A/N- Finally Baby Matthew is born!!! Yea!!! It's been a long journey, but it's not over yet…. I have a few more chapters left in me…..Enjoy…

CHAPTER 14…..

Emily and Reid ran into the hospital Labor Delivery room and quickly found the rest of the team already there.

"How is she?" Emily asked as she tried to regain her breath.

"Good lord woman, calm down before you hyperventilate." Morgan said motioning for Emily to sit down. "Garcia is helping her get settled into her room while they get her all hooked up to the monitors and the nurses get all her information." Emily took a deep breath and nodded.

"How far apart are her contractions?" Emily asked as she sat down next to Morgan.

"Still seven minutes apart." Morgan answered. "She was complaining that he back was hurting and she couldn't get comfortable, so Garcia suggested that maybe sitting in the recliner would help. She had no more than stood up and her water broke."

"I can't believe this is really happening. I can't believe in a few hours I'm going to be a mom." Emily smiled as she still tried to wrap her mind around the idea.

"JJ said something very similar to that on our way here." Morgan laughed.

"Is everything okay though? I mean she's too weeks early." Emily asked suddenly a little panicked.

"I called Dr. Williams on our way here to tell her JJ went into labor and she said that she wasn't surprised. She didn't say anything but she thought that JJ might go early. She said between the trauma and the drugs that they gave the baby to stimulate his lungs she was actually surprised she didn't go earlier. She said there was nothing to worry about."

"Okay good." Emily breathed a sigh of relief.

A few minutes later Garcia came out to the waiting room.

"How is she?" Emily asked jumping up from her seat.

"She is good. Dr. Williams is examining her; she told me to wait twenty minutes and then I could come back or send someone else back. She is only allowed to have two visitors at a time."

"Dr. Williams is already here?" Emily asked.

"Yes, she said that with everything that JJ has been through in the last couple months she wants to personally make sure nothing happens. She wants JJ to walk out of here in a couple days with a perfectly healthy baby boy."

"Lord knows we have all had enough stress to last a life time." Rossi said as he poured himself a cup of coffee. "Did they give you any indication of how long?"

"She was 2cm when she came in and she has to be at 10 to start pushing; so I would say we are all in for a long night."

"Not all of you have to stay, I can…"

"Emily if you think any of us are leaving you're out of your mind. For once we are a hospital awaiting good news and we're not going anywhere. We are family." Hotch stated firmly; leaving no room for discussion. Emily nodded at Hotch before turning to face Garcia again.

"Do you mind if I go back by myself and see her when its time? Just for a little while and then someone else can come back."

"Of course not." Garcia replied sitting down next to Emily and placing a hand on her leg. "That is your son back there; you don't even have to ask."

"Thank you Garcia." Emily said quietly as she tried to hold back the tears.

Emily waited the prescribed twenty minutes and after some quick directions from Garcia Emily made her way back to JJ's room. She was standing outside JJ's room trying to calm her nerves when Dr. Williams walked out.

"Hello Emily." Dr. Williams smiled. "Glad to see you made it. You excited?"

"More like nervous as hell."

"Well that is understandable. All first time parents are nervous; but so far everything looks great. She is currently at 2cm so we still have a ways to go."

"Thank you for coming in and looking after her. I know that is not normal procedure."

"You are welcome. I just want to make sure everything goes okay. JJ's body has been through a lot in the last few months and while I'm sure everything will be okay I want to make sure nothing goes wrong. I think the nurses are already plotting my death though. I told them I wanted JJ checked every 15 minutes; they looked at me like I was crazy." Dr. Williams laughed.
"Do you want me to make sure they see my gun and badge next time they come in?" Emily said with a slight laugh.

"That might do the trick." Dr. Williams smiled before writing something on JJ's chart. "Well I will let you go in and see her. Just relax Emily everything is going to be fine."

"Thank you." Emily said shaking the doctor's hand. Emily took a deep breath and walked into JJ's room. "Hey how are you feeling?" Emily asked as she walked up the side of the bed

"Like our child hates me." JJ groaned through a contraction. "You have no idea how bad this hurts." JJ said as the contraction began to wind down.

"Can I get you anything?" Emily asked not really liking to see JJ in pain.

