Authors note: I'm sorry it's taken so long to. update! *

Emily's alarm went off way too soon for her liking. Emily goaned and shut it off. She turned over and snuggled into Alex's back arms around her waist. Alex wrapped her arms over where Emily's were holding her sleepily in place.

"I don't want to get up" Emily mumbled into Alex's hair.

"You have to, you have to get to work and I should get back too, I have to pick up Zander from Abbie and Serena." Alex sleepily replies.

Emily opened her eyes at that, not remembering Alex saying anything about a Zander last night.

Emily sat up and leaned against her headboard taking the cover with her to keep herself covered up.

"I'm sorry if I'm not remembering something but who's Zander?" Emily asked, confused.

Alex sat up then too, wiping the sleep from her eyes.

"My son" Alex tells her, yawning.

Emily looks down embarrassed. They sat there in silence for a moment.

"I guess we never did get to how hard your first year back was" Emile finally says.

"Hey, it's fine." Alex tells her placing a comforting hand on Emily's thigh.

"Will you tell me about him?" Emily asks.

"Well his name is Alexander but we call him Zander because we can't have two Alex's" Alex jokes, lighting the mood from the heaviness that settled around them.

Emily lightly chuckles at that.

"Where's his dad?" Emily hesitantly asked.

"In New York, he took over my job as bureau chief for homicide. It was a one night stand the night before I got engaged to Robert, he's a wall street attorney. By the time I realized that I was pregnant and it was Jim's I called off the wedding. I didn't love Robert, I had just gotten back to New York from witsec and just jumped into a relationship without even really thinking of anything. I didn't really know him but I was trying to be the perfect daughter, the daughter my mother always wanted but never got. I guess with her being gone I just wanted to live up to the Cabot name with the nice husband and house that could further my political ambitions. You know" Alex was rambling and Emily just let her continue.

"So I called it off, I told Jim about the baby and of course he thought that meant we could actually be together , he wanted to step up and take care of us" Alex tells her.

"But it sounds like this Jim also didn't mean much to you" Emily says following along.

"No, he never did. We were friends with benefits for a while and then we weren't and then when we became colleagues again and the one night stand happened I could tell he wanted more but that's never what I wanted from him" Alex shrugged.

"Is he a part of Zander's life?" Emily questioned.

"Weekends, holiday's, you know the life of a lawyer. It's better that way. He has a nice girlfriend and they both love Zander so much" Alex responded.

"I never asked what you were doing in DC?" Emily realizes

"My once a year meeting with witsec to make sure everything is still okay, no dangers" Alex admits. " Plus Abbie and Serena are here so we're visiting them" Alex says lightly.

"I'm glad they finally got together, Serena settled Abbie's wild streak" Emily laughs.

"She definitely did. They are so domesticated now" Alex laughs back.

Alex's phone started ringing and they both jumped at the sudden noise.

"Cabot" Alex answers.

"Hey Rena, yea I'll be there shortly, okay bye" Alex says into the phone and hangs up.

"Sorry, I have to go, demanding one year old" Alex says grinning.

"No, of course go be mommy lex" Emily grins back.

"This was great, maybe I'll see you around soon" Alex says, putting her clothes back on from the night before.

"I never know where I'll end up for cases" Emily says suddenly.

Alex laughs.

"Well if you ever end up in New York give me a call" Alex says bending down to give Emily a sensual kiss before leaving.

Alex had already left and shut the front door before Emily could respond.

"Bye" Emily whispered to the empty apartment.

Emily walked into work with a few minutes to spare, finding Derek sitting on her desk with a coffee in his hand and a cup on her desk. It was from her favorite coffee shop down the street. He picked up the cup and handed it to her once she was in arms reach and grinned at her.

" I wanna know everything" He tells her immediately.

"No" Emily tells him, taking the cup and sitting down.

"Oh come on, tell me you at least went home with-" Derek starts to say and gets cut off by Reid and JJ coming up behind them.

"Went home with what?" Reid asks innocently.

JJ looks around the group of people crowding Emily's desk.

"Yea, Em, what did you go home with?" JJ teasingly asked.

"Derek tried to set me up last night, he was just trying to be my wingman, as if " Emily scoffed sarcastically.

Derek looked impressed about Emily's evasion from the actual question, Reid looked disinterested in the topic now and walked to his desk and JJ, JJ's expression looked shocked and maybe a little sad before she blocked her emotions back into a tight lipped smile.

"I didn't know you were dating," JJ commented quietly.

"Why wouldn't I be, I am untethered to anyone" Emily quipped back at her trying to get a reaction.

Emily knew it was petty but she was still hurt.

"Right" JJ said and pointed to her office. "I'm just going to" JJ left the two of them sitting there.

Derek gave Emily a look that said "really".

"What, you can't just expect a years worth of feelings to go away because of one night of great sex" Emily whispered to him.

"I knew it!" Derek said louder than he meant to grinning, causing JJ and Reid to look over at them.

Derek just got up and went to his desk to start their work day.