Prentiss

Two weeks had passed. I was now 15 weeks into my pregnancy and we were still in Virginia. Rossi was very insistent that the three of us still stayed with him and Hotch and JJ were a lot more talkative about my possible return to their team. They tried their hardest to get me to but I wasn't so sure I wanted to give in yet. I did know that I wasn't going back to London. I was staying in Virginia. Sarah and Reid were perfect together in everyone else's eyes, and they were going on dates and everything. I had never seen either of them this happy.

Ainsley was very close with the whole team and she loved Morgan more than anything and vice versa. I was trying to keep my distance from Morgan lately and I didn't know if he had noticed but the rest of the team had. I had told Ainsley about the new baby and she was excited, much to my surprise. I thought she'd be upset about having to share the attention.

"Mummy, you're getting fat." She said to me from my side. I looked at her for a few seconds before looking forwards and trying not to laugh.

"Hey," JJ walked in with Will and Henry through the front door, "We were thinking of taking Henry to the pool today. I talked to Hotch and we're taking Jack so we can take Ainsley too if you want." She proposed as she sat down. Henry said hi to Ainsley and they ran off together to go play somewhere.

I nodded, "If she wants, that'd be great. Thanks." I smiled, "It'll finally give me some time to work out London."

"What have you decided to do?" Will asked.

"Get rid of everything. I'm not going to bring anything here and it'll all just remind me of everything over the past four years and I don't need reminders."

"So you're selling everything?" JJ raised her eyebrows.

I nodded, "I'm getting my housekeeper to do it all for me because she's there and I'm giving her a large pay to end her work for me."

Sarah and Reid walked into the house and into the living room, laughing about something. Reid had taken her out for breakfast; she loved when he took her out and he had done it often over the past two weeks. They sat down, "Morgan and Garcia are one their up now." Reid said.

"Hotch is on his way, too." JJ said.

"Why did my home become the place where everyone always was?" Rossi asked.

"Because Emily's here." Garcia said as she walked in with Morgan, or my "baby daddy", as she called him several times, behind her. She always made it clear when she said it that he was the "good" kind of baby daddy. Apparently it required clarification.

They sat down and JJ looked at Morgan, "Anything planned today?"

"No," He shook his head, "Why?"

"We're taking Ainsley to the pool with us and I was just making sure you didn't have plans with her first." JJ smiled.

Morgan nodded, "Don't let her drown."

"Wasn't planning on it." She shook her head.

Hotch walked into the house and joined us in the living room. Jack ran off towards where Henry and Ainsley were.

"Isn't this great? We're all back together again, seeing each other outside of work." Garcia smiled.

"Penelope…" Morgan looked at her and she closed her mouth and looked down.

"She knows, Morgan., JJ brushed it off, "I told her on like her second or third night here."

"Oh…well then yeah, it's great, baby girl." He sounded tired today. Granted, they did get back just last night after a week of full on work as they hunted some dangerous criminal.

"You know, we could have really used your skills over the past week…" Hotch said to me quietly.

"Everyone else on the team has the same skills."

"Linguistics, child advocacy and terrorism? We don't specialise in those." He shook his head.

"Well you didn't need the terrorism part and you all know enough about linguistics and child advocacy. You are more than capable to hunt people as a team without me."

"Come on, what's the worst you could happen if you came back to the BAU?" Reid asked.

"I'm a mother Reid…"

"So is JJ?"

"JJ is married and has someone to care for her child while she's away."

Sarah cleared her throat to remind me of her. "You don't count." I shook my head.

She snickered, "Harsh."

"You just keep finding new excuses to stay out of the BAU." Garcia said.

"They're not excuses, Garcia."

"Yes they are. How did you live in London? You didn't quit Interpol because no one was there with Ainsley. Sarah was there then and Sarah is here now. I can think of two reasons you'd be doing this and pretty sure it's not the first one I thought of."

I shook my head, "I told you my reasons."

