Isabella woke up around 5:30am and couldn't go back to sleep. She thought it wasn't worth to wake her mother so she got up, took a shower, got dressed and sat on her bed and started playing on her iPad. She stayed there till Emily walked in at 6:32 to wake her up.

"Oh you're all ready?" Emily asked surprised.

"I woke up early" Bella smiled.

"Alright so I'm going to shower and I'll meet you downstairs for breakfast, okay?" Emily said.

"Okay" Bella agreed and went back to playing on the iPad.

Emily went to shower and it wasn't long till she was ready.
"Let's have breakfast, Bells" she called heading to the stairs. Isabella placed the iPad on the nightstand and headed out. She had cereal and Emily just had some coffee and a toast. Then they got their things and headed to the car.

On the way to school Bella mentioned the movie on Friday.

"Well of course I can take you guys" Emily said.

"mom, Gavin said he goes alone sometimes" Bella said.

"what do you mean alone?" Emily asked.

"like without a parent. Just with friends." Bella explained shyly.

"You're 8"

"And..?" Bella smiled.

"Oh so you just want me to drive you there?" Emily asked smiling.

"sorta" Bella said shyly.

"How about you invite him over tomorrow after school and I'll drive you guys to the movies?" Emily said.

"really?" Bella asked excited.

"really" Emily smiled. She knew Bella would be alright and she wasn't planning on leaving the parking lot anyways.

"But will he come home with me after school?" Isabella asked.

"No baby I'll be working." Emily said. "See if he can stop by around 5. You go to the office after school and we'll be home before he gets there. Okay?"

"Sure. Can I invite Chloe over too?"

"Of course" Emily agreed.

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The day at the school went okay. Bella just hung out with Gavin and Chloe and they talked about their plans. They decided to watch a movie that started at 7:30 so they'd have plenty of time to just hang out.

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At Emily's work, Emily had been working from the office with JJ and Penelope non stop since she got there. Around 11 JJ and Emily had been reading files and working on a profile for hours.

"This is gonna take forever. I should call a sitter tonight cause Will is working late too" JJ said.

Emily then thought about Bella spending a school night at the office and she didn't like the idea at all, especially with all the pictures they had hanging around there now.

"J. I'm gonna make a call and I'll be right back." Emily said standing up and JJ nodded yes. Emily walked to a more private area and called Hilary.
"Hello?" Emily said.

"Hi Emily" Hilary greeted.

"Hi. I'm sorry for bothering you at work" Emily said embarrassed.

"Oh no it's okay. Is everything alright?" Hilary said smiling.

"Yeah. It's just that we got packed with work today. The team is out on a case and I'm working from the office and I don't really want Bella around this stuff, you know? And I'm probably going to work till late so I was wondering if you could keep an eye on her for me?" Emily said.

"Sure" Hilary said.

"Really? Are you sure?" Emily asked surprised, she wasn't sure if Hilary would want to.

"Yeah yeah. Of course. She can stay the night if you want. A little sleepover might be good for them" Hilary said.

"I'm not sure if she'll be up for that so I'll pick her up as soon as I'm done here. Thank you so much. I'll call her to let her know" Emily said.

"Okay and anything just call" Hilary said.

"Alright. Thank you" Emily said.

"Oh it's nothing. Bye" Hilary laughed at how thankful Emily sounded.

"Bye" Emily said and they hang up. Emily was really happy she had Hilary to help sometimes now.
She walked back and sat to resume her work.

"What happened?" JJ asked noticing the smile on Emily's face.

"Bella's staying at Chloe's today" she smiled.

"Really?" JJ asked surprised. They were all happy the kid had made a friend.

"Yeah." Emily nodded smiling.

During lunch break Emily called Bella to ask if she would be okay with going to Hilary's house after school because she would be working nonstop at the office.

"I don't mind" Isabella said not sounding like she really meant it.

"Hey. If you don't want to it's okay" Emily said.

"I do I just.." Bella said.

"You just what?"

"I don't know mom. When will you be home?" Isabella asked.

"I'm not sure the time, honey"

"Okay. So I'll just stay there till you're done?" Bella asked.

"Yeah. It won't be too long, okay?" Emily said.

"Alright" Bella agreed.

"Okay then. Anything just call" Emily said.

"Okay."

"Alright. Bye. I love you" Emily said.

"I love you too mom. Bye" Bella said and they hung up. Isabella was feeling really unsure about staying at Chloe's but she thought it would be better than staying at the office "by herself" since they would just be working.

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The hours passed really fast at school and suddenly the last bell rang. Bella, Gavin and Chloe headed out of the classroom and when they were almost at the entrance the 4 girls approached.

