When Nothing Goes a Planned


Week 13

After Emily's fall down the stairs Hotch had ordered her to take time off. 2 weeks to be exact. That is 14 days or 336 hours and already after two hours Emily was bored and spent another hour thinking about what she should do in the 333 hours she had left. But she could not think of anything, so she decided to annoy Hotch. She called him at work 10 times in 30 minutes and complained to him that she was bored. Hotch suggested that she watched a movie or read a book, but then Emily would remind him that she has a concussion and was not allowed to do any of the things or other fun things for the matter. Being home for two weeks was going to be boring even after she was allowed to do things again. But then on the ninth day Hotch had come up with a good idea – Emily could spend time with Jack. She could just pick him up right after school ended and keep him till Hotch had finished work. That way Jack would not have to spend all afternoon at the after school-center and Emily did not have to be bored and alone.

So new Emily had spent three afternoons with Jack and both of them had run out of ideas for things they could do together. So as they sat on the coach next to each other in silence watching Toy Story 2, Jack turned to Emily. "Can we go visit daddy at work?" he asked hopefully.

"That's a great idea!" Emily said with a big smile. "Go put on your shoes."

Jack jumped down from the couch and ran to the front door where his sneakers stood. He put them on his small feet and swung his little backpack over his shoulder. "Come on Emily!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming," Emily said turning off the TV and DVD-player and then walked over too. He grabbed her hand in his and they walked out of Emily's apartment and down to the parking garage. As they got out of the elevator Emily grabed Jack's hand tighter. She would not let him get as much as an inch away from her down here where it is dark and cars can come out of nowhere. It was only 12 days since she had almost crushed the twins, so if she let Jack get hit by a car, then there was no way Hotch would let her anywhere near the twins after they were born.

Emily unlocked the car and Jack crawled into his car seat on his own. Emily bulked the seatbelt and saw Jack was smiling up at her. "Why are you smiling?"

"Because I'm happy."

Emily grinned. "That's good." She ruffled his hair and got into the front seat. When she drove out of the parking garage Jack asked, "Will I get a car seat for your car too? So we don't have to move this one from daddy's car to your car and then back again to daddy's car."

"I don't know. I haven't really thought about that. Would you like to have your own car seat in my car?" Jack nodded. "Well then I think I need to buy a bigger car."

"Why?" Jack asked confused. "My car seat won't be that big."

"I know, but the twins will need car seats too."

"Do the peanuts use car seats too?"

"Of course they do! They might be small, but they still need to be safe."

"Okay, okay I can see that," Jack said nodding his head.

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Jack ran out of the elevator as soon as the door opened and into the bullpen. He stopped by Morgan's desk and just looked at him with his head in his hands. "What are you doing?" he asked in a singing voice and with a big smile on his face.

"I am working," Morgan answered smiling back a Jack. "What are you doing here?"

"Emily brought me here," he leant closer to Morgan and whispered, "but I want to see Miss Penny more than daddy. Don't tell him I said that."

"Don't worry little man, I won't say a word about it, you can trust me."

"Goodie!" Jack turned around and saw his dad standing behind him. "Hey daddy!" Jack said hugging him. "I'm going to see
Miss Penny now!" he said and quickly ran off waving and with his little backpack still placed on his back. Usually Jack
would leave his backpack in Hotch's office and walk around the bullpen talking with everyone. Jack loved the freedom he was given when he was there and the others loved having him around.

Jack opened the door to Garcia's office without knocking and more or less yelled very excited, "Hello Miss Penny!"

"Hello mini Hotch!" Garcia yelled back at him. "It's so nice to see you. Are you having fun with Emily?"

"Lots of fun, but we couldn't find anything to do today, so we went here," Jack said crawling , with much difficulties, onto Garcia's other desk chair. "Can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"Well, Emily has the peanuts in her tummy and JJ had little Henry in her tummy, so does that mean there's a baby in your
tummy too? Or is it coming later?"

"There are no babies in my belly now and who knows, maybe there will later."

"Are you sad that there isn't a baby in your tummy? Because if you ask my daddy really nicely, then I think he will put a baby in your tummy like he did with Emily."

Garcia's hands flew to her mouth to try and keep her laughter in. She did not want to make the little boy sad by laughing at him. "Thank you, Jack, for the suggestion, but I think I will be fine," she said and leant back in her chair. "Do you even know how a baby gets into a woman's tummy?"

"I sure do!" Jack said excitingly and jumped down from the chair. He knelt by his little green backpack and took a book out of it. "Daddy gave me this book and red it with me," Jack said lying the book in Garcia's lap. He read the title loud, "Where babies come from."¨

"And your daddy red this with you?"

"He did, because Aunt Jessie said it was daddy's job to do it and Emily didn't want to tell me either. Something about me being daddy's kid, so he had to have the talk with me."

"So now you know everything?"

"Yep," he said and opened the book. On the first page was a cartoon drawing of a naked boy and girl. As Jack turned pages the boy and girl got older. "See this is what people looks like under their clothes."

"That's good to know," Garcia said. "Are you showing me the book, because you want me to read it for you?"

"No silly head, I want to read it for you," Jack said giggling, "because then you will know too, how to make a baby and then you can get your own. You can't have the peanuts!"

"I'm not going to take them, well maybe sometimes, but I promise I will give them back to you," Garcia said with a smile.

"Pinky promise?" Jack said holding his pinky finger out in front of her. Garcia hooked her pinky finger with his. "Pinky promise."

"Good." Then Jack took the book back and laid it in his backpack. "Now that I don't have to read the book for you then I will go read to Morgan, because Emily says he needs a book like this one, so he knows what not to do." Jack shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know what she means with that, but I'm going now. Bye, bye," Jack said waving at Garcia as he skipped out of her office and back to the bullpen. He stopped for a moment, but then he saw Morgan. "I have a book I need to read for you. Emily says so!" Jack yelled as he ran across the room to Morgan waving the book at him.