"Alex." James said softly, waking her up that morning after she had fallen asleep in the chair by her daughters hospital bed.
"Your here." Blake replied and smiled, however winced as she noticed how stiff her neck was upon waking, no doubt the rest of her would be stiff to after sleeping in a hospital chair all night.
"Yes, I arrived last night, I didn't want to wake you." He told her. "How is she doing?"
"Not to bad, the doctors are going to release her today." Blake replied. "I should call Hotch, tell him I won't be in. I'm just outside if she asks for me." Blake told James, standing up to go out of the room, as suspected she was also still elsewhere from the night sleeping in a hospital chair.
"Sure. I'll be here until Sunday evening though, so if you want to go into work you can." James told her. "I'll look after Clara."
"James, it's fine. I should stay here, at least until they release her anyway." Blake replied, normally work always came first, it helped her to cope with the loss of Ethan, but after this with Clara, she had to come first, always. Heading out the room she made a call to Hotch, wondering how much she would actually tell him.
"Hello?" Hotch answered, while he was rushing around making sure Jack looked half presentable and ready for school, while getting himself ready for work.
"Hey Hotch." Blake greeted.
"Hey Blake, What's up?" He asked.
"Oh uh. I'm not going to make it in today." She told him, sighing. She had never been off work before apart from for work related injuries.
"Why? Are you sick or something?" He asked.
"No... I'm not sick. My daughter's in hospital." She told him.
"Oh. Is she alright?" Hotch asked. "Take as much time as you need, ok." He told her.
"Thanks Hotch and she will be, hopefully." Blake replied, knowing that the doctor may be-able to get her to be physically well for a while but if she continued binging and purging it could quite easily kill her.
"Ok, well tell her I said get well soon for me ok?" Hotch asked.
"Yeah sure... Hotch. I should be in tomorrow but can I not travel with you for a while? Just until things settle down with Clara, I would like to be within driving distance of her, that's all." Blake asked.
"Yes, that's fine. It does depend on the nature of the case though, sometimes we might need you in the field but most of the time we should be-able to accommodate it." Hotch told her.
"Thankyou Hotch."
"It's no worries, bye Blake." He said before she ended the phone call.
Entering back into Clara's room Blake sighed and paced around a bit, not wanting to sit back in that chair for a while. "Hey mom." Clara greeted, sounding a little brighter than she did the day before.
"Hey darling." Blake replied, hugging her daughter gently, avoiding the IV.
"Dad?" Clara asked, only just having noticed James was in the room.
"Hey Clar." He replied smiling.
"I missed you."
"You too." James replied, as with Blake also wondering how he hadn't noticed it. Maybe if he'd been around more it wouldn't have come to this and he would have picked up the signs. "Feeling better?" He asked.
"Yeah, I guess." She replied.
A couple of hours later the doctor allowed her to be released after getting her height and weight and referring her to some specialists.
In the Masson house Roxanne woke up to the sound of her Alarm happy to be going back to work, getting up she took a shower and got herself dressed into a blouse and a pair of black pants.
"Morning." Tyler greeted as she came out of the bathroom, having only recently woke up himself.
"Morning babes." She replied, hugging him and kissing him on the cheek.
"Hey are you going to work?" He asked, not sure whether she should be going back just yet.
"Uh yes... I am." Roxanne replied, packing her bag.
"You sure your ready?" He asked.
"Yes..." She replied.
"Ok... well do you want me to make you breakfast?" He asked.
"No... I'm not hungry." She said truthfully, as with her last miscarriage, she had completely lost her appetite in the past week. "But thanks."
"It's ok." Tyler replied, he remembered this last time and knew she would get her appetite back eventually.
"See you later unless we have to travel ok? Around 6." Roxanne told him.
"Sure, see you." Tyler replied.
Going downstairs Roxanne made herself a coffee and fed her 9 month old daughter, Lottie her breakfast. "Hey." Dana greeted, coming down the stairs to get her breakfast before she went to school,
"Hey Dana." Roxanne greeted.
"Dae-a" Lottie said excitedly,
Dana laughed at Lottie's attempt to say her name and smiled. "Hey Lottie." She greeted, then noticed Roxanne still didn't seem herself "Are you ok?" She asked.
"Yes... I'm fine." She replied, hoping to be convincing.
"Can you please not lie to me!" Dana said, feeling hurt.
"Sorry... it's just..." Roxanne replied sighing.
"What's wrong?" Dana asked. "You can tell me..." She said, as she finished making her breakfast, sitting to eat it.
"I had a miscarriage..." She replied sadly, trying to hold back tears.
"I'm sorry." Dana responded, not really sure what else to say. "
"It's ok..." Roxanne replied, washing up after feeding Lottie before picking her up out of her high chair so she could hug her before having to go to work.
A few minutes later Tyler came down.
"Dadda!" Lottie exclaimed excitedly.
"Hey Tyler." Roxanne greeted.
"Morning again." Tyler greeted, pouring himself some musili for breakfast. "Hey darling baby girl." He said, greeting Lottie. "Pass her here Rox."
"Sure." Roxy replied, kissing her daughter on the head. "Mommy has to go to work darling." She told Lottie before handing her to Tyler.
