AN: Some Emily at the beginning of this chapter. :) Also, most updates will not happen this fast... I'm just on a roll this week :)

Emily awoke to a heavy weight on her chest.

"Lauren! Lauren! Do you wanna play?" A small child's voice asked.

Emily's eyes shot open. A small boy with blonde hair and blue eyes was sitting on top of her.

"Declan?"

"Lauren, you silly! You fell asleep on the couch!" Declan giggled.

Emily smiled "So I did. What do you want to play?"

"Hidenseek!" Declan squealed as he ran off. "Count to ten, Lauren!"

"Okay! Remember the rules!" she called after him as she started to count. "One... two... three..."

As she covered her eyes and counted, dozens of thoughts flew through her head:

'Shit, shit, shit. Of all the times we get sent back to, it has to be when I'm with Doyle? What am I going to do? I can't make Declan live in hiding again! I have no way to contact the others! What am I going to do?'

Initial panic over, she quickly calmed down, knowing that freaking out could get her killed.

"... seven... eight... nine... ten. Ready or not, here I come!"

As she uncovered her eyes, she saw Declan hiding behind the table in front of her. She got up and gave chase.

"Aww, I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get you."

"I don't see you! I don't see you!" Declan squealed, as he crawled on the floor.

Emily caught up to him.

"Aah! I'm gonna get you!" She laughed as she hugged Declan. Her laughter died off when she saw Ian Doyle watching them, with a smile on his face.

"Hi." Emily said.

"Louise." Doyle said "Come take your boy, please." After Declan left with Louise, Doyle turned to Emily.

"You ever think about that?" he asked her

"Having kids? It's a little hard with what we do, don't you think?" Internally, she was repeating a mantra 'Stay in character. Stay in character.'

"Maybe you need the right man to do it with, and a son who's crazy about you."

Emily faked a shocked look.

"I... I thought... he was your housekeeper's."

"Louise raises Declan so no one can use him against me. But he's mine, and he needs a mother."

"Wait, you mean like adopt him?"

"That's exactly what I mean, Lauren. My son loves you, and he needs a mother figure in his life. Will you do it?"

Emily made a split-second decision, one that she knew would alter the course of her life forever.

"Yes. Yes, I'll adopt him."


The day passed slowly for the BAU team. As five o'clock finally rolled around, Hotch came out of his office.

"Go home, everyone. Enjoy the rest of the evening. Be here at 8:30 tomorrow."

None of the agent needed telling twice as they all collected their belongings and made their way home.


JJ, Reid, and Morgan sat in Reid's living room, each nursing a cup of coffee.

"What are we going to do?" JJ asked softly.

"I think we need to make a list, to keep track of who was killed, and who we end up saving." Reid said. "We have to be realistic about all of this. We're not going to be able to save everyone. It's impossible."

"What about Emily?" Morgan asked

"It's too dangerous to try to contact her. If Doyle ever found out... he would kill her with no hesitation" JJ said "We'll have to wait and see if she can contact us."

"I don't like it." Morgan said.

"None of us do, Derek, but JJ's right. If we contacted her, it would put her life at risk." Reid said sadly.

"There's another problem, too. If we are going to record information about who was killed and who we eventually save, we need somewhere secure to talk about it and store it. I mean, we can't meet at a coffee-shop to talk about this, and we can't do it at the BAU either." JJ said.

The three sat in silence, thinking of any possible solutions available to them.

Reid stood up. "I have an idea. Follow me."

JJ and Morgan followed Reid as he came to a door in the middle of his small hallway. He opened it to reveal an office of some sorts.

"What about this? It's in the center of the apartment, it has no windows, and I can easily install a electronic keypad so people can't get in."

"I think it will work." JJ said with a smile.

"Me, too." said Morgan "If you want, I can go buy a keypad now, so we can get started with all of this."

"If you want to, that would be great." Reid said. Morgan nodded and made his way to the door, grabbing his jacket and keys.

"Morgan!" JJ called. He turned around. "Use cash, the last thing we need is Gideon getting suspicious."

"Got it, Jayje. I'll be back soon." with that, Morgan was gone, leaving JJ and Reid to themselves.

JJ ran her hand through her hair, releasing a breath as she did so.

"What are we going to do, Spence?"

Reid looked at her.

"We'll be fine, Jay. We're going to use the office-"

"No, Spence." JJ interrupted him "I mean what are we going to do about us?"

Reid paused

"What do you want to do?" he asked softly.

"Honestly?" JJ asked. Reid nodded for her to go on. "Honestly, Spence, I want to kiss you like there's no tomorrow. God, the was no tomorrow. We were dead, Spence!" tears started to run down her face "We were dead!"

As the last of her resolve crumbled, Reid grabbed her and hugged her, holding her as she cried.

"Shhh. Jay, it's okay. It'll all be okay." He rubbed a calming hand on her back, and eventually her tears subsided.

"Sorry." JJ sniffled.

"Jay, you have nothing to be sorry for. We've been through a hell of a lot in the past 24 hours."

"Thanks, Spence." JJ said, smiling.

"Oh, and Jay?"

"Yeah?"

"To answer your question... I think we could date, but not in public."

"Meaning?"

"Mini-dates. We could go over to each others apartments for 'movie night' or something like that for now, then eventually we could go on real dates. After all, we did technically just meet each other this morning."

JJ smiled.

"Spence, have I told you how much I love your genius brain?"

"Once or twice."

"Well, I'll say it again. I love your genius brain, Spencer Reid. And I love you."

Reid's smile lit up the room.

"I love you too, Jayje. Always and forever."

AN: All together now... AWWWWWW!

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