Criminal Minds Imagines (Discontinued)

Mum!Erin Strauss x Reader x Aunt!Alex Blake

Y/n's POV

Sitting at my desk focusing on my work I can't help but listen in on Emily's conversation and feel my blood run cold when I realise she's talking about having a baby as a teenager that she put up for adoption. Listening as she describes a necklace she gave the little girl my hand comes up to my neck where a love heart locket hangs and it takes everything I have to keep my emotions under control. It's just a coincidence y/n, there are plenty of teenage mum's who give their daughters up for adoption with love heart lockets. It doesn't mean she's you're biological mum, besides you don't need another mum. Erin's the only mum you've ever needed and the only mum you've ever wanted. I think to myself and jump when a hand comes to rest on my arm making me look up and see JJ looking at me confused.

"Everything okay y/n? You looked lost in thought there." She asks softly and I nod slowly as I push myself up from my chair making her frown. "Are you sure? You look rather pale."

"I'm fine, I just... I need to talk to Strauss about something that's all." I say and with that I walk away from the team and up to mum's office, silently hoping that she's not too busy to talk. Knocking on her open door she looks up at me with a smile that quickly falls when she sees me and she motions me inside which I quickly do, closing the door behind me.

"What's wrong sweetheart?" She asks as she stands up and comes over to me, cupping my cheek softly while pulling my hand away from my neck softly. "Hey, talk to me. What's going on?"

"Emily... she uh, she's talking about how she was a teen mum and gave her daughter up for adoption. I didn't... I didn't think anything of it until she started talking about a locket she gave her daughter. A locket that sounds identical to the one I'm wearing right now." I tell her quietly and she looks at me with wide eyes as she wipes away a tear I didn't even know had fallen. "I don't want or need another mum, not when I have you but... what if she's the one that gave birth to me? If that's the case then I've been working with her for the last four years mum and... I'm sure that it's just a coincidence right?" I ask her and she pulls me into her tightly with a sigh.

"Oh sweetheart, it's not a coincidence I'm afraid y/n." She says softly and I sink into her at that making her tighten her hold on me until it's almost painful but I don't care. "I know that I should have told you but you made what it clear years ago that you had no interest in knowing the truth about your birth mum. You always said that you didn't care where you came from and I never thought that it would come up." She tells me as we move to sit down and I run a hand through my hair with a sigh.

"I don't want to know, you and dad have always been enough for me and I love the family I have with you guys. And honestly it doesn't change anything because she's not my mum and she never will be!" I tell her firmly and she looks at me with a sad smile but I feel her relax slightly at that reassurance. "I'm not freaking out because she's the woman that gave birth to me, I'm freaking out because she doesn't even sound like she cares. She's talking so matter of factly and it shouldn't hurt but... the locket was one thing that made me feel like maybe she had wanted me mum but I guess that she never did." I say as I reach up to take the necklace off and look at it properly before looking at mum who offers me a soft smile.

"I'm sorry for not warning you sweetheart and if it helps she doesn't know. We changed your name and I had your adoption file sealed off when you started here so all she knows is that you're adopted but not who your birth mother is or who adopted you." She tells me softly and I smile at her as I look over at her.

"Don't be, you have nothing to ever apologise for mum and I don't care if she knows or not. Quite honestly I don't care mum. I have my family and she'll never be part of it." I tell her and she smiles at me as she squeezes my hand. "I'm sorry for disturbing you mum, I just needed to talk or well, rant I guess." I say and she just smiles at me in return while my phone pings in my pocket making me groan.