There were a couple cases Emily and the team had before they were called to New York. There were random shootings all over the city so the BAU were called in. While the team gathered there to go bags Emily stepped out into the hallway. Emily pulled out her phone and dialed Alex's number, she found it scribbled down on a post it note on her counter after Alex left that morning.
"Cabot" Alex answers
"Hi Miss Cabot" Emily says, chuckling at her.
"Em, hey, how have you been?" Alex questioned
"I'm good, I'm calling because I'm headed to New York, maybe we could get together for dinner?" Emily asked, holding her breath.
"Um, yea, let me know when you land and we'll talk details" Alex says back her voice softening a bit
Emily hears Alex's name somewhere in the background.
"Hey, I have to go but I'll see you soon" Alex tells her
"I look forward to seeing you" Emily says with a grin on her face hanging up the phone.
Emily turned around to walk back into the bulletin to see JJ just coming out the door.
"Hey" Emily says, freezing unsure what JJ heard.
"Hey, I was just coming to get you, we're ready to go" JJ tells her, avoiding eye contact.
"Let's go" Emily says and goes to walk past her to open the door.
JJ puts her hand onto Emily's to hold her off from opening the door.
"Em, is it serious?" JJ asked, her voice thick with emotion.
Emily gave her a confused frown
"Whomever you're meeting in New York, is it serious?" JJ clarifies
"JJ" Emily sighed.
"I just I need to know" JJ whispers to her and if they weren't so close Emily doesn't know if she'd have heard her.
"It's not" Emily tells her honestly.
JJ nods and lets go of her hand. Emily opens the door and they walk in like nothing ever happened.
That seems to be their pattern, have heart filled encounters and then go on as if everything's fine.
Once they land in New York Emily texted Alex letting her know she landed. The team hit it ground running given all the unknowns of the case at hand. After a long day's work the team were finally off to the hotel. When they got there, Will, JJ's boyfriend, Emily internally rolled her eyes. Emily's eyes went straight to JJ. The next few minutes happened in a blur JJ told the team she was pregnant and Will asked her to marry him. In that moment Emily put a brave smile on and congratulated her friend and colleague while her heart was breaking. Emily went up to her hotel room and called Alex, knowing it was late.
"Cabot" Alex answered sleepily.
"Hey, sorry for waking you, this case has just been" Emily starts to say.
"You don't have to apologize Em, I get it, anything I can do? " Alex interrupted her asking.
"No, just hearing you is enough" Emily tells her.
"Rough case" Alex asked.
"Yea you could say that" Emily shrugges
"There's something else though isn't there?" Alex questioned
Emily paused for a moment looking for the right words.
"Ah, the woman I love is pregnant and got engaged" Emily defeatedly tells her.
Alex kept silent for a few minutes.
"I haven't talked to Olivia since I've been back from witsec. When she saw my engagement in the papers she left me a voicemail telling me how pissed she was I never called when I got back but if I didn't want her to be a part of this new life I was living she understood and she wished me the best" Alex responds.
"So what you're saying is no matter how pissed I am because I love her I need to let her be happy" Emily tells her.
"Do you think she will choose you now you know the whole circumstance?" Alex sleepily asks her.
"I don't know, this life that she could have with Will is safe, it may be selfish of me to ask her to choose between the father of her child and me" Emily huffed while sitting on her bed.
"Being happy isn't selfish, I didn't contact liv because I wasn't myself , coming back to testify seeing her, telling her I started seeing someone else it broke her heart and I didn't want her to put her life on hold for me for the person that left New York because I wasn't the same person. Every Time I had a nightmare all I heard was her voice pleading with me to stay with her. It was hard for me and I didn't want to put that on her. So I tried to start a new life, I miss her dearly but I don't want to hold her back. I don't think going after what you want will hold this woman back in her life. It would be her choice." Alex tells her.
"Thanks Alex, I'm sorry to tell you this when we were possibly starting something here" Emily half chuckled at herself.
