Ok so it's a girls night out, and the girls talk about Emily and Hotch's decision to adopt and what effect it will have.
It's still March 2010, and its two weeks after Hotch and Emily talk about the adoption.
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"Emily come on, we're leaving!" Garcia called, as she leant against Emily's desk and watched as the confused dark haired woman made her way back from her short bathroom break.
"Wha- Pen I can't, I've still got a mountain of case files to get through." Emily replied, motioning with a sigh to her desk, which had open case files and reports spilling over the edge.
"Well slip a few to genius boy; I'm sure he'll find them fun." Garcia replied, as if her plan was the most obvious one in the world.
"You know I'm right here." Reid spoke up, staring at Garcia in shock.
"We know you are honey, and that's why we love you." Garcia responded, patting the young genius on the cheek and giving him a wide smile that showed off her pearly white teeth, which looked even whiter in contrast to her ruby red lipstick. "Now Em, slip wonder boy some files and meet me at the door in five minutes, I'm off to get our faithful media liaison out of her dungeon."
"Sorry Reid, looks like none of us have any choice in this matter." Emily sighed, as she picked up the biggest bundle of files and walked around to drop them on Reid's desk. "Just fill them out and I'll sign my name on them tomorrow." She added with a smile.
"Sure, whatever." Reid mumbled, glaring at the mountain of case files that had just been thrown on his previously neat, and relatively small, stack of paper work.
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"Well Garcia, what have you dragged us out here for?" JJ asked, once the three women had met in the Quantico car park.
Before Garcia had a chance to reply to JJ's question however, a distraught looking Austin ran to them from the car park, stopping a moment to catch her breath before talking.
"Wh-what's the emergency?" She panted, looking up at the three women in a panic. "Is Spencer ok?" She gasped, looking between the three women, two of whom looked completely and utterly lost as to what was going on.
"Yes, yes, wonder boy is fine, he's in finishing Emily's work." Garcia replied, as she was the only one who looked like what was going on made any sense.
"So... so why am I here?" Austin asked then, straightening up and looking at Garcia, her confused face matching the faces of JJ and Emily exactly.
"Well my pretties, I was sitting in my den today, when an unbelievably shocking realisation hit me." Garcia started dramatically.
"Is this going anywhere?" Emily asked her friend with a sigh, the crisp March breeze not being the best place to have to hear one of Garcia's dramatic rants.
"Em, what have I told you about ruining my dramatic telling?" Garcia snapped, causing JJ and Austin to chuckle. "Anyway... as I was saying, I was shocked to realise, that the BAU girls club haven't been on a proper girls night since before Henry was born... and that my friends was a year and a half ago." She informed her friends, waiting for their shocked responses.
"Yea, but we go to each other's house's every week, and we always go out with the team for drinks at least once a month, not to mention the meals we go to for anyone's birthday and stuff." JJ reminded her friend, defending the fact that it was her pregnancy that caused them to become social hermits.
"Jayje, you're totally missing the point here." Garcia snapped at her friend, annoyed that she hadn't gotten the shocked responses she'd wanted.
"What exactly is the point?" Austin asked cautiously.
"The point my fine furry friend, is that we haven't gone out and gotten so completely wasted that we end up singing some terrible karaoke at three in the morning since before dear old Jayje got knocked up by her strapping fiancé Will." Garcia informed her friend with a smile at their last Karaoke session.
"Wow, you sure do have a way with words there Garcia." JJ told her friend dryly, not liking the fact that her pregnancy had just been referred to as being 'knocked up'.
"Why thank you sugar." Garcia replied with a wink. "Now let's hit the road... we've got a year and a half of drinking to catch up on." She added with a wide smile, heading towards Esther, and throwing her bag into the back seat.
"Ok, I'm in, but I can't really drink too much tonight." Emily informed her friends.
"Why?" JJ asked as she headed for Garcia's car as well, knowing it was best to only take one car. "Oh my god, Em, you're not pregnant are you?" She asked suddenly, jumping to conclusions about the reasons for Emily of all people to volunteer as the designated driver for the night.
"No!" Emily replied quickly. "I've just got a meeting tomorrow." She sighed.
"Oh... I didn't see anything on my desk?" JJ questioned, knowing that most, if not all BAU meetings went through her.
"It's after work." Emily clarified. "I'll tell you when we get to the bar." She added, seeing the interested looks on her friend's faces.
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"Well chica?" Garcia asked Emily, the second their asses had hit the seats in the bar, and JJ had carried over cocktails for them all. "What is this meeting tomorrow after work?" She questioned, taking a sip of her cocktail as she studied Emily's face.