"Hey" Vanessa said and they just froze. "I see you finally made some loser friends Chloe"

"I did" Chloe said and walked out. Gavin and Bella followed her leaving those girls behind laughing. Isabella could feel how tense Chloe was. They headed out without saying a word till Gavin said "bye girls. See you two tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah" both girls said in unison.

"oh Gavin! My mom said she can drive us and she said you guys can stop by at my house around 5." Bella said.

"cool" Gavin said smiling. "I'll talk to my mom" he said. "Bye"

"bye" the girls said. They walked to the car to find Hilary and Millie waiting for them.

"Hi. Did you guys have a nice day?" Hilary asked.

"Sure" Chloe said smiling and Bella smiled too. They could actually say that. They just hung out and the girls didn't really bother them that day so they for sure had a good day.

They jumped in the car and Hilary drove.
"So what do you guys think of a snack before heading home?" Hilary asked.

"Yeeeeeeah" Millie screamed excited.

"Alright!" Hilary laughed. "So what about nachos?"

"Sure" Chloe said.

"Do you like that Bella?" Hilary asked.

"Yes I do" Bella said shyly.

"Okay then" Hilary smiled and went to a drive-thru. They got nachos and headed home.
Isabella was excited to see their apartment and hang out with them but she was nervous too. Nervous about her mom away at work.

First thing Isabella noticed when they walked in was that It was a one level apartment, different from hers. Chloe gave her a little house tour and Bella thought the place was lovely. Millie's room was very very pink and filled with stuffed animals and toys. Chloe's room was light pink and the furniture was all vintage, Bella loved it. There were books everywhere but not as many as Bella had. They put their bags on the twin bed and Chloe landed Bella some clothes. They changed and headed to the kitchen to eat.
They ate and talked, Bella was having fun. When they were done Chloe said "do you wanna watch some tv? We can do our homework later"

"Sure" Bella smiled and followed Chloe to the living room which was the only place Chloe hadn't shown her on the little tour.

"Oh my god" Isabella's eyes widened when she saw a big black piano in the far corner of the room. "You have a piano?!" She said smiling.

"Yeah" Chloe laughed.

"Do you play?" Bella asked.

"Kind of" Chloe said embarrassed.

"Yes she does Bella. Don't let her fool you. She's amazing" Hilary said entering the room and Isabella laughed.

"Can you play? pleeeease" Bella smiled.

"Oh God" Chloe said.

"Just one song" Bella begged.

"Only if you play one later?" Chloe said.

"What? I don't play" Bella lied.

"Bella I saw the books in your room." Chloe said.

"That doesn't mean anything" Bella said embarrassed.

"Alright. First Chloe then Bella. Come on" Hilary said taking Bella by the hand and sitting on the couch. Chloe walked embarrassed to the piano and played. She was really good despite looking extremely embarrassed while playing. When she was done Hilary, Millie and Bella clapped.

"Alright now your turn" Chloe said running to the couch.

"Guys I don't play piano" Isabella said embarrassed.

"Go on" Hilary said slightly pushing Bella towards the piano. "Don't be embarrassed. It's okay if you're not good". The girls laughed and Bella played a song beautifully.

"Oh you're good kid" Hilary said smiling. "You shouldn't be embarrassed with that" She said and Isabella smiled shyly. Then the girls turned the tv on. Millie wanted to watch cartoons so that's what they did the rest of the afternoon, they talked and watched cartoons.

Around 6:30 Hilary called them for dinner. Isabella made her own plate which allowed her to put just a tiny bit amount of food since she was still not feeling like eating anything. During dinner Chloe mentioned going over to Bella's house the next day and Emily driving them to the movies. Hilary thought it was a good idea. She couldn't be happier for Chloe.
They ate dinner and then had ice cream sandwiches for desert. They watched more tv and then Chloe went to shower.
At 7:48 Emily called Bella who was in Chloe's bedroom reading 'Harry Potter' waiting for her friend to finished showering.

"Hi" Said Bella.

"Hi honey. I just called to let you know I'll be a bit more late then I thought" Emily said.

"How much more late?" Isabella asked sounding upset.

"Don't worry, you won't spend the night over there. I promise" Emily said trying to push Isabella's fears away. She knew Bella would hate that.

"Okay. Do you want to talk to Hilary?" Isabella asked.

"Yeah" Emily said.

"Okay. I'm gonna get her" Bella said and walked to the living room where Hilary was combing Millie's hair.

"My mom wants to talk to you" Bella said handing the phone to Hilary.

