When Nothing Goes as Planned
Week 19
Hotch could not concentrate. He had not been able to do so ever since he had been told that the twins were girls. Jack had been excited and when he had seen the sonogram picture he had decided to rename the twins. He said they did not look like peanuts anymore so now he would call them something else. Then he had pointed at the baby to the right side of the photo and said "That is Sissy," then pointed to the left, "and that is Mei-mei." Hotch had no idea where the names came from, but he guessed Emily had something to do with it.
Hotch closed the file on his desk and leaned back in his chair with a sigh, as Dave walked into the office. "You look like hell," he said sitting down in the chair across from Hotch.
Hotch frowned. "I haven't gotten a lot of sleep lately."
"Some long nights with Emily?" Dave asked with a grin.
"No! I'm not sleeping with Emily. And we have been on a case."
"It didn't stop the two of you when we were in Arizona."
"We were very drunk at the time and we haven't slept together since then and we never will."
"Then wants the matter? Is it about the case or is something going on with Jack?"
"It's not the case and Jack is just fine, happy actually. It's just, I can't concentrate. I keep thinking about the twins." Hotch pinched the bridge of his nose. "We are having two girls!"
"I know." Rossi smiled and picked up the framed sonogram picture from Hotch's desk. He looked at it for a moment and then placed it back next to the framed school photo of Jack. "Why is having girls freaking you out like this? You look like your having a nervous breakdown."
"I'm not having a nervous breakdown," Hotch said, but did not sound very convincing. He sighed. "It's just, when Dr. Williams told us they were girls the first thought that ran through my mind was them 16 years old and asking me how long they could stay out, because they had a date with some guy." Hotch ran his left hand through his hair. "How am I going to make it through all of this. This boys, dating, kissing and – oh God – sex!"
Dave laughed. "It's a good thing you don't have to do it all alone. Remember Emily is there. And if you're lucky, then none of this will start till they are 18, but if you're unlucky then it could start as early as when they are 12."
Hotch turned white. "I will convince Emily to have the girls home schooled and locked up in the house till they have to leave for college. I thought you were trying to calm me down and then you tell me that my little girls might be going to start having sex when they are 12 years old!"
"I thought it was best to prepare you for the worse."
Hotch smiled a little. "But Emily and I will make it through, won't we?"
"You sound unsure. Is something going on between the two of?" Rossi asked a little worried.
"No things are fine, she has just been acting a little weird lately. I have wanted to ask her about it, but..." Hotch shrugged his shoulders.
"But you are kind of afraid of what she might say?"
"Something like that. What if she doesn't want all of this anymore. Me in the babies life?"
"Do you really think that's true?"
"I don't know," Hotch answered honestly, because he really did not know. He looked down at the sonogram picture. The thought of not being allowed to be a part of his children's life made his chest hurt. Would Emily do that to him?
"Aaron look at me," Dave said and Hotch did. "I'm a 100% sure that that is not why Emily is acting differently. Remember she is pregnant and full of uncontrollable hormones and she has just been told the same you have – the twins are girls. She probably has all the same thoughts running around in her head. And remember, she has been a teenage girl and know all of the things they do," Rossi said thinking about what Emily has told him years earlier about her time in Rome when she was 15. He wonder if she had told Hotch about it too. "She is likely more freaked out about all of this than you are."
"You could be right."
Dave leaned back in the chair with a smug smile. "I'm always right." With a smile Hotch shock his head and Dave got up from the chair. "I'll let you get back to work," he said and then walked out of the office.
As he walked back to his own he noticed Emily sitting by her desk, nervously looking towards the glass doors. Dave decided that work could wait a little longer and then turned around and walked down the stairs and over to Emily. "Are you having a nervous breakdown too, because the twins are girls?" he asked rolling Reid's desk chair next to hers.
She looked at him confused. "No, why would you think that?"
"Because I have just talked with Aaron and it's kind of freaking him out."
"That's way he has been acting weird. I thought he might was having a second thought about the whole thing."
Rossi laughed. "You two should really spend more time talking with each other." Again Emily looked confused at him. "According to Aaron, you have been acting weird too and he thinks you might not want him to be a part of the twins life."
"Why would he think that?" Emily asked shocked.
"Why are you thinking he might be having second thoughts?"
"Okay, I can see where you are going with this. And I will have to talk to him soon, because I finally did it."
"Did what?"
Emily looked nervous towards the doors again. "I told my mother I'm pregnant." This time it was Dave's turn to look shocked. "Oh come on! How can you be surprised after all the conversations we have had about my mother?"
He shrugged his shoulder. "I guess not. Then how did you tell her."
"I didn't have the guts to call and tell her." Emily looked down at her hands and mumbled, "So I kind of just wrote her a note on the backside of the sonogram picture and then mailed it to her."
"Emily!"
She looked up and found Dave looking reproached at her. "It seemed like a good idea at the time!"
He shoock his head at her. "Is she coming by today since you keep looking towards the elevator?"
"I don't know," Emily said, "but I think she might. I mailed her the letter yesterday, so she should receive it today. And I know she's in town, so she is probably coming by sometime today to yell at me for not telling her about the pregnancy earlier and for sleeping with my boss in the first place."
Dave looked over his shoulder, but could not see anything coming or going, so he turned back to Emily and said, "Well she isn't coming right now, so why don't you go talk to Aaron. I think it will make the two of you feel much better."
Emily sighed and then smiled. "I think that's a good idea." She ran her hands over her round stomach. "Let's go tell daddy we need him and Jack."
Rossi laughed. "Does Jack still call them peanuts?"
"No, he has renamed them. Now they are called Sissy and Mei-mei."
"That's 'little girl' in Chinese, right."
Emily smiled. "Little girl or little sister - like Sissy."
"It's cute. Did you come with it?"
Emily grinned and got up from the chair. "Maybe," she said and walked away from Dave with a smile on her face. She walked up the stairs and then knocked on the door to Hotch's office. Emily did not wait for him to invite her in, she just opened the door with a big smile. "How are you?"
Hotch looked surprised up at her. "I'm fine," he answered hesitatingly. "How are you?"
"I'm - Oh shit!" Emily duck behind the wall next to the window. She peeped through the corner of the blinds.
"What's going on?" Hotch asked and got up from behind his desk. "Who are you hiding from?"
"My mother."
