Chapter 3

(A.N. So this is my first time writing a fight scene, and I know it's not long. As always, thanks for reading, and hope you enjoy.)

Present day.

Emily looked around her dark room to find the source of the loud noise that awoke her. Her eyes found the alarm clock on her night stand, the time 3:19 lit up in red. Another bang at the door drew Emily back into the present, moving towards Lindsay's room.

When Emily arrived at the room, Lindsay was hiding under her desk.

"Mom, what's going on?" she asked her mother frighted.

"I don't know sweetie, stay here and be quiet. Also, take this in case you need it." Emily told her daughter, handing her a pocket knife she kept in her room for protection.

"I'm going to go see what is at the door." She continued as she got up to leave the room.

"Mom don't go, I'm scared." Lindsay said in a low whimper.

"It's going to be ok. Linds, I'll be right back, remember those self defense moves I taught you." she assured her daughter.

She left the room and went to go see what was happening outside her apartment. Emily looked through the peep hole and saw a familiar black mask, The Reaper was outside her door trying to kill her and her daughter. A million thoughts ran through her mind, how did he know where they lived, and if she and her daughter were going to survive were the most important ones at the moment.

Emily pulled out her cell phone and called JJ. She told her what was happening and for her to contact the rest of the team and to send backup to her apartment building.

"I know you're in there Emily!" Foyet said from the other side of the door.

"I know about you and Aaron, Lindsay, and I already found Jack again too." he said trying to intimidate Emily.

Emily unlocked the door and prepared for what would happen next. Foyet turned the door knob very slowly, testing Emily's patience. He busted into the dark room in all black with his mask covering his face. The Reaper lunged in Emily's direction, but she dodged to the left, further away from the wall. Then Emily threw a punch to Foyet's stomach, pushing him away from her, he backed into the wall from the force and charged at Emily once more. This time he managed to tackle her to the ground with a thud. Emily knew that she'd have a bruised back in a few hours, but she kept fighting. She got up and ran to her kitchen. Foyet, of course, close behind her. Emily grabbed a knife and turned it towards the man.

"What is your obsession with Hotch, and wanting to hurt everyone he cares about?" she asked him, even though she knew the answer.

"He didn't want to make the deal with me." he said.

"What deal?" Emily asked seeing if she could distract him.

"The deal that I made with the last detective who was trying to solve the Boston Reaper case. That if he stopped hunting me, I'd stop killing. If he didn't though, I'd hunt and kill the people he loved. Now I have to fulfill my promise to him by killing you and your daughter, and his son." Foyet finished.

He was not paying attention, and Emily got close enough to him to stab him. Foyet tried to fight back and get the knife away from her, and he was successful for a few seconds. He climbs on top of Emily to keep her from getting away and moving. Then Emily looked around her for anything to help her escape. She looks up and finds a glass cup, that for whatever reason was on ground, grabs it, and bashes it into Foyet's head. He collapses to the ground unconscious. The other members of the team arrived and restrained and arrested him.

"I'll be back again Emily, I'll find a way out of whatever prison you put me in." Foyet spoke as a D.C. officer drove him away a little while later.

"Are you ok Emily?" a young Doctor Spencer Reid asked his friend.

"I'm fine Reid, really, right now I need to go check on my daughter." she answers him. Emily leaves her kitchen and headed down the hall to Lindsay's room.

"Hey Linds, you ok?" she said walking in.

"Mom!" her daughter jumped up from where she was sitting on her bed with JJ and ran to her mother.

"I was so scared that something bad had happened to you." Lindsay said still tucked in Emily's arms.

Emily hadn't really given it much thought about that she was also responsible for protecting her new child at all times, and promised herself to be better about protecting herself when she was out in the field.

"Oh honey, you know you don't have to worry about me, I can protect myself." Emily said comforting her.

"Thank you JJ, for sitting with her while I gave my statement and was getting cleaned up." she looked in JJ's direction still on the bed and smiled.

"No problem at all, anytime." JJ told her friend.

"If it's no bother, do you mind if she stays with you for a little bit? It's not safe for us here, she needs sleep, and I have paperwork I have to do."

"That's fine with me, I'll also get her to school later. Go tell Hotch what happened." JJ told her friend.

