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Season 2 Episode 20 = Honor Among Thieves

How bad of a daughter was I that I didn't even know my mother didn't have an assignment? If dad gone I couldn't leave her like this, even being very distant she was my mother.

"So, I just need to finish my file and give to agent Hotchner and then we can go."

"I'll take the driver and pick you up at the BAU."

"There is no need for that, I have a car."

"And also you don't want me back in your office."

"Well let's just say that you finally compensated the not showing up at school to embarrassed your kid ritual all parents do."

"Don't be so dramatic Emily."

I always thought it was funny how she never had a nickname for me, it was always don't do this Emily, don't do that Emily, so by the time I was six I started calling her Mother, capital M, and ambassador Prentiss to other people.

She wasn't a fan, but dad encouraged, so I kept it up. By the time I was teen I did it because it pissed her off, especially at governments events. And now I just did it because that is what I called her, Mother or ambassador Prentiss.

"Ok, as soon as you get there call me." I said getting to the my car with her accompanying me.

"I'll come in to say hi, you never showed me your desk."

"My desk?"

"Well I just want to be thorough with the embarrassing experience thing." She winked at me and started to walk back to the house. It pissed me off that dad was right; we were way too much alike.

After finishing my report and getting everything sorted out I got my file and went to agent Hotchner's office to hand it over and go to have dinner.

"Sir." I ask knocking on his door.

"Prentiss." He mentioned for me to come in, I could see he was on the phone, so I sat down and waited.

"Yes, it's her." He rolled his eyes. "Yes, I'll. Love you too. Bye." He hang up his phone. "Hayley and Jack said hi." He told me seriously.

"I say hi back." I responded wittily. He looked up startled at my joke, I was never like this around him, so I guess it should be off character. "I just want to hand you my file, Ambassador Prentiss wanted me to say thank you for your decision to take the case."

"Okay."

"You don't really know how to act around her do you?" I remember that besides talking about the case he tried to maintain a good distance from her at all times, and even sent me to talk to her.

"Between us, your mother can be a very intimidating woman."

"Really? Did something happen when you were doing her security detail?"

"Let's just say she knew how to put young agents on their feet, and we were reminded of that a few times." I cracked up at that, I knew how my mother could be, so I could guess how things had being, but knowing that my boss was "intimidated" by my mother over things that happened over 15 years ago was a laugh. "Good thing that it can amuse you agent."

"Oh sir, I know how she can be, I just think it's funny she caused that much of an impression."

"She is a remarkable woman."

"Yes, the Russians are still getting over her remarkable being for the looks of it. Can you believe they call me little Emily?" I don't know what made me share, but he was being nice, and since the visit to the burnt unit I decided to patch things up with people.

"Well she probably scares them too." A knock on the door and we looked up to see Reid at the door.

"Em, your mother is at your desk, and she is asking questions." His face was priceless. I got up to leave when Reid interrupted me. "She asked for you too Hotch." I laughed as I left the room, this was going to be fun.

We got to my table and mother was sitting on my chair looking inside my desk drawer.

"Chocolates are on the next one Mother." She looked up, smiled and proceeded to open the next drawer.

"So agent Hotchner, I haven't seen you since you fell into my pool about 15 year ago right?" The whole bullpen went quiet and surprised.

"Yes mam." The pink cheeks were a quite surprising addition to agent Hotchner's face.

"Good times Hotch?" Morgan asked laughing.

"Mother this is agent Morgan, Agent Jeraou, agent Garcia, and agent Reid. I believe agent Gideon already left." I presented the whole team.

"I appreciate all the help on the case."

"It was just our job mam." JJ stated.

"Well we have to go." I decided.

"Already, not even one embarrassing story from Emily?" Morgan asked.

"Well, Emily was never one to have embarrassing moments, after all what can you expect from a four year old that slap the Russian Ambassador and told him she had not giving him permission to kiss her cheek.

After that all the agents cracked up and I was sure ambassador Prentiss need to be removed immediately.

"Are you serious, little Emily was already a kick ass kid, with all due respect mam." Garcia asked between laugher.

