Consequences Ch. 8

AN: I went totally nuts when writing this chapter. I love looking at maternity clothes and all the baby clothes and accessories. I'll post the links to the ones described in the chapter on my profile but there is a ton more that may get added to coming chapters. If you want to see the pieces before they appear in the story, private message me and I'll find a way to give them to you earlier.

One month later (6 months pregnant)

Emily had decided that she was going to make an appearance at the girl's night that Penelope had set up. But Emily had also decided that she wasn't going to go to this thing alone. She was going to be bringing Jessica with her. She had let both Penelope and JJ know that she was going to be there and that she was bringing a friend with her.

"Hey, Jessica, is there any way for you to see if Hotch or Beth could pick Jack up early tonight; like around 4:30?" Emily asked as she tried to find something that would actually fit her, to wear to girl's night.

"I can see if one of them would be able to. Why?" Jessica asked as she made Jack a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch.

"I have nothing to wear for tonight," Emily said as she closed her closet. "So I thought that we could go shopping before meeting up with the girls."

"I'll call Aaron and see if he can," Jessica said as she handed Jack his sandwich. "I'll call you back after I've talked to him."

"If not, I'll just pick you up around 6:30," Emily said as she headed to her kitchen.

It was two o'clock when Emily's doorbell rang.

"Who's there?" Emily called from upstairs.

"It's Jessica." Jessica said as she talked to Emily through the door.

"What are you doing here this early?" Emily asked as she opened the front door.

"Aaron decided to have the team only work half a day today. Evidently Penelope and JJ told him about girl's night and the guys decided to have guy's night as well," Jessica said as they walked into the living room. "Don't worry, he doesn't know where and what the girls have planned for tonight. Penelope did call and invite me since she now knows about Dave and I. I also figured that since you needed to go shopping that we could go early and do a little baby shopping as well; besides I know a great store to shop in for cute maternity clothes."

"So then who is watching Jack tonight?" Emily asked as she grabbed her jacket.

"Beth apparently told Aaron that she wanted to spend some alone time getting to know Jack, so she has him tonight," Jessica said as they walked out to Jessica's car.

"Has she even spent any time alone with Jack?" Emily asked as Jessica pulled out of the driveway. "I distinctly remember Garcia telling me that Jack was a holy terror when she watched him. I never saw it myself but that could've been because I was there to help him grieve his mother."

"No, it's always been both of them together," Jessica said. "So I have a feeling either Aaron or I will get called out to help before the night is out."

Emily was surprised when Jessica pulled into the Landmark Mall.

"Come on. We have two places to go here and then we are going to go look at baby things," Jessica said as she climbed out of her car. "Besides I've already called in a few reinforcements for today's shopping trip."

"Emily Elizabeth Prentiss, you are in deep trouble," Penelope said when she saw Emily walk into the mall.

"Pen, I was going to surprise you at the bar tonight," Emily said as Penelope gave her a hug.

"So I take Jessica and JJ already knew but who else knows?" Penelope asked as the group headed for level two of Landmark Mall. "What are you having and how far a long are you?"

"Strauss, Rossi, and most likely Reid; right JJ?" Emily asked as they stepped into Macy's. "I'm having triplets but don't know the sexes just yet and I'm six months along."

"Yes, I told Reid once I got home," JJ said as they headed towards the Motherhood Maternity part of Macy's.

"So how long has everyone known? And why wasn't I told?" Penelope asked as Emily started to look at different things on the clothing racks.

"I told Strauss when I was two months along. Rossi and Jessica were told a month later when we had the missing pregnant girl case, where I got shot. JJ and Reid just found out last month," Emily said as she held up a black sleeveless faux wrap maternity dress against herself. "I was waiting until tonight to tell you and to be honest I wasn't really going to tell JJ; but the girl couldn't take no for an answer about Henry coming to visit."

"So does this mean that I get to tell Derek?" Penelope asked as she handed Emily a sleeveless drape neck sash belt maternity top to try on. "And why doesn't Hotch know?"

"You can tell Derek," Emily said as she added a ¾ length sleeve scoop neck screen print maternity t-shirt to her pile before looking over at Jessica. "Hotch doesn't know because I don't want him to feel guilty about me getting shot; which he would. It was my decision to go out into the field even though I was three months pregnant at the time."

After gathering a few more things to try on, Emily headed off to the dressing room. While she was gone, the other three decided to find more things for Emily to buy. By the time Emily had the first outfit on, the girls had another two arm loads of things for her to try on.

