October:

It was the weekend of Emily's birthday. She didn't want to or she hated celebrating her birthday, so it worked out that the team got called to a case. When she got to the office, she sat at her desk and saw a birthday card. Taking a deep breath, she had hoped that no one remembered, but she was proved wrong. Opening the card, she saw that it was from JJ, Penelope, and the rest of the team. Although it was a couple of days early, she still appreciated the card. She pulled out her phone and placed her bag in her desk, she got up and headed to Garcia's office.

Opening the door, she noticed a few balloons around the room.

"Please tell me those aren't for me."

"Oh come on Emily. It's your birthday."

"No Saturday is my birthday. "

"Oh come on, don't be a poor sport."

"I'm sorry pen. I just hate my birthday and i'm 35 weeks pregnant. No fun for me."

"Well i for one don't hate your birthday."

Emily smiled at her and sat down in her usual chair.

"Alright. Let's start this case shall we?"

"Yeah, I suppose."

A few hours into the case, Emily began to get uncomfortable. She was having or what felt like Braxton hicks contractions. She kept rotating in her chair, Garcia now noticing.

"Emily are you okay?"

"Yeah, this chair is very uncomfortable."

"Do you want me to get you another one?"

"No that's okay Pen. I'm just having some Braxton hicks contractions. It's totally normal."

"Are you sure? You look very uncomfortable."

Emily stood up and began to pace. Garcia kept an eye on her. While pacing, Emily noticed that the pain stayed a lot longer than the normal Braxton hicks contraction would. She then became a little freaked out. What if something was wrong? It couldn't be though, her doctor told her that everything was normal at her last appointment. Finally the pain started to settle. Emily took a deep breath. She was about to walk back to her seat when, the pain came back in full force.

"Ahhhhh." Emily moaned while leaning on the chair.

"Okay that's not normal. We're going to the hospital."

"Garcia."

"Emily don't try and talk me out of it. You are going to the hospital." Garcia got up and grabbed Emily's arm.

"Garcia I'm bleeding."

"What! Where?" Penelope asked panicking

"Penelope we need to go."

"I'm calling 911."

Emily leaned over the chair in pain. Feeling the blood going down her legs, she began to panic. Now she knew something was wrong. Everything happened all at once. Her vision started to blur.

"Pen, I need to sit down. I feel like im about to pass out."

Guiding her to sit down, Garcia began to panic. She didn't know what was wrong with her friend. Emily was fine and then all of a sudden she wasn't. With the paramedics on their way, She decided to call JJ.

"Hey Penelope. Got anything on out Unsub?"

"JJ, am I on Speaker?"

"Yeah, Rossi and Reid are with me, is everything okay?"

"Take me off speaker. I need to talk to you."

JJ looked around the room and walked out of the room.

"Garcia, you're freaking me out. Whats the matter?"

"Emily is on her way to the hospital."

"WHAT! Why."

"I'm not sure, she was sitting with me, and then she started having braxton hicks contractions. She started to pace and then she was in a lot of pain and then she started bleeding. "

"Where is she now?"

"Oh my god. The paramedics are here now. I'll call you back with an update,"

"Garcia, wait. Hello!"

Garcia hung up on JJ. JJ then tried to call Garcia and Emily back but nothing. No answer. JJ began to panic. They were thousands of miles away and she couldn't be with her. JJ turned around and walked back into the room.

"JJ is everything okay?"

"Yeah that was Garcia. She had a personal question for me."

"Was it a girly question?" Morgan asked with smirk on his face.

"Yeah. Something about blood."

"Say no more. I don't need to know anything further." Morgan said while glancing at Reid.

"Rossi, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Sure. "

Rossi followed JJ out to where she was previosuly.

"Whats the matter?"

"I just got off the phone with Garcia. Emily's in the hospital."

"What? Why?"

"I don't know. Garcia said that the paramedics had just got there when she called me. I can't get a hold of her or Emily. Im really starting to panic. "

"I need to tell Hotch."

"Why"

"Emily didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?"

Rossi stayed Quiet.

"Rossi, what do you know that I don't?"

"uhh nothing." He then walked off to find Hotch.

"Rossi. Come on!" JJ said as she stood in the hallway and watched him walk away.

JJ walked back into the room with Reid and Morgan. They looked up at her and looked back down at the map that they were looking at.

Rossi found Hotch walking back into the station with food in his hands.

"Hotch."

"Hey Dave. I.."

"Look food isn't improtant. You need to go back to DC."

"What? Why?"

"It's Emily."

"Dave, That is not important right now. We're on a case. "

"Aaron, I'm not talking about that. "

"Then what are you talking about?"

"Emily was rushed to the hospital."

"What! Why?"

"I don't know, but you need to get there."

"Dave I can't just leave. "

"Aaron come on, don't choose your job over your family. I know you. If something happened to her or the baby, you'd hate yourself."

"Dave.. I"

"Aaron take it from me. Go, don't be that guy. I chose this job over my wives and look where that got me."

