I was going to wait until I completely finished this story, but I realized that many people might not want to read this since Emily is off the show. The longer I hold off putting it up here, the less readers I will get. Anyway, I have most of this story written and the rest is in progress. I hope you enjoy!

Emily Prentiss enters the FBI Headquarters, located in Quantico, Virginia, for the first time in two years.

Agent Charles Denker grins and immediately hugs her, surprised to see her when he honestly thought he would never her again. "Agent Prentiss! You're back! Does this mean you are coming back to the BAU?"

Emily smiles at the man who reminds her of her grandfather. "Not coming back, Charlie, just visiting."

"You really should come back, Emily. I've missed seeing your smiling face everyday."

She chuckles, "what, Hotch doesn't smile for you?"

"The Legendary Agent Hotchner?" He gasps. "Never!" They look at each other for a second before bursting out in laughter. Charlie loves to make 'Hotch jokes' for some reason. "I'm sure you want to go see your friends, so lets get on with this. Do you have a pass, Miss Prentiss?"

"I have to have a pass with you, Charlie? Since when," she gasps, faking shock before grinning. "Yes, Agent Denker, I have a pass."

He looks at it before winking and grinning at her. "Great to see you, Emily, but you should probably go see your friends soon! It's almost five o'clock."

"Yeah, I bet everyone but Hotch will leave at exactly 5:01," she jokes but completely serious. Everyone loves their job, but no one but Hotch will stay longer than necessary. Not when you can do paperwork from home.

"Yeah, that boss of yours sure must like paperwork."

"Ex-boss," she reminds him. "And no, he doesn't. Which is why he gets it done as soon as he can, no matter how long it takes."

"Still loyal to your team, I see."

Emily grins and waves, "always. See ya later, Charlie," she starts walking to the elevator, only looking back as Charlie returns the sentiment.

Once in the elevator, thankfully she's by herself, Emily tenses just a little bit. She really wants to see her friends, but that means telling them about who's in her life since she left. And she's not so sure she's ready for that. She not sure they are ready for that.

The elevator dings once on the fifth floor and when the doors open, all Emily sees is chaos. There are agents wizzing by her with paper and coffee filling their hands and she instantly flashes back to when she first came to the BAU all those years before.

She shakes her head, distilling all the memories floating in her mind before looking in the bullpen and immediately seeing her team. Your ex team, she reminds herself before slowly walking towards the desks of Special Agents Reid and Morgan. Morgan is telling a story to Garcia while Reid is stating statistic facts about God knows what.

"Some things never change around here," they stop talking and turn around after hearing her voice.

Garcia is the first to react, her eyes brightening and widening before she squeals. "EMILY!" Emily chuckles when Garcia hugs her, still squealing. "Emily, Emily, you're back!"

After Garcia finally lets go, Reid gives Emily a hug whispering welcome back in her ear before Morgan takes his turn saying, "I always knew you'd be back eventually, Princess."

"What is all the commotion down here about? Guys, I know-" JJ's voice starts in her office but it stops when she steps onto the balcony and sees Emily.

She runs full speed to Emily, just like Garcia. While giving her a hug, JJ whispers, "are you going to tell them?"

"I don't know," Emily whispers back before pulling away.

"Not that I'm not happy to see you, Emily," he winks at her, "but what are you doing here?" Morgan asks.

"I thought it would be a good time for a visit to my favorite Profilers," she teases, winking at all of them.

"That's good and all but- wait. Aren't we the only Profilers you know?" Emily ignores Morgan's question and looks at the rest of them. "Well, are we?"

"Are ya jealous, Morgan?"

"What," he scoffs, "no way. Derek Morgan doesn't get jealous."

"Funny, that's what my friend Cal said when I mentioned you guys. You know, now that I think about it, he kind of looks like you, Derek."

"WHAT? You do have another Profiler friend?"

"Relax, Morgan, I'm just kidding, 'k? You guys are the only Profilers I know."

He sighs in relief, "good. I would hate to know you ditched us for another Profiler."

Emily checks her watch, sighing at the time, "it's five o'clock and I think you all wanna leave after what was probably a rough week looking at cases." She hesitates for a second before saying it, knowing that if she does this, she will have to tell them her secret, "come to my house tomorrow night, all of you, and we can catch up some more. I have the same address as I did two years ago."

"You kept your house," a confused Reid questions.

She nods, "if I'm in town for a little while I'll stay there so I don't have to rent a hotel room. I have a maid service come over once a week to clean up, mainly to keep away dust and make sure it stays livable. I also have a house in London, of course, but it's more of a house- a house with lots of breakable items- then a home."

"Do you feel more at home here than you do in London?" An excited Garcia is quick to ask.

"Goodnight, guys." She ignores the question, not wanting to tell her that yes, she does indeed feel more at home in DC, with the team, than in London being the head of an agency.

They all say their goodbyes as everyone but JJ leaves. "So..."

"So, what?"

"Why'd you decide to tell them?"

Emily sighs, "I want them to know. They are my friends, just like you, and they should know."

"Good. I'm glad you are telling them."

"I'm really sorry that I asked you to keep this a secret, JJ."

JJ pats Emily on the arm before standing up, "I'm just glad you will have someone else to lean on and to help you out."

"Yeah..." Emily says absently, already thinking of how to tell them.

"I have to go, Emily, but I'll come over earlier than everyone else tomorrow and help you plan how to tell the team. And I'll probably have to calm you down, several times, before you start hyperventilating and convince yourself not to tell the team not to come over. "

"Thank you, JJ, really. I can't thank you enough. You're always there for me-"

"And I will always be here for you. Always."

Emily blinks away tears and gives a watery grin, "go see your family before I start crying."

"Fine, I will go. But I hope you have fun talking to Hotch."

"Shut up JJ," she blushes. JJ is the only one on the team that knows about Emily's small- or HUGE (JJ often teases Emily about it and says she's in love with the man)- crush on the team's leader.

JJ shoots her a grin as she walks up the stairs, "See you tomorrow, Em."

"See you tomorrow," she returns the sentiment as JJ goes up to her office to get all of her stuff ready to leave. Emily stands in the bullpen that, after just a few minutes, the chaotic air suddenly feels empty already missing most of the agents on the floor. Finally, she begins to go up to Hotch's office.

I have no idea how long each chapter is, I wrote this story as one long thing but I'm working on splitting it up. So, there might be long chapters and there might be shorter chapters.

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