Well this was a hard one to write. I had about three different endings in mind from what ideas all you awesome reviewers wanted to see happen, so this is what I came up with, I hope it pleases all of you! Let me just say this to that Rossi is one of my favorite characters as well and I like to use him as more of a father figure for members of the team. It just seems to fit! So happy reading!
A week later
"You're really serious about me living with you?" Emily said lying against Hotch on the couch, watching re-runs of Andy Griffith.
"Yes." Emily let out a little laugh after his response. Her laugh brought a smile to Hotch's face. "What is it?" He asked.
"Despite all the crying and trying to kill myself this has been the best week I've had in a really long time. There is just one thing missing."
"What is it?"
"Jack."
"Jack?" Hotch questioned, not sure she was ready for him to be around. It had only been a week.
"Yes, it's time for him to come home."
"If you say so." Hotch said softly moving the hair from the front of her face.
"I say so, and there is one other thing."
"I'm listening."
"What do you think about the team helping me, I mean us move all the stuff out of my apartment. I thought we could start early one morning with breakfast at my place and end over here with a cookout."
"I think that is a great idea." He leaned down and kissed the top of her head. "What do you say we call it a night?"
Emily looked up at him, "One more theme song?"
"Okay, one more theme song." He said. He smiled watching Emily enjoy the light heartedness of the Andy Griffith theme song, that once again rang through the speakers of the 55 inch T.V. Her face was free of worry or care and she was safe and happy. When the theme song was over he turned the T.V. off, "Okay time for bed." He swept Emily up in his arms and carried her to his bed.
He set her down softly. When he did Emily caught a glimpse of the bruises on her arms. Her face lost its brightness and returned to grimace looking at them. "What is it?" Hotch asked.
"How long do you think it will take for these bruises to go away?"
Hotch really didn't know what to say and wanted to say something comforting. He sat down on the bed and held her arm letting his hand run softly over the bruises. "I don't know Emily."
"Aaron there is something else I haven't mentioned to you yet. There is the possibility that I could be pregnant."
"Then we will cross that bridge when we get to it." He kissed the top of her forehead and then flipped the lights off before crawling into bed.
"Aaron?"
"What is it?"
"I don't know if I could go through another abortion."
"Whatever happens and whatever decision you make, I will stand by you."
Emily pulled his arm tighter around her waist. The nightmare she had went through seemed to be so far away. She fell asleep peacefully. There were no dreams to haunt her, waking her in the middle of the night, only the warm comfort of a man and his love for her, would be strong enough to take away all her troubles and make her feel alive again.
Hotch and Emily pulled up to Jack's Aunt's house. As soon as the vehicle came to a stop Jack came running out the front door. Hotch got out of the vehicle, "Hey buddy."
"Hey daddy." Hotch picked him up in his arms, giving him a hug. Setting him back down, he ran over to Emily holding out his arms. She picked him up and Jack wrapped his legs and arms around her giving her a big hug. "You all better?" He asked her.
"Yep I'm all better, are you ready to go home?" She asked putting her nose at his nose as she held him.
"Yes." Jack said excitedly
"Good, then let's go get your stuff." Emily said setting him down.
Jack ran inside. Hotch and Emily gave each other a smiling glance from across the hood of the vehicle. For both of them, in this moment, they felt like a family.
All three of them spent the next week as a family with late night movies of Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, A Shark's Tale, Cars, and many meals of Mac n Cheese, popcorn, ice cream and cereal.
The week came to an abrupt end with the ringing of Hotch's phone. Hotch was called out of state for a few days of meetings.
Emiliy returned to work with her supervisor, Agent Aaron Hotchner's, blessing.
Two days back at work and Emily seemed different to the team, she felt different as well. JJ stopped at her desk with some paperwork and was generally concerned for her. "Emily, how have you been?"
"I was doing fine, but today I feel a little off, like I might be coming down with something."
"I hope you're not getting sick." JJ said.
"Me too."
Lunch came around and Garcia ordered everybody some pizza in honor of Emily being back at work. They all were waiting at the round table when she walked in with Pepperoni, Meat Lovers, and Supreme Pizza. The scent immediately sent Emily running towards the bathroom. JJ and Garcia followed.
JJ and Garcia waited outside the bathroom stall. When Emily opened up her stall she saw them, letting out a deep breath. "Guys I'm sorry."
"No need to apologize, we just want to know if your okay?" Garcia asked.
"Ugh, I might be pregnant."
"Oh, have you taken a test?" Garcia asked.
"No, today is really the first day that I've felt bad."
"I got a test in my office, you want to use it?" JJ asked. Garcia and Emily both looked at JJ like she was pregnant and didn't say anything. "Wait, before you jump to conclusions me and Will thought we might have been a while back, but it was a false alarm." The suprising looks then left Emily and Garcia's faces.
"I'd like to use it JJ, if you have one."
"I'll be right back."
It didn't take long and JJ was back in a flash. Garcia and JJ impatiently waited outside the bathroom door. A few minutes later Emily emerged. "Well?" Garcia asked.
"It was positive."
JJ and Garcia smiled and started to congratulate her but then stopped their selves. They weren't sure how to react. "Guys, its' okay. I'm not sure how to take it yet either." Emily looked around and put her hands on her hips. "I know this is something big to ask of both of you, but we need to keep this a secret for now."
"Sure thing." Garcia said.
Later that day Rossi needed to go by the local Police Department and asked Emily if she wanted to go. She gladly accepted.