"Bye Rox." Tyler said, while she was getting her bag. "I love you." He told her. This was something he did before she went to work every day, because one day she may never come back and he wanted her to know, all the time that he loved her.
"Love you too." Roxanne responded. "Bye." She said before heading out the door.
Arriving at the office she got there as the same time as Reid. "Welcome back; feeling better?" He asked.
"Uh, yeah... yes. I am feeling better thanks." She replied as they got into the elevator.
"You sure?" He asked again, noticing how she responded and also how she had lost 3lb in the last week.
"Spencer, I'm feeling better." She replied, much more convincingly this time.
"Your in early, for you." He noted.
"Well I probably have a ton of paperwork to do and I've been off for a week, it's good to come in early." She explained.
"That makes sense." Reid replied, as they got out of the elevator and headed to their respective desks. Roxanne sighed, shoving down her bag; as she had expected she had a lot of paperwork to catch up on.
Starting working through the files she sighed, paperwork was always so boring. After a couple of hours Roxanne could barley focus. She was so god damned tired. "Hey Roxy? You feeling ok?" He asked.
"Yeah... I guess. Just really tired." She replied, staring at the same part of a file for much longer than she usually would, unable to get her head round it. "I'm going to get a coffee." She told him, before getting up to make herself a coffee.
"Roxanne, you didn't have to come back today." Hotch told her as he was also making a coffee.
"I know Hotch. I know... I just need a distraction, anythings better than staying at home with nothing to focus my mind on." She explained.
"I know the feeling, you ok?" He asked.
"I don't know..." She replied.
"Well that's always positive." He said sarcastically. "Hey how about you come to Seattle to interview Matthew Jackson. It'll give you a distraction and we can take the Jet." He offered.
"Sure, When do we leave?" Roxanne asked.
"Now that's the Roxanne I know." He replied. "8:30am." He answered her question. "We should be back Wednesday afternoon."
"Ok, thanks Hotch." She replied, getting her Coffee and going back to her desk to finish off the pile of paperwork.
Garcia and Kevin were at the doctor's, waiting to be called in. Garcia was tapping her feet nervously, the strong smell of Coffee causing her stomach to twist and turn. She tried to keep it together and hold the coming vomit down but she knew she couldn't. Holding her hand over her mouth she got up and ran into the loo, expelling the contents of her fragile stomach.
Kevin waited outside the door for her to come out, figuring it wouldn't be appropriate to go into the ladies loos. "You alright Pen?" He asked her as she came out.
"Yes. It's just morning sickness." She replied sighing as he hugged her and they went to sit back down in the waiting room.
A few minutes later they were called in. First the doctor did some routine tests such as blood pressure, also they confirmed the pregnancy.
After the routine tests were done Garcia had to have an ultrasound done. "It may feel a bit cold." The doctor told her, before applying the gel to Garcia's tummy.
Gently moving the device over Garcia's belly the doctor noticed something. "Your having twins." She told them.
"Twins! Wow!" Garcia exclaimed shocked and excited at the same time.
"This is amazing Pen!" Kevin exclaimed, hugging her tight after the ultrasound had been done.
Heading back into the office the two discuissed about telling everyone the news. Walking into the office the two were smiling and holding hands. "We should tell them." Kevin whispered into her ear.
"Guys, round table room, we have an announcement." Garcia said.
The team looked at them, wondering what it could be, apart from JJ, who Garcia had told when she found out on Saturday. "I'm Pregnant, with twins." She told everyone once they were all in the round table room.
"Wow, twins! Congratulations!" JJ exclaimed.
Reid looked at Garcia with eyes of shock. "Congratulations." He finally said.
"Congratulations baby girl." Morgan also congratulated.
The rest of the team also congratulated the couple. Roxanne tried to be happy for them, she was happy for them - it just hurt. Having lost a baby so recently and now having a colleague pregnant with twins. "Congratulations Garcia." She replied putting on an act of happiness before going outside.
Reid noticed her leave and sighed, there definately was something up with her. Going outside to find her, she found her leaning against the building - crying.
"Roxanne..." He said, approaching her gently, knowing Roxanne was likely to snap if someone caught her crying.
"Oh hey Reid." She replied sadly, regaining control over her tears.
"Hey. What's upsetting you?" He asked, offering her a hug.
"Thanks Reid." She replied hugging him. "I had a miscarriage..." She told him.
Reid continued hugging her until she withdrew it, then looked at her. "I'm sorry Roxy." He replied. "If you want to talk, I'm always available." He said.
"Thanks Spencer." She replied. "We should probably head back in now."
Heading back into the office, Roxanne tried to avoid looking at the other agents, as she did not want people to notice she had been crying. Sitting back at her desk she slipped Reid a couple of the files. "You don't mind do you?" She asked.
"No, it's fine." He replied.
Roxanne smiled. " Thankyou." She replied, before trying to focus her mind on the rest of the paper work she had to complete.
A/N: SO TWINS. XD. I am thinking of putting Prentiss in a couple of chapters before "200"
Maybe Clyde is abducted or something. (Cause I hate him.)