"Well he was asking for it, never kiss a lady without her permission." I said with the little pride that was left. "Well Mother, we should get going."

"Thank you all for the hospitality." Mother was always nice to people, until she had to show her claws and you saw her other side. "Oh, and agent Hotchner, I redid the outside area since the last time you were there, maybe you would like to secure the pool again?" We left before mother could take another shot at me ot at the senior profiler.

As soon as our plates were delivered ambassador Prentiss was at my throat.

"So, anything new in your life?"

"Yes, I moved, as I'm sure dad told you." I new where she wanted to get at.

"Yes I heard. I wanted to send you something but your dad told me to wait until you told me to actually buy anything."

"Well then, to be honest I moved because my apartment got broken into."

"Emily, how did you not mention it before? What was taken? Were you hurt?" She could be heartless, but she had more moments of great affection, those were just more controlled then anything.

"It's fine Mother, I wasn't there, and a lot of my personal stuff was taken, and a few things of furniture I had…"

"More on the lines of all the furniture you had, knowing you." I had to smile at that.

"I found a nice place now, and I want you to see it, maybe we can go there tonight?" And I decided to take the initiative and tell her about my around 1 month boyfriend." My boyfriend is helping me finally move in next weekend." I waited for the reaction.

"Boyfriend Emily?"

"Yes, he is a doctor, from London. His name is Liam."

"Does he treat you right?"

"Is this the 18th century? He is nice."

"Well I'm glad then my dear. You always liked imposing mans" Mother chuckled at that.

"Very funny. "

"Your father will be back next week."

"So?"

"He is going to want to meet him dear, you do know your father." And that was her way of saying; you are bringing him to dinner so we will meet him.

"You did ordered the bed and the couch, so we are here to buy what?" Ok, Mr. British was trying to organize our shopping, but he was not aware that besides work, I wasn't the most organized person.

"Ok, no organizing, I look, I like, I buy. Understood?" Liam rolled his eyes at me.

"Emily, that is infuriating, we have to know what you need."

''I lived with 4 pieces of furniture for about 2 months, so I don't NEED anything. I WANT to buy things, so be quiet and let's shop." I smiled at him and we were off with a kart.

"I lived in D.C. for less time then you and I have more furniture then you."

"Quiet honey, today you are just the muscles."

"Sure thing darling." He stole a kiss and pushed the kart forward living me looking at the bedside tables.

"What was that honey?"

"Ok, I'll bow to your superior knowledge of decoration."

"See, that wasn't so hard." I laughed at him.

"But you still don't have enough furniture."

"I want one T.V. and then for today I'm done. I don't really want to buy too much at once." I looked guilty at him, he put his arm around my waist and we started pushing the cart to the check out line.

"Ok, let's go." Sometimes I found incredible how much I enjoyed being this mushy with him, I was never like this. Was it because I was getting old? Or was it him?

As he started to drive off so we could go buy my T.V. I decided to bring up a subject I had being postponing.

"What are you doing on Saturday?"

"I'm on call on Saturday, I have a 36 hours duty. Why?"

"The team is coming to my house for a movie night, that Reid and I are forbidden of choosing of course, so I was just wondering." I was a little relieved that he wasn't coming, and I could not point out to myself why.

"I would've liked to be there. I'm sorry." It still sucked when his schedule would get in the way of our plan, I was used to it being just mine. "So who is all coming?"

"Everyone, except agent Hotch and Gideon." I had finally created a better work relationship with JJ and Hotch

FLASHBACK

Monday came and I got to work early with a resolve in my mind. I was going to fix this with JJ and Hotchner. I think with the male agent things would always be weird but after the events of last week it would be better.

Since I had gotten there so early I went straight to Hotchner's office, and decided to start with a story my mother told me, to break the ice, and also try to make fun of him.

"Good Morning." I knocked on the door.

"Morning Prentiss." I sat down on the chair in front of him and saw him look up from one of the consultation files.

