A/N: I know this is a long chapter, but it's a good one!

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Season 2 Episode 17 = Distress (follows chapter 9, not a new episode)

I'm going to kill Morgan eventually. Or get killed by him.

I slept for maybe three hours and had being throwing up since I woke up. But actually it wasn't that bad. Morgan had given her a pill telling her it would make the "tomorrow effects" of the drinking better. What the hell was that? Was it legal?

Morgan showed up in the bathroom looking like shit, I guess as much as me.

"What did you gave me last night?"

"It's a liver medicine, it make's the next morning experience better right?"

"It freaking does. And I'm glad it's legal." My head finally came out of the toilet for good. Nothing else was coming out.

"I'm going to get ready, call Penelope and tell her we will be late, then we are going to your hotel, get you ready and finally go to this weird as hell trip."

"It really is, isn't it? A trip from hell."

"Well, looking at the bright side, you aren't homeless anymore."

"Don't remind me, I'm still trying to take it in…Slowly." Morgan cracked up at that.

"I'm taking a shower, care to join me?" Gosh, he was such a weird joker.

"Dream on buddy. I'm getting food. A greasy one at that." I got up and went to the sink, he had already taken a new toothbrush out for me.

"Your loss. I have chips in the cupboards, let's get a real breakfast at the restaurant."

"We sure will. "

"Derek freaking Morgan I am going to murder you!"

"I know, I know." I laughed at Morgan's face as he talked on the phone with Garcia. I was finishing breakfast and he was talking to Penelope on the phone, and boy was she pissed.

"We just need one more hour Pen, I'm taking Emily to her hotel, she will get ready and we will go." He decided to do the call on speaker phone so she could yell at both of us, but apparently since I was homeless she decided Morgan was the one at fault.

"How the hell did the both of you thought it was a good idea to go drinking last night? With this goddamn trip today? Did you realize that I'll be the one to stay here awkwardly with my boss's family waiting for you?" I did not envy her, at all. Well at least he liked her, I didn't have the same experience.

"Baby girl, we are sorry."

"Hey Pen, I'm sorry, we won't do it again, but please don't tell anyone, and please don't say anything about hangover."

"I cannot believe you are going to make me stay here alone with the Hotchner's."

"Well if you hadn't bladed you didn't have to, right?" This was a low one, but I was still pissed at that, weekends were sacred, they had to be spent away from cranky, judgmental people. And that is why Blondie was not invited.

"I said I was sorry."

"We really didn't plan this to get even, and I promise to be quick."

"Ok, let me get out now, they are here. Wish me luck."

"I do, because you are going to need it."

We got to Penelope's house and I really wanted to duck inside the car. There was still time to back out. I could live without a working computer, because Penelope sure as hell wouldn't forgive me.

"We are not driving off, come on, Penelope will crash all of our technology items if we don't get out now, especially because they all saw us, well me since you insist on being down there." Morgan parked the car and looked at me.

"I'm looking for something." I insisted.

"Yes, your pride. Now let's go." Morgan opened the door and started getting out of the car. "Don't make me go over there to get you."

I straighten up, got my purse and left the car.

"Hey!" Morgan said as he and I got close to the party of people I could see everyone minus Penelope looked surprised at seeing us.

"Hey guys, we didn't know you were the ones coming." Hayley tried to make it less weird.

"Oh, I didn't mention that?" Penelope really needed to step up her poker face.

"No, you did not." See, cranky ass.

"Hi" Oh My God, the kid is cute.

"Hello." I decided to talk to the kid, he wasn't as loud as the others. He smiled a big smile at me. "What is your name?"

"Tell her your name sweetie" Hayley was holding him.

"I Jack."

"Hi Jack, I'm Emily. Nice to meet you." I patted his hair, he had the softest hair ever. He giggled and hid his face in his mother's shoulder. "He is really cute."

"Thanks."

"So, how are we going to do this?" I tuned the conversation off and stepped away pretending to look for something on my purse, my head was not my friend today.

"Well we should get back in the car soon, I don't want to get there too late." Great way of cutting the conversation short and getting back to the car so I could sleep it off.

"Ok, Prentiss and Garcia and I will take one car and you can follow us Hotch. Emily has the address on her GPS."

"How about we take only one car, on the trunk of ours we have two more seats." Oh please no.

"It's fine Mrs. Hotchner, we can take my car too." Morgan desperately tried for my sake.

"Come on guys, it's the weekend, you don't need to call us Mr. and Mrs. Hotchner, we have a first names, even if Aaron forgets it sometimes." She argued pointing at her husband.

"Sorry, but I'm sticking with Hotch." Morgan replied grimacing.

"Me too, sorry." Garcia agreed. I didn't have anything to say, after all I was still on the Agent Hotchner or SIR name base.

"I guess I can't win this one, huh?"

"Can we stop at a seven eleven? I need more coffee." and headache pills.

"Oh, we sure can princess." Morgan was of course in need of the same items.

"Ohhh I can get a French Vanilla Iced Coffee"

"Sure Pen, whatever you want."

