Consequences Ch4
"Rossi, she's my agent that was just shot," Hotch yelled as his friend stood firmly in front of the door.
"Hotch, she doesn't want anyone back there. Those were her words to me in the ambulance," Rossi said as the door opened.
"I'm fine. All they had to do was stitch up the entrance and exit wounds," Emily said as she stood next to Rossi. "Let's go. I want to be home before tomorrow."
"Actually there is a storm brewing outside and the pilot said that we won't be able to leave until 6 am tomorrow," Reid said as they headed to the SUV's that they were provided.
"Great," Emily said as she climbed into Hotch and Rossi's SUV.
"You're going to have to stay with someone tonight, Emily," Hotch said as he looked back at her. "Did they give you any pain medications?"
"I'll stay in Rossi's room with him," Emily said as she tried not to wince from the pain. "They gave me enough to get me home tomorrow."
"So how long did the doctor say that you would have to be off work?" Hotch asked as they pulled up to the hotel.
"You seriously still think that I'm not leaving?" Emily asked, in disbelief, as they walked into the hotel. "When we get back to Virginia tomorrow, I'm going home to rest. Then on Friday, I will be in the office to fill out the paperwork from this case and to do my exit interview paperwork for Strauss. After that, I will no longer be an FBI agent."
"So you are truly being serious about leaving this time?" Hotch said as they walked off the elevator.
"Hotch, I'm going to say this as nice as I possibly can right now. My resignation letter was a sign of me being completely serious about leaving," Emily said as Rossi opened the door to his room. "The other sign that should have been a major indicator was the fact that I talked to Strauss before you."
"I told you," Rossi said as he followed Emily into his room closing the door.
Emily headed into the bathroom so that Dave wouldn't see her crying. She was crying over the pain in her arm, that Hotch still didn't think she was done, and the fact that she could have lost the babies. When she came out, she saw that her ready bag was sitting on the second queen bed with a note attached. The note said:
Em,
I'm next door. Just call my cell when you are ready for me to come back over.
Dave.
"Hey, Dave, it's Emily," she said into her cell phone as she picked out clothes to change into. "I was wondering if you would like to go get dinner at the diner down the street. I need something to eat before I can take my pain pill."
"Sure, did you want me to ask the others?" Rossi asked as he watched Hotch pace around his hotel room.
"I don't care. I'll meet you in the hallway in five minutes," Emily said as she tried to pull her Yale sweatshirt on.
After five minutes of struggling to get her sweatshirt on, Emily finally gave up and just put her good arm through the sleeve and left her bad arm against her body inside the shirt.
"Sorry," Emily said as she opened the door.
"Where's your sling?" Rossi asked as the whole team headed towards the elevator.
"Not wearing it right now," Emily said as they climbed into the elevator. "Besides I had enough trouble changing into my sweatshirt."
After a big dinner, filled with lots of laughs and conversations, Emily was exhausted and in pain. She tried, but failed, to keep her yawns under control but her pain medications were finally starting to kick in.
"I think it's time for us to head back to the hotel or else we are going to end up carrying Princess back," Morgan said as he watched Emily yawn for the fifth time.
"Hey, it's the pain medications," Emily said as she stood up trying to wake herself up.
"He's right. We all need to get some sleep if we are going to be heading home first thing tomorrow morning," Hotch said as everyone handed Rossi money to pay the bill.
After a long drug induced sleep, Emily felt someone trying to wake her up by shaking her. As she opened her eyes, she saw that Rossi was standing over her.
"What time is it?" she asked as she went to stretch.
"Ten minutes to six," Rossi said as he helped her sit up. "Hotch just came by. He's taking Morgan, Reid, and JJ to the airport. I told him that we would meet him there by 6:30."
"Ok, just give me a few minutes to get changed," Emily said as she grabbed her ready bag.
"Hotch said that you could just stay in your sweats since you won't be going into the office," Rossi said before she got to the bathroom. "Did you want me to drive you home from work?"
"No, I have errands to run before heading home once we get back to Quantico," Emily said before opening the door.
"You do realize that everyone is going to ask when we get on the plane right?" Rossi asked as they headed for the lone SUV in the parking lot.
"Yep, but my answer is still going to be the same," Emily said as they left the hotel parking lot.
"Even to Hotch? He's not going to like the fact that you just got shot and are insisting to drive yourself around doing errands," Rossi said as they pulled into the airport parking lot.
