Authors note: This chapter contains major spoilers from season 6. I do not always keep things exactly like the show (clearly as I have additional characters) so while some of this chapter is similar to season 6 I also have added and taken cannon situation.

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Several months had passed since Thanksgiving. Emily had just been murdered a week before. Lorelai was a mess. She had never found out if Emily and her were really okay after the whole situation when she went into that house alone during that one case and now she never would know. She was also still struggling with the fact that her best friend still wasn't talking to her.

Rebecca was supposed to be back at Christmas time, but she never came.

Lorelai had told Derek about the pot and Derek had come down hard on her about it too. He wasn't getting much information from her either. Derek was also dealing with his own grief with losing one of -his best friends.

Lorelai had texted and emailed Rebecca after Emily has died telling her and also telling her when the funeral was in case she had wanted to come. She never texted her back and she never showed up to the funeral.

Spencer was very aloof as well. Lorelai knew he was spending a lot of time with JJ. Trying to work through his grief and while Lorelai knew they were friends she was little hurt that he wasn't coming to her.

It seemed to Lorelai that JJ and Hotch were the least affected by this tragedy, but she figured maybe they were just better at hiding it.

They were at the office when a case was brought to them. It was taking them to Florida. On the plane after discussing the case Morgan sat with Davies who was alone.

"How are you?" He asked her

Lorelai shrugged. "Missing her. Everyday."

"Me too. Have you heard from Rebecca at all since Thanksgiving?" He asked

Lorelai shook her head. "I texted and emailed her about Emily and told her about the funeral but no response to that either."

"While we are in Florida if I have the chance I am going to go check on her. I know her address and I am going to see if she will talk to me." Derek told her

Lorelai nodded.

"Do you want to join me?" He asked

Lorelai sighed. "Yes. I would love to but, I think its better if I don't."

Morgan nodded.

When they got to Florida they got to work on the case. When they finally solved it Hotch told them to be at the jet in two hours.

Morgan took the opportunity to go and see Rebecca. When he got to her apartment however he found out she didn't live there. That she had never lived there. He had a bad feeling he knew where she was. He looked up the address for her ex's apartment and went there.

He got into the building without having to be buzzed in when someone was coming out as he was going in. He went and knocked on the door and wasn't surprised when Rebecca opened the door.

"Really Rebecca all I went through to get you away from him and you're here?" he asked annoyed

Rebecca's eyes bulged out of her head, and she tried to close the door quickly, but Morgan put his foot in the door. "Nope. You are not avoiding this any longer."

"Derek. Go. He is going to be back soon, and he will be pissed." Rebecca said

Derek could see the bruises on her neck, so he knew the abuse was still happening. "I am not leaving and letting you stay here. There is a restraining order."

"He apologized. He is getting help for his addiction." Rebecca said

"Not abusing you anymore?" Derek asked

"No. He's not." Rebecca said

"Than why are their handprints on your neck?" he asked

Rebecca looked down.

"He stealing your money again?" he asked

"No. He is taking care of me." Rebecca said

"Cut the bullshit Rebecca. He is abusing and controlling you. Your best friend is worried sick about you, and she has already lost one friend recently." He said

"What are you talking about?" Rebecca asked, "Who did she lose?"

"Didn't you get her texts or email?" He asked

"I changed my phone number, and I don't… have access to that email account anymore." Rebecca said

Derek sighed. "Emily. She died on a case." He told her

Rebecca's jaw dropped. "What?"

Derek nodded. "Funeral was last week. Lorelai tried to tell you, but you didn't get the messages obviously."

Rebecca was stunned. "Derek no I didn't…"

Derek nodded. "What do you want to do now that you have this information?" he asked

"I cant just leave…He…" Rebecca said

Derek sighed. "Do you actually want to leave him. For good?" He asked her

She nodded. "I cant though."

"Why not?" He asked

"He will find me…" She said

"No. He wont. And there is a restraining order I can get him thrown in jail" Derek said

She shrugged.

"You need to decide if you're done. Done dealing with the abuse and controlling person he is. Only you can make that decision." He told her

"I cant stay in Florida if I leave him." Rebecca said

"You can come to DC. We will find you a safe place. Go pack your stuff. If he comes home I will handle it." Derek told her

Rebecca went and started to pack.

Derek texted his boss. 'I am dealing with a situation. Someone needs help and I need to help them. Go back without me I will get a flight later.' He told him

Hotch read the text. "Anyone know where Morgan went after we left the police station?" He asked the team on the jet.

"Yes. I do. Why?" Davies asked

"Where?" Hotch asked

Lorelai took a breathe "I don't know if I should say."

"Agent Davies." Hotch said

"He is dealing with a personal matter." Lorelai said

"Than why do you know about it?" Hotch asked

Lorelai looked down.

Spencer looked at her. "Talk." He said

Lorelai looked at Spencer. "Don't you fucking tell me to talk when you have barely spoken to me outside of work since Emily passed away." She said getting up and going to the back of the plane in tears.

