Once they arrived at the local precinct, Hotch had given everyone their orders. Emily was quick to catch up with Penelope and ask, "How do you do it?"

Penelope's eyebrows raised as Penelope asked, "Do what?"

Emily sighed and asked, "Does Derek ever drive you crazy about the baby."?

Penelope chuckled and said, "Peaches only all the time."

Emily rolled her eyes and muttered, "Crap."

Penelope teasingly asked, "What was that, Ms. Prentiss?"

Emily said flatly, "Aaron is driving me crazy. He won't let me in the field even though the doctor said I was more than fine to investigate crime scenes. He won't let me carry anything. For god sake's I can carry my own damn go bag, And lastly he has taken away my coffee. The doctor said I could have two cups a day. But over protective know it all Hotchner takes every single cup away from me. If I weren't pregnant I would kick his ass."

Penelope held her hands up and said, "Slow down woman."

Emily took a cleansing breath and said, "I know, I know. He just wants to protect me, Jack and the baby, more than anything in this world, but that man is smothering me. If he doesn't quit it, I am going to smother him with his damn tie."

Penelope said, "First of all you are not killing my boss man, especially since he has learned to smile again. Secondly you have to understand why he is doing this. After…."

Penelope took a shuddering breath and said, "After Haley died, I bet he thought he would never get a second chance at a family. Now he is, so you need to grin and bear it, but I will talk to him, or maybe get Derek to do it. Have you told anyone else on our team about the baby?"

Emily said, "Not yet. I would like to get use to the idea of me being pregnant in the first place."

Penelope put her hands on her hips and said, "You had better get used to it."

Both women chuckled as Emily helped Penelope set up her computers, in an office the B.A.U commandeered.

Penelope asked, "What's next."

Emily said, "Well I can't really do anything until everyone has checked out the crimes scenes. I am only suppose to be working victimology."

Penelope whinced. This was really worse than she thought it was. Hotch had completely taken Emily out of the field.

Penelope received her first phone call.

"Oracle of Quantico. Speak if you deign to hear truth."

Derek replied, "Hey baby girl, I was just calling to check in."

Penelope smiled and said, "Little Biscotti and I are doing fine."

Derek chuckled and asked, "Biscotti?"

Penelope said, "I am trying out other names besides than peanut."

Derek laughed and said, "Garcia you are crazy."

Penelope laughed and asked, "So if I am crazy, and you want to marry me and have a basketball team full of kids, what does that make you?"

Derek replied, "A man crazy about his woman."

Emily rolled her eyes and said, "Good answer."

Derek chuckled once again and asked, "Prentiss why are you there, and not out here?"

Emily said, "Talk to your boss about that one."

Derek reluctantly said, "I will. Is everything alright?"

Penelope said, "Nothing my Adonis of a fiancé can't fix."

Derek muttered, "Oh hell. Prentiss tell me he didn't put you on desk duty. You aren't even showing."

Emily said, "My ass had been benched for the season."

Penelope could almost hear Derek rubbing his head in frustration.

Derek said, "I'll talk to Hotch and see what is going on."

Emily said, "Thanks Morgan."

Derek smiled and said, "What is family for, but to be all nosey about your shit. Hey P I gotta go Hotch found the second dumping site. Prentiss try not to kill Hotch please."

Emily huffed and said, "I ain't making any promises."

Derek disconnected the call.

Emily and Penelope were bored out of their minds. There wasn't much for them to do, so they did what girls do best. They started a gab fest.

Emily took a sip of her herbal tea and said, "So guess who just found out about you and Morgan?"

Penelope excitedly turned in her chair to face Emily and asked, "Who?"

Emily said, "Jordan Todd."

Penelope grumbled at the name.

Penelope asked, "Well what did she say? Spit it out Prentiss."

Emily said, "Okay. Damn woman learn some patience.

Penelope gestured toward herself asking, "Have you met me?"

Emily laughed and said, "Point taken. Well Jordan looked shocked, to say the least."

Penelope lifted her chin in the air and said, "Good. Bitch shouldn't have tried to get her grubby little hands on my man."

