A/N: Hey people how are you?

So, I really like those chapters, and I promised that all the fighting that does not look like it's going somewhere will.

I hope you have fun with this chapter!

Season 2 Episode 17 = Distress

"Don't be like that Derek" I could hear Penelope's worried voice.

"Oh, I'm not being like that. I'm just saying it's your funeral, because I'm definitely not the one telling Emily." That didn't sound good.

"Tell Emily what?" I asked getting closer to them.

"Oh Hi my dark haired goddess" Garcia had the "I did something horrible face".

"Garcia."

"Ok, it was totally not my fault. She asked and I was just so excited and then she asked to come with us and then…r"

"Garcia, get to the point." This didn't sound good at all.

"I kind of invited Hotch's wife to go with us on our super cool trip."

"YOU WHAT?" Oh God. "Garcia I told you that you couldn't tell anyone, I told you it was just us." Oh God.

"Actually you just told me not to tell anyone else from the team, and technically Hayley isn't on the team."

"Oh baby girl, I would stop right there if I were you."

"Garcia please tell me what could have possibly made you do that?"

"Well I was just so excited when you guys invited me when you got back from Texas." I knew I would regret that.

FLASHBACK:

We were just getting back to the Bureau and Morgan and I had being talking and joking as we walked. Reid had come with us but he had stalked in front of us not even acknowledging our presence.

He was having a hard time with what happened to him in Atlanta, but how that became something specifically against me I had no idea. I bet blondie was

whispering in his ear…

Don't go there Emily, you can't know that and creating enemies this early was not good, just let it go.

We got to our tables and since we still had the whole day in the office we all started on our paperwork so we could leave early. After a few hours just working quietly I called Morgan over to my side.

"Hey, what are you doing next Saturday?" I asked.

"Nothing, yet. Why?" He was already smirking. "Wanna tempt me with some plans?"

"Not that kind of plans, pervert." He was such a kid sometimes. "There is a new Navy and army museum opening in Norfolk next Saturday, and they say it's going to be awesome, really big and with a lot of interactive things and history and I really wanted to go. What do you say? "

"Ok, might be fun!" After a few seconds he looked at me and I knew what was coming. "We could…"

"Yes to Garcia, but that is it."

"Deal. Let's go tell her in her office, otherwise she will scream in the middle of the bullpen and then everyone will know."

"That's a good idea."

END of FLASHBACK.

"Well, after I left the BAU to go home I stopped at the grocery store to get some things, and Mrs. Hotchner was there and she had little Jack, and he was so cute, he was wearing this super man costume and…"

I raised an eyebrow at Garcia's distractions techniques.

"And you don't care about that. Right. So we started talking and she was saying that Jack had being too attached to Hotch and that was why it was getting harder to take him out of the house when Hotch was there, even if Hotch would go to the park Jack wouldn't have much fun, so she was looking for something to distract him….." She stopped and looked at me.

"And that is about the time my mouth went faster then my brain and I talked about our little super fun travel plans, and one thing led to another and I invited the three Hotchner's to go with us." She looked guilty.

"Garcia I…it was suppose to be just us. Remember? " It wasn't my fault most of the team's members didn't like me, now I had to feel bad about not inviting the rest.

"I know and I promise I did not invite her just so we had to invite the rest. We don't have to invite the rest, because I didn't say who was coming to Hayley, I just told her I was going with friends." Good.

"Ok, then I'm not going." I responded.

"Oh no! You are totally going. Because if you don't go, then I won't go, and then if Garcia doesn't have any friends to show to Hayley she will know something is up" Derek stated.

"Ok, ok. But you owe me one Penelope. A big one." Saturday was going to be hell.

"I'm really sorry Em, I never thought she would actually get interested."

Penelope was sweet, but sometimes I really wanted to murder the woman. Just like when she decided to tell Derek we were leaving a bit early because I needed to go lingerie shopping, most embarrassing moment of my BAU career to this day, and he wouldn't let me forget it.

"It's fine. Let's just hope cranky over there decides he doesn't want to go." I really hope he decides not to go.

"Doesn't want to go where?" And look who shows up at the worst time ever.

"I just found Emily a few places to look at and she was telling us that her dad doesn't want to go. Well actually he can't go, right Em?" Garcia elbowed her.

"Right! He is in Russia I think, maybe Ukraine, I can't remember where he said he was going." I tried covering it up.

"So, do you need someone to go with you. You don't know the city, so it's best that one of us go with you." Agent Hotchner commanding tone showed up.

"Morgan was just offering right?" I smiled sweetly at him.

"Right. We will go after work this week." He was so not enjoying this. "How many places again Garcia?"

"Around 8!"

"Great." I smiled at Garcia.

"Oh and Garcia, Hayley told me about Saturday plans. We will certainly like to go, what time are we leaving?" Ohh cranky bastard is going.

"Around eight?" Was that Garcia's new favorite phrase, or was she just as shocked as Morgan's open mouth and me?

"We will meet you at your house to leave from there."

Friday afternoon found me and Morgan looking at yet another apartment. This looked like a very posh apartment, it had a doorman, I never lived anywhere by myself with a doorman.

"This looks nice." Morgan said while we where on the elevator.

"Yup."

As we got in to the apartment I thought about my last place, I liked there, I used to feel comfortable. But here, I felt home. I liked the view on the old one, it had a park near and I could see the threes and the people, and at night I could hear the wind.

In here I had the view of the Washington monument something that always made me thought of my parents. And the place looked like an adult's apartment. My last place looked like a college student princess.

