Derek and I walked back into the house and I immediately pick up the phone, "Order in?"

Derek nods as he plops on the couch and I sit down next to him as I order us a large pizza and some fries and then I put the phone down and he wraps an arm around my shoulder pulling me into his side, shocking but not really at the same time, and I rest my head on his chest curling up on his side when the doorbell rings and I groan getting up grabbing my wallet.

"Just when I get comfy," I murmur pulling the door open to see Hanna and Aria and I squeal wrapping my arms around them both in a hug, "What are you doing here?! Come in!"

"Is this your place?" Aria asks and I shake my head and point to Derek and she gives me a smirk and I shove her telling her to shut it.

"Something happened with my apartment and until I get paid I can't get my own place so for now I am living here," I told them and asked again, "what are you doing here?"

"We got a call saying that you needed some friends right now and we came as soon as we could, Em and Spence will be here tomorrow," Hanna says to me and I look at Derek and he gives me a grin and I walk to him grabbing his face pressing kisses to his cheeks.

"No puedo agradecerles suficiente," I say to him with a bright smile, "eres fabuloso."

He laughs and looks at me, "I've been around you long enough so I can figure out what you are saying."

"Oh yeah what did I say?" I ask him a hand on my hip and he looks down at me.

"I can't thank you enough and you are amazing," He says and I look at him impressed, "how do you say I will be in my room?"

"Voy a estar en mi habitación," I tell him and I push him out but not before he kisses my forehead and walks off before I turn to the girls, "Looks like we have a whole pizza to ourselves with some fries when it gets here."

"So what happened?" Aria asked as we all sat down on the couch.

"My dad sent one of his men to hurt my brother," I tell them and they grab one of my hands and I give them a small smile.

"Jayce?" Aria says while Hanna says Julio and I shake my head rapidly in horror.

"Oh god no," I tell them and they sigh and nod realizing it was Dom and I joke, "I understand I have three brothers no way to tell which one huh?"

"Eri.." Aria says leaning her head on my shoulder and I sigh shaking my head.

"We caught him," I tell them, "But I just can't shake the fact that he would send someone after their own flesh and blood."

"That's sick even for that sick bastard that's a new low," Hanna says shaking her head when the doorbell rings she nods saying 'I got it' and she grabs the money and pays for it bringing it sitting it on the table. "You got to understand that your father is a sick man and will do anything that he likes he doesn't care about anything and you don't deserve his attention."

"I agree," Aria says her chin on my shoulder looking at me and I look over slightly.

"I know you gotta crush on me and all but I really want some pizza," I joke and she laughs removing her head from my shoulder and I lean forward letting go of their hands to get some pizza handing them a slice as I grab myself one yelling, "Derek! You want some pizza?!"

"Nah, babe, I'm good!" He replies and Hanna looks at me with a raised eyebrow and I shove her shaking my head.

"You are telling me you like with that hotness and you have not got with him yet?" Hanna says and I shake my head laughing.

"No he works with me," I tell them and continue to joke, "but even then we all know he couldn't handle me."

"Oh yeah! Let us see your badge miss official fbi agent," Aria said and then smacked my head making me yelp, "that was for us finding out through your mom."

"I'm sorry! I was busy I never had a day of we got off the plane 8-10 hours later I am flying to another state," I say raising my hands as I reach into my bag grabbing it and showing them and they immediately squeal and I laugh wrapping my arms around them and the doorbell rings again and I stand up and open it to see Ali and I squeal wrapping my arms around her.

"Hey girl, I heard what happened are you okay?" She asks as we pull away and I motion for her to follow me and we sit down on the couch when Derek walks out shirtless going to grab a beer and when he turns back to face us on his way back to his room my eyes scan down his chest to his abs back up to his face his smirk in tact and I know exactly why he is doing this so I grab a pillow throwing it at him as he laughs walking back in the room. As Ali turns to me, "Are you hitting that yet?"

"NO!" I yell laughing, "I mean I wouldn't say no though.."

They laugh with me and I just continue to eat when another knock comes and I groan opening it to see JJ, Emily, and Penelope and I let them in and they see the girls, "Penelope, JJ, and Emily this is Aria, Ali and Hanna,"

"I remember you," Emily says, "Glad to see you okay and well."

