Need you know – chapter three

She walked into the crowded diner and veered off to the right where a big table had been reserved by the coats and hopes of her team mates and friends. She could see just by looking at them that they were all hurting, let's face it, when anything bad was happening to any of the team it showed on the faces of everyone else, Reid was quieter than usual, Garcia was babbling mindlessly like she did when she waited for bad news, Hotch had his eyebrows arched, a look that could be perceived by others as a look of anger, it was purely his look of frustration. A frustration that stemmed from not being able to help not only the thousands of faces that came across their desks but mainly the ones that he loved, Rossi was being the supportive father of the group, making sure that if anyone wanted to talk or needed a shoulder to cry on that he was there for them, JJ didn't exactly know what she looked like in a situation like this but Morgan was the most heartbreaking and she guessed that it had something to do with his heartbreaking, as each day passed and Emily stayed the same, or god forbid got worse Morgan went on that journey with her and that painful look in his eyes said a million things that he couldn't just express aloud. She caught his eye across the room with this look that told him to get his butt over to her, he practically darted towards her, and she knew that he was incredibly worried.

"The doctor just called, she is definitely pregnant" she said as Morgan's eyes darted towards her own

"How is she doing?" he asked his voice laced with this pure concern

"Yeah I think she is doing okay, she took it pretty well. I thought I should tell you first" JJ said as Morgan smiled at her before hugging her as they walked over to the table, with the eight eyes looking on and at her. "It's official we are going to have a new BAU baby" on any other day she would have made it clear that it was Emily but since the day that Morgan came in ranting about how slow test results were to come in they had all been waiting for that conformation, there was no doubt that the pregnancy that JJ was talking about was Emily's. After a moment to take in and process the information the questions began piling up, thankfully her coffee showed up just as they did.

"How is she today?" Reid asked looking up, she was missing Reid's thousand facts a day; every moment that wasn't spent working together was like this, sitting worrying about Emily and wondering what they could do.

"She is better. Will and Henry got her out of bed" JJ smiled and looked up at the group with such triumph on her small face "She was laughing" and with those words this sweeping look of relief fell over the table, they knew well that this wasn't the end of the tunnel but it was a glimpse at the end of it.

"We just have to take it day by day, today Will got her out of bed, maybe we just need to slowly progress her back into normal life"

"Maybe I can try to get her out of the house tomorrow"

"I don't know, that might be a bit too fast" JJ said worrying that they would be pushing Em a bit too fast

"Maybe we can just take her out into your backyard, drink iced tea and look at baby names" Garcia said grinning at the idea of this being a normal pregnancy that she was supposed to be over the moon about, planning baby showers and names in her head. Don't get her wrong she was incredibly excited about this baby, but right now they couldn't focus on the baby they had to focus on getting Emily better.

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They had all headed back to work, back to a reality that they wished Emily would come and join once again, Garcia sat on her computer looking intently at the screen at the website , she was alerted to life around her when her best broken friend walked through the doors of her little Quantico.

"What's up buttercup?" she asked getting out of the website and turning around to him, he had this look on his face that she instantly recognised 'What do you need me to do?" she asked as he smiled moved forward and span her chair around so she face the computer

"I need you to find out who the father of Emily's baby is" he said and she gulped

"Wouldn't we be breaking some sort of privacy law?" she asked not looking at him

"Does that usually stop you Garcia?"

"Morgan this feels wrong, Can't we just ask her?" she asked turning and looking at him

"Penelope I need your hands and expertise for this one, please, I don't want to upset Em anymore"

She looked at the broken look on his face "Okay I'll let the fingers do the walking" she knows that his heart is breaking, he had always been a big softie, concerned with protecting the ones around him that he loved but when it came to Emily he fought twice as hard as he ever could, they all knew that since Emily Prentiss walked through those big BAU doors, he had found warmth in her presence like no other, Morgan had always kept it professional but they could all tell deep down that he had a thing for Emily and knowing this and how Emily's current condition was effecting him she would do anything to soothe the ever constant sadness in his eyes "So what are we looking for?"

"The Patterson case about three months ago" he remembered every agonising moment through this whole saga, he remember this case exactly, it was Emily's first case back on the job since her mother's death and while she was trying to remain upbeat they were all walking on eggshells, watching that vulnerability roll around in her eyes, a constant pool in each of her eyes. He remembered the end of the case well, the mother and daughter were reunited after seventy two hours of hell and while this was the best outcome possible it had still upset Emily in large amounts, he suspected that it had something to do with the fact that she herself could never be reunited with her mother and while Morgan was quick at her side, trying to see if she was okay, she had been quick to shrug him off and tell him that she was fine, he watched as she walked out of the police station and then stayed up at the hotel waiting in the lobby for her to come back but she didn't, and from that very night Emily had begun to unravel.

