"Spence. Wake up!" JJ said, gently nudging him, noticing the agent had fallen asleep.

A new year had dawned, it was now mid-February and the team had been called to the office for yet another case. This time close to home. Teenage boys, abducted, raped then eventually murdered.

Reid Suddenly awoke, lifting his heavy head up from the desk. "Spencer. Go home. Get some sleep" Hotch ordered. Being able to tell the agent was too tired to do his job.

Roxanne took a break from work, around 3pm. Figuring if the team needed her they would call, she wanted to check on Reid. It was not normal for him to fall asleep at work and she worried about him. In many respects Roxanne could identify with Reid and because of that she had a soft spot for him, felt of him as the big brother she never had.

Reid was at home, barley awake on the couch, in a daze when he heard a knock at the door.

"Come in." He called tiredly from the couch and sat up.

"Spencer? Are you ok?" Roxanne asked and came to sit next to him. "You've been falling asleep at work and seeming a little off. Is everything alright?" She asked again, greatly concerned by his recent strange behavior

"Well I've been having nightmares again." He confessed, sighing deeply.

"Oh... Spencer!" Roxanne Exclaimed sympathetically. "What about?" She inquired.

"The baby..." He confessed, slightly awkwardly.

"What about the baby?" Roxanne asked, placing her hand on the agents shoulder.

"It cries, and cries and cries and it won't stop crying. It's just there. In the corner crying. Then..."

"Then what Spencer?" Roxanne asked concerned. "It's alright. I'm here for you." She continued, comforting him.

"It dies... A figure comes from behind and Slashes it's throat." Reid explained, his voice shaking. It was clear he was struggling to say all this and talking about it made vivid images from past nights return to his head.

"Oh. Spencer..." Roxanne looked at him with eyes of empathy. "Come here." She invited and hugged him tightly. "It's just a dream. Often dreams about crying baby's can be about fear you won't be-able to provide or protect your children. In context with the murder you fear that he may not live a full life because of that and will never feel alive or enjoy his life, in context with our Job you may fear this failure to provide for and protect him could lead to him being a victim." Roxanne replied, explaining and hugging Reid tight. "You'll be a great father." She ended honestly and gave him one last hug. "I better head of to the team now." She told him. "If you need me just call." She said and stood up heading out the door back to be BAU, where they were trying to solve the case.

"Is he ok?" JJ asked, knowing Roxanne had left to see Reid as it was unusual for her to leave in the middle of the day without a good reason, she also had seen Roxanne's look of concern that morning, when Reid could barley keep his eyes open.

"Nightmares." Roxanne said, sitting down at the table to discuss possible theories about why these boys were being abducted and murdered so brutally, yet when it came to placing the body there was clearly remorse.

"There a possibility the victims are homosexual and the unsub cannot accept his own sexuality. We've seen it before and it would explain the remorse."

"I'm not sure, that seems as though they would be abducted at party's and they were abducted at schools also none of these boys were openly gay." Roxanne said, noticing the flaws in his theory.

"It may be a teacher, Male gay teacher who cannot fufill his sexual inclinations legally so rapes these boys, panics, then murders them." Prentiss said. "They all go to the same school right?" She asked.

"Yes. Yes they are." JJ responded, looking down at her tablet. "St John Newman, all boys Catholic high school." She clarified.

"Ok. Garcia, Could you get a list of male staff at the school." Roxanne ordered.

"There's a lot of staff, you'll have to narrow it down." Garcia replied.

"Ok Teachers." Roxanne replied. He's educated, no not a caretaker or anything.

"Could you narrow it down some more particular subjects or anything?" She asked.

"Um..." JJ thought for a second. "Just give us a few minutes."

"What classes were the victims all in?" Hotch asked.

Garcia tapped on the keyboard and sighed a disappointed sigh. "None.." Se replied.

"Tutor groups?" Roxanne asked.

"Ok give me a second." Garcia replied and did her thing. "Bullseye! All in the same tutor group." She replied then continued. "Dr Lewis. Science teacher specializes in chemistry, warned for a slight incident in 2012." She replied. "Lives opposite Roxanne..." She finished, shocked an unsub could live so close to someone she regarded as her family.

"Right." Hotch said. "Roxanne, Derek. School. JJ, Stay back with Garcia, Emily and I will go to his home." Hotch ordered and the agents went to their allocated destinations.

Dr Lewis was found at the school, in the science lab, mixing chemicals. "Your under arrest." Roxanne announced as Agent Morgan did the honors. "For the abduction, rape and murder of teenage boys in your tutor group." She finished, as Morgan took him outside and police supported them in taking the Doctor to the police station.

That evening, JJ visited Reid's as like Roxanne she was also worried and wanted to check he was ok, to JJ, Reid is the younger brother she never has, a substitute for her older sister who committed suicide when JJ was just 11 years of age. "Come in." Reid called from his living room where he was reading a book, half expecting Kalilah to be at the door.

"JJ!" He exclaimed in shock.

"I hope you don't mind, I just came to see if you were ok." She said apologetically and sat next to him. "Roxanne told me you were having nightmares." She said then continued. "I don't know what they're about and I don't expect you to tell me, I just want you to know I am here if you ever want to talk, and that if it has anything to do with your girlfriends baby. Look I'll just say this. You are wonderful with Henry and you will be a wonderful father, so don't worry." She finally finished and hugged Reid gently, making sure he knew everything would be ok and trying to provide some comfort.

