When Nothing Goes as Planned


Week 16

It was raining. They finally have time off from work and then it was raining. Emily leaned her forehead against her living room window and looked out at the rain falling heavy from the sky. Her breath steamed the window in front of her mouth and she let her right index finger draw patterns in the steam before her breath once again erases her drawing. Emily wished she had something to do. But does the fact that it was raining change the fact that she was bored? Would she had been less bored if the sun was shinning? Emily sighed, but then she noticed movements outside. She pressed her nose against the pane to get a better look and saw two umbrellas – one black and pink – walking from a dark car to her apartment building. She could not see who it was, but a few minutes later there was a knock on her front door.

Emily got of the windowsill and walked to the door, wondering who might visiting her. Then she opened the door and there stood JJ and Garcia. Of course it was them. Emily smiled. "What are you doing here?"

"Today wasn't really a 'going to the beach' day, so I decided we could go shopping," JJ said as she took of her jacket and placed her black umbrella by the door. "Also Will took Henry to some indoor playground with another boy from Henry's daycare and boy's father, so I was really bored."

"And then she called me and asked me, if the three of us shouldn't find something to do together and now we are going shopping." Garcia looked Emily up and down. "Why are you never wearing any pants when we come over?"

Emily crossed her legs as her cheeks redden and tried to pull the t-shirt father down. "It's just so much more comfortable not to have any on."

JJ laughed. "I remember that. Even maternity pants aren't as comfortable to wear as to not wearing any."

"Yeah, well I think it's best if I go put some on now and maybe another shirt." She looked around her kitchen/living room and then back at her best friends. "Can I get you something to drink or eat?"

"No, no," Garcia said with a smile. "We know our way around your apartment, so just go upstairs and put some clothes on."

Emily nodded and left Garcia and JJ by island to find something to wear. When she had told them that her reason for not wearing any pants was that is was more comfortable without, then she had only been have honest with them. In reality she just did not have anything to wear. Well she did, but just not anything she wanted to wear, because everything made her look fat. At least that was what she thought. When she had told Hotch this, he had actually laughed at her and told her to stop being so silly and that she looked beautiful. It had made her go quite and blush. So maybe a shopping trip was a really good idea. She would have something to do and she could buy some new clothes that she did not feel fat in. well, she likes her work clothes, but work clothes were work clothes and she did not want to wear that at home or when she went out.

Emily grabbed a pair of jeans out of her closet and wrinkled her nose at the big elastic bane around the waist. She was never going to like maternity clothes. She put on the jeans and then went head first into the closet looking for a shirt she might wanted to wear. In the back she found a pretty light blue one that probably would not look like a tent on her. Emily grabbed it and pulled it over her head while she looked at herself in the mirror. Yeah, it looked okay. She quickly brushed her hair and then went back down stairs where JJ and Garcia sat on the couch waiting for her.

"Are you ready to go?" JJ asked and stood up.

Emily nodded and they went to the front door to put on shoes and her coat. "Oh, I think I need to buy a new coat," Emily said as she gave up on buttoning her. "And an umbrella."

"You don't have an umbrella?" Garcia asked surprised as she and JJ picked up theirs from the floor.

"No I don't, but I would like to get a red one," she said with a smile and then they left. As walked from the apartment to JJ's car, Emily walked with Garcia under her big, pink umbrella, but Emily still succeed in getting wet when she stepped into the car. She could feel how the raindrops rolled down her back and she shivered.

On the car drive to the mall Emily again looked out the widow at the rain. There was something about rain that she really liked. She did not know what it was, but she just really like it.

"Where should we go first?" Garcia asked as JJ pulled into the parking garage.

"I would like to get a new dress and Henry needs new shoes," JJ said. "What about you, Emily?"

"Oh," Emily dragged her eyes from the window. "I don't know."

All three of them got out of the car and JJ locked it before asking, "Well isn't there something you need?"

Emily hesitated for a moment and then said, "I need something that won't make me look fat."

"You don't look fat, you look beautiful," Garcia said and hooked her arm with Emily's.

"Why are you blushing?" JJ asked as she walked to Emily's other side.

"I'm not blushing," she said and tried to hide her face from her friends, but having one on each of her side made that very difficult.

