"Mom!" Isabella stared, her mouth opening and staying like that.

"Honey, I'm fine," Emily held up a hand and walked towards Bella. "I just got hurt a little" Emily said. She had a sling on.

"did you break it?" Bella asked a bit confused.

When Emily reached her daughter, she went for a hug but Bella took a step back unsure of what to do and scared.

"It's okay, you won't hurt me" Emily said and put her arms around her baby.

"What happened?" Isabella cried.

"Let's get your mom settled on the couch," Derek suggested. He guided Emily to the couch and Isabella followed behind.

"What happened?" She asked again, now sitting down.

"Your mom helped arrest a serial killer," Derek replied.

"Mom" Bella said with tears in her.

"I'm okay, really baby" Emily said.

"You don't look okay" Bella said upset.

"We walked in to arrest a bad man and then out of nowhere he shot me in here" she said moving her hand to her shoulder.

"You got shot?" Bella asked. The kid looked terrified.

"Baby I'm okay" Emily said.

"Did you go to the hospital?" Bella asked and her eyes filled with more tears.

"Of course I did, baby," Emily replied, reaching out to pull Bella down onto the couch beside her. "Listen, I'm okay. I promise." She said and Bella just looked sad.
"look. I'm alright. I'll be just fine in a couple days" She said.

"Mom" Bella said trying hard to hold her tears in.

"Come here, baby," Emily soothed, pulling Isabella to her. She lied back into the huge couch, hugging Bella to her.

"What if something else had happened to you?" Isabella asked, almost a whisper.

"Nothing's going to happen to me, baby."

Bella lifted her head full of tears rolling and stared at her mother.

"Bells, this doesn't happen often," Emily assured her. "Derek got there so fast. He saved me." She said and Bella just shook her head, burying her face as a sob escaped her. Emily swallowed hard as tears filled her own eyes.

It took a while before Isabella's sobs quieten. Emily just continued to strike her hair.
"Shuuuu shuuuu. It's okay. I'm okay" Emily kept saying.

After a while Isabella's crying stopped. Emily could feel her face wet from crying too. She just hated seeing her daughter like that.

"Let's go up honey" Emily said and Bella stood up.

"I'll be here" Derek told Emily who nodded.

Emily put her arm around Bella's shoulders and they headed up and laid on Emily's bed.
Isabella's face was killing her inside.

"I'm gonna stay here, okay?" Bella said.

"Okay" Emily said.

"I'm just gonna get something" Bella said and headed to her bedroom.

When she got there Derek was sitting on her bed going through a book.

"Where is she?" He asked the girl.

"She went to bed" Bella said almost a whisper.
She walked to the bed and grabbed her blanket.

"Bella" Derek said and the girl looked at him.

"I'm sorry she got hurt" he said feeling awful.

"It wasn't your fault" Bella said. "Mom said you saved her" she said walking to him.
"Thanks" she said and hugged him. He pulled her to his lap and she started crying again.

"I'm so sorry" he said and he let her cry.

Once she stopped she said "I'll sleep with her. You can sleep here on my bed if you want to"

"Thanks" he said and she got off his lap.

"Goodnight" He said.

"Goodnight uncle Derek" the little girl said and walked to her mother's bedroom.

Derek took his shoes off and laid on the bed. He was just exhausted.

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Back at Emily's bedroom, Isabella laid next to Emily and Emily began to strike her hair.

"Mom?" Bella whispered.

"Yes baby?" Emily said.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Bella asked with tears in her eyes again.

"I'll be fine sweetie." Emily said pulling Bella closer to her. Isabella let her tears fall.
"Oh honey. I'm okay. Don't cry. I'm alright" Emily said trying to calm Bella down.

"but you got shot" Bella said.

"but I'm okay. See? It just hurts a little. I'm okay. I promise" Emily said. She hugged Bella trying hard not to cry again. They stayed hugging till both were fast asleep.

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The whole night Bella was a mess. She couldn't sleep for too long. She would finally fall asleep and a while later wake up. After that happened a few times she drifted to sleep again and suddenly woke up from a nightmare. She had dreamed she was trying to wake her mother but she just wouldn't wake up. She sat on the bed and whispered "mommy" but of course Emily was sleeping and wouldn't hear a whisper.

"Mommy" Bella said, a little louder but not loud enough, and started crying because Emily stayed sleeping.
The girl was scared to try to wake her mother now so she ran to get Derek.
She walked in her bedroom and the man was asleep. She got close to the bed and shook his arm.

"Derek. Uncle Derek wake up" she said crying. She was so scared.

"What happened?" Derek said sitting up fast when he saw her crying.

Bella just looked at him scared and he pulled her to his lap.

