Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry I haven't been able to update! Things have just been so super busy :( How awesome is the new season of CM? I guess this story is now AU, but I hope you guys still enjoy it.

"Yes, I understand. We'll be there as well as Ms. Prentiss. Thank you Sir, see you then." JJ hung up the phone and sighed. This was going to be extremely difficult. As she made her way out of her office and into the bullpen, JJ thought over her phone conversation as she passed by Morgan and Reid who were deep in thought at their respective desks. Stepping onto the catwalk, JJ quickly knocked on Hotch's door and entered as she heard his gruff answer.

"Hey Hotch, sorry to bother you. I just got a phone call from a representative from the Senate committee. We have a bit of a problem."

"No, JJ it's fine." Hotch replied as he looked up from his desk that was covered with some files from cases that he needed to fill out. "What's wrong?" He asked with a look of concern.

"Apparently, the Bureau had filled out some paperwork in the wake of Emily returning, Well, the Senate has now intervened and we are being requested at a formal meeting in front of the committee to decide whether they will allow for her to return." JJ waited for Hotch to process the information. His brow furrowed as he spoke:

"When you say 'we'...you mean?-"

"The entire team Hotch. They are requiring us all to give statements about her and answer questions on the whole Doyle situation."

"I see. Have you told Emily about this?" Hotch asked.

"I'm going to call her, but I wanted to let you know. What do you think we should do? I know we're letting the team know in a few days, but can we honestly expect them to give formal statements on her behalf?" JJ was becoming increasingly worried. Hotch and herself had known Emily was alive the entire time and giving their statements would be simple having known the truth; but the others? how willing would they be to protect the woman who had deceived them?

"JJ," he started, "call Emily. Tell her to come in tomorrow. We'll tell the team, and let them know about the meeting. That gives them two days to prepare. After that, we can only hope for the best."

"Emily Prentiss, I swear to God, if you EVER pull a stunt like this again, I will wipe your entire existence from cyber space!" Garcia sobbed as she enveloped Emily into a death grip/hug.

"PG..." Emily took a shaky breath as she tried to fight back the tears as she hugged the blonde back with just as much desperation, "I'm so sorry. I can't imagine what you've all been through." she said as she pulled back to quickly look at everyone, then back to Garcia. "I thought about you all every day; remembering you guys is what got me through."

The girls hugged once more as Reid silently made his way over to the brunette with caution written across his face. Emily looked up with a hesitant glance and braced herself for a variety of responses from the young genius.

"You...you left without saying goodbye. I didn't...JJ told me... I tried to see you..." For one of the first times in his life, Dr. Reid was speechless. So many emotions were running through his brain at top speed. Emily touched his arm and looked him straight in the eye.

"Reid. You're never going to have to say goodbye to me alright? I'm not going anywhere ever again." She knew there was so much more to be said between the two of them, but for now, it was all they could muster. Turning to face Rossi, Emily smiled when she saw the big grin on his face.

"Do you know how good it is to see you kid?" he chuckled. Emily snickered in response and moved towards the older agent.

"Thank you for being so great!" It was definitley a relief to know that Rossi wasn't upset with her. He was like a father to her and the thought of dissapointing him was something that Emily couldn't handle. Taking a long and deep breath, Prentiss knew there was just one person left to face. Turning around once more, she looked unto the tortured face of her partner; the guy who had saved her life those months ago; the guy who had told her to just squeeze his hand and hold on.

"Morgan..." Emily started as Derek stayed with the same look of disbelief on his face that he had had since Hotch had revealed the big secret. "You didn't deserve this Morgan, oh God I am so sorry. I never wanted to put you through that." Emily went to hug her partner and slightly jumped when he recoiled from her touch.

"You're damn right I didn't deserve that Prentiss!" he suddenly shouted as he sprung to life. It was if her trying to touch him had woken him from his daze of shock; now he was just outright angry. "You have no idea what we went through, what I went through!" Making his way to the door of the conference room, he looked back at his "team" and cut Hotch off as he was about to say something. "No Hotch! Don't try and calm me down alright? Both you and JJ knew this whole time and lied straight to my face! And now she has the audacity to come back here after all those months and expect me to go back to normal? It doesn't work like that!" He was now spitting as he yelled and turned to face Garica. "Garcia, how can you forget all the hours you spent looking at her picture in the hall?" Penelope began to tear up once again, this time out of sadness.

"Morgan, please.." Emily began.

"No, Emily. NO! I trusted you with my life, and you couldn't return the favour. Simple as that!" With one last meancing glare at Emily as he told her that with as much hostility as he could, Derek stormed out of the room and slammed the door closed with such force the windows in the room actually shook leaving the rest of team members in silence.

Emily just stared at the door. She couldn't be stunned in reality, she had expected Morgan to take the news the hardest, but the words he had shouted still rang through her ears as she closed her eyes. What had she expected? For him to run into her arms like nothing had happened? Her doubts she had had that morning about coming back were slowly coming true. Maybe JJ was wrong; things would never be okay.

I know this chapter was a lot shorter than my first two, but I think it's the natural place to stop for a chapter :) Hope you all enjoyed reading, and I will definitley try to post sooner! Thanks for all the reviews and subscriptions-it means so much!