Ch.1
"Babe can you please stop passing and just go ask her?" Reid asks staring at his computer as Carter passes behind his desk.
"Shut up" She says giving the back of his head a scowl and kept on passing.
"It is really annoying." Seaver says from her desk.
"Sorry Ashley" She says walking over to her.
"Oh thank god your here today." Prentiss say to Carter as she walks in. "I need to talk to you."
"Lets go up to my office." She says looking a little confused.
"Where are they going?" Morgan asks walking into the bullpen with Garcia.
"Emily says she needs to talk to Carter." Seaver says
"So what's up Em?" Carter asks sitting down in her desk.
"I think something happened this morning with Hotch."
"As in... what?" Carter asks getting more interested.
"I don't know." Prentiss says starting to pase. "It was just like..."
"A moment?"
"Yea" Prentiss says. Carter claps her hands over her mouth like a little girl who just learned their best friend likes someone on the playground at school. "Stop! It was probably nothing."
"Yes. And nothing that I am going to tell J.J." She says picking up her phone and starting to text.
"Just don't let it get to Hotch, okay? You two can have a field day with it but keep it to yourselves?" Prentiss says walking toward the door.
"Yes ma'am." Carter says without looking up from the phone.
Prentiss shakes her head and walks back down to the bullpen. "She didn't come back down with you?" Reid asks when she reaches her desk.
"She said something about calling J.J so she stayed up there." She says sitting down. She hoped Carter did not actually call J.J and then Reid went up there and they were talking about it. She thinks as Reid walks up to his office.
"You would think they would be able to be away from each other for a few minutes." Morgan says turning around in his chair.
"Let them go. Apparently they are having a though time lately. They are trying to work it out." J.J says walking up behind them.
"Hey" Prentiss says getting up from her seat and giving her a hug.
"Hi" Morgan says walking over as well.
"I need to talk to you about a text I just got." J.J says pointing at Prentiss.
"You did not come here just because of that?"
"No. I was on my way here already. But I think we should go up to Ady's office." She says grabbing her hand and they walk away.
"Do you feel left out?" Morgan asks turning to Seaver.
"Just a little." She says
Ch.2
"Are we going to go get some lunch?" Carter asks walking into the bullpen with J.J.
"Sounds good to me." Prentiss says standing up and grabbing her coat.
"I'm in" Reid says standing up as well.
"I could eat." Seaver says getting up.
"Let me go grab Garcia. " Morgan says getting up and walking back toward her office.
Someone's phone starts ringing. "I think that you." J.J says to Prentiss. She grabs her purse and takes out her phone.
"Hey Hotch." She says
"Hey, Jack needs to go to the doctor and he wants you to come." Hotch says
"Of course I will go." She says
"Can you be here in about ten minutes. I give you permission to leave work." He says
"Thanks" She says with a sort of laugh. "Yea I will leave now."
"I guess you are not coming?" Carter asks
"Agent Carter" Strauss calls from the cat walk around the bullpen.
"I guess you are not either." J.J says
"Do you want us to wait?" Reid asks
"No go ahead."
"Good luck." He says squeezing her arm as they walk by.
She turns and walks up to meet Strauss. "Yes ma'am"
"I would like to speech to you in my office." She says motioning Carter back. When they get back Carter sits down in front of Strauss' desk as Strauss sits behind it. "The CIA found some information about your family."
"Did they find them?"
"They did" She says taking a big vanilla envelope from her desk drawl and hands it to her. "In that is ways to tell they. Ways to come around and where they are of course."
"Thank you" She says standing up to leave.
"Wait" Strauss says stopping her. She turns around and sits back down. "And here are papers for two weeks off for you and Doctor Reid."
"Thank you Chef Strauss." She says standing with her papers and walking out.
She didn't leave for the restaurant. She didn't call anyone to say she wasn't coming she just went to her office and started reading. She couldn't wait to see them again.
Prentiss sat in the waiting room with Jack in the seat next to her colouring in a colouring book. Hotch stood at the desk handing in some paperwork. "Jack Hotchner?" A nurse says walking out.
"Hotch" Prentiss calls over to him from the desk.
"Okay Buddy" He says picking up Jack and they follow the nurse back to a small room. The walls have sea creatures on them meant to make the kids feel better. It looked more scary then friendly. Prentiss thought.
"What are we doing here, Daddy?" Jack asks as Hotch sets him down on the little table.
"The nice men and women are going to make you feel better." Prentiss answers for Hotch when he seems lost for words.
"Mr. and Mrs Hotchner, have either of you been sick before Jack became ill?" The nurse asks from her computer at the end of the little room.
"Oh were not married." Prentiss says
"Are you not Jack's mother?" The nurse asks.
"No. His mother died about a year ago. This is a friend of mine." Hotch says "And to answer your question. No neither of us have been sick for a while."
"Alright Jack" The nurse says. "I will let your dad help you put this on and we will meet you in the hallway." She says motioning Prentiss out of the room.
"May I ask how Jack's mother died?" The nurse asks with his folder open and pen in hand.
"It would not have anything to write in there. She was killed."
"Oh my god" The nurse says her hand flying to her mouth pen still in it.
"Jack has not been so understa
nding while he was sick. But when I am around Jack does not ask for her so Hotch likes that."
"May I ask why you call him Hotch?"
"He is my boss and it is just what I know him as." She says. The nurse looked a little concerned. Probably the fact that Prentiss worked under Hotch.
