(Emily's POV 5 Weeks Later)
I do not want to do this today. After the last case I was on, Hotch basically forced me to use the time off I had saved up. He was adamant that I "needed" it. But honestly what I needed was to be at work with the team, distracting myself and hopefully distracting them from worrying about me. Today's my first day back and as much as I want it, I've slowly started to dread it. I know how it's going to go. I'm gonna walk in and everyone is going to be happy while also looking at me like a lost little puppy and I could honestly live without the unneeded sympathy right now. As I'm laying in bed, staring at the ceiling I hear my phone start to ring. "JJ" is displayed on the screen with a picture of her from last years annual get together at Rossi's mansion; before I died that is. "Prentiss." I answer, "Okay, I'll see you soon." With that, I get up and get ready for the dreaded day ahead of me.
After stepping onto the elevator, a hand slips in just as the doors began to close, followed quickly by a man swooping in and standing beside me. I'm trying to avoid the awkwardness but the familiar nauseating cologne hits the air and I automatically know that it's Derek standing beside me. If that wasn't enough, he chuckles lightly to himself and says, "Is this what we're doing now?" I quickly snap my eyes up at him, my smile tight with annoyance. "Doing what?" I say, tilting my head and raising my eyebrows at him simultaneously. "Pretending that you aren't in love with me Emily Prentiss?" He replied slyly, a grin plastered on his face to show just how proud he was of himself for his reply. My own smile changed from one of annoyance to one of shyness and even a hint of embarrassment. "I don't know what the hell you're talking about." I say, turning to face the elevator doors to try and avoid him seeing the reddening of my cheeks. Just as he's about to say something else, he's cut off by the elevator door opening and me quickly hurrying out of it, turning around and throwing him a teasing wink as I do.
(3 Days Later Headquarters)
The case we were on had luckily gone by quick and without any unnecessary drama. It was a slow day, just filled with paperwork so far so we were sitting around the round table, doing that while talking about life and other random things. I close one of my files, ready to start on another when I hear the clicking of heels coming towards the door only to see Penelope carrying a large gift bag, covered in rainbows and glitter, enough to make a unicorn cringe. Yet not thinking anything of it, I just smile and look back down at the file before seeing said gift bag plop down on the table next to me. My eyes slowly scanned it, and then made their way up to look at Garcia herself who was smiling from ear to ear. "I got you something." She said excitedly. "Well, you two." She corrected herself, waving her finger between my face and stomach. My eyes slightly widen, "Garc-" I'm silenced by her shushing me and shaking her head. "No, you're going to open this and love it and take it because I'm not giving you a choice." I look around at everyone else as a cry for help but instead they all just giggle to themselves and look away. I give in and start taking the tissue paper from the top of the bag, "I'm going to do what you want, but truly, you didn't have to get me anything P.." I say. I soon pull out a set of gender neutral baby onesies in the size newborn and honestly feel myself getting emotional as I stare at the small clothes. Obviously this is very much not like me, so I try and get myself together as soon as possible while smiling up at her. "Thank you, these are very cute." I reply with a loving tone of voice. She smiles even bigger if possible and pulls out the rest of the things to show me. She had also gotten some swaddles, pacifiers, and a hand stitched yellow baby blanket. "It's supposed to have a name, but obviously you don't know that yet so when you do, I can embroider it on there myself." I stood up and gave her a tight hug, holding it for a bit before letting go. "Thank you again, you really didn't have to." As I was hugging her though, I had made eye contact with Derek who had been sitting next to me. He gave me a smile but I couldn't help but to look at him sadly. This should've been his moment too but we hadn't quite told anyone that we had randomly sleeping with each other over the years, let alone that I am carrying his child now. Little did I know that JJ had been paying attention a little extra lately and definitely caught that "secret" interaction we just had.
"So, when is your first appointment for us to see the little thing? Do you know yet?" Rossi asked, his grandfather side kicking in. I sat back down in my chair, as Penelope moved to sit on the other side of me. "Oh. Yeah, today actually. I have an appointment at 3, so I'm just going to go as my lunch break so I don't miss any actual work time." Hotch piped up soon after me, "Yes, Derek also has something to do around that time so we're going to be two short for a little bit if we end up getting a case but they'll catch up soon after." Spencer gave Morgan a confused look asking, "What do you have to do?" Not being the greatest liar when it came to his facial expressions, Derek looked up at him like a deer in headlights. "Uh, I have someone coming to look at one of my rental houses, and they're only in town today so I had to make it work." He blurted before looking back down at what he was doing. Smooth.. I thought myself before seeing the smile on JJ's face looking at me from across the table. I awkwardly smiled back and too went back to what I was doing.
(3 hours later Emily's OBGYN Office Derek's POV)
Walking into the doctors office, I looked around, surrounded by pictures of babies and pregnant tummies framed on the walls, creating a lump in my throat. Once making it to the waiting room, my eyes searched for Emily, quickly seeing her sitting in one of the corners of the room, chewing at the nails on her thumbs. We of course came in separate cars and I made sure that we didn't leave the FBI building at the same time so she got here before I did. I made my way over to her, sitting in the chair next to her before grabbing one of her hands in an attempt to calm some of her anxiety. "You good?" I asked. She didn't look at me, but she nodded her head and said, "Yeah I'm good, just nervous is all." If 5 weeks ago you would've told me that I would be sitting in a doctor's office with Emily Prentiss, who was now pregnant with my child I would've thought you were crazy. But, I also still would've been just as happy, excited, and nervous as I am now. Of course I want a family. I always had an image that I would meet someone, we would date, get engaged, then married, and then we would start a family. You know, the whole white picket fence thing. But now that I'm here in this moment and its happened the way that it has, I honestly love this more. Now, I could've found out a better way that's for damn sure, but that was such an Emily way of announcing something like that, that I was in so much shock I couldn't even be mad about it.
Soon, Emily's name was called to go back to the ultrasound room. She had already met with her doctor to check her weight and vitals before I had arrived so this was all that was left. They had her lay down and lift her shirt, placing the cold jelly close to where her pants would be sitting if she hadn't of had to pull them down some. "Is this your first pregnancy?" The tech asked. Emily froze for a moment before answering, "Uhm, first one this far yes." The tech didn't question anything and just nodded her head before placing the wand onto her stomach. She looked up at me knowing I would be confused by that last statement and just gave me a look that said "I'll explain later." While we were still looking at each other when the tech interrupted, "Well, it's twins." Soon she couldn't hold a straight face and laughed at the horror on our own faces before saying, "I'm kidding. Just one in there and it looks like everything is going perfectly. You're about 8 weeks, and 6 days. Would you like to hear the heartbeat?" Soon a peaceful thumping filled the room and I couldn't help the tears the started to fill my eyes.