"I'm on it chocolate thunder" Garcia said as she frantically typed and looked at the computer screen, Morgan watching her intently as he patiently waited, Garcia made a noise and Morgan moved forwards "She made a call around Booty call time that night"

"Who to?" he asked seething knowing exactly where this was leading too; it was going to lead to a guy who treated a woman that he loved with no respect what so ever.

"Give me a minute" she said continuing to tap away "That journalist Jimmy Q, I remember him he was pretty hot, wow this baby is going to have good genes"

"Garcia" JJ snapped as she walked into the room, bags under her eyes that Garcia recognised as JJ staying up at all hours of the night worrying.

"Track it" Morgan said ignoring the commotion that had started to unravel around them, he knew that Garcia meant nothing by it; she looked for the humour and the laughter in things to make her feel a little better after having to look at the horrible things on her screen.

"What?" JJ asked as Penelope swing her swivelling chair around to Morgan who looked at her with those piercing eyes

"Where is he Penelope?" he asked ignoring the worry and outraged in the looks he was receiving from the other women in his life

"You can't do that Garcia, Morgan she can't do that, Emily will tell us in her own time, we can't push this" JJ pleaded as Garcia tried to gain some clarity and make a decision.

"This is like having the devil and the angel on my shoulder" she mumbled as the standoff by the strong willed and minded members of her team.

"We need to push this JJ, she isn't going to move if we don't push her a little, that's how Will and Henry got her out of bed this morning and if we don't continue to push her she is going to stay there for as long as it is still comfortable and that is a mighty long time. However I want to track down 'Jimmy Q'" he said the name with such distain "we track him down we save Em some pain and discomfort, I don't call that pushing" he said not getting angrier with his words just more adamant on his conclusion, and with those words JJ concluded the same thing, giving a nod to Garcia who started typing away.

"He is at the funky monkey, I'll send you the directions to your tablet" she said as he stood up, kissing both of the girls heads as he walked out of the room. They waited until Derek Morgan shut the door before turning to each other, worry present on both of their faces "What do we do now?" she asked as JJ fumbled in her pocket and pulled out her phone

"I'm calling Hotch"

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Derek Morgan walked up the cement pathways in the direction of the fluorescent lights that shone brightly in the predominantly dark closed off street, he walked out of the brisk cold wind and into the low hum of the music that engulfed him as he stepped into the bar, the music would probably be louder if the anger and blood wasn't pumping hard in his ears and throughout his body, he saw the shape of Jimmy Q and the quiff of hair and he felt himself get very angry and irrational "Hey" he yelled standing back as Jimmy turned around and smiled

"Hey" he said with a smile concentrating on his face for a brief moment "Behavioural analysis Derek Morgan, local hero, how you doing man?" he said standing up and walking over to shake his hand, but Morgan didn't lift his arm instead just stood looking at him like a bull to a rag ready to attack at any moment. "Okay, well what can I do you for?" Morgan wanted to punch him for his choice of words alone.

"I'm here about Emily Prentiss" he said her name with such delicacy as he watched Jimmy smirk, he stepped forward and got right in his face as Jimmy let out a knowing laugh

"Oh I get it, someone is upset because I slept with their girlfriend" he said the smirk not leaving his face

"You took advantage of her man" he said getting angrier and angrier as he stood in his face

"Actually I do believe we were taking advantage of each other"

"Just stay away from her" he said as his nostrils flared, he wanted to beat this smug little bastard, who smelt as though he had smoked an ashtray and drunk a keg of beer.

"Can't promise that, if she wants me she can have me, she was a good night if you get my drift" Morgan got angrier with ever smirky smug word out of this guy's mouth, so angry that he pushed Jimmy Q up against the wall so that he was intimidated but also so the bartender couldn't see him.

"I don't think you heard me, you stay away from her, delete her number from your phone and forget about her cause I swear to god if you hurt her again my department will be analysing me and the forensic department will be trying to figure out which end is your ass and which end is your head! Do you understand me?" he said practically spitting distain as he pushed him harder against the wall

"Yes I get you" he gulps as Morgan lets him go and then walks out of the bar, back into the brisk air, he just wanted to get out of there and get back to Emily, he picked up his phone to call JJ and Will and see how she was doing and if he could come over, but before he could dial he saw the swagger and the suit walking towards him and he sighed

"How did you know I was here?" he said with a slight smile as he continued to walk up to him

"Well you know, you don't say the sentence funky monkey without thinking of Derek Morgan" Hotch said with a smile, he was like a surrogate father figure for the whole team, him and Rossi both so the welfare of his team was important to him

"JJ called you didn't she?" Morgan asked looking behind him as Jimmy Q walked out of the bar and past them

"Hello agent Hotchner" he said walking past with a smirk that went away with a quiver when Morgan gave him a look, he walked away and both the boys kept an eye on him, Morgan turning to Hotch who was giving Jimmy Q the harshest look he could and Morgan tried not to laugh

"What a dick" Hotch said as he turned back to Morgan before they both walked up the path.

To be continued