We got back into the car and drove to the seven eleven, Penelope had sweetly offer to drive, since she knew Morgan and I were about useless. As we got there Hotch and Morgan decided to be the manly men and get gas as us girls got the necessities. I got off the car and went to look for our much needed items.

I had about everything I needed hangover speaking when I decided to get doughnuts for everyone and magazines. I was walking to the doughnuts stand when I felt my jeans leg being pulled. When I looked down I saw cute brown eyes and blond hair.

"Jack, does mommy know you came here?" He shook his head.

"Hey Hayley, Jack and I are going to get doughnuts ok?" I shouted to the woman who was with Penelope getting iced coffees. Hearing the ok I got Jack in one arm and the basket in the other, if he could get away that easily I wanted to get three steps ahead of the cute little boy.

"So what type of doughnuts do you like Jack?" He didn't look bother by the fact that I picked him up.

"Choco'ate" Which I guess is chocolate.

"Me too, what do you think about we getting everybody some chocolate doughnuts for the trip?" He enthusiastically nodded his head.

"YES!"

I started getting our treats and he proceeded to blab while he played with my shirt and my hair. After getting two separate bags I decided that Magazines for me and a coloring book for Jack were a good idea.

After getting magazines that would interest Penelope, Morgan and me, and some for Jack to be distracted I started heading back to the cashier when I saw little Jack eyeing some chips.

"You want one of those?" I asked and he nodded shyly.

"Let's do like this, we can get a small pack if you let mom decided when you can have it, can you do that for me?" I knew that it was a long shot, but hey the kid was cute.

"Yes."

"Ok then big man, let's go pay for all of this." The girls were still in line to get the coffees and I was yawning every five seconds, so I just paid for my stuff and got their attention and said I would go to the cars with Jack.

When I got close to the car I could hear Morgan and Hotch talking.

"No, I'm not sleeping with Prentiss." What the fuck?

"I just wanted to know Morgan, don't take it the wrong way." What other way could it be taken when your boss goes snooping around your sex life.

"JJ had no right to go talk to you just because Emily answered my phone, yes she was at my house, and yes she slept there, but that was all that she did." I really had to have a good conversation with Blondie.

"She didn't meant it that way, I'm sure"

"Oh really, she had good intentions? I'm sure the same good ones when she dished Emily to our boss in the middle of the Tobias Hankel case while Reid was still missing." Hotch looked surprised Morgan knew about that.

"I knew Prentiss was upset about that, but it was unprofessional to…" And my weekend just got a lot worse.

"She didn't man, I heard it, who didn't, with both of you accusing her of…"

"Leave it alone Morgan." I interrupted.

"Prentiss I.."

"Leave it." I didn't even look at him. "Can you open the car door so I can put Jack in his seat." He tried getting the bags but I was pissed damn it, so I just raised one eyebrow and he decided not to fight me.

"Can Emmy dive here?" I was surprised with the question, and from the look of the other so were they.

"I'm going to drive with Derek, but we will see you at the museum okay bud? Here are the books you choose, and I'll give the food to mommy okay?" I put him in his seat and left Agent Hotchner to finish getting him set.

"Em.."

"Leave it Morgan, we will talk in the car." Garcia and Hayley came back and soon noticed the awkward silence.

"Here, I thought doughnuts were a good snack for the trip, and Jack asked for the chips, but agreed to eat when you decide." I handed the things to Hayley.

"Let me pay you for…."

"No need sir." I just turned my back and headed to the other car.

"Emily I'm really sorry." So we were doing this.

"Morgan, leave it alone."

"Oh no my super agent, I want to know what happened before we got there, because believe me, Mrs. Hotchner is doing the exactly same thing as me." Great.

"Apparently JJ called last night and Emily answered, so JJ decided to tell Hotch. What she thought she would accomplish with that is beyond me." Morgan wasn't happy ether, and that is what I was trying to avoid.

"I'm sorry Morgan."

"You don't have to apologize, I invited you in to my home, she shouldn't be gossiping to the boss like a snitch."

"Look, let's just forget this, otherwise the whole trip will be a fiasco. I'll think about what to do later." As if I would really do that, I just wanted people to forget about it. I was so embarrassed, my boss thinks I'm an unprofessional gossip who sleeps with the co-workers and whines about it to others.

"Em, what do you mean what you are going to do about it? Please don't tell me you are going to leave ?" Garcia looked horrified and Morgan spooked.

"You can't do that, I know JJ is not this bad person. I don't know what has got into her, and why she is acting like this towards you, but you can't leave."

"I won't, but I'm getting to the bottom of this." Maybe. "Come on, I bought magazine's and chocolate doughnuts, and chips. Let's do what we wanted to do from the beginning and have a good time."

"We here mommy, we here Emmy!" Jack half yelled, half said while jumping up and down.

"Yes we are, what do you want to see first?" I asked as he got closer to me. We had stopped side by side and while the Hotchner's took the stroller and diaper bag out of the car Jack came to me.

"Panes Emmy, you hafto see panes wif me." He put his two little arms up for me to hold him, and I was quick to follow his command, after all if I have the kid, cranky bastard won't try to talk to me.

