Waking up in her hotel room the morning after getting Aimee back, she glances at her phone. She has a couple hours before she needs to be back at the station. Maybe she should get her workout in now, get it over with before the day runs away from her. So grabbing workout clothes from her go bag again, she makes her way towards the gym. She shoots a text to Aaron as she walks.

I'm getting my workout in if youre up

Be there in five.

It doesn't surprise her that he's awake. Cases like these have them all on edge. They want to get the kids back to their parents safe and sound. But so far all they've done is gotten one kid back by chance. They need more information than they have. Even though these kids look nothing like Jack, she wouldn't be surprised if he wants to get home soon to hold his son close to him. Hell she wants to hold Jack close and not let him go even though he's not even related to her.

"Hey." His soft timber calls to her as he walks in the room.

"Hi. How are you?" She asks, concerned about him.

"Probably about the same as everyone else." He can see the worry etched into her skin and he wants to pull her into his arms. Is he allowed to do that? They are going to go on a date as soon as they have a weekend. Screw it. "Come here?" He offers his arms to her and she seeks solace within the circle of his arms.

"This isn't working out." She mumbles into his chest after a few moments of their arms just being wrapped around one another.

"Fuck it. This is better than working out." She feels the tension in his shoulders and back release as he holds her. "I miss Jack." He whispers into her hair.

"I do too. Cases like this, they make me want to see him even more."

Aaron's eyes fall to her face, leaning against his chest. "You're welcome to see him anytime. He loves you a lot Em."

"I love him too. It's too easy to love him." As much as she wants to just stay in his arms and ignore the world around them, she knows they can't. "We should probably get our workout in." She says, before adding, "If I knew you were going to be a distraction instead of actually getting work done, I wouldn't have invited you to join me."

"Tough. You're stuck with me." He places a kiss in her hair, needing to feel that she was real.

"Well come on, be stuck with me doing our workout." She teases him as she pulls away from his arms. They were the only people in the gym, so they can take as long as they want, but Emily wants to make sure she has time to go back, shower and change before heading into the station. "It'll be easy. It's Plyometric Cardio Circuit."

"I literally hate that one. That doesn't mean it's easy Em. We've done it too many times now for you to try and trick me with that one." She can't help but smile at that.

"Ok, easy might be the wrong word, but sooner we start, the sooner it will be over." She tries to sound at least somewhat motivational.

"Sooner we start, sooner it's over. I feel like you've said that before."

"And I was right then and I'm right now."

"Fine, let's just do this." Emily clicks on the video on her phone. "Didn't bring your computer down today?"

"Texted you after I had already left my room with just my phone." She shrugs. "Plus as you said, we've done this a few times, so it's not like we really need to see the screen all that much."

"Fine, fine you're probably right." The montage plays from the speakers of her phone as they wait for the workout to start. They make their way through the warm up, the stretches, and the actual moves. The forty minutes speeds by as they sweat through the moves and by the end of it, both agents are feeling more awake, but also in need of a shower.

"And here I thought I'd be the only one at the gym." Morgan's voice rings out from the other side of the gym.

"We just finished, so it's all yours." Emily tosses to him.

"Do you two never sleep anymore?" Morgan teases.

"Just committed to getting a good workout in." Aaron explains.

"I can see that." And Morgan really can. Both agents are looking more toned. Not that they were in bad shape or anything beforehand, but he can see more definition appearing on both of them. "You're both looking good. You almost done with your program?" Emily shakes her head.

"We have forty three more days." Morgan's eyebrows raise in surprise.

"Well you're going to be kick ass at the end of it. Maybe you'll even be able to beat me in hand to hand combat."

"Didn't need to work out more to whip you in that." Emily teases and Aaron can't help but let a smile break free.

"Oh so sure of yourself now, but actually take me up on the offer and we'll see who standing at the end of it."

"Fine." Emily says and Morgan looks her over.

"Really?"

"I've taken down bigger guys than you, but bringing your ego down would be nice." She smiles at him. "Now I'm going to go take a shower. Let me know when we're going to have our little showdown." Emily tosses over her shoulder. Aaron can't help but roll his eyes at their antics before following Emily out of the gym.

They've had Aimee back for twelve hours, but that's about all that's changed. They still have no leads on the car or who brought her back again. The only thing they have is more frustrating dead ends. JJ joined Reid at the hospital with the Reeves in case anything changes. Emily and Aaron had spent most of the afternoon and evening at the hospital yesterday, so they've switched up to get new eyes on the case. Aimee's blood sugar has come down some, but not nearly enough for her to wake up, so the chances of getting the answers they need is low.

"We have a body." Sergeant Barnes' voice rings through the open door. "A young girl, found off the side of the one oh three."

"Emily and Morgan go with." Aaron directs, not looking up from the files he's looking at.

"That's Mila-Rose. But look how different she is from Aimee." Emily says crouching by the body.

"Besides her being dead and Aimee being alive?"

"She's got bruises all over her body. Aimee didn't. Both girls are relatively clean, hair brushed, etc. But she's still in her pjs that she was taken in, Aimee was brought to the ER in a dress."

"Do you think the unsub might have changed her back into the PJs?"

"Or the partner. Maybe, wanted to make her look like she was sleeping. Plus her arms are folded and she has a blanket covering her. Those are all signs of sympathy, whereas the bruises say otherwise."

"So the partner is the more submissive, more caring of the two." Morgan theorizes. "Maybe a husband and wife?"

"Would make sense. Or a mother and son? Especially with all the handmade clothes, that would take lots of practice to perfect so maybe we're looking for an older couple or at least one of them being older?"

"A mother might make more sense. She would do anything to protect her son. Even cover up his mistakes." Morgan throws out and Emily nods in agreement. They'll bring it up when they're back with the team, but for right now they need to see if they can find anything else here. Is there something else that can tip them off about what led Mila-Rose to her grave? Did she say something wrong? Did she do something to piss off the unsub? She's in such a worse condition in comparison to Aimee, there must be something they're missing. But what?

Emily glances at her phone. They've been working on this all day. They've hit dead end after dead end and they're nowhere closer to being able to bring the other two girls home. Right now the only one who can tell them anything is lying in a coma. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. Maybe she'll head to the hospital and relieve JJ and Spencer from staying with the Reeves. It's not like she'll fall asleep with all the questions about why Mila-Rose is dead and Amiee's not keep running through her mind.

Author'sNote:June just got away from me, but hopefully I can get back into the swing of posting regularly. Hopefully all of you are staying safe with COVID and you're not going crazy like I feel I am.

Lizzy