Consequences Ch3

Penelope was the one to tell the rest of the team that Emily had resigned and would be leaving them in a month. Every week someone on the team would try and talk her out of it but she would come in the next day and say that she wasn't changing her mind. The only person who had yet to talk to her, about her resignation, was Rossi. She knew that he knew, about her leaving, because he would always throw her glances when they were all out in the bull pen together. She also knew that Hotch still didn't believe that she was in fact going to be leaving the team in seven days. He had yet to start interviewing people to take her spot on the team.

When she walked into the bull pen, for her last week as an FBI agent, she noticed that JJ was talking to Hotch; which meant that they had a case that was going to take them away for at least a few days.

"Prentiss, conference room," Hotch said as she headed to her desk.

"Be right up there," Emily said as she grabbed her pills from her desk and threw them into her ready bag.

When she got up to the conference room, she slid in quietly because JJ had already started the briefing.

"Where were you?" Rossi whispered while taking notes.

"Doctor's appointment," Emily replied as she looked at the pictures on the screen in horror. "Are the women, who are being abducted, pregnant?"

"Yes," Hotch said as he watched several different emotions flit over Emily's face.

Emily just sat in her chair paralyzed, listening to JJ explain the similarities. She had hoped that they wouldn't get a case like this until after she left.

"Anyone have any questions?" Hotch asked as he looked at his team.

"Nope," Rossi said as they all started to pack their things.

"Prentiss, are you all right?" Hotch asked when he noticed that she was as pale as a ghost.

"I'm fine," Emily said as she headed out to grab her ready bag.

"Rossi, can you keep an eye on her during this case? I have a feeling that something isn't right," Hotch said as he headed to his office to get his bag.

"I can do that," Rossi said as he saw Emily run off in the direction of the bathroom. "JJ can you go into the women's bathroom and see if there is anyone besides Emily in there for me?"

"Sure. Do you know what's going on with her?" JJ asked as she looked into the bathroom. "Everyone thought that she would have changed her mind by now about leaving but she still hasn't. You're good to go."

"I don't just yet. I told Hotch that if she went to Strauss first that she wasn't going to change her mind about leaving," Rossi said before heading into the bathroom. "Emily, what's going on with you?"

"What are you doing in the women's bathroom, Dave?" Emily asked as she came out of the second stall. "Why couldn't we have gotten this case next week after I left?"

"Checking on you. What's going on, Emily?" he asked as she washed her hands. "Why's this case going to be hard on you?"

"You want to know why? I'm fucking three months pregnant with triplets. That's why it's going to be hard," she said as she slammed her hands on the sides of the sink.

"What? When did that happen?" Rossi asked. "Do you know who the father is and is he going to be involved?"

"You heard me right. Three months ago, like I said," Emily said as she dried her hands with paper towel. "I know who the father is and no as of right now the father doesn't know. I plan on keeping it that way until after they are born."

"When did you find out and who else have you told?" he asked.

"I found out the night before I went to the doctor's last month. Strauss is the only other person and she only knows because she wanted me to explain exactly why I was leaving," she said. "I don't want anyone else to know right now."

"Emily, Hotch deserves to know since he still thinks that you are going to change your mind. Plus what happens if something happens out in the field?" Rossi asked.

"Dave, if I so much as hear a peep about someone else knowing, you will be dead. That's his fault for not taking my resignation letter seriously," Emily said as she moved to leave the bathroom. "If something happens in the field, I will deal with it then."

"Hey, you two done talking in there? Hotch wants to get on the road like now," JJ called into the bathroom.

"We're coming," Emily said as she opened the door to see the entire team standing just inside the bull pen.

"Everything ok?" Hotch asked as Emily headed to grab her bag from her desk.

"Fine," Emily said as she walked past him out towards the elevators.

Hotch was really starting to worry. She still hadn't changed her mind about leaving; which was going to leave him screwed after this case was done. She hadn't told anyone what was going on with her and then her going ghostly pale after finding out that the victims were pregnant; really had him scared.