It was amazing. It had a kitchen in dark wood and totally well done, the leaving room was spacious and on the upstairs floor were two bedrooms and a little office.

But what really got to me was the walk in closet, which woman could resist a walk in closet like that?

"I see that you found the closet" Morgan whispered in my ear, startling me. He had walked me through the do's and don'ts of renting a place, and getting excited about something was a don't.

"Tell me about this one! Please tell me it has all the tactical crap you all think I should think about."

"Yes, it does have all that, and it's around your weird budget, according to Garcia, so calm down." Morgan laughed at me.

"Well on my last place I decided I didn't want to pay too much on rent and look where that got me. So I decided that I wanted a bigger, better and adult apartment"

"Adult apartment?"

"All the places I lived by myself looked like a college student place, or a single woman waiting to move out place. I do own a couple places that I rent out, but that was my dad's and he just passed it to my name and made me accept it." I really was a daddy's little girl, I know. But I had never spent the money I got from those places, so I had enough saved. "So I decided to invest in my next place".

"So you want to buy it?" He asked surprised

"I sent my dad the information and he told me that three of the places we saw this week were good properties to own and this was one of them. He said that if I liked it and if my friend gave the ok on the technical stuff I should." I explained.

"So, what do you think?"

"Maybe I should get this one. Dad always said I should invest in places like this. Invest in places you like so you can have the pleasure of owning and taking care it." I said quoting my dad.

"I think it has all it takes to be a good place, nice neighborhood, good alarm system, a doorman, it's close enough to stores for emergencies but not enough that you will be bother by noises or anything." How did he know all that?

"Basically if you don't get this one, I might."

"So you think it's a good one?"

"What are you so worried about? I saw your face when we got here, you like it. And I'm telling you it has what it takes, the price is fair, the location is good, it's a good one."

"It's just I never made a decision like this one. This is big. I always rented single bedrooms that I never spent much time in." I just never had to buy a place, I never stayed too long somewhere. I guess now is different I want to stay here.

"Oh and Em, you haven't seen the Jacuzzi yet."

"The what?" Was he joking?

"Ok, so how are you feeling after just buying something?" Morgan asked as he took a sip of his beer.

"I guess I'm ok. I didn't really spend my money, It was all from my parent's place. I never used the money because I felt guilty that I had rich parents, and now I spent it all at once." Weird that I felt this calm having just gone through so much money in just one signature.

"I guess it pays off to have loaded parents huh?"

"It does when they feel guilty you spent most of your life without seeing, hearing or being with them. When I was nine my dad was on a assignment and my mother was relocated, I spent eight months without being with either of them." That had being a cool year, to get rid of the guilt they sent me on a world tour with four different nannies, and teachers to be homeschooled, well not really, since I wasn't home, but anyway.

"I'm sorry, but that sucks Em."

"Yes it did. I guess I don't feel that guilty because I used the money to get something they never gave me. A home." And thinking about that made me a little sad, I never had childhood friends, I never had a house with memories, I never had a place I could said was a safe port for me. "Ok, I think we need to get something stronger, I want scotch." Derek looked at me and started laughing.

"Ok, let's go all out little missy."

I woke up with something calling me. Wait not calling, singing. Not singing, what was that? I tried moving around, apparently I fell asleep on someone's stairs, I think I'll regret this in the morning, but right now I'm still too drunk to care.

I reach for the very weird singing object that apparently is a phone just to step on something on the floor and fall face first on the floor. Good God, I don't feel so good.

"What?"

"Who is this?"

"Who is calling?"

"Emily?"

"Yes?"

After a few minutes of silence I see Morgan coming over, and I dropped the phone, oh god my stomach is really pissed at me right now.

"Hey, you ok?"

"I don't feel so good."

"Well you shouldn't have gone for the scotch bottle after the beers. I mean damn woman, I've never seen a woman drink like that and keep her pants on"

"The pants stay on, but the contents of my stomach are starting to argue with that logic, so point the bathroom before both of us regret our drinking excursion. " I was already up and trying to get my legs to work until I got to the bathroom.

After puking for about fifteen minutes Morgan helped me back to the couch.

"How did we get here? And better yet why was I sleeping on the stairs" I asked.

" You were sleeping on the stairs? God I woke up in the kitchen floor. And you decided you didn't want to go all the way back to the hotel at one in the morning when you would have to be back here at six for our little trip." OH FUCK.

"Oh no. No, no, no, no, no."

"Oh yes."

"Morgan I can't go on a trip with my boss and his family half drunk."

"It's going to be better by the time we have to leave."

"I'll be hung over. You can't do this to me."

"Princess I'm a very weird drunk, and so I'm not going to remember half of our conversation and will be just as hung over, so no worries, we will make asses out of ourselves together just fine."

"I'm going to kill Garcia."

"Again the idea of the scotch bottle was yours."

"But not the "let's celebrate you new place by getting smashed."" He at least had the decency of blushing.

"Come on, to the guest bedroom with you, we still have three more hours of sleep that I intend to enjoy." And then he proceeded to walk right into the wall

"Shit, are you ok."

"Yeah. I won't feel a thing until the morning." I recalled the phone call

"Oh, why does your phone is that weird?"

"My sister gave it to me as a joke, it's a jukebox and each time it rings it's a different song." Ha, that is a strange thing to find in his house."Wait, did the phone ring?"

"I guess, I think it was a woman. I don't remember much."

"I'm never drinking with you again."

"I second that." We helped each other upstairs and I didn't even feel my head hit the pillow.