"Girls, how much are you guys planning to have me buy?" Emily said as she looked at the other girls' arms.

"You still have 4 months to go. Plus who's to say that you won't need it again or that one of us won't need it in the future," Jessica said as she handed her load off to Emily.

"I'd have to find a guy who could deal with me and the triplets to be able to need these clothes again," Emily said as JJ handed her another group of clothes. "Now I could see one of you guys needing these in the near future."

"Now don't think like that Em," Jessica said. "Besides I have a feeling that once the father knows about the babies, he'll want to try and make things work with you."

"Who is the father by the way?" Penelope asked as she handed her choices to Emily.

"The father currently isn't in my life and I don't like to talk about him," Emily said as she glared at Jessica for what she had said. "Ok, instead of trying all of this stuff on here, I'm just going to buy it all and take it home. If I can't wear it then I'll either give it away or hold onto it for one of you guys."

As the group walked up to the register, Jessica slid in next to Emily, gave her a hug and whispered "I'm sorry" into her ear.

"I know," Emily whispered back.

"Your total is $1484.28," the sales girl said.

"Add these on. I'll pay you for them, Em," Penelope said as she placed 3 Washington Redskins onesies on the pile of clothes.

"Ok, is that all?" the sales girl asked. "Your total is now $1535.22."

Emily chuckled at the onesies as she pulled out her credit card to pay for everything. As she looked at her cell phone she realized that they had been in the store for an hour and a half.

"Ok, I want to check out some shoes before we leave the mall to do some baby shopping," JJ said as they headed down to the first level of the mall.

"That's fine with me," Emily said. "I need a new pair of boots and a pair of ballet flats to go with my new clothes."

After another half an hour checking out shoes, the group was ready to head to Babies R Us to look at things for the triplets.

"Do you have anything yet?" Jessica asked as they climbed into her car.

"Nope," Emily said.

"Why not?" Jessica asked.

"I don't know. I was just waiting until I told JJ and Penelope, I guess," Emily said as she watched the scenery pass by her window.

"Are you sure it isn't because you subconsciously want to have Aaron doing this stuff with you instead of us girls?" Jessica asked knowing that her questioning was headed into dangerous territory.

"Probably," Emily said as they pulled into Babies R Us.

"So what do you have for the triplets?" Penelope asked as they walked into the store.

"The onesies that you just bought them," Emily said.

"What? You don't have anything else yet?" JJ asked as she steered them towards the cribs section.

"Nope," Emily said for the second time that day.

After another two hours purchasing things for the triplets, Emily was exhausted but knew that the girls still wanted to make a trip out to the bar.

"Your total comes to $7,800 that includes deliver of the cribs, strollers, changing tables, car seats, and dressers," the cashier said.

"Remind me to call my parents and thank them for giving me $10,000 to help get things for the triplets," Emily said. "How about we take all this stuff back to my place and get ready, to go to the bar, there?"

"That sounds good," Penelope said as her cell phone went off.

After spending an hour getting ready, the girls were finally ready to head out to Sal's for a few drinks.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Sal called as they walked into the bar.

"Hey Sal, look who we finally managed to get to come with us," JJ said as they grabbed a table in the back.

"Emily, where have you been?" Sal asked as he got another couple's drinks ready. "Oh My God, hun. Congratulations. What are you having and how long until you give birth?"

"I've been around," Emily said as he handed her a glass of Sprite. "I'm having triplets and I have four more months to go. Guys, I'm not going to stay long because I'm so tired from everything that we've done today."

"Ok," the three girls said.

After two more rounds of Sprite, for her, and martini's for the girls, Emily decided that she needed to head out. Just as she was about to walk out the front door, she ran head first into someone.

"Sorry about that," the person said.

Emily tensed when she heard his voice before pushing past him.

Hotch saw the girls but no Emily.

"Aaron, what are you doing here? I thought that you were going out with the guys," Jessica said as she realized that Emily had left just in time.

"I was hoping to catch Emily. I wanted to talk to her since she's been avoiding me for the past 3 months," Hotch said as he looked at the other girls. "Hey JJ and Penelope."

AN2: Please Review! All of you that have already reviewed this story thank you so much. The reviews are keeping me from developing a severe case of writer's block (which normally happens, to me, after I've written this many chapters; just look at Keeping in Touch).