Here is a longer chapter to make up for the last one being so short. It isn't the best chapter I have written though... but I hope you hang in and keep reading because I have some exciting things planned out :) Unless I have any objections (which I would love to hear!) I'm going to move through the pregnancy pretty quickly. I hope you enjoy and review!
I do not own Criminal Minds
Two and a half months later Emily was almost five months pregnant and officially in her second trimester. It was time for another check up. JJ and her had gotten the morning off from Hotch and were sitting in the waiting room of the doctor's office. By now Emily's baby bump was very visible, and she had her hands rested on it.
"Are you going to find out if it's a girl or boy, or are you going to wait until the baby's born?" JJ asked.
Emily gave this question a lot of consideration. She could see why women would want to wait to find out. So they would have the excitement after giving birth. So they could share the joy and surprise with their husband. With their husband, Emily thought again. "I want to find out." She answered, giving no explanation for her choice.
JJ nodded and the two of them resumed flipping through pointless magazines. Finally after what felt like an hour in the waiting room the nurse came and called Emily's name. The two of them got up and met her.
"Emily Prentiss?" The nurse asked again to make sure she had the right patient.
"That's me," Emily answered.
The nurse then looked at JJ, expecting an introduction.
"Hello, I'm Jennifer Jareau. I'm a friend of Emily's." She answered in her FBI voice.
The nurse led them to the examination room and then took Emily to get her height and weight. After that they sat in the room and had the eternal wait for the doctor to come.
"Maybe I should keep getting attacked by unsubs," Emily joked, "It seems the doctors are faster when that happens."
JJ laughed and then grabbed a Parenting magazine and handed it to Emily. Emily looked at it like it was in a foreign language, but then opened it up. Inside were articles for healthy food for babies, crafts for kids, the cheapest cribs, good time- out techniques, and anything else that may apply to having a child. Emily stared wide eyed at it. She had no idea what any of this was.
"Ah shit, Jayje I don't even know what half of this stuff is!" Emily blurted out.
"Hey, that's okay, you'll learn." JJ assured her.
"What the hell is that?" Emily pointed out a picture in the magazine, which for some reason didn't seem to have a label, or anything else identifying what it was.
JJ took the magazine out of Emily's hands and looked at it, "Ummm… Uh… I have no idea…" JJ trailed off, "But don't worry. We will learn all of this. You have me and the whole team. Between all of us we should be able to figure everything out."
Emily nodded but was still unsure. Luckily a knock on the door saved her from any more thoughts of how un- prepared she was.
"Come in," Emily said, to who she prayed was the doctor.
It turned out she was correct, and the Doctor walked in, "Hello, I'm Doctor Wang." A small Chinese woman introduced herself. This was not Emily's doctor from her last visit.
As if reading her mind the doctor said, "Your normal doctor had an unexpected family emergency, so she could not be here. Now why don't you get on the examination table and pull your shirt up."
Emily did as she was told and saw the doctor pulling up the ultrasound machine.
Doctor Wong plugged the machine in and squeezed the gel on Emily's stomach. "Could the father not be here?" She asked.
And the sound of 'the father' Emily cringed. Thoughts of Bates entered her mind. She tried to push them down, but they were overwhelming and filled her mind. Pictures of the baby as Bates surrounded her. Emily closed her eyes in the hope that she could put it behind her, but it just made things worse.
JJ saw her friends face go white. "'The father,'" JJ spit out; obvious in her voice that she was using quotes around the words, "Is not, and will never be here. If you had read Emily's medical history you would have known that." JJ tried to save Emily from the memories she was drowning in.
The doctor quickly pulled out the file and scanned it. She reached the line that JJ was talking about and quickly turned red. She was embarrassed for the mistake she had made, and also felt terrible. She could see her patient was very uncomfortable, and she didn't know what other pain she may have caused.
"I'm so sorry Ms. Prentiss," The Doctor quickly apologized.
"It's fine," Emily mumbled looking up. She was still trying to pull herself out of the terrible memories that seemed to plague her mind.
"Would you like me to come back in a little bit?" The doctor offered.
"No," Emily answered. She knew Doctors were just like waitresses. You send them away once and it takes them forever to come back, "It's fine, honestly."
"Okay," The Doctor said, still unsure. She started using the ultrasound on Emily's stomach and a picture came up on the screen, "There's your baby!" The doctor happily pointed out different body parts.
JJ got up from her seat and came over so she could see. "Oh!" She exclaimed. Although it didn't really look like a baby, the fact that she knew what it was made up for that part.
"Is it healthy?" Emily asked.
The doctor nodded, "Your pregnancy is a high risk one because of your age and the fact that you had an abortion, but your baby is perfectly healthy and moving along right on track. Now, since you are almost five months along we are able to tell the sex of your baby. Is that something you would like to find out?"
"Yes," Emily nodded. She glanced over at JJ anxiously. JJ smiled excitedly back and took Emily's hand in hers.