"You are dating your boss?"
"No! We are not together at all. I am just helping him until Jack feels better." Prentiss says still a little shaky from the accusation.
"I'm sorry." The nurse says. "What is your name?"
"Emily" Prentiss says just as Jack and Hotch come out.
"Well don't you look cute." Prentiss says to Jack. Which makes him smile as he follows the women to the scale and the height area.
"Thanks Emily." Hotch says sticking his hands in his jeans pockets.
"Of course." Prentiss says "It's been nice, seeing you not in a suit."
Hotch smiles. "Yea, I guess I do not dress down very much huh?"
"I have only seen it a few times and it was because we were hiking through woods on cases." Prentiss says, they both laugh. It was nice to have a friend outside the office besides J.J. Prentiss thought.
Ch.3
Reid and Carter sit on a plane. Carter sits there chewing her nails and staring into space. "You okay?" Reid asks taking her other hand.
"Just a little nervous." She says
"I can tell" He says turning the other way to look out the window on his left.
"Hello passengers. Your seat belts need to be fastened for we will land in ten minutes." A women's voice says over the loud speaker. Reid and Carter sit up and fasten their seat belts.
"You ready?" Reid asks
"No..." Carter says almost non coherently.
Reid and Carter stand in front of a big house that looked very... British. "Alright go stand over there as I talk to them." Reid says pointing over to the tree.
"When did we decide this?"
"When you said that you did not want whoever answers the door to pass out when they see you." He says dropping his arm from around her waist.
"Fine" She says walking over to the tree.
Reid steps up to the door and knocks. He steps back a step and puts his hands in his pockets. A women, who looked about sixty opens the door and looks very confused. "Hello ma'am." Reid says taking his hands out of his pockets.
"I do not want to buy anything." She says trying to close the door.
"No ma'am. I am not trying to sell something." Reid says with a smile. "I am here to talk to your family. I knew your daughter."
"She died ten years ago." The women says dropping her hand from the door and crossing her arms across her chest.
"I know." He says "Can I speak with you?"
"Yes, come in" She says motioning her in. "You came at a nice time. Andis's brothers are here with their family."
"I was not aware she had brothers." Reid says as the women leads them through the big house.
"She has two older brother. The oldest is 39, the next 36 and then came Andris who was 18 when she died. She would have been 28 in a week."
"I know."
"You knew her well?"
"Yes, I did" Reid says as she leads them into an area where an older man who must have been Andris's father and two guys who must have been her brother sitting with their wives. Then two girls who looked to be in their teens. A boy and a girl who looked to be around eleven. And a girl who looked to be about five.
"Who is this?" The older man says standing up from where he was playing with the little girl.
"He knew Andris. He wants to talk to us." She says before adding, "Lisa, Marie how about you take the kids out side to play for a while." They all leave and the women goes to sit with the men on the sofa.
"My name is Doctor Spencer Reid."
"Adam" The one who looks the oldest says outstanding his hand. Spencer shakes it.
"Robert" The younger one says standing up and shaking his hand before sitting back down.
"Joseph" The dad says leaning forward and shaking his hand.
"I'm Jackie" The mother says
"So, when did you know Andris?" Adam asks
"Please do not tell me you were the reason she was in America." Robert says
"No... ummm..." Reid forgot what they had planned for him to say. "The reason Andris was in America was because she wanted to join an agency called the CIA."
"Wait, that is real?" Robert asks he looked surprised as a smiles comes across his and Adams faces.
"Boys" Jackie says with a stern voice which makes Reid smile.
"To join the CIA you have to create a story to keep your family away. So they could not be in danger with whatever the agents get into to." The whole family looked confused. "Andris decided since she was going to be living in a different country then her family it would be a better idea to..." He knew this would be the hardest part. "Create a story that made her dead."
The were all silent. They all looked so confused. Blank stares were seen all around. "So... are you saying our sister is still alive?" Adam says
"Yes, she was very worried that you would be angry and would not want to see her. But she really wants to see you."
"She's here?" Joseph asks
"I want to see my daughter." Jackie says standing up sounding like she was going to cry.
"Then turn around." Carter says standing there at the door leading to the kitchen. Jackie turns around and puts her hands fly to her mouth as she starts to cry. Adam and Robert run over to her and each pick her up in a huge hug.
"I can't believe your alive." Robert says with her still in his arms.
"I missed you" She says shoving his head into his shoulder as she cries.
"Andris we want to talk to you." Her mother says in a stern voice. The kids heads turn and then Robert puts her down.
"Don't get killed." Adam whispers in her ear as he walks back in the back yard with Robert.
"Mom, I am so sorry-" She starts walking over to her.
"Don't, why couldn't you just lie and say you were getting a job somewhere. Not... this."
"Because this was the safer way." She says. They stand there for a while looking at each other. Jackie starts to cool off just as Joseph stand up to hug here.
"Well I am no where close to angry. My little girl is here." He says. Andris looked lost in the big man's hug. He lets her go and her mother hugs her. Her mother was shorter than her and Andris looked so tall.
"Well..." Her mother says wiping her tears. "Are you going to tell us who this really is?" She says motioning at Reid.
"This is my boyfriend. We meet about a year ago when I was working. Now the reason I can see you again is I retired from the CIA to join him at working for the FBI." She says walking over and putting her arms around Reid.
"It's nice to meet you." She say walking over and giving him a hug.
