A/N – thanks for all the encouragement, this is a nice fluffy chapter and if anyone has any ideas for scenarios then let me know!

Emily's Birthday –

Kate knew that she was going to get in trouble but she also knew that it was going to be worth whatever punishment she would receive. Having left a message with her Grandmother that Aunt Jen was going to pick her up from school and let her stay at her house whilst Emily was away on a case. Kate had made caught a bus to the FBI headquarters, signed in and made her way up to the BAU offices. Kate quickly made her way to JJ's office, who hadn't travelled with the team on this case, but there was no sign of her so Kate walked to the other office where she guessed her two Auntie's would be. As she knocked gently on the door Kate could hear the two of them talking about what colour Will and JJ should decorate the nursery.

"Come in all who dare!"

Garcia called out and Kate gingerly opened the door, worrying slightly about the reaction from the two women.

"Kate my gorgeous, to what do we owe this pleasure?"

"Hi Aunt Pen, I uh um..."

Kate stuttered and then stopped talking.

"Hey sweetheart, is everything ok, what are you doing here?"

JJ beckoned for Kate to come over and she sat on a chair between the two women.

"I told the Ambassador that you were going to look after me whilst mom was away. I'm sorry. If you can't then don't worry, I'll go and stay with her but..."

JJ took a hold Kate's hand, concern all over her face.

"It's ok Kate, of course you can stay with me, but you should have rung me, I would have picked you up from school. What's wrong Kate?"

Kate sat there and looked at both women and steadied herself to answer but they were interrupted by Garcia's phone.

"Goddess of all knowledge, speak and you shall get an answer."

JJ and Kate smiled at each other whilst Garcia put it on speaker in case JJ was needed.

"Hey babygirl, I need you to check out the victims' phone records and see if there any familiar numbers and JJ can you find out where the media got their information from?"

"No worries my chocolate hunk, we'll be in touch soon."

Garcia finished the conversation and quickly got to work whilst JJ got out her phone to speak to her contacts. Kate knew how important it was to let the women do their work so she moved over to a spare desk and got out her homework.

JJ had finally finished tracking down the source of the leak and had relayed the information to Hotch while Garcia was on the phone to Morgan telling him what she had found out as JJ went and sat next to Kate, who seemed to struggling with her history homework.

"Ok so are you going to tell me now why you are here?"

Kate put her book down, strangely relieved at the interruption.

"Next Tuesday, its mom's birthday. I want to get her something really special, do something really nice to thank her for everything."

"Of course I'd forgotten, I've got a reminder programmed on my phone for the weekend to go shopping for her present!"

"Well mom and grandma, you know, they are better but I figured you and Aunt Pen would be better to ask for help in buying her present, can you help me?"

"Of course we will Kate. Tomorrow is Friday so I'll drop you off at school in the morning and then provided we are not still working on the case you, Garcia and I can go shopping on Saturday ok?"

Kate smiled at JJ and was thankful that she wasn't in too much trouble.

"Well look it's getting late and I think Garcia and I are finished here for the night so how about we go back to mine and have something to eat and talk about what we are going to do for Emily's birthday?"

"What about my homework?"

"Well my little friend, I am sure that I can use my considerable knowledge to help you with that!"

"Thanks Aunt Pen!"

JJ laughed as Garcia helped her out of the chair and the three of them left to go to JJ's for the evening.

JJ's bladder woke her early on the Saturday morning and unable to get back to sleep she found herself downstairs reading some files with a glass of orange juice. After over an hour of reading and making notes JJ heard movement upstairs and tidied the files away and started to get the breakfast things out.

"Morning Kate, did you sleep ok?"

"Yes thanks JJ, what are you doing up so early?"

"Oh this little baby seems to really enjoy playing bouncy castle on my bladder at 5am every morning!"

Kate laughed and helped herself to some Cheerios as they sat down and planned on what they were going to do that day before Emily came back from the case and wanted to see Kate straight away, like she always did when she had been away on a case.

"Right so everything is sorted for Tuesday. I'll hide all the stuff at my house then I'll pick you up from school on Tuesday and we'll get everything ready at your place. I've spoken to Hotch and he has arranged for Emily to sit on a budget meeting on Tuesday afternoon, pretty mean I know but it allows us the time to sort everything out without her knowing!"

JJ had felt really bad about asking Hotch to arrange something to keep Emily busy on the Tuesday afternoon, but he had eagerly accepted the challenge. Everything seemed to be sorted as Kate smiled and gave JJ a hug while they waited for the plane to land and the team to arrive back.

Emily sat in the meeting room, doodling on the pad in front of her. It was her birthday and she was stuck in a budget meeting with Strauss, Hotch and some guy from accounts. Emily wasn't that keen on celebrating her birthday but she did think that she deserved better than this. She looked at the clock on the wall, 4pm, she had now missed picking Kate up from school and the prospect of taking her for ice cream as a treat. Instead she was stuck in the office going through the BAU's budget for the next 6 months. She was going to kill Rossi and his stupid publishing meeting that had conspired against her to land her in this hell on her birthday.

Emily finally got out of the meeting a little before 5pm and took the drive home, JJ had said that she would take Kate back to Emily's apartment after school. As soon as she got home she was going to order pizza for the three of them and hopefully she'd get a nice relaxing evening to round off her birthday. It was eerily quiet when Emily opened the door but then she discovered why.

"Surprise! Happy Birthday mom!"

Kate came running over to greet her mom and Emily soon saw that the rest of the team were there, even Hotch who had obviously broken several speed limits to get there before her.

"Hey munchkin, thanks, and yes it is certainly a surprise!"

"Well I wanted to do something special to say thank you for all that you have done for me this past year and well I sort of got Aunt Pen and JJ to help me!"

"I should have guessed that they would have something to do with this!"

Emily walked over to her colleagues accepting their hugs, kisses and birthday wishes, but throughout it all Kate refused to let go of her waist. This was definitely the best birthday that she could remember but she could see that Kate was extremely excited but also tired, Emily automatically opened her present first and was delighted to see that the young girl had given her a framed photo of the two of them, a digital photo key ring uploaded with photos of the team and Kate as well as a hand drawn card. Emily kissed and hugged her daughter tightly, these three things were going to travel with her whenever she went away on a case to remind her of what was waiting for her when she got home. It wasn't a late night, everyone had to go to work the next morning and as Emily said goodnight and thanked everyone she smiled at the sleeping girl on her sofa. Emily walked over and tried to wake her adopted daughter up but failed miserably, instead she pushed Kate over and curled up on the sofa cuddling her tightly, this was the best birthday present anyone could give her.