The Three Faces Of Emily

Disclaimer: CBS owns Criminal Minds, but we know that. I do own Mia and Millie, but I'll gladly trade them for Hotch...

Summary: Ian Doyle is dead and Emily's back from exile with one more secret...

Timeline: AU Present Day

Special Thanks To: romiross, kp4377, NicknHotchfan, "a" and HPforever-after for the reviews.

A/N: So thanks to everyone for reading and reviewing, keep leaving reviews they make me happy. Here's part four...

JJ and Millie stood outside of Strauss' door, awaiting her approval to enter.

Turning to the brunette, JJ asked, "Are you sure you're ready?"

"I am more then ready to return to the BAU." Millie said to the blonde.

JJ's questioning gaze at the brunette was cut off by Strauss' appearance.

"Agent Jareau, Agent Prentiss please come in." Strauss said returning to her chair.

"Thank you, Ma'am." JJ said as the two sat down.

"Agent Prentiss" Strauss said "First of all I want to commend you on your safe return. I know it goes for the director and the others that we are all glad you're safe."

"Thank you, Chief Strauss." Millie said in her monotone voice, raising an eyebrow from both Strauss and JJ.

"Anyways, we here at the Bureau would be thrilled if you'd like to return" Strauss said "We understand if you were hesitant and had some misgivings about returning. But suffice it to say we hope for your return."

"I'd love to return, ma'am." Millie said "I'm more than ready to get back to work."

"Good." Strauss said opening up her drawer "You'll just need to sign these papers and have mandatory counseling until Dr. Lane deems you capable."

"Certainly." Millie said, "Will there be anything else, ma'am?"

That caught JJ by surprise, and she looked over at Strauss' own surprised face.

"Agent Prentiss?" Strauss said "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Chief Strauss." Millie said "I thank you for your concern."

"Well if there's nothing else" Strauss said "Fill out your paper work and you can hand it to Agent Hotchner to give to me."

"Certainly, ma'am." Millie said getting up "Ma'am."

The two women watch Millie walk and both exchange a look.

Hotch sat in the break room talking to Dave when both men look up to see Millie enter the break room and head over to the coffee pot.

"Emily?" Dave said "How'd everything go with Chief Strauss? She didn't give you too hard of a time, did she?"

Millie turned to face Dave, placing the coffee mug on the counter, "Chief Strauss was more than adequate and fair. She welcomed me right back. I better get ready for my interview with Dr. Lane."

The two men watch her stroll out of the break room and nearly bump into Reid.

"My apologies." Millie said "Reid."

'She needs to stop doing that' Emily said watching from the window 'They're getting suspicious.'

'She does a lousy job of impersonating you.' Mia said sighing.

"Emily?" Reid said warily "Are you still you?"

"Excuse me?" Millie said eyeing the young profiler "What do you mean?"

"You seem different." Reid said "Like another person."

'Uh oh' Mia said 'Reid's figure it out.'

'She's not going to hurt him, right?' Emily asked.

'We've never faced this before.' Mia said 'People always believed what they saw.'

Millie looked down and tried to imitate Emily's sarcasm "I still look like me, so it must still be me."

Reid looked at her closely and asked, "What did I tell you the doctors said about my headaches?"

Looking puzzled by his words Millie said, "That they were just headaches?"

Reid pushed back, away from the woman, "No I told you that they couldn't find anything conclusive. I told you this before you disappeared to fight Doyle."

Sighing, Millie said "Well I've had a lot on my mind since then, Reid."

'He's figuring it out, Millie.' Emily said 'You need to let me back out. Before it's too late.'

"I've got to go." Millie said feeling Emily fight for control "I've got to meet with the shrink."

Reid watched as Millie hurried down the corridors that led to the Bureau psychiatrist.

Reid walked into the break room seeing Hotch and Dave share a concerned look.

"You see it too." Dave asked Reid "Something is off with her."

Frowning, Hotch looked over at the two men, "Well what the hell is it? We all can see it, but what is it?"

"It's almost like she's..." Reid said stating out loud then quietly "It's just like them."

"What?" Hotch asked.

"Who?" Dave asked.

"Adam and Tobias Hankle." Reid said out loud.

