Hi guys, I apologize for the shortness of the last chapter, but I waited years for that book. It was good for the record, but not my favorite from John Green(that would be Paper Towns). Hope this chapter makes up for it. Like I said, updates are going to be a little less frequent than the almost everyday it has been. I hope you enjoy:) The next one probably won't be up until friday or saturday.

"When are they going to call?" Rachel whined as she kicked her legs back and forth in annoyance. She was currently sitting on one of the island stools doing her homework.

"Soon sweetheart, remember they are actually working." Mary reminded her as she made dinner. Emily and JJ had been gone for three days so far and Rachel was not exactly loving it. She had been rather irritable and had gotten into trouble at school more than once for not paying attention. She wasn't behaving badly exactly, she just clearly wasn't happy. Mary and Andrew had been doing everything they could think off to cheer her up. They read her stories, they had taken her to the library, the park, out for ice cream, rented movies, and to the BAU to visit Garcia, but nothing seemed to work. The little girl wanted one thing and one thing only, Emily and JJ. In a way, Mary was a little happy that Rachel was this upset; it meant the little girl finally allowed herself to show how much she cared about the women.

The ringing of the phone pierced through the almost silence of the apartment and Rachel's face lit up. She jumped off of the stool and ran in a full on sprint to the telephone.

"Hello, Prentiss residence, this is Rachel speaking is this Emily or JJ?" Rachel said the greeting so quickly that all the words mushed together. Mary grinned from over by the stove.

"Hi honey."

"JJ!" Rachel yelled in elation. "I miss you! Did you get the bad guy? Is Emily there? When are you coming home? I didn't wet the bed last night!" She sputtered out questions and comments faster than JJ could follow, bouncing up and down in excitement.

"Slow down sweetie." JJ said with a bright smile on her face. Emily was standing right next to her, her ear pressed as close to the cell phone as she could get. A look from Morgan made JJ realize how ridiculous they looked. She took her wife's hand and pulled them into one of the empty interview rooms and switched the phone to speaker. "Yes, Emily is here, we miss you too, no we haven't caught the bad guy just yet and we'll be a few more days. Congratulations, we're proud of you!"

"Very proud." Emily added.

"You're not coming home?" Rachel whined. Both women could hear the tears and the tantrum waiting behind the seven year old's words. Emily glanced at JJ and gave her wife a knowing look, they needed to do something, or Mary and Andrew were going to have a very sullen girl on their hands.

"Rachel, what did you, Mary and Andrew do today?" Emily asked gently.

"How much longer do you have to be gone?" Rachel whined, ignoring Emily's question. The raven haired woman sighed and glanced at her wife. As she assumed, the blonde profiler was pinching the bridge of her nose with her free hand in frustration. JJ had been having a hard time being away from Rachel, Emily had as well, but the brunette had always been better at hiding her emotions. They both had been working hard, to keep their minds off the bubbly seven year old and to get back to her sooner. The whole team noted their discomfort. Hotch in particular had done his best to offer some from of comfort to both women; knowing how hard it had been for him at first to leave Jack.

"We have to stay and do our jobs Rach, we never know how long it will take remember?" Emily prodded.

"I hate your jobs." Rachel grumbled as she kicked the wall.

"Rachel!" Mary scolded her. Rachel looked at her grandmother with a scowl and held her leg up to kick the wall again. "Don't you dare young lady." Mary warned. "If you're upset, use your words." Instead of kicking the wall, Rachel stamped her foot and slammed the phone down on the tabletop in front of Mary and ran upstairs. "RACHEL!" Mary yelled after her.

"Mom?" JJ asked, still on the line. "What's going on?"

Mary picked up the phone with a sigh and motioned for Andrew to follow Rachel. The man somewhat reluctantly rose from the couch and made his way upstairs. "Jenny? She's a little upset and I think she'll talk to you tomorrow."

"Mom, should we come home?" JJ asked, apprehensively.