"What's wrong princess?" He asked.

"Can you go wake her up?" Bella asked.

"Why? Is she not waking up?" He asked scared but trying not to look like it.

"I don't know. I had a nightmare that I was trying to wake her but she wasn't waking up and now I..." Bella sobbed.

"Come on let's go" he said picking the girl up and headed to Emily's bedroom.
He got near the bed and put Isabella down on the floor.
"Em" he said shaking her a bit but she didn't move. "Emily" he said a bit louder and she woke up.

"Yeah" Emily said confused as she opened her eyes.

"She's okay, see?" Derek said. "Go lay down with her" he told Bella who got on the bed again.

"Can you stay here?" She asked him.

"Guys what's going on?" Emily asked confused sitting on the bed.

"I had a nightmare" Bella said.

"Are you alright?" Emily asked her and wrapped the girl in her arms.

Bella nodded yes and said "now I'm okay"

"Let's go back to sleep baby it's late" Emily said and Bella laid down.

"I'll make a bed right there" Derek said pointing to the floor next to the side Isabella was sleeping.

"Okay" Bella said.

Derek went to Isabella's bedroom and got the covers he was using before and a pillow and headed back to Emily's bedroom.
When he got there the two women were sleeping hugging each other. He laid on the floor and fell asleep too.

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It was 8 when Bella got out of bed, got her iPad and climbed in bed next to Emily again. Derek woke up and said he would fix them some breakfast and headed downstairs.
After a while Bella went down and had pancakes with him.

"Are they good?" He asked.

"Yeah" Bella said looking sad.

"Hey princess, she'll be okay. She's tough" he told her.

"I know" Bella said. She knew her mother was tough and she would be okay but she was scared it would happen again and be even worse.

Once they finished eating Derek got a call from Hotch and he had to go to the BAU so he hugged the girl goodbye and gave her his number and said that anything she could just call him. He showed Bella the medicine Emily had to take and left, so the girl went upstairs to her mother's bedroom again.

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After a couple of hours, Isabella was finishing an episode of 'Doctor Who' when Emily woke up and found the girl staring at her chest.

"What are you doing?" Emily asked confused.

"Nothing" Bella said embarrassed.

"Bella" Emily said demanding a truthful answer.

"I was just making sure you were breathing" Isabella said looking down.

"Honey, I'm okay ,see? Come here. Did you even sleep?" Emily said.

"Yes," Isabella replied. "Derek said you need those pills." She said pointing to the pills in the nightstand. Emily took the pills and sat on the bed and reached out to Bella, pulling her in for a hug.

"You okay?" she asked.

Bella nodded yes and laid down next to Emily.

Suddenly the buzzer rang.

"I'll go" Bella said went downstairs.

After a while Emily went downstairs.
"Who is it, honey?" she asked reaching the bottom of the stairs.

"Penelope," Isabella replied, unlocking the door. Emily was not surprised. A moment later Bella opened the door to reveal Penelope Garcia, with a bunch of bags.

"Are you okay?" She asked putting the bags on the kitchen island.

"I'm fine," Emily said.

"And you," she said, turning to Bella and hugging her. "I shouldn't have left. You poor thing. Do you need anything? I have everything you'll need. Both of you. Oh, you poor girl. "

"I'm okay," Isabella told Penelope, letting go of the hug. Emily reached out and tucked a lock of hair behind Bella's ear.

"I'm making breakfast for you," Penelope said.

"Derek already did and it's almost 2 already" Bella said.

"What? It's 2 in the afternoon?" Emily asked surprised.

"Oh yeah" Penelope said. "You woke up right now?"

"No" Emily lied.

"Yes you did" Bella said.

"And what about you munchkin!? Did you sleep?" Penelope asked.

"Yes" Bella said Bella Emily knew.

"And that means no she didn't" Emily said. "so go get some sleep." Emily told her.

"I'm not tired." Bella said.

"Yes you are. Honey I can see you are. Come on. Couch" Emily said and Bella went. Bella walked to the couch looking sad and she did look very tired.

"Go lay with her" Penelope said. "You two need each other right now" she said and Emily left.

Bella turned the tv on and they watched some tv till Penelope walked over with scrambled eggs and toast. Penelope sat on the small couch with the girl while Emily rested on the longer couch with her legs up. Once Emily and Penelope were done eating, Emily took another pill and laid on the couch. After a little while the woman was asleep.

Bella couldn't close her eyes but she was glad Penelope was there.

Isabella suddenly hugged the older woman and said "Thanks for coming over."

Penelope smiled warmly. "Oh, honey. Don't mention it. I told you, whatever you need, I'm here."

Bella smiled and kept wrapped in the older woman's arms. She watched some tv and it wasn't long till she fell asleep too.

