Consequences Ch.13

Emily knew that this could turn out to be one of her worst ideas in a long time but she was sick and tired of asking Dave and Jessica to lie for her. She should have faced Hotch head on when she found out about the triplets, it should have never come down to this.

JJ and Penelope were both surprised when they saw Emily walking towards the BAU. They both knew that Hotch and Emily were still on the outs with one another but knew that they had great seats to a fight if one were to happen between the two agents.

"Dave, aren't you going to stop her?" JJ asked as they watched Emily open the door to the bull pen.

"Actually, this time I'm not going to," Dave said as they followed Emily into the bull pen. "This is something she wants to do and I for one am all for it."

Everyone seemed to just watch as Emily set all her things up on her former desk and got to work on the notes; except for Hotch who was currently in the conference room working with Agent Treynor.

"Dave, can you go grab Agent Treynor and bring him down here to me?" Emily asked as she looked at his translations of the notes again.

"And here's where the shit is about to hit the fan, boys and girls," Dave said to the rest of the team as he went to retrieve the agent from the conference room.

"Aaron, there is someone out in the bull pen that wants to speak to Agent Treynor for a minute," Dave said as he walked into the conference room.

"Who is it?" Agent Treynor asked trying to figure out another section of one of the notes.

"Someone who has definitely spent a lot more time in the Middle East than you have," Dave said as he looked at Hotch. "And understands the different dialects of the Arabic language."

"Sir, is it alright if I go and talk to this person?" Agent Treynor asked Hotch as he stood to head out to the bull pen.

"Fine but I expect you back in here in five minutes," Hotch said as he motioned for Dave to sit at the table.

"Actually I think we'll both enjoy seeing this all go down outside," Dave said as he motioned Hotch to head out of the conference room.

"Ok, who wanted to talk to me about the notes I'm currently translating?" Agent Treynor asked as he looked towards Agents Reid and Morgan, who were standing in front of Emily.

"It's nice to see you guys too but I think I should talk to Agent Treynor and then get to work on translating these notes so that you can solve this case," Emily said as she watched the guys hover in front of her. "Agent Treynor, if you'll side step Agents Reid and Morgan, you'll see me. I'm the one who wanted to talk to you about your translation work."

"Who is it?" Hotch whispered to Dave as he heard the voice.

"Just wait and see," Dave said as Morgan and Reid stepped to the side for Agent Treynor to sit.

"And who are you?" Agent Treynor asked as he sat down.

"Soon to be your worst nightmare, especially when Section Chief Strauss hears about this, but most people around here call me Special Agent Emily Prentiss," Emily said as she looked up from Agent Treynor's translations.

Hotch spun around to look at Dave when he heard the name he thought he wouldn't hear at all during this case.

"Don't give me that look, Aaron," Dave said as he watched Reid and Morgan sat down at their desks to do some of the other paperwork that had been piling up. "She was originally going to do the translations down in her office in counter-terrorism but you wanted her here so here she is."

"She's working in counter-terrorism?" Hotch asked. "For how long?"

"Yep, she's been working in counter-terrorism for just under three months," Dave said as he watched Emily tear into the new Agent.

"The dialect that you are working with is totally wrong. This isn't Iraqi Arabic, it's Gulf Arabic, which means that Unsub or Unsubs could be from anywhere from Kuwait to Oman," Emily said as she looked up towards the conference room.

"Agent Prentiss, are you willing to stay on and retranslate all the notes that Agent Treynor has done and then continue on the others?" Hotch asked as he stood near his office. "If so, Agent Treynor, your expertise is no longer needed here."

"I'll stay and translate these but I will work from Rossi's office," Emily said as she stared at her former boss. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a lot of work to get done."

"We need to talk now then, Agent Prentiss," Hotch said as he motioned her up to his office.

"Nope, we can talk about whatever you want to talk about after I get these translated," Emily said as she grabbed her things and headed for Rossi's office.

After only two hours of translating, Emily had made twice the amount of progress as Agent Treynor had in a week.

"How much longer do you think it will take her to finish the notes off?" Morgan asked Reid.

"Well she can translate almost as fast as I can read so I doubt it will be much longer before she has our location and target," Reid said as they stood outside Rossi's office. "Now finding the unsub in those notes might be a little bit harder."

After four hours of translating, Emily's back was killing her. As she grabbed her pills, she realized that she needed to eat something or else she was going to get sick from taking them without eating.

"Hey, can someone go grab me a thin crust pepperoni pizza?" Emily called out into the bull pen without realizing that Strauss was discussing something with Hotch in his office.

"Was that Agent Prentiss that I just saw sticking her head out of Agent Rossi's office and calling for someone to get her a pizza?" Strauss asked Hotch as she looked back towards Rossi's office.

"Yes, Agent Prentiss came in today and offered to help us with the serial killer/ terrorism case that my team is currently working on," Hotch said as he looked at the time, wishing that Strauss hadn't been here when Emily did that.

"Looks like you have your work cut out for you with the case and Agent Prentiss' hormones," Strauss said with a smile as she left Hotch's office. "I'll let you get to work."

