Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds.
A/N: It's finally time to let Derek in on the secret. Hope you enjoy.
It took JJ two solid weeks of nagging before Emily was prepared to make the call. Even then she was beyond nervous. "Do you think I should Skype him?"
JJ titled her head. "You know, that's not the worst idea. Then you'd be able to see his reaction."
Emily touched her stomach, a gesture that was rapidly becoming a habit. "I feel like I could barf."
"Oh sweetie, that's just baby Morgan, he or she is excited that you're finally telling their daddy."
Emily stuck out her tongue at the sassy blonde. "You suck, you know that, right?"
JJ just laughed. "You are such a bad influence." She turned to Henry who was watching the entire exchange. "Aunt Em is really grouchy but that's no excuse for behaving badly."
Emily blanched as she realized what she just did and said in front of the impressionable young boy. "I'm going to be a horrible mom." Then she went over to Henry. "I am so sorry for being bad."
"You're funny." The little imp smiled up at her and Emily's eyes started to fill prompting the little boy to jump from his seated position and hug his honorary aunt. "Don't cry, Aunt Em. You're not really bad." He turned to JJ. "Mommy tell her, tell her she's not bad."
Emily looked down at the sweet boy. "You know Henry if this baby is anything like you I'm going to be really lucky."
JJ smiled sweetly at the pair. Henry was adjusting well to the change that had been forced upon him. After several interviews, they found a sitter that would watch Henry while they were here and would eventually be responsible for the baby. JJ would start working on Monday. Everything was moving along except Emily. "Okay, that's it. You're stalling." She pointed towards Emily's room.
"You're a spoilsport." She dropped a kiss on Henry's head. "I have to go and make a call buddy. But I might need another hug later, okay?"
Making her way back to her room she sent a quick text to see Morgan was even available. The quick affirmative reply made her smile and before she could chicken out her laptop was signaling that he was calling her. She sat down at her desk and accepted the call.
"There she is." Emily watched as his glance drank in her face. "Damn I've missed you."
"I've missed you too." She bit her lip as tears welled up.
"Hey, what's going on?" His concern for her was clearly evident in his expression.
She wiped at her eyes and shook her head. "It's just me being silly." She gave him a luminous smile. "It's really good to see you."
"I've been telling you for weeks that I want to come over and really see you." He winked. "Then maybe you could explain to me why you really had to poach my girl JJ. You know that you've disrupted the whole BAU flow. Poor Hotch is a little lost."
Emily leaned in conspiratorially, "I think there might be something going on between the two of them."
Morgan raised a brow, "Really going on or just that thing they have between them."
"I think that thing is bigger than any of us thought. I think they like each other." She confided.
"Like they want to see each other naked, like each other?"
Emily nodded. "Exactly like that. Henry told me that Hotch kissed JJ at the airport."
Morgan threw his head back and laughed.
"What?" She asked, smiling at his obvious glee.
"Are you kidding me, you're getting our intel from a four year old?"
Emily giggled and shrugged, "Whatever, it's a reliable source."
They grinned at each other for a full minute. "Damn Princess, I sure do miss you."
The fluttering of her stomach, probably a natural reaction to his handsomeness, had her sobering. "Derek I need to tell you something."
His grin slowly faded. "Why don't I like the sound of that?" His eyes were busily scanning her expression trying to get a read on her.
"It's not bad. Well I don't think it's bad. I hope you don't think it's bad." She blew out a nervous breath. "You might be mad though. But before you get mad I need you to know that I didn't know it was going to happen and I didn't realize it happened myself until…"
"Christ, you've met someone." He interrupted.
"No." Emily shook her head. "No it's not that, I promise you it's not that."
"Really, because I hardly ever hear from you anymore." His voice was a touch bitter. "And when you decided to bring someone over from the BAU you went with JJ."
"I told you, JJ is here to work with my team on working with the media. That's her wheelhouse. I needed someone to help them learn to use the media and not be used by it." She looked at him. "Plus it would hardly be a smart move to bring the man I had slept with into the team."
His expression was still puzzled. "Okay, I understand that. What I don't understand is why you didn't have that conversation with me prior to having Hotch and JJ announcing it to the team?"
"Because I wasn't thinking, Derek. I've got a lot on my plate." She was sorry for the way she handled the situation. "You know, this job is a lot more complex than I thought it would be. It doesn't help that I'm an American either." She glared at him, angry that he was making her feel worse about the whole thing, he didn't know what it was like. She was in a new city, new country for Pete's sake. She was dealing with resentment for both her nationality and her gender and on top of everything she now was struggling with raging hormones. "It certainly doesn't help that after only a few months here I found out that I'm pregnant!"
His mouth opened, closed, and opened again. "Come again?" He finally managed to croak out.
"You heard me. I'm pregnant. With child. Knocked up. Up the duff. In the family way."
"How pregnant are you?" He asked, again interrupting her tirade.
She wasn't quite sure what he was asking so she cleared up any doubt. "You'll be a dad in March." She watched him swallow, try to speak, stop and swallow again.
Rubbing the bridge of his nose he asked, "When were you planning on telling me?" When she didn't answer immediately he followed with, "Or weren't you and JJ convinced you otherwise?"
She schooled her expression knowing that he would be watching it very carefully.
He nodded as she flinched just slightly. "You weren't going to tell me."
"I thought about not telling you." Emily admitted then watched as he disappeared from her screen. She knew that he hadn't disconnected because she could still hear noise. "Derek?"
"What do you want me to say to that, Em?" His voice floated over the speaker but she still could not see him.
"What do you want me to say, Derek?" She huffed. "Do you think this is easy? It's one part thrilling and three parts scary as hell. It's not like you crawled into my bed with this in mind. We're attracted to one another, we're sexually compatible, but we didn't hit the sheets with forever in mind. Hell you probably thought it was safe to sleep with me knowing that in a few short weeks I'd be 3700 miles away."
She heard the loud noise but didn't have a clue as to what he'd hit. "Derek."
"I can't talk to you right now, Emily." He growled gruffly before the screen went black.
She sat for a moment looking at the blank screen, stunned that he'd actually hung up on her. He seriously hung up on her.
She made her way to the kitchen where JJ and Henry were still ensconced.
"Oh sweetie." JJ rose to meet her as soon as she looked up and saw her coming eyes wide and silently streaming.
Emily allowed herself to be enfolded by JJ. "He's really mad, JJ." She let JJ walk her over to the table and sit her down. "He's probably never going to talk to me again." She sniffed, "Or he's probably calling his lawyer right now to find out his rights."
"Or he's probably trying to process the news you just told him." JJ interrupted. "You just dropped a huge bomb on him."
"He hung up on me." She sniffled.
JJ rubbed her shoulder consolingly. "Well, that wasn't very nice but maybe it was for the best."
Emily looked at her strangely, how could hanging up on her be for the best?
"Let him work through it. Right now he's probably in the basement beating the crap out of his bag." JJ sighed, sad that both of her friends were hurting. "It's best that he hung up and didn't say something he didn't really mean and couldn't take back."
"Do you think he'll call me back?" Emily asked in a small voice.
JJ smiled sadly and cautioned her friend. "It might not be today."
Thank you for reading. Derek is finally in the know. I thought about having him fly to London but I liked the idea of this better, eventually they will get together but it's probably a bit out yet. Thank you so much to everyone that leaves me a review, I'm glad that you are enjoying my story and hope you continue to do so!