"What?" Hotch asked in confusion "What about them?"

"She's like two different people." Reid said "One's the Emily we know..."

"And the other is someone cold, aloof and professional." JJ said walking into the break room "I heard you three."

"No" Hotch said looking at everyone "Emily does not have split personalities."

"It makes so much sense now." JJ said "When I picked her up from the airport she kept getting these pained looks on her face. She kept saying it was just a headache."

"And in the bullpen when Morgan said..." Reid added "And right before she went in Dave's office, I saw it. So did you two."

Hotch rubbed his hands over his face, "Are you sure?"

"Hotch, she keeps rubbing her temples" JJ said softly "Saying it's just headaches."

Dave shook his head in disbelief "We can't just out right confront her about this, she's liable to take off."

"Well if this is true," Hotch said not believing it himself "She can't work for the FBI if she's sick. We have to watch her carefully for now. We don't want to scare her off."

"So, we do what?" JJ asked "We know that she's talking to the Bureau shrink, do we tell her?"

"We may have to," Hotch said "But the most important thing right now is to be there for her, watch her."

Millie walked out of the doctor's office, sighing "Thank God. Free at last. I did it, Emily. We're free. No one will get in the way, not if they know what's good for them."

Millie walked past the offices heading back to the bullpen to ensure a few more things for Emily.

Walking into the bullpen she saw Morgan and Garcia talking at Morgan's desk.

"Hey gumdrop." Garcia said brightly "Everything good?"

"Fine, thank you." Millie said walking to Emily's desk and sitting down.

"Are you sure you're ok?" Morgan asked noticing the odd behavior in Emily.

"Yes, I'm fine." Millie said looking at the paper work on Emily's desk.

'Millie' Emily said 'People are starting to suspect, you need to let me out.'

Millie tuned Emily's voice out when she noticed Hotch, Dave and JJ walking up to Hotch's office, while Reid walked over to Morgan and Garcia.

'See that Millie?' Emily said 'They know. I can tell, see that scared look on Reid's face?'

Millie looked from Reid's face as he spoke lightly to Morgan and Garcia, and notices their reactions.

Millie's mind clicked when she hears Garcia gasp and Morgan looking out the corner of his eye to her.

Looking up into Hotch's office, Millie saw the three agents turn away from her as their talking.

'Emily's right, Millie' Mia's voice said 'You need to get away now.'

Millie picked up her bag, and headed for the glass doors.

"Gumdrop?" Garcia called out cautiously "Where are you going?"

'Millie' Emily said loudly 'Let me out.'

"Bathroom." Millie said hating this feeling of guilt as she failed Emily "I'll be right back."

Hotch looked down in the bullpen and saw Emily or the person in Emily's body, walk out of the bullpen and seen Morgan look up at him with fear in his eyes.

Sighing, Hotch said, "I better follow her."

Hotch left the bullpen, following the brunette out, hurrying fast he noticed that she was running quickly.

'You're a planner, Millie' Emily said 'But you never made a plan for this.'

Millie paced the bathroom, "There's no room for error. That's why every action has a reaction. If these federal agents know that Emily has dissociative identity disorder, that will be a problem. And this is a problem that we cannot afford. It's time to leave the Bureau."

'What do you mean leave?' Emily asked 'We can't just run away.'

'Maybe not. But we can't sit around like a bump on a log, they'll come after us.' Mia added.

'Let me out, Millie. I can deal with them.' Emily said.

"The best plan is one that's kept in the dark from everyone." Millie said "I made such contingencies along time ago, we must make sure that no one ever finds us."

'What are you going to do?' Emily asked 'Millie? Millie?'

"You both need to rest now." Millie said "I've got it from here."

The sound of the cell phone ringing pulled Millie out of her planning, looking down "Agent Hotchner."

'Hotch?' Emily said 'Millie let me talk to him, he can help.'

'Millie?' Mia said 'What are you going to do?'

Millie walked over to the bathroom stall and threw the phone into the toilet "Emily can't come to the phone right now."

Turning around as she left the stall she heard Emily say, 'What did you do?'

"Controlling your impulses are simple, you just remove the temptation. Throw it out a window. If you don't see the phone you won't have the urge to pick it up." Millie said "Problem solved. You don't have to thank me, no one ever does."

