Jemily One Shots

Unit Chief

All the chapters I have done are when Emily was unit chief - In this Chapter she has not become unit chief yet

Emily's POV

JJ and I get to work at 8:30. Everyone is already in the bullpen, I'm assuming Hotch is in his office. I put my go bag under my desk and walked over to the team all crowded around Derek's desk.
"What's all the commotion? Did Morgan finally get laid?" Everyone laughs except Derek, he looks me in my eyes and stares.
"I haven't seen you pull any men recently" Morgan retaliates,
"That's because I don't pull men, I pull women. And clearly more than you" Garcia springs up after I speak,
"Ha! Everyone of you owes me $10. I told you sweet Em was into girls!" JJ walks over confused.
"How did y'all not know? Is it not obvious when you look at her" JJ chuckles.
"Well- we didn't want to assume because it's not nice too" Reid says.

We all turn our attention to Hotch poking out of his office. We expected him to call us in for a case or send us to our desk to get started on the day, but we did not expect him to call me in.
"Prentiss, my office please?" I look at my team with confused eyes. Am I in some kind of trouble? They all shrug their shoulders at me.
"Im sure its nothing Em, probably just a messed up file" JJ suggest
"Emily hasn't messed up a file in 3 years and 67 days though" Reid mumbles. Yeah that totally helps my confidence right now.

"You wanted to see me sir?"
"Yes, take a seat Emily" Oh no, Hotch never calls me by my first name. Well guess I'm fired.
"I'm resigning. I want you to be the new Unit Chief" Hotch says. What. The. Fuck. OMG!
"I haven't been a good husband or father and I want to change that. Jack deserves a father that's there for him, to watch him grow up. I've missed enough and I don't want to miss anymore" He says standing up and coming around to the front of his desk.
"Um, Hotch, I don't know what to say. Ca-can I think it over tonight?" He nods like he's already thought out all of the responses possible to his question.
"Of course, I leave at the end of the week. Emily, this team needs you as their new leader. Please think this over carefully" Wow ok.
"Thank you Hotch, i'll get you my answer before Friday" I get up and walk out of his office. I see the team move their eyes to anywhere but me as if they weren't watching for any reaction or noise coming out of his office.

I can tell the team is curious but they don't ask questions for the whole day.

JJ and I pick up Henry from his after school program and head home. Henry's talking to me about his day but all I can think of is Hotch's questions. Do I take it? Or do I ask him to make someone else Unit Chief?

JJ's making dinner, just a simple pasta. I wish I could be pasta. Always warm and contempt. Henry goes to wash his hands so I make myself talk to JJ. I've barely talked to her all day, I'm just stuck in my thoughts at the moment. I don't know how I am supposed to say this gracefully so I just blurted it out.
"Hotch is resigning and wants me to become Unit Chief!" I talked at the speed of light, hopeful that she was able to make out what I said. She took her eyes off the stove and looked at me,
"Are you serious? You're not fucking with me?" Henry comes running out as soon as JJ finishes talking.
"Ooooo mommy said a bad word" JJ gives me the 'we'll talk later look' I practically invented it. I never like to have these conversations, they're too stressful.
"Sorry bub, I stubbed my toe and it hurt." Henry sits on his chair as JJ brings his food over.
"Its ok, sometimes I call mean people dummys in my head" Yes because the word 'fucking' and 'dummy' have the same meaning.