Isabella sat on the couch watching tv while Hilary and Emily talked.
When they were done they hung up and Hilary said "your mom will come later tonight so if you want to shower, Chloe can land you some pajamas"

"It's okay" Bella said embarrassed.

"Hey you won't need to sleep here. Your mom will come just a bit later. You can stay watching some tv with Chloe and I till she's here. It's just so she'll pick you up all ready for bed" Hilary said. Emily had mentioned to her on the phone that Bella didn't want to sleep there and that tv usually calmed her at night so Hilary said that.

Suddenly Chloe appeared.
"I'm done" she said sitting next to Bella on the arm of the couch.

"Chlo can you land Bella some pajamas and get her one of the new towels in the bathroom cabinet?" Hilary said.

"Sure." She said smiling and getting up. Isabella followed her. She showered and headed to Chloe's bedroom to fix her hair. When she got there she found Chloe siting on the bed.

"Are you sleeping here?" Chloe asked curious.

"No. My mom is going to be really late so your mom thought it was best if I was ready for bed by the time my mom gets here" Isabella said.

"Oh" Chloe said. "Maybe some other time we can have a sleepover. I think it would be cool"

"Sure" Bella smiled and Chloe smiled back.

"So we have to do our homework" Bella said.

"Oh yeah" Chloe laughed. "I literally forgot" they laughed and got their bags.

"Let's go to the dining table." Chloe said and they headed there.

They finished all their homework and then headed to the living room and shared the couch. They watched tv for a really long time. Chloe fell asleep after 10:30 and Hilary told her to go to bed because it was a school night after all. Chloe said goodnight to them and headed to bed. Hilary could see that Bella was fighting her sleep.
"Sweetie. Do you want to go stay at Chloe's bedroom with her till your mom gets here?" Hilary asked.

"No. I'll just wait for her." Bella said managing a small smile. She was really tired but she wanted her mom. She fought her sleep for almost an hour when she finally gave in.

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It was almost 2am when Emily got there. Isabella was passed out on the couch and Hilary was sitting in her office working on the computer. Hilary was used to staying up late working.
Hilary opened the door and Emily was standing there.

"I'm really sorry I'm this late" she said so embarrassed.

"It's alright. I'm still working" Hilary smiled. "Come on in" she said and Emily walked in.

"Where is she?" Emily asked.

"Passed out on the couch. She wouldn't give in and go to bed so.." Hilary laughed and Emily laughed too.

"Would you like to eat something?" Hilary asked.

"Oh no. Thanks. I really just need to sleep right now. It was a looong day" Emily said.

"I can't imagine doing what you do" Hilary said and Emily gave her a small smile. Hilary laughed and said "it's impressive how much you and Bella look alike".
And Emily laughed. "Come on she's in here" Hilary said heading to the living room and Emily followed her.

They walked in to find Bella fast asleep in the same exact position Hilary had left her some time before. Emily sat next to her and woke her up.
"Hey we gotta go home Bella" Emily whispered when Bella began to open her eyes.

"Hi" Bella said and sat to hug her mom. Emily embraced her and smiled.

"You came" Bella said.

"I promised you, didn't I?" Emily smiled letting go of the hug. They got up, Bella held Emily's hand.
"Go get your things" Emily said and Bella headed to the dining room where she had left her backpack. She got everything and went to the women.

"Thank you so much for watching her" Emily said.

"No problem." Hilary smiled "Anytime"

"Goodnight Bella" Hilary said hugging Bella.

"Goodnight" Bella said.

"I can drive the girls to school with us tomorrow if you'd like?" Emily offered seeing the amount of work on the table.

"I would actually" Hilary laughed. "I don't know how long I'll be up doing work today" she said.

"Alright, so I'll stop here on our way down tomorrow" Emily said.

"Okay. Thanks" Hilary said. "So do you want me to drop Bella off after school? My girls will start taking the bus next week"

"Oh. No it's okay. Bella will take the bus tomorrow before I have to be away on cases. So if something happens I'm here." Emily said smiling.

"Oh okay." Hilary said. "You try not to get lost, okay?" Hilary smiled at Bella.

"I won't" Bella said.

"Goodnight" Hilary said.

"Goodnight" Emily said and they went out. They headed to the elevator and while they were waiting Emily noticed Bella was almost asleep on her feet.
"Hey give me this" she said beginning to take Bella's backpack off her back. Isabella let her and Emily put the backpack on herself as the elevator door opened. They walked in and Bella leaned against the elevator wall. Emily let out a laugh and said "come here". Bella took a deep breath and hugged her mom and closed her eyes. They let go as the elevator stopped on their floor and walked out. Bella was just so tired she thought that if she laid on the hallway floor she wouldn't be able to get up. Emily opened the door and they got in. Emily dropped Bella's bag on the floor and grabbed Bella by the hand.

