Hotch and Emily ran over to the window and watched helplessly as the doctors and nurses worked feverishly to save Jack, Emily wrapped her arms around him and rocked him back and forth saying, "he is gonna be alright, he is gonna be alright". After several shock attempts they were finally able to stablize Jack.
The doctor came out and looked at Hotch and Emily and said, "since he is stabilizing we are gonna rush him up to surgery", Hotch looked at the doctor and whispered, "can we please see him for a minute"?, he patted Hotch on the shoulder and said, "yes we can give you a minute before we take him upstairs".
Hotch started inside to see his son and then he noticed that Emily wasn't coming, he held out his hand and said, "he needs both of us now", she put her hand in his and with tears streaming down both of their faces they walked through the double doors. Hotch walked over and looked down at the pale lifeless body of his son and the only word he could think of was why.
Emily felt her heart break as she walked around on the other side of Jacks bed, she reached down and carefully put his small hand in hers and rubbed her thumb over his hand and said, "I love you Jack and I know that you are gonna be alright". The doctor walked through the doors and said, "I'm so sorry but we need to take him up now".
Hotch leaned over and gently kissed his sons forehead and whispered, "daddy loves you Jack and I will be right here waiting for you, we both will be here waiting on you". Hotch and Emily followed the gurney to the end of the hall before they were stopped by the nurse, she looked at the two of them and said, "I'm sorry but you can't go back there". Hotch looked at the nurse and said, "is there anything that we can do for Jack"?, the nurse looked down at Jacks information and said, "I see that he has AB- blood do either of you have that rare type?, Emily smiled at the nurse and said, "I have the same blood type as Jack does, I will donate blood".
The nurse smiled at her and said, "follow me mam and we will get you taken care of as quickly as possible so you can get back out to your son", Emily felt her heart jump and then she said, "oh he isn't my son". The nurse hurried her down the hall and into the lab, a few minutes later Emily was done and headed back to the waiting room to rejoin Hotch.
The hospital was filled to capacity and the lab was backed up so Emilys paperwork got mistakenly marked for DNA testing, the nurse hurriedly started working so that Jack could have the blood he needed and so that she could get the DNA testing started. Emily put her hand on Hotch's shoulder and said,
"how are you holding up"?, he put his face in his hands and said, "I feel like I could just explode, what the hell happened, a few hours ago he was so happy and full of life and now he is upstairs fighting for his life". Hotch looked down at the floor and said, "I will find who did this to the two of you and I promise you that I will make them pay".
Emily sat down beside him and said, "have you contacted the team yet?, he looked up at her and said, "no I haven't and I don't know if I am gonna be able to talk to them right now". She put her hand on his and said, "would you like me to call them, who knows maybe they can help find out who did this and why". Hotch nodded his head and said, "thank you Emily, I don't know what I would do without you", she smiled as she got up and walked across the room.
Hotch watched as she walked out the door, he then bowed his head and said, "please God, please don't take him away from me, he is my life and without him I would be lost". He then got up and started pacing back and forth across the waiting room, he was to nervous, his world right now was swirling out of control and the only thing keeping him centered while Jack was in surgery was Emily.
Emily takes a deep breath and dials the oh so famailar number of the one and only Penelope baby girl Garcia, she sighs as she listens to the phone ring. After a few rings a deep voice answers and says, "Morgan", she laughed and said, "Derek, why are you answering Garicas phone"?, he sighed and sleepily said, "it was a mistake our phones are side by side on the table". Emily laughed and said, "I knew it, I knew that the two of you would get together".
Derek laughed and said,"Em not that I'm not glad to hear from you but why are you calling at 3:30 in the morning"?, she said, "I have bad news for you". Derek said, "what happened Em, are you alright"?, she took a deep breath and said, "I was surprised by two handsome visitors today", Derek grinned and said, "I thought you said that you had bad news, that sounds pretty good to me", Derek waited and then a few seconds later he heard Emily crying into the phone.
He said, "Emily your really scaring me now, what happened", she took a deep breath between sobs and said, me, Hotch and Jack were at the park down from my house and I'm not sure because it all happened so fast, but in a matter of a few seconds I got shot in the shoulder and Jack got hit by a huge car". Derek took a deep breath and said, "oh God no is he", Emily stopped his sentence and said, "he is alive, and in surgery, it looks bad Derek, it looks really really bad".
Pen raised up and said, "what's wrong"?, Emily stood there listening as Derek brought Pen up to speed, she grabbed a pen and piece of paper and took down the make and liscense number of the car that hit Jack and got a description on the man that shot Emily. Pen said, "I will get my babies right on this my raven haired beauty". Emily smiled at the sound of her nickname falling from Pens lips, she said, thanks guys, I better get back in to Hotch,
I will let you know something when we find out he is out of surgery and in his own room".
Penelope was now openly crying, she said, "how is the bossman holding up". Emily sighed and said, "not good Pen, not good at all and I promise I will call you with more information when we learn it". She wiped away the tears as Derek wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her head, she said,
"he loves you ya know", she laughed and said, "what", she said, "bossman loves you and needs you more than you know sweetie".
Derek said, "just let us know how he is doing and we will go ahead and get packed and be ready to head out", Emily smiled and said, "I love you guys you know that right"?, Derek smiled and said, "we love you to", seconds later the call ended. Penelope warmed up her baby as Derek started throwing some stuff together for them so that when Emily called back they could be ready to go.
Emily walks back inside and sits down beside Hotch and says, "have you heard anything yet", he shook his head no and said, "nothing, not a word", she put her hand in his and said, "I wonder how long this surgery is gonna take"?, he looked at her and said, "the nurse told me that it could take 7 to 8 hours or more".
Emily and Hotch sat and talked as they waited on news of Jack, finally several hours later the doctor came over to the worried couple and said, "he came through good". They both took a sigh of relief and Hotch said, "when can we see him"?, the doctor wiped his hand across his head and said, in a few hours, he is in recovery right now".
Hotch looked at the doctor and said, "are you holding something back from us"?, he said, "will the two of you follow me please", they quickly followed the doctor into a room and waited patiently as he pulled out some paperwork. Hotch looked at him and said, "what did you want to tell us doctor"?, he started explaining about the bloodwork and blood markers and all of it was more than a little confusing to the couple.
Hotch looked at him and said, "what does this have to do with my son". he took a deep breath and said, "according to the results, the DNA results the blood that was drawn from Ms. Prentiss was a famalial match to Jack". Hotch looked at him and said, "are you saying", the doctor stopped him and said, "what I'm saying Agent Hotchner is that, MS. PRENTISS IS JACKS MOTHER"