When Nothing Goes as Planned
Week 11
Emily wondered why a waiting room for pregnant women did not have comfortable chairs. The couch looked okay, but someone else was already sitting on it. She was a small woman with curly light brown hair. She was sitting next to a man, who Emily guessed was her husband. They were the only other people there besides Emily. She thought there would be more people there, but it was still quite early so it was understandable. Emily had asked for an as early appointment as possible, so she would not have to miss too much work, but that also meant that Hotch might not be able to be there. He had promised that he would do everything he could not to miss the appointment, but he also had to drive Jack to school in the other end of the city.
Emily kept looking down at the other woman's big pregnant stomach over the edge of her book. She guessed there was not long till she was due.
"Is it your first?"
"What?" Emily looked confused up from the woman's stomach to her smiling face. She nodded towards Emily's own stomach. "Oh yes it is. How did you know?" Emily asked knowing that it was not because of her age that she was asking.
"You keep looking at my stomach," she said and ran a hand over it.
Emily blushed. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
"That's okay." She smiled and took her husband's hand. "It's our 3rd." She got up from the couch with much difficulty and walked over to Emily, taking the seat beside her. "I'm Nina and that is my husband Paul." He did not say anything, but just waved at Emily.
"I'm Emily."
Nina smiled. "Our oldest is named Emily too." She took her cell phone from her pocket and showed Emily the front screen photo of two young girls – one with curly blond and another with long brown hair. "That's Emily," Nina said and pointed to the brown haired girl. "She is 9 and Anne is 7."
"They are beautiful," Emily said with a smile. "Do you know what the little one is going to be?"
"No, we want to be surprised, but we would like a boy now that we already have two girls, but it doesn't really matter as long as the baby is healthy."
Emily felt the same way. She wanted a little happy and healthy baby and she did not really care if it was a boy or girl. She had not even thought about it all that much. Garcia on the other hand had decided that the baby had to be a girl, because Hotch and JJ already had boys, so a girl was needed. Emily also thought that Hotch might like if the baby was a girl because he had a boy and then he would have one of each. But they had not talked about it at all; they had not really talked about anything involving the baby since the talked they had at his house. Emily guessed that Hotch was still trying to figure things out.
"Have you found a name yet?"
"We like Jamie and it fits both a boy and a girl," Nina said and then the door beside Emily opened and a couple followed by a male doctor walked out. The couple continued to the front door and walked out while the doctor walked to the front desk. The nurse that sat behind it handed a folder to the doctor. He opened it and then called out, "Nina Holden?"
"Here," Nina said with a smile as she got up from the chair and then she and Paul walked into the exam room with the doctor.
Emily sighed and started reading in her book again now that she did not have anyone to talk to. Half way through the fifth chapter Emily heard the front door open and she looked to the side hoping to see Hotch walk in, but it was not him. Instead another couple walked in and sat down on the couch where Nina and Paul had been sitting. Emily started reading again, but not five minutes later the door opened and she once again turned to look at it hoping to see Hotch and when it was not him she got just as disappointed as before. She thought she would be okay with him missing the appointment, but she was not. Emily wanted Hotch to be there with her when they were going to see their baby for the first time.
The exam room door on the other side of the waiting room opened and a female doctor walked out with two women – one of them very pregnant like Nina. The doctor said goodbye to them and watched them walk out hand in hand before walking to the front desk and getting a new file from the nurse, she looked it over and then said, "Emily Prentiss?"
Emily sighed. "That's me." She laid her book in her bag and then got up and walked into the exam room.
The doctor closed the door. "I'm Dr. Camille Williams," she said, shaking Emily's hand, "and I'm going to be your doctor for the duration of your pregnancy. I can see in your file that you have already had your blood taking, is that correct?"
Emily nodded. "Yeah that was about four weeks ago."
"Okay, I'm just going to do a pelvic exam then and after that the ultrasound," she said with a smile and handed Emily a grown.
Emily quickly got behind the curtain and changed into the traditional white hospital gown. As Emily walked from the curtain she was actually a little happy Hotch was not there to see her like that because, as everyone knows, a hospital gown is only held together in the back by a few threads leaving the persons back side bare. And seeing that Emily was about to have a pelvic exam it was not possible for her to wear panties, which meant her butt was not covered. Emily laid her folded up clothes on a chair and layed down on the exam table. Dr. Williams laid a dark blue paper like blanket over Emily's legs and stomach and then helped her place her feet in the holders at the end of the table.
Dr. Williams put on gloves and moved the blanket up looking at Emily. "I'm going to start now."