"Come on let's go to bed" she said smiling at the sleepy zombie child.

They walked to the stairs and before they made to the top of the stairs Bella asked "mom can I sleep on your bed tonight?"

"Of course you can" Emily said as they stepped on the last step. Emily could see the kid was literally almost asleep on her feet.

"Come here" she laughed and picked Bella up.

"I missed you" Bella said wrapping her arms around her mother's neck.

"I missed you too, you heavy munchkin" Emily said impressed at how much heavier Isabella suddenly seemed to get when she was sleeping or almost sleeping. She walked in her bedroom and let Bella down on the bed. Isabella covered herself and Emily gave her a kiss on the forehead.

"Goodnight Bells" she said.

"Goodnight mom" Bella replied.

"I'm going to shower super fast, okay?" Emily said but with no response, the kid was out. Emily smiled and went to take a shower.

Emily showered, got dressed and headed to bed.
She stared at the sleeping girl for a while and felt happy to have her daughter next to her. She fell asleep shortly and they both slept the entire night barely moving on the bed. They were both just exhausted.

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(Friday)

Emily woke up with a jump because of her alarm clock while Bella stayed sleeping peacefully. Emily got up and went to the bathroom and then went to wake Bella up. They showered and got ready. Isabella decided to wear her black rain boots to school.

Emily went downstairs to make breakfast while Bella checked her school things.

"Bella!" Emily called from downstairs. "Come eat" Emily said. Isabella went downstairs to find a plate with strawberries and Nutella.

"Oooh special breakfast" Bella joked making Emily smile.

"I thought we could use some Nutella today" Emily smiled. They both loved Nutella. They ate and then went to brush their teeth.

Isabella was all ready sitting on her bed waiting for Emily when she suddenly started feeling really anxious. The fear of her mom working late and she having to stay at Chloe's again was taking over. She tried concentrating on her breathing.
It wasn't long till Emily went to Isabella's bedroom to see why she was taking so long. She walked in to find Bella sitting on the bed, tears rolling down her face and her breathing really heavy.

"Honey, what's wrong?" Emily asked worried, walking in.

"I can't breathe right" Bella said not looking up.

"You're having a panic attack come here" Emily said siting down. "Put your head between your legs" she said and lead Bella into doing that.

"You're gonna be okay. It's going to go away." Emily said trying to calm Bella.

After a while Bella sat up.

"Feeling better?" Emily asked and Bella nodded. "What happened honey?"

"Nothing. I'm fine. Let's just go" Isabella said. She didn't want to talk about it and she was embarrassed.

"Hey, you're not fine... and remember what we talked about?"

"It's okay mom. Let's go or I'm gonna be late" Isabella said standing up and grabbing her bag.

"Alright. But we'll talk about this later, okay?" Emily said serious.

"Fine" Bella mumbled and walked out of the room.

They stopped at Hilary's house to pick the girls up and the ride to the school was quiet.

"Bella don't forget the bus today, okay?" Emily said handing over a paper with the bus info to Bella while Isabella opened the door and walked out of the car. "Anything just call me" she said.

"Okay. Bye mom" Bella said with a small smile.

"Bye honey. I'll see you later."

"Okay. Be safe mom" Bella said serious.

"You too" Emily smiled. "Bye girls"

"Bye" they said and the 3 girls walked away.

Bella walked with Chloe to Millie's class. After dropping Millie off they headed to their class. Before they could make it there those 4 girls showed up and bullied them about being nerds. Bella and Chloe kept a straight face on while slowly walking to class with the girls following them saying things. When they got to the classroom the girls stopped. They went to the front and Gavin was saving them their seats.

"Hey" Bella said with a serious face.

"Uou what happened?" Gavin asked noticing they looked pissed.

"Those stupid bratty chickens" Chloe said and Bella and Gavin couldn't help but laugh.

"So everything okay for tonight?" Chloe asked.

"Yup." Bella said.

"My mom said it's okay but she wants to meet your mom" Gavin said.

"Sure. She'll be home" Bella said.

"Then all clear" Gavin smiled. "What about you Chloe?" He asked.

"Clear as water" Chloe said smiling.

The rest of the school went okay.
At lunch they were sitting on a table, everyone eating regular lunch food and Bella eating chips. They were chatting when Bella saw some people approaching out of the corner of her eye. When she looked up, she saw 2 of the 4 girls, Mazzy and Gail.

"So Isabella?" Mazzy said. Bella surprised that the girl was speaking.