"What about the team?"

"I'll deal with them. Go."

Aaron handed him the food and headed back to the hotel to grab his things. When Rossi walked back in with the others, he placed the food down on the table.

"Hey guys, Hotch got called away on an emergency. So it's just going to be us."

"This room just keeps getting smaller doesn't it."

"Is he okay?" Reid asked

"Yeah. He was just needed elsewhere."

When Emily woke up, she was in an unfamiliar place. She heard the beeping from the machine. When she opened her eyes, she looked around the room and realized that she was in the hospital. She placed her hands on her stomach, and felt relief when she felt the baby still inside of her.

"Hey." Garcia said softly when she say Emily finally starting to wake.

"What happened?"

"You were having a lot of contractions and there was some blood."

"Yeah I remember that part."

"Yeah well. I.." Garcia was cut off when the doctor walked into the room. 'Thank God' Garcia said to herself.

"Hey, Emily, I'm Dr. Peterson."

"Hello."

"I'm just going to go over a few things with you. OKay?"

"Is my baby okay?" Emily said with tears forming in her eyes.

"Yes, You and the baby are perfectly healthy. Baby has a strong heartbeat and is where he or she needs to be."

"Okay but why am i here?"

"When the paramedics picked you up, the noticed that you were in a lot of pain and with some bleeding. Once they got you in the ambulance, you fainted. Now with as far along as you are, we did a few tests and did an ultrasounds. All testing came back within normal limits, but with your ultrasound, we noticed that the placenta had partially torn off of the uterine wall. "

'"I thought you said everything was okay."

"For now, everything is. It hasn't fully torn off the wall. "

"So what happens now?"

"We're going to keep you here for a few days. Just to make sure that everything is okay. Then we will release you but when we do, you are to be on complete bedrest. "

"Complete bedrest?"

"Yes, no movement unless it's to the bathroom. "

"I have a 5 year old daughter at home."

"Is there someone to help you at home? This is extremely important Emily. Any kind of harsh movement could totally detach the placenta and it could be fatal to you, the baby, or the both of you."

With tears fully streaming down her face, she looked at the doctor and shook her head.

"Yes, she has someone that can help her." Penelope said for her.

"Good. I'll know I just threw a whole lot of information at you but I want to keep you pregnant just for a little while longer for the baby's sake."

Emily shook her head.

"Thank you Dr. Peterson." Penelope said again.

"I'll come and check on you in few hours. Okay?"

"Okay thank you." Emily said.

After the doctor left, Emily began to sob. She was scared. The thought of losing her life or the baby's life was terrifying to her. She had no words. All she wanted was her baby to be okay and was him to be with her. He was thousands of miles away. Emily was grateful that Garcia was with her but she longed for him to comfort her.

Aaron got on the first flight that he could find. Knowing that he was still upset with her, he thought how terrified she must be. He put everything aside, and thought about her and the baby. He knew that she was in good hands with the doctors but he wanted to be there and make sure that she's okay. He'd have to see it for himself.

Garcia decided to give JJ a call when Emily seemed to have calmed. Although she had stopped crying, the room fell silent. Garcia knew that Emily must of compartmentalized and buried her emotions. Garcia stepped out of the room and pulled out her phone and saw that she had missed calls all from JJ.

"Penelope. "

"JJ, I'm sorry about earlier. A lot was happening and I thought Emily was dying and.."

"Garcia it's okay. How is she?"

"She's okay now, i think. But she has a partial placental abruption."

"Oh my god. "

"Yeah, they are going to keep her for a few days and then release her and when they do, she has to go on complete bed rest to prevent it from fully detaching. "

"I guess it's good that they caught it in time. "

"Yeah. But JJ you should have seen her. I've never seen her cry that hard before."

"I'm not surprised. With all of the hormones and then being told that she or the baby, or both of them could die probably really scared her. "

"I'd say it terrified her."

"I wish I could be there Pen. "

"It's okay JJ. How is this case going?"

"We're following a lead now. "

"Good, let me know if you need anything. I have my laptop with me."

"Will do. Thanks Garcia."

"No problem. Bye JJ."

"Bye. Pen."

With hanging up the phone, Penelope turned around and headed back into the room. Seeing that Emily was asleep, Penelope slowly tiptoed back over to her seat and pulled out her laptop and started doing some work for them team.

A few hours later, Hotch finally landed and got out of the airport as fast as he could. Getting into the cab, he headed off to the hospital.

"Garcia." Emily said sleepily.

"Yes."

"Can you call Marissa for me? I don't want Natalia to worry when I don't come home tonight."

"Yes." and with that, Garcia picked up Emily's phone and called Marissa. Although knowing that her mother was safe in the hospital, Natalia was worried and Emily knew that no matter what she told her, she would be worried. What Emily didn't know was that right after Marissa got off the phone with Garcia, Hotch had called her. With finding out which hospital she was at, with help from Marissa.

