The next morning, Derek and Emily woke up with the loud noise of the alarm clock.

"Good morning" Emily smiled at Morgan. He wrapped her in his alarms.

"Can't we just stay like this?" Derek asked.

"I wish" Emily smiled. "But we have bad guys to catch" she said.

"Ugh" Derek said hugging her tighter and she laughed.

"Come on we gotta go" she said and they got up. Emily walked to the closet as Derek went to the bathroom. He was showering when she entered the bathroom.
"Wanna join?" Derek asked with a grin.

Emily laughed and said "we're gonna be late". She brushed her teeth and washed her face and headed out. Derek finished and she went in quickly. Morgan put his pants on and went to prepare breakfast.

A while later, Emily walked in the kitchen and smiled when she saw Derek standing at the stove, making something that smelled delicious, with a dish towel slung over his shoulder.

"Do you always cook shirtless?" She asked as she walked over to him.

Derek looked over his shoulder and smiled, leaning down and waiting expectantly until she leaned in and kissed him. "Only for you" he said jokingly as he turned back to what he was preparing.

"We don't have much time" she said, standing on her tip toes behind him and resting her chin on his shoulder, looping her arms around his waist.

"It's almost done" he smiled.

Emily looked at the stove and laughed "pancakes?" She asked.

"Chocolate chips pancakes" Derek said proudly.

"You know Bella is at Penelope's right?" Emily said letting go of him and standing next to him.

"We don't need to use B as an excuse to eat pancakes. Besides I know this is your favorite" he said and she smiled. He looked at her and smiled back. "Get the plates" he said.

Emily grabbed everything and soon enough they sat down to have a quick breakfast together.
Once Emily finished eating she checked the clock.
"We're late now" she said a little worried. Derek quickly finished as Emily went and got her bag.

"bring mine!" Derek yelled out as he took the dishes to the sink.

Soon enough Emily made her way back with their bags and they headed to work.

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At Penelope's house Isabella had a great time. They watched a movie and had pizza and candy, then they played on Garcia's Nintendo Switch and around 10:30 went to bed.
In the morning, Garcia woke the child up with waffles waiting. The kid got ready, they ate and headed out.

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"I'll see you later" Bella said as she hugged Penelope goodbye.

"See you, monkey" Garcia smiled and kissed Bella's cheek. The kid got out of the car and headed to the school. When she got at the top of the steps she turned and waved. Penelope waved back with a big smile and drove away.

The day at school went really well. Isabella joined her friends inside the classroom and they started talking about the choir auditions that would happen in a couple days.
Suddenly Mazzy walked in. She looked really embarrassed and unsure if she should sit with them.

"Mazzy!" Chloe said. The girl looked up. "Come sit with us" she said. Mazzy gave her a little thankful smile and went to sit on the seat beside Gavin.

"Hi" Bella said a little shy.

"Hi" Mazzy said also shy.

Bella kinda liked Mazzy but at the same time she felt a little weird around her due to the fact the girl used to hang out with the mean girls in her class. She was scared of letting the girl in and ending up hurt.
But that day during lunch... everything changed.

Mazzy was sitting right in front of Isabella but they were avoiding eye contact and both were feeling a little weird. The kids were talking about choir and Mazzy and Bella were quietly eating their lunch just listening to them.
Suddenly Mazzy took a deep breath and looked at Bella.
"I'm sorry" she said.
Isabella looked at her and was speechless.

"I'm really sorry. I should have told Vanessa to stop."

"It's wasn't your fault" Bella said and her friends got quiet. They knew how much Vanessa hurt Bella when she talked bad about her parents and said mean things like Emily would die and leave and how Bella wasn't loved.

"I should have done something but I was scared of her." Mazzy said.

"It's okay now Mazzy. She's gone" Chloe said.

"Why are you guys being nice to me after everything we did?" she said.

"We know you're not like them" Gavin said.

