So here's the next chapter of Private Life. This story actually started it all. I wrote this before the prompt table was even a thought and then I decided to use the prompt table to help with their story. So I guess there will be 31 stories in this collection.
I can't really think of a good title for this chapter so I decided to just keep it how I saved it on my computer-so I knew which story was first. Hopefully you guys can come up with a real title for this.
Criminal Minds- Beginning
It was late, around 11pm, when the team came back to the office from their latest case. Hotch, Rossi, and JJ went to their respective offices, while Morgan, Reid, and Emily went to their desks. While Reid and Morgan gathered their personal belongings that they needed to get home, Emily sat down and opened up a file.
"What are you doing?" Morgan asked the brunette.
"I'm finishing up my paperwork." Emily answered.
"Go home. Get some rest. It will still be here tomorrow."
"I'm in the mood to do it now." Emily said, earning a skeptical look from both Agents Morgan and Reid. "Don't worry about me. I'll be fine." The agents continued to stare each other down. "Seriously, guys, I'll be fine."
"Okay. You got my number if you need anything." Morgan said before he walked away.
"Goodnight, Emily." Reid said before he followed Morgan out of the BAU bullpen.
"Goodnight, Reid." Emily called after him.
Not ten minutes later, Rossi came out of his office. He quietly walked up to Emily's desk.
"What are you still doing here?" He asked.
"Just finishing up paperwork." Emily answered without looking up from the file she was making notes on.
"The paperwork's not going to disappear. Why don't you go home and work on it tomorrow? It's late."
"I would really rather work on it right now."
"I don't think you do. I think you're just using it to avoid going home. But you need to go, Emily. Whatever happened won't get fixed by you being here right now."
"I don't know how I can fix it." Emily said as she dropped her pen and looked up at the older man.
"Showing up is all it takes to start figuring it out." Rossi said before he started to walk away from the dark haired agent. Rossi stopped and turned around. "Emily, some of my biggest regrets are being here when I should have been at home. That's all my marriages really came down to in the end." He continued walking out of the bullpen.
"Dave, wait." Emily called after him. "How did you know?" She asked when he stopped.
"For the past two months, you have been calling and talking to someone every chance you get to break away. During this case, every time you called you left a message." Rossi explained. "Emily, go home."
Emily watched Rossi leave. She closed the file and tossed it back onto her desk.
"Hey, what are you still doing here?" JJ asked as she came around the corner and spotted Emily still at her desk. "I thought you would have gone home by now."
"Hey. I was just thinking."
JJ took a seat at the desk across from her friend. "Do you want to talk about it?"
Emily sighed. "No, I'm fine. I'll walk out with you."
JJ and Emily walked out of the bullpen together. They waited for the elevator in silence. JJ decided to break the silence once they were in the elevator.
"You know you can talk to me about anything, right?"
"I know, Jayje."
The silence resumed while the two exited the building and Emily walked JJ to her car in the parking garage.
"You can call me anytime, Emily. Day or night to talk about anything."
"I know, JJ. Thanks." Emily replied before JJ got into her car and drove off.
Emily watched the blonde's car disappear before heading to her own car. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed a number. The person answered as Emily started her car. "Hey, is it..is it okay if I come over? I know it's late and I don't want to disturb you." Emily released a breath she didn't realize she was holding when the person answered. "Okay. I will be there in about a half hour, is that okay? Okay. Thanks."
Emily drove through D.C.'s streets on autopilot. Her mind was focused on everything and nothing at the same time. She maneuvered her car into a parking spot in front of her destination. Emily sat in her car and looked up at the condo building. She took a deep breath. She was nervous. Just like the first time she had pulled up to the building.
You can do this, Emily. You have to do this. This is what you want, you have to run after what you want, grab it, and hang onto it with both hands. This is what you need. You can't run away from this.
Emily got out of her car and made her way through the first door of the building. She pressed 2C on the intercom pad and waited. The door in front of her buzzed and she made her way into the rest of the building. She took the two flights of stairs up to the apartment door where a woman was waiting.
"Hi." The woman greeted softly.
"Hi." Emily replied as she walked into the apartment. The woman followed after her. Emily took a seat on the cozy couch.
The woman stood in between the living room and the kitchen. "Do you want something to drink."
"No, I'm fine."
"Okay." The woman said before taking a seat next to Emily on the leather couch.
Emily looked at the woman in front of her. She was beautiful. Everything about her was perfect to Emily-from her shoulder length, curly, dark, auburn hair, to her gorgeous, green eyes that shown flecks of hazel in just the right light, to her cute button nose and perfect lips. Her body was lithe and athletic. She was a couple inches shorter than Emily, but that was okay.
Emily sighed heavily. She opened her mouth, but no words came out. She closed her mouth to regroup, but the woman cut her off.
"Look, Emily, we don't have to have this conversation tonight. You've just come back from a case and it's not all that important."
"But it is important, Rachel." Emily took the woman's hand in her own. "It's important because I hurt you and that's the last thing I ever want to do. You poured your heart out to me and I left it on the floor."
"It's fine. You got called in." Rachel dismissed as she tried to stand from the couch.
Emily grabbed her hand and gently pulled her back down. "No. It's not." Emily hung her head
"Emily, we really don't-"
"No, there's things I really need to say." Emily said as she walked over to the window and looked out onto the street, watching a lone car pass. She took a breath. Without turning around she said, "I just need a second. I can do this."
Rachel remained quiet on the couch as she watched the dark haired woman take a deep breath, exhale, and then turn around to face her.
"I like you. I really do." Emily said and watched the other woman smile and duck her head to hide the light blush that came over her face. "But when you said those things, I panicked. And at the time, I was so grateful that I got called in...god, that's terrible. Emily stopped. She took another breath. "But...but while I was gone and I would call you only to get your voicemail, I realized something. I realized that I wanted to speak to you. I wanted to hear your voice." Emily made her way back to the couch. She sat down close to Rachel and took her hand again. "These past two months have been great, even with the limited time we have had together because of my work. I haven't been this happy with someone in a long time, Rachel. You said you needed to know if there was a future for us, and I really think there is. I would really like to continue this. I could fall in love with you, Rachel Montgomery." Emily finished and shifted her eyes to the floor beside the woman in front of her.
Rachel was silent for a few seconds. Which didn't help Emily's confidence. This is what she must have felt a few days ago when she wore her heart on her sleeve for me and was rewarded with nothing except a ringing phone saying I was being called away on an emergency case.
"You're a little behind, Prentiss."
Emily's head sprang up to look into green eyes. "What?"
"Because I'm pretty sure I've already fallen in love with you." The green eyes shined and a smile was on the woman's beautiful face. Soon, the women's lips connected in a soft kiss.
So there you go guys. What did you think? Again this story was written before the others that you guys have read. I'm having trouble thinking of stories for the prompts but I'm working on it so I can continue to update once a week.
Was Emily believable? What did you think of her in this chapter? I'm really trying to get the characterization of her right. Her characterization was the main part I was trying to get right in this.
What do you think of Rachel? Do you like her?
Next chapter: JJ and Garcia take Emily out and try to get info on her secret person.
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