"Garcia, I love that you're here, but go home. Get some sleep. You don't have to be here with me."

"I know but I don't want to leave you alone."

"I promise i'm okay Pen. I got a lot of doctors and nurses around here and plus Marissa and Natalia would be here in the morning. I just want to sleep and I can't sleep if I know that you're watching me."

"Are you sure Em?"

"Yes, go get some rest. Go be with Kevin or maybe the team needs you."

"Okay. Please call me if you need anything."

" I will."

"I love you E."

"I love you too Pen."

After Penelope left, Emily sat up or tried to anyway. When she moved, she accidently set one of the alarms off. One of the nurses came running in.

"Are you okay in here?"

"Yeah, i just have to use the restroom."

"Okay let me help you." The nurse came over and unplugged Emily from one of the monitors. She helped her slowly stand up. Slowly walking over the bathroom, Emily heard someone come into the room. Not knowing who, she became a little worried. Knowing that Marissa and Natalia were at home, Penelope left, and the team was on a case. Who could it be?

When he arrived, he checked into the front desk and asked for 'Emily Prentiss.' after what felt like an eternity, they finally gave him a room number for her. When he made it up to her room, he had walked in as Emily was going into the bathroom. Looking around, he saw no baby. He was relieved, he didn't miss it. From what he could tell, she was still pregnant. He then walked over and sat on the chair and waited for her to come out.

A few minutes later, Emily came out of the bathroom and saw him sitting on the corner chair. He stood up and made eye contact with her. Despite what they were feeling and despite what recently happened, nothing else mattered to either of them. "Aaron." her voice was shaky. He walked up to her and hugged her. With no words spoken, she started to sob. He was the one person that she wanted and he was here.

"Emily. I hate to break up this moment, but I need you to get back into bed."

Emily nodded and Aaron walked her back into bed. Slowly getting onto the bed and adjusted in the bed. The nurse hooked her back up onto the machine.

"Okay. I'll come and check on you in a little bit. Okay?"

"Thank You Cassie." Emily said raspy

"Emily..."

"Aaron, I'm so glad that you're here. I'm scared."

"What happened?"

"I was in so much pain this morning and then I started bleeding. After that, I don't remember anything after. I passed out in the ambulance. "

"Are you and the baby okay?"

"For now. My placenta is partially off the uterine wall and if it totally comes off, It could be fatal to the baby, me, or the both of us. "

"Well I'm here now. " He said as he kissed her forehead.

"I'm scared Aaron." she said again with tears streaming down her face.

"Me too but I'm not going to let anything happen to you or the baby. Okay?"

She nodded through the tears.

"How about you try and get some sleep. You need rest Em. "

"Okay." she grabbed the tissue and gently patted her face. He grabbed onto her hand and held it. She looked over at him and gave him a sad smile.

"Aaron."

"yeah."

"I know that that isn't the place or the right time, but I'm sorry. " he knew that she was talking about. He knew that she was sorry, but sorry couldn't help what he felt. He looked over at her and looked into her eyes.

"I know Em. I know you are but let's not worry about that right now. What matters right now is keeping you and this baby healthy. "

She gave him one more smile before shutting her eyes. Still holding her hand, he ran his other hand through is hair. With taking a deep breath, he knew that he wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

A few hours later, she woke up and found Aaron was still sitting there. She looked over at him and gave him a sad smile.

"You don't have to be here Aaron. As much as I appreciate you being here, you should go home and get some rest. "

"I'm where I need to be Em. "

"Okay. "

"How are you feeling?"

"Better. Still scared but better."

"Bed rest is only a few weeks Em. I'll be here for you and Marissa's always here if i'm not."

"Thank You. You have no idea how much I appreciate you being here."

Aaron smiled at her. Even through the anger and the hurt, he found himself starring at her and thinking she was beautiful even if she just was sitting in a hospital bed. He was still in love with her and now with things with what they are, he knew that they would be spending more time together. Knowing how he felt, he just hoped that he would be able to put his feelings aside to help her and even more so after the baby was born.

Nurses came in and out of the room all night long, just checking on Emily and the baby. No one got sleep that night. Aaron tried to get Emily to eat something but the thought of anything made her nauseous. She did eventually eat some yogurt.

Today definitely did not end the way that she had thought. Although she was still terrified of losing her life or the baby's, she was happy that Aaron was there. He made her feel safe. He was her safety zone, the person that could help her with anything. She knew what she felt for him and she felt even worse for lying to him, but she couldn't tell him the truth. The truth made her feel guilty. It made her feel as if she was pushing Levi off to the side and pretending he doesn't or didn't ever exist. He did exist, and Emily loved him with every fiber in her body, but now with him being dead, she was longing for that love again. Finding it in Aaron, was something she was unprepared for.

She loved Levi and was in love with Aaron. Was that even possible? She didn't know but he was at her side and everything felt safe. Time would eventually tell but for now, with the situation, she wouldn't want to be anywhere else.