Hello people! Don't worry, I'm not starting another story before finishing my other two! This story will have just five chapters, that will be posted one per day on the following days. If I don't manage to update on the weekend, I'll be back on Monday, don't worry.
I hope you enjoy it, I'm sorry for any mistakes, English is not my first language.
I don't own Criminal Minds.
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." – George Jean Nathan
It was a sunny day in Washington DC and Jennifer couldn't help but smile at the happiness of her children after a really cold winter. The blonde former profile sat at the floor of her porch of the family's six bedroom three floor house and just kept watching her children play, her mind hovering about everything that had happened in the last fifteen years.
She and Will had been together for fourteen years now. Fourteen years of love, ten years of marriage and five children. Neither in a million years she ever thought that the closed Jennifer that was once afraid of admit her feelings for the man she loved was going to become the devoted mother and wife that she was now. After their third child, JJ decided to stay home with them, not wanting to lose everything she had lost with Henry and Rebecca. Her decision was essential on Will's life, allowing the former detective to focus on his career and become Chief of Police, even at a young age.
"Gegor, stop!" JJ laughed, getting off her thoughts, and smiled at her four-year old, Peyton, running away from her twin brother, Gregory.
"Got you!" Gregory yelled and ran after his sister, jumping on her and making both of them feel on the grass of their garden. JJ and Will had bought the new house after JJ had gotten pregnant for the fourth time and they found out they were having twins. The four-bedroom house had gotten small and they wanted a bigger garden for their children to run.
"Help me, Faith!" Peyton yelled to their older sister. The eight-year old ran to her younger siblings and jumped on top of them, tickling Gregory.
"Faith, stop!" Gregory yelled in the middle of laughs. JJ laughed together as Rebecca approached her.
"Where's Henry?" The ten year old girl asked.
"He's inside, sweet." JJ replied, taking a strand of Rebecca's blonde hair from her face.
"He doesn't wanna come?" Rebecca asked a little hurt. Rebecca and Henry had always been friends since they were babies, they were close to each other because of the little difference of age but now Henry was growing up and didn't find the same games as funny as they were and Rebecca was finding a hard time to adjust herself to the idea of her older brother growing up.
"Daddy was helping him fix something in his bedroom, I don't know if they have finished yet." Rebecca nodded, sitting beside her mother. "Are you ok?" JJ wrapped one arm around her daughter's shoulder.
"Yeah, I just don't wanna play anymore." Rebecca laid her head in her mother's shoulder and JJ kissed her head. The blonde couldn't believe how big her kids already were, they were growing up in a blink of an eye and she had to admit that she was proud of the beautiful family that she had created, the cozy and lovely atmosphere of the house made her proud that she had been able to fight against her demons and the fear of having her kids growing up in a broken home like she did, raising those five kids with nothing less than love and respect.
"Mommy!" Peyton ran to JJ and hugged her, almost making her fall to behind.
"Hey." JJ laughed, trying to equilibrate while sitting at the small flight of stairs of her porch.
"Gegor is twickling me!" The little girl exclaimed, still not able to say her brother's name perfectly.
"Well, don't say you weren't enjoying!" JJ said, tickling Peyton's belly and making her laugh. JJ could hear Rebecca, Faith and Gregory laughing with them.
"Tickle mom!" Faith yelled and before JJ could react she was thrown behind, falling into her back at the floor. She felt hands in every part of her body, her neck, her belly, her armpit and on her knee. She knew that Rebecca was the one responsible for the knee, Will had found out she was extremely sensible to tickles on her knee when they were still dating and he passed the information to Henry, who told Rebecca and they decided that they wouldn't tell the youngest, being their 'little secret'. JJ's laugh could be heard from inside the house and it was infectious, making two men come from inside to see what was happening.
"Looks like someone is havin' fun." The Cajun accent hadn't disappeared even after almost fifteen years living away from New Orleans. That slow, laid-back drawl was able to make JJ fall on her knees every time she heard it, in a casual conversation or right in her ear, he whispering soft and lovely words while their bodies connected in the most intimate ways.
"We are plawing daddy!" Gregory yelled and smiled to his dad and his youngest copy. Henry had grown up to be a psychologically identical copy of Will. He was the same kind and gentle man that his father was but physically he continued the exactly same copy of JJ, the same blue eyes and blonde hair, but of course, shorter. Gregory was growing up mirroring himself in the two. Being a perfect mix of JJ and Will, with his dark hair and his blue eyes, all Gregory wanted was to be like his dad and his older brother, mixed with JJ's stubbornness.
"I see." Will laughed. "And it looks like even your momma is playin' now." Will smiled to JJ, who smiled back laughing, and sat back at the floor, rearranging her hair and her clothes that had been wrinkled.
"Let's just say I didn't choose to play." JJ laughed. "I was more attacked." Peyton laughed and sat in her mother's lap, looking up at her.
"But you like!" The little girl exclaimed while JJ rearranged her blonde curls that had been wrinkled too.
