It was a cold and hard morning when I got a missed phone call from my husband even though no one else but my sister knew we were married.
"Baby, I just wanted to see how you are I miss you when are you getting back?" said his voice on my voicemail.
"Oh Spencer you really don't get it do you, love? Emily I really hate lying to him like this. He loves me as Lauren Reynolds, not Elizabeth Prentiss. I don't want to lie to him anymore." I said to Emily Prentiss my identical twin sister. My hair is longer than hers and I dyed it blonde instead of black but we still look the exact same. No one who Emily works with knows that she has a sister let alone a twin.
As I was talking to Emily I got a text message from an old partner named Sean MacArthur asking me to him somewhere it was important. I agreed to meet him at an old bar I used to go to.
"I have a bad feeling about this if he wants to meet me after all these years it must be about Ian Doyle." I said thinking aloud.
"You mean the man whose child you stole and then faked his murder so that he'd have a better life?" said Emily.
"Yes the man I got to close to and then ruined his life I know if Spencer knew about it he wouldn't trust me anymore. Whatever, you've got to go to work sis or you'll be late. Hey tease Spence at work for me just not to obviously ok." I said giving my sister a hug and leaving.
I got into my black el Camino and drove to the bar. I stepped out of my car and took my black leather jacket off and closed the door. As I walked into the bar I could tell guys were checking me out in my black leather pants and my black corset top and my high heel combat boots. My waist length blonde hair was lightly curled and down. I walked over to a table where a guy was sitting down.
"Hey Sean what did you need to see me about?" I asked as I sat down.
"Liz I have to tell you Ian Doyle escaped and is coming after us. He already took out Jeremy without even leaving a trace. His wife is on her way home right now and I'm going into hiding next. He will probably save you for last because of your involvement was much more personal than the rest of us. I just thought that I'd warn you before I skipped out. Just remember Lauren Reynolds is supposed to be dead." Said Sean he then got up and left.
I pulled out my cell and called Emily.
"Em I was right it was about him. He's out and coming after my old team. Which means he'll be after me. I have to hide Declan and Elena do you know where I could? I'll come in and see if brother will help after I explain it but I need help so Spencer won't see me." I said over the phone when she answered.
"I got it I think I can handle that yeah so you'll be coming by tonight to take care of the Sergio that'll be wonderful. Thank you so much." Said Emily in code.
"You realize I'll be there in ten minutes right? So just come down and take me to brother's office right away. See you I a few." I said hanging up the phone and getting in my car.
Emily set the phone down signaled to Hotch that she needed to talk to him. He nodded her over.
"What do you need Emily?" he said after shutting his office door.
"Liz is on her way here she'll be here in five minutes so we need to make sure that Spencer doesn't see her or it will wind up bad, because he doesn't know we know her or that she knows us." Said Emily.
"What do you mean she'll be here in five minutes I told her never to come here. What in the hell does she think she's doing?" said Hotch.
"She wants you to help find a place for Declan and Elena because Ian Doyle is out and will be looking for her and she doesn't want him finding the children. That's why she's coming here for help. In my opinion I think it's time that Spencer found out who his wife really is but I really guess that's your call isn't it big brother." Said Emily with a mischievous smile on her face.
"Yes it is actually ands so do I really feel that I need to enlighten my team about Ian Doyle and all his past acquaintances especially Lauren Reynolds." Said Hotch with a small smile of his own.
"I hope she forgives us for this she loves Spencer with all her heart. It will break her to lose him." said Emily.
"I'm sure she will because she's wanted to tell him for a while now, so we're just helping her out." answered Hotch.
"that's true I'd better go down to bring her up, have Spencer in your office where she can't see when I bring her up." said Emily smirking as she got up out of her chair.
"Send him in and I'll position him." Said Hotch.
So Emily nodded as she stepped out of his office.
"Reed Hotch wants to see you in his office." Said Emily as she passed Spencer's desk.
"Okay thanks do you know what for?" asked Spencer.
"I do but I'm on my way to get a lead for the new case Hotch's going to introduce with some help from an informant." Said Emily.
Emily walked to the elevator took it down to the parking garage and as soon as the doors opened I was standing there waiting for the elevator. Emily looked me up and down and I smiled at her reaction.
"what sis not used to seeing me in black leather much anymore?" I said smirking.
"Nope and I don't think brother is either." Said Emily thinking of Spencer's jaw dropping reaction.
I stepped into the elevator and we took it up to the BAU's floor. I quickly looked around to make sure Spencer wasn't around and then walked up to Hotch's office not even realizing Spencer was in his office in the corner where I didn't look.
"Hey brother I really need to talk to you about my kids I need to get them somewhere safe because Ian Doyle's out and he's coming after me. I know because someone has been following me and he sent me one of the flowers from his mansion. Now more than ever I want my husband and kids safe that's why only you, sis, and Garcia know that I'm married to Spencer. I really love him and if Ian knew I was married with the children he would kill them to spite me. Please help me brother you are my only hope." I said without even taking a breath while speaking.
