Hotch's alarm goes off ten minutes earlier than planned, this giving Emily a chance to get back to her room before the others wake. They quickly share a passionate kiss before she goes back to her room and has a shower, applies her makeup and gets dressed.
Not long later they are all down in the lobby gathering before leaving to go and work more on the case.
"So any fresh ideas?" Hotch asks once they enter the room. Reid rattles off some stuff and the one of the local officers also chips in some ideas, but what doesn't go by unnoticed by Morgan, Rossi and Hotch is how he can't but help himself and keeps on looking at the girls. Emily and JJ don't aren't even bothered by it. They both know that with Morgan around and the other two there is no way he will get to doing anything inappropriate.
It is around mid-morning when another phone another body has been found of one of the missing teenagers that they had put on the list.
"Officer Jones, just so you know JJ and Prentiss they have partners back home." Morgan says on the way to the crime scene with Reid and Rossi.
"Really?"
"Yes Really, Agent Jareau lives with me and we have a little boy." Comes from Rossi not sounding at all jealous or over bearing but the tone is enough to tell the young man that it is true and to drop the subject. As the whole team knows about JJ living with Rossi it comes as no surprise to Morgan and Reid so when the officer looks at them he sees no looks of shock or surprise on their faces. Henry like Jack is classed as family, no matter what so Rossi calling Henry his also did unsettle the other two males.
"What about the other one who does she live with then?" he asks
"That is still mystery to us who the guy is but she is happy." Rossi smirks at what Morgan has said and Morgan sees it this time.
"Rossi you know who it is don't you."
"No I don't"
"Oh yes you do, I can tell Rossi we are profilers it is hard to keep this sort of thing secret around us."
"Ok yes I do know who he is and no I won't be saying a damn thing about who he is or what he does to any of you until she is ready to tell you lot."
"She's properly worried about Hotch's reaction to her having someone special in her life."
"True he should have made his move months ago. It hurt her when he started dating Beth." Morgan says.
"We're here now." The officer says and they stop their conversation and get straight back to work. The officer watches on as the three work and is surprised at how well they work as a team and can go form talking personally about each other and then switch back to professionals with the flick of a switch.
Several hours later back at the precinct
They work away with all the new evidence that they have collected from the new dumb site, Garcia gives them information on this body which is quickly ID thanks to still having all of their teeth and their finger prints already being in the system. This victim was only 17.
The officer that was looking the girls up that morning watches on with a new found interest for how the team works together. He watches as JJ and Rossi often share a small touch between each other ones that either go unnoticed by the team they work with or ones that they don't bother to worry about. He also notices how Hotch and Emily always sit side by side at the table.
"What are you watching?" One of the other officers in the local team asks his fellow officer
"I'm watching how this team works so well together. We could learn so much off these guys. Look at how relaxed they are with each other, how they run ideas past one another without putting them down, they accept all ideas weather right or wrong. This is how we need this office to be working we're have a much better and quicker solve rate if we did. We all could learn from these guys.
"Nar you're just saying that because you got the hot's for the two ladies in there."
"Yes I do but they both taken so they are a no go zone." He says the two keep talking and while they are talking Jones all of a sudden gets an idea and then runs it past the BAU team.
Once he runs the idea past them he is surprised when Rossi agrees with him and then Morgan all so thinks it is a good idea, so they run with it.
Morgan rings Garcia who starts the search for them.
Two hours later she has a short list another twenty minutes later they have a name and address.
Thirty minutes later they are surrounding the building the unsub is in. Another thirty minutes later they have their unsub under arrest and the other seven suspected victims of the unsub are found, some are in a bad way, others are not so bad. All are taken off to the hospital. For Emily as she walks through the building the smell of dried blood, fresh blood, broken bits of wood, weapons and the darkness of the cellar brings flashbacks to the day when she came face to face with Doyle and they had it out in the warehouse, the same warehouse where her team mates, mainly Morgan watches as she nearly died.
Somewhere else within the house Hotch is talking to one of the officers when he gets this feeling that Emily needs him he excuses himself as he goes down into the cellar and finds her trying to breathe. He walks up to her and wraps his arm around her shoulder.
"Breath sweetie." He says softly in her ear. She tries but is struggling to do it.
"Breathe in slowly, relax, and then breathe out slowly." He says as she struggles to follow, he repeats this several times and she finally after a few attempts starts to get some control on her breathing again. The whole time his hand is moving up and down her back softly.
"That's it sweetie nice and even, steady breaths." He says as he turns her and leads her out of the place, as he looks around he can see what set her off. He takes her out of the building and over towards the FBI issued vehicle.
"Flash back?" He asks, even though he already knows the answer to this he wants to hear it from her too.
"Yes. I'll be right now though. Thanks for what you did down there Aaron." She quietly says the last part.
