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Some people live in a house on the hill
And wish they were some place else
There`s nobody there
When the evening is still
Secrets with no one to tell
-Vanessa Carton
"She doesn't want you coming back? You are coming back right?" Garcia asked seeming to panic a little.
"Of course I am but my mother is coming here, and that means you need to all be on your best behavior because she can be really scary when you're not." Emily stood and moved to the kitchen where she started cleaning.
"um wh-what is she doing?" Garcia asked.
"When she gets stressed she cleans." Derek whispered.
"Can she come to my house?" JJ joked.
"Well not only does she clean but she has a tendency to peel her nails and skin away. Emily, why don't you come sit down now and we can finish that later." He said leading her back to the couch and making her sit down.
"No, no if I don't do that no one will." She protested.
"Yes, you can finish but you have to calm down okay?" He compromised.
"No, no my mother is coming over, you have no idea how terrifying she can be." Emily whimpered shifting nervously as she picked her nails.
"Not until you calm down." Derek said.
"C-can I at least give the baby a bath?" She asked
"Okay, if you promise you won't clean or pick your nails." He said.
"Fine, I won't clean or pick my nails." She said defeated and went over and got the baby.
"Can I help?" JJ asked.
"Sure." She said going into the bathroom. She heard JJ follow her as she pulled the baby tub out.
"Hey whats going on with you, I know you and your mother were never close but you seem really stressed out." JJ said.
"I am because every time I talk to my mother it turns into an interrogation, I hate that. I also hate that no matter how hard I try I can never be good enough, as a child I did almost anything she wanted me to, took ballet class for twelve years, went to private schools that spoke the language of our host country, learned to play the piano, violin, and flute and none of it was good enough for her. None of it." She confessed. She filled the plastic tub she bathed the baby in with water and started to undress the baby.
"Emily you don't have to worry about pleasing your mother all the time." JJ said.
"Do you know what happened to me when I stopped pleasing her when I was fourteen, I grew reckless, and ended up pregnant with in five months of living in Italy. Which would be why she doesn't know Morgan is the father yet."
"She doesn't know that?" JJ asked.
"No she thinks I got inseminated, she doesn't exactly like you guys much she blames you for crushing my dream, even though it was her dream for me, I wanted to work with the BAU." She sighed gently soaping Elizabeth's body.
"She doesn't sound much like a mother." JJ remarked.
"She wasn't ever much of a mother, as soon as I slept through the night various nannies and housekeepers looked after me." She said. "To be honest I liked them better, my mother never put her work down to play with me."
"Did you have any siblings?" She asked.
"No, my mother didn't want anything to put her career off longer." Emily pulled Elizabeth out of the bath and wrapped her in a towel. "On some days they would bring their children to play with me, but once I reached about six or seven the only children that would come were four or five and I was alone again, I didn't mind, I could read and I was happy."
Emily went into the nursery with JJ behind her as she dressed Elizabeth in a green dress and put a head band in her hair. "Are you and Will going to have any more?"
"We're trying to have more but I'm gone a lot so trying is kind of hard." She smiled.
"I get it I can't imagine trying to start a family on a job like yours." Emily said as they went back to the living room. "Derek you'll be happy to know I neither cleaned or peeled my nails."
"Good, see I knew you could do it." He smiled.
"that's nice, I need you all to shower, one can use the master bathroom and there's another just down that hall please just hurry before she gets here." Emily pleaded.
"Okay okay calm down I'm going." Reid sighed getting up and going into one of the bathrooms.
Derek didn't really get why Emily was so worried, he'd met her mother and yeah she seemed a little uptight but not panic worthy. Still he humored her and got in the shower, it was around two pm when there was a knock on the door.
"Hello Emily." Her mother said when she opened the door.
"Hello mom, come in." Emily smiled weakly, and went back over to the couch to sit next to him.
"Hello Ambassador." He said standing to shake her hand. "I'm Derek Morgan we've met once before."
"Oh, yes we have." Her mother said with a hint of distain.
"Mother please," Emily sighed. "These are my friends and I care about them. Not that its ever mattered to you…"
"Emily." HE mother warned.
"Sorry." Emily looked at her feet.
It was weird, he'd never seen her like this before, she was normally so head strong and here she was submissive to the woman who'd brought her to this world. Something pretty bad must've happened between them.
It was a full hour before Ambassador Prentiss left and Emily relaxed enough to actually stand up. Derek pushed her back to a sitting position. "No, no cleaning I know what you're going to do." He said.
"B-but I want to." She protested weakly.
"No, you don't you want to sit right here and relax for a few minutes before you do anything." He tried.
"no I don't I want to sit here, I want to get up and go fix my house." She snapped moving into the kitchen and proceeding to clean.
"I am never going to understand her." He sighed.