Meant To Be
Chapter Twenty-Five (25): Things Settling
Emily and the team were away on a case in Miami, Florida hunting down another serial killer. They've been in the sunny city for almost a week and everyone just wanted to find and put away this killer and go back home to their own bed. Prentiss really missed Matty and Jessie. She talked to her every night, but it wasn't the same as holding one another and forgetting the darkness that comes with working at the BAU.
The longhaired brunette was fast asleep, when her phone started ringing. It was Rossi. This could only mean one thing, either they've found clues to who the UnSub is and where he/she might be or that there was another body discovered. After sitting and picking up her phone, she answered it in her professional tone.
"We think we know who the UnSub is" the older profiler told her.
"Who is he?"
"She is a secretary at a law firm and would have access to her bosses files and know everything that is going on, especially the bad ones. Her name's Karen Macdonald, 36, blonde and the address should be on your phone about now. I'm in the lobby waiting for you kiddo" and with that he disconnected the call.
After quickly getting ready in the washroom, the brunette agent got dressed and walked at a fast paced towards the elevator and soon made her way to her friend, who's like a father to her. He hand her a case file information about their possible UnSub and told her where they think she's hiding, since she hasn't shown up to work since they interviewed her. Both got into The SUV and drove off towards their destination.
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Meanwhile back in Virginia, Jessie had put the now sleeping Matthew in his temporary crib. Without Emily around, she couldn't go up the stairs alone, so before her wife left they moved his old crib downstairs until the older brunette returned. The young mother to be watched her son sleep for a little while, before wheeling away down the hallway and looked up the stairs. She wanted to call Garcia and ask her over so that she could help her get her some things upstairs but shook it off and decided to slowly take her time going up them anyway.
Once she finally made it all the way up the stairs, the spikey haired woman grabbed everything she knew she would need and then took a short break to regain her energy, before making her way back down those stairs. As she looked around their bedroom, Grey decided to place the first baby sonogram picture on Em's nightstand, by their wedding photo. For once the younger woman felt like everything was coming together and that things were only going to get better from here.
Feeling fully rested, Jess slowly made her way down the stairs, lightly pushing the extra blankets and pillow heading of her, with her foot. She was two steps away from reaching the floor when the arm ramp screws pulled out of the wall, making her lose her balance and landed face first into the wall, which also affected her spine making her cry out in pain. After taking a couple of deep breaths the young woman carefully and slowly made her way to her wheelchair and went to get an ice pack from the freezer, and then went to the comfy couch that was her bed.
Grey hissed in pain, as she applied the ice pack onto her spine, but not loud enough to wake up Matty. She knew that she was going to get a speech and have an angry wife, when she got home. Knowing now that what the spikey haired brunette had done was stupid but also dangerous, not just for her but the baby as well, she really felt bad about it. Lying on her left side, Jess watched Matthew sleeping which brought a smile to her face, before she texted Em that she needed to call whenever she had the time.
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The team had just returned to their hotel from the precinct, after arresting and putting Karen Macdonald away for good. Instead of dying of the typical death by cop shooting, she had surrendered herself and let her hostage go, which happened to be her, soon-to-be old, boss. Hotch had just gotten off the phone and told the team that the jet was taking off at around one in the afternoon, letting the team sleep in, which made everyone happy.
As they all got onto the elevator and waited to get on their floor, Emily checked her phone and saw the text message she had received from her wife and started to feel a bit anxious. She just had this gut feeling that something must have happened and that she wanted to tell her herself instead of saying it over a text message. They finally arrived on their floor and all made a be-line to their rooms, after wishing each other goodnights. After taking a well needed shower, Prentiss was in her PJ's and dialing home.
"Hello?" said Jessie, through clenched teeth.
"Hey sweetie, is everything okay? You sound in a lot of pain" the longhaired brunette stated, "Have you taken a pain killer?"
"No, not time yet. The arm ramp is broken" the younger brunette said.
"How did it break? … Please tell me you didn't try to go up the stairs by yourself!" she said, with some anger in her voice.
"It broke when I was on the last two steps… while I was coming down" she admitted and quickly pulled the phone away from her ear, knowing what was coming next.
"What!?" she demanded, "You could have hurt yourself very seriously and not to mention hurt the baby!" she half-shouted.
"It was two steps Em. And I landed face first into the wall"
"What if it had broken right at the beginning or half way down the stairs, huh? Why didn't you just call Garcia for help?" she asked, after loudly sighing out her anger and annoyance towards her wife.
"It was just an extra blanket and pillow, since Matthew had a little accident in his crib. I couldn't reach the laundry product stuff so I improvised by giving him my blanket. The extra pillow was for my back. Garcia was needed at work, not to leave it to get those things" Grey explained to Emily.