Mazzy shyly smiled and then looked at Bella. She knew they had hurt Isabella the most.
"I'm sorry Bella"

"It's okay now" Bella said. "And besides... all you ever did to me was say my shoes were awful." She added and everybody laughed including Mazzy.

"Seriously Mazzy, Vanessa is gone now and Yuna and Gail probably won't have the guts to do stuff like that by themselves." Chloe said.

"And they are outnumbered too" Michael said.

Mazzy nodded. "Thank you for letting me hang out with you guys" she said shyly.

"Anytime" Bella smiled. She understood Mazzy's reasons and she felt like she fit right in with them.

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The rest of the school time went great.
The kids chatted sometimes and Mazzy seemed way more confident and open around them.

"We should all go to the movies sometime" Bella said.

"Friday?" Gavin asked and everyone agreed.

"Let's talk to our parents" Chloe said.

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After school was done, Bella was walking outside with her friends when Mister James Levi, the choir director, stopped her.

"Bella and Chloe. May I please speak with you" he said and the kids said bye to their friends and walked inside a classroom. He explained to them that the choir auditions were on Friday and that he needed some help and was wondering if they could help. The girls were happy to, so he explained what he would need them to do and they headed out.

"So I'll stop by your place later so we can see all these stuff" Chloe said.

"Okay. I'll text you as soon as I get home" Bella said.

"Okay"

"Do you want to sleep over?"

"Sure" Chloe smiled excited.

"Okay then I'll see you later" Bella hugged her and headed to Emily's car.

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"Hello. I missed you" Emily smiled and hugged the girl as soon as Bella sat on the passengers seat.

"I missed you too. How was the dinner?"

"Amazing" Emily smiled and Bella smiled back happy to see her mother so happy.

"How was at Garcia's?"

"Amazing as always" Bella said buckling up.

"How about school?"

"Awesome!" Bella said suddenly really excited.  "Mister Levi said Chloe and I don't have to audition for choir this year and that he wants us to be his assistants!" The girl said in pure joy.

"That's amazing, honey" Emily smiled proudly.

"The auditions are on Friday so Chloe and I need to do a few things so I invited her over tonight, is that okay? And she'll sleep over too" Bella said super fast.

"Alright alright calm down" Emily laughed.

"I'm just so happy" Bella said. "I thought I'd never feel okay at school again but it's just so great right now. And Mazzy is hanging out with us now and she's nice. She even apologized again..."
Bella started. She went on and on about school and Emily was really happy to see that her child was finally enjoying school.
They went to the BAU and Bella went to tell Garcia all about the choir and Mazzy.
Of course she still had some trouble staying at Penelope's office due to the fact that she was kidnaped while sleeping in there but she would hang out there sometimes, she just couldn't sleep there.
She talked to Garcia and then went to read in Derek's office.
Around 5 Emily decided to go home. Since Derek had gone out with Emily the previous day which was when he got back from the case, they decided to have a movie night that day. Bella always loved their movie nights after cases. So they headed home.

When they got there, Bella texted Chloe and headed to her room. She stopped at Emily's to get her phone charger and saw the room was a mess. She laughed and ran to her bedroom. Soon enough Chloe arrived and the girls went to Isabella's playroom/office on the third floor of the house. They made posters for the choir auditions and the musical the school was going to have that year, "Into The Woods".
They also wrote an announcement for the school's newspaper about it and sent everything to Mister Levi. He made some corrections and soon enough they were done. The girls sent the finalized things to their teacher and headed downstairs.

"I'm gonna get some water" Bella told Chloe. "Do you want some?"

"No thanks. I'll wait for you in the movie room" Chloe said and headed to the basement. The Prentiss's movie room had turned out even better than Emily expected and Isabella absolutely loved it.

So Bella went to the kitchen and found her mother there pouring some wine for her and Derek.

"Can dad sleep over again?" Bella asked her.

"What? What do you mean again?" Emily asked trying to hide the fact he had spent the night there alone with her.