"No unfortunately." JJ offered a smile.

"How far apart are they?"

"About six minutes. You can see them on that monitor there." JJ said pointing to one of the numerous monitors. JJ was hooked up to. "And that one is Matthew's heartbeat." JJ said pointing to the top on.

"Really?" Emily asked in awe. "It's really fast, is everything okay?"

"Dr. Williams said that it was normal when in labor for the baby's heart rate to go up. High is not bad, low is a problem." JJ said as she looked at the heart rate. "But she said so far so good. She did say that she was going to put an OR on hold just in case she needed to do a c-section but she didn't think that was likely."

"Let's pray she's right." Emily glanced down at the contraction monitor and noticed it was starting to go up. "Looks like another contraction is coming." Emily said as she took JJ's hand.

"No shit Sherlock." JJ grimaced in pain. JJ squeezed Emily's hand Emily was sure she broke every bone in there.

Over the next 14 hours, every member of the team made their way back to visit JJ; however, Emily never left. She was a nervous wreck and JJ was exhausted. It was now 9am and neither one had any sleep. The last time Dr. Williams had checked JJ was at 8cm, so she had told them it would probably be a couple more hours. Emily wasn't sure how much more JJ could take. The contractions were coming every 2 minutes and each one seemed stronger than the last. Emily had tried to convince JJ to get an epidural but JJ had refused; saying that she had already had enough drugs in her system from when she got shot she didn't want anymore.

"So how are things going in here?" Dr. Williams asked as she walked into the room.

"We're still here." Emily said with a tired smile.

"Emily, why don't you go get something to eat or something? We still have couple more hours and trust me once little Matthew is born you are not going to want to leave for anything." She said with a laugh.

"No I'm fine." Emily replied.

"Emily, I'm not going anywhere, so why don't you go get something to eat? You have to be hungry." JJ replied in between contractions. "I promise everything will be okay."

"Are you sure?" Emily asked not really wanting to leave but she was hungry, a little breakfast sounded good.

"I'm positive. Just send Morgan back here before you leave. I need to squeeze someone's hand during these… awwww…" JJ screamed as another contraction hit. Emily grimaced as JJ squeezed her hand to the point she thought it might explode.

"Just breathe." Emily said as she felt JJ's hand relax its death like grip. "Better?" JJ nodded. "Okay well I'll go get something to eat and I'll be right back. You'll call me if anything changes?" Emily asked turning to Dr. Williams.

"Of course."

"Okay, I'll send Morgan in." Emily leaned over and gave JJ a quick kiss on the forehead and left.

"Things seem to be going pretty good for you two." Dr. Williams stated as she examined JJ.

"Things are better; I just don't think we will ever be where we once were." JJ said just as another contraction hit. "Damn it where the hell is Morgan?" JJ said through gritted teeth.

"Right here." Morgan smiled as he walked over to the bed. "How are you… awwww!" Morgan screamed out in pain as JJ grabbed his hand. "Man Emily wasn't kidding." Morgan replied massaging his hand once JJ let go.

Emily watched as Morgan made his way to JJ's room and then she turned to the rest of the team.

"I'm going to get something to eat. I'll be right back." Emily said as she turned to leave.

"Hang on; I'll join you." Hotch said standing up to follow her. "How is she doing?" Hotch asked once they were in the elevator.

"Good. Dr. Williams said it should be soon. Couple more hours maybe."

"How are you?"

"I'm hanging in there. It just feels weird. She is about to give birth to our son and yet everything is still so fucked up." Emily paused for a minute before continuing. "Did you know that I asked her to move in with me again last month, you know after the baby was born and all? I even told her I would stay in the guest bedroom. I just wanted her and our son at home with me."

"What did she say?" Hotch asked as they got off on the second floor and made their way to the cafeteria.

"She said she wasn't ready and she doubted she ever would be. She said that she didn't think we would ever be able to get back to where we were." Emily looked down at her wedding ring as her and Hotch sat down at a table and then she pulled a necklace out from under her shirt that contained JJ's wedding ring. "I tired to give this back to her and she said no, that since I paid for them I should keep it."

