Here ya go. Sorry for the late update. Classes started again now that the snow is starting to melt. Advanced Placement Government (college course) kicks my ass. Thank you to all the nice reviews. It's coming to an end. Unfortunately, this is the last chapter. I would've told you the chapter before this one, but I didn't know it'd be the last. Anyways, ENJOY! And review.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Derek asks her. She sits and puts her elbows on her knees and her hands on her face.

"I don't love him, but he cares for me. I care for him. He was there for me. I know you could've been too, but you were so far away and I didn't even tell you about the baby. I just didn't know what to do. When the blood started, and that pain. I just...he was there, and he cared. He cares for me, and he's willing to give me the world. Right now, he's the only offer I have, and quite frankly I don't see another one popping out of the blue any time soon." Emily said. She bit her lip. The only other person I'd be willing stop and drop everything for is you.

"Emily, I have something to tell you about Savannah and I." He said. "We bro-"

"Emily! Your mother called wanting to make sure you were okay." JJ says walking in. Emily sighed, and nodded.

"I'll be right back Derek." Emily said before standing up, and walking out. JJ looked at Derek, and felt the tensity in the room.

"Is she gonna marry him?" Derek asked JJ. JJ looked at him, and shook her head.

"Not if someone does something to stop her." She responds. "She came here to figure things out, to figure you guys out. She needs a little push." JJ says. Derek nodded.

"No, mom I don't need a car. I'll be fine here. I'm with JJ and Derek...yes I'm with Derek...yeah. No mom it's not like that!...I know you want me to marry Clyde...what is this happy bullshit?...fine...the news said that roads should start to get better by morning...salt trucks went out...yeah, I'll catch up with you then." Emily said. "I don't know mom. Goodbye." Hotch watched Emily slam the phone down. Emily groaned.

"She's not that bad." Hotch says with a chuckle. Emily rolled her eyes.

"She's the devil. Are you with Derek? Why are you with Derek? Aren't you engaged to someone else? I'm not engaged to someone else!" Emily says quietly.

"Why was she so worried about you being with Derek?" Hotch asked with a smile, and a raised eye brow. Emily tried to think of something quick, but the look on her face told him everything. "I know Emily. I've known for years." Hotch says sitting down on the desk next to her.

"You did?" Emily asked. He nodded.

"Rossi told me about a year in of working this job. I had my suspicions, but...David knows things." Hotch says. Emily looked. "I'm pretty positive Garcia knows. After you went away, when they thought you were..." Hotch didn't finish, but he knew that she knew what he was talking about. "Derek took it really hard. I heard him telling her one night in his office. I walked away and pretended I didn't hear anything. I think Reid is the only one in the dark about things, but he's good. Not as oblivious as we all think." Hotch says. Emily let out a small chuckle.

"Everyone knew?" Emily asked. "So that Tom Kohler, and 'a girl that worked in Chicago' BS was all for nothing?" Emily asked before laughing some more. "All these years. Worried about how mad you guys would be. This whole time you knew."

"It is a bit funny when you think about it. Everyone knowing this big secret that everybody thinks nobody knows." Hotch said. "I knew you two were seeing each other, but it was Beth that cleared things up for me." Hotch said. Emily gave him a questioning look.

"How so?" Emily asked. Hotch looked down.

"She told me how much he loved you, and how much you loved him." Hotch says. "I wasn't aware it was that deep till she pointed it out. She told me that at JJ's wedding. She was watching you two dance. She said that you held him closer to you. That you looked comfortable in his arms. That you didn't dance with him the way you danced with us."

"She should've been a profiler." Emily says.

"So she was right?" Hotch asked.

"Yeah, at least I think so." Emily says.

"Take it while you can. I know it's a big risk on your friendship, and it might not even work out. I have a feeling though, and I think that you should take this. He loves you. If you can Derek Morgan to settle down, which I know he'd do it for you, then I commend you."

"What if I can't? What if this ends up being a big mistake, and it turns out that we're better at no strings attached than we are at having an actual relationship?" Emily asks.

"I think that's for you to decide. You have what's safe, and simple...then you have the risk. Would you rather be the happiest woman in the world for a few months, or years, or even a lifetime? Than being a content one?" He asks. "It would be a challenge, and if I know Emily Prentiss at all...she never backs down from a challenge." He says. She smiles.

"You're right."

"I miss the Emily that never backed down. You're a good replacement, but her! She was the best!" Hotch says. Emily laughed.

"I still am the best! Stop talking about me in the third person." Emily says. Hotch nods. "You think I should go for it?" She asks. He nods.

"I think you should."

"Derek-"

"Emily-"

"Sorry." They said at the same time.

"Don't marry Clyde." Derek says. Emily looks up at him curiously.

"What?" She asks.

"Don't do it. Don't go back to London. Come home." He says. "I'm tired of pretending that there isn't anything here. You aren't going to be happy with Clyde, and I'm not going to be happy unless I'm with you. Come home. Be with me instead. I can't give you the money, and I can't promise you that your mother will like me, but I can promise you that I will love you. That I will take care of you. I can promise you that." He says. "Please don't marry him."

"Okay." Emily says a smile slowly spreading across her face.

"Really? That's all it took?" He asks. She shrugged.

"Well, it was a lot more impressive than you think." Emily says with a small smile. "I've been waiting for a moment like that...that's why I came here." Emily says.

"Really?" He asks. Emily nods.

"Really." She confirms. She walks towards him, and bites her lip. "What do we do now?" She asks.

"Well, you call Clyde and tell him that you aren't going to marry him. Then I take you to dinner, and then...well, lets just see." He says.

"I like that."

"Me too." He says. He walks towards her, and places one hand on her hip. "Maybe we could kiss a little?" He asks. She laughs.

"You've never been hesitant before." Emily says leaning towards him, getting even closer.

"Well, this time is different." He says. She smiles.

"How so?"

"Now you'll know that I love you when I kiss you. Before you didn't. It'll be different." He says.

"I don't think so." She says.

"Then I'm gonna prove you wrong." He says before his lips touched hers.

"Finally! Hallelujah! That is all I ever wanted to happen! Thanks for dragging her here." Penelope says. "You knew he'd be working, and I know you don't like Clyde. This was all for you wasn't it?"

"Yes. Yes it was. I like seeing her happy though! That counts for something." JJ says looking into Rossi's office window. "Wow, they're really going at it. Think they'll do it?" JJ asks. Penelope smiles.

"What if they did? Oh my gosh! That's Rossi's office. We could black mail them for so long." Penelope says with a smile causing JJ to shake her head. "At least they're happy now."