I'm working on a sequence of stories that belong together but still often stand for themselves.
Thanks to REIDFANATIC for Beta Reading.
Criminal Minds is not mine.
Always good for a surprise
"I have to get ready." Her sentence really didn't change a lot as he simply kept her captured in his arms. She put on a sweet smile putting her arms around his neck. "You do know that I could get out of this in a second if I wanted to." She referred to her fighting skills which she had demonstrated more than once.
"The point is you don't want to." He observed and grinned at her even wider than a moment before.
"I have to. They are going to be here soon and I'm certain you don't want me to go like this." His eyes went over her rather short outfit consisting of her PJ shorts and a tank top.
"I would keep you here like this. I think we could even take some more off."
Emily smiled, but couldn't answer before she heard the sound of the doorbell. "This is all your fault." She pushed him away, hurrying to her dresser. "Get the door, will you." She didn't even look over but focused on finding a blouse that would fit their little ladies trip.
Derek shook his head and made his way downstairs to let in his co-workers. As he opened the door he was greeted by two surprised faces, which had him grinning.
"We did get the correct address right?" JJ joked leading them inside before turning to start her interrogation.
"Why are you here?" Garcia had asked before her friend could even turn.
But Derek shook his head knowing exactly what the two blondes were after, and he was not going to give them an easy game; besides, the couple hadn't really talked about announcing their relationship yet. They had been too busy to figure out their life as reunited family and Annie's adoption problems.
"I think it's called babysitting although if you ask Dec he probably doesn't like that term."
"You can't trick us like that." JJ observed as she knew from her wedding day that there had been more between the pair. Emily wouldn't have him watch the children if there wasn't more between them.
"Sugar I have been waiting for this news since the whole undercover thing." Penelope's voice was getting high with excitement.
"Wait, you two planned this whole undercover thing?" Emily had made her way down the stairs, now fully dressed, and facing her two best friends. Immediately she saw guilt written all over JJs face, while their other friend just let her eyes wander curiously between the couple.
"Well Hotch wanted someone undercover and we agreed that it would be an approach." Pen finally offered an explanation.
"You have no idea what that week almost did. I was ready to never talk to him again. In fact I might have been thinking about killing him." She could see the horror on JJs face as that was not at all what she had intended with that plan. The brunette turned to get her keys trying hard to hide her grin.
She then headed towards the door holding it open for her friends. "We are not done yet." Jennifer promised as she walked out, dragging the tech behind her. Emily smiled and shook her head before turning to her man.
"You know Annie's bedtime and Declan can stay up until 11 since its Friday."
"Yes Ma'am. No bedtime for me then?" He teased with a grin growing on his lips.
"Well that would be your decision, although I can make better use of you being awake." She winked giving into the temptation to place a playful kiss on his lips. That turned out to be a mistake from her side as he took her move as permission to draw her closer and kiss her again.
"You look way to hot in this outfit. I really shouldn't let you go." Emily laughed slapping her purse against his shoulder. She then leaned in for a last kiss, with real intention to leave after this one.
"I KNEW IT." Emily could feel her boyfriend's smile against her lips, as they heard Penelope's excited voice.
"Have fun." He said with a smirk leading her towards the door with a devilish grin on his lips. "I'm sure glad you are having a girl's night and you get to answer all the questions." He winked before closing the door behind her.
She sighed making her way to JJ's car. As she came closer she could literally see the questions all over their faces. When she had made herself comfortable in the backseat she looked up to see Garcia turned nearly all the way around.
"When, how, and why didn't I know about it?"
"Three weeks ago, that day when you took the kids to the mall."
"I knew it and he wouldn't say anything." Garcia's face lit up delighted.
"I was actually fighting him pretty hard until the afternoon, so he didn't lie to you."
"Why would you fight Derek Morgan?" The question sounded almost incredulously and JJ couldn't help herself giggle over the conversation.
"I had other problems that day than fixing my relationship. The only reason I let him in was that he allowed me to yell at him as long as I wanted to." And of course the safe feeling of having his arms wrapped around her.
She looked into the rearview mirror seeing her driving friend's smile; when her attention went back to Garcia she realized she must have said something unknown, as her eyes were wide.
"You said fixing relationship."
Oh boy, Emily seriously began to wonder how they had been able to keep the first relationship a secret. After all they now read her like a book, an open book.
"I heard that too." JJ offered not helping her at all. Emily wasn't sure what good her best friend got out of that as she had already heard most of the story.
"It's just the whole dating this weird guy I'm not sure about story."
"What are you talking about?" Garcia's gaze went between her two friends trying to put the puzzle together.
"Remember when I told you I helped Em to doll up for a date?"
The tech gasped looking back to the brunette: "How could you keep this a secret for so long?"