'Millie, you didn't have to do that.' Emily said 'Aren't you going to let me come back out?'

"Not yet." Millie said "My job is to have all the answers, and since right now we're all in a transition, I can't let you come back out, not until this answer is solved."

'Millie, you don't have to do this...' Emily started.

'Save it, Princess' Mia said 'Once Millie's mind is made up there's no stopping her.'

"That's why we have to put as much distance between Emily and her Federal friends as possible." Millie said "We'll start over some place else, somewhere safe."

"Like hell you will." Hotch said causing the brunette alter to turn around.

'Hotch' Emily said 'Thank God you're here.'

'Save your breath, Stone Cold can't hear us.' Mia said.

"Something I can help you with, sir?" Millie said.

"Save it," Hotch said "I know you're not Emily. So who are you?"

"Someone that Emily can rely on." Millie said walking to the mirror and fixing her hair into a bun "Someone who will ensure her survival at all cost."

"You're the one who helped her kill Doyle?" Hotch asked watching the brunette turn around and straighten herself up.

"I merely provided the most suitable plan of action" Millie said "Now if you'll excuse me Agent Hotchner, we have to be going now."

"We?" Hotch asked "How about you tell me your name?"

"You can call me Millie." Millie said picking up the purse.

Grabbing her arm, "Well, Millie, you're not going anywhere not until I talk to Emily."

Morgan walked around in the bullpen, trying to rack his brain at the idea that Emily Prentiss had multiple personalities.

"This just doesn't make sense." Garcia said "How can someone as strong as Emily have multiple personalities?"

"Dissociative Identity Disorder" Reid corrected her "Can be caused by extreme post traumatic stress, anxiety, depersonalization. Think about it, having to portray Lauren Reynolds for so long, she literally had to be another person."

"She had headaches when I saw her in the airport" JJ added "She seemed to have this far away look like something was going on but she just kept saying she was fine."

"But what if she had this before then?" Dave asked "JJ, you once said that when Reid was taken by that unsub Hankle that you asked Emily how she can see all this horrible stuff and deal with it and that she said she compartmentalized it better than others..."

"Right" JJ said "Hotch even said it surprised him how none of this fazed her."

"That could be one of her alters." Reid said "Most commonly when someone has D.I.D. their will be an alter who's the most powerful alter, a gatekeeper, who decides which alter comes out and their job is to protect the host personality at all cost. To a gatekeeper nothing fazes them, their sole focus is on the host."

"What I want to know" Morgan said "Is how the hell a grown woman just up and get this split personality thing?"

"Well," Reid said "Look at the world Emily grew up in, a cold distant, workaholic mother. Thrusted into the world of politics at such a young age. She probably dissasociate it from herself, made herself believe that it was never happening to her. Lack of parental affection can cause damage on a young child."

Morgan nodded in agreement, "So what do we do? How do we help her?"

"Well Hotch followed her." JJ said "So we'll just have to see where this goes."

"Wait a minute." Garcia said "Hankle had two personalites, how do we even know if Emily has more than one?"

"We don't know until we get her to a hospital." Dave said rubbing his forehead.

"Excuse me?" Millie asked looking down at the hand he placed on her arm "I believe it would be wise, Agent Hotchner that you remove your hand from me."

'Let me out, Millie.' Emily said 'I want out, now. I'm not going to stop shouting until you let me the hell out.'

"Be quiet, Emily." Millie muttered "I'm trying to fix this."

Hotch stared at the woman, surprised to hear this type of cold aloof tone from Emily, but he knew it wasn't Emily.

"I want to talk to Emily" Hotch told Millie turning her around to face him, ignoring the dark gaze of someone he cared about, he held on tight "Let me talk to Emily. I know she's in there. Emily talk to me, Emily?"

'Someone out there needs me, I'm going to fight my way out.' Emily said 'Even if I have to kick my own ass to do it.'

"Emily needs me and she always will." Millie said "No one can protect her like I can."

"Emily has people out here who love her and can help her." Hotch said "I need her, I need Emily."

"You only want her for one thing." Millie said coldly "She needs protection. You couldn't even protect your own family, how do you expect you protect her?"

