A week later Randi was sitting outside watching the kids play in the mini pool when there was a knock on the door, hearing Derek call that he would get it she relaxed and sipped on her iced tea, but then it all happened in a flash. Three gun shots and glass breaking, shouts and more gun shots, jumping from her chair she rushed the kids into the garage and told Richie to lock it be hind her, grabbing her fathers old shot gun from a shelf she shut the door and walked around to the sliding door leading into the kitchen, Derek was laying on the floor gasping for air as Emanuel stood over him with a gun,
"Randi, Randi, Randi, this is who you have to protect you, to protect my children?" he said and looked over at her.
"Get away from him you bustard!" She yelled and cocked the gun, "I swear to God I will shoot you"
"You been sleeping with him? Huh you letting him do things to you?" Emanuel asked shaking with rage "I am your husband! I am the only one who can touch you!"
"GET AWAY FROM HIM" she yelled again and shot, barley missing his head
"Oh big bad ass now huh?" he said and started laughing
"Derek ?" Randi said
"I'm okay" he replied and tried to scoot out from under Emanuel,
"Come on you bitch try again!" and when she pulled the trigger nothing happened "So sorry" he said and all she herd was a shot, suddenly her chest felt heavy and the room was spinning.
"Derek… the kids… garage" she said and then blacked out.
Derek sat in the hospital waiting room with the kids, after Randi had been shot Hotchner and JJ had come storming in guns raised and had gotten Emanuel to put his gun down. It was over and his shot at a normal life was slipping away, while Randi was in the OR. Looking over at the kids he saw that Richie was reading the little ones a story and Alexis was sleeping in his lap. They were strong like Randi, the last few months had been hell for them and still they seemed to be doing okay.
Looking up he saw a doctor coming down the hall way. "how is she?" Hotchner asked
"Good, the bullet missed all of her organs and she should be up and around in a few days" Derek shook the docs hand and finally let his tears fall. she was okay, she was going to be alright.
"Derek" JJ started
"I thought she was gone, God there was so much blood and I couldn't get too her." he said and sat down. "all she was trying to do was protect her kids and he shot her. She was pleading with him to let me go, how could I have been so weak?"
"Derek your not weak, you put your self in the way, if you hadn't been there he would have killed her and the kids… because you were there she is alive and the kids are alive. that's not weakness." Hotchner said
The next month was a blur, Randi was allowed to go home after a few days and a week after that she went back to work, and school. Derek had backed off letting Penelope take care of Randi, and she knew that wouldn't change, Randi knew that what she thought could happen between her and Derek was just stress and loneliness. But for some reason she still longed for it, she still wished she would wake up and he would be snoring on her couch, and that she could throw a pillow at him to wake him up. But it was over and she had spent so much time wishing for things that she was ready to move on and build her life over again.
A year later Randi stood in her new house watching the kids once again play in the mini pool, they had gotten so much bigger over the year and she was amazed at how well they were doing, She never did hear from Derek after she got out of the hospital and wasn't surprised by it. She had kept in close contact with the rest of the team though and was delighted to see them all show up at her college graduation, with a job offer, they needed a new computer analyst since their case loads had tripled and Garcia just wouldn't admit that she couldn't do it alone anymore. Randi accepted with glee and the next day she started.
Walking into the BAU the next morning Randi smiled and hugged a waiting Emily. "Its so good to see you" Emily said and lead her into the conference room.
"I'm glad to be here, I actually have a job where I am not waiting tables!" she replied excitedly
"Randi?" turning she saw Derek in the door holding a cup of coffee "what are you doing here?"
"I'm your new techky!" she said and smiled at him.
"Oh…." as he turned to leave Randi grumbled.
"you know you don't have to be so damn rude!"
"What?" he said and turned back around
"I'm sorry if I am intruding on your ground but this is my job now and your just going to have to live with it. You didn't call you didn't even come over to see if I was okay after I got SHOT!"
"Well I didn't think you wanted me…" he started and then stopped " you know what never mind, got ahead and play on your computers I'll stay out of your way"
"God, Why do you have to be so hard headed. I don't want you to stay out of my way!" she yelled and sat down "I've missed you"
"I… I missed you too" walking over to her Derek sat down in the chair next to hers
"then why didn't you call?"
"I was scared, I thought I had lost you, that ….. I'd never be able to laugh at you for burning the pancakes again or ever see you walk out of your room half awake with your hair all a mess." Randi smiled shyly and put her hands on his face,
"All you had to do was come home. I waited, the kids ask about you all the time."
"I call Riche's cell phone every day" he said and smirked
"Oh he's grounded" she said and pulled Derek into a kiss.
Derek sighed and kissed her back.
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