Trials and Tribulations

Chapter 3

It was a Friday and miraculously, the team had a day off. They had been working nonstop for many days and currently had no active cases so they gladly accepted a break.

Emily was at home in sweatpants watching reality tv on the couch. She knew she should probably be spending her day off being productive and doing all the things she doesn't get done because of traveling, but she decided to embrace her laziness.

It was around 11:30 am when Emily's phone rang from across the room where it was charging. She got her phone and answered it as she wandered into the kitchen to hunt for a snack.
"Hello?" she said.

"Emily. how soon can you get to the bau?" it was Hotch on the other end.

"oh no, don't tell me we got a case on our day off" Emily groaned.

"no. Emily you need to get here." Hotch said sternly.

This made Emily confused and curious.
"uh okay, I could be there in 20." she said.

"good" Hotch replied then hung up quickly.

Emily put her phone back down. she was trying to think of a reason Hotch would call her like that and she couldn't think of anything. Still wondering, Emily went to her closet to throw on some better clothes. She dressed in a pair of black pants and a plain gray sweater. She was ready quickly and got in her car to head to Quantico.

The drive went fast and soon Emily was was scanning herself into the building and riding the elevator up to the bau's floor. When she walked through the glass double doors she was puzzled. nobody else was here.

"surely i'm not the first one here, am I?" she thought.

Emily saw that Hotch was not in his office so she went to the conference room. As she walked in she saw Hotch looking through some files and it eased her worry a little bit.

"so much for our day off huh" Emily said.
Aaron looked up from what he was doing. He didn't chuckle or smile. His face was stone cold.
"are you going to tell me what's going on?" Emily asked. Her voice was serious this time and her eyes searched for an answer from Hotch.
"take a look" he said as he stepped away from the table. Emily walked over and stood where he had been previously. Paperwork was scattered around the table but one file sat right in front of her. She opened it and what she saw was a photo of herself. her eyes were covered with red X's and the words Emily Prentiss Will Be Dead were scrawled across the photo in red ink.