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Around 4, Derek stopped by again to check on them and he found Penelope cooking and the two brunettes asleep on the couch.

"That doesn't look comfortable" he said noticing the way Isabella was laying on the couch.

"Can you take her to bed?" Penelope asked. "She needs to rest. Poor thing"

"Sure" he said and took her up. He placed her on her bed and the kid didn't even move an inch. She was exhausted.

When Derek got back to the living room Emily was awake.
"How are you?" He asked.

"I'm good" Emily said. "Where's Bella?" She asked.

"I just took her to bed. She fell asleep here" he said.

"Thanks" Emily said.

"No problem" he said sitting on the couch.

"And thank you for staying last night" she said. "She really needed someone else here"

"Anytime" he said.

The three friends talked about work and about Bella and later the girl went downstairs. She got there scratching her eyes with the back of her hands, still very sleepy.

"Did you sleep okay?" Emily asked.

"No" Bella said honestly.

"Come here" Derek said and the girl sat on his lap.
"Do you want to try to sleep some more?" He asked putting his hand on her head and making her rest on his chest.

"No" she said.

"How about dinner?" Penelope said. "I made lasagna! Come on" she said excited and Emily got up, Derek picked Bella up and carried her to the dining room table. The girl sat next to Emily and they started eating. Isabella said the food was good but barely ate any. Emily gave Penelope a look as if saying for her to not mention it and Penelope didn't bring it up.

After eating Bella sat in the living room with Emily, Derek and Penelope. She played a game on her iPad as the agents watched tv.

Emily fell asleep again and woke up around 8. Bella was reading a book. She just had to force herself into thinking about something else other than her mother being hurt so she decided to read.

"Garcia. It's getting late" Emily said.

"Oh honey. I invited myself to a sleepover" Penelope smiled.

"What?" Emily let out a laugh.

"You can have my bed" Isabella said smiling.

"Thanks" Penelope smiled and Emily couldn't help but smile too.

"Well, I think I should go" Derek said. He said his goodbyes and went home.

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Around 11 Emily told Bella to go to bed.

"Mom I'm not even tired now" Bella lied.

"Honey you barely slept last night and you have school tomorrow" Emily said. "Go on. I'll be up in a minute" she said and Bella didn't look happy about it but did what she was told. The girl couldn't even think about school at the time.

"Goodnight Penelope" she said giving Penelope a hug.

"Goodnight peanut" Penelope smiled.

"You don't need to tuck me in mom" Bella said with a straight face as she reached the stairs. She went up so fast Emily didn't even have time to say anything.

Bella went to change and Emily gave her some time before going up. She headed to her room and Bella was already in bed turning to the side and holding her blanket.
Emily walked in and sat on the bed.
"Hey" she said and Bella turned around and looked at her.

"I don't need to tuck you in tonight?" Emily asked with a small smile. Bella just kept a straight face. "Hey... what's going on, honey?" Emily asked. She knew Bella was upset about her being hurt but she didn't get why she said that and didn't want her to do that.

"Nothing... It's fine... I'm just tired" Bella lied.

"Well, tired you need to be tucked in" Emily said already starting to do that. She tucked Bella in and kissed her forehead. She could feel Isabella getting tense.

"Mom?" Bella said. "When are we going to Seattle?" She asked.

"I'm think next Saturday or Sunday probably" Emily said and Bella nodded slightly.

"When will you Unm..." Bella started "go back to normal?" She asked shyly.

"In a week or two I think" Emily said and smiled. She could see Bella was very worried about that. "Hey, I'll be okay. Don't worry" she said smiling and Bella gave her a little smile. "Goodnight honey." She said.

"Goodnight" Isabella said and turned around again.

Emily stood up and walked out. She walked downstairs and talked about what happened to Penelope. Her friend said that Bella was scared and she would get better soon. It was just a scary situation that she was not used to.

"I bet she never saw you hurt Em. She's just scared" Penelope said and Emily couldn't agree more. She had gotten hurt on the job before but she never allowed herself to go see Bella when she was hurt. She only went once when Bella was 5 and she had a black eye and she remembered Bella being super careful around her. She knew the kid was scared.

They talked for a while and then headed to bed.
Emily found Bella fast asleep and she fell asleep shortly too.
In the other room Penelope slept.

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(Monday)

Emily and Bella were woken up by the alarm clock at exact 6:30.

"Good morning" Emily said to Bella who just smiled a little and sat on the bed.

"I'm really not in the mood for PE today" Bella said sounding really tired.

"So is it today you'll know about the choir thing?" Emily asked.

"Yeah. The results will be out at 4." Bella smiled looking over at Emily and the smile faded shortly after. Emily saw she tensed and looked away.

