Her heart seemed to have stopped when she saw his face.
It was him.
It was Doyle and he wanted her to know he was there.
The car sprinted and right at that moment there was nothing she could do so she went back inside, got the package and went to the bathroom and opened it.
It was a flower and it had a paper clipped to it.

"Don't make this about anyone else or I will kill them. It's you I want. Only you, Lauren"

Her hands were shaking.
She flushed the note and threw the flower in the trash and went back to work.
He said it was only her he wanted so she knew nothing would happen at the BAU.

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Later at night Penelope asked if Bella could have a sleep over with her at Derek's house. Emily was not very sure about it but she said yes. She felt like she could maybe try to find out more things about Doyle when Bella was with Penelope. Since they'd be at Derek's house she knew that they would protect Bella. Besides Doyle wanted her, no one else.

Around 8:45, when Bella and Garcia went home with Morgan, Emily texted Clyde. 'Meet me at the S/M now'.
S meant subway. The M meant which one.

Clyde sent back a 'yes'.

So Emily went to the subway.
She had been feeling like someone was always watching her and in the subway was no different.
She walked inside and sat. She was very tensed and scared but she tried not to show it. She waited for a long time and suddenly Clyde appeared next to her.

"So.." He said.

Suddenly Tsia sat in front of her and both stared at Emily waiting for her to talk.

"Doyle's here in DC" Emily said.

"How can you be so sure?" Clyde asked.

"I saw him. Earlier today... In front of the BAU." She told them and they looked very surprised. "He left a package for me with a flower and a note telling me not to tell anyone. Not to tell the team or he'd kill them" Emily said.

"Is he playing games with you?" Tsia asked.

"No" Clyde said and Emily shook her head.

"He's meticulous. He plans everything to the last detail." Emily said.

"That last detail being you" Clyde said.

"Did he mention your daughter?" Tsia asked.

"No." Emily said.

"Maybe you should tell your team" Tsia said.

"No. This isn't their fight. I won't get them on this, I can't take that risk" Emily said.

"If we stay together we can get him again" Tsia said.

"And look how that ended up" Emily said.

"Wait. When you went undercover I promised no one would harm you" Clyde said.

"I'm not undercover anymore" Emily said. "DC is my comfort zone. I'm not going to be waiting for him to come after me. Or even my child. This ends here." Emily said and walked out.

She walked to a coffee shop and called Morgan. Then she went to his house. She couldn't leave Bella, she just needed to have her daughter next to her that night.

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"Join us Prentiss" Morgan said when he opened the door.
Suddenly Penelope and Bella appeared, they had matching batman onesies on.

"Oh my god" Emily smiled and walked in.

"They got me one too. Do you wanna wear it? It didn't fit me and it will look way better on you" Morgan said.

"Oh said the man too cool for batman onesies" Penelope said and they all laughed.

Emily followed them to the living room.
"Let's just watch this movie. We'll leave the onesies for some other time" she said.

They sat in the living room and watched the movie. When it was done, Penelope was passed out on the couch so they left her there and Emily and Bella went to the guest bedroom, and Morgan to his.

"Mom" Bella said as Emily tucked her in.

"Yes" Emily smiled and then laid next to the girl.

"I'm glad you came to watch the movie with us" Bella said.

Emily smiled and wrapped the girl in her arms.
"You know I love you very very much, right?" Emily said.

"Yes" Bella said. She looked at Emily's eyes and said "and I love you too".
Emily kissed the girl's forehead and they snuggled. Bella didn't take long to sleep but for Emily it was really hard. She just couldn't stop thinking about Doyle.

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(Thursday)

That day the alarm didn't go off and it was by mistake. Everyone forgot to set it up and ended up sleeping till almost 8:30.
Penelope woke up and ran around the house saying they were late and waking everybody up.

"We're late again?" Bella asked Emily.

"Come on I'll call the school so they can send your homework through Chloe" Emily said as she saw Bella's not so happy face.

"Mom, are you sure this is okay?" the girl said worried.

"You'll catch up, baby. Don't worry I'll help" Emily said.
They had a quick breakfast and headed to the BAU. In there, Emily called the school and then texted Hilary. She lied to the woman and said Bella was having a fever still so she thought it was best for her to not go.

"Conference room everyone" JJ said walking pass their desks.

"I'll be right back. Stay here" Emily told Bella and followed the team.

They learned about the case which were about  two men who were kidnapped right there in the city so Emily was happy she wouldn't need to go anywhere.

