Chapter three people! Read!
"Alright agent, it has been four hours…"
"And I can leave?"
"You can try and stand. I am taking you off the IV and analyzing your motor skills."
"Alright."
Emily began to move and get out of the depressing hospital bed.
"No, let me help you."
The doctor grabbed her arm, but Prentiss swiped it away.
"I'm fine, can you please just let me do this?"
"No, I cannot risk you injuring yourself further Agent, just let me help you."
Prentiss was not about to hear that she could not do something by herself, she continued to push the doctor away, who soon became frustrated. The irritated doctor soon put bother her hand on Prentiss' shoulders, trying to keep her still, but the off guard agent yelped in pain at the pressure. Aaron, who was outside in the hall dashed in to see what was wrong.
"Prentiss?"
"I'm fine Hotch."
He tilted his head and looked at her.
"Can't you listen to the doctor for once?"
"I can stand."
"Not by yourself."
Emily slumped her shoulders and began biting her lip. Her eyes became glassy and she started to fumble with her fingers. Aaron placed a hand on the doctor's shoulder.
"Can we have a minute?"
The doctor slid out of the room and Hotch joined Prentiss on the bed.
"I hate being weak."
"You are not weak you are the strongest woman I know."
"Strong? Are you kidding me? I can't even stand. What strong person can't stand?"
"Can wounded soldiers stand? No, but they are strong."
She looked up at him with her shiny eyes. Now that the color was flushed back into her dear face she was starting to become herself again. A little bit headstrong and stubborn, sure, but in the most beautiful ways. She smiled at him and he stood up and took both of her hands, avoiding the cast on one of them.
"We can do this."
She rolled her feet off the bed and hissed at the pain in her ribs, but managed to get both feet on the floor. Hotch placed his hand on the small of her back and came a bit closer so she could rest her head on his shoulder. They looked like they were dancing, but they were not as graceful, but Emily managed to stand. She looked at him with hopeful eyes and pressed her lips against his in another sweet and warming kiss.
"Thank you Hotch."
"You're welcome, soldier."
…
Meanwhile Reid sat in the waiting room of the hospital, ripping through a medical book he had found. A cell phone buzzed in the coat that was on the chair he was sitting in. He turned around, curious, only to find that it was Rossi's jacket. He fished in the pocket of the coat and pulled out the phone.
Strauss
He flipped open the device and pressed to his ear, and began listening to a shrill rant streaming through the speakers, he did not even have a chance to say that it was him, not Rossi.
"Dave! Why are you not back yet? And why haven't you called me to tell me how the agents are doing? I know it is Aaron's job to keep me notified, but I personally asked you to keep me in the loop! Now, back here at the BAU, remember that place? Your workplace? Yeah, well I have had a case come in and I was hesitant to call you, being that I am still furious over the outcome of your last case, but I need you out here now, the case is in D.C. and I don't care if Prentiss does not work this one, but I need you back to work, or all of you will be compromised! Dave? Are you still there?"
"Um…"
"Dave? Is that you? I does not sound like you."
"Actually, ma'am, it is Agent Reid here."
"Reid? What are you doing with Dave's phone?"
"I was, uh, just holding it."
"Well you heard everything?"
"Yeah, um, what's the case about?"
"Maybe you should come over here and find out."
"But Prentiss…"
"I don't care, Reid. I need your team, here."
"We will get there."
"Now Reid!"
"Alright, I'll tell Rossi. And one note, we did find the unsub in the last case, so I do not think you need to be furious with us."
"Don't give me that. Tell Aaron, Dave, and Morgan, to get here on the jet, immediately. I was not joking about the team being compromised. And that includes you Doctor Reid."
"And leave an injured agent behind?"
"If that is what it takes. Goodbye Agent."
She hung up as Reid's heart began to beat faster. Morgan came up behind him.
"What's the matter kid?"
"I… uh… Nothing."
"Tell me."
"We might all be fired if we don't go back to D.C right away."
"What?"
"Strauss called Rossi, and said there is another case, and if we do not get on the jet immediately we might all me compromised."
"But Prentiss hasn't been cleared to fly yet."
"She does not seem to care."
"But we can't… I…"
"I know, I don't know what to do. We should probably ask Hotch."
"Hotch is going to want to stay, have you seen him being so protective of Emily?"
"Yeah, but maybe by the time we walk all the way upstairs to tell him, Prentiss will have been cleared to fly."
"You're a dreamer kid."
"Well I don't know if you can accurately place that in the category of dreams, it's more like I am a hope-er, I guess. Dreams are more like…"
"Well, I better start walking up all those stairs."
…
As Hotch and Prentiss stood in the middle of the room with Prentiss practically in his arms, he decided to cut loose and spew the question he so desperately needed help answering.
"What do you think I should do when we get back to D.C.?"
"What do you mean?"
"Should I take a leave?"
"If you feel you need to. Do you feel okay?"
"I feel fine. It's..."
"It's?"
"It's you I'm worried about"
"What? You can't take a leave for me! No way!"
"Why not?"
"Because, you can't, I'm fine see, I'm standing"
"I'm holding you up."
"No, you can't take a leave. You need to help the team, and you need to be there for Jack, and I'm fine. Not for me, you cannot risk your job for me."
"But I am by loving you."
"Don't remind me of that. You need to get back to work, and then everything we be a little more normal. Things will soon all be back to normal."
"Things will never be normal."
"Hotch, I can do this on my own. I have been doing things on my own for a long time, and just because I found someone that I love does not mean I am ready to let you all in yet. I still have this pride complex in me that will never let me live it down if I take you away from Jack and the BAU just to help me. I love you, just remember that, and when you come to see me, I will be there, and an unsub will be in jail, and you would have helped put him there. It's taking me a lot, to not beat myself up over having to have to stay here or take a leave because I have to recover. I would grab my gun and badge right now and start working a case if I could. But I realize I can't, but you have to."
"Why do you always have good answers?" He smiled, "But promise me that you will let me visit and take care of you then."
"You can visit."
There you go! What do you guys think? And I know this isn't a forum or anything, but what do you guys think about the real Prentiss storyline and that she is leaving! I love the storyline "Come at my team, and I will end you" (I love her) but I absolutely am devastated that Paget/Emily is leaving! Noooo! Well, bye for now!