Emily nodded and laid her head back against the exam table. She looked up at the ceiling trying to think about something else other than that there was a person moving around between her legs. It was not that it hurt as much as it was very uncomfortable. But then Dr. Williams did something and Emily's whole body stiffened. 'God that hurt!' She thought as she closed her eyes and started going over the things she needed to pick up before going to work.
"It says in your file that you are about eleven weeks along?"
"Give or take," Emily mumbled, leaning up on her elbows to look over the blanket at Dr. Williams.
"Well, that fits with the enlarged size of your uterus and from what I can tell, everything else appears to be just fine," she said smiling at Emily. "Would you like to get dressed before I do the ultrasound?"
Emily was already half of the table before Dr. William had finished her sentence. "Yes please." She crawled of the table, grabbed her clothes and hurried back behind the curtain happy that she soon would be in her own clothes again. Emily redressed and got back up on the exam table. This time she did not need to have her feet in the holders so Dr. Williams lifted up the lower part so that Emily could lay her legs on it.
"Please lift up your shirt for me Emily." She did as she was asked while Dr. Williams got a few things and laid them on the small table by the ultrasound machine. "This is going to be a little cold," Dr. Williams said as she squirted the gel onto Emily's stomach making her jump. She rubbed the wand over it a few times and then a surprised look came upon her face. "Oh," she said.
Emily looked scared at her. Maybe she had not been able to find a heartbeat. Maybe her baby was death. "Is everything okay?" Emily asked with a shaky voice.
"Yes, yes everything is perfect," Dr. Williams said and turned the screen over so Emily could it. "Ok, here is your uterus," Dr. Williams rubbed the wand across Emily's stomach. "And, that there, is your baby," said Dr. Williams pointing to the small bean shaped figure in one side of the screen. "And this is your other baby." She pointed to the other small figure on the screen.
Emily opened her mouth to say something, but no sound came out. She just kept looking at the screen. She closed her mouth and reached out and touched the small image on the screen. "Are there really two?" Dr. Williams nodded. Emily smiled a little. She had been afraid that there might not be a heartbeat and then it turned out there were two. Emily rubbed the little flicker that was one of her babies' heartbeats and felt tears running down both her cheeks. Emily did not want to look away from the screen, but when there was a small knock on the door she did anyway.
The door opened and Hotch stepped in. "I'm so sorry I'm late, but Jack was having a bad morning and didn't want to go to school and there was traffic and-" Hotch stopped talking mid-sentence when he saw that Emily was crying. "Emily was the matter? Is something wrong with the baby?"
Emily shook her head and smile. "Everything is just fine, but it is not a baby, it is babies," she said pointing to the screen. Hotch quickly turned his head towards the screen and stared at the image before him. Emily grabbed his hand and smiled. "We are having twins. What the hell are we going to do?"
Hotch could not help but laugh at Emily's outburst. It was not exactly what he had expected her to say. "We are going to the same as if there was only one. And think about it, now Garcia and JJ won't have to fight over who gets to hold the baby."
"I'm guessing you're the father?" Dr. Williams said.
Hotch looked at her noticing her sitting there on the other side of Emily for the first time. "Yes, I'm sorry. I'm Aaron Hotchner."
"Dr. Camille Williams," she said shaking hands with Hotch over Emily's stomach. "Everything looks perfect. Both of your children are just the right sides and where they should be, so let just me print out a couple of pictures for you." She handed Emily a paper towel and walked over to the printer in the corner of the room. Emily wiped the gel from her stomach and pulled her blouse down just as Dr. Williams came back with the pictures. "Here you go." Hotch helped Emily down from the table and then Dr. Williams handed her the photos. They said goodbye and before leaving Emily made a new appointment with the front desk nurse. She was supposed to have a nuchal scan next week, but it was not necessary now. Everything looked perfect.
In the elevator down to the parking lot Emily laid her head on Hotch's shoulder and held one of the pictures out before them. "These are our babies. Can you believe that?"
"Yeah it's a little hard to believe, but we are looking at the proof," Hotch said and slowly moved his hand down to lay on Emily's stomach. It was the first time he had ever done that. Emily moved her hand to cover his. "It scares me how much I already love this, well these babies. I can't wait to hug and kiss them and rock them to sleep at night, or to just touch them." Emily sighed. "If I don't know how I will be able to handle one baby, then how am I going to handle two?"
"You are going to be a great mom," Hotch said and kissed the side of her head. "Even if this wasn't what we planned. We are in this together, remember that,"
Emily nodded and then the elevator dinged and the doors opened. Hotch and Emily stepped away from each other and walked out of the elevator to their own cars, both of them looking at the sonogram picture of their children.
