Hi everyone, sorry for the delay in posting, been travelling around and hadn't had the chance to connect to a wi-fi service. Here's the next chapter.

Emily gasped. Hotch had just pulled up in front of a magnificent looking house in an established suburb. The enormous home was like something you would see in Home and Garden magazine. The lawns were immaculately kept and the house, with its cream coloured exterior and dark blue front door and trim, looked homey and inviting.

Morgan and Reid looked over at her anxiously. Shit, thought Morgan, she better not be in labour because Hotch would kill them for sure. He should have stopped her before she left Quantico. Morgan rolled his eyes inwardly. Who was he kidding? As if anyone could stop Emily when she had her heart set on something. Not even Hotch could do it, and Emily was wholly, completely, head over heels in love with him.

"Emily, are you all right?"

She ignored his question. "Who is that woman?" she bit out, nodding in her husband's direction. Morgan looked out of the right hand side window. They were parked a couple of hundred yards away and none of them had binoculars. All he could see was a red-haired woman opening the door. Oh, shit. Morgan winced at what happened next.

"What the hell! Did my husband just hug a redhead he lied to me about meeting?" Shit, shit shit, thought Morgan again. She looked unbelievably pissed. It was never a good sign when Emily started picking at her nails, which she had started doing as soon as she'd spotted the unknown redhead.

"I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation, Emily." Reid again, trying to be the voice of reason.

"Oh, really? Like what, Reid?" Emily's voice was cool. Completely calm. Another very bad sign.

"Uh, maybe he's interviewing a witness?" Reid's voice quivered with nerves.

"Idiot," Morgan muttered under his breath. "He's probably just visiting a friend, princess, nothing more."

"We'll see."

They sat in silence for the next 20 minutes. A very uncomfortable silence. Hotch and the woman finally emerged. Hotch looked much more relaxed and had a smile on his face. Bending down, he kissed the woman on the cheek. He turned and started to walk away, then appeared to change his mind. He came back and gave the redhead an enthusiastic hug, grinning widely after letting her go. Morgan hadn't seen his supervisor that animated in months. He closed his eyes briefly in despair. Great going, boss, that's not suspicious at all. And since when had Hotch been into redheads?

"I am going to kill him. Tonight. No, that's too good for him. I'm going to do a Lorena Bobbit after carving my name in his chest. My full name." Emily's eyes were narrow as she stared at her seemingly unfaithful husband getting back into his SUV.

"Emily," warned Morgan, "you don't mean that."

"Oh yeah? Pregnancy hormones, remember?"

"Reid, please tell me Prentiss is joking about the hormones thing." Please.

Reid swallowed. "I'm afraid she isn't. There have been studies demonstrating that the hormones produced during pregnancy cause a small percentage of women to be overly aggressive and angry. One woman said that everyone pissed her off and she constantly felt like punching someone..." He stopped short when he saw the look on Morgan's face. "Um, well, you get the picture."

"Let's think about this, Emily. You know very well that Hotch would never dream about being unfaithful. So, how about we go talk to Hotch, ask him what's going on?"

She shook her head. "No. No talking. You know as well as I do that we're all way too good at lying. I need to catch him in the act. You're going to help me plant some bugs in that house."

"Emily, we can't do that! That's illegal." Reid looked taken aback at her statement.

"Emily, come on, you don't want to do that," Morgan said, trying to sound persuasive.

She gave them both a hard look. "If you don't do it, I'm going to do it myself. I mean it."

"God save me from crazy pregnant women," groaned Morgan, cursing himself for not physically restraining her from following Hotch.

"Well? Are you going to do it or will I have to ask the girls for help?" She crossed her arms, a stubborn look on her face.

"Okay, okay!" Morgan could just imagine the chaos that would ensue if JJ and Garcia found out that he hadn't helped Emily out. Ever since they found out she was pregnant, they had been treating her like she was a fragile piece of glass. Fragile my ass, he thought, glancing over at his temporarily ex-partner. The man of steel had nothing on her. He turned the key in the ignition. "Just promise me you're not going to do any rash. Emily?" He continued when she didn't answer.

"Fine." She sounded disgruntled.

"Come on now, you don't want to have this baby in prison, do you?" Damn, how he wished he had his rational old partner back. Pregnant, hormonal, I-don't-give-a-damn-about-consequences Emily was scaring the hell out of him. Derek Morgan.

"I said fine, didn't I? Now just shut up and drive."

He did.


One week later...

"Emily, I really don't think we should be doing this," said JJ in a concerned voice.

