This chapter is dedicated to: LacytheDemonicDuck, NCIS-fan-cecy, Rolfy and nataliebianca

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Aaron and Emily got to the doctor's office with no time to spare. They got in as the nurse was calling Emily. They obviously had no intention of being late, but here they were. The doctor gave Emily a quick check, and told her that she was definitely pregnant. About 4 weeks. After that, the doctor sent her to get an ultrasound down the hall in the practice. Emily got in the chair and leaned back and Hotch stood beside her, when the door flung open. Both were expecting the ultrasound technician. Both were surprised at who was there.

"Penelope?" Emily said.

"Hello my lovelies!" Garcia said happily.

"What are you doing here?" Hotch asked.

"Everyone is in Michigan. I was stuck here as usual, and then I remembered that you were still here too, so I thought I'd intrude. Am I ruining this family moment?" She asked.

"I don't think you are. Aaron?" Emily asked.

"Nope, you're family so it's hard for you to ruin a family moment." Hotch agreed.

"That's so sweet of you to say boss man." Garcia giggled. This time when the door opened, it was who they were expecting.

"Hey, I'm Dr. Gables. I'm not really an ultrasound guy, I'm an OB/GYN but I'm still a resident." She explained quickly. She was very young. She didn't look too much more than 27. Apparently she didn't want them mixing up whether or not she was a doctor.

"I'm Emily, this is Aaron and that is Penelope." She introduced everyone, and shook Dr. Gables' hand.

"Are you guys one of those alternative families?" the doctor asked and Penelope burst out laughing. Aaron and Emily were a bit embarrassed.

"No!" Penelope laughed. "It's their baby; I'm just tagging along to see."

"Alright. Sorry, I just have to ask." Dr. Gables laughed. "Alright, so we're going to take a peek here and see if your baby is alright."

"Why wouldn't it be?" Emily asked, totally panicked.

"Oh, I didn't mean it like that. Okay, re-phrase. Let's take a peek and see your baby." Dr. Gable said.

"You might want to work on that." Hotch laughed.

"I'm learning." She shrugged. She then turned on the machine and told Emily to pull her shirt up a bit.

"Is the gel cold?" Emily asked. If there was one thing she hated, it was being cold. She hated anything cold on her body.

"Can I be honest with you?" The doctor asked, with a large smile forming on her face.

"Yes please." Emily nodded.

"In a few months, you're going to push an entire person out of you. The cold gel is the least of your worries." They all laughed.

"I like her." Garcia said. "She's been approved by me."

"Thank you." The doctor said with another smile. "And yes, the gel is quite cold." She put the gel on Emily's stomach, and she wasn't lying. The cold made her shudder.

"Is it really that cold?" Hotch wondered.

"Yeah, especially when it's on your stomach." The doctor nodded.

"Do you have kids?" Emily asked as she started giving Emily the ultrasound

"Two."

"You look really young to have to kids." Penelope said.

"I was really young." She agreed. "But enough about me. Here we are." Emily, Aaron and Penelope looked at the screen.

"Oh my god." Emily breathed.

"There he is." Hotch said, smiling widely.

"There's baby A and this..." Dr Gables paused, and the picture on the screen changed. "Is baby B." At first, her words didn't register with Emily. Penelope looked at Emily with wide eyes and Hotch's mouth dropped open.

"Wait." Emily said. "What?"

"You're having twins." Dr. Gables said.

"No. I only ordered one." Emily protested.

"Then I guess they got your order mixed up, because there are two babies."

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They both got into the car, barely speaking. Sure, they were both excited by the prospect of having twins but it was surprising. Both were concerned about their jobs and each other.

"So," Hotch decided he'd be the one to break the silence.

"So." Emily repeated.

"Do you still want to go meet the team in Michigan?" He asked.

"Actually, I think I might sit this case out. I need a bit of time to process." Emily sighed. She was in no mood to try and find an unsub at the moment.

"Okay. I still have to go though. Do you mind?" He asked.

"Nope." She shook her head quickly. Neither Emily nor Aaron were too keen to address the big elephant in the room. They had almost reached the house before Emily spoke.

"Twins."

"Yeah." He agreed, not taking his eyes off of the road.

"Are we...I mean is that okay?" asked Emily.

"Do we really have a choice?" He said bluntly.

"I guess not. It's not that I'm not excited." She said defensively.

"I understand." He nodded. "It's just not exactly going as planned."

"Apparently nothing in our life will." She sighed and he chuckled quietly.

"You know, twins may be better actually." He concluded.

"How's that?"

"Well...it's two. Two of something good is generally better than one."

"I like your reasoning." She laughed. They pulled into the driveway, but neither of them exited the car. Now that they were finally talking, they had to finish the conversation.

"What are we going to do?" Emily asked, finally looking Hotch in the eyes.

"You're going to be the best mother the twins could have ever gotten." He said quietly. Emily beamed at his words.

"You're the best dad they could have gotten, you know." She said to him, opening her door to leave.

