Chapter 4

AN – So good news I made it to 17! Seriously some of those rides I went on when I was away, I thought I was going to die. Also I had the coolest birthday present today I had season 2 of Criminal Minds to add to 1,4,3 and 7. Why collect them in order? And also a top saying Team Reid. To say I freaked out was an understatement. So brief note just to say thank you for the responses I've had on this story, I'm glad you guys seem to like it and stay tuned I got some good stuff lined up. So I'm gonna go because I can see my birthday cake being done (it has Princesses on!) so I hope you enjoy chapter 4 please feel free to leave a review or favourite or follow. Thanks.

Lexis4MorganPrentiss – Thank you so much for the review! I'm really glad you are liking the story so far and I really hope Emily finds a job as well, although it's hard to think of something she could do, all I can see her do is join the BAU again, but let me know what you think. I hope you enjoy the next chapter. Thanks again for the review.

50ShadesofMoReid - Thanks for the review! It's kinda weird people saying they like Meghan and Henry together considering you know Henry's like 4 and only been a couple of eps and Meghan's made up haha. I don't know what Meghan's going to do and I like the idea of Scott coming to get her. We'll see what happens. Thanks again for the review and I hope you enjoy this next chapter.

janereid - Thank you for the review! I know I love Reid and Emily together, at the end of Minimal Loss I literally get a feel attack, I mean that hug OMG I love it haha. I just think they make so much sense together, they just click. I shall keep in mind that you have an eye on Scott. He is a bit shady but hey shady people can sometimes turn out to be really nice people. Thanks for the review and I hope you like the next chapter.

leahloahla - Thanks for the review! Oh Sociology, the easiest subject I took at GCSE, but A level it's EVIL! There's so much crap to learn haha. Thanks for the uni wishes, I'm going to see another one tomorrow :( So much for staying at home and watching Criminal Minds haha. I'm glad you liked the chapter and yeah break ups are never much fun, I wander how this one is going to impact Meghan and yeah I hope Emily finds something to do as well. Thanks for the review and enjoy the next chapter.

CriminalMindsLover08 – Thank you for the review! You're the only one who's mentioned JJ, Reid and Emily, yeah I wander what they have to say as well. Maybe some bonding time for Meghan and Emily. I really liked that idea about Scott, I wander if he does have ulterior motives, or maybe it was just all done in total innocence. Thank you so much for the review and I hope you like the next chapter.

Meghan slammed the door shut behind her. She was so pissed off and hurt at Henry, she couldn't believe that he didn't trust her judgement; ever since she was a kid she had hated being told who to be friends with. Meghan wiped her eyes to remove any trace of tears.

"Meg?" Emily asked, causing Meghan to jump.

Meghan looked at Emily, then flashed her a fake smile, "Yeah"

"Are you alright?" Emily asked.
"Meghan took a step away from the wall. "I'm fine," she lied. She tried to walk past Emily without further interruption.

"Why were you crying?" Emily asked as Meghan was about to enter her room.

Meghan slowly turned to face Emily, mentally cursing profilers. "I wasn't" she denied.

"Tear marks," Emily replied.

Meghan sighed. "I've just had a stressful day."

"Do you want to talk about it?" Emily asked.

Meghan thought for a moment, "Let me put my bag in my room." She turned and walked into her room.

Emily smiled to herself; this was one of the rare times that Meghan wanted to confide in her.

She moved to the living room and sat down on the sofa, and soon enough so did Meghan, sitting on the opposite end with her legs crossed.

Emily and Meghan stared at each other for a moment, wandering who should be first to break the silence.

"So you had a rough day?" Emily asked deciding to start the conversation.

Meghan shook her head slightly, "All this security around the school is stupid."

Emily tried to contain her baffled look at how Meghan had responded. "Why's that?"

Meghan could feel tears starting to form in her eyes, she tried to breathe through them, "Me and Henry had a fight."

Emily nodded knowingly, "a big fight?"

"Yeah," Meghan put her face in her hands, letting a silent tear fall before she brought it back up again.

"About the security?" Emily asked.

"No, everyone is so hyped up with these shootings and it's just made everything worse." Meghan explained.

"How so?" Emily asked.

"I was late meeting Henry today and he freaked out with me,"

"Don't you think it's nice that he's worried about you?"

"You don't get it." Meghan sighed.

"Then explain it to me." Emily replied, giving Meghan's hand a quick squeeze.

Meghan looked at Emily for a moment. "I was helping this guy in my class with some work and Henry doesn't like him anyway so when I was late meeting him, he freaked out at me."

Emily nodded her head, "Don't you think Henry is just trying to protect you?"

"I don't need protecting." Meghan retorted.

"Okay, but Henry just wants to look out for you, with all that's going on it's understandable for him to be worried about you."

"I know and I get it, I just don't want my boyfriend trying to choose my friends."

"Did you try to tell him that?" Emily asked.

Meghan nodded, "Yeah and he told me that at least someone was interested about what I do."

Emily looked shocked that Henry would say something like that to Meghan, knowing how much Spencer and herself cared about Meghan. "He thinks your dad doesn't care about you?"

