This is set right after 'The Big Game' and 'Revelations'. Centered on JJ and I think it's pretty different than anything I've written before so I hope you like it! :)
I will update 'Her Secret' eventually. It's just taking me a while. And I'm working a sequel for 'Reid, the Genius'. :)
From Darkness to Light
A CM fanfic
Chapter 1
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau hadn't gotten any sleep in weeks. Every night when she'd finally drift off the neighbor's dog would start barking, bringing her dreams of cornfields, an old barn, dogs with sharp teeth barking crazily, and blood. Blood everywhere she looked until finally the neighbor's dogs would wake her from her sleep, save her from her nightmares only to bring her to another. A new all too real nightmare, this one filled with sleepless nights, work filled days, and friends who are starting to worry, starting to notice, and the knowledge that sooner or later make-up won't be able to hide the dark circles under her eyes and she would eventually have to talk to them. To explain her guilt…like they didn't already know.
J.J. sprang up in her bed, sitting there in the darkness after looking at her clock, seeing that it had only been a half hour since she went to bed. She rested her head on her knees after pulling her legs to her chest and closed her eyes, listening as the dogs kept barking. Why did they have to get a dog? She thought, wondering why the sweet old couple who lived next door and had always been so nice to her had decided to get a dog. And not just any dog, no, they had gotten two dogs, two very small dogs that apparently liked to bark. And why did they have to get them so soon after that case, after Georgia? She thought as she got up and headed towards the living room to stare at the TV which had become her routine on nights like this.
It didn't start out this way though. At first she poured all of her energy into her work, even when she didn't have any left. She was getting her paperwork done so fast it would make Reid's head spin, but then she ran out of paperwork. J.J. had thought about doing other people's paperwork, but she knew that would really send up a red flag to her teammates and she considered taking some pills to help her sleep, but decided against it.
So Jennifer Jareau sat there in her home, alone, wondering how much longer she could do this, how many more cases she could work before finally breaking down, and how many more times she could face her teammates, her friends, knowing that they blamed her for what had happened.