"No sweetheart." Mary said quickly. "She is going to have to get used to it, she will be fine, you will solve the case and then come home."

"But.."

"No. Jenny, she's fine, just a little upset. She has a session with Dr. Yang tomorrow and she will be fine."

JJ glanced warily at Emily and the two knew that Mary was right. As much as they didn't like it, this was their life unless they wanted to find new jobs. "Just...Mom, just call us if she really needs us to come home. One of us could at least."

"Just work hard and get your guy, Rachel will be fine." Mary said firmly.

Andrew plodded up the stairs and made his way to Rachel's bedroom. He smiled at the crayon drawn sign on the door. Rachel had made in in one of her sessions with Dr. Yang. It showed everyone at the BAU with Rachel smack dab in the middle of them, her arms up in the air. Her drawings were definitely adorable. Andrew knocked twice on the door and waited.

"Who is it?" Rachel asked in an accusatory tone.

"Andrew, may I come in?"

"I guess so." Rachel grumbled.

Andrew opened the door and grinned. He had to remind himself sometimes that Rachel wasn't actually biologically related to Jenny. She was laying on her back in the center of her floor, arms and legs sprawled out and huffing every few seconds or so. Jenny used to do the exact same thing when she was upset. "Hi kiddo." He said as he situated himself on the floor, leaning against her bed. "How're you feeling?"

"Only Dr. Yang gets to ask me that."

"Not true. Its her job to ask you that, its my pleasure."

Rachel lifted her head and gave him a look very reminiscent of Emily when she was annoyed. He bit back a laugh. Rachel had learned their mannerisms so quickly. "That doesn't make any sense Mr. Andrew." She said.

"Are you okay Rachel?" He asked softly.

"No I am not okay. I like having you and Mrs. Mary here, but I don't like having Emily and JJ gone."

"Yeah, that's pretty normal."

"Really?"

"Yep."

Rachel looked back up at the ceiling and was silent for a few moments. Andrew almost went to get up when Rachel finally spoke up again. "Can we read a book?" Rachel asked.

"Sure." Andrew said happily. "How about Wizard of Oz?" He picked up the book and Rachel quickly got up from the floor.

"NO!" She yelled. "Not that one!" She grabbed it from his hands a little roughly. "Sorry." She apologized. "I...Emily and I read that one. A different one okay?"

"Sure, no problem." Andrew said with a smile. "How about..." He looked at the extensive bookshelf. Emily had gone a little overboard with finding books for Rachel to read. They're were already books she could read all the way up through college, and practically every children's book known to man. "Grimm's fairy tales?"

"Okay!" Rachel climbed up onto the bed and situated herself onto Andrew's lap. She had grown much more comfortable with him in the last three days. Mary had walked up the stairs a moment before and peaked into Rachel's room. She beamed at the sight of her husband reading to their granddaughter. Raising her cellphone, she snapped a quick picture and texted it to JJ.

I told you.

JJ felt her phone buzz and glanced down, grinning as she saw the message. She passed the phone over to Emily across the table and watched the worry melt off her wife's face. Hotch caught a look at it as Emily passed the phone back over to the blonde. "Cute." He commented and then went back to his file. They weren't having much luck on this case so far. Three days in and the bodies were piling up with very little to go on. Everyone was frustrated. "Guys, lets call it a night." Hotch said with a sigh. "We're getting nowhere tonight and we're already severely lacking in sleep. Go get some sleep, well meet back here at eight." Reluctantly, but also relieved the team gathered their things and trudged off to the hotel.

Emily and JJ dropped their bags down and began going through the motions of preparing themselves for bed. Both women were quiet, half asleep already as they crawled under the covers. JJ reached over and pulled Emily into her with a happy sigh.

"I want to go home." She whispered. "I hate this case."

"Me too, but we'll get him." Emily insisted.

