Consequences Ch. 6
Three days later, Jessica stopped to check on Emily since she hadn't heard from her since, what she and Dave had dubbed, the disaster dinner. Aaron was pissed off at Dave because he knew something about Emily that Aaron didn't. Dave was mad at Aaron for some reason that he had yet to share even with her. She wanted to make sure that Emily was alright and that Aaron and Dave hadn't managed to drag her into their argument.
After knocking a third time, Jessica decided to use the key that Emily had given to her when she had moved into her new house.
"Emily, are you home?" Jessica called out.
She heard music playing further in the apartment.
"Emily, it's Jessica," she called out again.
"Jessica! What are you doing here?" Emily asked as she stepped into the living room.
"I came to check up on you," Jessica said before sitting down on the couch. "I also wanted to make sure that my boyfriend and my brother-in-law hadn't dragged you into their argument. They haven't been bugging you, have they?"
"What are they even arguing about?" Emily asked as she grabbed an apple from the kitchen. "Dave called to talk but wouldn't tell me what they were arguing about. And I don't expect to talk to Hotch for a while. He's upset that I left; even though I gave him a month to find my replacement."
"Well Aaron is pissed off at Dave because he knows something about you that Aaron, himself, doesn't know and Dave won't let me in on why he's mad at Aaron," Jessica said watching a small smile form on Emily's face. "You know exactly why he's mad at Aaron, don't you?"
"Yes, I do know," Emily said. "There are a couple of things that I probably should tell you but I do need you to promise to not tell anyone until I'm ready before I tell you."
"What?" Jessica said.
"I don't want anyone to know just yet," Emily said. "Dave is the only one who knows so far and I want to keep it that way for a bit longer."
"No, I understood that and I promise to wait until you are ready," Jessica said as she watched her friend pace in front of her. "I meant, what do you have to tell me."
Emily looked at her and tried to think of all the possible ways for Jessica to react to what she was about to tell her. She could see at least one good scenario and at least 2 bad scenarios. Emily was seriously worried about this. She wanted to tell Jessica everything but she was still the sister-in-law of the triplet's father.
"I'm three months pregnant with triplets," Emily started off by saying. "I know who the father is but he doesn't know he is the father. It was a very drunken one night stand that he has no recollection of at all. Go ahead and ask any questions that you want to."
"Ok, I figured that on Friday when you said that you hadn't had coffee in over a month, especially with your job. Who exactly is the father?" Jessica asked as she tried to think of who it could be.
"That's the million dollar question right there," Emily said. "I will tell you but don't tell Dave that I just told you because I made him figure it out on his own."
"Tell me who it is and then you can explain how Dave figured out who it was," Jessica said.
"First, I need you to pinky promise me that you won't freak out on me because you're going to want to once you find out," Emily said as she held her pinky in front of Jessica. "Please do this for me. I get that it is a bit childish but it's the only thing that I can think of right now."
"I don't think that I've ever seen you this worried about something, which means to me that it's really freakin' big," Jessica said as she pinky promised. "Now tell me who the father is."
"You and Dave call him Aaron while the rest of the team calls him Hotch," Emily said before looking down at her hands.
"What the fuck?" Jessica swore. "He doesn't remember anything about that night? Tell me how Dave figured it all out."
"Not one thing and that's one of the reasons why I had to leave the team. I couldn't stand to be pregnant with his kids and watch him be with Beth constantly," Emily said as she looked up at Jessica. "Remember the fight that Dave told you about on Thursday. He commented on how he had never seen me get so mad at Hotch since he joined the team and asked what was making me so upset. I told him that it was either the fact that I am pregnant with his kids or that he brought Beth over to my place to check up on me, or a combination of both."
"Now I understand why Dave was kind of leery about Friday's dinner when he got home and saw that Jack, Aaron, and Beth were staying for dinner," Jessica said as everything finally clicked. "So explain to me how things went down the night of the one night stand."
"I was having a hard time getting the images of the girls out of my head. Once we got to the bar, I decided that I was going to need something more than beer to get rid of them," Emily said as she grabbed her pain pills from the end table. "Dave was worried about me but Hotch had said that he would make sure I didn't do anything disastrous because I was doing both beer and double shots of tequila."
"I remember that night. Dave came home pissed off since he had yet to hear from you," Jessica said. "I don't think that he slept at all that night."
"After Dave left, I grabbed both Hotch and I more double shots of tequila. He had about five and I had had nineteen when things started to go haywire," Emily said before taking her pill. "I remember having sex against the hotel room door and then on the bed. I didn't even know that it was Hotch until I saw his cell phone in my purse when I went out to my car."
"So when did Dave find out that you were pregnant?" Jessica asked.
"The last case that I worked on, and got shot at, was one with pregnant girls. During the briefing, I went ghostly pale and Hotch could see that something was going on and asked Dave to keep an eye on me during the case," Emily said as she rubbed her eyes. "After the briefing, I went to the bathroom and got sick. As I was getting sick, Dave came in and asked me what was going on. I finally broke and told him that this case was going to be hell on me because I was pregnant with triplets."