"No, he meant it like I don't care about what I do." Meghan replied.

"Why would he say that?" Emily asked.

Meghan shrugged, "I don't know… maybe because it's true." She mumbled the last part.

Emily looked at Meghan questioningly. "You don't care about what you do?"

Meghan looked at her, "No offence but you've only known me for like a year; and from what you know about me, it must seem like I don't care for consequences much."

Emily shook her head. "No, I think you have a 'Carpe diem' way of looking of things, but most people your age do."

"You think I'm a yolo lover?" Meghan raised her eyebrow.

"No, I think you try to make the best out of each day." Emily observed.

"I think your way off." Meghan remarked, remembering what Henry had said to her earlier.
"How so?"

"All the things I did to dad before you came back."

"Don't take this the wrong way," Emily started, "but your dad's work is very full on, I know he doesn't have as much time as other parents to raise you. I think maybe everything you did was a call for attention."

"You think I'm an attention seeker?" Meghan asked.

"No." Emily replied, mentally trying to re-phrase her sentence.

"Then you think dad didn't raise me well enough?"

"No, he's raised you really well." Emily assured.

"But you'd of done it better?" Meghan questioned.

"No, I'm not saying that at all." Emily defended herself.

"Dad did the best he could, it's not like you were there to help him anyway you were off in Paris or wherever." Meghan shot back.

"I know I'm not saying that…"

"I don't even care anyway; I'll be in my room." Meghan stood up interrupting Emily. She stormed off in frustration slamming the door behind her.

Emily slumped down on the sofa, letting out an exasperated sigh. She wished that she'd of just shut her mouth; but no she had to just keep talking. Although truthfully, she hated walking on eggshells around Meghan; she loved Meghan, but her mood swings were tiresome. Emily felt like she always had to watch what she was going to say around Meghan as something taken the wrong way would result in world war three. Thinking about it, it reminded her alot of her relationship with her mother… and that scared her.

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Meghan threw herself on her bed. She's had a fairly crappy day, since Emily walking back into her life and her kidnap; Meghan was careful to say something was the worst day of her life.

She hadn't meant to kick off with Emily, but everything that had happened today was just weighing on her. She took her phone out of her bag; sure enough she found a message from Stacey, she read it and sent a brief reply. To her surprise she also found a message from Scott.

"Hey, sorry if I caused you any trouble with Henry, but thanks for the help with the sociology I've nearly finished it all :) x"

Meghan smiled a small smile at the text and sent back another reply.
"No problem :) I'm glad I could help, if you need anything else just give me a ring x"

Meghan took a deep breath trying to calm herself down, she was still furious with Henry and slightly pissed off with Emily; but whereas usually she'd blame everything on Emily, she knew that Emily hadn't really said anything wrong and that this time it was Meghan that needed to apologise.

Meghan decided that apologising to Emily could wait, while she talked with Stacey. She called Stacey and soon enough she answered the phone.

"Hey" Stacey chimed.

"Hi," Meghan greeted miserably.

"What's up?" Stacey asked.

"I think me and Henry have broken up."

"What? How? Why? When?" replied in shock.

"Okay Stace, one question at a time." Meghan chuckled lightly.

"Sorry." Stacey apologised, joining Meghan's chuckle. "Why did you break up?"

"We had a fight."

"Yeah, what about?" Stacey replied as if Meghan had just stated the obvious.

"I was late meeting him and he freaked out big time." Meghan explained.

"Where were you?" Stacey asked.

"I was late finishing with Scott."

"Oh," Stacey said drawing out the syllable, simultaneously implying something had happened.

"Nothing happened Stace, but Henry freaked out and then I told him to stop choosing my friends." Meghan replied.

"I bet that went down like a lead balloon." Stacey remarked.

"Yeah, he told me that I wasn't mature enough for him and that being with me was a mistake." Meghan informed.

"He said that?" Stacey sounded shocked.

"In so many words."

"Meg, he just worries about you." Stacey tried to assure Meghan.

"I don't want a boyfriend who's going to spend half the time worrying about me." Meghan explained.

"But that's just because he loves you." Stacey reasoned.

"Yeah, well according to him he doesn't love me anymore." Meghan replied in a deflated tone.
"Meg, he was probably just angry at you, everyone says things they don't mean when their angry." Stacey explained.

"I know I'm the queen of that." Meghan remarked, rolling her eyes.

"Have you spoken to him?" Stacey asked.

"I don't know if I want to." Meghan answered honestly.

"Do you want to stay broken up with him?"

"I don't know; I just know that I don't want to be with someone who sees me as someone weak and immature." Meghan explained.

"Most girls would kill for someone to want to look after them." Stacey pointed out.

"I do, but there's a difference between looking after and smothering." Meghan replied.

"Well, I think you should talk to him."

"I'll think about it."

"Why don't you see what Emily thinks." Stacey suggested.
"Already done that."

"You did! Aww Meg, I feel so proud of you, what did she say?" Stacey said excitedly.
"Not a lot; I kinda got mad and yelled at her." Meghan said sheepishly.