We got Henry down to bed with protest, he's to the age where he never wants to go to sleep. I had to promise him the next 3 Saturdays at the park. JJ and I got ready for bed, I showered while she cleaned up a bit then we switched. We crawl into bed and she cuddles on my chest.
"I don't know if I should take it. It would mean less time with you and Henry, and more stress overall." I blurt out. JJ shifts her body so she's looking at me while we're still cuddled together.
"I think you should do it. You've always wanted to work your way up to the top. Yeah you would have less time with us but you would get paid better and your own office" She says the last part is like my mother isn't the ambassador and constantly trying to have a relationship with me by giving me money.
"I don't think anyone else would fit the role of Unit Chief better than you Em. Rossi is getting old so Strauss would never approve, Reid has no sense of leadership and confidence, Morgan can be reckless, and I just became a profiler a couple of months ago." Yeah she does have a point.
"But I don't want you to do anything that you don't want to do, my role here is to help you make decisions, not to make them myself"
"Yeah your right. You wouldn't be mad if I took the position?"
"Of course not Em. I'm happy Hotch picked you. I'm not particularly excited that he's resigning but I am that he chose you as Unit Chief" JJ shifts again so that she's not looking at me anymore, she's satisfied with her words as am I.

I told Hotch that next morning and he was excited for me. He ran me through some of the things a Unit Chief does differently from a normal agent. I have yet to tell the rest of the team but I plan on telling them later today.

It's now 'later today' and I'm nervous as hell. I gathered everyone into the briefing room, as well as Hotch.
"What is all this about Prentiss?" Morgan questions,
"Hotch has asked me to be Unit Chief and I took the position" All eyes turn to Hotch.
"I am resigning effective immediately. I need to watch my kid grow up and being here is not going to let me see that. I asked Prentiss because I believe she is best fit and if anyone has any problems you can address them with me. As of tomorrow, Emily will be known as the Unit Chief, not me" Hotch walks out of the room and everyone turns their attention back to be.

"Wow, did not expect that" Morgan thinks out loud
"Oh sugar this is amazing, oo oo can I help decorate your office?" I smile at Garcia, I'm glad at least she accepts this, Morgan and Reid on the other hand, I'm not so sure. I know Rossi has my back because he's cool with everything and obviously I've already ran it by Jennifer.
"Reid, Morgan? Penny for your thoughts?" Reid diverts his eyes to the ground.
"Every time things become good again something always messes it up. Why did he have to leave, we were doing good?" Reid talks quietly.
"Prentiss, to be honest I'm shocked but you have my full support. I'm sorry I reacted that way but I was just surprised Hotch would actually resign" I smile at him, turning my attention back to Reid, he's still staring at the ground.
"Spencer, people change, and Hotch needed a change, Jack needs him, he needs a dad who will be there for him" Reid gets up and walks out of the room.
"Give him time Em, he will come around eventually" JJ reassures me. I sure hope he does.

The work day ends, I need to talk to Henry about all of this, even though he's still young he deserves to know I might not be around all the time now. We get home and I sit Henry on the couch as JJ takes a bath in our room.
"Hey bubs can we talk about something important?" I ask hesitantly
"Sure mama, am I in trouble?"
"No monkey, you know how uncle Aaron is mommy and i's boss?"
"Yeah, he has to tell y'all what to do!"
"Well how would you feel if I was the new boss?"
"WOW that would be so awesome, you could boss mommy around" yeah even as boss I would never boss that woman around.
"Well monkey, if I become the boss I might not be home on time every night, is that okay?"
"Yeah but you have to promise to smile because uncle Aaron never does and sometimes it's scary. OH and you still have to have dance party's and pillow fights with me ok?" Well that went better than expected.
"Well thanks monkey" I hugged him and put him to bed for the night.

I walk into our bathroom and see JJ resting in the bathtub, bubbles just barely above her boobs.
"Hey love, why don't we get you into bed" She opens her eyes and smiles. I pull out a towel, she stands up and wraps herself in it. She gets dressed, literally just underwear and one of my big shirts, and we meet in the middle of the bed cuddling each other.
"How did Henry take it?" she asks me.
"Like a champ, as long as I still have pillow fights and dance parties with him were good" We both laugh as we fall asleep for the night.

The next couple of days we don't have any cases but the team is still adjusting to me as Unit Chief. Reid eventually came around, guess I'm his new dad. He doesn't blame me, he blames Hotch.

We finally get a case, i'm nervous but I have my team to back me up every step of the way

"Wheels up in 30" I say with full confidence.