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When Effie woke up the morning after Halloween she awoke with her son in bed with her, cuddled up next to her.

This made a huge smile appear on the woman's face as she scooted closer to her little boy. The Countess had decided that since Effie found Emmitt that she would let him live with her in her room and when Effie was away at work Emmitt could go hang out with Elizabeth's other 'children' she has.

Agent Effie was beyond grateful for that to finally have her baby boy back in her arms again after five years, it made all of this crap that has went on during this case or previously just fade away.

Then there was that party on Devil's Night... the party she told absolutely no one about. None of her team, not even her two best friends Spencer and Penelope.

Effie didn't want this place getting shut down because for once in five years, she feels like she's possibly found her true home.

And maybe the other reason was because on that night she took a bit of liking to one certain James Patrick March?

Effie was so lost in her thoughts that the sound of the phone ringing in her room scared her so much she jumped, waking her son in the process.

The still tired agent rolls over before checking the time on the clock seeing that it was ten in the morning, Effie grabs the phone.

"Hello?" She mutters sleepily, smiling over at her son who's now sitting up in bed with her.

"Agent Hawkins, it's Hotchner, I need you to meet us at the newest crime scene because I think there's been another Commandments murder, we're not sure yet. I'll send the address to your phone since I know you'll get the message once you leave your hotel." Comes her supervisor, Aaron Hotchner's voice through the phone.

"Oh alright sir I'll get ready and then I'll head that way, I'll be there in maybe fifteen or twenty minutes." Effie says to her supervisor.

"I'll see you soon Agent Hawkins." He says before she hears the dial tone.

Effie sighs a bit before ruffling her sons hair and kissing his forehead before she says, "Well, baby, it looks like mommy has to leave for work. That was my supervisor and he said there's something I need to come look at for him, but I'll miss you so much and I'll be back home before you know it."

"Okay mommy! I'll miss you too, lots and lots!" Emmitt says before hugging his mother tightly and kissing her cheek.

After Effie hugs him back almost as tightly to not crush the boy she walks over to her mini fridge which thanks to Elizabeth now held a supply of sippy cup's full of blood for her son, and if he ever ran out all she had to do was go to Elizabeth to get them re-filled.

"You hungry this morning baby?" Effie asks her son before grabbing out some mini muffins and a mini carton of milk for herself.

"Yeah I am mommy!" The boy says as he bounces excitedly.

"Then you can have breakfast with mommy!" She says happily before grabbing one of his sippy cup's from the fridge before closing the fridge and sitting next to him, handing his cup to him.

Effie smiles and watches as her son drinks the blood from the cup as she eats her four mini muffins and drinks her carton of milk.

When she finished she tossed her trash in the garbage can before she grabs out an outfit to change into, changing in the bathroom before she walks back into the room to grab a change of clothes for her son, seeing as he finished his sippy cup.

She had bought new clothes for him yesterday to keep in her hotel room for Emmitt since he's now living in her room with her. Effie changes him into a plain red shirt and denim overalls that were shorts at the bottom.

Effie then puts on her own pair of mismatched socks before putting a pair of equally mismatched ones on her sons feet and putting his shoes on and then her own converse after.

The agent then grabs her keys and cellphone before tossing them in her go bag that was already ready, "Okay baby boy let's get you to the playroom with the other kids and then mommy is off to work."

"Okay mommy." Emmitt says as he follows behind his mother, Effie carrying the empty sippy cup with her before she closes the door to their room and takes him to the playroom.

After she drops her son off with Elizabeth she heads for the elevator, pushing the down button before making her way into the lobby and waving her goodbyes to Liz as she exits the hotel's front doors.

Once she's on the sidewalk in front of the building her text from Hotch finally comes through to her phone, she checks the address before getting in her car and driving to their newest crime scene.

Agent Effie Hawkins finally arrives outside of what looks to be a church, this definitely had to be another one of the Commandment murder's.

She walks into the church and meets up with her team away from the body or bodies before observing the scene around her.

"How was the victim posed? Was it another Commandment murder?" She asks her supervisor.

"So far nothing's been determined yet, we just began to process the crime scene, but we're leaning towards yes." Hotchner says to the agent before she nods and makes her way to the aisles between the church pews.

The first thing Effie sees is what looks to be a dead police officer laying inbetween the pews. But when she turns her head she sees an older man with his guts ripped out wearing only his underwear.