"Yes, even to Hotch," Emily said as she got out of the SUV. "He's just going to have to get over it because as of five o'clock tomorrow I will no longer be an FBI agent."
"I'd like to see his face when you tell him that one," Rossi said as they climbed the stairs of the jet.
"You probably will be able to see it because I think that will be his first question once we are up in the air," Emily said as they walked to the couch. "If it even takes that long."
Emily waited for the dreaded question from her boss. Rossi just laughed because her prediction was off, Hotch had yet to ask how she was getting home. She was getting pissed that no one had asked how she was getting home.
After the four hour flight, Emily was feeling like shit.
"How are you getting home?" Hotch asked as he looked back at her in the rearview mirror.
"I'm going to drive myself since I have errands to do and Strauss is expecting you guys to finish the paperwork," Emily said as she looked out the window of the SUV.
"I'll take you to do your errands then drop you off at your place," Hotch said as he dared her to go against his word. "Strauss won't expect me to turn in the reports until after I have yours tomorrow."
"No, thanks though," she said as she openly defied his orders. "I haven't taken a pain pill since last night so I am fine to drive."
Rossi kept looking from Hotch to Emily. Emily had a satisfied smile on her face while Hotch just stared at the road. Rossi knew that he had a front row seat to an epic argument if Hotch decided to tell Emily no.
Hotch couldn't believe that Emily had told him no. Here she was injured and in pain, but wasn't willing to let him help her. Something was seriously going on with her but she wasn't letting anyone in on what it was. The last time that she had said no to him was the last time that she had resigned; after Strauss had asked her for dirt on him.
Emily kept her eyes on the scenery passing in the window. She knew if she looked over at Rossi, she would have started laughing.
As they pulled into a parking spot, Emily realized that no one had asked her how she was going to get home because Hotch had told them that he would be taking her.
"I'll be in first thing tomorrow," Emily said before heading towards her car. "Rossi, I'll call you when I get home. I don't know how long I'll be."
Everyone just stared at her as she drove out of the parking garage. She knew that they were all going to be pissed off because Hotch had told them that he would be taking her home.
Emily headed to the grocery store to get her pain prescription filled and to pick up some groceries. As she went to drive home, Emily found herself headed towards the cemetery where Haley and her friend Sam were buried. She hadn't been there in over a year because of Doyle. She hadn't even realized that she had parked her car, in front of the section where Haley was buried, because she was thinking about Sam and Bianca. As she sat down in front of Haley's grave, she remembered being the one to check up on Hotch and Jack after her death. That's how they had become close friends and why she was no longer called Aunt Emmy by Jack. She thought about getting up when she felt the rain drops hitting her but then realized that she just wanted to sit there and think for a while.
"I'm not looking for any answers by coming here," Emily said to herself.
Emily shivered as the rain started to fall faster. After an hour and a half of sitting, thinking, and voicing her thoughts, Emily decided that it was time to leave. She felt more at peace with herself and her decisions. She knew that Rossi was going to be pissed when he heard what she did. As she turned down her street, she saw four vehicles parked in front of her house.
"You guys can stop trying to pick the locks before you end up setting my alarm off," Emily said as she walked up the steps with a bag full of groceries. "So what is everyone doing here?"
"Where the hell were you and why the hell are you soaking wet?" Rossi asked as he grabbed the bag of groceries out of her hand. "Why was your cell phone turned off?"
"I went to the store and then took a drive to think," Emily said as she unlocked the front door. "I'm wet because I also took a walk in the rain to think. Now what is everyone doing here?"
"We are here because we couldn't reach you on your cell," Hotch said with Jack in his arms. "Why was your phone turned off?"
"I didn't want to be disturbed. Was there something important that you were trying to get a hold of me for?" Emily asked as she noticed Beth behind Hotch.
"You hadn't called me," Rossi said as he watched her mood change.
"I told you that I didn't know how long I'd be running my errands," Emily said as her mood went from at peace to pissed off at Hotch for bringing Beth to her place. "Everyone else can go."
"But…" Hotch started to say.
"That includes you, Beth, and Jack, Hotch," Emily said as she tried to reign in her anger.
"Emily…" Hotch started to say again.
"I swear to God, Hotch, that if you don't leave now, I will forcibly remove you from my house," Emily said as she turned him around and pushed him towards the front door.
"Beth, can you take Jack out to the car for me?" Hotch asked as he turned back around to face Emily. "I'll be out in a few minutes. What is going on with you, Emily?"
"Nothing is going on with me," Emily said venomously. "There I answered your question, now you can leave."
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