They arrived at the police station and walked inside meeting with the Chief of Police. As they were standing there Emily began to feel dizzy, she let out a deep breath and rubbed her forehead. Rossi gave her a concerned glance. She saw his look and tried to re-assure him, "I'm fine, if you'll excuse me just a minute." Emily walked off towards an empty room. Her head was spinning and she had to sit down. She put her head in her hands and closed her eyes hoping that the feeling would pass. Emily became flushed and suddenly became extremely hot. She took off her coat in an attempt to cool off.
After a few minutes Rossi came in sitting in a chair just a few feet across from her, "Emily? Are you okay?"
She forced a smile, "Yeah I'll be fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah." Emily tried to play off the dizzying feeling as she stood up but she couldn't. The room spun and the floor tilted sideways as she collapsed to the ground.
"Emily?" Rossi had partially caught her, easing her to the floor. "I need some help in here." He hollered.
It was just a minute before she came to. "What happened?" She said trying to set up.
Rossi helped her into a sitting position, against the wall, "You passed out." He looked to the officers that assisted him and motioned them to leave, thanking them as they left. When they were alone Rossi said, "So tell me Emily, what is going on with you?"
"I'm pregnant." She blurted, letting out another deep breath like the whole idea of it was annoying her.
"Now it's starting to make sense." He handed her a glass of water. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that I was pregnant a while back, I guess I was just avoiding it."
"Well what do you say we take a detour to the doctor's office just to make sure?"
"Rossi I couldn't ask you to do that?"
Rossi smiled at her and grabbed her hands, "You're not, I'm offering. So what do you say? You never know it could just be a cold."
"Okay." She agreed. Emily did want to know for sure. She had a good feeling she was, but it would be nice to know for fact.
"You think you can stand up now?"
Emily nodded her head and Rossi helped pull her up. "Rossi you have always been there for us, when we need somebody to talk to or to stand by us for whatever reason. I want to thank you for that. You would have been a great father."
"Thank you. You ready?"
"Never." She said as they shared a smile with one another before leaving.
Emily walked out of the Dr. Office and got into the SUV where Rossi waited. "So what's the news?"
She let out a deep breath and a smile crept across her face, "I'm pregnant alright, but I'm 9 weeks pregnant."
It took a second but Rossi finally got it, "Congratulations!" He said giving her a hug, "Now that is good news." He said as he put the vehicle in gear heading back to the BAU.
Rossi and Prentiss walked through the glass doors of the BAU. "Now where have you two been? I know it didn't take three hours to go down to the police station and back? You better be giving me some answers." Morgan said taking a drink of his coffee. Rossi walked to his office with no response. Emily sat down with a big smile on her face, "What are you so happy about smiley?" Morgan said.
Reid was now paying attention to the conversation. Emily didn't say anything but to excuse herself to go tell JJ and Garcia. As soon as she walked out the door Reid said, "What is going on?"
Morgan stood up, "I don't know but I sure am going to find out."
"I'm coming with you." Reid said.
They both watched as Emily grabbed JJ and went into Garcia's office. The door was cracked just enough for Morgan and Reid to hear what was going on. Once the news was delivered, JJ and Garcia gave her hugs and had high pitched voices of congratulations. Morgan then swung the door open. "Well, well, well. When were you going to tell us?" He walked over to Emily and gave her a big hug, "I'm happy for you."
"Thank you." She said.
"Me too." Reid said giving her a hug after Morgan.
"So does everybody know?" JJ asked.
Emily shook her head, "Everybody but Hotch." At work she still called him Hotch to keep things professional.
"I'm sure this will be news to him." Morgan said.
"Most definitely." Rossi said standing behind them.
A few days later, Emily had received a call from Hotch, letting her know when he would be back. He would arrive around lunch time.
When Hotch did arrive the team was sitting at the round table, he walked in prepared to listen to a new case. "What did I miss while I was gone?" He said sitting down opening up the new case.
"Not a thing, it was quiet as a mouse around here." Rossi said.
"Yep real quiet." Morgan added.
The team was looking to Emily then to Hotch.
Hotch looked up from the file, surprised to see the looks he was getting from the team, "Did I miss something? Is there something hanging out my nose or do I have something between my teeth. Enough with the laughing and sarcasm, what is going on?" He asked half smiling and annoyed at the same time.
Emily couldn't take it anymore. "Come on Hotch, we need to talk."
She walked towards his office as he followed. She closed the door after he entered. Tears started rolling down her face. "I have something to tell you."
"What is it? What's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong, it couldn't be more right as a matter of fact." Emily started feeling a little dizzy again. She put her hand on her forehead and closed her eyes. Started getting flush, from the overwhelming heat that would instantly flood her body and then leave as quickly as it came.
"You don't look good are you okay?"
Emily placed her hand on the wall to get her balance. When Hotch noticed he went up to her, putting his arms around her. "Tell me, what is it?"
Emily leaned her head against his chest letting herself fall into him, helping her stand. She closed her eyes. "I'm pregnant, 9 weeks pregnant."
"9 weeks? That means." He pushed her away from his body to look good into her eyes. "It's our baby?"
"Yes. I'm not sure how I didn't lose it through the whole ordeal, but I didn't and we are going to have a baby."
Hotch brought her back in close, swinging her around in a circle. He squeezed her tight in a hug and then their lips met with the joy at the start of their new lives.
Outside the team had moved to the bull pen and watched Emily and Hotch as they kissed. The girls awed.
"Now that's a good ending." Rossi said.
Morgan smiled, "Not a good ending, a good begining."
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