"Thanks JJ." He said and hugged her back. To Reid the BAU were important to him, they helped him through hard times and cared about him more than anyone had in his life, in times like this it was nice for him to know people cared and really believed he would be a good father. It reassured his anxieties.

That saturday Prentiss, Hotch, Morgan and Savannah were all sitting outside in a fairy tale garden with a recommended wedding cake maker, to decide on the cake they would have for their joint wedding. The two couples sat, tasting bites of various flavors of cake. The four could not agree on one flavor so decided to have a four-tire cake with four different flavors.

"Hello?" Prentiss asked, and greeted answering her phone, noticing the call was from a private number and must be important.

"Is this Agent Prentiss?" A familiar voice asked.

"Yes... Yes it is." She replied, slightly confused and not quite able to place who it was on the phone.

"I'm sorry to say this but I work for your mom and she had a heart attack." The man said, still not quite having realized what had happened himself. "She's been admitted to St Johns hospital."

"Oh... um. Ok. Thanks for telling me." Prentiss aid before hanging up, feeling a mixture of guilt, shock and sadness. She thought her mother never got sick, thought she was an unbeatable force and she had never been kind to her mother throughout her teenage years, they never had the best relationship, she now wished she had treated her mother better all those years ago. She still loved her mum, despite them not having the best relationship.

"Sorry. I have to go." Prentiss told the others, trying to put on a smile, Oh and I like the chocolate fudge cake." She said before rushing off to the hospital to see her mum, taking Hotch's car because they had come together. She knew he wouldn't mind.

Running onto the hospital, she almost didn't notice her team mate who was also there. "Emily!" JJ exclaimed, who was going into hospital to have her baby.

"JJ!" She exclaimed back, just as shocked to see her and had been bought back to reality. "Congratulations for when you have her." She continued, trying to force a smile, before rushing in to see her mom.

It was tense waiting, sitting, pacing, waiting. Waiting for her mother to come out of surgery. It was a potentially dangerous procedure, she hoped she could see her mother again at least make amends if nothing more. It felt like forever, pacing, sitting, waiting. Prentiss felt sick. Sick with worry, fear and nerves. Eventually the doctor came out and said she could see her mom, Emily was still so scared though. The procedure had gone well but she would still be quite groggy and Emily was not quite sure how her mom would react.

"Mom." Prentiss said softly, as she entered the hospital room.

"Emily?" The ambassador replied weakly, shocked of her daughters presence.

"Mom..." She said again. Not sure what to say and still quite shocked to see her in this state. "Your going to be ok." She finally said.

"Emily." Elizabeth said again. "I'm so glad your here." She said, sounding tired but genuinely pleased to see her daughter.

"The Doctors say you can go home tomorrow." Prentiss said, smiling, her eyes however were sad.

"I know... Emily. I know." Her mother replied, she was grateful that Emily had come but the two had not talked properly for so long, it was almost as if rebuilding the relationship was going to be a battle.

"I love you mom." Prentiss said honestly, the words she had to say. Her mom had to know atleast that despite the bad history and be relationship not being so great she still loved her mom.

"Sorry. I have to take this." Emily replied, hearing her phone ring and seeing it was Hotch.

"Hey Emily. Just to say were in the Maternity ward, seeing JJ's baby. It's a girl. I know your here, I saw my car. If you want to talk, feel free." He told her on the phone.

"I'll tell you tonight, and ok. I'll be over in a minute." She replied sighing then hung up.

"Emily. I love you too." Her mother said.

Something about those words, made Emily need to hold back tears, I guess she never believed her mom truly loved her, all the times she was moved around as a child all the putting down and expectations of being the perfect daughter. The times it seemed Elizabeth did not have enough time for her daughter. Emily never believed her mom loved her, but those words. Now she knew she did. "I have to go mom." She replied, excusing herself as she was shocked by what her mum had just said and was not sure what to say in return. "Get well." Emily told her mom, then headed for the maternity ward.

"Hey." Emily said softly, entering to find the whole team and Savannah in the hospital room.

"Hey again Emily." JJ said and smiled at her.

"What's her name?"

"Jessica." JJ replied smiling.

"Sweet name." Emily replied. "Can I hold her?"

"Sure. Sure you can!" JJ replied and passed Jessica over to Emily. "I want you to be her godmother." She said.

"JJ! Of course!" Prentiss replied and accepted, more than welcome to be the baby's godmother. "She's so cute!" Prentiss exclaimed, cradling the newborn in her arms.

On the way home from the hospital Prentiss and Hotch were in silence, the atmosphere tense. Emily wasn't quite ready to talk about what had happened to her mom and she knew if they started to talk he would ask why she was at the hospital. It was only that evening, once Jack and Harry were in bed, only then did they speak.

"Mom had a heart attack..." Emily said, sadly, while laying on the sofa that evening with her head in Aaron's lap.

"Oh Em!" Aaron exclaimed, while running his hands soothingly through her hair. "How is she?"

"She was a bit groggy earlier... from the operation. But the doctor says she can go home tomorrow."

"Well that's good" Hotch said comfortingly. "I love you Em." He disclosed and softly kissed her on the forehead.

"Thanks Hotch." She murmured. "I love you to." She continued before peacefully drifting off to sleep.