"Hey. I'm okay" she told Bella for the millionth time. She smiled and said "go get ready for school honey" and Bella got out of bed and headed to her bedroom. She went and took a quick shower, got dressed and headed to have breakfast. She found Penelope with a stack of pancakes.

"Good morning my sunshine! Do you want some help with your hair?" Penelope said as Bella got to the bottom of the stairs combing her hair.

"Sure" Bella said. "Let me get an elastic" she said and ran to the guest bathroom.
"Here. You can do whatever as long as it's out of my face. I have PE" Bella said handing the comb and a little bag of hair ties to Penelope. Isabella sat at a stool in the island and Penelope did a half up French braid.

"Vuala" Penelope said when she was done.

"Thanks" Bella gave her a sweet smile.

"Alright now eat!" Penelope said hugging Bella. She let go and they ate breakfast. When they were done Penelope said "go say bye to your mama so we can go or you're gonna be late"

Isabella smiled shyly and headed upstairs. When she walked in Emily's bedroom her mom was asleep holding Bella's blanket. Isabella smiled and walked closer to the bed. She placed a kiss on Emily's forehead and Emily opened her eyes.

"Sorry I woke you" Bella said.

"It's okay. Are you going now?" Emily asked.

"Yeah. I'll see you when I get back" Bella smiled a little.

"Have a good day baby" Emily smiled and Bella smiled back.

"Mom?" Bella said.

"Yeah?"

"What are you doing with my blanket?"

"It smells like you" Emily said slightly blushing and Isabella smiled.

Suddenly Penelope appeared.
"Peanut, you're gonna be late" she said.

"Bye mom" Bella said and gave Emily a kiss. Emily kissed her back and she headed out with Penelope.

The drive was okay. Penelope told Bella she would head to the office but she would call Emily to check on her and she told Bella not to worry about a zillion times. She dropped Bella off and headed to work. She didn't even waited till Bella got inside like Emily did and like she had done the first time she took Bella.

Isabella stood at the entrance of the school, torn of whether she actually wanted to go inside the building. She got out her phone and text Chloe.

"I'm outside. At the bench" Bella told Chloe.

A few minutes later Chloe walked out of the school door. She ran up to Bella and gave her a tight hug. "What are you doing? Why didn't you go in? And why didn't you answer me yesterday?" Chloe lectured.

"Sorry, I just needed some time alone." Isabella replied solemnly.

"umm can we go somewhere else?" Isabella asked.

"Sure, where do you want to go?" Chloe said.

"Theater?" Isabella suggested.

"Lets go." Chloe said.

The two girls walked in silence to the school's theater. They sat down on the stage and no one said a word for a while.

"What's wrong B?" Chloe suddenly asked.

Isabella looked at the floor, feeling tears fill her eyes. "Bella?" Chloe asked.

Bella took a deep breath and shook her head slightly in an attempt to get rid of the tears. "You can't tell anyone." Bella instructed.

"I won't" Chloe agreed. "what's wrong?"

"It's my mom."

"What's with your mom?" Chloe asked.

"She got hurt on the case" Bella said. She looked scared.

"She got hurt?" Chloe asked concern.

"she got shot" Bella said. "It's just..." She wasn't able to finish. She put her head in her hands, letting silent tears pour down her face. She felt a hand on her shoulder, she looked over to Chloe who pulled her into a tight hug. "Bella, I don't know what to say. Are you okay?" Chloe asked and Bella pulled out of the hug. "I don't know." She shrugged.

"I'm just scared of her getting hurt again I guess. She told me she would be fine at work but that things like this could happen. But all I can think about is that she'll get killed and I won't have anybody" Isabella said really fast completely opening up to her friend.

"Bella" Chloe said with tears in her eyes. She felt so bad seeing her friend like that. "Your mom will be okay" she said. "She's super tough and her team is there. You know that."

"Yeah right" Bella said sarcastically.

"You know things like this can happen. It's part of the job but I'm sure your mom's being very careful B. And she won't leave, okay? Don't worry about that" Chloe said.

"I wish it was that easy" Bella said wiping her face.

The girls sat in silence for a while. Chloe's phone started ringing so she pulled it out to see she had a text from Gavin. "We gotta go. Missing PE is fine but if we miss something else they'll tell on us" Chloe said standing up, Bella stood up as well.

"Yeah sure," Bella said.

Chloe gave her friend a hug. "Your mom will be fine" Chloe said and they headed back to the school.

When they got to class, Gavin had a million questions about what happened. Bella told him about Emily getting hurt and just as Chloe said he said she would be fine and that she was tough. All Bella could think was that tough people died too.