"Okay," The doctor said, "From that right there," She pointed out something totally foreign to both Emily and JJ, "We can tell that your baby is a girl."
"Oh Em!" JJ said looking over at her friend. But something stopped her. Emily made no reaction to the news. She didn't move or say anything; she just sat and stared at the wall in front of her. Slowly she nodded, but that was it for the movement. It was then that JJ realized that Emily's hand was gripping hers in a death grip. She looked at the other and it was gripped into a tight ball.
"Can you give us a moment?" JJ asked the doctor who quickly left the two alone.
JJ grabbed the chair with her free hand and slid it to the side of the bed, "Em?" She said trying to snap her friend out of whatever haze she was in.
"Em what is it?" JJ asked concerned.
"It's a girl," Emily mumbled numbly, still staring straight ahead.
"Is that not what you wanted?" JJ asked confused.
"It's a girl," Emily just repeated in the same numbness.
JJ took her free hand and wiped Emily's hair out of her face.
"Talk to me Emily," JJ persuaded.
Suddenly Emily snapped out of it and turned to JJ, "It's a girl."
JJ nodded, not sure where this was going or what to say.
"A girl." Emily repeated for the fourth time.
"Emily you need to talk to me. I don't know what's going on in that pretty little head of yours."
Emily looked JJ in the eyes, "Jayje, you don't need Reid to know the statistics. Girls and woman are statistically more likely to become victims of assaults, abuse, kidnapping, murder, rape." She emphasized the last one.
Suddenly JJ knew what was scaring Emily. "Em," She said softly, "You need to realize something. What we work with, what we see every day, is not the majority of the world! We see the worst of the worst. All the stuff that we deal with does not happen to the majority of the people living in this world."
"It happened to me," Emily whispered.
JJ gripped Emily's hand tighter, "I know, and god I am so sorry it did. But your child, your daughter is going to have you. And I know you can protect her. And not to mention the group of FBI agents that will be treating her like their own daughter. Just think of Morgan protecting her. Nothing is going to happen to her." JJ said strongly.
Emily thought about this. Sometimes it was so hard having the job she had. She had come to think that everyone was evil. She needed to remember that wasn't true. She needed to think of the bartender. Of her team, of how they were her family. Even of just the normal people who went to work and then went home to their family.
Suddenly a smile spread across Emily's face, "It's a girl!" This time her tone was much different. She was happy. Honest to god happy.
One hour later Emily and JJ walked into the BAU.
"Hey guys," Emily greeted when she saw Morgan, Garcia and Reid at Morgan's desks.
"Hey Princess," Morgan greeted back.
"Hi Emily," Reid quickly followed.
"Did we get any cases while we were gone?" JJ asked.
Morgan shook his head, "It seems the last few months we have been low on serial killers."
"How's the baby?" Garcia asked.
"Good," Emily smiled. Then she looked up and saw Rossi and Hotch coming out of their offices.
"What's wrong?" Morgan asked them as they reached the group.
"Does there always have to be something wrong for us to come down here?" Rossi asked.
"There always seems to be," Reid said.
"Well there's not." Hotch answered.
Rossi looked at Emily and signaled to her with his head to move to the other side of the room. She was confused with the request but followed it anyways. Hotch also followed them.
"How are you doing Emily?" Rossi asked her.
"Fine," She answered, unsure of where they were heading.
"How's the baby?" Hotch asked.
"Healthy," Emily again gave them the short answer.
"We just want to make sure that you don't overdo it. We know that this job is a stressful one and that could affect your pregnancy," Rossi informed her.
She smiled at Rossi's honesty, "I'm fine. I promise I won't overdo anything." Emily looked at them, and when they didn't say anything else she took that as a queue that she could leave.
When she left Hotch looked at Rossi, "Do you believe that?"
"Not in the slightest," Rossi answered back.
They then returned back to their team who was still sitting around Morgan's desk. They all talked about anything non work related. It was odd for them not to have a case in so long, but they embraced it. It meant there were less people out killing each other.
Suddenly in the middle of their conversation Emily gasped and quickly put her hands to her stomach.
"What is it?" JJ quickly asked.
"She just kicked!" Emily said grabbing JJ's hand and putting it on her stomach. JJ felt the baby and a huge smile broke out on her face.
"Come on Reid you've got to feel her kick!" JJ said.
"Umm… I don't know," Reid hesitated.
"Come on Pretty boy," Morgan said and Reid reluctantly put his hand out and rested it on Emily's stomach. Then he felt it. He felt the baby kick!
"Whoa," he said stunned.
Each of the other team members took a turn feeling Emily's stomach and ooohing and ahhhing.
"Wow she is a kicker," Emily laughed.
"Wait," Rossi started, staring at Emily, "Have I been hearing you say 'she'?"
Emily broke into a huge smile confirming the profilers guess.
Yeah... I know it wasn't my best work, but I promise you it will get better! Once again, I would absolutely love it if you reviewed! Thanks for reading!