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It Wasn't Supposed to Happen Like This - Part 5

Previously

Emily sees it in his eyes. She pulls Rachel from her chair and hugs her to body so she doesn't see. The gunshot that rings out muffles Rachel's scream.

The hostage rescue team storms into the bank. Emily pulls Rachel from her body. Rachel's breathing is shallow and erratic. She looks into her eyes. They are dilated.

"She's in shock!" Emily screams. "I need medical!"

With Rachel in her arms, Emily slides down from the chair onto the floor. She lays Rachel flat on her back and leans over her.

"Rachel! Rachel!" Emily brushes her thumbs over Rachel's face. Emily checks Rachel's pulse. It's weak, but there.

Emily looks around frantically. "Where's medical!" She looks back to Rachel. "Come on, baby, don't do this to me. 'm right here. Stay with me."

Rachel falls unconscious. "No, no," Emily cries, "please, Rachel, please. I love you."

Emily is pulled away from Rachel's body by EMTs.


Hospital

The emergency room double doors burst open. One EMT on each side of a gurney push themselves through the doors. Emily and Rylan run alongside the gurney behind the EMTs, each holding Rachel's hand.

"What have we got?" A doctor says racing over along with a couple nurses.

"33 year old female, tachycardia, dilated eyes, seems to be suffering from shock. Fell unconscious on the scene, has not regained consciousness." One of the EMTs spouted.

"Get her to room three, IV set up, and prepare both Atenolol and Amiodarone," the doctor says to the nurses as they push the gurney further into the emergency wing. The doctor stops both Rylan and Emily from moving continuing. "You need to step back. Waiting room is down the hall."

"But…" Both Rylan and Emily start.

"I'll take care of her. I'll come get you." She doesn't wait for Rylan and Emily to respond. She takes off into ER 3.

A nurse guides Emily and Rylan into an empty waiting room. "We'll let you know when we have any information. Emily drops into one of the chairs.

"What the hell happened, Emily?" Rylan whirls on Emily once they are alone.

"Rylan, I…"

"What good are you if you can't protect her?"

"I did everything I could," Emily dejectedly.

"And look where we are? Look where my sister is?" Rylan shouts angrily.

The waiting room doors burst open. It's Ashley.

"Ry, I'm so sorry I wasn't with you sooner. I was in a meeting. I didn't get your messages." Ashley runs into Rylan's arms.

Emily rubs her eyes and rushes out of the room, barely hearing Ashley call her name. She pushes the bathroom door open, she goes over to the sink and turns on the faucet. The sound of the running water fills the bathroom. Emily runs her hands under the water and then wipes her face. She takes a deep breath. She exhales and looks in the mirror. When she catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror, she breaks.

Emily breaks down in sobs. Her forearms hold her up on the counter, but soon that isn't enough. Her knees buckle, and she's on her knees in front of the sink. She manages to pull herself to the nearest wall and sit against it with her knees pulled into her body. She sobs.

Rylan was right. What good was she? Or her badge? Or her gun? She couldn't protect the woman she loves. Even worse, Rachel was basically fighting for her life and she didn't know how Emily felt for her.

Emily feels a hand on her arm and immediately jumps to wipe her eyes. She looked at the hand on her arm to the person it belonged to. Penelope Garcia.

"I'm fine," Emily sniffs. She stands and looks at her face in the mirror. She moves automatically as she wets her face with water and dries it. "I should get back out there."

"Oh, sweet girl" Garcia says as she stands from the floor. "It's going to be okay," Garcia pulls Emily in for a hug. Emily doesn't respond. "Your lady is going to be fine and the two of you will go back to having cute little secret phone calls in stairwells."

"I should get back out there," Emily repeats, pulling away before leaving the bathroom.

Emily walks numbly into the waiting room. The team is there along with Rylan and Ashley. Emily takes a seat away from both groups. She sits with her forearms on her thighs and leaning forward looking at the floor. Garcia sits on one side of Emily and JJ takes a seat on her other side. JJ slips her hand through Emily's while Garcia rubs Emily's back.

"Rachel Montgomery," the doctor calls into the waiting room.

Rylan and Ashley rush to her with their hands clasped together. Emily walks over to the doctor, but keeps her distance from Rylan and Ashley with her hands stuffed into the pockets of her pants.

"What's your relation to Ms. Montgomery?" the doctor asks.

"I'm her brother, and she's her girlfriend," Rylan says acknowledging Emily.

"Your sister is going to be fine." Everyone in the room lets out a relieved sigh, some audible, some not. "She regained consciousness after we were able to lower her heart rate. We don't expect her to have any more complications with her heart, but we want to keep her overnight just to be sure. We're also going to give her a sedative just to calm and relax her."

"When can we see her?" Rylan asks.

"Right now is fine," the doctor says. "The sedative will most likely knock her out. I heard about what she'd been through today and I wanted to give you guys time talk with her before we sedate her. I only ask that you all don't overwhelm her."

"Of course," Ashley says. "Thank you."

"It's been my pleasure," she says. "I'm just glad that I could help given everything that's happened to her today. She's already set up in a room, so if you'll follow me, I'll take you to her."

Rylan turns toward Emily. "I'm going to go and then…" Rylan says awkwardly.

"Yeah, no, go," Emily says. "Go see her. I'll be here."

"I'll come get you," Rylan says as he and Ashley follow the doctor immediately.

Emily nods, mostly to herself since Rylan and Ashley are now out of sight. She turns around and is surprised to find the team. Truthfully, she'd forgotten they were there. Emily clears her throat.

"You guys don't have to stay," Emily says.

"We're not leaving you," JJ answers.

