One year later

"Emily you are being positively stupid! Now let's go!" JJ yelled down the hallway of her best friend's apartment. The liaison was carrying her purse and briefcase in one hand and a one-year-old in the other. "Don't you agree Connie? Mommy is being very silly?" The raven haired child giggled as she grasped onto her godmother's hair. "No Connie let go," JJ ordered but the baby kept tugging, having no hands to pry the child's hands away so JJ just lets her continue.

"I'm not being stupid I'm just worried! Didn't I tell you she likes hair?" Emily added to change the conversation as she popped into eyesight, she took her daughter away from JJ and perched her on her hip before grabbing her purse and go bag from by the coat rack.

"Is that why you cut it off?" JJ asked admiring her friend's shorter locks.

"That and I wanted a fresh look for today. Hotch was a real hard ass the other day." She groaned, by the end, she was practically begging him for this job.

JJ shook her head as she opened the door and stepped out of the apartment. "I told you, tough but fair. And I also told you he wasn't going to take it easily. You're disrupting the balance." JJ joked; she knew how Hotch and Gideon were about who they hired. It took a lot of per swaying from Morgan to get them to give Elle a chance... and it turned out they were right about her. So taking in Emily when all of her documents were forged and technically illegal (not that they knew) was a lot harder than they hoped for not to mention Emily and Hotch's history.

Prentiss shifted Connie onto her other hip before locking the door and following the blonde to the elevator. "How was I supposed to remember he worked for my mother? I was never home!"

"Except the summer that you were home," JJ replied with a sarcastic sigh. "And you swooned at the shiny new play toy your mama had bought."

Emily groaned. "I regret telling you that..."

"But you did! So it is free game!" She laughed.

"I didn't know he was married!"

"You could have been a normal person and just ask instead of spending two months trying to seduce him."

During Emily's last year at Yale, her mother had hired a new security detail for herself. When Emily returned for the summer her mother had taken off to some European country and missed her daughter's graduation. And in Emily style retaliation she threw the biggest party Yale had ever seen. Hotch being the new rookie was in charge of watching over the house while Ambassador Prentiss was away. And as an initiation to the force, no one told him exactly what Emily Prentiss was like. As a result, he had definitely seen more of her than he would ever want to.

Emily rolled her eyes as she stepped onto the elevator. "You're right," she sighed overdramatically, "I am just jealous that you get to spend time with your boyfriend all day every day. Sharing hotels and long nights in the office! It just is not fair for the poor single woman in the world!"

"Reid is not my boyfriend!" JJ snapped harshly.

"But you wish he was," Emily replied tauntingly. "You wish for that second date he never asked you out on. He spilled his beer on you and you've just fallen head over heels."

JJ checked her watch as the elevator lowered to parking. "I'm done talking about this."

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"Take Prentiss with you," Hotch ordered Gideon as he continued down the catwalk to his office.

"Five minutes!" The senior agent yelled down into the bullpen at the new agent.

JJ stepped out of her office and down to the grouping of desks to see her friend hiding a smiled as she stacked the rest of her files on her desk. "Do you want me to call Sharon for you?" JJ asked in a whisper.

Emily nodded slightly. "Could you? I haven't had time to figure out a plan yet..."

"Don't worry about it; I'll bring her to the office." Emily was about to comment but JJ continued. "Hotch will be running around all day, Gideon is in Guantanamo Bay, and Penelope loves children. However, you were supposed to discuss Connie with Hotch remember?" The blonde's eyes narrowed. "You promised."

"I haven't had time," Emily said as she gripped her go bag. "But I will when I get back."

JJ hugged her friend. "I know, now go because Gideon really will leave you behind."

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The intense case rang on and on. Hotch and Morgan traveled the city to locate the bombs while JJ and Garcia stayed in the bat cave raiding through CIA case files.

The two girls were watching the screen when JJ phone buzzed; she checked her messages before abruptly standing up. "I will be back in a few minutes, don't do anything that will get us fired." She smirked before walking out the door and hearing Penelope giggle.

The blonde made it down to the front doors of the FBI building where she met Sharon who was pushing a baby stroller back and forth. "Thanks for bringing her." JJ smiled as she approached the older woman. "Emily should be back soon and she'll give you a call."

