Hello! I'm back. I know I said I would start this, I don't know like 6 months ago, but with senior year starting I had way too many responsibilities on my plate, and still do, but this story has been a constant nagging in my mind, that I knew I need to at least give you something to start off. Now my updates will be random and sporadic, since school just started and homework is well random at best. BUT I will try to update whenever I can. I hope you enjoy this sequel to Darkness, this is JJ's and Derek's recovery, I hope I do it justice. Thank you to everyone who read Darkness, and for continuing to this sequel, I know that I suck at writing but thank you anyways for reading. :)
"Derek it's been three months, I think its time to-"
"No." Derek interrupted "Penelope, she's not ready." He turned to see the petite blonde struggling to walk across the room with a nurse holding most of her weight. He rubbed the back of his head with his hand. "She's struggling."
"And what about you?" She asked
He took in a deep breath "I'll be better the moment the son of a bitch is finally behind bars." He lunged at the window when he saw JJ fall to the ground.
"Derek, it's okay." Garcia put a hand on his shoulder trying to calm him. Derek dug his nails into his palms, turning his knuckles white. "Derek. Derek!" Garcia yelled making JJ turn her head towards the door. "Derek you're bleeding." Morgan looked down at his hands and the small trail of blood trickling down his fingers. A nurse jogged over a pulled him into the next room. Garcia gave the concerned blonde a small smile through the window to reassure her before walking away.
JJ cautiously put her hands on the two parallel bars in front of her. "That's good Jennifer, now try and pull yourself up." A male nurse smiled. He held his arms out in case she was to fall. The blonde shakily pulled herself up finally standing on her own two feet after 3 months of bed rest. "Good, good." He lightly touched her forearm signaling to her that he was there for her if she needed it. "Want to try to take a step?" She didn't answer but uneasily lifted her right foot pressing fully onto the nurse for support. It felt so foreign to press her foot into the ground and put her weight onto it. She tried her left still putting most of her weight onto the nurse. "That's good Jennifer."
"It's JJ." She squeaked shaking off his hand from her arm. She tried her right again and took another step. "Okay JJ, take it slowly you don't want to fa-" JJ felt her left leg give out on her and hit the ground. The nurse instantly helped her sit up "Are you okay?"
She looked up to see Jason Wolfe kneeling in front of her a knife sticking out of his chest blood spilling out of his mouth. "Murderer!" He screamed blood gurgling in his throat "Murderer!"
"JJ?" The nurse waved his hand in front of her face trying to regain her attention
"I- I'm fine James. I was jus trying to do to much at once." She gave a small smile looking behind him to see nothing but a red ball in the place of the apparition.
"Derek!" JJ turned her head to the door shocked to see two of her friends standing behind the window. "I'm okay." She mouthed to the black man eyeing her concerned. She watched as a nurse pulled him away from the door, James tried to pull her attention back to her physical therapy. "How about we toss the ball to each other?" The blonde continued to stare at the now vacant door. "Or maybe go run 3 miles around the park and then go to the zoo."
"Huh?" the blonde turned her attention back to the man in front of her. "Did you say something?" James smiled "Yeah I said we made some progress today. So I guess we can take you back to your room." JJ nodded in response. James pulled a wheelchair close to JJ and helped her into the seat. He opened the door and wheeled her out of the room; JJ turned her head to see Derek sitting on a gurney while a nurse was wrapping his hands in gauze.
Morgan lifted his head and watched the blonde roll past him. "Derek." Garcia snapped her fingers in front of his eyes trying to make him focus. Morgan turned his head back to the nurse, "Uh, sorry, I just wasn't paying attention, I sometimes forget where I'm at and what I'm doing. Am I good?"
"Agent Morgan, I would advise you to see our psychologist to work on your daydreaming." The nurse gave a weary smile before leaving the two agents.
"Derek you need to see the therapist." Garcia whispered as Morgan slid off the gurney. "Baby Girl I'm fine, I was just concerned for her." The two began to walk down the bright hallway like they had for the past month following JJ to and from the PT room and back to her own room. "I know, but there's concern, and there's overprotecting." He stopped walking "Penelope he's still out there, he's waiting to attack again, to finish the job." She bit her bottom lip hearing the same fearful words over and over again from her best friend made her sick. "The team is doing everything we can to find him."
"Not enough" He muttered under his breath, they continued walking to JJ's room in silence. Garcia followed chewing on her bottom lip unable to formulate her thoughts into words. Reid stood beside a local officer talking about the latest episode of Doctor Who when Derek and Garcia walked up. "Hey guys." Reid smiled before noticing the silent tension between the two. "Everything alright?"
"Yeah." Morgan brushed off quickly before entering the room closing the door behind him, Garcia remained outside. Reid looked to Garcia for a more in depth answer. "I'll tell you later. Where's the rest of the team?"
Reid gave the officer an awkward wave before walking down the hall to talk to Penelope. "Rossi is talking to his NSA contacts for anything on Curtis, and Hotch and Blake are going over her resignation papers." Garcia looked at Reid shocked "She's leaving?" Reid nodded "Yeah."