Rossi followed her. "We just need to know if Derek is in trouble. He texted Aaron saying to go without him. He said he needed to help someone and would get a flight later. Who is he helping?"

Lorelai looked up at him in tears. "Rebecca."

"What's going on with Rebecca?" David asked

"It's a long story. Really long." She said. She took out her phone and texted Derek. 'What is going on?'

Derek checked the phone and responded. 'she went back to the boyfriend. I am getting her out of here. She will be coming to DC. I don't want you to worry about it.'

Lorelai responded. 'Hotch asked if anyone knew where you were I couldn't lie so I said I did but wouldn't tell them where exactly you are, they are worried.'

Derek saw the text and texted Hotch 'I am handling a personal matter. I will be awhile, but I am fine.'

Hotch saw the text 'is it something we can help with. We don't mind waiting'

Derek was frustrated. 'I will be bringing someone extra back with me we will take a commercial flight'

Aaron shook his head. 'You can bring them on the jet. No one will mind.' He texted

Aaron got up and went to the back of the plane. "Who is he bringing back to DC?" He asked his daughter

David looked at Aaron.

"He is dealing with a personal matter he is bringing someone back to DC and said they would take a commercial flight." Aaron told David

Lorelai sighed. "Well, I guess there is no point hiding it anymore. Rebecca. When she was in DC at thanksgiving I found out she had broken up with her boyfriend when he became physically abusive. On top of the fact that he was verbally and financially abusing her too and controlling as well as an alcoholic who lied about getting help. She asked for my help but asked me not to tell everyone. I asked Derek for help with her permission. He got her a restraining order and helped her find an apartment. I also found out she was smoking marijuana and came down on her for it and told her if she continued I couldn't be around her anymore. She didn't take it well. I told Derek about the weed too and he also came down on her for it. He decided to go check on her as she hasn't spoken to either of us really since than. I guess he found out she was back with the guy. And now he has convinced her to come back to DC to get away from him." Lorelai told them everything

Hotch texted Derek. 'We can help the situation. If you need it. If not we will wait for you two.'

David looked at Lorelai "That is a lot."

Lorelai let tears fall.

"It will be okay. We will all help her." David told her

Lorelai nodded.

"We will wait for them" Aaron said

She nodded again. "I'm sorry"

"Nothing to be sorry for. You found out what was happening knew you couldn't help her alone told someone who could help her." Aaron told her.

"You are not required to tell everybody everything. You were protecting your friends right to her privacy while still helping her." David added

Aaron and Derek agreed that Derek would bring her back to the jet.

David and Aaron went and sat back down. Lorelai stayed in the back to start making coffee.

Spencer came back to her.

"Do you want to talk?" He asked. She had told the story loud enough for the whole jet to hear so they all knew.

"No." Lorelai said

"Come on, I can help." He said

"Why don't you go talk to JJ since she is the only one you trust to talk to about anything right now." She said in snippy tone of voice.

"Lorelai…" Spencer said

"No. I am not talking to you about anything." Lorelai said

Spencer went and sat back down. Lorelai got a cup of coffee before sitting down by herself in the back of the plane. She leaned her head on the window.

JJ came over and joined her. "Spencer coming to talk to me has nothing to do with you. He knows Emily and I were close he just wants closure." She said

"Yeah. And Emily hated me." Lorelai said

"What? No, she did not. She loved you Lorelai." JJ told her

"And we had that huge fight about the case where I went into the house alone and we were never the same again." Lorelai said wiping at her tears

"Lorelai she was annoyed yes. But she forgave you. She moved on from that. She loved you Lorelai." JJ told her.

Lorelai looked up at JJ. "Really?"

"Yes Lorelai. She knew how stubborn you are. She realized that all you were doing was pushing the limits to test boundaries." JJ told her

Lorelai laughed a bit. "Yeah…I was."

JJ smiled. "You going to give Spence a break?"

"You are the only other person who calls him that." Lorelai said with a smile

JJ smiled. "That's not an answer."

Lorelai sighed. "Why do I have to tell him everything and he doesn't tell me how he is feeling?" She asked

JJ nodded. "I'll talk to him. I never meant to get between you two. I love you both and just wanted to help him."

"I know. I just want him to talk to me too. I miss her too." Lorelai said

"Did he know about anything to do with Rebecca?" JJ asked

"He knew she wasn't talking to me because of a fight about her smoking marijuana." She said

JJ nodded. "Okay." She looked over to Spencer and motioned for him to come over.

Spencer came and joined them.

"I am always available to talk to you. Both of you. But you expect Lorelai to confide in you and its not fair if you don't confide in her too" JJ said before getting up and leaving them to talk.

Lorelai looked out the window.

"I'm sorry Lor. JJ is right I should have confided in you too. I know you miss her too." Spencer told her

Lorelai nodded.

