Here is chapter 11 and there are only a few more chapters left before we finish up. It will be a little weird but don't worry I am writing a new story that I hope you will all like!
Eleven
As soon as Emily had fed Isabella for the first time she was whisked off to the nursery and Emily collapsed against the bed and fell asleep. When she woke next she was sore and thirsty, she saw Derek watching her and she tried to sit up.
"Don't." Derek ordered. "If you need something tell me."
"C-can I have some water?" Emily's voice was hoarse and her throat dry.
"Of course, hang on." Derek got up and went into the bathroom, he came out a few moments later with a glass of water in his hand. "Here."
She drank the water gratefully and lay back on the bed. "Wh-what time is it?"
"Ten am." Derek yawned. "Matthew, John and Garcia are bringing the kids over at noon, is that okay?"
"Y-yeah that's fine, where's Isabella?" She asked.
"The nursery, would you like to see her?" He smiled.
"Yes, sh-she needs to see me." She smiled.
"I'll be right back." He kissed her and left the room. A few minutes later he returned holding the tiny baby in his arms. "Here is our sweet girl."
Emily took the baby and held her close, she had Emily's dark hair and fair skin, but Derek's eyes and nose. Emily was sure these things would change, when Lizi had been born she had fair skin and straight dark hair, over time her skin changed and her hair got curly. "Hi baby."
Isabella opened her eyes and made a soft sound and she turned towards Emily, instinctively Emily moved the gown and let her nurse. After she fell back asleep Emily looked up and saw Derek watching both of them.
"You two are beautiful." He smiled and kissed her again.
"Well I know she is but I don't know about me, I just forced her out of my body, I'm still fat and I haven't showered in 48 hours." She said. "I also haven't eaten in 36 hours."
"You are beautiful, and I can get you something to eat if you'd like." Derek offered.
"Am I allowed to?" She asked.
"I'll check." He said. He called a nurse and requested for her to be brought some food. "Emily?"
"Yeah?" She asked looking up at him.
"Our baby was early." He whispered.
"I know, but only two weeks early, we got the date of conception wrong…" She bit her lip."Oh and I hope you're fully aware I am never doing this again."
"What, running off Italy eight months pregnant and going into preterm labor, having an old friend handle it for 9 hours before we got here?" He asked.
"No I don't want any more kids Derek." She said.
"Well we only just had this one." Derek chuckled, the door opened and in came the nurse with a tray of food for Emily. "Eat, I'll take Isabella."
Emily nodded and handed Derek his newborn daughter. The food was extreamly bland but Emily was so hungry she was half way through the meal before she noticed. Once she finished there was a knock on the door. "Come in." She called.
"Hey Emi." Matthew smiled opening the door, he entered closely followed by Declan who was hodling Lizi and John and Garcia.
"Hi everyone." She smiled. "Hey Declan were you good for John and Matthew?"
"Of course I was, even though I don't like John very much." Declan nodded setting his sister on the ground.
"Mama!" Lizi called reaching up to Emily from her point on the ground. Emily smiled and picked up her daughter and kissed her.
"Hey baby! Have you been good too?" Emily grinned.
"Oh she's such a sweet heart." Garcia smiled
It was then that Emily noticed the elaborate French braids in her hair and considering that Lizi's hair wasn't very long or thick it made doing much with it rough. "Garcia did you fix her hair?"
"Oh no that was your friend Matthew, he is really good at fixing hair." Garcia smiled.
"I have nine sisters, of course I'm good with hair." Matthew said. "Now where is this baby?"
"I've got her." Derek smiled, and Matthew moved over to where Derek was.
"How are you holding up Princess?" John asked, sitting on the end of the bed.
"I'm sore as hell, I can't walk to the bathroom without help and I gave birth less then seven hours ago. How would you be?" She smiled.
"Better you then me." John winked at her and she rolled her eyes.
Derek was very proud of his new little princess. She was so perfect despite having kept them up until four am waiting for her to be born. Unlike Lizi little Isabella was very small, she was three weeks premature. They'd thought she was eight weeks premature but as it turned out the date of conception had been wrong, it wasn't after the BAU thanksgiving party it was after the BAU Halloween party.
"Whats her last name?" Garcia asked breaking his train of thought.
"Morgan," Derek said. "Same as mine."
"Wow, that's three last names in one family." Garcia mentioned.
"What do you mean?" Emily asked.
"Well you have Declan, his last name is Doyle, and Lizi's is Prentiss and now Bella's is Morgan." Garcia said.
"Well that's okay, each one of our kids can set their own standards and not have anything to have to live up to." Derek smiled.
"Derek?" Declan piped up.
"Yeah Declan?" He looked up.
"Can I hold her?" Declan asked.
"Sure come here." He smiled, Declan walked over and held out his arms. "Careful, support her head."
Declan nodded and held Bella gently. "She's my sister isn't she?"
"Yeah she is." Derek smiled.
"Then it's my job to protect her." Declan said, the way he said it made Derek feel like he was getting the first glimpse of Doyle in Declan. His jaw was set and his eyes steady, he was going to protect his siblings if it killed him.
"Yeah kid, I know." Derek smiled.
Declan sat quietly next to Derek and held the small baby. John was talking to Emily and Matthew in quiet Italian. There was another knock on the door and Rossi walked in.
"How is she?" Rossi asked.
"She's fine, a bit sore but she'll be fine." Derek said.
"No no, how is she handling Matthew?" Rossi raised his eyebrows.
"Fine why wouldn't she?" He wondered confused.
"I know work Emily, you know the wife and mother Emily but Matthew and John know Emily." Rossi said.
"What do you mean?" Derek asked. "Are you saying I don't know my wife?"
"What I'm saying is you saw how upset Emily was when Matthew died, she'd had cases that touched a personal note before but with Matthew's she couldn't even talk to us about it" Rossi explained. "She wasn't able to sleep properly for months."
"And?" Derek growled.
"And now that he's just walked back into her life how is she going to handle it?" He asked.
"She's resilient she'll be fine." Derek glanced over at Emily, Matthew and John.
"She's resilient because her mother raised her to be she isn't that way due to a personality trait." Rossi pointed out. "Just talk to her about it, see how she's feeling and help her relax okay?"
"Okay." Derek nodded.
"Now I'm going to meet this Matthew because I don't think Declans going to hand that baby over to anyone." Rossi chuckled gesturing to where Declan sat holding Isabella and singing softly to her.