"Sir, I would like to know the story of your so famous security inspection of my mother pool, if you wouldn't mind me asking, of course." I smiled at the pink tone his cheeks got.

"Yes, I'm sure you would." He chuckled a bit.

"Did you actually got scared when she called your name?" I hadn't actually believed her on that, but she didn't divulge anything else.

"We got to the house way earlier then we were suppose to, and the maid had told us to be quiet, that she would be extremely upset if we disturbed her. So I was walking around the pool and I thought I saw something at the bottom of the pool, so I leaned down to look better at it." I smiled at that.

"And that is when she decided to call you and you ended up inside the pool."

"Yes, as a matter of fact. I just prayed that I wouldn't get a ridiculous nickname after that incident. I was relived when the agents on the team decided on Hotch." I snorted at that, Hotch was definitely an easy one compared to what some agents had to endure on the start of their careers.

"Well Hotch, thank you for this very informative story." I saw that he noted that I had called him Hotch, it was time to have a stable work relationship, otherwise things would be difficult for the whole team. I stoop up and walked to the door.

"Prentiss, I would appreciate if this story stayed between us."

"Does that mean no telling Morgan?" I asked smiling.

"Definitely not."

"Understood sir."

"You off to see JJ?" He asked having already gone back to analyzing his file, and throwing me off.

"Yes, how did you know?"

"You seemed like you were on a mission when you got here" He said pointing at his blinds.

"Yes, well, I'm in a forgive and forget kind of mood."

"I think we should all do that from time to time. Some of the misunderstandings in life are just that, and not actually antagonizing ones."

"Well sir, we will see."

Walking to miss Jeraou's office I could hear her on the phone with office La Montagne since the case we had in New Orleans, every single day, but she thought none of us knew.

I knocked on the door as soon as she was done. "Can I come in?"

"Emily! Of course you can."

"We need to talk JJ." Seeing her face at my words I knew she understood me. "I just want to know why, I mean, why all that? Did I do something? Disrespected you?"

"Emily no, I swear not." She took a deep breath. "It wasn't fair to you, at all. Since you got here, you were so put together and ready to face anything that anyone gave you. You had the skills the abilities and the nerves. You were a BAU agent from day one.

I guess I was a little jealous of that. I had to get used to, I am not a profiler, I am mostly here or in the back seat on cases and even then it took me a while to get used to, and it took Hotch a while to let me handle some things." She looked at me and I could see she was upset by her own behavior.

"I know I was horrible to you, and that you didn't deserve any of it. I do want to apologize for that. At the beginning I was trying to get you, and then with that whole thing with Reid, I kind of snapped. I was so scared that day, and there you were just profiling and getting it done, because we need to, to help Reid, and I felt like shit for not being able to."

"JJ, I appreciate the apology, I didn't deserve that. But I guess we can leave it in the past you know, take things forward."

"Good, I would appreciate that."

"Just one more question on the subject, why tell Hotch I spent the night at Morgan's?" I had being curios about that from the beginning.

"What? I never told Hotch, I went to Garcia's on Saturday morning and told her, she was waiting for some friends, so I admit I gossiped a little and went for a run afterwards. How did he find that out? I swear I didn't tell him, I would never do that."

"I guess Mr. Hotchner did some eavesdropping on you and Garcia. He was the one going to her house. We kind of did a little outing, that was not suppose to have Hotch there, but anyway, he interrogated Morgan, telling him that you were the source. I guess it would be bad to say he overheard something."

"Gosh, I understand yours and Morgan's heated looks at me, I would be mad too."

"Well someone told me that we should let go of misunderstandings. So it's all good now right?"

"Thank God."

END OF FLASHBACK

"Why not them?"

"Well Hotch is going to his wife's family house somewhere, and Gideon never goes to those things."

"Ohhh….So the whole gang will be there."

"Yes they will. But you will meet them someday."

"Well I liked being invited, I had my doubts that you hadn't told anyone that we were dating yet. So, are we stopping at the grocery store to get ice cream and pasta for dinner?" He asked already distracted and walking away, but the only thing on my mind was:

SHIT.