The Little Things – 03

Authors Note: I'll start by saying THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS! :] I updated faster than normal... I'm 3 reviews short from the last chapter, I hope you're still intrested.

And now I'll answer this question I got, regarding Rossi and his age. I never really thought that through, it didn't even cross my mind! But just say he's like 55 now or something :]

And for everyone else's ages, I'll make Emily 39, Hotch around 43 or so. Derek around 40, Spencer will be around 35, Penelope will be around 35 also. And JJ will be 36. :] Clears things up?

I put their ages like that because I didnt want them to be too old. Please don't make a huge deal about it, it's NOT that big of a deal..

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"What?" Emily asked as she gave JJ a confused look. "Did we talk?"

"Yes, Emily. Did you and Hotch talk." JJ told her with a nod, Emily nodded slowly.

"Yes, we did talk. We work together, it's hard not to JJ." Emily said as she took a sip of her drink and looked off in the direction of Avery and Henry, trying to seem like she wasn't paying attention, but that was stupid to do when it came to JJ, JJ could care less if you looked un intrested.

"Sooo..." JJ said as she put her hands up, Emily glanced as her and but the glass back on the table.

"So?"

"SO what did you talk about?" JJ said in a 'duh' tone, Emily raised her eyebrows.

"The way the victim was murdered." Emily told her with a nod. JJ raised her eyebrows.

"Okay," JJ scoffed, Emily nodded and took another sip.

"Mom! I almost got 300 tickets! Can I have some more money?"Henry said as he rushed over to JJ, Avery finding close behind, JJ sighed and grabbed her wallet and looked in it.

"This is all I have. You better share it with Avery, Henry." JJ said as she handed her son a twenty.

"Thanks mom!" he said as he turned around.

"Henry."

"I know, I know." Henry said as he ran away with the money, Emily laughed and shook her head.

"300 tickets for 40 bucks," JJ said with a groan.

"Here," Emily said as she reached in her purse.

"Are you kidding, Em? No way." JJ said as she crossed her arms and leaned back, nudging Emily with her foot lightly. "Now, come on. You are not telling me everything."

"I so am." Emily said as she took a sip, JJ raised her eyebrows and gave Emily the 'Henry, Don't you dare look', or in this case, the 'Emily, don't you dare' look. "Fine," Emily sighed as she placed her drink on the table and sighed, JJ smirked and Emily looked at her. "It's not exciting, at all. But I said 'Jack's 16 now?' and he said 'yes', then I asked how he's doing in high school, Hotch said Jack's a very diligent worker and the lowest grade he brought home was an 89, which is not low at all. And I said 'He's growing up to be a mini Hotch', which is completely lame.. I know." Emily told her, JJ smiled and sat up.

"That's not lame! You guys are talking!" JJ sounded ecstatic. Emily nodded.

"Yeah, well we're not talking about the things we should be talking about." Emily said with a sigh, even though she was glad that's the way it was.

"It's a start though, Em." JJ said, Emily looked at Avery again.

"I just can't imagine what it's like to grow up without a father... and just the thought that it's me that keeping Avery from that."

"It's not you, Emily. You did what you thought was right at the time and what you have right now is a second chance. You can choose to take it." JJ said, Emily looked at her.

"That was very inspirational, did you get it from a fortune cookie?" Emily asked, not in a way of making fun of her, and JJ understood that, she shook her head.

"Shut up, Em."

x x x

"How was your date Friday night?" Derek said as he walked over to Emily as she was getting a cup of coffee. Emily looked at him. Derek thought Emily was pulling a fast one on him and Emily realized it.

"It was great!" Emily said with a smile. "Yeah, we went to a pizza place with an arcade." Derek raised his eyebrows. "I hung out with JJ and Henry." she said as she walked away.

"Em, so you were on a date with JJ. I don't judge you." Derek said as he sat down, with a smirk, Emily shook her head and rolled her eyes, Spencer looked up at the two of them, he caught the wrong end of that conversation.

"Yeah, and Will's totally fine with it." Emily said, sarcastically of course.

"I bet," Derek said with a smirk, Emily rolled her eyes.

"Have I told you you're a pig lately?" Emily asked him as she flipped through the paper.

"I believe it was more than 10 years ago my dear Emily." Derek told her.

"Oh," Emily said and nodded. "Well, you're a pig." she said with a smile, Derek chuckled and shook his head.

"I just heard the wrong end of that conversation." Spencer said, Emily looked at him.

