Chapter 3 – Dr's Appointment

Declan, Jack and Hotch were in the kitchen making breakfast, while Emily caught up on sleep, she was now five months pregnant and the baby insisted on kicking her all through the night keeping her awake, it was now 10:30 in the morning and Jack, Declan and Hotch had been awake since 08:30 AM. Summer vacation had started for both Declan and Jack so they would be home for three months a whole twelve weeks and Emily and Hotch had intended on spending as much of it as they can together as a family.

The smell of chocolate chip pancakes and orange juice started to filter through into the master bedroom, from the kitchen where the men of the house were busying themselves with breakfast. Emily started to stir within her sleep, due to the delicious smelling aromas filling the room. Opening her eyes slowly, allowing her eyes to adapt to the bright summer sunshine that had lit up the room. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she clambered out of bed, following the aroma to its source, in her maternity style pyjamas, a red strappy pyjama top covering her bump and red checked knee length shorts with an elasticated waist.

Reaching the kitchen doorway, Emily took a moment to watch her boyfriend interact with both Declan and Jack making breakfast. Rubbing her bump, baby Hotchner gave a few swift kicks to Emily's internal organs, she groaned in response as the final kick, hurt. Hotch turned around when he heard Emily groaning.

"Hey honey, baby kicking bad still?" Hotch asked his girlfriend before leaning down giving her a morning kiss, one hand gently caressing the baby bump.

"Yeah it seems this little grey is going to be a trouble maker," Emily joked lightly as she continued to rub the expanse of her abdomen.

"Morning mom," Declan greeted his mom with a sideward hug, before returning to cooking the breakfast; he had become more independent and loved cooking when he had the chance.

"Morning Emmy, and little grey," Jack wriggled off the chair and hugged Emily tightly before kissing the bump.

"Morning guys, this smells good, what you making?" Emily asked walking further into the kitchen, Hotch's arms supporting her body in a sideward hug.

"Chocolate chip pancakes," Jack beamed up at Emily.

"They look delicious guys," Emily sat down at the kitchen table.

Within minutes the family were sat down enjoying their breakfast pancakes. Hotch and Emily have wanted both Declan and Jack to feel involved in the pregnancy, giving them both equal opportunities to come to the scans, shopping for the nursery and with picking out possible names for the unborn baby.

"Guys, we have the twenty week scan today, if you want to come, we might get to find out if you are going to get a little brother or a little sister," Emily offered as she took a sip of her orange juice.

"I'm up for that mom, we may finally get to know the secret identity off little grey Jack," Declan agreed to attend the scan whilst also enticing Jack to want to come along as well.

"Really!" Jack gasped excitedly as he looked at his family members; Hotch his dad, Emily his step mom figure and Declan his big brother.

"Yeah really buddy," Hotch told his son almost with the same level of excitement.

"So are we all getting ready to go then?" Emily asked with a wide smile, she finally had a family of her own, with a man she was falling more in love with as the days went by.

"Yes," the three men of the household exclaimed with a nod as they finished up with their breakfast, putting their dishes in the dish washer.

Both Declan and Jack ran off up to their rooms to have a wash and get changed, leaving both Emily and Hotch alone in the kitchen. Hotch came up behind his girlfriend his arms wrapped around her baby bump, placing kisses to her exposed neck.

"What do you think it is Em, a boy or a girl?" Hotch asked as he rubbed gentle circles to her expanding abdomen.

"I think it's a girl, what do you think?" Emily asked in reply groaning in pain as the baby continued to kick her internal organs.

"I'm not sure; I think it might be a little girl but I don't care as long as you are both healthy, is she hurting you still?" Hotch was starting to get worried as Emily hadn't been sleeping properly the past few nights as the baby was kicking.

"Yeah little grey is using my insides as a punching bag," Emily joked lightly with a smile to reassure her boyfriend. "Let's go get ready the boys will be waiting for us otherwise."

"Ok, Agent Prentiss lead the way," Hotch gave Emily a soft kiss to the lips before heading upstairs to get changed.

The expecting couple went upstairs to get ready for the doctor's appointment with Emily's OB/GYN Dr Joanne Matthews, to hopefully find out the sex of baby Prentiss-Hotchner. After an hour the family were sat in the doctor's room waiting for Dr Matthews return after taking a few vials of blood to be tested on a broad blood panel.

"Will we get to see little grey, on the screen?" Jack asked as he gestured to the ultrasound monitor with his small hand.

"Yeah we all will, and we might be able to see if little grey here is a boy or a girl," Dr Matthews explained as she entered the room surprising everyone at her presence. "Why don't we get started, you know the drill Emily, the gel will be slightly cold," Dr Matthews smiled at the mother to be.

Emily pulled her red maternity tunic top so it rested just below her bra, exposing her ever growing abdomen, she felt large already and she still had at least four months to go till little grey would be brought into the world. The doctor squirted the cold gel all over her abdomen in order to get a better look at the baby, before picking up the ultrasound wand and started rolling it over her abdomen to find a good angle on the baby to find out the sex.

"There is little grey," Dr Matthews pointed to the screen, "here is its heartbeat," she exclaimed as she pressed a button on the machine and the babies heartbeat came through the speakers into the room.

"That's little grey?" Jack asked slightly confused as to how a black, white and grey image could even remotely resemble a baby at all.

"Yeah, look by there, is the head, here are the arms, legs and body," Dr Matthews gestured to each part of the body with her finger pointing at the monitor.

"It looks less like an alien this time," Declan commented.

"It does look more like a human," Emily replied with a soft smile to her adopted teenage son.

Tears lined both Hotch's and Emily's dark eyes as both Jack and Declan watched the monitor in awe of their unborn brother or sister.

"Is everything ok with the baby, little grey has been kicking a lot," Hotch asked in quick succession.

"Yes everything is absolutely fine both mother and baby are doing perfectly," the OB/GYN replied as she applied more pressure to the wand. "Got you, and I have the sex of your baby are you sure you want to find out?"

"Yes," the family agreed in unison causing the older greying women to chuckle.

"Well looks like baby Prentiss-Hotchner is going to be a little girl," Dr Matthews revealed with a wide grin as she stopped the ultrasound for a second as she froze and screenshot several images to be printed for the couple.

"We're getting a baby sister Jack," Declan informed his younger sibling with a wide grin.

"That's cool," Jack exclaimed loudly as he hugged his father and Declan.

"Well I think it's pretty cool to," Hotch admitted as he pulled both Declan and Jack into a hug.

"I was right," Emily murmured quietly through the tears, not taking her eyes off the monitor.

Whilst the family continued to take in the new information that the new addition to the family would be a little girl, Dr Joanne Matthews cleaned off the gel from Emily's abdomen and then left the room to print off the scan images.

"You were right honey, we are having a little girl," Hotch said his tone of voice overrun with emotion.

Hotch didn't know what else to do so he fused his lips to Emily's in a small, loving but equally passionate kiss hoping that it relayed exactly how he was feeling.

I know I haven't updated in a while but I struggled with writers' block and exam season for my AS Level exams. Hope you liked this chapter; please tell me what you think. I'm starting to narrow down possible names so drop any suggestions you have in a review or PM me. Thank you for all your continued support. MH96.