A/N: Don't think that I'm hyper-productive; it's just that I'm going to have to work like mad from Tuesday and I'm not even sure I'll be able to follow the next season of Criminal Minds or anything else. Yes I know that sounds like a divine punishment but the worse is that it's my very one choice.

Concerning that fic, non sex, I just wanted something cute and (hopefully) powerful.

Enjoy!

Chapter One: Could you be my friend

Prentiss and Rossi walked out of the elevator. Morgan and Reid were both working at their desk.

"Hey, where were you both?" Morgan asked.

"In court, ALL morning!" Rossi answered.

"Divorcing again? Well if I was with her I would do too."

Prentiss slapped him gently behind the head with a file.

"What did I say?" Morgan was grinning playfully.

"Behave kids." And Rossi disappeared in his office.

They all went back to work and half an hour later Morgan left to get some coffee.

"Emily? Have you seen JJ lately?" Reid asked sitting at his desk.

"No, not since yesterday. Why?"

"Well I did this morning, and she looked… tired and sad. I tried and talk to here but… you know…"

"Yea, JJ. She's probably just having a bad day Reid. She was fine yesterday."

"Emily," she winced at the sound of her name and the suddenly very worried tone of voice of her colleague, "she had bruises on her forearm."

"What!"

"She tried and hided it and then throw me out of her office."

"Three cups of socks juice!" Morgan said putting the coffee on their desks.

Prentiss was unable to work properly for the rest of the day. What Reid told her completely freaked her out. And he told her! He waited until Morgan leave so he could tell her, a woman, about bruises on another woman's arm! They weren't supposed to profile each other but she knew Spencer's mind was not always tamable, and unfortunately it rarely was wrong too.

At the end of the day Prentiss walked into JJ's office. She was packing her things.

"Hey JJ, up for a drink? Just you and I?"

"No thanks. I've got something planed tonight." She was acting just normal; maybe Reid was wrong for once.

"Oh! Is at a date?" she asked, smiling like a four year old trying to guess what's in the birthday package.

"Yea, kind of…"

Emily saw JJ tense and she started freaking out again. They were getting into the elevator now.

"Tell me all about it."

"No Emily. It's… It's nothing serious really."

"Well that sounds interesting!"

"Don't Emily." She is avoiding eye contact!

"JJ is everything ok? Reid told me about…"

"Well Reid should mind his own business and so should you!"

She literally yelled at her, just like that, and then run out of the elevator, straight to her car. Prentiss didn't move for a moment, until the door of the cabin stated to close in front of her. She went back home, completely confused and worried.

JJ didn't mean to yell at her she knew that. She probably wasn't even mad at her. Something was wrong, something about that guy. What if she really needed help and now couldn't ask her because she thought she was mad at her?

Emily was hurt, but she toke those selfish feelings and put them in a drawer very deep inside her mind so they wouldn't prevent her from thinking rationally. JJ was the priority.

The following day, the blonde agent wasn't even able to look at either Reid or Prentiss. The day was really awkward for the tree of them but they tried and not make their personal problems interfere with the job or the team's dynamic.

When she went back home Emily decided that the worse that could happen was that JJ needed her and wouldn't ask her for a reason or another. She wanted to be there for her no matter what.

She thought about how to tell her that the simplest way and the more honest one and finally sent: "If anything bother's you, anything at all, I'm here, and so is the rest of the team."

She didn't wait for an answer, she wasn't expecting one, and went to bed.

Her text seemed to have done some good, because JJ started acting like herself again the following morning. Two days elapsed quite normally.

It was one in the morning when Prentiss walk up. Was somebody really knocking at her door so late? She hesitated to even get out of bed but finally went to the door, not switching any lights one, her gun in her hand. She carefully looked throw the peephole and immediately opened the door.

JJ looked at her for a second and rushed to her, crying her eyes out. Emily closed the door with one hand and took her in her arms, slowly caressing the back of her hair.

"Shhh. It's ok JJ. I'm here." Emily was whispering to her everything that came to her mind, completely heartbroken. JJ couldn't stop crying so she leaded her to the couch, and sat there with her in her arms for what seemed like an eternity. She almost cried herself to her friend's misery.

JJ was nested against her, her head inside Emily's neck, her knees against her chest. She stayed in that position even after she stopped crying, relaxing in her friend's arms. When she finally managed to speak, her voice was still full of tears.

"What's wrong with me Emily?"

"Oh JJ, nothing's wrong with you." She kissed her on her forehead. "Talk to me."

"It's that guy. Everything was so perfect. I felt it was so special. And then…" She held back a sob. "Then we slept together, and he started bullying me."

Emily didn't know if she was most devastated or made with rage.

"I thought it was just a onetime thing. He was just so lovable outside of bed and so kind and… But it got worst, and worst. And now I have bruises, and he's insulting me and… I can't take it anymore." She voice broke with the last words and she started crying again.

Now she knew. She was mad as hell! If that shitass ever approaches JJ again she was going to make him regret being born! She was turning really red when she realized that JJ was still crying. She immediately calmed down and held her even tighter.

"Nothing's wrong with you JJ. This guy will never raise his hand one you again. I can promise you that. He'll never touch you again."

"He told me things Emily. Things you wouldn't tell your worse enemies, the worse Unsub."

"Hey," for the first time tonight Emily gently pushed JJ back, so she could look at her in the eyes, "you don't believe him don't you? You know his just a jerk and he is just trying to make you fell weak."

"I don't know Em. I feel so dirty."

The hate Emily was feeling at that moment could have been enough to kill that guy, but she contained everything, focusing on JJ.

"Don't you ever think that again." She said softly, taking her face in her hands, caressing her with her thumb. "Forget about everything he told you." She kissed her on the cheek. "Forget him totally; you're never going to see him again." She put her forehead on JJ's, slowly rubbing her nose against hers.

After a couple of seconds JJ slid her face against Emily, and buried herself in her neck, putting her arms around her. Emily gave her back her hug, gently rubbing her back

"Can I stay tonight?"

"Of course you can stay JJ."

"Can… Can I sleep with you? I… I don't…"

"Shhhh. You don't have to explain yourself. Yes you can come and sleep with me."

"Thanks…"

Emily guided her to her room. They both slipped in their pajamas, two of Emily's one, and went to bed. JJ immediately curling up against Emily. The raven haired woman thought that her friend would want to talk but she was so exhausted that she fell asleep as soon as she was under the blankets. Emily watched her sleep a long time before her rage calmed down and allowed her to join JJ in the land of dreams.