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Her fingers desperately punched the number, anxiously listening to it ringing before she finally heard a familiar sound and quickly turned her head to look at one of the many monitors in the room.

"DAMN IT!"

She clicked a button on the phone and pressed some more and luckily her call had not been disconnected.

"Hey babygirl, what have you got for us?"

"Are you on your own Derek?"

"No I'm standing here with Prentiss and Rossi, why do you want to talk to them?"

"NO! Sorry Derek. Listen I need you to walk to a room on your own NOW!"

Bemused Morgan didn't argue as he quickly walked into another office.

"Ok what is it babygirl, what's got you so worked up?"

There's been an accident...its Kate...Derek you've got to get Emily back here! I couldn't ring her, I didn't know how to tell her...I tried JJ but she's doing a press conference. I'm sorry Derek, but please get her back here as soon as possible. I'm off to the hospital."

Morgan rubbed his head with his spare hand, trying desperately to make sense of what Garcia had just told him.

"Calm down a minute sweetie, what happened?"

Garcia fought to stop the tears and control her voice as she relayed to Morgan what she knew.

"She was outside school waiting for her ride home when a car lost control around the corner and went onto the path and hit her. All I know is that she's at the hospital and I need to get there!"

"Ok you go girl, I'll bring Emily there as soon as we can get back."

Morgan stood still for a minute, trying to figure out how he was going to break the news to his friend. They were just finishing up the case but Morgan didn't want to tell her in the police station, he didn't want them to see the normally strong Agent break down as he knew she would. Bracing himself Morgan left the room and walked towards Emily and Rossi who were standing in the middle of the bullpen talking. Morgan walked straight to Emily and put his arm around her shoulder.

"I need to talk to you outside."

Rossi looked over at Morgan, concern all over his face.

"You too Rossi."

The three of them quickly walked outside and Morgan led them to one of the SUVs and made Emily sit down on the passenger seat.

"What is it Morgan you are scaring me."

Emily looked at Morgan's eyes willing him to talk.

"It's Kate...there's been an accident...I need to get you back to D.C now."

The tears instantly started to stream down Emily's face and Morgan quickly wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly.

"I'll tell the others Morgan, you look after her."

Morgan nodded to Rossi who raced inside the station to get the others.

"What...what happened Morgan?"

Emily pushed Morgan away and listened carefully as he told her what he knew.

"Garcia phoned. Kate was standing outside school waiting to be picked up. A car lost control and hit her. I don't know anymore Em, Garcia's on her way to the hospital, she'll ring when she knows more."

Emily put her head in her hands and sobbed loudly. Morgan was about to hug her once again when he heard footsteps rapidly approaching, turning he saw JJ running towards him with Hotch and Rossi following closely behind. JJ arrived at Morgan's side and wasted no time in wrapping her crying friend up in a hug.

"Oh Em, I'm so sorry!"

Emily was grateful for the support and rested her head on JJ's shoulder.

"I've sorted things out here so we are fine to go. Reid has gone to the hotel to pick up everyone's bags and will meet us at the jet."

Hotch calmly spoke and they followed his lead in getting into the SUVs. JJ let go of Emily and helped her into the vehicle as Morgan and Hotch drove them to the airport.

Garcia made the trip to the hospital in record time, running towards the reception area in the Emergency Department she saw a familiar figure already demanding answers. Quickly she made her way towards the woman and stood next to her.

"Ma'am."

"Penelope! Where's Emily, I tried to ring her but couldn't get through?"

"She's on her way, the team were in Detroit but are now flying straight back. Any news on Kate?"

"She's in surgery, they can't tell me anymore here. I was just about to go up to the fourth floor where the surgical waiting room is."

Garcia nodded in acknowledgement to the Ambassador and the two of them walked towards the elevator.

Emily sprinted through the hospital with only Morgan able to keep up with her as they raced into the waiting area and she saw her mother and Garcia sitting there.

"Any news?"

"She's still in surgery. I'm so sorry Emily, my meeting ran late..."

"It's ok mother, it's not your fault."

Emily sat down between her mother and Garcia but the silence was quickly broken when a doctor appeared.

"Are you Katherine Prentiss's family?"

"Yes I'm her mother."

"I'm Doctor Watkins, I have just finished operating on your daughter. She had some severe internal bleeding that it took some time to stop, we've also had to remove her spleen. She has a broken wrist and a badly broken leg that will require further surgery at a later date. We have moved her into intensive care, the next 12 hours are going to be critical."

"Can I see her?"

"Of course, only two people at a time though. Please follow me."

Emily immediately got up to follow Doctor Watkins, then she looked behind her to see who was following her and saw her mother pushing Garcia up. Quickly Garcia reached Emily and took a hold of her hand as they walked into the room where Kate was.

As Emily walked in and saw her daughter, she almost collapsed, luckily Garcia quickly put her arms around the brunette's waist and helped her to the chair beside the bed. Holding tightly to her daughter's hand Emily started to pray to the God she had long since stopped believing in, to help her daughter through the next 12 hours. It had only been 10 months since Kate had entered Emily's life but now looking down at her broken and bruised body Emily could not imagine her life without her. Kate had made Emily complete, made her love again, made her believe in family again, made her laugh, made her cry, the list was endless. If anything, god forgive, took Kate away from her, Emily didn't know what she would do or how she could continue.

Emily felt a hand on her head, she was resting it on the edge of the bed and had fallen fast asleep. Lifting her head she saw whose head it was and let out a huge sigh of relief.

"Kate, sweetheart, my god you don't know how happy I am to see you!"

Kate managed to smile at her mom as tears started to fall down Emily's face once again, luckily this time they were tears of joy.