"Emily, I can't permit you to do that." Morgan could be heard through the door as Emily growled and tried to get up the stairs to her house.

"Emily, stop." JJ said opening the door. She looked down at her wife and rolled her eyes, Morgan helped Emily up the stair. Soon enough Emily had her arms around JJ thankful to be home. JJ was avoiding Emily's side where her stitches were. Morgan grabbed Emily's bag and took it in for her. JJ kissed Emily before stepping back a little.

"You have been missed Em." She smiled and Emily nodded.

"Mom!" Izzy yelled as she ran toward Emily and wrapped her in a hug. Emily smiled and wrapped her arms around Izzy, kissing the top of her head.

"Hey you," She whispered just holding Izzy, she still felt like she nearly lost her daughter a few days ago and it still scared her beyond belief. She looked up to see Tara and JJ leaning against opposite sides of the doorframe, she smiled up at them, and finally understood what everyone meant when they said Tara looked more like her child than Izzy. Izzy stepped back and nudged Tara forward, when Tara stood in front of Emily, Emily sized her up and nodded before hugging her.

"You… Thank you so much." Emily said biting her lip, Tara gave her signature lopsided smirk and Emily rolled her eyes, hugging her again.

"Well I couldn't just let my mom die now could I?" She said and Emily chuckled.

"Guess not. You are alright, right?"

"Besides you scaring the hell out of me, yeah I'm fine. You on the other hand, are you good? I mean what I did was crude they took care of you right? I could reign hell down on them."

"Tara, I'm fine, I swear." Emily said and Tara nodded, she helped Emily in the house before Emily pushed her away and gave her the best 'I can take care of myself' look she could muster up. JJ smiled and pulled Emily away from the two teenagers.

"You my dear are going to go sit on the couch and relax, while I go and finish dinner."

"Why can't you just make them do it and let me be with my wife?"

"Because we're still their parents." JJ smiled and kissed Emily, she nuzzled her head against Emily's neck. "Don't you ever fucking scare me like that ever again Emily Elizabeth, if you thought your mother was bad when she's mad, you've never seen me mad." JJ said and Emily knew she was crying.

"Hey, look up at me… please" She asked and JJ's bright blue eyes looked up at her. "I don't plan on leaving you, ever."

x-x-x

Emily growled at the jar of pickles she couldn't get open as Tara walked around the corner.

"Well if I knew you felt that strongly about me…" Tara joked and Emily looked up at her pathetically. "Alright, I'll get it." Tara said taking the jar.

"I hate being weak."

"You are not weak, just hurt."

"I'm fucking weak."

"Shut up and take your damn jar," Tara smirked handing the jar back. "Emily if you think you being hurt is the same as being weak you need a good talking to."

"Yeah?" Emily said looking up at her. "I know if I wasn't sleeping I'd like to talk to someone too."

"Yeah, I guess someone would."

"Tara…"

"This isn't going to be turned on me." Tara snapped.

"It was always about you." Emily said. "You aren't sleeping."

"I'm fine."

"Your further from fine than I've ever seen."

"What am I suppose to say? That I'm having a hard time sleeping because I'm nervous about a guy coming and hurting my girlfriend and my family?"

"Yes."

"Fine!"

"Tara relax," Emily said putting a hand on the girl's shoulder. "I'm not here to make things worse."

"Why can't you just let it alone then?"

"Because you're my child now, and I want to make sure nothing is wrong with my child."

"Nothing is wrong with me."

"When your not sleeping something is wrong."

"Why do you care?"

"Because my daughter loves you, my wife loves you, my son loves you, I love you." Emily said pulling Tara to her. "You are my family and maybe you didn't realize before today but families love the people in the family, they care. This is me caring."

"Just… stop." Tara said.

"No."

"Please."

"Tara." Emily made Tara look up at her, and grabbed her hand, she placed it over her heart. "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you, and you haven't slept since that day, Steven will never hurt us again, I am here, our family is ok. I get that you come from a fucked up family, I did too, I get that it's hard to understand how we can love you, but one day you'll realize why we love you."

"I'm…"

"If you say aren't worth it I'm going to remind you that you saved my daughter from herself, you saved me, you are amazing. Even if you were just another person you'd still be amazing, maybe you've never heard it before but that was before, so now you know it."

"Why can't my mom see that?" Tara sniffled.

"Because she's blind honey." Emily said hugging Tara. "She's so wrong about you Tara, so wrong. It'll be ok."

"I hope so."

"It will, because I know you'll take care of my baby, you'll do just fine. It's why I didn't hound you when you and Isabell got engaged, it's why no one did or will."