"Thank you Emily. Are you sure you don't want to do the case? Or, I could stay here with you?" He asked.

"No, they need you and I need some time." She smiled. "I'll probably just call Riley like I promised, then have a nap. Call me later?"

"I may postpone calling Riley, because it's 11am on a Monday. She'll be in class right now." He laughed.

"Right." She scoffed. "I forgot." He laughed and rolled his eyes. Emily came around to his side of the car and kissed him repetitively before bidding him farewell.

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"Hello?" Riley said into the phone. She'd been home from school for less then ten minutes when the phone rang.

"Hey Riley, its Emily."

"I know. Caller ID." Riley said.

"Oh." Emily laughed.

"Yeah, it was a pretty good invention. So, what's new and exciting?"

"I had my doctor's appointment today." She began.

"That is exciting. How did it go?" Riley asked.

"It went pretty well. I'm about four weeks."

"Cool cool."

"Riley, it's twins." Emily said. Riley almost dropped the phone. She grabbed it out of the air, and was very impressed by her skills.

"EMILY! You should have seen it; I just turned into a total ninja! The phone was falling and BAM! Grabbed it out of midair!" She said excitedly. Emily began to laugh.

"That's the most shocking thing that's happened in the last few minutes?" Emily asked.

"No, but it was cool. So twins?"

"Yeah." Emily said. Riley nodded but couldn't think of words to say. "Riley?" Emily asked.

"Oh, I forgot you can't hear me nod." Riley laughed. "That's surprising."

"It is indeed."

"What did my dad think?" Riley wondered.

"You know your father. You can never gage his reaction that well, but he seemed excited."

"True enough. Well congrats. Do you want to tell Jack?" Riley asked.

"Yeah sure."

"Alright. JACK, PHONE!" Riley hollered. Riley's loud scream echoed in Emily's ears.

"Did you even move the phone away from your mouth?" Emily laughed.

"Yes, and I covered it. Here's Jack. Thank you for telling me Emily."

"Your welcome."

"Bye."

"Talk to you later." Emily said. Jack picked up the phone and gave Emily a cheery hello. She delivered the news that she would not just be having one baby, but two. Jack was very excited that he got to be an even bigger brother, as he put it. Emily was just relieved that both of Hotch's kids were okay with Emily having twins. She didn't want for Riley and Jack to feel like these babies would take over their father's affection because his job coupled with new babies would be difficult. Hell, her job combined with two babies would be difficult. Emily was so excited, yet she'd never been more terrified in her entire life.

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The case that the team worked on was nowhere near as bad as Emily expected. Hotch was back from Michigan in four days, and the unsub was caught. He was caught because of his own mistakes. Prentiss was never so glad to see Aaron. She thought she needed time to process, but what she really needed was Aaron.

"So, our team has got our week's vacation coming up." He said after he got home, and they'd eaten dinner.

"Yeah, it starts on Monday right?" She asked.

"Indeed. We go in tomorrow to fill out paperwork from the last case, and then we have the week off." He said. Usually the weeks off didn't mean much to Hotch, but he had Emily and he had the prospect of having Riley and Jack. Haley had already agreed that the children could have the week off school so they could spend it with Aaron. He hadn't brought up to Emily yet, but he had an idea of how he wanted to spend the vacation.

"You know," he began casually. "I've never taken my children camping."

"Really?" Emily asked. She wondered where that came from, but didn't bother asking. Their conversations were sometimes quite random.

"Never. That's bad right?"

"I don't know?" She said.

"I think I want to though. Eric and Haley took them last year, and it was all they could talk about."

"That's a good idea. You should take them this summer." Emily nodded, but she realized what Hotch was getting at. "Wait, are you suggesting-?"

"Yeah..." He paused and Emily groaned.

"I hate camping!" She protested.

"Why? It'll be fun!"

"No it will not! Plus, it's only April!" Emily whined.

"You know it's been unusually warm. And for the record," He paused. A smirk took over his face. Emily recognized the smirk; it was the same one Riley had given so many times. "I don't recall inviting you."

"Oh, so now I'm not invited on your family excursions?" She snapped.

"What does it matter, you hate camping. I bet you can't even pitch a tent." He pointed out. Emily knew exactly what Hotch was doing. He was making it into a challenge. Sadly, it was working. She wanted to go just to prove him wrong.

"We only get these weeks off so rarely." She muttered to herself mostly, but Aaron heard her.

"Yeah. You can spend it however you want. I'm going to take my children camping. We'll have a better time without you ruining it." He said smugly. He knew he had her.

"Fine." She groaned. "I'll come."

"No, we don't want you." He laughed.

"Oh, give it up. I said I'll join you." She joined in on his laughter, knowing that he was just messing with her.

"Well, if her highness can handle it, she's welcome."

"Shut up!"

"Okay." He agreed, laughing. "So, we'll spend the week camping."

A/N: There it is my readers. The camping trip that was promised so long ago, and some interesting news. I think that the camping trip will be two or three parts, and will be full of small disasters. As always, I'd love it if you'd review, and thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. :D