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Bella spent the whole day reading or watching Doctor Who on her iPad while the team worked to solve the case.
Around lunch time, Isabella was sitting on Emily's desk while Emily was out with JJ when she noticed Reid sitting on his desk looking rather sad.
"Are you okay?" She asked the man.

"Yes, i'm fine" Reid said pretending. Bella knew he was lying.

"Are you sad about Lauren too?" Bella asked him assuming the woman was his friend too.

"Lauren?" He asked her a bit confused.

"Lauren Reynolds" Bella said.

"Who's Lauren Reynolds?" Spencer asked.

"My mom's friend. I thought she was yours too" Bella said.

"No. I don't know any Lauren Reynolds" Reid said. "But why would I be sad? What happened to her?" he asked.

"My mom said she died" Bella said and Reid made a "sorry" face.

"so if you didn't know her then what's bothering you?" Bella asked.

"It's just a bad headache" He said.

"sorry for bothering you then" the girl said feeling bad.

"Oh no. You never bother me" Reid said with a small smile. Bella smiled back and went back to reading her book.

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Emily had to go to the men's house with JJ . When they were going back to the BAU, Emily told JJ she would stop at her house really quick to get some things.
So Emily went up and got Isabella's uniform. She just knew everyone would get suspicious if the girl kept missing school and she knew the girl's school was a safe place. She went back to the car with a bag of clothes for Bella.

"What's that for Em?" JJ asked.

"It's for Bella. Just some clothes and her uniform" Emily said.

"But you'll be home in a few hours" JJ said.

"It's just in case she needs to stay with Garcia." Emily lied.

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They finished the job around 11 at night.
Emily and Morgan walked to their desks together.
"Look at that" Derek said as he saw Bella was asleep sitting on Emily's chair.
Emily smiled and went to wake the girl.

"Oh no. Don't wake her up. I'll take her to the car" Derek said and picked Bella up. The girl opened her eyes.

"It's alright. We're going home" Emily told her. She got her bag and Isabella's bag and went to the car.
She drove around the city for a while paying attention if she was being followed. Then she drove to another hotel, the Four Seasons and carried sleeping Bella inside. Again using fake passports, she faked being from Italy and not being able to speak English and checked-in. She carried Bella to their room and put the girl on the bed. She looked around the place checking if everything was fine and then went to shower, keeping the bathroom door open. Once done she put her clothes on and laid next to Bella.

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(Friday)

"Hey baby wake up" Emily said trying to wake Isabella up. "Come on honey" she said and Bella opened her eyes. "Hi. Good morning sleeping beauty" Emily said and Bella smiled and opened her eyes all the way.
Suddenly she saw where she was and she didn't recognize the room.
Emily saw the girl looked confused.
"I was gonna take you to their restaurant last night but you fell asleep so I brought you up." She said smiling. "Come on, go get ready for school" Emily said.

"I don't have my uniform"

"Yeah you do. I stopped by the house to get it just in case" Emily said.
Bella looked a little sad.

"What is it? You don't wanna go now?" Emily asked.

"Do I really have to?" Bella asked sad.

"Yes. Today you have to go" Emily said. "Please go get ready" Emily said and Bella did that.

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When Emily parked the car in front of the school Bella asked "are you sure I have to go?"

"Yes I am" Emily said.

The girl wasn't happy about it but she went.

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The team was briefing about a case right there in DC, when Emily walked in late.
"I'm so sorry" she said.

"Are you okay?" Hotch asked.

"Yeah. It's just one of those day I guess." she said sitting down. "What did I miss?" She asked and they filled her in. It wasn't long after that, that they headed to the crime scenes.

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Later, Emily walked inside the school and picked Bella up. She took the girl to the BAU.
They were greeted by Penelope.
"How was your day bunny?" Penelope asked.

"Good" Bella smiled. "Mom, Chloe invited me to go to the movies tonight. Can I go?" Bella asked.

"No, not today" Emily said.

"Why not?" Bella asked confused.

"Because I said no. So go do your homework right now" Emily said really serious and Bella walked to Emily's desk looking a bit upset.

"What was that?" Garcia asked.

"Nothing" Emily said serious.

"Come on she just wants to go to the movies" Penelope said.

"She's my daughter, not yours" Emily snapped and walked away.

Garcia tried to hide how hurt she was.
Emily knew she hurt her friend but she just couldn't let Bella go out now and she really could not let them know why.