Elizabeth watched as summer progressed along with the kids. She became use to seeing Elle, Mac, JJ, Cecilia and a throng of other kids in her house. She had seen heart break and cherished memories, love, loyalty, fights that almost always ended well. She had seen Emily and J, Sam and Emma, Emma and Emily, Hell almost any combination of them all fought at least once, She saw Jason and Andrew duke it out in her front lawn Morgan jumping in to stop it. Andrew and Emily also getting into it when she was out, Abbey had broken them up and forced them to talk. Alex had been left, Andrew was done picking between Family or her. The fall out had been manageable considering Andrew came out saying her will always support Emily. When school started up again she had seen Emily struggle with cases and watched her learn how to better compartmentalize. She watched Morgan get ready to leave the FBI for a beat cop spot, yet still have spots promised to him at the FBI. She watched JJ progress as a press liaison wonderfully, using her advice at times. Jason and Cecilia were wonderful together and Elizabeth was not shocked to learn Cecilia was just a small town girl who didn't want anything as a hand out. Emma and Sam had decided to let their wedding wait till later, and put school first. Elle had gotten use to being side by side with Emily in the field and was realizing the effects of what their job meant, having many sleepless nights. She had seen the kids become closer to one another she had understood what it would take from her children as they joined the FBI. They all had changed, mostly for the better a few flaws had appeared on each of them, but not anything too hard to handle.

Emily woke up early to shower before Elle. They had been on a child case for six days and after day two were worn thin. The child brought back flashes of Jake's case, the helplessness as she watched him die. Emily was pulled from her thoughts by Elle yelling at her.

"Emily, for god sake, I'm not going to have time to get clean!" Emily grabbed a towel and got out.

"Sorry." She stepped around Elle.

"Gezz, did you even sleep?" Elle grabbed Emily's arm and looked at her. "Go back to sleep, I'll get you up after I shower." Elle waited till she curled up in bed before turning away. She closed the door and called Mac.

"Elle?" Mac whispered.

"You busy?"

"Class but hang on." Elle heard Mac pack up and waited. "Ok."

"Can you get JJ for me?"

"What's the matter, its not even 7 there?"

"It's just a really thought case hon, I promise its ok."

"You remember when I told you, you couldn't lie to me?"

"Yeah."

"You still cant."

"This kid's dead Mac, it's been a week, and Emily's fucked up."

"Alright Elle, give me a few minutes ok?" Mac said. "Oh and don't take your eyes off her."

"I know." Elle said smiling. "Talk to you in a few."

"alright, how are you doing?"

"I'm ok."

"Sure, alright talk to you soon."

"Hey, I love you."

"I know." Mac smiled. Elle looked back out at Emily and smiled as she saw Emily was asleep. She quickly showered and got out waiting for Mac to call, she jumped when the phone rang.

"Hey Elle."

"JJ, thank god."

"Alright go wake her up." Elle went back into the room sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Hey, wake up Emily Jay's calling for you." Elle handed Emily the phone.

"Jen?"

"If you cant handle this, come home."

"I'm okay."

"Really?" JJ said completely serious. "Because you don't sound ok."

"I'll be fine." Emily snapped.

"Alright, so if your so fine tell me what was the last thing you ate?"

"JJ, I'm really ok."

"Maybe you should think about a desk job."

"Yeah…" Emily said yawning.

"You know, its not that bad, a desk job."

"Elle, E we are being paged." Morgan called from the hall.

"I have to go, I love you."

"I love you too Emily." JJ hung up.

"Ready Elle?" Emily hugged Elle. "Thank you for being so nosey."

"Yup." Elle grabbed her phone back. "Move out." she stuck her tounge out to Emily who laughed.

Elle looked down at the scent hound she was placed with.

"Nope, I don't do dogs."

"You will," Agent Parker glared at Elle. "it's a child we are looking for so suck it up and take the leash."

"Screw you." Elle mumbled.

"Think they'll figure out that they are attracted to one another?"

"Wedding ring, plus Elle has Mac."

"Wouldn't stop me…"

"That's you."

"Wait, there's no ring."

"Tan line, and you call yourself a profiler." Emily scoffed.

"Oh."

"Prentiss, Morgan,, move it." Parker yelled at them.

"Ill take the lower ground."

"Ok." Morgan smiled "Ready Boomer? Whose a good boy?"

"Oh god." Emily rolled her eyes.

"That's what you should do… get a dog."

"Why?"

"They help, honestly."

"Maybe, now go Parker is coming." Morgan double-timed it up away from Emily.

"Prentiss."

"Yes, Ma'am?"

"Are you alright? I know about your last case."

"I'll be fine Ma'am."

"Alright, or and Prentiss… we will find him."

"That's the thing… alive or dead."

"Alive." Parker smiled at Emily. "You can do this job, no matter what anyone else says."

"Ha, you don't know me."

"I know your doubting yourself." Agent Parker stepped closer to Emily, not knowing how the younger agent would react. "You are one of the most driven persons I have ever met." She reached out to tuck Emily's hair behind her ear, but Emily grabbed her arm.