"Wow, you don't beat around the bush do you PG." Emily laughed at her friends immediate questioning.
"Not in my nature sweat pea... now spill." Garcia ordered her with a wink.
"Ok..." Emily started slowly, knowing that Hotch wouldn't mind her telling the team. "You know how myself and Aaron have been going out for a year and five months?" She questioned them, doing a quick calculation in her head to make sure her relationship timeline was right.
"If you say so." JJ replied, not being one hundred per cent sure how long her two friends had been an item. "All I know is you got engaged three months ago, and moved in together five months ago." She added, deciding to put forward the facts she did know about her friend's relationship.
"Yea... well, um, we've decided to, uh... have a kid." Emily told her friends slowly.
This news was immediately followed by squeals and screams from her three best friends all jumped up and gave her a hug, earning a few odd stares from the other patrons of the bar in the process.
"Wait..." Austin said hesitantly once she'd sat down again. "This doesn't explain the meeting?" She informed Emily.
"Yea, well... um, I'm probably not able to have kids." Emily informed her friends, looking away as she spoke, because even though they didn't know the reason she couldn't have children, she couldn't help but feel like they were judging her. "So we've decided to adopt, and uh... the social worker is coming around tomorrow evening."
"Oh..." Her three friends responded in tandem... not sure how to react to the news that Emily may never have a child of her own, something they all knew she'd wanted for a long time.
"Well hey, wonder woman, I'm sure you'll rock the socks off that social worker and blow her mind in the process." Garcia chirped up happily after a moment, not being used to having an awkward silence between her and her friends.
"Thanks PG... I really hope you're right." Emily replied with a smile at her friend, as she took a drink of her cocktail, agreeing to have some drink, as she knew she could do with it before her meeting with the social worker tomorrow.
"Of course she's right." JJ spoke up. "And we're all going ot give you and Hotch glowing references if anyone asks so don't worry." She added, giving her friend another hug.
"Yea, not to mention I can get Spencer to give you every statistic and random fact you'll ever need to know, and more, on adopting." Austin added with a laugh, her comment causing the other three women to chuckle as well.
"Well thanks." Emily told her friends truthfully. "You have no idea how much all that means to me." She added with a smile.
"Yea, well you're there for us no matter what... I guess we're just returning the favour." Garcia informed her friend. "So how about you leave your thanking for later, and help us clean out this bar's stock tonight."
"I guess that sounds like an ok plan." Emily laughed, as she took another sip of her drink.
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Once the serious talk was over with, the girls got down to business, and by half one all of them, Emily included, had succeeded in clearing out the bar, and were now each taking it in turn to prove this, by getting up and giving it their all in the karaoke contest.
First up was Austin, with her slightly pitchy rendition of "I'm Holding Out For A Hero", claiming she could practically sing this in her sleep due to the amount of people who'd sung this song at the bar she'd worked in, in Atlanta.
After her it was Emily's turn, and her song of choice was "Let Me Entertain You"... or that's what the bar patrons guessed it was, her singing talent, or lack of, meaning that all anyone could do was guess what the song that was being murdered was called.
After Emily got a polite clap off stage, and a not so polite round of boos from Garcia, JJ and Austin, it was JJ's turn to have a go, and she belted out "Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves" in perfect tune, earning her the loudest cheer of the night, and even a standing ovation.
"Hidden talent much!" Emily laughed when JJ skipped of the stage, bowing and waving at the other patrons clapping.
"I had to pay my way through college somehow, singing just seemed easy at the time." JJ replied with a shrug of her shoulder.
"Ha, you think that was good... wait until you see this." Garcia giggled as she stood up boldly and made her way to the stage.
Garcia ran onto the stage then and after telling the MC what she wanted to sing she took centre stage, waiting until the familiar beat started before she began to serenade the crowd with her rendition of "Like A Virgin" complete with her own dance steps, involving hip thrusting, that caused the crowd to go wild, and left Emily, JJ and Austin in stitches at the table.
"Well I have to say." JJ giggled, when Garcia finally made her way off stage. "You most certainly did outdo me there." She told her friend, looking around her, to where the entire bar were on their feet shouting for an encore.
"Why would you ever have doubted that." Garcia laughed, as she sat back down and accepted her drink from Emily.
At this all four woman burst into fits of giggles, each of them knowing that they had to do this again soon.
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There we go. I just thought I'd add in that karaoke scene at the end to add some fun to the story. So tell me what you thought and thanks for reading.