The girls get up giving them hugs before we all sit down and I see movies that have Channing Tatum and I immediately drool popping one in. As we sat down and watched the movie Derek comes out, with a shirt on the time, walking to me and I move slightly so he can sit and I put my thighs on his lap my feet ending up in Aria's lap. And I give her a wink that she just rolls her eyes at.

I soon dozed off after a long night off laughing.

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I wake up to hear the doorbell ringing and I get off the couch slowly stepping over bodies moving to the door yawning pulling my sweater closer to my body as I look through the peephole to see Emily and Spencer and I open the door quickly attacking them in a hug making them laugh and I hear groans from the couch and I see everybody waking up and I grin as I pull away from them both. Letting them in, Derek groans cracking his neck looking around.

"What is it a party in my house?" Derek says in his breathy, husky morning voice and I raise an eyebrow.

"You invited them," I shrug and he shakes his head.

"No I invited them," he points to Hanna and them and then points to Prentiss, JJ, and Penelope, "not them."

I roll my eyes throwing a couch pillow at him which he glares at me for and I just grin, "We'll be out of your hair in an hour give us time to wake up and then we gotta take them to their hotel so the can get ready and have a girls day while you'll just sit here, alone wishing I was here because you'll just miss me."

"Yeah mhm," He says sarcastically getting up walking into his room and I here him plop on the bed with a groan and I can tell he went back to sleep.

"He must be gay," I say pointing to his bedroom, "he has nine sexy girls here and he's complaining."

"I can hear you," he shouts, "I'll definitely have to change your mind tonight when I give you what you are asking for!"

"All talk," I tell them rolling my eyes playfully walking to my room getting in the shower. When I get out I see Derek in my room making me scream and slap his chest, "ASSHOLE!"

He just laughs and tell me, "Looks like your shopping day just added four people."

"Who?" I asked before I realized, "There is a party tonight so Hotch is treating us, as in the team, a whole new outfit head to toe."

"Hair involved?" I asked motioning to my wild curls and he nods.

"Especially that," He says wincing at my hair and I smack his chest again pushing him out of my room.

"Puta," I muttered as I rummaged through my closet finding a blue crop top and some dark wash shorts grabbing my flip flops and then fixed my curls before heading out and let the girls borrow some of my clothes so they can shower, while Penelope and JJ had extra clothes in the car so we were out of the house in about an hour and a half heading towards the mall.

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At the mall, the girls and I grabbed a bunch of clothing pieces when I found Hotch with Derek and Reid, with my hands full of clothes, I walk over, "What type of party is this?"

"A welcoming party for you, but not a work party," He tells me and I thank him going back to searching for dresses and I bring it down to three options after talking with the girls. I go and try on one of the dresses, it being a balmain draped leather mini dress with a deep V neckline.

I walk out and show the girls looking in the mirror at myself and I turn and admire how I look in it, before changing into my second option, an Elise Ryan Lace Chiffon Mini Dress in maroon and I walked out looking at myself tilting my head and turned to the girls who shook their heads and I went back and tried on my third option, a Rose Red V neck Ruffle bodycon chiffon dress and I walk out and show them that one.

"I like the first one," I tell them, "I'd wear it with my fur vest I believe I still have."

"Well why not buy a new one?" Emily asks me with a raised eyebrow and I smirk.

"Why do that when I have someone who remembers everything they see," I ask her and I call Reid over.

"Yes?" Reid asks me with his hands in his pockets.

"Remember when you were in my room?" I ask him and he nods with a 'obviously' look on his face, "Well my clothes were all over do you remember seeing a white furry vest?"

He looks like he is thinking for a minute before he nods, "Yeah it was a chanel vest with fake fur."

"Thanks Spence," I reach up and pat his shoulder and he walks off and they gape at me, "He has eidetic memory."

After I picked out the dress, I went on a search for a pair of heels to go with it which ended up being some white leather pumps with a gold heel, of course it being six inches and I am very used to and comfortable with six inch heels counting I am very short. I find Hotch and he pays for it and then we leave and I go back to the house with Derek bringing Hanna and Spencer with me because they didn't bring anything and they can just borrow something from me.