"Anytime sweetheart. Now why don't you go help Morgan?" HE says as they both head off to finish helping out. Normally they wouldn't but the team has asked for their help to make sure they can get the best outcome possible for all they don't want any mistakes with this, plus they want to learn how to do things the FBI way too.
Nine o'clock that night the team are boarding the jet to head home, much to the relief of all involved. It doesn't surprise anyone when JJ sits down beside Rossi on the Jet, Hotch sits across from them, Morgan and Reid take another setoff seats while Emily spreads out on the couch seating closing her eyes after take-off. Hotch pulls out paperwork and starts working on it, while JJ falls asleep leaning against Rossi.
Before the team know it they have landed back in DC they all head home, Hotch telling them all to come in at ten instead of their normal time.
The next day everyone arrives early even though Hotch has told them to come in later, when they get there, they notice the absent of their Unit Chef. When Rossi goes into his office he doesn't see Aaron's briefcase beside the desk and this is strange, then his phone goes off alerting him to a text message. He reads it then smiles sending a reply back to the person before walking to his own office.
The day is busy for all of them even with the late start they still have work to do, cases to review, reports to write up. They are all still there par JJ who left at four to go get Henry. It was the weekend and since they all had it off Will was total fine with her taking Henry for the weekend.
For Emily she wanted to know what Hotch was planning she could tell he was up to something but what she had no idea.
It is after five when someone enters the BAU.
"Can I help you?" Reid asks
"Yes I'm looking for Agent Prentiss." The person says and they team noticed it is another delivery guy.
"That is me." Emily says as she comes from the kitchen area and walks to the delivery guy.
"I have a delivery for you, can you please sign here?" he asks and she does as she is told.
"Excuse me how did you know we would still be here at this hour?"
"I rang on my way here and asked if you were still in the office, the front security guy said that you were, and confirmed that you were still here when I arrived." He says as he hands over the box and then turns and leaves. Emily does say thank you to the person.
She heads to her desk looking at the Cream box, with three different shades of purple ribbons around it. She sits down not sure what could be in it. It is too small to have flowers, but too big to hold jewellery. She is puzzled but also intrigued by it. She goes ot get up to open it at home.
"Were you going girl." Penelope says to Emily.
"Home to open this." She says as she shows Penelope her wrapped box.
"Hell no you're opening it here and now my dear friend." They steer at each other. "Or I go hacking your phone calls, text messages and alike and find out who this mystery guy is."
"Ok fine then." She replies before sitting back down and gently undoing the ribbons on the box. She ever so carefully lifts the lid off as Morgan and Penelope watch on.
Once the lid is off there is a note ever so beautiful hand written.
Emily my love,
Inside this gift box you will find two items.
First one is a gift voucher for you to go purchase yourself a stunning, elegant dress, yes I said dress for our date on the 14th. Not that I don't love the dresses you do own, but this night needs something new, something elegant, something that will make you feel stunning when you wear it. And you can take the girls as you call them with you when you go shopping.
The second item once you see it you will know what it means.
With all my love XOXO
Emily puts down the note and then looks inside the box.
Of course the first item is the gift voucher but there is no amount written on it. Then she notices a note attached with a paper clip.
Don't worry about the cost or value I already have it sorted with the manger. Buy whatever you want from the shop.
She shakes her head and places it down then she looks at the next item, a folded bit of paper, she picks it up and opens it. I'm home this weekend. Is all it says which puzzles Morgan and Penelope.
Your go bag is in the boot of your car, go and enjoy your weekend. I'll be waiting for you when you return.
Is written a little further down. She gets up and leaves taking the items with her. Once in the elevator she rings Hotch.
"Hotchner." he says as he is still at work, in his office having witness what happened.
"Thank you." She mangers to get out before the tears start to fall.
"I hope they're tears of happiness?"
"They are. How did you know he would be home?"
"I have my ways. Go enjoy yourself with Declan."
"I will, tell Jack I love him and I will see you both on Sunday."
"Will do sweetie. Anyway I must go I love you." He says into the phone and Morgan hears that as he gets to the door. Not knowing that Hotch is on the phone to Emily, he thinks he is talking to Beth.
"I love you two, see you both Sunday."
"See you Sunday." They hang up and Morgan walks off thinking to himself hoping that Hotch won't react bad when he finds out that Emily has a man in her life. One that is not a work colleague. They all know what he can be like with men around her more so when she gets involved with any of them.
"Morgan that note had go bag?"
"Yea so?" he says not picking up straight away to what Penelope is meaning
"You guys are the only ones who call them go bags."
"Maybe they've been together for a while and he knows what she calls it." He says
"I don't know my goddess, Kevin doesn't call my go bag a go bag it's my travel bag to him, or my emergency bag." They two talk so more. Morgan is not too worried that Prentiss mystery man referred to her go bag, as her go bag. If he cares for her a much as Emily says he does then he will call it whatever it is she refers to it as.