great day. She couldn't wait for her Sin to Win weekend!
"Kate. Hey." Emily said, dejected. She was in the loo of the BAU as she called her friend to cancel.
"You can't make it." Kate said, guessing by Emily's tone.
"No I can't. I tried calling Kayla, but I couldn't get through. Can you call her and tell her it's off?" Emily asked, now pacing the small length of her stall.
"Sure sweety. I'm sorry. Maybe next weekend then." Kate said. They were used took two or three attempts to finally make it somewhere. Sometimes, having the jobs they did sucked.
Emily looked down at her red dress and sighed, she changed into her work clothes and went back out to solve the case.
Emily didn't think she'd ever forget Reid's face when he realised that she won. She still had her skills. She couldn't wait to see the girls' faces when she met them. They were all meeting in D.C. and then flying to Atlantis City. It was finally happening!!! And she already had her dress out and ready on her bed at home.
A/N - I decided to make this a two part thing. I hope you like the AU characters. This is going to be a side of Emily we only speculated she had!