Izzy woke up at six when she heard her mom walk out of the room, sitting up right in bed she sighed, getting out of bed she ran after her mom.

"Mom!" Izzy yelled and Emily stopped, she looked over her shoulder to see Izzy running up to her.

"Hey Iz." Emily said and Izzy hugged her.

"Mom, I don't want what happened last night to put a dark cloud over the rest of the trip." Izzy said and Emily nodded.

"I agree."

"Good…"

"Isabel… I have a very serious question to ask you, and either way I don't care." Izzy nodded. "What's going through your mind right now? In terms of your sexuality." Emily asked and Izzy looked down at her feet thinking about it.

"I guess I'm not really sure, but I know I've never really been extremely interested in guys… I mean when all your friends find someone 'amazingly hot' and you think they're uglier than shit… well things just don't add up in your mind." Emily chuckled and nodded. "So… I'm not going to say I'm gonna end up with a woman, but I'm not saying I'm gonna end up with a guy, I'm gonna say I'm going to end up with someone who loves me."

"That sounds like a perfect plan kido." Emily smiled and hugged Izzy. "Now go back to bed so I can finish working out, and you may want to wake your mom up, considering I promised to go running with her today." Izzy laughed and nodded heading back to the room. Once in the room she nudged JJ.

"Mom… mom…" Izzy rolled her eyes and stepped away from the bed. "Agent Jareau!" She yelled and watched JJ fall out of the bed jumping up.

"Ma'am!" she yelled and Izzy laughed, JJ glared at her. "You little…"

"Mom says to join her when you are ready." Izzy said as she rolled back into her bed.

"What are you really just going to go back to bed?"

"Yeah, it's only six." Izzy said and pulled the covers over her head. JJ laughed and got ready to join Emily for their morning work out.

Izzy wasn't asleep long before she remembered someone had to pick Jaden up. Sighing she got up out of the bed and walked toward the door. She wasn't sure what she was suppose to tell Zack about last night, when she got to their hotel room she still hadn't figured out what to say. The door opened and Zack ran right into Izzy.

"Oh…hey." He smiled at her.

"Zack I'm sorry about last night."

"Come walk with me ok?" She nodded and Zack took her hand. They walked over to the beach, he stopped and looked out over the water, sitting in the sand. "I know this is going to sound crazy but I knew right from meeting you I had no chance. I mean I still wanted to try so I did and I thought I was wrong because you really liked me. Then I saw you watched that girl, I couldn't let you suffer for my feelings, so I told you to go for it. I wanted you to say no but I knew you wouldn't so I sucked it up."

"Zack, it's fine, I get it."

"Where'd you go?"

"Long story…"

"I've got a few hours." He smiled and she started telling him.

x-x-x

JJ jogged along side Emily, the silence straining both of them, finally she grabbed Emily's arm forcing her to look at her.

"You say you're going to be ok but you aren't, it's easy to see."

"Yeah well I'm a little mad at my wife right now."

"Because I didn't scold my child?"

"No, because you let her make a huge mistake."

"Would you have preferred that I pulled her in and acted like your mother when you grew up?" JJ asked "Remember Emily she is part of you and at your age, I get the feeling you were a little more rebellious."

"It was for a damn good reason."

"Because your mother was never home? You do realize we're never home you might think your giving her a better life but you and I are just like your mother, yes we give her a home that hasn't changed but we're always on the go, on call, we never know when we'll be called to drop everything and go chase the bad guys. So just realize she is you and you did the same thing years before Izzy's age. I'm not saying I'm happy about this, and I'm not saying I didn't do the same at her age."

"Are you done yet?" Emily asked shocking JJ. "No I'm mad because you knew, because she came to you because she never said anything about anything because I was worried about her and Zack and you knew."

"She came to me because I was there first. I didn't say anything over dinner because I was hoping she'd walk away, as for her and Zack, I thought for sure she liked him." JJ smiled at Emily "You aren't on the outside Em, at least no more or less than I am. I tell you the things our kids tell me, I rarely keep secrets from you. Well I did keep the fact that Jaden broke the window not Merlin."

"That, I knew, that dog could never bust that window…with a baseball." Emily said and thought for a minute. "She's our daughter, and the fact she did something like this makes me have to deal with her not being a kid anymore, that my little girl who changed my life for the better, is now about to step out on her own. Who helped me form a family is about to think about her own family."

"You're worried she's grown up?"

"A bit."

"Em, She's always going to be your child."

"I know, but I'm still worried."

"She's smart, and less rebellious than you. Shell be fine."

"I know…" Emily mumbled and JJ laughed, hugging Emily she kissed her temple.

"You are extremely stubborn."

"I'm a Prentiss."

"Point taken."

x-x-x

Izzy picked Jaden up so he could reach the top shelf of the shelf; grabbing the Pluto he wanted she put him back on the ground. She watched him run to Emily, Emily picked him up and took the toy from him smiling. She smiled, some things she remembered before JJ came around, mostly good, and sometimes it was just hard for her to understand why her mom cried at night. Izzy wanted her mom happy, so now here watching her mom with her brother and a smile on her face she couldn't help but be overjoyed with how life was turning out. Turning she ran into JJ.

"You and I need to talk." JJ said.

"You can't kill me here! You'd make it not the happiest place on earth."

"I'm not going to kill you, anyway they'd pronounce you dead off property."

"I hate that you're that smart."

"Are you ok?" JJ asked.

"Yes? Why should I not be?"

"Because you're not texting Zack nonstop, you keep looking at Jaden like you'd kill for him, and you keep looking at Emily like you can't stop thinking."

"Well I'm stressed." Izzy said and then added. "When it was just mom and me things were so different, I remember nights she'd cry and nights she'd come home and she wasn't her, cases got to her and she just wasn't her. She use to try to be strong for me, then you came along and she stopped being scared, stopped crying. Now I thank god everyday that you came along, and I'm glad I have her back, but that storm behind her eyes is back. Now that might be because of me, and that I can deal with but if it's something else I wont be very happy."

"Ok, I can't follow your logic." JJ said.

"If she's mad about what I did then I can blow it off, if something else is bothering her I don't want to end up back at what we were years ago."

"So, your worried about her and I?" Izzy nodded. "I wouldn't be, things happen, we'll fight, its just life."

"You do realize she might be your wife but I'm her child, you think she's protective of me? You so haven't seen me protective of her."

"I've been with this family for 12 years now, you consider me a parent. So its time to stop throwing this shit at me and realize I'm not working against you. If I was then we wouldn't be here, and you'd most likely be growing up with just your mom." Izzy nodded and was about to walk away when JJ stopped her again. "You are my child, I love you just as much as I love Jaden so this, thing, hurts."

"Don't blame me for protecting the only thing I have."

"You have us."

"People change, they leave."

"What makes you think one of us will leave?"

"I don't know."

"I'm here for the long haul kid."

"Okay…I'm glad by the way."

"Now would you like to watch Jaden for us tonight?"

"Sure." Izzy nodded. "It's late night at Magic Kingdom anyway."

"Stay with him please."

"Ha, very funny." Izzy actually laughed despite herself, JJ put her arm around her, resting her shoulder on Izzy's shoulder. "Yeah I wont run out and jump into bed again." Izzy smiled and JJ chuckled.

"Good. So who's losing their family?"

"Would it be sad if it's something off TV?"

"No, never." JJ chuckled as they walked back over to Emily.

x-x-x

a/n: Sorry about taking forever to post this, I've been distracted with depressing little drabbles.