"Mmhmm," Bella replied as she opened her coke.

"Nice boots" Mazzy said laughing and walked away.

"Stupid bratty chickens" Bella told Chloe. Chloe had a surprise look on her face from hearing Isabella say that close to the girls.
And she wasn't the only one.

"What did you say?" Gail asked turning around to face Bella and walking closer to her.

"Nothing" Isabella said.

"So you can talk on our back but can't say it to our face?" Gail said.

"What did you call us?" Mazzy asked.

"I wasn't talking to you" Isabella said.

"What did you call us?" Gail said getting really close to Isabella's face.

"Nothing" Isabella said serious.

"Vanessa is going to be very happy about this, shrimpy" Gail said and walked away, followed by Mazzy.

"Are you out of your mind?" Chloe asked Bella.

"It just came out" Isabella said.

"It was awesome" Gavin said smiling.

"It kinda was" Chloe said giving in and smiling. "But we are screwed now" she added.

"Sorry" Bella said.

Gavin met Isabella's eyes and they burst out laughing.

"I just hope this won't come back three times worse later" Chloe said.

"Oh Chlo! Don't ruin the moment" Gavin said and the bell rang. "Bratty chickens. I love this. Let's go" Gavin said standing up and they headed to class.

The rest of the day went great. The girls didn't say anything to them but they could see them looking over from time to time murmuring things.

After school was done Chloe headed home and Gavin went with Bella to the bus stop.
They had to get the same bus and Bella thought Emily would really liked that.

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Bella opened the glass door of the BAU and was happily greeted by Penelope.
"My Little Prentiss!" Penelope said running to hug her.

"Hi" Bella said shyly. "Where's my mom?"

"Conference room with JJ. Let's go" Penelope said smiling and dragged Bella up to the conference room.

"Look who I found" Penelope said all perky kinda pushing Bella into the room.

"Hi" Emily and JJ said happily in unison. Isabella walked to Emily who stood up and hugged her.

"Did you have a good day?" Emily asked running her hand on Bella's back still hugging her.

"Yeah I guess" Bella said letting go of her mom and with a not so happy face.

"What happened?" JJ asked.

"Just those girls. They keep saying stuff to Chloe and I." Bella said "But it's fine" she lied.

"What did they say this time?" Emily asked as she sat down.

"Nothing. It's fine" Bella said. "Oh and mom! Gavin takes the same bus I do" she smiled changing the subject.

"He does?" Emily said surprised. "That's amazing, honey" she smiled even knowing exactly what the child just did.

"Yeah" Bella smiled.

"I'm dying to meet your friends" Penelope said.

"We could go out to eat one of these days" JJ said.

"Sure" Bella smiled.

"Do you have homework?" Emily asked.

"sure" Bella answered with a disappointed face and tone, and the women laughed.

"You can do it at my desk, okay? We're almost done here and I'll go check on you as soon as we finish with this" Emily said.

"Okay" Bella smiled shyly and walked out. Emily got up and ran and hugged her from behind. Bella jumped surprised.

"I missed you Bells" Emily said.

"I missed you too mom" Isabella said turning around to properly hug her mother. JJ and Penelope were smiling at the scene when Derek Morgan appeared.

"Oh look who's in the house!" He said smiling. Emily let go of Bella who smiled at him and said "hi"

"Don't I get a hug too kid?" He asked.

"Sure" Isabella answered shyly and went to give him a hug. They hugged and Emily said "alright. Now homework. Go!" and Bella walked to Emily's desk.

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After about half an hour the team headed to their desks to start on some paper work.

"What's on the agenda today?" Derek asked Bella, sitting on the desk and peeking down at the textbook.

"Geography" Isabella replied.

"Do you need any help with that?" JJ asked.

"I'm sure she's got it guys" Emily said walking to sit on the chair next to Bella. JJ just made a face and laughed along with her.

"Oo, we can help" Spencer said.

"No, no, no," Emily pointed at him. "Don't even think of doing it for her."

"Well I wasn't going to give her the answers," Spencer replied, already reading Bella's textbook.

"It's fine, I can do it by myself" Bella said.

"Come on finish this" Emily said grabbing the textbook from Spencer. The team laughed and started working on their papers.

After about an hour Bella finished all her homework.
"Mom?" Bella said.

"Yes honey" Emily said as Bella put her books on her bag and grabbed her iPad.

"Can I go see Penelope?" She shyly asked.

"Sure" Emily smiled and Bella went.

She went to Penelope's office and they had a snack, then Penelope landed her headphones and she sat on the couch and started watching a movie.
Around 5:20, Emily took the girl home.