"Really?" Stacey sounded exasperated.

"Yeah, I'm still working up the balls to say sorry." Meghan said.

"Ah so I'm a distraction." Stacey observed.
No, I wanted to talk to you anyway." Meghan assured.

"Yeah right, go put your tail between your legs and say sorry." Stacey joked, knowing her best friend all too well.

"Fine, I'll see you tomorrow." Meghan smiled.

"See ya."

Meghan put her phone in her pocket, thinking of the best way to approach saying sorry to Emily. She sat there for a few minutes, "okay, you're just being pathetic now." Meghan told herself. She got up off her bed and walked to the lounge.

She saw Emily sat in the lounge with a cup of tea in her hand. She seemed to be watching nothing in particular. Meghan cleared her throat; letting her presence be known.

"Meghan, you scared me." Emily said.

Meghan moved around to Emily's view and sat in the arm chair opposite. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry for going all devilish on you."

Emily tried to hide her amusement. "It's fine,"

Meghan shook her head. "No it's not; I shouldn't use you as someone to let my anger out on. I'm just really upset about what happened with Henry today, that's not your fault."

"Meg, I really don't mind." Emily assured.

"You say you don't, but I can see that you do mind." Meghan explained. "I know that you only take it because you think you deserve it."

Emily shifted uncomfortably, "what makes you say that."

"I'm not stupid." Meghan replied, "You missed most of my life, then you came back and I got kidnapped by the same man you tried to protect us from. You feel guilty and dad doesn't say anything because he doesn't want to hurt you or make you feel worse." Meghan waited to see if she was on the right track before she continued. "You think most of my problems are because of you, therefore when I get mad at you, you accept it because you think it's your fault."

Emily thought for a moment. "That was um rather insightful"

Meghan smiled, "It's not your fault, I know that, dad knows that, so why don't you?"

Emily looked at Meghan, "Do you want an honest answer?"

Meghan matched Emily's look, "shoot."

"I shouldn't have come back."

Meghan looked taken aback, but quickly regained composure, "Why?"

"I knew that coming back was dangerous, I knew that Doyle had found me and to some extent I knew that he would come straight here to DC. You getting kidnapped, was all my fault."

Meghan shook her head, "No it wasn't, and I don't blame you. I'm not that mad at you going away in the first place and I'm glad you came back regardless of what happened."

Emily smiled, "Yeah?"

"Yeah, it's not everyday that you can say my mom came back from the dead and mean it." Meghan joked.

"Yeah, I guess."

"You and dad both say I'm a lot like you, so I know I wouldn't put up with the crap I say to you, so don't be afraid to shut me up." Meghan assured her.

"You are, but I don't think I ever apologised to my mother after yelling at her." Emily commented.

"Yeah, I don't blame you." Meghan smiled. "I do tend to know when I'm in the wrong; I just don't like admitting it."

"Yeah, I can relate to that." Emily smiled.

Meghan got off the armchair and sat on the sofa giving Emily a hug. Emily held Meghan close; feeling like so much weight had been taken off her shoulders.

Meghan pulled away and sat away from Emily, "So are we good?"

Emily smiled, "Yeah, we're good."

"Great, so would you mind dropping Henry's jacket back for me?" Meghan asked.

"Are you two over then?" Emily asked.

"Yeah, I don't want to be with someone, who tells me they love me and then takes it back within six hours."

Emily felt her heart ache for her little girl. "Oh Meghan, I'm sorry."

Meghan shook her head, "its fine really, I think me and Henry are just destined to be friends and that's it."

"So what was this fight actually over?" Emily asked.

"I offered to help this guy Scott with some homework set, I was late meeting Henry and then he started telling me how I pick bad friends and stuff."

"Why doesn't he like Scott?"

"Because he's not a jock." Meghan remarked. "Not many people do, he's kind of sullen and like he has friends but he likes to keep to himself as well, so people tend not to like him." Meghan explained.

"Oh," Emily said.
"What?" Meghan asked.

"Nothing, but it's up to you to work out who your friends are and aren't, so I wouldn't listen much to what the other kids say."

Meghan smiled, "I spent my whole life not listening to the other kids."

"Do you want to come with me to sort out this jacket." Emily asked.

"As long as it doesn't involve seeing Henry." Meghan replied.

"I'll drop it into Will and then maybe we could go for food or something." Emily suggested.

"Let me grab my coat." Meghan smiled, jumping up off the sofa.

Emily waited a moment, relieved that she'd had this conversation with Meghan, she felt like the world had been lifted off her shoulders and that her and Meghan were finally moving forward. If only Emily was to know how close they would become, maybe Emily would have been less afraid of voicing her thoughts…

AN – Hmmm I wander what Emily was really thinking? So are Henry and Meghan really over? What do we think of Meghan and Emily's little chat? Are they over the worst of their relationship? Do you guys want them to be on speaking terms? Or do you prefer the arguments? I really hope you enjoyed the chapter, please leave me your thoughts and follow and favourite (it is my birthday after all ;) ) See you next week Rhian.