"Babe, you still need assistance to walk. You can only take a couple of steps at a time before you collapse out of exhaustion. Just… we'll talk about this more when I get home tomorrow evening"
"Alright… Night Em, I love you" she told her.
"I know. I love you too. Now get some rest okay" Prentiss told her before disconnecting the call.
Just she was getting into her bed; there was a knock on the door. She looked through the peephole and saw that it was JJ. The brunette opened the door and smiled at her friend. The blonde agent asked her friend if she was okay, which confused Emily, until she was told that her best friend had heard her sort of shout and was worried. So the older woman told her younger friend what Jessie had done.
"Are she and the baby okay though?" the blonde worriedly asked.
"Yeah, it just the last two steps and she landed face first into the wall" the brunette answered, "I don't know what she was thinking"
"Sounds like she's pushing herself to get stronger faster or prove to herself that she's getting stronger and capable of being more independent" JJ said.
"Maybe, I'll know more tomorrow when I get home. Let's not tell Garcia any of this alright"
"Alright. Night Em" the blonde profiler said with a light chuckle, as she made her way back to her room.
Emily shut and locked her door and finally got in bed and turned the lamp off. Thinking of the only positive things, she soon drifted off to a much-needed sleep.
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After turning off the engine of the minivan, Prentiss got out of her vehicle and walked up to the front door and unlocked it, before entering her home. Of course, the brunette profiler was welcomed home by Sergio, Sketch and the newest member of the family, Pepper, their new puppy. Pepper was a Black lab mixed with German shepherd; she was unusually big for her age, but the house was big enough for her, so it wasn't a problem. Sketch took a liking to Pepper, while Sergio still kept his distance from the annoyingly playful pup.
Pepper was a rescue dog from an in town case. Garcia had accompanied them to the precinct, because they needed her skills at the station. The blonde tech was the one who had found the poor little dog, when she had heard whimpering coming from a thrash bin. After opening the lid, thanks to Morgan, there sat a dirty and beyond scared looking puppy. Of course she had to bring the pup inside. Luckily the case was already finished and the rest of the team were putting all the handing the boxes back to the precinct, when the bubbly tech came in with Derek, who was holding the shaking dog. After she explained where she had found the poor canine, even Hotch didn't want to let the poor dog back out, so he let her bring it to the BAU where they secretly got her cleaned up and stayed for the rest of the day in Garcia's office.
JJ wasn't happy about it, due to her big fear of dogs after what had happened to her, and no one held it against her. Reid was shy around the little doggy at first, but soon couldn't stop himself from visiting Garcia a lot to check up on her. Sadly the scared and very shy pup backed away from everyone, until Emily had came in to ask Garcia about a case file she had been working on. As the two women were talking, the little black pup came out of her hiding place and sat at her feet and whined until the longhaired brunette looked down at her and saw that little tail wagging and puppy dog eyes. That's all it took for her to bring the pup home with her to Jessie, who wasn't thrilled at first, because she wouldn't be able to walk the dog, but was otherwise very happy to have a new member to their growing family. JJ still felt uncomfortable around Pepper whenever she visits, but the little dog must sense it and just lies at her feet quietly, doing nothing. Other than that, everyone else loves her like crazy.
"Hey guys!" Prentiss happily said as she petted each animal, until Pepper practically jumped into her arms, "You little Pepper better enjoy being carried while it last" she joked as she made her way to the living room and smiled at what she saw. Jessie was fast asleep, on her back, with an also fast asleep Matthew lying on his stomach across her wife's chest area. She put the puppy down and took a pic or two, before sending it to JJ and Garcia, "Hey there sleepy head, I'm home"
"Hmm, yayyy" Jessie sleepily said, as her eyes adjusted to the sunlight coming from the windows, "How long?"
"About five minutes" the older brunette answered as she leaned in and gave Jess a proper kiss.
"Mommy!" Matty happily said, as he opened his eyes and spotted his mom. He quickly sat up and jumped into her arms, making Grey go "Oof!" for using her stomach as his launch spot, "Easy there tiger, Mama's very old there" she joked, earning a playful glare from her wife. Soon they decided to watch the Lion King and just enjoy a quiet afternoon together.
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It was now almost 9:00 pm and Emily was beyond tired after the last couple of days. The older brunette had put the crib back in the baby's room, helped Jessie up the stairs and into their bedroom. Matty was fast asleep, beyond happy that his mom was back. Now both adult were changed into their nightwear and were ready for bed.
"We also need to talk about… you know" Prentiss spoke up.
"I know" Grey sighed, "You still pissed?"
I'm more disappointed towards you, than mad/pissed. I mean, what were thinking?" the older female profiler asked.
"That it wouldn't be stupid to bother Garcia, when she's needed at the bureau. I didn't know that the ramp was going to break!"