"Sure we can." I put him down when he started wiggling and he ran back to his parents, as soon as both of them looked at me, I decided it was time to start walking to get my ticket.

After we got in we all looked into the main room together, and then Jack wanted to go to the kid's activity center and Morgan wanted to see the simulator and so we just naturally split up.

After almost 2 hours it was already lunchtime and I went to the food court to get some lunch, but I wasn't prepared to the little ball that hit me in the legs crying.

"Jack?" I could see Hayley coming with a smile on her face.

"You pomised Miss Emmy." I looked at Hayley for an explanation; I had no idea what the little crying boy meant.

"He said you promised to go see the planes with him, and so he wouldn't go with me and Aaron, and when we came to have lunch he wanted to wait for you." Ohh, that is the sweetest thing I have ever heard.

"Jack, I haven't seen the planes yet either. I waited for you." He looked up at me. "How about we get some lunch and then go see the planes?" He started nodding and put his arms up for me to get him.

"You are really good with him, do you have kids?"

"No, not yet. But I really like kids" I rubbed my hand on Jack's back while he calmed down. "What do you want to eat?"

"Old McDonald?" I laughed at the way he called the restaurant.

"Old McDonalds it is." I started walking to the place.

"You don't have to eat there with him. We will just get his food and take it to where Aaron is. Morgan and Garcia are there also." Uhg, they were just waiting for me?

"It's fine."

After getting Jack's happy meal we got to the table, and Jack wanted to sit between his mother and me. So after rearranging everybody we finally sat down to eat.

"So you guys went to look for apartments this week, anything interesting?" Why does he think I want to talk to him?

"No."

"Yes"

Morgan and I said at the same time. We looked at each other and before things got weird I decided to intervene.

"We looked at some interesting ones, but I haven't made a decision yet." I looked at down at the menu.

"Prentiss, look I know that it sounded like I was talking about you…." But he was interrupted before he could say something.

"Not now Aaron"

"Leave it Agent Hotchner."

Morgan and Penelope looked like they wanted to be anywhere but at the table, and I was starting to fell the same way.

"Prentiss you don't need to call me Agent Hotchner, Hotch is fine." No way in hell.

"Understood sir." And he looked a little angry at that. And for some reason I was very please with it.

I ordered my food and kept playing with Jack, he was a cutie and very polite. The others would try to include me in conversation, but I really just wanted to get out of there. Who tries to apologize for embarrassing someone by doing it in front of a table full of people, was the man clueless?

After lunch I did as I had promised and went to see the planes with Jack. He stayed with me the whole exhibit and I told him a few stories I knew about planes, by the time I realized one hour had passed, the little boy in my arms was asleep and I couldn't find anyone.

So I decided to go sit down at the entrance and try to call Morgan or Penelope. I sat down and before I could get my phone out, Agent Hotchner decided to show up.

"There you are, I went back to the planes but you had already left. Hayley and Penelope are at the gift shop and Morgan is talking to a girl." I rolled my eyes at that, only Morgan would pick up a girl in circumstances like this.

"So…" He started by I had no intention of making things easier for him. "I'm sorry."

I didn't respond.

"We have to talk about this, this situation you created…"

"I created?" Did he really just say that? "Because what happened was that unfortunately Garcia invited Mrs. Hotchner, actually that is not true, because she is wonderful, and Jack is one of the most pleasant kids I have ever seen.

But you agent, are as much insulting and disrespectful as an agent as you are as a man." I was going to get all that was bottled up out, that is what he wanted right? "You have undermined me, ridiculed me, and made it clear I didn't belong, You don't like me, fine. You don't like that I have influent parents, fine"

"I didn't mean.." He tried to get a word in, but I didn't let him, he had said enough.

"You want to get me out of the team, fine. You want to make campaign with your bosses to get me out of the freaking FBI, I don't really care. But I know I do a good job, I was born for this unit and until now I have not let anything or anyone convince me of the opposite." I took a deep breath and decided to continue.

"But you know what, I getting sick and tired of yours and Miss Jereau games around here. She wants to whisper in everyone's ears and spread her rumors, and you sir, encourages her." He looked surprised at that.

"Now that maybe the kind of politics games you like to play agent Hotchner but I'm only here because of the job that I like and of the abilities I have."

"Agent Prentiss I know your start in the BAU was hard, and mostly because of me. But I can't be blamed for questioning a file that is so clearly masked as yours." Son of a bitch.

"So that is all this is about? The fact that you don't have clearance enough to get to my whole file? You are actually offended by that aren't you? That is pathetic." I stood up as I saw Hayley getting close to us with Garcia and Morgan a few feet behind her.

"Here is Jack, he didn't last the whole exhibition, he is a wonderful little boy Hayley. I'm going to go now, you guys enjoy the rest of your day." I went to get my purse from the bench I was sitting on.

"Prentiss wait."

"Please tell Jack I enjoyed spending the day with him."

"Em, wait, I'll take you back."

"Thanks Morgan, but no thanks." I turned around and fled before anything else could be said.