And now the Conclusion...

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INTERPOL Intrigue / Spooks Beguiled – Chapter 31

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In less than 10 minutes, three different teams came into the building to work on Emily; the HAZMAT, the medical emergency and the engineering.

The last one was quite tricky as they found that the thick thorny parts of the wire was imbedded into Emily's flesh as they gingerly pulled them out but as Emily was unconscious, she did not feel any pain at all while they worked as quick as they could.

The medical team was able to revive her; her heart beat was weak and erratic, but there, much to the relief of Ros and Lucas as well as those at the GRID, and Clyde Easter and the INTERPOL team, and the BAU team.

The HAZMAT team was able to remove the Pod without any incident and thankfully there was no leak but they did saw that part of the pod was slightly damaged near the glass. The removal was hurriedly done and gone. Harry Pearce was thankful to put an end to the entire situation of the biological pods and permanently sealed the bunker. The pods were removed by the Nuclear Waste Team and properly disposed of.

As soon as the wire was removed from Emily's body, the medical team was able to take her out of the building and transferred to the hospital, Lucas and Ros rode with them. Her father was enroute to meet her there with Harry and Ruth.

They spent the entire night at the hospital as a team of doctors worked on her; Emily's father had called in for the best surgeon to take care of his daughter.

Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss was on her way when she heard the news of her only daughter but she was not able to get into London until morning.

When the surgeon finally came out of the operating room, several hours later, he looked haggard but sad.

James Prentiss stood up immediately when he spotted the surgeon, Lucas was standing by his side, as well as Harry, Ruth, and Ros.

"James…" Dr. Martin Pastandnicke nodded at his friend as he removed his cap and leaned against the wall to catch his breath.

James walked up to him, "Marty, what news on Emily?" He seemed to age twice in the span of one night.

"Emily has lost a great deal of blood but she is responding well to the transfusion. The head trauma is a bit worrying, MRIs are negatives which is a good sign, James." He looked around him and saw the -5 officers standing by him and frowned.

"James, er…a private audience?"

James looked at Lucas and nodded at him and he stepped away and walked to stand by Harry.

James and the doctor began to talk in a low tones, James looked startled for a moment and paled as he shook his head. After a moment the surgeon nodded and patted his back, walked away from James.

James then walked over to Harry and his officers and spoke to them.

"Emily is resting in the intensive unit, Marty is letting me stay with her. We may see her for a couple of minutes if you want to…Lucas, a moment?"

They glanced at him as he arched his brow at James.

"Come, we'll go see Emily for a moment before we go home." Harry ushered Ruth and Ros.

Ros gave Lucas an encouraging nod before she turned to follow Harry to the ICU room next to them.

It was a moment before James spoke up.

"Lucas…I don't know how to put it but Marty said…" James stopped and shook his head and then cleared his throat and began again. "I'm sorry, Lucas but there's no way of putting it. Emily was pregnant but Marty had to…" He shook his head, "…too much trauma in her body,"

James shook his head as he turned to the wall as his shoulders shook hard, "…I'm sorry but she can't have any more children." James then walked away.

Lucas looked on in shock.

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Emily was running away from the Wicked Stepmother as fast as she could but her dress was in the way! Bending down, she tried to rip the long gown.

"No time, Snow! Come on!"

Emily looked up and saw Sam and her team as they beckoned her into the forest, holding their guns as they began to blend into the trees.

"Wait for me Doc! Bashful! Grumpy!" Emily was holding on to her blasted dress as she ran headlong into the trees but it began to change into thorns as it pierced into her skin!

"Ouch! Watch it, Snow!" Emily looked up and saw her dwarves all hung up and wrapped up by the thorny tree that now turned into barbed wire, they were grinning at her!

"Don't come any closer or it's going to melt, Snow!" Happy was holding his new born baby who was also wrapped in the barbed coils as they all pointed to multiple green liquid apples above them that changed into the nuclear pods.

"Don't damage them, Snow!" Dopey shook his head nervously and suddenly one of the pods fell and rained green liquid on all of them as they began to melt away.

Emily ran from them as she went deeper into to the thorny forest, her face and hands cut into shreds but she continued to run.

"Snow, don't run from me!" Emily stopped and saw she was suddenly in a hospital room and Lucas smiling happily at her, "I'm your Lucky Charms, remember me?"

Emily smiled as she rushed to him, "Lucas! You're all right!"

He held his arms wide open but another woman ran in and he embraced her willingly and kissed her deeply!

Emily hesitated and stopped on her tracks.