"Seriously, guys, I'll be fine."

"We said no, Princess," Garcia says. She gets up and pulls Emily to sit around the BAU team. "Now, tell us about this sweet cupcake that has broken into the princess' castle and stolen her heart."

Emily smiles in spite of herself. This was her family.


Rachel's Hospital Room

Rylan pushes the door to Rachel's room open. He and Ashley walk into the room and take in the fluorescent lighting and rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor broadcasting Rachel's heartbeats. Rachel lays on the bed.

"I'm not sleep," Rachel says in a groggy voice as she cracks her eyes open.

Ashley rushes over to her friend and hugs her as gently as she can muster with the relief flooding through her body at the sight of her friend.

"Thank god, you're okay," Ashley says.

Rylan moves to the other side of the bed. "How're you feeling, Rachie?"

"I'm fine, a little tired but -" Rachel shrugs. She turns to Ashley. "How was your meeting?"

"It was fine, everything went well until I got out and had a call about my best friend being captured in a bank and then taken to the hospital."

"Sorry," Rachel says. She leans her head back against the pillows and rests her eyes.

Rylan sighs. "As much as I hate to leave, we should probably go. They said they'd be giving you a sedative soon and Emily…"

"No." Rachel's eyes snap open and she sits up. "I don't want to see her." She shakes her head.

"Rachel, Emily needs to see that you're okay," Ashley says softly.

"I can't. I can't see her." Rachel continues to shake her head.

"Alright, you don't have to," Rylan decides.

"Rylan," Ashley says. "Emily is out there probably going out of her mind…"

"Rachel wouldn't be here if Emily had protected her," Rylan raises his voice. Rachel closes her eyes. She takes in a breath and then exhales slowly.

"Guys, please," Rachel pleads.

"Rachel," is as far as Ashley gets before Rachel cuts her off.

"No. I don't want to see her and that's it," Rachel says with finality.

Ashley knows that she can't change Rachel's mind and she hates it. Her best friend could have died and seeing her in that hospital bed made her survival real. Emily wouldn't get that today. She wouldn't get the reality that comes with seeing Rachel alive and not just hearing the doctor say that she was alive.

"We should go," Rylan says. She leans down and hugs his sister. "I love you, Rachie"

"I love you, too, Ry." Rachel hugs back.

Next, Ashley leans down and hugs Rachel. "I think you're making a mistake," Ashley whispers. "But I love you anyway."

"I love you too."

"We'll be back tomorrow to pick you up," Ashley says. Rylan and Ashley leave the room. Rachel drops her head back onto her propped up pillows.


Waiting Room

The whole team laughs at a story Emily is telling when Rylan and Ashley return to the waiting room. Emily jumps up from her seat as soon as she sees them.

"How is she?"

"She's fine," Rylan says.

"She was awake and talking. I really think keeping her overnight is just a precaution," Ashley adds.

"Can I see her?"

"She doesn't want to see you," Rylan tells Emily.

All the air was sucked out of the room for Emily and the team. They were listening, but they also wanted to give Emily some semblance of privacy with the people closer to her girlfriend than they.

"What?" Emily asked disbelieving.

"I'm sorry, Emily, but she asked that you not come see here," Ashley added.

Emily didn't know what to say. She felt like the world was spinning. Her girlfriend was taken hostage at gunpoint for hours, she had lost consciousness and been rushed to the hospital with tachycardia, she hadn't woken up. Emily hadn't seen her girlfriend's eyes in an hour. Rachel didn't know she loved her. And now she couldn't see her. She couldn't see her girlfriend alive.

Rylan said something to Ashley, but Emily had no idea what it was. She saw Ashley reach out to touch her arm, and when she looked up at Ashley, Rylan was gone.

"Did she say why?" Emily found herself asking.

Ashley shakes her head. "I'm so sorry, Emily." She pulls Emily into a hug. Emily just stands there with her arms at her side. "Just give her time. She'll come around. She loves you."

Ashley pulls away. She gives Emily a weak smile.

"Call me if you need anything, okay?"

Emily nods weakly. Ashley gives Emily's arm one last squeeze before leaving the waiting room. Emily falls into the nearest seat. No one says anything. They watch her try different position, trying to get comfortable.

"Emily?" Derek breaks the silence. He walks over to Emily and holds his hand out. "Come on, let me take you home."

"No, I need to be here in case she wants me."

Derek kneels down so he's closer to her. "They're going to give her a sedative, Princess. She's going to be out the whole night. The best thing you can do for Rachel is to take care of yourself, and that means sleeping in a bed and not a crappy waiting room chair." Derek holds his hand out to Emily again.

Emily rubs her eyes before taking his hand. The team leaves the waiting room together.


Emily's Apartment

Emily and Derek stop in front of Emily's door.

"You walked me up, satisfied?"

"Open the door," Derek says.

"No. You are not coming in and crashing on my couch, Morgan," Emily says. "I'm fine."

Derek leans against the wall and eyes Emily. He knows she's not fine, but he also knows Emily. He raises his hands in surrender. "Alright, alright, Prentiss.

Emily opens her apartment door and heads inside.

"If you need to talk, call me," Derek says before pushing off the wall and leaving down the hall.

Emily closes the door. As soon as it shuts and she turns the locks into place, Emily slides down against it, hugs her knees to her chest, and sobs.


Okay, guys. 24 and a half pages and 8,211 words later, It Wasn't Supposed to Happen Like This is officially over. It has been a ride. For both you guys and me. This was not at all what I expected for the team to find out, but it happened and I really like it. Don't worry, I'm not finished with Emily and Rachel.

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