"How Em? There is nothing to go on. Worse than nothing!" JJ said as she ran her fingers through her hair in annoyance.

"I don't know, but we always find something, and we will again its just going to suck a lot for a while until we do."

"Very eloquent." JJ said with a smirk.

"Shut up I'm tired." Emily groaned childishly as she buried her face into JJ's neck.

"Make me." JJ said seductively. Emily froze.

"Jen, we're on a case, we made that rule a long time ago. We should try for some semblance of professionalism." Emily tried to insist. She knew though, JJ would probably win this in a matter or seconds.

"I miss our daughter, this case sucks, I have a hot wife and I'm horny. Screw professionalism." JJ growled as she rolled herself on top of Emily. The brunette happily removed her shirt and began to kiss her wife. Screw professionalism indeed.

"So, how are you feeling Rachel?" Dr. Yang asked as the little girl got herself situated on the chair.

"Medium." Rachel said as she spun around once.

"Medium?" Dr. Yang asked.

"Yep. I like Mary and Andrew, but I don't like Emily and JJ being gone, so I'm medium."

Dr. Yang smiled as Rachel kicked her legs out harder and spun herself around four times in a row. "How was school today? No more trouble?"

"Not really." Rachel said sheepishly.

Dr. Yang raised her eyebrows. "Ah, and what does that mean?" She asked, slightly amused. Rachel's knack for getting into trouble was quite astounding.

Rachel mashed her lips together and spun around again to avoid answering the question. Dr. Yang waited until Rachel looked up and met her in the eye. "It was Tommy's fault!" Rachel exclaimed. "He talks to me and its rude not to answer back."

Dr. Yang hid a smile. "That is true, but it is also rude to talk in the middle of class don't you think?"

"Not if its boring." Rachel stated simply.

"Even if you find something boring, sometimes you have to learn it anyway. Unfortunately, that's a part of school and life. How are you liking your grandparents staying with you?"

Rachel shrugged. "They're nice. I like them."

Dr. Yang could tell there was something else on Rachel's mind, and the little girl wasn't going to offer anything up without being prodded. "Rachel?" She asked.

"Do you think..." Rachel began. She didn't appear to know exactly how to ask the question so she fidgeted instead.

"Ask it any way you want. Remember our rule?"

"I can say anything in here. Its stays between us and its safe." Rachel chanted out the mantra in a bored voice. "Its just...do you think...well, you and everyone call Mary and Andrew my grandparents and Tommy and Jack call their grandparents things like Grandma and Grandpa and stuff. Also, they call their parents Mom and Dad or something...but I don't do that." Rachel quieted down a bit, but Dr. Yang didn't respond. She waited, letting Rachel have the time she needed to get out what was on her mind. "Does that...does that make them not my parents and grandparents?"

"No not necessarily." Dr. Yang answered. "Families are all different, and they have to do what works for them."

"I asked JJ if I could see my dad." Rachel admitted quietly. Dr. Yang's eyebrows rose in surprise. She hadn't seen that one coming.

"Really?" She asked. Rachel nodded her head. "Do you miss him?"

"Not really, he didn't like me very much."

"Yet you want to see him?" She asked.

Rachel nodded. "I want to ask him something."

"Oh, may I ask what that is?"

"No thank you." Rachel said with her head down. Dr. Yang had a feeling Rachel wouldn't broach anymore on the subject. They spent the rest of the session drawing and talking about what Rachel had done with her grandparents over the last four days. By the time it was over, Rachel was much happier and skipped out to the waiting room to meet Mary.

"How did it go?" Mary asked as she swung Rachel's arm back and forth.

"Good!" Rachel said happily. She spun herself around under Mary's arm causing both women to smile.

"Mary, will you have either Emily or JJ call me when they get back?" Dr. Yang asked.

"Is...did something go wrong?" Mary asked worriedly.

"No, no, just something we need to chat about when they get a chance." Dr. Yang reassured her.