"Not a problem." Sharon smiled as she handed over the diaper bag. "Are you allowed babies in the office?"

"We'll find out. Have a good night."

JJ brought Connie up the ninth floor and pushed the stroller in quietly in hopes of surprising her friend. The office was fairly quiet at this hour so there was no fear of anyone approaching the one-year-old. JJ reopened the door and pushed the stroller in. "I have a surprise for you..." She whispered.

Garcia swung her chair around and let out a shriek of surprise. "A baby! Where did this gorgeous angel come from?!"

JJ laughed as she lifted the child from the stroller. "Garcia, this is Connie. Connie this is Penelope Garcia the woman who will spoil you to death." The blonde cradled the baby against her hip and swayed slightly. "Connie is Emily's daughter," JJ informed her friend. "She's just over a year now."

Garcia's eyes widened and her mouth flew into a giant smile. "She has a baby?! Is she married?! What else is she not telling us?!" The analyst shrieked scaring the child who started to cry.

JJ rolled her eyes but smiled at the same time. "Calm down, Em is not hiding anything she just wanted to make sure she felt comfortable on the team before disclosing to us that she has a daughter."

"She told you," Garcia replied almost accusingly.

"The sitter does not do overnights but we do, for tonight anyways. So let's get Connie comfy then go back to work."

Hours went by before the team was safe again. Emily sat in the seat on the jet next to Reid as she stared out the window at the moving clouds lost in thought.

"That's it, I quite." Reid proclaimed before he slid out of his seat. "I'm taking a nap." He sprawled himself out on the couch and shut his eyes.

"Do you play?" Gideon asked the newest agent breaking her from her thoughts.

Emily felt herself smile as she shifted seats to where Spencer had been sitting before. "I do." She stated before resetting the pieces to play.

The game intensely progressed and Gideon definitely felt the challenge as he thought out all of his pawns and pieces. It was no surprise when he figured out Emily was doing the same thing. Soon Spencer had even come back to the table to watch the two play.

"How old is your daughter?" Gideon asked surprising Emily as she moved her Rook.

"Uh," she stammered. "Just over a year... How did you?-?"

Gideon moved his Queen. "You have a pink flowered car seat in your car; I saw it when you and JJ pulled in this morning." He informed her. "I never took you as one to make a gender stereotype."

Emily smiled and shook her head. "My mother bought it; she was convinced I was having a girl. And she was right as usual."

"You and JJ drove in together?" Reid asked moving away from the topic of the conversation.

"Yes." Emily nodded. "We don't live far from each other so we agreed to carpool for the first little while." She moved her Queen and placed Gideon in check.

"You live by Saint Avenue drive?" The genius asked raising an eyebrow.

Emily turned to look at the boy before smirking. "You know where JJ lives?"

"Yes." He replied flatly.

"Been to her house?" This time there was a playful questioning in her voice that made Gideon lower his head before continuing to move his pieces.

"Yes?" Spencer questioned as though it was a weird thing for her to ask.

"He doesn't get it." Gideon finally spoke up. "They went on a date, he's not stalking her."

Spencer's face turned beet red while Emily was in hysterics. "I know," she laughed turning to look at her colleague. "She told me, I was just playing with you."

"S-she talked about it?" He asked quite shocked. He had made such a fool of himself that he was just too afraid to ever ask her out again and he agreed to keep it a secret when she asked him too.

Emily smiled. "She did and she had fun."

This made Spencer smile before he tried to hide it from his friends.

When the jet landed Gideon exited first followed by Reid then Emily. When Emily made it onto the steps her entire face lightened up when she saw JJ standing on the runway with a stroller and a smiling Connie who had noticed her mother.

Emily descended the stairs and almost ran right to JJ. As soon as she reached the blonde Emily unbuckled her child from the stroller and picked up her child and hugged her. "Hi Connie," she greeted. "Were you good for JJ?"

The baby laughed, smiled, and babbled before resting her head on her mother's shoulder and placing her fingers in her mouth.

JJ smiled at the pair before looking over Emily to see Spencer and Gideon staring at the two of them. JJ nodded her head to sign to Emily to turn around.

"Right!" Emily gasped. "Gideon, Reid, this is Connie, my daughter." She walked towards the two men. "Say hi Connie."

