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On Monday morning Morgan and Emily walked into the BAU together, as they walked out of the elevator they saw JJ rush past and up to Hotch's office. Emily just stopped wearing the sling yesterday and had insisted that she could go back in the field, after a while Morgan decided that it would be better not to argue with her.
"Uh oh." Said Emily as she and Morgan walked towards her desk, a moment later JJ walked back out and came down to talk to them.
"Where are we going?" asked Morgan, JJ shook her head.
"It's local, and uh Emily…" said JJ, gesturing to someone behind Emily, who turned around to see…
"Mother? What are you doing here? Do you need our help again?" asked Emily.
"I'm not here because of me." Said Ambassador Prentiss coolly, Emily looked confused.
"Then why…?" asked Emily, suddenly a man appeared behind Ambassador Prentiss.
"Because of me, I require the assistance of your team, Emily." said the man. Derek looked towards Emily.
"Em, do you know this guy?" he asked, Emily sighed.
"Yeah. Derek Morgan, Jennifer Jareau. Meet my father, Robert Alexander III." Said Emily slowly and clearly, suddenly Hotch exited his office.
"I need everybody in the conference room, please." Said Hotch before walking over and knocking on Rossi's door, the two men spoke for a minute before heading to the conference room, the rest of the team and Emily's parents followed suit. Once the entire team was seated in the conference room Emily felt the need to introduce her father again.
"Everyone, you remember my mother, and allow me to introduce my father, Robert Alexander III. As to what they are doing in the BAU, I have no idea." Said Emily, Derek was sitting next to her, and he reached underneath the table to grab her hand and give it a reassuring squeeze.
"I can answer that, at least partially. There have been a series of murders around the Washington DC area. The victims are all very high ranking men in society, they are successful business owners. As far as local police can tell they did not know each other. All killed with four gunshot wounds, one to each leg and arm, they bled put before help arrived. A week or so leading up to their murder each of the men received this letter." Said Garcia, clicking a few buttons on her remote so that a picture of the letter filled the screen.
"You are greedy, you take what you do not deserve. You have a mark on your past that should have prevented you from moving forward. I will enact the justice you deserve." Read Reid out loud.
"Well the letter is very accusative." Said Emily.
"And the use of 'I' not 'we' suggests that we are only dealing with one Unsub." Said Morgan.
"He writes that 'I will enact justice' this suggests that he is a man on a mission." Said Rossi.
"He?" inquired Emily's mother.
"Uh the way he is killing his victims, the amount of violence that is showed in the murders suggests that we are dealing with a male Unsub." Explained Reid. Emily looked at her father.
"You got a letter, didn't you?" asked Emily, her father nodded.
"But the 'mark on your past' part, what mark? Does it vary with each family?" asked JJ.
"That most likely means that something that happened to these men or within their families years ago which was supposed to bring them down, halt their climb up the social ladder, but didn't. Most likely because the man got rid of that mark as soon as possible." Said Emily while staring directly at her father, who stood up angrily.
"Emily, I need a word in private, if you don't mind." Requested her father, Emily nodded, determination in her eyes.
"Feel free to use my office." Said Hotch as Emily got up too, Emily nodded her thanks to him before leading her father out of the conference room and into Hotch's office. Once they were inside Emily turned to her father and crossed her arms over her chest.
"What?" asked Emily after a minute of silence.
"So I was right, your little screw up is the reason I'm here today." Said Robert, Emily looked shocked.
"Excuse me?" asked Emily.
"You heard me, I'm only here because you messed up and you couldn't obey me." Said Robert.
"What did I do? Go on Dad, say it! Say it out loud! Proclaim to the world why you abandoned me, why I suddenly didn't exist when you were talking to your colleagues about your 'perfect little family'!" said Emily, her voice rising.
"YOU GOT PREGNANT!" shouted her father, Emily saw the conference door open and the team step out with her mother, all watching Hotch's office intently.
"I WAS FIFTEEN! I WAS ONLY FIFTEEN, I MADE ONE MISTAKE AND YOU ABANDONED ME. THE ONE TIME I NEEDED THE SUPPORT OF MY FATHER YOU TURNED YOUR BACK ON ME AND PRETENDED THAT I DIDN'T EXIST!" shouted Emily.
"I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING AND YOU THREW IT ALL AWAY" shouted back Robert.
"YOU THREW ME AWAY, AS SOON AS YOU HEARD. YOU TOLD ME I WAS NO LONGER YOUR DAUGHTER AND YOU REFUSED TO SPEAK TO ME! WELL EXCUSE ME IF I DECIDE TO IGNORE YOU NOW!" shouted Emily before storming out of the office, Morgan was waiting outside, he was about to say something when Emily pushed past him.
"I need some air." Was all she said, Morgan balled his hands into fists to keep him from exploding and launching himself at Emily's father who left the office a moment later. Instead he turned around and went after Emily.
Morgan found Emily right outside the FBI, crying. As soon as she noticed him she wiped her tears away.
"I'm fine." Said Emily, Morgan shook his head.
"No you are not, Emily you don't always have to compartmentalize stuff. I'm here, talk to me." Said Derek.
"How much did you hear?" asked Emily.
"Everything after you guys started yelling, a little bit before." Said Morgan softly, Emily took a deep breath.
"He still blames me for a mistake I made nearly 30 years ago. After all this time, he hasn't let it go." Said Emily.
"Then that's on him, he missed out on raising the most amazing woman I have ever met. He should realize that we all make mistakes." Said Morgan, Emily looked at him.
"Thank you, we should get back inside." Emily was about to move passed Morgan when he reached out a hand to stop her, he pulled her close and kissed her.
"That's my girl, let's go solve this case so we can kick your dad out of the BAU." Said Morgan softly before they walked back into the building together.
"Are you ok?" JJ asked Emily when they walked back into the conference room, Emily smiled at her and gave a reassuring nod.
"Yeah, so what's the game plan?" Emily asked Hotch
"Prentiss you will stay here with your parents because you still can't go into the field. Morgan, you and…" Emily interrupted him, anger flaring in her eyes.
"All due respect sir I'm fine and ready to go back into the field, the stitches are completely dissolved, I might not even have a scar." Protested Emily
"Prentiss your doctor said at least a week, it hasn't been that long yet." Said Hotch, Emily scoffed.
"Please that kid was barely out of medical school, I'm fine." Said Emily.
"Don't talk back to your superiors Emily, I thought I raised you better thAn that." interjected her dad, Emily turned to glare at him.
"Oh go to hell dad, you didn't raise me at all and this isn't your problem." Spat Emily before looking back at Hotch, her arms crossed over her chest and an eyebrow raised.
"Show me that you can move your arm and hold a gun." Requester Hotch, Emily moved her arm in a full circle and took her gun out of her belt, turning and pointing it at her father.
"Can I go into the field?" asked Emily, her gun still pointed at her father, Hotch sighed.
"Lower your weapon. Prentiss, you, Morgan and JJ will go to the latest crime scene and see what else you can learn about our Unsub. Rossi, you, Garcia and I will start working on victimology and Reid will start on the geographical profile. Ambassador Prentiss, Mr. Alexander, you are welcome to stay in here, in fact we would prefer it because you may be in danger. If you need anything just ask one of the agents around here, I will inform them that you should get whatever you need." Said Hotch, the team got moving immediately.
"Thank you, Agent Hotchner" said Ambassador Prentiss, Hotch nodded to her as he left.
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