Holding on (a Criminal Minds Fanfiction)

Chapter 4: Emily's Pov

After I arrived late Garcia finished briefing us on the case, and we all got into the cars, Garcia sat in the passenger seat, while Derek drove, and I sat in the back, I started to feel really sick, I tried to hold back but I kept feeling the urge to get sick "Derek can you pull over?"

"Why?"

"Derek, I just need you to pull over." I snapped at him, he pulled over onto the side of the road and I jumped out and immediately got sick, Garcia got out with me holding my hair out of the way and rubbing my back.

"Sunshine, what's wrong, talk to me. Are you sick?"

"I'm fine, I just need a minute, I think I just got a little car sick." I lied, but I wasn't ready to tell anyone, about the baby.

"I'll switch with you, you sit in the front sunshine, and Derek, I see a convenient store over there let's stop so we can get some ginger ale and some crackers." Derek agreed and we got in the car, he bought me the ginger ale to settle my stomach and 30 minutes later we were on the road. First, I was late to work, now I'm late to the precinct. We walked into the building; I saw Derek go up to Hotch to tell him something. Garcia came up to me and began talking, "So point out this Detective Aiden Edwards to me."

"I don't see him Garcia, he might actually be working something I should be doing now."

"So, where is he, I need to have a little chat with this guy." Before I could walk away from Garcia, Rossi put his hand on my shoulder.

"He is not in this room at the moment Rossi." As I said that I saw him walk into the room. He smiled at me and started to walk over. "Hey Aiden."

"Hi. I'm guessing you told them with the way they are staring at me." He whispered.

"Where are the girls?"

"well their mom has to work, and I had to work so they decided to stay at the apartment, I told them to keep the door locked and not to go outside with me not being there."

The rest of the team walked up to us, "Guys this is Aiden, we've been seeing each other for about 3 years."

At that moment Garcia noticed the ring that I have on my finger, "You're engaged!"

I smiled and nodded. She came over to me and hugged me along with JJ, the others just congratulated us and then Rossi gave him a look as if to tell him that he better not hurt me look. And then we began to work once again, we were all sitting around trying to figure out a profile for the unsub, JJ and Derek went to talk to the only surviving victim and see if she remembered anything.

My phone started to ring, I looked at it and saw that it was Chole, I was too busy working to answer it. It wasn't until an hour past that I looked at my phone and I had a voicemail, it was from Chloe, she never leaves messages, so that is when I got worried. I opened it and what I heard was chilling, "EMILY, EMILY, OH GOD PLEASE ANSWER YOUR PHONE, PLEASE, HELP US, PLEASE, EMILY!!!!!!!"

I stood in silence for a few before I ran into the room Hotch was in and I played the message for him, "Prentiss, who is that?"

"Aiden's oldest daughter Chloe. She's 14, she has a 9-year-old and 6-year-old sister."

"Let's go." Was the only thing he said, and we raced to the car without telling anyone.

When we got there the door was ajar and we went in with our guns out. "No, No, No, this cannot be happening, they were told to stay inside, all the kidnappings happened from the front yard, oh God."

"Emily the house is trashed, which means they weren't outside, does Aiden possibly have any enemies? Anyone who would want to hurt him?"

"No, not that I know of." I looked around for anything to give a hint as to who could have taken them.

"What about his ex-wife?"

"No, the divorce was a mutual decision, and the girls go back and forth between houses there were never any issues with that." Hotch made some phone calls, and soon enough the house was filled with people working the case. "I have to go back to the precinct; I need to talk to Aiden."

"I'll go with you I promise, everything will be alright Emily." JJ said to me as she walked up to me, we walked out of the house and drove back to the precinct, "Are you alright Emily?"

"I feel like I'm gonna be sick." I kept trying to take deep breaths, but I couldn't help but worry. We arrived at the precinct Aiden was at his desk, and I was about to tell him that his daughters had been kidnapped. "Aiden?"

"Oh, hey babe, what's wrong?"

"It's the girls, I got a phone call from Chloe, and didn't answer it. They're missing."

"Tell me it isn't true, please it can't be true."

"I'm sorry." He pulled me into a hug, and we stood there comforting each other for a while.

JJ intervened, "Aiden, I'm sorry to have to ask you this, but I need to know, do you have anyone who would want to hurt you for any reason whatsoever?"

"I put this man away a while ago he claimed to be innocent, but there was a lot of evidence against him, he was killed while he was serving his time, he had a brother who vowed that he would make me pay for what happened. I think his name was Michael Lawson." JJ left us to be alone, and everything just moved by so slowly, we didn't know what to do, or what to think, time just kept passing by and there was nothing we could do to find them until we knew more.