take me to church (emily prentiss)

4. five

AN: hi guys! happy monday

also, to any british readers: i'm sure you're all probably very aware of the chaotic riots going on everywhere and i want to say that i'm sorry if you and your family are being targeted by the racists now due to your race and ethnicity. i'm sorry that the world has come to this and that these riots have completely overwhelmed the media to the point that the three little girls who were murdered in southport at a taylor swift dance class seem to be completely irrelevant. i also want to say thank you to those who are protesting peacefully to protect several innocent communities that have been wrongly blamed, particularly muslim communities.

i don't have a big platform by any means but i stand with those three little girls and their families, and i stand with anyone facing undeserved and unwarranted hate because of something they and their community had nothing to do with. i am not proud to be english right now because our country is a shitshow and racist nobheads are using dead children as an excuse to destroy their own towns and physically harm people. i'm around on twitter (mfedits25) if anybody feels like they need someone to talk to, vent to, or just someone to stand in their corner and support them through this.

i know politics should not have a place on this app, and that everybody is entitled to their own opinion. however, if you do agree with the racist rioters who are tarnishing the memory of Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7), and Alice Dasilva Aguiar (9), then i ask you to please leave and do not interact with me or any of my writing. you are not welcome here. this is a safe space for all religions, races, ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities and more. there is no room for hatred here, or in this day and age. do better.

i'm sorry for the rant, but it has to be said.

i also have no idea if there's any TWs for this chapter, probably is so comment and let me know if you need one and i'll add it, i haven't had time to properly look myself but i will come back eventually and add them <33

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"not a lot, just forever. intertwined, sewn together." - not a lot, just forever, adrianne lenker

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Ziggy was bored.

Liv wasn't in work today, and they knew Emily would be home around lunch, but until then, they had nothing to do. Colin had already walked Shadow and Stella early this morning, and Nora had released Ziggy from school within an hour of them starting because he just couldn't focus when he knew Emily was coming home with grandpa and aunt Lilah and aunt JJ.

He missed his mom. He missed her more than anything, and he was worried about what state she'd be in, but he knew she was alive. Aunt Lilah made sure she came back alive, and Ziggy knew it helped reassure Liv that Lilah was the one dealing with this.

Lilah would never let anything happen to Emily. Lilah protected them all.

Still, he was bored.

He didn't want to play any of his games, or listen to any of his vinyls. He didn't want to help Liv bake cookies, or help Nora train Nemo and Sergio. He didn't want to help Colin with building or painting Nora's new flower planters for their backyard.

He didn't particularly want to do anything, so, he found himself sat on the front porch with the dogs playing in the front yard.

People walked past the house with their own dogs, people rode bicycles and were on their morning runs, headphones in playing music for them to listen to. Ziggy watched the world go by, eyes following every car that drove past the house in the hopes it would finally be his family coming home.