"I'm in a very good, committed relationship, and I wouldn't be standing here with you if it wasn't for her, now… step back Agent Parker." Emily glared at Agent Parker making sure her point was made.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know Emily."

"Well, next time, ask, and don't take my weakness and act like you are the solution to it." Emily stepped away from Agent Parker and walked away with her scent hound at her feet, she snorted as they walked and Emily looked down at her. "Well said, Boondock, well said." Emily smirked as they made their way across the woods.

It was nearing dark when Emily was about to call it quits, she was suppose to return to Agent Parker's station two hours ago, but she asked Elle to cover for her. So Boondock and her made their way deeper into the woods.

"You think we'll find this kid?" Emily asked the dog who barked. "Yeah, I hope so."

"Mommy!" Emily stopped and looked around. "Boondock, where is she?" Emily grabbed her phone and called Elle.

"Greenaway."

"Elle I found her!"

"Emily? For god sakes we thought we had to start our own search, where are you?"

"I don't know, a few miles out of the search grid."

"Alright Emily, we're on our way."

"Alright.'

"Good job Emily." Elle smiled. Emily shut her phone and ran after Boondock when she caught the scent of the girl.

"Wait." Emily pulled her gun out as they came up to an old hunters blind.

"Mommy." The girl cried again and immediately launched herself into Emily's arms when she saw her.

"I got you baby girl, I got you." Emily held the girl and sat down and pulled Boondock to her. "Thank you, you helped me so much in finding her." Emily pulled the girl away from her a little bit. "I'm Emily."

"I'm Terry." Emily smiled and pulled her backpack off.

"Are you hungry?" The little girl nodded. "You like granola bars?" Emily looked at the girl like she wouldn't even eat them, but Terry nodded. Emily handed her the bar and a bottle of water. Emily kept the girl close to her trying to comfort her, though she realized she didn't know much about kids at all.

"Emily, will my mommy be here soon?"

"I hope so kido."

"You look upset."

"You gave us quite a scare there."

"Me? But Mr. Kepler promised me that mommy wouldn't worry." The girl asked confused.

"Who is Mr. Kepler?"

"He's the man who showed me his puppy." The girl smiled.

"Did he bring you here?"

"Yeah, but he's really nice, he always comes back and gives me food and stuff."

"When does he come back?"

"After the sun goes down." Emily looked around and realized that the sun was almost down all the way.

"We should go."

"I can't, he said that if I left he'd hurt mommy."

"Terry, who is this?" Mr. Kepler came up behind Emily, Boondock jumped up and growled at him, placing herself between Emily, Terry and him.

"Emily." Terry smiled.

"Well Emily, now that you found me, I must kill you."

"No!" Terry screamed and hugged Emily's neck. "She's my friend." Terry looked up at Mr. Kepler with tears in her eyes.

"Terry please move aside." Mr. Kepler said the shotgun he had pointed at Emily and now Terry. Emily smiled and nodded to Terry to move away. She slowly moved back.

"Thank you Terry, any last words Emily?"

"Yeah," Emily pulled her gun out and shot the man in the leg. "Your under arrest."

"Terry!" An older woman comes running into view, Emily looks up and prays she doesn't have to hurt her.

"Mommy!" Terry runs over to her and jumps in the women's arms.

"Thank god." Emily sighs and relaxes.

"Emily?" JJ steps up behind Terry's mother.

"Jennifer!" Emily's up in a flash and in JJ's arms, crying.

"Oh Emily." JJ kissed Emily and held her as close to herself as possible. Elle stepped forward and smiled at Emily.

"Good job Emily, good job." Elle smiled and hugged Emily. Agent Parker walked up to them.

"Emily, great job." She smiled brightly at Emily. JJ looked Parker over then stepped back over to Emily and Emily pulled her to herself.

"Thanks Parker, now if you don't mind get me and Terry the hell outta here." Emily said making JJ laugh.

"Alright Emily, just follow us ok?" Agent Parker said and started walking the way they came.

"Come on Boondock." Emily threw over her shoulder, truth be told she had become very found of the dog as they we're alone.

"That dog isn't coming home with us." JJ said.

"I know, but still. We bonded."

"Emily!" Terry said from her mom's arms and she reached for Emily. Emily smiled and took Terry into her arms.

"Hey little girl." Emily smiled.

"Thank you." Terry wrapped her arms around Emily's neck and closed her eyes.

"Any time kido." Emily said, carrying Terry out of the woods.

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Ok ok, I know I suck I haven't updated in forever, I got really sidetracked with life, and a whole bunch of bad things came up. Now I'm hoping to get a few more chapters up in the next few weeks, but I NEED HELP. I would like to know what you guys want to see happen, because I'm honestly out of ideas. Even if its something that you think is dumb tell me because I'm really stuck and feel like I'm repeating myself. Ok aside from all this I hope you like this new chapter, and Boondock is named after the song by little big town, and partly by Boondock saints…. I told you my life got weird…. Thanks for reading.