"I'm not dating JJ. Morgan's just an idiot."

x x x

"I mean you disappeared for 10 years, the least I should get is an explanation, Emily." Penelope Garcia continued her long rant as they walked through the city of Quantico at the lunch break that was more like a almost dinner break, seeing is that it was 4:30 p.m., Emily was swamped with work, and Penelope wanted to get lunch with Emily because they haven't seen each other in a while. "And the only time we ever saw each other was JJ's parties, I'm not mad, Em, I would just like-"

"An explanation, I know Garcia."

"And would you quit with the Garcia, I know it's a lot easier to say and has less syllables then Penelope, but we're not on the job right now. Emily." Penelope put emphasis on her name to show that she doesn't call her Prentiss when they're not on the job, usually when she calls her Prentiss it's only when they're on the case, and hardly even then.

"Sorry, Penelope. Force of habit." Emily apologized, Penelope raised her eyebrows as they walked into the head quarters of the FBI, flashing their badges to the security guard. "And I can tell you the explanation when I have it all figured out. I don't even know where to begin to be honest." Emily explained as they went into the elevator. Penelope nodded.

"Derek told me you had a date Friday night," Penelope said, Emily looked at her and laughed. "What?"

"It was not a date I went to eat with JJ and Henry at the Pizza Arcade." Emily said, Penelope laughed.

"Wow, Derek get's a little to ahead of himself." Penelope said as they walked out of the elevator.

"Tell me about it." Emily said as she opened the glass doors. "You coming in here or going to your office?" Penelope thought for a minute.

"We have 15 more minutes til we're supposed to be back," Penelope said with a shrug. "Sure." Emily smiled and held the door open before walking over to her desk and setting her coffee cup down.

"How did you get in here, anyway? What are you? Eight? You could have a bomb in your backpack for all the security guard knows." Derek said as he walked over to his desk.

"I'm ten for your information." Emily froze in her spot and hesitated to turn around, when she did she almost screamed.

"Avery." Emily said in a condescending way, Penelope looked at Emily and then the girl, and Derek looked up to Emily, Avery looked at her mom and looked very guilty.

"You know her?" Derek asked, Emily nodded.

"Yeah, uh, I do." Emily said as she walked over to Avery. "I'll be right back." she said as she grabbed onto Avery's arm and pulled her into a different room, she didn't pull her hard though. "Avery, what are you doing here? How did you get here? You told me this was okay with you yesterday. Do Kayla's parent's know where you are?"

"Mom, calm down."

"Avery, you are asking me to calm down, you're ten and you show up at my work when you're supposed to be over Kayla's!" Emily said, she didn't mean to raise her voice.

"I don't wanna go there anymore mom! Kayla's brother Jake said something mean to me and Kayla laughed..." Avery said, Emily calmed down almost instantly when she said that.

"What did he say to you?" Emily asked, Jake was 14 and started to have a mouth on him, he cursed in front of them once and she didn't like it.

"He called me something mean, I don't wanna get in trouble for saying it." Avery said as she looked down, Emily sighed and knelt down to eye level with her.

"If you tell me, you wont get in trouble. But I need to know so I can talk to his mother about it and so that it wont happen again, okay?" Emily asked, Avery nodded.

"He called me a bastard because I didn't grow up with a dad." she said in a low voice, Emily was shocked and didn't know what to say, this has never come up before, but she knew itmight, eventually. Emily sighed.

"Well I'm sorry he said that and it was uncalled for, I'll take you back-"

"No, mom, please don't make me go back there." Avery begged, Emily let out a sigh.

"Stay right here. I'll be back in 5 minutes." Emily told her before walking away, taking her phone out and calling JJ, after she got off the phone with her she walked over to Hotch's office and knocked on the door.

"Come in." he said, Emily walked in and looked at Hotch.

"Uhm, I have to go take care of something personal... it should only take about a half hour..." Emily said, Hotch looked at her then outside and saw a the little girl he saw with her a few moments ago, standing by the glass doors, Hotch then looked back at her.

"Just make sure you're back by 5:30, we're going to debrief for an hour." Hotch told her, Emily nodded.

"Thanks, Hotch." she said before walking out and over to grab her car keys.

"Where are you going?" Penelope asked, Emily looked up.

"Uh, I have to drop Avery off at my friends." Emily said before running off with Avery, Penelope looked at Derek. Penelope just figured that Avery was her friends kid, Derek shrugged it off. Hotch didn't, he walked out of his office.

"Whose that girl?" Hotch asked Penelope from behind her, Penelope jumped and looked at him.

"I-I was just getting back to work, sir."

"You're on lunch, it's fine." Hotch said. "But I think your hacking skills may be of assistance to me..."