"Exactly my point, you do never know when something will break or happen. You were lucky this time, Jessie. Just… call Garcia next time, please?" she begged at the end.
"… Fine!" Jess sighed out annoyed.
"This shouldn't be a discussion. You're still in a wheelchair, barely able to walk and pregnant! If it wasn't the ramp, it could have been your legs. If you don't want to bother Pen, then at least call my father, alright?"
"Alright" Jessie agreed, "Now can we stop talking about this?"
"Yes" Prentiss answered, before kissing her wife. They each turned off their lamps and cuddle into one another and let sleep take over them.
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Em was startled out of her sleep, not knowing why. The longhaired brunette felt the familiar wetness between her thighs and thought back to the dream she had, which had been about sex with Jess in the archive room. Just when she felt herself starting to drift back to sleep, when she felt her wife nuzzling the back of her neck and a hand roaming on the side of her right thigh.
"Jess?" the brunette agent asked, as she turned to look over to her wife and saw that the spikey haired woman was fast asleep and dreaming, "Baby, wake up"
It then hit Emily what Grey was dreaming about, when she felt her wife starting to hump her butt and moaning; she was also having a sex dream.
"Jessie!" Prentiss half shouted, waking Grey up from her dream. The younger woman looked confused for the first couple of seconds, before it hit her that it had been just a dream and the look on her face was replaced by one of sadness, "Hey, what's wrong?"
"Nothing… just a dream" she replied with some sadness in her voice.
"Come on, you can tell me" Emily switched to lay on her right side instead, facing her wife, and gave a concerned yet caring look to her wife.
"I had a dream about us… we were having sex"
"And that's what has you down? Gee thanks hun"
"It was more how we were doing it" Grey started to explain, "I had my legs back… so when I woke up, all I could feel was how light my legs are and how much it still hurts. That's why I was sad. I guess I just want everything back to normal now, instead of later"
"Babe, for now, this is our new normal. Everything is good, except for your legs right now, but you're doing great progress every week. Quit being hard on yourself. You're not superman or Wonder Woman, you know" the older brunette told Jess, as she gently held the side of her wife's face with one hand, before placing a sweet kiss.
"I'll try, I promise" Grey said, as she returned the kiss. Of course, it didn't take long before the sweet kiss they had been sharing got deeper and more intimate, "Mmm, turn your back to me" she ordered.
Obeying her, Em went back to lie on her left side and waited for her wife to continue. The longhaired brunette soon felt her lips kissing, nibbling and lightly sucking on the sweet spot of her neck, making her moan. Then Jess' right arm wrapped itself around her wife's waist, resting her hand under the hem if her nightshirt and feeling the hot skin. Soon that same hand slowly traveled up the older woman's body until she felt her nipple being pitched, "Shirt off, now" Grey told her.
Within seconds the light blue nightshirt was removed from her body and landed onto the cold floor. Emily then whined, whens he felt her soul mate pull away for a couple of seconds, only to feel her naked body up against hers. The same right hand then started to pull down her underwear down her legs and soon threw it somewhere ion the floor in their room.
Jess lifted her right leg over Prentiss' knee and half wrapped it around that leg, before letting her hand wander below the sheets. Em's entire body tensed up as she felt her clit being circled by two strong fingers. Soon though Jessie's hips started humping against her. Both women were moaning and writhing against one another, Grey had sunk her teeth into her wife's shoulder, while her partner clawed at her lower back/butt.
"Need you… now" the longhaired brunette breathed out, only to cry out as she felt the same fingers enter her, "That's it, like that, don't stop!" They kept at it for almost thirty minutes before Jessie completely stopped moving her fingers, but didn't remove them from where they were, "Why?..."
"I wanna make this last as long as possible and give you the best orgasm as well" Grey answered. She stilled her fingers for about a minute, before slowly wiggling them against that special spot.
"Aaah! Oh god, so close!"
"Not yet" Emily was told, before the same fingers stilled again. It took everything in the older woman to not move her hips, "Widen your legs, that's it… ready?" after receiving the nod, Jessie went as fast and as hard as possible in her wife, "Scream for me, come for me now!"
"Fuck yes! I'm coming! JESSIE!" Prentiss screamed, eyes' rolling in the back of her head, whimpering and shaking at how powerful her orgasm was, "Oh… Oh god, Jessie that was… wow!" Emily turned over and planted a sloppy but passionate kiss against her wife's lips.
"Glad to be of service" the younger woman said, as she laid on her back and tried to control her breathing pattern, due to uncontrollable pulsing clit.
"Let me take care of you baby" Prentiss said as she used the rest of her strength to roll between her wife's legs and started to eat her out.