The whole team, excluding Hotch and Rossi, was presently camped out in a dark coloured truck parked diagonally across the street from the house where Hotch had been seen meeting the red-haired woman.

"Yeah, chicky, this is definitely not good for you or the mini Emily you're cooking," said Garcia, looking worriedly at her friend.

"I'm fine, don't worry about me. Besides I need to know if Aaron's cheating on me." She didn't add that if he was, she wasn't sure what she would do. How could he do this to her? He was a devoted husband and father. She couldn't believe it, but the evidence had slowly mounted over time. He had tried to act normal the last week, but she had noticed how he had quickly hung up on phone conversations when she had walked in on him, the number of times he had appeared to evade her questions, and most of all the two occasions when he had told her he had work meetings when she knew very well that he didn't. And she had known this because she had unashamedly taken a look at his organiser. That was how she had found out about the meeting with that woman today. Leesa. She could still recall the sharp pain she had felt upon seeing the name written in his left-handed scrawl.

She looked at Derek. "Did you plant the bugs?"

"Yes, as instructed." The look on his face, as well as his tone of voice, was resigned. He hadn't held back in telling her his thoughts about the current 'operation'.

"Aaron should be here anytime now."

Overhead, thunder rumbled menacingly. Even though it was only five, it was almost dark outside, the sky covered with ominously dark clouds. The weather outside suited her mood exactly. She scowled, looking at the time. Hotch was late. He was never late. She leaned forward on the uncomfortable chair, rubbing her back.

"Emily? What's wrong?" JJ frowned at her, worry in her eyes.

"Nothing. Just this damn backache that hasn't gone away all day. I'm so over this pregnancy, it's not funny." She winced as her back protested again, this time sharply.

"Em, are you sure it's a backache? You could be in – "

"It's Hotch!" called out Reid and everyone looked up onto the screen seeing a familiar looking SUV pull into the driveway. At that precise moment, the heavens opened and a torrential downpour of rain fell upon them. They strained their eyes as a figure jumped out of the SUV and rushed to the front door. The door opened and he went in.

"Earphones," directed Morgan.

Emily put her headphones on, pretending not to see the anxious look that JJ and Garcia exchanged. She had to do this, whatever the outcome. She had to know.

They heard the sound of a door closing. What Emily heard next made her heart stop.

Hotch: Hey baby.

Leesa: Well, hello Mr. Hotchner.

There was a long pause. Damn him, was he kissing her? Emily felt her chest tighten.

Leesa: Have I told you how much I love your lips? You are like, the best kisser in the world.

Hotch: That's a big call. How many men have you kissed, exactly?

His voice was teasing. Emily felt a sharp pain travel through her, making her catch her breath. Oh God, he used that exact tone of voice with her. How could he?

Leesa: Many, many men, in many, many countries. But just so I can confirm that my original statement was correct, kiss me again.

Another long pause. Emily stared blindly at the sound equipment before her. So this was what it felt like when a marriage ended. The pain that had been in her back had now travelled to her stomach. She couldn't think. Her mind was a blank. She was so intent on just trying to breathe that she barely heard the sighs and rustle of clothing coming through her earphones.

Leesa: S..stop, we shouldn't. Aaron...is...

"This is bullshit!" roared Morgan, making everyone jump. Emily stared at him in shock as he ripped off his earphones and threw it down. "Emily, let's go. You don't need to listen to any more of this. Let's get you home and then I'm going to come back and kick the shit out of Hotch."

"No." Her voice came out as a whisper. Where had the strong, spine of steel Emily gone? She felt lost, unfocused, like she was in a dream. A really horrible, awful, terribly bad dream.

"Sweetie, come on, let's go," said Garcia softly, touching her arm.

Emily saw the tears in her friend's eyes. She blinked. "I... no. I have to talk to him. Right now." She got up and opened the door, gasping as a gust of wind peppered her with heavy drops of rain.

"Emily!" she heard her friends call out in alarm as she quickly stepped down, surprising herself with her dexterity. In the next moment, Morgan was next to her, covering her with his FBI issue jacket and pulling the hood over her. They walked up the driveway, and she knew without looking behind her that Reid, Garcia and JJ were behind them. She increased her pace, skirting around the SUV, and hurried up the steps.

She lifted her hand to knock but Morgan obviously had other ideas as he lifted his foot and kicked the door open. The team rushed inside and immediately stopped short in their tracks, mouths gaping open, so stunned were they by the scene which greeted them.

Sorry for the cliffhanger! But I'm posting the final chapter now. Review if you have a moment!