Going into my room, I walk into my closet and I find my dress that can be transformed in multiple ways on the top the bottom just being a tight mini skirt and I gave that to Hanna and we figured out which way that she wanted to wear it and she crossed it in the front around the neck, and made it into a halter neck and it covered her chest area but left her stomach out and back the sides of the straps flaring out to insinuate her hips. I gave her a pair of white stilettos, that weren't six inches.

For Spencer, I grabbed her my dark blue bodycon dress that was tight at the top, strapless with a sweetheart neck line and flared out at the waist with a thin gold belt wrapped around the waist line and was black black from the waist down. I gave her a pair of dark blue booties with a small four inch heel. And gave her a little clutch that she could put her phone and stuff in.

I then proceeded to take care of myself putting on my dress and shoes along with the furry vest, making sure it fit the way it was supposed to, I straightened my hair letting it fall down to the middle of my back. Doing my make up as well, I just keep it natural with a scheme of black and gold. When I finish getting ready I walk out with the girls and wait for Derek.

"Okay Derek if three girls are ready before you there is a problem, apúrate," I yell out to him and he comes out looking hot as hell, "Well don't you look sexy."

"I could say the same to you," he says winking as he grabs his keys walking out ahead of s and I pat his ass as he does making him laugh and Hanna and Spencer are all up in my ear and I push them away from me as we get to the car.

We drove for about an half an hour before we pulled up at a restaurant, an expensive one at that, getting out I furrowed my eyebrows as I wrapped my arm around Derek's walking into the restaurant with him and the girls and we joined the rest at the table, I sat next to Derek and Hanna was on the other side of me, Garcia on the other side of Derek, Hotch was at the head of the table, with JJ on the right of him and Rossi on the left of him, Prentiss next to him and Emily was across from me with Aria next to her, Spencer and Ali were next to Hanna and Reid was on the other head of the table.

We all ordered and we ate in peace before Hotch stood up, holding his glass of wine in his glass, "We are here to celebrate our new team member, along with family member, Erica Santiago she is a good person and has the kindest heart and the most attitude that I have ever seen in a 4'11 body."

As he said that we all laughed as he continued, "She is the best thing that has ever happened to this team and I promise on my life to ensure that you will be able to go home and see your family which means I promise to keep you alive because you are so young and have such a free spirit and are just amazing."

"Erica, when I met you I already knew that you were going to be something in this world, I knew you were going to be important to me and that I was going to be protective over you," Derek started standing up, "You are such an amazing girl and I have a soft spot for you and you have changed my life and everyone's here you just light up a room when you walk in and I love you and stay true to yourself don't you ever change."

One by one they all went and said things about me, very nice things that tears to my eyes as I heard my best friends and my new family talk all these sweet things to me. So I stood up and grabbed my glass of wine.

"Wow, I have come such a long way," I started with a laugh, "I never thought I would be sitting here with such amazing people in my life, I never thought that was possible because of everything I went through, you guys every single one of you has played a role in getting me back into my free spirited self and I am so thankful for that."

I stop for a minute because I get choked up and I press a hand to my mouth to keep back the tears as I continue, "I always dreamed big and when I turned sixteen things happened and my dreams came crashing down all around me and I thought my life was over, without you guys I really would have no reason to win I was so ready to let her win and then you guys came along and saved me. You saved my life, when you met me I was.. okay but I wasn't happy and now I am I found that happiness again. From Ali who I have known the longest to my team who helped me get my life back, I will never be able to thank you guys enough, sitting here today I realize that family is the most important thing you can ever have and I have that I have a big happy family and I love you all. I vowed to protect this country and I will tell you now that I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe because without you all there is no me."

With that I say cheers and sit down as I clank everybody's glasses wiping the tears from my eyes, and I guess I missed a tear because Derek wiped one away with his free hand his other hand, which I don't even remember this happening, holding mine.

It is this night that I realize this is what life is. And I love my life.

A/N: NO this story is not over it sounds like it is but it is not I promise there is a lot more drama to come. So watch out. With all the stress I decided to give them a break and give a official welcome to Erica Santiago into the life to the BAU.