"Oh! Oh yes, baby… Just like that. Fuck me good with that tongue of yours"
Soon Em did as her wife wished and bobbed her head back and forth as hard as she could with her tongue. Grey immediately grabbed hold of the headboard and moved her hips in sync with her wife's movements. Em could feel exactly where the pulsing was coming from and used the tip of her tongue to press on it and move as fast as she could against it, making her pregnant and hormonal wife happily cry out. Just as she could feel her lover coming, Emily started using three fingers and sucking her partner's clit as hard as possible, causing her to come right then and there.
"EMILY!" Jess howled as she collapsed, panting like she had just ran a marathon, "…Is this how… you felt with Matty? Horny all the time?"
"Pretty much yeah"
"Damn!"
"You getting turned on again, aren't you?"
"How'd you…?"
"I remember everything baby. Now let's get those hormones under control, shall we?" she said as she started thrusting her clit against Jess' swollen clit, both moaning their pleasures out as they started round 3, and then later round 4.
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Emily had just finished eating breakfast, with Matty in his highchair, when her phone started ringing. It was her father calling, so she answered with a cheery hello. Richard had wanted to ask If he could stop by for a little visit, since her mother was out of town on business and he felt a little lonely. Prentiss told him to come on right over and that he should stay for lunch and spend the day together since she had the next three days off, which he eagerly agreed to.
"See you soon dear" Richard said, before disconnecting the call.
"You too dad" Em answered as she ended the call and decided to go and placed Matty in his play pen, while she went to go wake up her wife and get her ready, for her dad's visit. After making her way to the master bedroom. She saw her wife was still fast asleep and knew that she had to wake her up now, "Sweetie, time to get up… Come on Jessie, it's time to get up…"
"Nope!" Grey said as she pulled her wife into the bed and cuddle into her, making both of them laugh.
"Come on baby, my dad's on his way to spend the day here with us"
"Ugh, fine. But I expect sex after he leaves" she half-joked.
"Yes dear" Em replied, as she gave her a good morning kiss.
Almost thirty minutes later, both women were downstairs and just chatting about various things, when the front door bell went off, making Pepper bark and run up the front door. Em picked the puppy in her arms, opened the front door and welcomed her father inside. Pepper and Richard had never met, so she ran away as soon as she was put back on the floor.
"Who's that little cutie?" Mr. Prentiss asked.
"That's the newest member of the family, Pepper. She was rescued by Garcia, when she and Morgan found her in a thrash bin by the precinct we were working at in DC"
"Poor thing, how's is she doing now?"
"Well, she's afraid of new people, but she'll love you once she gets use to you" Em told him as she closed and locked the front door again, "Where's mother?"
"She went to talk to someone about semi-retiring" he told her with a soft smile.
"Semi-retiring? Why?"
"She wants to be in your life more, Emily. I know you two have a difficult past… we all have. But she really wants to spend more time with Matthew, you, Jessie and your team and be part of the family"
"Wow… So she's not going to travel?"
"Not as much or as long, that's the plan. If they can't reach an agreement, then she'll retire and start a political career here in DC instead" he answered her, as they both made their way to the living room.
"Hey Richard!" Jess happily welcomed her father-in-law.
"How's the pregnancy coming along my dear and how are you?"
"I'm good, but the hormones and starting to kick in, so don't worry if I start blubbering for no reason" the pregnant woman joked, making everyone laugh.
"Babe did you hear what father said?" Em asked.
"No. What?"
"Mother is either going to semi-retire or retire from being an ambassador"
"Wow! What made her want to do that?"
"She just wants to spend more time with you two, the team and her grandchildren: be part of the family" Richard told his daughter-in-law.
"That's awesome! I hope she retires, no offense, but it'd be great if she didn't have to travel anymore" Grey said.
"I know what you mean" Mr. Prentiss said, with a smile. He then spotted his grandson playing, "Well hello, Matthew"
"G-pa!" the little boy happily squealed as he reached out towards his grandfather and was then picked up by him.
"How's my lil' man doing?"
"Happy!"
"I'm glad to hear that" he chuckled.
The rest of the day went by without a hitch. Everything was perfect about it for Emily. She got to see her dad play with her son, catch up with him and how things are going with her mother. She was also glad that he and Jessie were now close. It seemed that it was the only positive thing that had happened, when Jackson had taken her. The brunette still remembered the first time Jessie and her father met, which ended up as a disaster. Every time they were in the same room usually her dad would start an argument or make an inappropriate comment towards Jessie, or sometimes Emily, and both were arguing and sometimes threatening each other.
Glad to see the changes between the two of them. Emily was deep in her thoughts, that she didn't feel hands grabbing at her hips, until she was pulled into her wife's lap and was met with a loving kiss. Everything was coming back to normal again in their lives.