"You enjoying our first date?" Mick asked his date. "Yeah it's nice." the younger woman responded. Mick fidgeted with the loose change in his pocket as their pod came back to the ground. Mick helped his date step down so that she wouldn't fall. She turned and smiled at him, "A museum, art gallery, and the London Eye all in one date. I'm impressed; most guys just go for dinner or coffee." Mick cocked his head to the side, "Thought you realized by now that I'm not most guys."
Mick thought he was imagining things as he looked down the street and saw the object of his affection walking slowly with her back turned to him. Mick didn't realize that he'd been staring in that direction for nearly ten minutes, which only served to thoroughly piss his date off. She huffed out in annoyance, "Are you kidding me? I go out of my way to find a head-turning outfit for this date and you're staring at somebody else?" Mick bit his tongue for the moment. In truth, he hadn't been more ready for a date to end in his life. His date for the night was rude, conceited, and shallow. He'd played the gentleman all night but was starting to get quite aggravated. He stopped a cab and held the door open for her. Mick was unfazed by her mouth hanging open before she bumped him hard and got into the cab. "Goodnight Victoria." She never responded and he was fine with that as he watched the cab take off. Mick didn't know if his mind was playing tricks on him or what but he decided to stay a couple more days in London before he returned to the States.
The next morning, Mick decided to go for a run. After a couple miles, he decided to stop for a rest and to stretch his muscles. He looked up towards a street vendor and saw her again. Realizing that he might not see her again, he jogged hastily in the direction of the street vendor. "My god she's still beautiful." Mick whispered out loud to himself. He stared at her not thinking that any of it was real. "Emily?"
Emily turned her head at the sound of her name. Her breath caught before she gave Mick a genuine Emily smile. "Hey Rawson..uh Mick. What are you doing in London?" "I could ask you the same." "I left the BAU and came here to run Interpol." Mick shook out of his trance, "Uh yeah I heard something about you leaving but I thought it was a rumor." Emily finally turned around completely and Mick felt his stomach drop five floors. Mick stared open-mouthed at the sleeping baby Emily had in her arms. "You had a baby?" Emily looked at the shock and hurt in Mick's eyes before she tried to reach out to him but he pulled back. Emily pulled her hand back and caught Mick's eyes as he saw the offended expression on her face. "I didn't know that you were with anyone. I'm sorry I didn't mean to disturb you and your family."
Emily yanked the short sleeve of Mick's shirt, forcing him to turn and face her. "It's not what you think. My daughter, Kehlani, was not my choice. I'm pretty sure you heard some rumors about the whole Doyle thing and faking my death." Mick nodded yes and Emily moved closer to him and said in a hushed tone, "Doyle raped me when he held me hostage. Kehlani is my miracle baby and I don't regret having her. She's perfect and she's changed my life for the better." Emily stepped away from Mick and turned away swallowing down her tears. Although her old team at the BAU offered to help her, Emily declined and said that this was something that she needed to do on her own. Mick really liked Emily and wanted her to give him a chance, so he stopped her while he still had the chance to. "Emily wait. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have implied. Can I make it up to you while I'm still here?" "I'm busy Mick." "Emily I'm sorry that I was an idiotic git just then but I really am sorry and would like to make it up to you. Please? I'm just asking for a chance to start over." "Mick my life is not just me and the job anymore. My life is Kehlani."
"I understand that completely. I just want to show you what it's like for someone to truly care about you." Emily shrugged him off, "You don't mean any of that. You just want to get laid."
"Are you serious? Have you seen me? I can get laid if I wanted to, yet I'm here." Mick's cocky attitude never phased to make Emily laugh just a little. She did want some adult interaction besides her co-workers and parents. Entertaining Mick couldn't be that bad could it? It wouldn't make a difference because he would go back to the States pretty soon anyways.
Emily gave Mick a small smile before saying, "Fine. How long are you here for?" "I've stretched my visit to a week longer." Mick lied smoothly and made a mental note of asking Sam for that time off.
"Okay we can meet up tomorrow right here and go from there." "I'll be here." Mick watched Emily walk away and knew that he had a week to try and convince her to let him into her and her daughter's world.
Emily knew that she had a week to get tired of Mick and let him disappear out her life once again. On the other hand, there was a small part of her that hoped that he'd stay.