"Make sure the pizza has extra cheese," Emily called out again. "Hello, is anyone even listening to me?"

"Give me a second," Dave said as he walked out of the break room and headed to Hotch's office. "Anything else to go with it, Em?"

"Yea a two liter of club soda," Emily said as she smiled at Dave.

"Come in" Hotch called after Dave knocked on his office door.

"You are going to go out and get the pregnant woman what she wants since everyone else has had to do it the past couple months," Dave said as he handed Hotch a piece of paper with Emily's order on it. "And I suggest that you head out now because she has a major tendency to get really pissed off if she doesn't get her food within a half an hour of asking one of us for it."

"How is everything going?" JJ asked as she came into check on Emily.

"Pretty good. So who is out getting my pizza?" Emily asked as she looked up from the translations.

"Rossi sent Hotch out to get your food," JJ said as she looked out into the bull pen.

"David Rossi, get your ass in here right now," Emily yelled out the door.

"You called," Dave said as he walked into his office.

"Why the hell did you send Hotch out to get me my pizza?" Emily asked as JJ left the office.

"I feel that he deserves to feel the consequences of your pregnancy since he is the father," Dave said as she gaped at him. "You've had everyone else besides him running out at all hours of the night to fulfill your cravings. It's his turn."

At three p.m., Hotch walked into the bull pen carrying a thin crust pepperoni pizza with extra cheese from Domino's. As he walked towards Rossi's office, he opened the box to steal a slice.

"What the fuck do you think you are doing?" Emily said as she watched him try to steal a slice of her pizza.

"Stealing a piece of pizza," Hotch said as Emily walked towards him to get her food.

"Thank you for the food, but I really need to get back to work so that I can get out of here by 5 p.m.," Emily said as she headed back towards Dave's couch.

"Think you'll be done by then?" Hotch asked as he stood in the doorway.

"I'm hoping to be done by 4 so that I can give you guys a starter profile, with where you need to be headed," Emily said as she looked at her translations. "Look I know you want to talk and we will once this case is done, but right now I need to focus on these notes."

"Ok, I'll leave you alone then," Hotch said as he left Rossi's office.

At 3:45, Emily's back started bothering her again. She stood up and began to walk around while gathering information, from the notes, to put into a starter profile to give to the team. As she was walking around Dave's office, the pain in her back double tremendously.

"Em, you almost ready for us?" Dave asked as Emily doubled over in pain. "Are you ok, Emily?"

"I think that I might be in labor," Emily said as she sat down on Dave's couch.

"Let's get you to the hospital then," Dave said as he started to grab her things.

"No, the contractions are far enough apart for me to give this profile before heading to the hospital," Emily said as they headed towards that conference room.

"Em…," Dave warned.

"Just make sure that Hotch is distracted by the profile that he doesn't notice that I'm in labor," Emily said as he headed to grab the rest of the team.

"Guys, Emily's ready with a starter profile," Dave said as he walked out into the bull pen.

"This person or group of people is going after the headquarters of EMC Insurance Companies based in Des Moines, Iowa," Emily said after everyone was seated.

"What about the person or group? Were you able to get anything about them from the notes?" Hotch asked as Emily stood to walk around the room.

"I never said that I was done," Emily said as she held onto her back for a minute. "It's some sort of revenge on the company because they cancelled someone's life insurance policy just two days before the person died. One of them was most likely the husband or at least boyfriend of the woman who died."

"Ok, wheels up in 30 minutes heading for Des Moines, Iowa," Hotch said as the rest of the team filed out of the conference room.

"I'm going to stay behind and help Emily out with the rest of the translations that you guys send her way," Dave said as he headed towards his office.

"Ready to talk, Emily?" Hotch asked as Emily sat back down at the table.

"Talk fast." Emily said as another contraction hit.

"When were you planning on telling me about the triplets?" Hotch asked as he watched her facial expressions.

"I wasn't going to until after they were born," Emily said calmly.

"Why?" Hotch asked.

"Mostly it was because you were dating Beth and trying so hard to give Jack a normal life, away from what happened with Foyet," Emily said as she stood to leave the conference room.

"Were you planning to tell me that you are currently in labor before the team left for Iowa too?" Hotch asked with a smirk as he helped her over to Rossi's office.

"This is why I hate profilers at times," Emily said as she sat down on Rossi's couch.

"Why?" Rossi asked.

"She thought that she could keep, from me, that she has been in labor for about 30 minutes now," Hotch said as he gathered Emily's things.

"What do you think you are doing?" Emily asked Hotch as he grabbed her purse before moving to help her up from the couch.

"Helping you out to Dave's SUV before heading to the hospital," Hotch said.

"No you are not. You and the rest of the team are heading to Iowa," Emily said as she grabbed her purse. "Dave can handle getting me to the hospital."

AN: Ok I lied. I was originally going to have Emily go into labor while talking to Hotch but then I changed the last two chapters around. I may do an alternate chapter after I finish the entire story off but I'm not sure just yet.

Chapter 14 (Wednesday afternoon): The birth of the triplets.