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On My Own Too Long

Reid and Prentiss

Chapter Ten

September 2011

"You mean now?" Emily asked Reid in a horrified voice, right after she agreed to call her mother to tell Elizabeth about the twins and then Reid handed Emily a phone. "I can't right this second."

"Why not?"

"I have to work up to something epic like that. Plan how to break it to her."

"You've had months to plan that. If you haven't by now then I think you'll have to wing it."

"You obviously have no idea how to deal with my mother!"

"Emily-"

"Do not Emily me. Have you called your mother yet?"

His face told her that he hadn't.

She motioned at the phone. "You first."

"My mother is on medication and she might not even remember if I tell her so it's a completely different situation."

"My mother will make me feel bad for being unwed, getting myself sent to witness protection, the babies coming early and sleeping with a man who never even bought me dinner before!"

"How would she even know that?"

"She's my mother. She has radar for things like that."

"Take a deep breath. Its not good for you to become hysterical over this."

"I've never been hysterical a day in my life, Reid!"

Just then Derek came strolling back in with the coffee "Prentiss, you better name a kid after me now cause the line at the coffee shop was bananas to get you this sweet treat. Here you go, little mama."

She took the coffee.

Derek raised an eyebrow. "So what kind of drama did I walk in on? Everything okay with the babies?"

Reid said "I should go check on them again, actually."

Emily told him "Kiss them both for me. I'll be down there later."

Reid told her "While I'm gone you should start planning," then he walked out.

Morgan asked "What was that about? Planning what?"

"Nosy much?"

"Always. Talk to me."

"He wants me to call my mother and tell her she's a grandma."

"You ain't called her yet? My mother would tan my ass if I waited this long before letting her know."

"I've been a little busy having a c-section and visiting my two premature babies. Shoot me!"

"Okay, okay, relax there, Prentiss. I know you and your mom don't got the best relationship but she loves you and she'll be happy for you, don't you think?"

Emily sighed. "She's never happy unless I do things her way. Do you really think anything about this situation screams the way my mother would want things to go down?"

"I hear you but its not for you to worry about if her expectations ain't met. That's for her to deal with. You just tell her what the deal is and don't take none of her crap if she starts in about how you got yourself in this situation."

"She stresses me out so much. Sorry but I'm just not up for her drama right now. I don't care if she does hate me forever for keeping her out of the loop."

"Maybe she'd surprise you."

"Ha. My mother? Not likely!"

Just then JJ, Hotch and Rossi came in, carrying arms full of presents for the babies. Emily perked up some as she talked to them, though she was still in a lot of pain and worried about the future. It was good to have her loved ones around though.

Even if it was sad that her mother would only make things worse, not better, if she was here, Emily believed that to be the truth and wasn't ready to deal with the added stress of managing her mom's emotions on top of her own right then.

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Reid spent some time down in the nursery, just staring at his sleeping babies and badgering the nurses with the same questions he had asked an hour before when he was there. Finally he went back down to Emily's room to find Morgan had left, needing to make it to the airport to pick up Garcia, but Hotch, Rossi and JJ were now in there.

Emily told him "Everyone is dying to hear the baby's names but I told them they had to wait for you to come back. First tell me how my baby's are doing?"

"Good. They were both asleep."

Hotch joked "Don't get used to that."

JJ chuckled. "Okay, come on, Spence, and tell us their names. I can hardly wait to hear what you two picked out."

"Our daughter is named after Homer's muse and her middle name is for the marshal who protected Emily all these months when she was away from us."

Rossi asked "Are you really expecting us to know who Homer's muse was? Its been a while since some of us in this room were in college."

Emily answered "Calliope Serena. Callie for short."

JJ said "Callie. I like that. Its pretty."

Reid went on "And we decided to name our son Alexander Jason. AJ for short. Alex was one of the only male names we could agree on. She kept suggesting ones I never heard of before like Maddox."

Emily smirked. "I did not make that name up, no matter what you think. Just because you think you know everything doesn't mean you do."

"I never said I know everything but I do know my son isn't going to be named Mad."

"Maddox," Emily said it slowly. "Maddox."

"AJ and Callie," Hotch said. "Very nice names. I'm glad you two agreed on something. How many rounds did you have to go to hammer it down to those names?"

Reid answered "Seven for the female name and twenty one for the male name."

Rossi chuckled. "Twenty one, huh? Kid, you need to learn two magic words to make a woman happy: yes, dear."

Emily said "Yeah, Reid, listen to the man. He knows what he is talking about."

Reid asked her "What did your mother have to say about the names we picked out?"

"I didn't get a chance to call her yet."

"Emily-"

"I just can't. I can't yet, okay? Maybe later. I'm not up for dealing with her right now."

"Okay," Reid said, quietly, giving her a sympathetic look. Though he felt that she was only going to make it worse by waiting he had to respect the fact that her emotions were too raw right now to handle dealing with her mother. "Let me know if you want me to call her for you."

"If you did you'd regret it, believe me. She can be a barracuda sometimes. Ha, what am I saying? All the time."

"I can handle her, Emily. I'll handle whatever I need to in order to help you and the twins. You can count on me."

Emily gave him a tender look and their eyes held for a long moment. "Right now all I want is to head down to the nursery to see my kids. Would you all mind giving me a minute to get freshened up? JJ, could you stay and help me?"

The men stepped out while JJ stuck around. She helped Emily ease out of bed. JJ said "Wow, I can't believe you're a mom and we never even got a chance to talk about you being pregnant before the babies got here. And Spence is a Dad!"

"I didn't know how he would take the news but he hasn't blinked. He stepped up without thinking twice."

"It sounds like your feelings for him are still going strong."

Emily sighed. "I can't even think about all that right now. I have two kids in nicu. That's all that I can worry about at the moment."

"I get that but ignoring the fact that you made two children with one of your closest friends who you had a huge thing for isn't going to make it any easier to deal with down the road. Have you two talked about it...about what you two are to each other now? About what you both want?"

"I want to get cleaned up and go see my babies. Callie and AJ need me more right now then I need to know if Reid and I will work out. This is all so overwhelming. I can't deal with answering those type of huge questions right now. Besides we were together just one night...maybe that's all there will ever be to it. Maybe we were together just cause it was fate or something for us to conceive."

"Fate, now you sound like Garcia with her everything happens for a reason stuff."

"Maybe it does."

"And maybe you love him or could love him, if you let yourself. Don't shut any doors yet, Emily, just cause you're overwhelmed, moody and terrified. Let Spence be there for you. He's a really good man. You're lucky he's your babies father, you know?"

"I know. When I think of the jerks I dated in the past...believe me, I know how lucky I am that it was Reid who I got pregnant by. But I can't answer if we're gonna get together and be a couple. I can't even worry about that right now. I just can't. Its too much and it will stress me out. I just need to focus on the babies and nothing else."

"We're gonna get your babies home and when you're back home again then you can ask their Daddy on a date."

"Jayje, I just said-"

"And I just said you need to ask him on a date and give you two a real chance. Not for the kid's sake, for your sake. And while you're at it tell him how you had a crush on him for a long time. Spence might not always get things right away but he can tell when people are lying and he'll know you're being straight up with him if you tell him the truth about how long you wanted to get with him. It could make the difference, Em. He deserves to know."

Emily sighed. "Ugh, its too much to even think about right now."

"You know I'm right."

"Smug bitch," Emily joked with her friend as JJ helped Emily to get into the bathroom.