"Yes, I liked." JJ smiled, kissing her daughter's forehead. "Did you finish what you were doing?" She asked, this time looking up at Will and Henry.
"Yeah, dad helped me to fix the shelves. They were falling." Henry replied, sitting in the white couch in front of his mother. Rebecca quickly ran and sat by his side.
"Can we have some ice cream?" Faith asked, looking at her mother. "It's hot!" The little girl exclaimed jumping up and down in front of her mother.
"Hot?" Will stared at her. "Aren't you feelin' this cold wind comin'?" He asked, wrapping his arms around the eight-year old girl and throwing her over his shoulder.
"Dad!" Faith yelled as she was put upside down and started hitting her father's back. JJ started laughing as she got up from the floor and picked Peyton.
"Well, since dad and Faith are not up for some ice cream, I think we can have some, right?" JJ asked playfully to her other kids. Henry and Rebecca laughed as they followed their mother to inside the house.
"Dad is the one who doesn't want ice cream!" Faith yelled from her father's shoulder while Gregory started jumping in front of Will to help Faith.
"Another one who doesn't want ice cream, momma." Will said to JJ as he entered the kitchen after her, now carrying Gregory and Faith.
"We want ice cream!" Gregory yelled as Henry, Rebecca and Peyton sat at the dining room. JJ laughed as she approached her husband, trying to get hold of her kids.
"You better put them down before their heads explode." JJ smiled.
"Cool!" Gregory yelled, making everyone laugh. "Can my head explode? Pwease, pwease, pwease?" Will and JJ laughed as he passed the little boy to her and she put him in his chair. Will put Faith in the floor and realized something.
"I bet no one washed the hands, right?" Will asked and next thing he and JJ heard were five chairs being pushed away, making an awful noise in the ground and suddenly they were alone at the kitchen.
"You know how to be worst then them, hm." JJ smiled to Will as she picked up the two pots of ice cream from the freezer. She was glad for having the man as her husband and father of her children, and every day she thanked him for not giving up on her all the time she thought about giving up on herself.
"That's my charm." Will said with a smirk as he wrapped his arms around JJ's waist. She laughed as she put the pots on the table and turned herself in his arms.
"Actually it's this Southern thing, you know." She replied with a smirk as she slid her hands through his chest. Will smiled to the woman who made his heart beat faster in the moment she walked in that crime scene. Innumerous times he laughed thinking about how cliché he had gotten after they met, capable of doing things he never thought about before for the blonde that he loved.
"Right." He replied, taking a strand of her hair out of her face. "You were already on your knees as soon as you heard my voice on the phone, asking for your help, hm."
"Absolutely." JJ smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck. A shiver ran down their spines, their bodies touching each other, each of them feeling the effect they had on each other. Will slid his hands to JJ's back and then her butt, squeezing it. JJ smiled, shaking her hand and leaned in, their mouths touching. The couple got lost, forgetting about where they were, their tongues fighting a silent fight of love and desire.
"Eww!" Peyton yelled as soon as she entered the kitchen and ran to under the table, hiding herself.
"What?" Will asked as they broke the kiss and JJ laughed, noticing Peyton's little body under the table.
"Where's ladybug?" Rebecca entered with Gregory holding her hand.
"I think she ran away, angel." Will said as JJ laughed and help Gregory to sit at his chair.
"Adybugs don't ran, daddy! They flwy!" Gregory said, extending his arms as a plane and both JJ and Will laughed.
"Sorry, buddy, my mistake." Will shuffled his hair, laughing. Faith and Henry arrived, sitting at the table.
"Where's Peyton?" Faith asked while JJ poured her some ice cream.
"She's flwyng!" Gregory yelled again and Peyton laughed from under the table. Henry had already seen her when he entered the room, so he decided to play along.
"Oh, poor little girl. She decided to go exactly today that we have mint chocolate chip ice cream! It's her favorite!" As soon as Henry said, Peyton pushed a chair and appeared from under the table.
"I'm here!" She jumped happily and everyone laughed. JJ finished pouring the ice cream for Gregory and then grabbed her little girl, sitting her in her chair and the blonde sitting beside Will. Will smiled to her and kissed her cheek. He turned himself and watched his kids all talking, playing and laughing. He knew he was a lucky man, with a beautiful wife, amazing children, a good job and a life filled of love. Of course they had some obstacles in their way as all families have but they were able to sort it out and continue, able to continue their happiness.
"I think I forgot the napkin." JJ said to herself as she watched her kids with green ice cream spread in their faces, especially Peyton and Gregory, who decided to feed each other with their eyes closed. Will laughed and kissed her cheek.
"Got it." Will got up from his chair and walked over the conjugated kitchen, opening the upper cabinet and grabbing the napkin holder. It happened in a fraction of a second. JJ watched all of her napkins fly over the kitchen, falling to the ground. She didn't have time to ask Will what happened, because the next thing she saw was her husband holding onto his chest and falling to the ground.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." – Robert Frost
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