Emily asked, "Are you going to let me finish?"

Penelope put her hands up in mock surrender and said, "Go on, go on. But tell me everything."

Emily said, "Well I was in the break room earlier today trying to finish those damn case files and eat a quick bite. Speaking of I am hungry. Can we get something delivered?"

Penelope placed her hands on Emily's shoulders and said, "Woman focus."

Emily muttered something about pregnancy brain and continued.

"Well I was in the break room and Jordan, and one of the girls from the tech department, found out about you two getting engaged, and that you were pregnant."

Emily took a sip of tea, and Penelope wanted to shake the story out of Emily.

"Oh where was I..Oh yeah so… Jordan is telling Sharon, or Sheryl.. whatever the hell her name is saw the paperwork from HR that Strauss filed on your behalf. So Jordan is saying stuff like, I can't believe is with her, and yadda, yadda, yadda." So then Sherie, or Susan...I still don't know her name, anyway she says, "Morgan probably slept with her one night, and now he is stuck with her."

Penelope's eyes hardened.

Emily said, "Calm it down, I know that look. So guess who defended you and Morgan."

Emily smile was so wide she couldn't help but almost bounce in her chair.

Penelope excitedly asked, "Who?"

Emily almost whispered her answer, "Kevin Lynch."

To say Penelope looked shocked would have been the understatement of the century.

Emily continued, "So Kevin Tells Jordan that she would have never stood a chance with Morgan, and that she must have been one crappy profiler if she couldn't see how much Derek loved you. Then Jordan calls Kevin a computer nerd, and Kevin calls Jordan useless. Finally I have enough of Jordan and I told her to take her ass back to her own floor. She didn't belong in the B.A.U."

Penelope didn't say anything, She quickly turned in her chair, and started typing."

Emily was confused. "PG what are you doing?"

Penelope giggled and said, "I am hacking Kevin,s World of Warcraft account and adding those upgrades that he wanted."

Emily mumbled, "God technical analysts are weird."

Penelope with a mock stern in her voice said, "I heard that she who has been benched."

Derek and Hotch sat in the SUV in the war summer heat, thankful for air conditioning.

Both gentlemen sat in the SUV waiting for the accompanying police officer from the precinct to meet up with them.

Derek rested his head back on the head rest, dark sunglasses firmly in place and asked, "You wanna tell me why Prentiss isn't out here?"

Hotch sighed and said, "I asked her to stay behind."

Derek chuckled and said, "Big mistake boss."

Hotch snorted and asked, "Why?"

Derek took his sunglasses off and said, "If anyone could answer that question it would be you. Think about who Prentiss is."

Hotch said, "I know. Hell she was even a C.I.A operative, but she wasn't pregnant with my child then."

Derek said, "Hotch you know better than to try and keep Emily in a bubble."

Gotch said, "Derek rationally I know all of this, but if something happened to her…. I wouldn't be able to handle it, especially not after what happened to Haley."

Derek sympathetically said, "But she isn't Haley, and Foyet is dead."

Hotch said, "I know, I know all of that. It just scares me sometimes. I know she should be out here, but then the thought of watching her strap a gun to her waist makes me ill. And what about you Derek? Don't sit there and try to tell me you aren't trying to protect Penelope every moment of every single day?"

Derek sighed and said, "Point taken, but Penelope hates guns, she hates seeing people hurt and she isn't a field agent."

Hotch said, "True but bad things happen to agents all the time. Even though Emily never stepped on foot in a coffin, her funeral was to real for me. I had to keep telling myself that it wasn't her in that box."

Derek chuckled and asked, "What in the hell was in that thing? It weighed a ton."

Hotch returned the chuckle and said, "It's best not to know."

Derek raised his eyebrow and said, "I will leave it at that."

Hotch said, "I will talk to her, maybe it's better to let her know what I am thinking then to just assume the worst."

Derek placed his sunglasses back on and said, "I think that would be a wise decision, because a pissed off Prentiss is not what any of us want to deal with."

Hotch said, "Amen to that."

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