The agent now stands in front of the man observing that he's knelt down on his knees with his hands laid out on top of two huge piles of coins with some in his hands and on his chest and even intertwined with his organs on the floor, his mouth stuffed with money too.

"It all fits. A televangelist. He's preaching the gospel of prosperity. He using the word of God to make money, it's another Commandment." Effie starts off.

"Thou Shalt Not Take The Lords Name In Vain." Doctor Spencer Reid finishes for her.

"Exactly. Though I'm not sure about that dead officer, maybe he was just the wrong place at the wrong time?" Effie continues.

"That's what I was thinking too, poor guy had a kid on the way." Derek Morgan says from behind Effie and Spencer.

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Later that night after Effie went home to the Hotel Cortez she finds herself gasping awake, naked and covered in blood.

Without thinking she runs out of her room and into the lobby to the front desk, being greeted by Liz Taylor.

"Is that your blood?" Liz asks the confused agent.

Effie observes the blood all over her body before saying, "I-I uh, I don't know Liz..."

"Let's get you back to your room dear and get you some clothes." Liz says.

After the pair successfully made it outside of Effie's room Liz unlocks the door for her as they both enter the room.

When they get in the room the maid, Mrs Evers, is taking the heavily bloodied sheets and pillowcases off the bed.

"Look at the right old mess you've made! This much blood will take three washing's and the sheets will lose their thick pile." She scolds the girl.

Once she's collected all the sheets and pillowcases her and Liz leave the confused girl in the room to try recalling the previous events but the last thing she remembered was being at the crime scene of the last murder with her team.

Did she kill someone?

The voice of James Patrick March startled her from her thoughts, "Effie! Good to see you're finally, truly, checking into the Hotel Cortez."

"Wh-what? Do you know what happened James?" She questions after wrapping a robe sheepishly around her still naked body.

"Indeed I do dear girl but you have to discover the truth for yourself." He whispers to her before leaving the room.

James closes the door behind him with a huge smirk on his face, knowing that she did, indeed, kill someone. She just doesn't know that yet.

Effie stands in her room staring at the closed door for awhile before shaking herself out of her thoughts and heading into the shower to wash all the blood off her face and body, watching as the blood turns the water crimson red.

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Awhile after Effie showered she found herself walking the halls before she saw the door to the room numbered thirty-three was cracked open slightly so she peeks in to see an empty crib and what sounds like a baby crying from down the hallway.

Effie then follows the cries and the small trail of blood leading away from the room, she turns the corner and finds what looks to be some kind of baby but it did not look human.

She's learned by now that this hotel is always full of surprises and she's sure the child belongs to someone so she carefully picks it up and carries it back to the room, wrapping it in a blanket and making sure it's not losing any more blood.

When Elizabeth walked into room thirty-three she notices Effie holding her baby wrapped up in a blanket in her arms as Effie rocks it.

"Effie?" Elizabeth questions as she walks in, causing Effie to turn around and look at her.

"Your baby was hurt." Effie starts, not wanting to offend the mother with the improper pronouns for her child.

"He got out?" Elizabeth gasps in shock.

"Yes, but I found him. He lost a little blood but he's gonna be just fine." Effie says with a smile on her face as she stands to hand the boy to his mother.

"You saved my son." She says once he's in her arms.

"And you saved mine." Effie replies, smiling at the mother and her son.

"Please, let me show you my thanks by making you like your son. Then you can have all of eternity with him. There is no catch because you saved my baby." Elizabeth offers once again to the agent.

Effie thought about it for a few minutes before deciding that's what she wanted, "Alright, I'll do it."

"The transition will not be easy, birth is a painful process. As a mother, you know this." Elizabeth says.

"Please. I can't lose my boy again." Effie pleads with her.

"You must surrender completely." The woman says as she leads Effie to her room and to her bed to sit on.

"And allow yourself to be ripped apart. Ravaged. You will feel like you're dying and maybe you are. But from blood comes life. Better. Stronger. More glorious than you could have ever imagined. And you will rise and be reunited with your child. For all of eternity."

While she was saying those words, Effie was drinking the blood that came from the cut on Elizabeth's chest, passing out in her lap after she does.

Elizabeth lays her head down on Effie's body before Effie's eyes shoot open, her taking a deep breath in.

Then Effie went through the change with Elizabeth, for her son Emmitt.

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Holy cannoli!

Effie freakin' killed
someone and she now is
like her son Emmitt since
she saved the Countesses
child.