Suddenly, Beth began slashing at her with her long knife as she scream, "You cannot have children! No more children for you! Kid for a kid!...Kid for a kid!"….

Lucas still hugging the brunette, was laughing at her and repeating Beth; Kid for a kid! No more children for you, Snow!

Emily snapped her eyes opened for a second as she heard multiple beepings and voices;

She closed them again as everything faded to black….

"Her heartbeats are erratic! Call the doctor!"

"What is happening to Emily?"

Mr. Prentiss, please calm down…we're trying to get her back…"

"James, please!" Elizabeth's voice pleaded.

"We need to get her back to the operating room…."

"Oh my god!"

"You need to leave the room, all of you now!"

"NO! Not till you tell us what is happening to her!"

"We're trying to save her!"

"Then do it!"

"Emily! Stay strong! I love you…"

"Come on, Lucas."

"No, I'm staying with her, she needs me."

"James, get him out of here."

"I can't, Elizabeth…"

"James, he needs to get some food, he hadn't eaten in days."

"Lucas…please…"

"I'm fine, James. I'm not hungry. Emily, needs me."

Oh, Lucas, you do need to eat! Go, get you something! I'm hungry too!

"How is she?"

"The same, no change."

Oh hi, Clyde! I'm fine! What's going on? Hope you're keeping my guys in check at the FOREST. Yeah, I've decided to call my place, the FOREST; just like -5 has the GRID. I think it has a nice ring to it, being that my call sign is Snow White and the guys are my Dwarves.

"How are you holding up, North?"

"I'm well, Easter, thanks."

"May we talk?"

"Certainly, here is as good as any, if you don't mind. I don't want to leave her side, in case she wakes up."

Men, always talking work!

"Just to let you know, you're in the clear with INTERPOL. Kashimov and Darshavin had been implicated in the plot to take over Russian's government. But there's a bigger mess there which is none of our concern at the moment."

"Thanks, I appreciate that."

"Don't mention it. I hope Emily knew about this, you're not the traitor everyone suspected. You played your role well. Good job. INTERPOL owes you one."

"Just doing my job, Easter."

"At what cost, Lucas? You almost lost her?"

"I know but she is not lost. I'm not giving up on her yet, if it takes forever."

Aw, Lucas! That's a nice thing to say…but what about that brunette?

"She'll come around. Has the doctor said anything?"

"Not a lot, her recovery is slow, given her injuries."

They were quiet for a while as neither spoke.

Hey! Say something! I'm not dead yet, guys!

"Emily…"Clyde began. "She is a wonderful friend."

Lucas nodded, "You're her closest friend. She knew you the longest…and did you two?"

Clyde started to laugh. "If you think Em and I…no." he shook his head. "We're just great friends. We understood each other too much to let that happened."

Lucas! Are you jealous? Of Clyde and me? Oh my god! Clyde? No way!

"But? Not even tempted?" Lucas pressed on.

"Don't get me wrong, Emily is beautiful, and so many times I wanted to …you know but she…" he shook his head. "She is just not that kind of girl. She picks her guy carefully."

Clyde looked at him, "You're fortunate. She chose you. And she doesn't do it lightly. Not even Hotchner."

"How did you know?"

"Oh, I know. Em can't lie to me well. I know her."

"You do?"

"And I'm not telling you how I know. If you can't figure her by now, you're not worthy of her." Clyde said.

Damn you Clyde! How did you figure me too? First Aaron, now you! Am I that transparent? Don't you tell Lucas how to do it too!

Clyde stood up, "Well, keep me informed on her, I have to leave for France. INTERPOL HQ wants a full brief on this fiasco and since Emily is out in limbo, I have to talk for her."

He held out his hand to Lucas, "Take care of her please."

"I will Clyde. You too." He shook his hand.

Clyde moved to Emily's bed and bend down to kiss her on her nose as he whispered, "Can't kiss your damn lips or forehead as they had you wrapped up like a fucking mummy. So I can kiss the only spot that's exposed. But hurry up and get better, Em, my love."

A mummy? Hmmm, no wonder everyone talked so funny, like they're in a muffled room.

"Emily babe," Lucas said. "It's just you and me by ourselves for the moment. Your mum and dad had gone to get some shut eye, they'll be back later and they're going to toss me out of here."

You should. You need to get some sleep, Lucas.

"Emily darling, I want you to listen to me, I want you to know about Maya…"

I don't!

"…we met at University and yes I fell in love with her and thought she was the one for me but we lost touch when I joined MI-5. As you can see I was very surprised to see her again a few days ago. I mean she was my love and all, and we were engaged for two years…"

You were? Oh Lucas!