She ignored my comment, "The one that I'm almost certain isn't right is maybe you really don't want to be working with us again. Maybe you don't like being a profiler or you don't like us. The second, which I think is right, is that you don't want to get too close to Morgan. I'm not even a profiler and I know you've been avoiding him."

"I have not." I denied.

"Like a criminal avoids a cop." JJ agreed with Garcia.

"Ring ring," I faked, "Oh, I have to take this." I said as I stood up and took my phone out of the room. I didn't even try to make a real excuse to leave. I walked into the dining room and sat down. I could see the three kids outside, running around and playing together. I decided to call to London and start trying to organise the selling of my house and everything in it.

It took me all day and I had to call so many different places but I had given up now. I needed to go to London and do it all face to face, not over the phone. I had been pacing around the house all morning and into the afternoon. The team, minus JJ, Garcia and Will were watching me all day. The other three went with the kids to the pool. The calls themselves were costing me a fortune. I walked upstairs and packed a bag before walking back down. It was evening and Ainsley had just gotten back with the other five about a half hour ago.

"What are you doing?" Sarah asked.

"I'm going to London because they're all apparently too stupid to do anything over the phone. Can I leave her with you?" I motioned to Ainsley while asking Sarah. I looked at Morgan, "or you?"

"Yeah." Morgan nodded.

"Uh…you can't afford to fly there and back right now, Em…" Sarah said.

"I can afford to get there and I'll have the money from the house to come back on."

"How can you afford to get there? You have no job and you said yourself two weeks ago that you wouldn't be able to afford the ultrasound appointment but then you managed to get there…"

"I figured it out, okay?"

"Did you get a loan?" She asked.

"…Not from the bank."

"From me." Morgan said casually.

She gasped, "Never once have I seen you ever accept help from anyone in the two years that I've known you."

"I am going to pay him back every cent." I said as I walked over to Ainsley. I kissed her cheek and she hugged me.

"Where are you going?"

"Back to London. I won't be too long, okay?"

"Can I come?"

"No, honey. Stay here with daddy and Sarah." I kissed her cheek again and stood up. I grabbed my bag and walked to the door "I'll be back within a few days. Keep me updated on her." I said to Morgan, "We've actually never been apart for longer than a night."

I walked through my house slowly as tears dripped down my cheeks. It took my two years to make this place a home for Ainsley and I and then Mark came along and made everything seem negative. I went through a few small boxes around the place and took a few things I wanted to keep. I went to Ainsley's room and took a few plush toys and a few of her favourite books. I got some more of her favourite outfits, some of my favourite outfits and my two other pairs of boots that I loved. I packed it all in my bag and locked the house up. I went down the street to the nearest 24 hour store and asked if they had cardboard boxes. I collected a fair few from them and went back; packing in toys, clothes, small objects that really wouldn't sell for much if they did at all. I took them to an opportunity shop, one of those charity places that let you donate anything for them to give or sell for cheap to the poorer of families. I left the several dozen boxes at the back where they encouraged people to leave their stuff if for some reason they couldn't bring it in during working hours. I got no sleep the night I arrived and I cleaned nonstop for the whole of the night and next day. All of my furniture, despite being in a home where a little girl had lived for a rather long time, was very clean, great quality and worth quite a bit once I sold it all. That took a whole day and a half to clear it all out. What was left over that I couldn't move on my own or wouldn't be able to sell; I asked an old acquaintance to take to the opportunity store. The man and his friend did if for me without a second thought and wished me luck on my journeys. It took me another day to organise to sell the house and then I got a call about my car which I had advertised to sell two days ago. The three person family came around to look at it and took it willingly, paying me the ridiculous amount that the car was not worth. I advertised it as much more than I would get because I assumed it would be negotiated down but they didn't negotiate. They transferred the money to my bank and I sat in my empty house that would be up for quick sale as of tomorrow. I was with the most famous real estate business around here. They said that when put up for quick sale; the house was often sold within days.

I stayed in a crappy, cheap hotel for the next three days until the house was sold, I received the money and I was able to calculate how much I could spare to lose right now. I went to Michelle's and dropped it off in a cheque before going to the airport to catch the next flight back to Virginia.