"Em, I've known you for a long time, it would be weird if we didn't talk about this. As for us, we don't have to be anything you don't want to be. We can take our time, I'm not ready for anything too serious either" Alex responded putting Emily at ease.
"Alex, I don't want to use you" Emily tells her, sighing.
"So let's use each other" Alex teased.
Emily could hear the smile in her voice.
"Oh geesh I didn't realize how late I'm keeping you up, and I have to be back at 7. I better go" Emily says, checking the time.
"Goodnight Em" Alex says back and hangs up.
Emily wakes up to a knock on her door grumbling; she checks her phone to see what time it was, seeing that it was five to seven she figured it was probably one of her teammates and padded over to the door pulling it open. When Emily pulled open the door she found a smirking Alex on the other side.
"Alex, how'd you know where I was?" Emily asked with a confused frown on her face.
"I have my ways" Alex says her smirk widened knowing Abbie definitely came through with her federal connections.
Emily opened the door wider and let her in. Alex gave her the coffee and bag that had a bagel she got for her. Emily hummed in acceptance, taking a good size drink from the cup.
"So what brings you by?" Emily says sitting back down on the unmade bed.
"Well after our conversation last night I just wanted to see you, how are you?" Alex questioned leaning against the TV stand in front of the bed.
"I'm fine Alex, really , so are you sure about this arrangement between us?" Emily raised an eyebrow.
Alex rolled her eyes.
"Pfft, Em, when have I ever seriously dated? We used to have fun together before you going undercover and me falling for Liv" Alex says teasingly.
"That was before you had a kid, won't this impact his life?" Emily asked
"He is one, and unless you actually want to meet him this can just stay between us" Alex shrugges
"I want to meet him" Emily says confidently
Alex raised her eyebrow
"I mean not right now but soon, if this is going to work I don't want to take you from him, I want you both" Emily says standing up and walking towards Alex taking her hands in hers kissing them tenderly.
Alex's eyes sparkled with joy.
"So you want our friendship to come back not just the sex" Alex confirmed.
"Absolutely" Emily says, chuckling at Alex's need to confirm the agreement.
Emily sealed the deal with a kiss to Alex's lips but before anything could go further there was a knock on the door and they broke apart. Emily groaned at the interruption her forehead against Alex's. Emily left Alex standing by the TV stand and opened the door to find Derek and JJ outside her door. Derek holding an extra cup of coffee and JJ with a breakfast sandwich.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Emily asked, looking between them and then at her watch noticing she still had time before she needed to be down at the federal building.
"Morning princess, we wanted to give you some caffeine and breakfast. We figured we could offer you a ride. Reid is already in the lobby." Derek says handing over her coffee while JJ was just staring past Emily looking at the blonde behind her in shock. Derek nudged her and she handed over the bag silently.
Emily grimaced slightly.
"Well thanks but I'm not actually ready, give me ten?" Emily suggested as they were walking past her despite her not actually inviting them in.
Alex gave them a wave and a small smile.
Derek grinned at them and lifted his eyebrows at them suggestively.
Emily rolled her eyes at him and Alex blushed. JJ looked uncomfortable.
Emily cleared her throat and bit the bullet.
"Alex, you remember Derek, and this is JJ, another colleague" Emily said to Alex.
Alex stepped forward holding her hand out to JJ.
"Alex Cabot, a friend of Emily's" she says swiftly shaking JJs hand and nods to Derek in greeting.
"Nice to see you again Alex" Derek says back.
"It was nice to see you again too, JJ nice meeting you but I should probably get going so you all can get to work" Alex says understandingly to them.
"Alex, wait I'll walk you out" Emily says, catching her hand.
"In your PJs ?" Alex teased
Emily blushed at that.
"It's fine Em, get ready for work and we will talk later" Alex says, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek and walking out the room closing the door behind her.
Derek looks mildly impressed and JJ looks like she's going to puke.
"Alright out you go so I can get dressed, ten minutes" Emily says waving them out.
After a second they get it and leave the room and head down to the lobby to wait on her.