"Yes you are!"

Garcia giggled. "Why did what I said make you blush?"

They walked into the first woman's clothes shop, and Emily sighed before she said with a small smile, "Hotch just said the same thing to me a few days ago, when I told him I felt fat not pregnant."

"Aw, boss-man can be so sweet," Garcia said and tilted her head to the side. "You should buy a pretty dress for the next time you are with him."

"For the next time I'm with him? What is that supposed to mean?"

"That we think you two would be so cute together," JJ said as she took a dress of the rack and showed it to Emily. "This would look really good on you and show your pretty stomach of nicely."

The dress was simple and black with 3 quarter sleeves. Emily actually really like it. She took it from JJ's hand and laid it over her arm. "I will try it and if it looks good on me, then I will buy, but it's not for Hotch."

"Sure," Garcia said with a grin.

"I mean it. There isn't anything going on between Hotch and I. We slept together, I got pregnant and that is the only reason why we are spending time together now. If this hadn't happen, then I don't even think we ever would have become more than colleagues, because I wouldn't call what we were before friends – we don't know anything about each other." Emily stopped. What she said made her feel sad, but she knew it was true. They are having twins, but they weren't together. But did she want them to be together?

"Are you okay?" JJ asked and laid an arm around Emily.

"Yeah I was just thinking." She sighed. "Let's get back to shopping. I need a new coat remember. I can't bottom this one." She forced a smile, but knew that both JJ and Garcia saw right through it.

The shopping trip went better after JJ and Garcia stopped mentioning Hotch, and they talked Emily into buying the pretty black dress and a lot of other things for herself, but also for the babies. Garcia had bought two small, white rompers with 'I love my Auntie' writing across the front. Emily had laughed and had fun with her two best friends all afternoon, but when she got home the question she had asked herself early kept bugging her. What were she and Hotch? What were they going to do? When she could not stop thinking about it, Emily decided to go see Hotch.

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Hotch sat in his study looking out the window at the rain that kept falling. Jack was playing in his room, so Hotch had actually time to work on some reports, but his mind was on the fight he had had with Jack this morning. He had asked questions about the twins. What were there names going to be? Were they boys or girls? Where were they going to live? The first three question Hotch had not been able to answer, but then Jack asked, "Will the peanuts have a mommy?" This question Hotch had an answer to – Emily was their mommy. But instead of Jack being pleased by finally getting an answer like Hotch had expected, Jack got mad. Why were the twins going to have a mother, when he did not have any? Hotch sighed and leaned back in the chair. What was he going to do about all this? But Hotch was pulled out of his thoughts before he found an answer to his own question, when the sound of the doorbell ran through the apartment.

He walked to the front door, opened it and saw a soaked Emily Prentiss standing on the other side. Her hair hang in wet curls around her face and water ran into her eyes. Also her shirt had gotten kind of see through, so her black bra was noticeable under the thin, light blue fabric. She shivered with cold and pulled her coat tighter around herself.

"Emily come inside. What are you doing here?" Hotch stepped to the side so she could go fast him, but she did not move.

"Can we talk for a second? Outside?"

Hotch looked confused at her, but then nodded and called over his shoulder, "Jack, I'm stepping outside for a minute. Don't open the door for anyone." Hotch heard a faint 'okay daddy' as he locked the door after him and followed Emily down the hall and out into the rain. "I should have brought an umbrella," she said with a small smile as the rain soaked his clothes.

Emily turned towards him. "I don't have an umbrella, but I would like a red one."

"What do you want to talk about and why outside?" Hotch asked trying to wipe water from his eyes, but the drops were quickly replaced by new once.

Emily folded her arms over her chest and looked down for a second, but then back up at Hotch. "I didn't want Jack to hear and I like the rain." She tried to smile, but did not succeed. "What are we, Hotch? You and me. We are having two children together, but we aren't talking about what we are going to do. You keep telling me that we are going to do this together, but we don't talk about what this is."

"I don't know and I don't know what you want me to do. How big a part of their lives do you want me to be?"

"You are their father! I want you to be there for everything!" Emily shouted.

"Then let's move in together and get married!" Hotch shouted even higher than Emily.

"What?"

Hotch was silent for a moment, but then he said, "Marry me?"