"Because I can." Hotch said "I care about her and I won't let you take her away from me."

"Stop" Millie said pulling at her arms out his hands "Please leave."

"She's fighting you, isn't she?" Hotch said "Emily, fight. Come back."

Millie's face contorted in pain, feeling Emily fight her way out because of Hotch's words, "Let me out."

"I want to talk to Emily." Hotch said pulling the brunette close to him "Emily?"

'Hey, what about me?' Mia said 'I want out too.'

"Shut up" Emily said to Mia, feeling herself returning, not looking at Hotch.

"Emily, come back. Emily?" Hotch said again "Talk to me."

'We can live on the run for as long as we have to' Millie told Emily 'We can make this plan work.'

"I'm not going on the run again." Emily said quietly opening her eyes "Hotch?"

"Emily?" Hotch asked relieved "Emily, is that really you?"

"Yes." Emily said feeling her emotions reach to the surface "Oh, God I'm so sorry."

Hotch pulled Emily into a hug, both not turning around when they heard the door open, revealing JJ and Morgan who backed up watching the team leader.

"Emily?" Hotch said pulling back to look at her, seeing the tears in her eyes that she refused to shed "Are you ok?"

"I need help." Emily said quietly "I really need help."

JJ pulled Morgan away from the door, looking at the male profiler, she saw relief on his face and whispered "What?"

"She finally asked for help." Morgan said as the two wandered into the bullpen "It's a big step for her."

Hotch pulled Emily into a big hug, "We're going to get you help. You're not going to go through this alone."

"But I can't stay at the BAU, right?" Emily said quietly feeling Hotch rub her back, "Not while I'm sick."

"When you get better, you can." Hotch said "I'll make sure of it."

"I have to go away again." Emily said feeling Hotch kiss her forehead affectionately.

"Just for a little while." Hotch said picking up her bag, walking themselves out of the bathroom towards the elevator.

"I don't want to leave again." Emily told him.

"This time you won't go through this by yourself." Hotch told her, "You have the team, and me. I'm not going to lose you again."

The team sat in the bullpen, each lost in their own thoughts on Emily's return and her dilemma.

"There she is" Reid said watching Hotch and Emily walk down the hall towards the elevators.

"Are you sure, it's Emily?" Garcia asked JJ.

"I'd know her voice anywhere." Morgan said "And that was definitely Emily."

"She asked Hotch for help." JJ said "I think everything's going to be better from now on."

"Well, when she gets better, will she allowed to return to the BAU?" Garcia asked.

"I don't know." JJ admitted "That would be a first."

"I think I can swing a way around that." Dave said heading up to his office "I've got a few favors I can call in."

"Look at that." Garcia said dragging JJ close to her.

The two blondes saw Hotch pulling Emily close to him in the elevators, hugging her as the doors closed.

"That looks promising." Garcia said "A little something new, maybe?"

JJ shook her head, holding a small smile on her face, "How about we just get through this one day at a time. And when she comes back then we can needle them about a romance, ok?"

"You're no fun." Garcia said sitting down at a desk.

"May I help you?" a woman in a white shirt said.

"Yes," Emily said holding Hotch's hand "My name is Emily Prentiss, and I need to check myself in."

Hotch held her hand, while Emily filled out the paper work handing it back to the woman.

"You sit right down over there and a doctor will come out to talk to you." the woman said.

Emily and Hotch walked over to the small couch, as she sat down Hotch sat next to her, holding her close.

"Emily Prentiss?" a doctor said "My name is Dr. Rubin and I'll be your primary doctor here at the Wellstone Facility. Why don't we go step in my office and talk over your treatment, ok?"

"Ok." Emily said getting up "I guess I have to go now Hotch. Thanks for your help."

Hotch pulled Emily to him, "I'll be waiting here for you when you're ready to come home."

"You amaze me." Emily said kissing him on the lips, "Goodbye."

Hotch stood there in shock, watching until the door closed separating him from Emily, a renewed hope filled his heart.

"No, you amaze me, Emily." Hotch said thrusting his hands in his pockets as he turned to go and tell the team that Emily was going to be ok now.

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength," Marcus Aurelius

The End

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