"I'm sorry to hear that Emily." Hotch said reaching out to take Emily's hand. "I know that you want everything back to the way they were but right now you need to focus on your son and think what is best for him."

"I know." Emily said quietly picking at her muffin suddenly not in the mood to eat. "Thanks for listening. It's nice to have some one to talk too."

"Any time Emily. I know that I might have come off a bit strong when you told me about the rape but you know that you can call me night or day, you know that right?" Emily nodded. "Good, the more I thought about how I reacted the more I felt like I had let you down. The line between friend and boss can get a little blurry sometimes."

"No you were right Hotch, I should have told you. I should never have tried to hide it and I do appreciate your friendship. I really do."

"Okay well onto happier things; tell me, how did your meeting go last night?"

"Really good." Emily said as she wiped a tear from her cheek and produced a slight smile. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her 3 month coin. She looked at if for a minute and then handed it to Hotch. "They had just given me that when I got Morgan's text." Emily smiled.

"I'm very proud of you Emily." Hotch smiled back. "I know that this," he held up the coin, "hasn't been easy and it is far from over but this is a great start."

"Thank you Hotch. It means a lot to hear you say that." Hotch handed Emily back the coin. "I owe a lot of this to Reid though. He has really been there for me. Making sure I attend my meetings regularly, even when we are out of town and making…." Emily stopped as she felt her phone vibrate. She looked down at the text and jumped up. "Dr. Williams says its time! Oh my god! It's time!"

Emily was completely out of breath when she reached JJ's room. Emily replaced Morgan at JJ's side Morgan quietly made his way back to the waiting room. A few minutes later Dr. Williams walked into the room with a pair of nurses.

"Wow that was quick. I was only gone for like twenty minutes."

"Well I might have lied." Dr. Williams laughed.

"What?"

"JJ was at 9cm when you left, so I knew that it would be soon. I just wanted you to get out of the room for a few minutes. You looked like you could use a breather." If it wasn't for that fact that Dr. Williams was right and her talk with Hotch had helped, she would have been pissed. "Okay so are you two ready to see your little boy?" Emily looked over at JJ, who had tears in her eyes and smiled.

"More than ready." Emily replied with a huge grin

"Okay than, on the next contraction I want you to push."

Outside in the waiting room the team waited nervously for news that their newest member was here. Finally after twenty minutes Emily came running into the waiting room.

"IT'S A BOY!" She yelled as she through her arms around Morgan's neck.

"Congratulations Mom." Morgan smiled; giving Emily a kiss on the cheek.

"OH he's perfect. Ten fingers, ten toes. Just perfect!" Emily gushed as she hugged the rest of the team.

"How is JJ?" Hotch asked.

"She is great. It was amazing, she was amazing. I have never experienced anything like it in the world." Emily beamed. "Dr. Williams said that you all could come back and visit for twenty minutes or so. Right now she is still technically limited to two visitors but Dr. Williams asked the staff to make an exception."

"Well lead the way mama bear." Garcia smiled.

"Hey JJ, I brought back some visitors." Emily said she walked into the room followed by the rest of the team.

"Oh JJ, he's beautiful." Garcia said with tears in her eyes.

"Thank you Garcia. Do you want to hold him? He is your god son…" Before JJ could finish Garcia had plucked the baby from JJ's arms.

"Excuse me, I hate to interrupt," the nurse that was in the room said quietly, "but I need his name for the hospital records." JJ looked over at Emily and the team who were all busy cooing over the new baby boy.

"Matthew Gabriel Prentiss." JJ stated firmly and loud enough for everyone to hear. Immediately the room fell into silence.

"JJ… I… but you said… are you sure?" Emily fumbled through her words.

"He is your son. He should have your last name." JJ smiled.

"I don't know what to say."

"You don't have to say anything. I know that things between us aren't great and I'm not sure what the future holds but you will always be his mother and I will never take that away from you."

"Thank you so much." Emily said through the tears. "Thank you for everything." Emily said looking over at her son that was still nestled in Garcia's arms.

A/N- A little twist with the name there…. lol…. I had all intentions of making him a Prentiss and not a Jareau, but I like the added angst it added earlier in the story…. PLEASE REVIEW…….