Emily could see that Dave wasn't done talking to her but he knew better than to talk about until they were at least somewhat alone.

"Sit on the couch. We are definitely not through talking about this," Rossi said as she climbed out of the SUV.

Emily sat down on the couch and listened to everyone trying to create a profile. She knew that they were all waiting for her to input something but all she could think about was how she was going to protect herself while out in the field during this case.

"Anything to input, Prentiss?" Hotch asked angry that she had yet to say anything about this case.

"No," Emily said as she closed her eyes.

Rossi could already see the strain that the case was putting on her even before they arrived in California. He could also see that Hotch was angry that she wasn't trying to help them with a profile.

"Why are you keeping your pregnancy a secret from the father?" Rossi asked as he sat down next to her.

"It was a one night stand that the guy doesn't remember and I've seen him around with his girlfriend," Emily said as she looked around the plane. "It was unplanned but not unwanted at least on my part."

"How do you know that he doesn't remember?" Rossi asked.

"Rossi, that's a line of questioning that I'm not going to let you go down," Emily said as she looked at the file in front of her.

"Prentiss, I want you to work Victimology at the local police station with Reid," Hotch said before they all departed off the plane.

"Fine," Emily said as she walked past him.

After spending three days cooped up in the local police station with Reid working on Victimology, Hotch had decided that Prentiss had had enough of a punishment. She, Reid, and Garcia had actually managed to figure out who the next victim was going to be with enough time for the cops to put in an undercover officer who was wired with a GPS tracker.

"Prentiss and I will take the front door. Dave and Morgan take the back," Hotch said as Emily made sure her bulletproof vest was ok. "We go in on the count of three. One. Two. Three."

As Hotch opened the front door, Emily peered inside.

"Front room is clear," Emily said as she and Hotch headed towards the hallway.

Emily felt the shot hit her before she heard it. Her arm was on fire. She saw that Hotch was looking at her.

"Go, find the girl. I'm fine," Emily said as she slid to the floor. "Morgan, go with Hotch. Rossi, will stay here with me."

"Emily, are you ok?" Rossi said as he looked at the gunshot wound in her arm.

"I'll be fine until I know that the girl is all right," Emily said as she tried to control her breathing.

"We got her. She's fine," Rossi heard Hotch say through their earpieces.

"I'm going to take Emily to the hospital, ok, Hotch?" Rossi asked as he helped Emily stand.

"Go, we'll deal with everything here then meet you guys there," Hotch said.

"Shit, Rossi, we need to hurry," Emily whispered into his ear.

"What's wrong?" Rossi asked as he helped her into the ambulance.

"I'm cramping which could mean that something is going on with the babies. I'm three months pregnant with triplets and have a gunshot wound to my upper arm," she said to the paramedic.

"Sir, are you coming with her?" the driver asked Rossi as he went to close the doors.

"Yes," Rossi said as he climbed in next to Emily.

"Dave, I'm going to need you to do something for me when we get to the hospital," Emily said as the paramedic took her blood pressure for a second time.

"What?" Rossi asked.

"I'm going to need you to keep everyone from coming back into my room. The doctor's going to want to do an ultrasound and I don't want anyone back there," Emily said as the EMT applied pressure to the gunshot. "That includes Hotch no matter what he says. Do you understand me?"

"He's going to be pissed but I'll try my hardest," Rossi said as he reached out for Emily's hand as they pulled up to the ambulance bay of the emergency room.

Emily could hear Hotch royally tearing into Rossi because he wasn't being allowed back to make sure she was alright as the doctor stitched up her wound.

"That your boss out there?" the nurse asked as she brought in the portable ultrasound machine. "Did you want him back here?"

"That is my boss and no I don't want him back here," Emily replied as the nurse squeezed some gel onto her stomach.

"Your triplets are looking good," the doctor said as all three of them looked at the screen. "Your blood pressure is a little high but that could be from the gunshot wound. I want you to get check out by your OB/GYN when you get back to Virginia."

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