Garcia bit her bottom lip at the new information. "Because of Curtis?"
Reid shrugged "I have no idea, it was definitely a blindside. So how is Morgan doing?"
She sighed, "He's not opening up, both of them, they're just bottling it up and its killing them. Derek hasn't slept in two days, JJ isn't eating, both aren't going to their therapist and when they do they don't talk at all. I don't know what to do, I feel helpless and I can tell they need help."
Tears filled her eyes; Reid pulled her into his chest embracing her. "When they're ready they'll open up. Trust me it'll be okay."
"Are you okay?" JJ asked as Derek walked in, he gave her a small smile before sitting down beside her on the bed.
"I'm fine, I just- just saw us back in that room." JJ placed her hand on his cheek. "Watching you fall, made me remember every time you would get…"
"Derek it's okay."
"And how I couldn't do anything to stop it. I hated that feeling. I told myself I wouldn't let anyone hurt you."
JJ pressed her forehead to his; she felt his warm uneven breaths on her face. "I'm okay. You're okay. It's over and we won. He's dead. It's over." She placed her lips on his trying to calm his ragged breaths. He pressed back holding her head in his two bandaged hands. They unlocked to regain their breath putting their heads together feeling each other's breaths mixing with their own. "Say it." She whispered
"It's over." He answered placing his lips back on hers, in the back of his mind he felt a sharp pang at the lie he tried to make himself believe.
A doctor knocked at the door. Alerting her presence to the two locked together. They pulled apart looking at each other and then to the doctor who interrupted them.
"Good evening Agents." She awkwardly chirped walking in and examining JJ's file at the end of the bed. "I see you took a few steps today Agent Jareau, that's excellent. Now if only we could get you to eat." She joked with no laughter in return she coughed and continued to the read the file in silence. "Well you've made excellent progress, but Agent Morgan it's time for you to go back to your own room for the night." Morgan didn't object to the doctor's orders, but instead gave JJ another kiss before rising from the bed. "Sweet dreams." He joked, JJ laughed at the sarcastic comment "You too." He smiled, both of them joking about their poor sleep regiment from the constant nightmares that plagued their minds, that was progress to them, not taking three steps or eating, but being able to cope with the constant reminders of their personal hells. "I'll be back in the morning for breakfast." He winked before walking with the doctor out of the room. "Good night." She whispered. A pressure slowly began to form in her chest as the room was engulfed in silence. Jason stood in the doorway casting a shadow over her bed. Another figured appeared that she knew was herself holding a knife that glinted off the lights from the room. She watched as the blonde moved thrusting the knife into his chest which began turning red. She gasped at the sight of the man crumpling to the ground a pool of blood beginning to surround him, as the blonde holding the bloody knife walked closer to her. "You're a killer..." The blonde morphed into the man with icy blue eyes "Just like me." His sinister laughed filled the room. "No!" She screamed into her pillow covering her eyes hoping to get rid of the figures standing before her. "It's over, he's dead, it's over" she repeated over and over again into the pillow trying to calm herself.
It was hours before JJ finally found some sleep in her dark room. It didn't last long before fire and the lifeless blue eyes plagued her dreams turning her mind into a prison without any escape. She woke to a loud noise her body covered in sweat. "He-hello?" She squeaked, "Is somebody there?" the room gave her no response, she swallowed the lump forming in her throat and closed her eyes trying to fall back asleep. This time she awoke to a sudden brightness invading her dark room. A nurse came through her door and walked to her IV bag beside her. He pulled out a syringe and connected it to the IV Drip. A surgical mask covered the nurse's face, but the icy blue eyes that plagued her mind were unable to mistake even in the dimly lit room. She gasped as she realized who stood beside her. "Shhh. This should keep you from screaming. Remember this?" He chuckled showing her the syringe as her body became limp beside her. She remembered this feeling the memory of him violating her etched into the forefront of her mind. JJ's eyes showed the fear of seeing a ghost before her. "Thought I was dead didn't you?" He smiled running his fingers through her blonde hair. "You should know by now that unless you shoot me yourself, I'm alive." He twirled his fingers through her hair, and leaned over to smell her hair. "Strawberries and fear." He chuckled. "Three months has been to long, but I've spent my time watching your son. He's grown up a bit, loves soccer, a bit of a natural, I bet he gets that from you." His fingers slid down to her arms and began to trace the scars from her time with him. "Jack's like a big brother to Henry, the two are inseparable." He lifted up her gown to reveal the still healing wounds on her abdomen his fingers lightly traced the stitches holding her skin together. "They just love to watch superhero movies, especially the Avengers, I guess they get that from you both." He pressed the wound making one of the stitches come undone. He whispered into her ear. "I told you I would destroy all of you, I've realized that the best way to get to all of you is to take out the ones that you would protect for eternity. Like a parental protection being stripped away. I'll take good care of them." He chuckled pulling out an object from his pant pocket and placing it on the table. "Have a nice night Agent Jareau." He leaned in a kissed her on the lips before replacing the mask and walking out the room, leaving JJ paralyzed frightened as the nightmare that was only in her mind was now back in her reality.
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