"…but she had moved on now. She's happily married with three children of her own. And you know, I don't feel anything anymore for her. But I feel so much love for you. It's always been you, babe. When I was with Oleg and Elizabeta, I couldn't believe I was married to her! I don't know what I saw in her in the first place. So thanks for getting rid of her for me."

You're welcome…honey.

"I only thought of you. I couldn't wait to get back to you. I wanted to end it all with Arcady and the whole mess. And I'm so proud of you for figuring out the code. No one could understand Blake as well as you could. But I have you now…I don't need Blake anymore. Thank you."

But …I can hear a but…what is going on honey? Tell me Lucas?

"Please get better, babe…" His voice cracked. "I'm going to tell you something but please don't get upset, we'll figure something out. Did you know we were about to be mum and dad ourselves?"

What? I'm pregnant?

"But you lost the baby…Beth killed our baby…my dearest."

NO!

"It's okay…well, it's not I mean you can't have anymore because they have to remove your…um parts…but we can adopt, can we? Remember we talked about having a boy and a girl? We can still have them. Nothing is impossible."

Oh, Lucas…no more babies! Our babies….no….

"Emily, will you marry me?"

"…Y..e..s…"

Lucas jumped out of his chair and looked closely at the bandaged Emily.

"Babe? Did you say yes? Did you understand what I asked you, squeeze your hand."

He was holding her hand and she squeezed it lightly.

Lucas laughed as he leaned in and kissed her nose. "I love you, Emily Prentiss!"

She nodded as she squeezed his hand again.

"Lucas?" James and Elizabeth were standing by the doorway of the room.

Lucas looked up, tears in his eyes, "Emily just said yes…!"

"Yes to what? She's awake?" Elizabeth rushed to her daughter's side.

"I asked her to marry me, James, Elizabeth, and she said… I didn't know she was awake, I thought I was talking to myself and well, to her but I thought she was still in a coma but she said yes!"

James grinned, "Calm down son." He shook his head. "I have not approved of this union yet. And don't you think you should ask me for permission first?"

"James!" Elizabeth smiled as she held Emily's hand. "Behave!"

James laughed at Lucas, "All right, as soon as she is recovered fully."

"Of course, Dad." Lucas grinned.

James eyed him, "Er, James will do just fine."

"Yes sir."

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Six months later….

"Are you ready?" Lucas called out from the house.

"Yes! I can't wait!"

"I can hear the car rolling up!" he said as he rushed to the front door.

She came up and stood next to him, slowly but all the same she was smiling as she looked up at him as Lucas wrapped his arm around her shoulder, "You okay?"

"I'm so nervous!"

A car stopped by the front door.

Lucas opened the door as they stepped out to meet the driver.

"Hello!"

"Hi! They're in the back."

Lucas opened the door and peeked in and smiled, "May I?"

"Oh yes, they're yours now, Mr. North."

He leaned in and removed the one occupant and then passed one to her, and leaned in again and removed another one and stood up and held the second occupant.

"They are beautiful." Lucas exclaimed.

"Let's bring them in. They all want to see them."

Lucas nodded, "Wait…" He leaned in and kissed her deeply, "I love you."

She smiled back at him and said, "I love you too, Lucas."

They walked back into the house.

Harry Pearce, Ruth Evershed and Ros Myers were in the large living room. As were James and Elizabeth Prentiss who came to greet them when they entered the room.

"Oh my! Aren't they just the most gorgeous babies! James, look!" Elizabeth exclaimed as she rushed to picked a baby Lucas was holding. "And who am I holding?"

"This is Evan. Evan James North."Lucas informed her.

James grinned as he walked to Emily who was holding a baby girl.

"And who is this pretty little lady?"

"This is Katherine Elizabeth North." Emily looked over to her mother who was suddenly overcome with tears as she buried her face into the baby's blanket. "Oh, thank you Emily!"

"I think you've rendered your mother speechless for the first time, darling." Lucas whispered to her.

Emily looked at Lucas and grinned, "That's a first."

"They're beautiful babies, Emily." Ruth came over to see them.

"Yes, Emily." Harry nodded his head.

Emily nodded her thanks to them.

Clyde Easter finally made it to the house.

"My word, this is quite a house, Emily!"

"Well, it was my god father's, and we converted it to INTERPOL's safe house but I bought it back and now Lucas and I own it again."

"Nice pad but looks like you guys will need the space." He pointed at the babies. "I see your lovely bundles finally made it."