"Come on mother, I'm not stupid" Bella said. "His blazer. Messy bedroom. I know he slept here"

Emily's jaw dropped.
She didn't really think Bella was starting to notice and understand that kind of stuff.
"What do you think of that?" Emily asked to see what the kid would say.

"Well, you're dating him. He's my dad. I'm fine with it" Bella said and Emily smiled. "As long as you guys stay away from my bedroom" the girl added.

Emily burst out laughing. "Don't worry child" Emily said hugging Bella, who smiled. Emily felt so weird with the situation but was glad Bella didn't really care.
They got the glasses and went to the movie room.

"Movie and pizza?" Derek asked when they walked in.

"Yup" Bella smiled and sat on the couch with Chloe. Derek and Emily shared the other couch. Morgan ordered pizza and they put on a movie.
They ate while watching the film and once done Derek threw one arm around Emily and she rested on his chest. Bella saw and smiled then went back to watching the movie.

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Once the movie was done they put on a tv show and just hung out. Around 10, both kids were asleep.

"I should carry them up and go" Derek said. "It's late"

"You should carry them up but don't go" Emily said and kissed him.

"Are you sure?" Derek asked.

"Yes" Emily said.

He said okay and then carried Chloe upstairs while Emily carried Isabella. They put the kids on the bed, then got ready and soon met in Emily's bed.

"I love staying like this" Morgan said as Emily cuddled up to him.

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The next morning, Emily and Derek woke up with the alarm clock. Derek went to make breakfast and Emily went to wake up the girls. Bella showered first and then the blonde one, Chloe, went. While Chloe showered Bella went to Emily bedroom.

"Mom?" She said and Emily turned to look at her. "Can you help?" Bella said holding up her hairbrush. Emily smiled and walked to the girl and started doing her hair.
Suddenly there was a loud noise coming from the kitchen.
Bella jumped. "What's that?" She asked a little scared.

"That's Derek cooking breakfast. Don't worry" Emily smiled.

"He slept here again?" Bella asked curious.

"Yes he did" Emily said.

"Your room is clean today" Bella said.

"Yes it is." Emily laughed. She secured the braid she was doing with a hair tie and told Bella to finish getting ready. The kid ran off and left her mom there kinda speechless. Emily knew her kid was growing up but she didn't know time would go by so fast.

Suddenly Derek walked in.

"We need to talk" Emily said.

"What? Did something happen?" He asked worried.

"Bella knew you spent the night yesterday" Emily said. "And she said something.." She added and shook her head to push away the thought of her daughter knowing that they were having sex.

"How did she know?" Morgan asked.

"She saw your blazer and the messy bed" Emily explained smiling.

"That doesn't mean anything" he laughed.

"Well she's not so little you know" Emily said. "Soon we're gonna have to talk about the s word" Emily said.

"What s word? Shit?" Bella asked walking in the room.

Emily and Derek's eyes widened.

"Um no" Emily said. "Sex" she spitted out.

Isabella's eyes widened. "No thank you" Bella said and walked out.

"Bella!" Emily called but the girl kept walking.

"I don't wanna know." Bella shouted and quickly walked to her bedroom.

"Thank God. I wasn't ready" Emily said and Derek laughed making her laugh too.

"See...She's still little." Derek said and hugged her.

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Bella went to her room and shook it off. She knew it was happening but she really didn't want to talk about it. She didn't even want to think about them doing that.

"What's wrong?" Chloe asked walking in.

"Nothing" Bella said shaking it off again.

"B?" Chloe demanded.

"Derek and my mom are hanging out at night. ... you know" Bella said.

"Oh no. I do not know and I do not want to know" Chloe said and grabbed her school bag. "Neither do you" she told Bella and they headed downstairs.

Breakfast went okay but the kids didn't really look into the adults' eyes. Emily and Derek knew exactly why and right there Emily knew she would have to sit down and talk to Bella about all of those things.

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