"Lindsay, let's go got your stuff from the car and you guys head back to JJ's." Emily told her daughter.

Everyone left the scene soon after and Emily headed towards the hospital. She arrived at the hospital around 5:00am and made her way to Hotch's room. Walking in, she was trying to be quiet and not wake him. Emily loved being able to watch him sleep, it was different from seeing him be serious most of the time. He looked peaceful, and Emily could have swore there was a smile on his lips. She didn't want him to be too grumpy and groggy when she woke him up, so she decided to kiss him awake.

She walked over to his hospital bed and gently kissed his lips. At first he was startled, but then he returned the kiss when he realized it was Emily waking him up.

"What are you doing here so early?"

"Something happened tonight at my apartment."Emily answered.

"Foyet found where we live and attacked us." she continued to retell the events of the night.

"Is Lindsay ok? What about you and the baby?"

"All of us are doing fine. Lindsay didn't see anything, I made sure she was hidden in her room while everything happened. I just thought that you would want to know as soon as possible."

"So you've caught him, and he's been put away?"

"I am going to make sure he's being put in the highest security prison possible until the day he dies. He's going to have hell to pay for what he's done to all of us."

"How was Lindsay after you went and picked her up from JJ's, and where is she now?" Hotch asked after they laid in the hospital bed for a while.

"She was fine, she just needed to spend some time with her mom, although JJ and Spencer are taking her and Jack to school today when they take Henry to daycare."

"You need some rest, try and get some sleep here." he told her, moving to cradle her against his body.

"You're right, I guess I could get a couple of hours before I go into the office."

Emily fell asleep curled into Hotch's body until the sun began to rise. She woke up and realized where she was. She snuck out of the small bed and tried to make herself a little more presentable before the doctor came in.

"Mr. Hotchner, your scans and tests all look good and you are free to leave tomorrow morning." the new doctor on call told them.

"That's great news. Thank you doctor." Emily said

"Yes, thank you." Hotch chimed in.

"I have to go into the office for a little bit, but I'll come back up here later with the kids and we can tell them about the baby." Emily spoke as she kissed Hotch's cheek.

"Bye babe." he called to her as she was leaving.

She went to the BAU to see what everyone was working on and to give them another update on Hotch. She was able to also get some of her work done before she left early for the day. Since the team was not really taking new cases, it was easier for the team to be able to make more of their own hours.

Emily made her way to Morgan's office because he was acting director of the BAU to let him know what was going on. And she was gone again.

She picked the kids up from school and drove them to see Hotch at the hospital. When they got in the room, they ran to his bed and hugged him. Then they saw there was a gift bag for each of them on the couch.

"What are you guys doing here?" Hotch asked after the hug.

"Emmy brought us so we can see you daddy." Jack told him.

"What's that?" Lindsay asked her mother.

"Why don't you and Jack go and see." Emily encouraged them.

They sat on the couch and opened the gifts. Both bags had a onesie, and a bottle, Lindsay's had a jar that said babysitting money while Jack's had a big book on how to be a good big brother .

"That conversation we had last night wasn't out of coincidence was it." Lindsay asked

"Not really, but aren't you excited?"

"Wait! I don't understand." Jack said.

Lindsay bent down and whispered in his ear what was going on.

"So I'm going to be a big brother?" the little boy asked.

"Yea buddy you are. What do you think about that?" Emily bent down to his level and asked.

"Yay! I hope it's a baby brother, and I can show him how to do big boy things." he responded.

"I guess it'll be cool having a tiny human around, and I'm definitely charging you two for babysitting." Lindsay joked.

They spent the rest of the day being a family, watching t.v., playing games, and helping with homework. When it was getting close to time for dinner, Emily took the kids home and made them something to eat. Tonight they had chicken with macaroni and cheese, and butter beans.

After dinner, she gave Jack a quick bath and it was time for bed again.

It felt weird to Emily to be where she struggled with an UnSub, but she also felt comfortable and safe here. She thought that she might have the kids sleep with her tonight just to be safe.

End of chapter 3

(A.N. I felt bad for releasing the last chapter late so I decided to publish this one early to make up for it. I do not own Criminal Minds, just the storyline. Please leave comments and enjoy.)