Chapter 10

Emily had spent the last few days resting in the hospital. Hotch had made attempts to call her mother to inform her about Emily's condition, but since she was the Ambassador it made it hard to contact her.

"Knowing my mother she's probably in a different country by now" Emily stated as Hotch put his phone away.

"It was worth a try, she is your mother and she does have the right to know".

After that the room went silent, the only thing you could hear was the steady beat of Emily's heart rate coming from one of the machines in the background. I knew that Emily has never been as close to her mother after what happened in Italy. I shook those thoughts from my head and glanced at her to see her sit up and toy with the sheets of the bed.

I raised my hand and placed it over top of hers which made her stop and look at me with caring eyes. Our gazed was shortly ruined after the clicking of heels came from outside the door, we both turned and smiled as Garcia walked through with three cups of coffee.

"Well good morning Jemily" she grinned as Emily groaned "God that nickname is never going to go away is it"

"Not on my watch" Garcia stated before handing me one of the cups, I nodded and gladly took it from her.

"Please tell me one of those are for me" Emily said as Garcia scoffed "Nope, you get ice water my dear".

Emily sighed before sinking back into the bed.

"You do now that the doctor said I would be leaving today" she stated

"He said you might be leaving today, not that you would be leaving today. It all depends on your injuries" I corrected her as she rolled her eyes, trying to hide her smile from me.

"I just really want to get out of here, I have to make up a date that I missed"

I blushed as Garcia set her bag down and giggled at us "What?" I asked

"You guys don't even know how cute you guys are" she stated as Hotch nodded slightly before his phone went off. "I have to take this" he said before walking out into the hallway.

"Okay, you both have some explaining to do." Garcia said as I looked back at Emily who stared puzzled at her "What do you mean?" she asked.

"Oh come on you two, I want to know how this started" she said as she pointed at us "Oh, well remember how I told you we got stuck out in the middle of nowhere" I said as Garcia nodded "Well it sort of started there".

"What do you mean?" she asked

"Jennifer here decided to 'make her move'" Emily blurted out, this time it was my turn to roll my eyes.

"And if Morgan didn't show up at that time I would have." I said

Our conversation was cut short as the doctor entered the room, Emily sat up and waited for him to tell us if she was allowed to leave.

"Well Emily, your injuries have improved immensely over the past couple of days that you have been here." he said

"Does that mean I can leave?" she replied

"Yes I do believe that you can leave the hospital today, but you need to stay out of the field for a couple more days".

"What if I promise to stay back at the station?" she asked

"Emily, I don't want your injuries getting worse" I said as she gripped my hand tighter "I'll be okay Jennifer, I promise" she assured me.

"Fine you can go back to work, only if you stray away from the field work" the doctor said before handing over the discharge papers.

An hour and a half later I was pulling out of the hospital parking lot with Emily beside me.

"So now that I'm out do you think we could go on that date?" she grinned as I smirked at her "Maybe, but not until your all healed" I stated, Emily sighed before lifting my hand from the transmission and placing a soft kiss on it "I can wait." She replied. We held hands as I drove her back to her apartment, I found a parking spot close enough so it wouldn't be a far walk to the door for her. As soon as I parked the car I jumped out and walked around to open her door.

"Really laying on the chivalry thing aren't you" she joked as I helped her out and shut her door "I'm pretty sure I can handle getting out of the car by myself though".

"This coming from the girl who told me that I was and I quote 'so pretty and that my eyes look like blue slushies'" I grinned as she groaned "Oh come on, you try being on morphine and not saying something like that".

I laughed as we made our way inside and towards the elevator, it was a few seconds before the doors opened for us to enter. Emily reached over and pressed the top floor before the doors shut leaving us to listen to the soft elevator music playing around us. "By the way, where were you going to take me for our date anyhow" I asked as I broke the silence. Emily shook her head and smiled "I am not going to spoil it" she stated before the elevator binged and opened the doors for us to step out.

We walked halfway down the hallway before stopping at her apartment. She fumbled with the lock and key for a few seconds before opening to door to let us in. The first thing I noticed was a picture of Garcia, her, and myself when we were at a bar. Garcia was holding up her drink as Emily was looking at me. I studied the photo for a few minutes before turning to see her looking at me.

"What?" I asked as blush started to appear on my cheeks "That's one of my favorite photos" she stated as I nodded "I do not remember that night so well" I answered back honestly.

"That's because Garcia let you do a whole bunch of shots before leaving" she stated I chuckled before walking over to her "I'm glad you're feeling better" I said before she captured her lips in mine. The kiss lasted for several minutes before the need for oxygen overpowered us.

"I really am sorry that I didn't get to take you out on that date" she murmured as she pulled away "I know Em, but the good thing is that I didn't end up losing you" I replied as she leaned in again only to be cut short by the knocking on her door.

"Go see who it is" I said as she sighed "Whoever it is they have perfect timing".

I moved over and sat on the couch as I heard the door open followed by silence.

"Mom?".