"Yes, the adoption came through." Lucas smiled as he looked at the sleeping twins and then at Emily with a nod.

"Clyde, Ros," She looked at them. "We would like you to be Katherine's Godparents?"

Clyde nodded, "Of course! I would love to spoil the kid to bits and uh…what else should I do?"

Ros grinned, "Clyde…let me show you what a god father should and should not do." Ros hooked her arm around his elbow and led him to another room as she glanced at Lucas and Emily with a knowing grin.

Emily chuckled as she looked over to Harry and Ruth. "Harry, Ruth, we would like you to be Evan's Godparents."

Harry glanced at Ruth who smiled and nodded. "We'd love to!" She turned to James who handed the baby to Ruth, Harry came to see the baby as he put an arm over her shoulder.

Emily who was leaning against Lucas, "I love it when things come together."

"I do too. But Ros and Clyde? Do you know his reputation with women?"

Emily laughed as she snuggled into his chest, "Don't I know it, but I think Ros can handle Clyde herself pretty well."

Five minutes later, Emily's INTERPOL team came to meet the newest additions as well as Frankie's new baby.

They were greeted warmly by everyone and little Mac was duly passed around to those who had not met her, namely James and Elizabeth.

"My dear," James said to his wife. "There seem to be babies everywhere!" He shook his head.

The Ambassador hooked her arm into her husband's elbow as she looked about her, there were people around her all over the large house, "I know, James, isn't it wonderful? I love this house!"

James nodded as they began to move about them.

Sam and Bob had come over and greeted James and Elizabeth and they all began talking like they were old friends.

Emily and Lucas saw Clyde holding Katherine while the others admired her as he smilingly and happily cooed at the baby, the others laughing at him more so than at the baby.

Harry, in the meantime holding Evan with Ruth grinning at him had looked up and winked at her.

"Harry seemed to like his new role very much, dearest." Lucas remarked as he held her hand.

"Never thought he gets so mushy at the sight of Evan." Emily nodded.

"I think it's your baby he's more biased towards."

She smiled as she leaned close to him as he gathered her tightly. "Our baby, Lucas."

"Yes, babe," he nodded

Not long after, they heard another vehicle pulled up by the drive way.

Emily frowned as she went up the door and looked out, "Are you expecting anyone, hon?"

Lucas gave her a mysterious grin, "Why don't you go out there and find out, babe?"

Emily looked at him, "Lucas? What have you done?" She looked outside and saw, to her surprise…

A very long black limousine pulled up and the whole BAU team began to come out including Jessica, Jack, Will LaMontagne and Henry as well!

Emily gave a loud girlish squeal and rushed outside to greet her former BAU team and their families!

Lucas shook his head as he watched her indulgently when James came to stand next to his son-in-law.

"I don't know how you manage it, Lucas but you've made her very happy." James said as he patted his shoulder.

"She deserved every minute of it, James. I'm only too happy to be able to give her everything and very fortunate she chose me."

James nodded, "She is very lucky, Lucas, to have you to love."

Lucas looked at James and shook his head, "No Dad, I'm the lucky one."

He then bent down and grabbed Sergio from attempting to escape from the madness and chaos that was about to descend the Prentiss-North household!

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THE END

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I want to thank so many people here...especially my beta; Magpie of Silver for your beta skill in cleaning my grammar mess!

and to my British pal; lovelyja...i really enjoy our daily chats!

to my crazy but enjoyable lunarlycan87, stay strong and keep chatting!

emilyhotchnerforever...this story is written for you, i hope you enjoyed the ride all through the whole way!

to sleep and dream! Always so passionate, always my champion, as well as my guest reviewer! i hope you get to read this!

To all my new reviewers; STORM SA, Sarahb2007, rmpcmfan, Lexis4MorganPrentiss, taylor, GirlonFire, and Guest, and History05, and many more who stuck with this story all the way through...i hope you enjoyed this story as much as i did writing it!

Of course, Emily is my favorite CM character of all and although i really miss her in the series, here in the fanfiction world, she is still alive in all of us.

and although many Hotch fans are not big Lucas North fans at all, which I am, and I can't put him down yet...sorry everyone...so, i have written another Lucas/Emily pairing story which will be up soon. (oh, i know, don't you guys groan!) just give it a try. It should be up soon. i'll post it here in CM site as well as in MI-5 site, it will have a few more added MI-5 characters in it. please give it a try and let me know. It's called Fallen Angels.

And another story with Emily and Mac Taylor of CSI:NY...so far its called New York, New York.

thank you!

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J.