The child just stared at the strange men while she profusely sucked her fingers. "Children under eighteen months tend not to speak unless it is a one-word sentence. Often it would be mama or dada, maybe a personalized version of a bottle. However, studies have shown that it may not even be real words but rather children expressing their sounds and parents manipulating that to feel happiness and excitement at their children knowing who they are. Babies do know who their parents are and often have different pitches of cries for each parent. They are also starting studies to show that babies can learn sign language before they learn how to talk and crawl. " Reid shared with the group.

JJ just shook her head while Emily nodded. "Well she's not even doing that yet but we'll get there when she is ready." She then turned to the senior agent. "Do you want to hold her?"

Gideon looked gobsmacked before extending his arms. "If you don't mind?" Connie instantly took to Gideon as he held her. She curled up into him and fell asleep the moment she found a comfortable position.

While Emily and Gideon were busy JJ walked over to Spencer and tapped his arm to get his attention. "Can we talk?" She asked.

"Uh... Sure..." He replied taking a step over to give them privacy. "H-have I done something?" He asked with a scared look in his eyes.

"No! No Spence, you haven't I promise." JJ reassured resting her hand on his shoulder. "I wanted to ask... I wanted to ask if you wanted to go for lunch tomorrow. Or even dinner if you prefer?" Her arm moved down to caress his. "Don't feel pressured to say yes, I did have a great time last year at the game. And I regret not letting anything come from it. So if you would like, I'd like to try again."

The younger man couldn't help the smile that spread all the way across his face making his cheeks hurt. "Yes! Uh I mean yeah, yeah that would be nice."

JJ chuckled. "Great, I'll pick you at your place then. Two? Make it a late lunch."

"Yeah, two sounds great." JJ turned to walk to the SUV when Spencer held her shoulder to stop her. "I'll pick you up instead."

Instead of heading home from the airstrip JJ and Emily made a stop back at the office. The bullpen was cleared out but they both knew that Aaron Hotchner was still working hard in his office. The girls walked across the catwalk and entered the room without knocking. "Aaron we need to talk," JJ said startling the man.

The use of his first name had Hotch knowing that this wasn't going to be a pleasant conversation. "JJ? I sent everyone home." He told her as he sat up higher in his chair.

"I know." She replied as she pulled out the two chairs. Emily was still carrying Connie as she sat in one of them. "We need to discuss something with you."

"If it's about Connie I already know Jason called-"

"It is but not what you might think," JJ replied cutting him off. "What I'm about to tell you never leaves this room to understand?"

Hotch was taken aback by JJ's forcefulness but he nodded in agreement. JJ reached into her purse and pulled out a death certificate. Hotch looked down at the paper and read the name; "Imelda Addison Doyle" he read. "I don't understand."

"Know that name," JJ commanded. "Learn it; memorize it, everything on this paper. There is not much I can tell you because you don't have the clearance for it but this is what you do know; Imelda Doyle died with her mother Lauren Reynolds over a year ago. Connie and Imelda are not the same people no matter what anyone tells you. And it may not be soon but one day someone will start asking questions and they won't like not getting answers. Imelda was born months early from an emergency C-section, due to her mother's stress. And the two were killed on impact in a car accident in Columbia. There was just too much damage done that the family decided on cremation and not a casket.

Hotch just glared at the communication liaison he was shocked and impressed at the same time. "Will I get answers?" He asked.

"One day," JJ replied firmly. "But not soon."

"I want the answers from you JJ." He commented. "I don't want to hear this from some government official."

The blonde nodded. "I know Hotch."

The girls stood up and Hotch stopped them. "Be safe. Both of you."

"I always am Hotch." JJ flashed him a quick smile.

As the girls left the office Hotch leaned back in his chair and sighed. He knew this would happen; he knew someone inside of their team would be called somewhere for other government business, it always happened but he hoped he had time. JJ was good that's why he hired her in the first place he knew she would draw attention to herself that's why he was so fast on hiring her that day after her first appearance on TV. He thought he had got JJ at just the right time; right before others came calling and offering her better offers. Obviously, this was not the offer he had expected her to get. She was doing the government's dirty work and he prayed they weren't setting her up for failure.

AN: I'm having a Hedley day and if you do not know who they are EDUCATE YOURSELF! Anyways xD please review!