Emily shrugged as she had no idea how that had worked out so well. She knew that Strauss had been right; working with profilers meant there was close to no secrets from your coworkers. But then again, she seemed somehow experienced with that issue as they had uncovered a whole bunch of hers during the last year.
"We haven't been dating for the whole time. It was only about a month then it went on ice until three weeks ago." She then admitted; now that they were already discussing the details she might as well get the rest out of her way.
"Why would you give up Derek Morgan? Hot, gentlemen, sexy. Em, why?" Penelope looked at her with wide eyes.
"He also has badge and gun; I take it he has to work on his British accent." Emily rolled her eyes at JJ while the memory of the conversation about Mick Rawson came back into her mind, but then joined into the game.
"You forgot that he is great with kids and makes the perfect breakfast." The former BAU agent finally offered, smiling at the thought causing Garcia to gasp. "It wasn't really our choice. Strauss somehow figured it out."
The car stopped moving and she realized that they had already made their way to the little restaurant. Not concentrating on the traffic anymore JJ turned around giving her a look that asked for the full story.
"She called me to her office and made clear that we were in trouble; fraternization regulations - not that they really exist - but in the end, she won. And I know that it was her right to do that, so don't blame her. We were lucky to get away with it for so long and it could have cost the whole team its jobs." She breathed in heavenly. "Derek worked too hard to give everything up, just for me. So I ended it, which I regretted as soon as I left his office, but I didn't know what else to do."
As she looked up she could see tears in the tech's eyes and she couldn't stop herself from smiling. "Declan was home that weekend and he somehow calmed me down by just being there. So the next day I called my mother. A week later she had me a transfer starting in June. Annie was just a coincidence I would have left anyway."
"Then why didn't you get back together?" JJ quietly asked, as that was the only question Emily had never really answered.
"Well Derek's explanation was that I'm the most stubborn woman on earth, which might be true. I didn't want to risk his career or my transfer any more than I already had and then at some point it was just too late." She smiled sadly before remembering that she had gotten her happy end after all.
"Ironically out of all the people it was my mother that brought us back together. Grandkids worked miracles for her." She looked up shaking off the sad mood from a moment ago.
"So yes we are dating and no Garcia you can't plan a wedding or for any little chocolate colored babies." She left the car waiting for her two friends to join her putting an arm around each of them. "But I would like to know how the whole Kevin thing is going and also I think we could plan some siblings for Henry." She said with a grin as both of the girls faces fall.
They had spent the night with a limited amount of alcohol and better conversation than they had ever had before. Emily was pleased that she had taken the focus off her person for most of the conversation, besides the one about little Annie.
When she came back home she took a little time to check on both of her children's bedrooms before sneaking into her room. The light was still on, but one glance to the bed found her man sleeping like she had him expected to be. She smiled, before grabbing her PJs and turning off the light to sneak into her bathroom.
As she slipped under the light covers a few minutes later she could feel him tense, clearly waking up.
"Too bad he is asleep; I had some good ideas for what to do with him." She said with a grin on her face, teasing him while snuggling into his arms.
"I'm awake." He murmured fighting the sleep of best he could. "I now know what Reid meant. You girls have crazy bed times."
She smiled, but didn't answer since there wasn't much she could say in her own defense.
"Are you going to tell me, how the interrogation went?" He finally asked clearly getting annoyed by her quietness.
"I told them the short version of what happened: Dating, Strauss, Stubbornness, Dating. JJ already knew quite a bit though." He laughed at the third word, pulling her even closer. "I also told them what not to expect."
"And what would that be?" He could feel her tense, as she started to realize that they had never really talked about that before now.
"Emily, can we please not start the secret keeping again." He tiredly requested.
"I, we," she stuttered in an attempt to sort through her thoughts and causing him to turn her around so she had to face him.
"I just realized that we never really talked about it and I just went with my assumption." She finally spoke again. Of course that wasn't a big help for him, but his face now was alert, so they might as well have the conversation now.
"Well you know how Garcia gets excited, so I stopped every thought of planning a wedding or baby showers." She finally looked into his eyes in an attempt to read him. She was more than glad when she saw how he relaxed.
"I assumed the baby part. 13, 5 and new born doesn't go to well together." He offered.
"Well even if the kids were younger, I'm not even sure if I would be able to. That table leg went straight through my stomach and that for sure wasn't the only attack to that area. I never asked the doctors about it, since I didn't have any reason to do so." She quietly added why she hadn't even wasted a thought on biological children. She had been kicked in the stomach more than once before, not even to talk about the abortion years ago that surely wouldn't help it either.
"I'm perfectly fine with that." He answered caressing her cheek. "The wedding on the other hand…" He didn't finish his thought in an attempt of reading in her eyes what her reaction would be. She clearly swallowed but didn't say anything.
"I'm definitely not talking about tomorrow, but it is somewhere down the road. I'm not planning on letting you go anywhere, so unless you think differently, I don't see a reason why we shouldn't get married at some point."