Emily groaned when she heard her alarm going off. Reaching over and clicking the button, she felt the small body that was cuddled into her. She didn't remember her daughter coming into her bed in the middle of the night, but she was grateful she did. Before getting out of the bed, she kissed the top of her daughter's head.

As she stood in the shower, the warm water soaking her body, she began to grow nervous. Today was her first day at the BAU. She really wasn't one to shy away from meeting new people, if anything, she was used to it, But it was the thought of seeing him again, the thought of hearing his voice again, and the thought of hearing his laugh and pretending she had never met him before. He made her nervous, his tone with her last night, made it very clear how he had felt.

Getting out of the shower, she looked over at her bed and saw that her daughter was still soundly sleeping. She would let her sleep for a little while longer, it was still pretty early. Finishing up, she put down the hair dryer and made her way over to the bed.

"Natalia.. honey. wake up sleepy head."

"I don't want to Mommy."

"I know baby, but you have to get up and go to school."

"Do I have to?"

Emily smiled. "Yes baby. Now come on. I'll make you your favorite breakfast but that is only if you get up and get ready while we have time."

"Chocolate Pancakes?" she asked curiously.

"If you hurry."

Natalia practically jumped out and bed and down the hall into her bedroom. Emily laughed before making her bed and heading down the stairs and into the kitchen.

A little while later, Natalia was eating breakfast, Emily went around and made sure that she had everything she needed. Phone, check. Wallet, check. keys, check. Go bag, check. She grabbed a few snacks out of the drawer and put them into her purse when she saw that Natalia was finishing breakfast.

"Okay Love. I need you to put your plate in the sink and then head upstairs and finish getting dressed for school. Brush your teeth too please. I will help you brush your hair if you need me too."

"Okay Mommy." she placed her plate in the sink and headed for the stairs.

After a while, Natalia came back down with her backpack on her back, teeth brushed, and hair partially brushed. Emily giggle when she saw her daughter. "Let me help you." Emily said grabbing the brush out of her daughter's hand and gently brushing the rest of her hair.

There was a knock at the door. Emily looked at her watch and saw that it was around the time Marissa would show up to take Natalia to school.

"Come In."

"Good morning Marissa." Natalia said as the woman opened the door

"Well good Morning Talia and Good Morning Emily. "

"Good morning. Marissa. Did you get home late last night?"

"No not too late. I left a little while after you came home."

"Oh okay. You could have stayed, I wouldn't have minded."

"I know but I figured you wanted to spend the morning with Natalia before you headed off for work."

"Yeah but you are always welcome here Marissa..' she looked over and gave her a smile. "Okay love bug. It's time for you to get going to school. Mommy has a long day a head of her so I'll call you later if I'm working late, okay?"

"Okay Mommy. I love you."

"I love you too baby. Very much. "

"Bye Emily." Marissa said as she held Natalia's hand out the door

"Bye. Marissa." Emily watched the door close.

She knew that her daughter had to go to school but a piece of her always left with her daughter wherever she went. She hated being away from her but she knew that this was going to happen. She tried to avoid the tears, so she grabbed her keys, purse, and her go bag and headed out the door. She locked the door behind her and headed for the BAU.

When she arrived at the BAU, she took a deep breath. She was yet again nervous. She tried distracting herself with other random thoughts but it didn't help. When she walked through the glass doors, she noticed that Hotch's light was on in his office. So she headed towards his office, the nervousness and the anxiety grew more when she came closer to his office door.

Finally, she knocked on the door and heard a voice "Come in... "

"Good Morning,"

"Emily the briefing isn't for another hour, why are you here so early?"

"I wanted to get settled in and find my desk. I didn't want to be behind on my first day."

" You'll have to go and speak with facilities management about a desk. You'll meet the rest of the team today."

"Thanks Hotch, Truly appreciate it. "

"No problem."

She walked out and headed for the facilities management office.

After getting her desk and computer login, she headed to the center of the BAU to find her area. Once finding her desk, she placed her bags on the floor and pushed her go bag into the corner of her desk. As she was logging in and getting settled, she noticed some of the others were arriving. She assumed that this was the rest of the team.

"Good Morning, Im Derek Morgan." Derek said as he held out his hand

"Hi, Im Emily Prentiss, nice to meet you." she shook his hand

"You too, are you a new agent to our team?"

"I am. Today is my first day."

"Cool, I think you'll like it around here. JJ, Reid, Garcia, and Rossi should be arriving soon. "

"Are they all agents as well?"

"All of them are except for Garcia, she's our technical analyst ."

"Oh okay. Do we do briefing out here or do we have a specific place to go? Hotch didn't tell me that part." She said as she nervously giggled

"We brief in the round table room, come on I'll show you."

"Great. Thanks so much."

"Yeah no problem."

Aaron watched as Emily and Morgan introduced themselves to each other. He didn't know why but he felt some type of jealously. He and Emily weren't together, as far as he knew, he didn't have any feelings for her, not anymore at least. When the team started to gather, he got up and walked towards the round table closed the door behind him once he arrived into the round table room.

"Okay guys, before we start, I want to introduce you guys to our newest Agent, Emily Prentiss joined our team today. She has come from Chicago. I know you would like to further introduce yourselves, but please, we have a case to get to."

"Okay what do we got?" Morgan asked

"In Colorado, they have just found their fourth victim this morning. At first they thought it was a coincidence killings but now since the 4th victim appeared, they're calling it the work of a serial killer." JJ stated

"Okay, so what do we know about this unsub?" Reid asked

"So far, all victims have been women. They all have blue eyes and blonde hair. " Reid Stated

"Okay so he has a preference" Rossi stated

"Will all different MO's ." Emily stated

"Yeah stab wounds, Bullet wounds. and something else that I cant quite tell. " Rossi said as he looked up from the file.

"Rossi, I want you and Morgan to go the coroners once we land. Reid, you and I will go to the crime scene and JJ, I want you and Emily to go and visit the latest victims family. "

"Okay." Reid stated.

"This has to be the work of a group right? Are we really suggesting that its a single person killing in all different type of ways."

"I think Morgan is right, this might be the work of a group." Rossi said as he looked over at Hotch

"Which means we have to leave now, before another victim. The Colorado police are expecting us now. Grab your go bags and head on our way. Wheels up in 20."

As the team got up and headed to grab there things, JJ stood behind and waited for Emily.

"Hi, Im JJ. It's nice to meet you."

"Nice to met you as well. JJ. "

"If you want, you can come with me. Ill show you out to the Jet,"

"Sounds great, thank you so much. "

As they walked out to the Jet, Aaron gathered some things and watched from his window. He didn't know how or why but out of all of the people, it had to have been her.

When Aaron arrived at the jet, the rest of the team was introducing themselves to Emily.

And then they were off. They got on the jet and headed toward Colorado. Hotch though, couldn't keep his mind off of her, nor his eyes. She made eye contact with him and he looked away. Things weren't the same anymore. Time had gone by and they were older now. They had completely different lives and yet every time he looks at her, he still sees that teenage girl that he talked too in the rain that one night. Her voice and laugh always stayed in his mind, it was almost like she was haunting him without her being dead. She was sitting right in front of him, and yet it still didn't feel real.

He opened the case file again and just focused on trying to find this unsub.