Home Sweet Home
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Summary: It's Emily's turn to wake up in a strange home with a small brunette claiming to be her daughter.
Timeline: Three months after chapter one
A/N: I tried to come up with something that would fit the first story and came up with this...
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"Family is a haven in a heartless world." Christopher Lesch
Emily rolled over on her side and felt a poke in her back, causing her to groan out a "What?"
A giggle followed by another poke caused the brunette agent to open her eyes and stare a pair of dark brown eyes of a small girl standing in front of her.
"Who are you?" Emily asked sitting up on the bed looking around.
"Silly Mommy" the girl said "It's Maddie."
"Maddie?" Emily repeated, seeing the little girl hop up on the side of the bed "Are you sure you're in the right house?"
"Our house" Maddie nodded, "Daddy said he'd be back."
"Daddy?" Emily asked throwing the blankets off of her and getting out of bed.
Looking around she saw that she wasn't in her own apartment but a two story house, nicely decorated but still strange.
Emily saw Maddie following her into the living room, she glanced around and saw two back packs, and books on the floor, and children's toys.
Looking down on the coffee table, a drawing caught her eye of a little family of four.
"That's us" Maddie said "You, me, Daddy and my big brother."
The agent stared down at the little girl's drawing, frowning at the semi-familiar family in the art work.
"I was playing with Barbie" Maddie said rushing over to pick up the dolls to hold out for Emily, "See Barbie's new dress? Daddy got her for me."
"That was sweet" Emily said frowning as she tried to assess the situation.
She knew that this was some sort of bizarre world and judging by the size and mannerism of Maddie, she could tell the girl was no older than four.
The girl was dressed in a pair of blue shorts and purple tank top, she could tell this girl looked similar to how she looked when she was a child herself, straight down to the dark locks. But she couldn't fathom how the hell she got here.
Did she fall and hit her head? Was she stuck in some Twilight Zone parallel universe?
Maddie looked up, a frown hit the child's porcelain white face, "Mommy?"
"Yeah?" Emily asked coming over to sit next to the girl, who scooted over to sit on Emily's lap.
"Are you ok?" Maddie asked, giving the agent a concerned look.
"Fine, baby. Why?" Emily asked.
"I heard you get sick last night, and Daddy seemed afraid" Maddie asked "But when Molly's Mommy got sick it was because she had a baby."
"Are you having a baby?" Maddie turned her head to look at Emily, "I'd like a sister."
Emily ran her fingers through the short brown locks smiling, "You don't want a brother?"
"I already have a brother" Maddie nodded, "Daddy said he wanted to be surrounded by pretty brown haired girls."
Emily chuckled at that, tickling Maddie's stomach and held her breath when she saw those familiar dimples that she saw everyday at work.
"Mommy?" Maddie said touching her face "Are you ok? You look sleepy."
"I'm ok, sweetie" Emily said wrapping her arms around Maddie "Mommy's just a little confused."
"Huh?" Maddie asked worried.
"Mommy just can't remember some things" she told the girl, trying not to startle her, "Maybe you can help."
Maddie nodded, eager to help "Ok."
"Where did Daddy go?" Emily asked wondered, pondering as she stared at the dimples on the face of this daughter she was already growing to love.
"Daddy went to drop off the soccer jersey." Maddie said.
"Oh" Emily asked "Who's Daddy?"
"Daddy" Maddie giggled, grinning as if that was the most obvious thing ever.
"Where are the family photos?" Emily asked.
"Here" Maddie said rushing to her room, while Emily followed the small girl upstairs, noticing there were a lack of pictures on the wall.
Emily stopped when she paused outside Maddie's brother's room. Her son? She saw tons of action heroes and comic books littered on the floor but the room was totally soccer themed.
"Mommy" Maddie called out making Emily walk to the next room.
Emily saw the girl sitting on the edge of her toy box holding up a photo album, she smiled at the princess themed room.
Looking around she saw tons of photos all displayed throughout the room, she smiled when she saw one of her several months pregnant and gasped when she noticed the faces of Hotch and Jack in the photo with her.
Walking closer she picked up another picture frame, a wedding picture making her smile.
"I married Aaron Hotchner?" Emily whispered "I'm Jack's mom?"
"Daddy" Maddie said holding up a family photo of Hotch, Emily, Jack and Maddie all smiling as they were posed in front of a backdrop.
Walking towards this little girl, her daughter, her heart soared when she saw Maddie hold up the photo album and as they looked through Emily saw the team in several of these photos.
Some taken at Dave's beach house, some taken at her old apartment.
And one particular one taken in what had to be this house's backyard of Maddie and Jack building a snowman with Hotch looking happy as he rolled up a snowball. This made Emily's heart swell up, seeing Hotch interact with the two wonderful children.
Feeling a head rest against her side, she looked down to see Maddie resting her head on her. Running her fingers through the dark head of hair, she leaned down pressing a kiss on the child's head as she picked her up to place her on her canopy bed.
Picking up a pink teddy bear and placed it next to her sleeping daughter, she whispered, "Night, baby."
"Love you, Mommy" Maddie a sleepy sigh escaped her, her small hand curled into a fist pulling her teddy bear close to her small chest.
"I love you too, baby." Emily said picking up the album and placing it on the dresser.
Emily turned around when she heard Hotch's voice.
"Emily?" Hotch said, "Emily?"
Emily's eyes opened, groaning when she felt her stomach lurch forward in nausea.
"Are you ready?" Hotch asked sitting down on her bed.
"Huh?" Emily asked looking over at his face worried face "What for?"
"To take the test?" Hotch asked "The pregnancy test, it's the bathroom."
"What?" Emily asked shocked.
Hotch looked over at her in concern, "Are you sure, you're ok?"
"Yeah, just forgot for a bit was all" standing up she wandered over to the bathroom, "I'll be back in a minute."
Hotch and Emily stood in the bathroom, both wrecked with concern.
Emily couldn't get her mind off the dream about Maddie and she wondered if this was what Hotch wanted.
"Emily?" Hotch said startling the brunette from her inner monologue "No matter how this turns out, I love you."
Emily exhaled her breath, "I love you too."
Walking over to the counter, Emily picked up the pregnancy test and looked over at Hotch biting her lip.
"What does it say?" Hotch asked, his heart clenching remembering that little girl from a dream he had so long ago, but he couldn't forget her, ever.
Holding up the test for him to see, "I'm pregnant."
Hotch grabbed her pulling her into a hug, he felt her release a small sigh at that idea of a little girl.
"Are you ok?" Hotch asked "You do want to have this baby, right?"
Emily smiled, "Yeah, just a little shocked and surprised. But very happy."
Kissing Emily's forehead, "I think she'll look just like you."
"She?" Emily repeated, "You think the baby will be a girl?"
Hotch smiled as he placed a light kiss on her lips, "I just have a feeling, it might be."
Returning the smile as soon as she saw the dimple on his cheek, her mind flashed back to Maddie's face.
"I think I like the name Maddie" Emily said resting her head on his shoulder "What do you think?"
Wrapping his hand around her waist as they walked out of the bathroom, "I think it sounds perfect."
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." Barbara Bush
To Be Continued...
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