"Are you finished yet because I was in the middle of a meeting." Said Hotch looking in Reed's direction while speaking to his sister.
"No I didn't oh god Spencer I'm so sorry." I said running out starting to cry.
"Smart move there brother when was the last time you saw sister cry?" asked Emily.
"Wait what's going on why was my wife here calling you brother who is Ian Doyle and why is she scared of him and why did she run out crying when she saw me?" said Spencer completely confused.
"Ok your wife Lauren Reynolds is actually my twin sister Elizabeth, Hotch is our step-brother and she's actually an intelligence officer. Ian Doyle was a target she had to get to eight years ago the reason she's scared of him is the fact she had to go deep cover to get to him and she still carries the engagement ring he gave her as Lauren Reynolds she knew one day he would come after her so on all paper and electronic trail you have been married to Elizabeth Prentiss. No one knows Lauren Reynolds is alive but for the sake of him finding out she stayed in intelligence and has kept using the name Lauren Reynolds in case of him finding out she's alive so he doesn't know the name Elizabeth Prentiss or her connection to any of us." said Emily.
There was a knock on the door and Garcia walked into the office.
"Hotch I just traced one of Ian Doyle's aliases and he entered the us two days ago I think he's the one that's been following Liz. Oops I hope I didn't just interrupt something." Said Penelope when she caught sight of Spencer.
"He just found out about Liz and Ian Doyle." Said Hotch.
"Oh so he knows that Ian Doyle is Declan and Elena's father? I hope you didn't take it too badly Spencer." Said Garcia.
"He hadn't actually found that one out yet. I meant he found out about her being intelligence and my twin and Hotch's little sister and her real name and stuff, but she ran out of here crying when she saw him in the office." said Emily.
"Ian Doyle the guy she's terrified of is the father of both her children?" said Spencer.
"She only gave birth to one of them, Declan is not hers she just loves him like he is and he doesn't remember any one else. Also one of the reasons Ian might be coming after her is the fact she sent pictures of someone killing Declan to him in prison. It would explain her wish for you to hide them because he doesn't know about Elena that we know of." said Garcia.
As they kept filling in Spencer everything about me I was running in the park trying to relax and stop crying. I got to a small table so I sat down to rest.
"Hello Lauren been a long time it's good to see you again still as stylish as ever." Said Ian Doyle.
"Ian, should have been longer. What do you want?" I asked him as he sat down across from me.
"You of course, also retribution." Said Ian.
"Yet your saving me for last why?" I said.
"You're the one who has the most to fear from me. So does your husband and children who one is mine by the way and your little girl how old is she exactly? About eight I would say which unless you were with someone else while you were with me she's mine as well. You took my children and faked one's death while I rotted away in that cell while you got married and lived happily here never even thinking about me." Said Ian.
"How do you know about my children and husband, never mind, it was you following me wasn't it. You stay away from my family Ian. I mean it stay away from them." I said as I got up and left.
"Lauren you might want to warn you family and your twin sister but if you do I will kill all of them." Threatened Ian.
I kept walking as if he hadn't said anything and yet I was crying all over again. I went back to the BAU and walked right into the middle of a debriefing Hotch was doing on Ian Doyle.
"I think it would be better if I finished the debriefing on him because no one knows him like I do." I said interrupting.
"Liz are you sure?" asked Emily.
"Its fine sis I'm sick of this fear I feel thinking of him. Alright my name is Elizabeth, I'm central intelligence agent and I was one of the officers responsible for the capture of Ian Doyle. He knows me as Lauren Reynolds I was put under as an arms dealer and my mission was to get close to him and find a person code named Valhalla. As I stayed under cover I got close and very knowledgeable about him too much so as soon as I found out after a year and a half that he was Valhalla I called it in and got out of there. About a year after I sent in pictures of his son being shot in the head, however I changed his identity and have raised him as my own along with my daughter that I gave birth to six months after I turned him in. I'm telling you about the kids because although I have hidden them Ian Doyle knows about them. He still thinks that I am not cooperating with you and knows nothing of your involvement other than Emily and Spencer to me. Emily as my twin sister and Spencer he knows we're married." I said looking straight at him.
"Wait how does he know all of this and how do you know he knows?" asked Garcia.
"After I ran out of your office brother I ran into the park and sat at a table to calm down and he came and talked to me because he's the one who's been following me the last two days." I answered looking at Hotch.
"Wait did you say brother?" asked Morgan.
"Yes she did Morgan I am Emily and Elizabeth's older step-brother." Said Hotch.
"I think we need one more set of eyes on this so I called and got Gideon to come back for one last case." Said JJ.
"You brought Gideon into this?" I said completely shocked.
"That was the worst thing you could do, Lizzy its okay he doesn't know, remember that okay. Hotch take care of her ok make sure she doesn't do anything stupid ok?" said Emily trying to get me to look at her and not be shocked any more.
I sat down and just stayed quiet as most of the team welcomed Gideon back the only one who stayed by my side was Hotch. Started to cry when I saw Gideon because I knew what he didn't he was a father of a set of twin girls both of them in the room at the moment. I cried because I knew he was my father but he did not.