"I'm also struggling with my sobriety, and I know you and Rebecca are having issues because of drugs. I didn't want you to worry about me relapsing." Spencer told her

Lorelai looked over at him. "Spence… I cant help you if you don't talk to me." She said. "This is different. Your working to keep yourself sober. I am so proud of you. I can't imagine how hard that must be. But you are working at it. Rebecca didn't care to even -try to stop."

Spencer smiled a bit and nodded.

"What can I do to help?" She asked

"Keep on me to talk to you." Spencer said

Lorelai nodded. "Always."

Rebecca finished packing and Derek grabbed her bags leading her out to a taxi he had called. When they got to the jet Rebecca sat across the isle from Lorelai. Derek sat with her and looked over at Lorelai.

Lorelai smiled at Derek and mouthed "Thank You."

Derek nodded a bit.

The flight started. Derek got up from the seat and went to get coffee. Lorelai took a breathe and went and sat across from Rebecca.

"I get it you're pissed but I needed my best friend, and she didn't even responded to my text or emails when Emily died." Lorelai said

"I didn't get them." Rebecca told her

"How?"

"He made me change my phone number. He made me give him my login for the email and he probably deleted all the emails from you." Rebecca said

"Okay. Well, you still never texted or called or emailed me in the past few months." Lorelai said

"You told me that you didn't want to be around me if I smoked pot." Rebecca told her. "Not to mentioned you flushed the stuff that I had when I was in DC." She said

"Yes I did. Because I -hate drugs. And I was not going to stand by and let my friend get high if I could prevent it. And I honestly thought that you would choose me over the drugs, but I guess I should be used to people choosing drugs over me." Lorelai said a little louder

"Oh, shut up. Its pot. Not heroin or cocaine or LSD. Its pot. Everybody smokes a little pot." Rebecca said even louder.

Lorelai got up. "Fine. Well, that's fine. I guess I'm glad that you didn't call me because I don't want to deal with that in my life." She said and she went back to her seat next to Spencer.

Derek sat back down with Rebecca. The rest of the flight was quiet. Derek texted Penny let her know what was going on. He was going to let Rebecca stay in his guest room while they found her an apartment.

On the drive from the airport Derek knew he needed to let Rebecca know a few things.

"I know I can not stop you from smoking weed. I hope you do try to stop but you will not smoke in my apartment, and I better not catch you smoking it." He told her

Rebecca nodded. "That's fair. I wont." She said. "Will you kick me out if you catch me?" She asked

"Nope. Just put my boot up your ass." Derek told her

"Oh. Okay…" Rebecca said

Derek nodded. "It is illegal. I am a federal agent."

"I get it." Rebecca said

"And I care about you. And I know weed isn't the worse thing you could be doing but it does affect a persons mental state. Lorelai told me that you started when you were -thirteen. She also said you struggled through highschool and are not doing well in university." He said

Rebecca sighed. "I flunked out of university." She told him

"I know you two are not getting along right now but she wonders if the weed is the reason you didn't do well in school. That you were high all the time and couldn't focus." Derek said

"It might be a factor…" Rebecca was honest

Derek nodded. "Is it an addiction?"

"No. I honestly can stop anytime there has been periods where I haven't smoked." Rebecca said

"Will you consider stopping?" He asked

Rebecca sighed. "It helps me destress." She said

Derek nodded. "You know there are other ways, better ways, legal ways to destress." He told her

"Yeah I know…" Rebecca said

"Like I said I cant make you stop. You need to decide what is more important to you." Derek said

Rebecca nodded. "I am not picking drugs over her she is making that decision."

"Becca. She is choosing that because she knows that -her mental health can not allow her to be around people who do drugs. I know she has spent nights crying herself to sleep missing you." He said

"How do you know that?" Rebecca asked

"She told me. And Spencer told me." Derek told her

Rebecca nodded.

"Do you have any on you right now?" He asked

"No. I left it behind. I knew I was flying." She said

Derek nodded.

Meanwhile in Aaron's car he had a few questions for his daughter.

"You're not in trouble, but I have a few questions." He told Lorelai

Lorelai nodded. "Okay."

"She brought weed into the house?" He asked

"Yup. And when I saw it and found out I flushed it." She said

"Did you catch her smoking it or just her supply?" He asked

"A baggy of it. About a gram" She said

Aaron nodded. "Did she smoke it around the kids?"

"She said no when I asked." Lorelai said

Aaron nodded. "I'm so proud of you. I know cutting her out of your life isn't easy."

"It's the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I would go through all the abuse three times over if it meant I didn't have to do this." Lorelai said

"Maybe she will make the changes." He said.

"I hope so." Lorelai said. "I'm sorry I wasn't very professional on the jet."

"It was the flight home. Not really working hours its okay." He said

Lorelai smiled. "I get paid for those hours. Its work hours." She said

"Its forgiven." He said

Lorelai nodded.

Everyone got home that evening and had dinner and a quiet night in. Everyone was tired and just ready for bed.