Authors note: Thank you to Kimd33, HPforever-after (And the idea as well), CrimsonMoon2009 Thunderbrat (Glad your loving it) and obsessedwithstuff for your reviews. Wow, that's a lot of reviews. I apologise to everyone, my internet has been down since the 16th of December and it was only fixed today. I'm so sorry about that. Hope you all had a magical Christmas and a great New Year! Disclaimer: It's not my show.

The team looked to Hotch. "Can I tell them?" he asked the crying Emily Prentiss. She nodded, but didn't move. "The reason I've been supporting Prentiss over the past few days is due to the earthquake and aftershocks we had. Prentiss confided in me of an incident that affected her judgement during earthquakes. The overriding incident was an earthquake when she was a child out in the Middle East. She was luckily at the Embassy when the quake struck. However the former building she was in. The one containing her closest friends was destroyed. All of her friends were killed. I've been keeping a close eye on Prentiss in case she enters into shock." Hotch filled the team in. The team's faces were a mixture of shock and empathy for their team member... One by one the team backed out the room. Knowing Emily would prefer for them not to see this.

"So… It wasn't that they liked each other, boss man was just helping poor Em." Garcia thought out loud. She was truly downtrodden. She wanted to at least think something was going on. And what poor Emily went through. No one should go through that at a young age. "Once again our hopes were downtrodden." JJ comforted her. "All this time. He was helping her. God we should have known." Morgan added.

Emily finally got some composure on herself. "I'm sorry." She whispered. "You have no reason to be sorry for anything." Hotch told her. He felt sorry for her. He knew how Emily was. She was a hard ass, not afraid of anything federal agent. No! No she wasn't, that was SSA Agent Prentiss. Emily was the real person. Almost like she took off a mask. But she kept that mask on during work. And for a moment, the mask had fallen from her hands. And the team got a view of the face behind the mask. The fear and the loss. The emotion and the feelings she hid behind the mask. He just wounded. How long would it take for the mask to slip back up? And was he going to be shut out like the others. Granted, he saw the mask fall before the others. And the thing was he saw yet another side to Emily. The passion she has. And he liked it. He wanted to see it more. He wanted to be the one to comfort her if this ever happened again. He wanted to help her through the pain. He wanted to just be there for her. Like he was now. The question was would Emily let him stay?

"I'm okay now." She told him finally. Releasing herself from his grip. "Thanks again, you've been so supportive." She generally was grateful. There was no way she could have got through this without Aaron. This was a fear of hers. And no matter how many times she tried to tell herself, the only fear is fear itself, it didn't work. She knew there was something unique. Everyone had a fear, they can say what they want, but it doesn't help. And this was one of the only times Emily was admitting she couldn't do this herself. That she needed help. And that was in the form of Aaron. The question was would Aaron stay there?

Authors note: I'm so sorry about the internet thing. Trust me I'm sharpening my pitchfork at my internet company. Wow that was… Very strange. Not exactly how I predicted it would turn out. I don't know how to describe it. Maybe you do. Anyway please review and once again I'm sorry.