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When a case brings up JJ's childhood, what will the team find out about her?

Was her childhood a lot darker than any of them could ever imagine?

~ I would also like it if you could review and tell me which couple you would like to see in this fiction! It's up to you guys! ~

JJ/Reid

JJ/Morgan

Or

JJ/Hotch

~ Thank you for any input! ~

Chapter One

'Memories'

JJ closed her eyes as she listened to the voice on the other end of the phone, she didn't know whether to be relieved or to cry. She had no idea what the reaction should be to the death of someone who abused you for so many years should be. Now that she was dead should she see her as the mother she had always wished she had been? Or should she carry on seeing her as the woman who had caused so much pain throughout her childhood?

She finally hung up and sighed, wondering if the team should be involved or not. Knowing it was wrong to not tell them as their help was asked, but at the same time knowing she couldn't look them in the eye ever again if they knew exactly what growing up in the Jareau household was like.

"Hotch, I was wondering if we could take this case." She slammed down the file on his desk, her arms wrapped protectively around herself as he read.

"She's my mom..." She finally said as he looked up at her confused, trying to make the connection with the second name. He nodded,

"There have been other murders similar before hers, another six people."

"Did you know all of them?" JJ nodded slowly, thinking about who the Unsub could possibly be – someone she may have known, or maybe someone who moved into the town shortly after she left.

"Are you okay?" He looked up at her tear-less face, concerned for the lack of emotion she appeared to show on the surface. She nodded,

"My mother and I didn't really get along.."

"What do you mean?" He could sense the hesitant tone in her voice, wondering what exactly happened to JJ when she was younger. Finding it strange that in the three years he had known the woman she hadn't told him anything about anyone from her family.

"Like any other daughter and their mother I guess, we didn't see eye to eye. She was deeply religious, I wasn't. She didn't like that..." She shrugged it off, but Hotch knew there was more.

"Did she ever hurt you?" JJ glared at him,

"What has this got to do with the case? Are we taking it or not?" Hotch was surprised at the flare of anger that appeared in the usually calm woman, he nodded,

"Are you okay to take it?" She nodded,

"Lets just catch him." Hotch nodded, shaking off the feeling that there was a lot more to Jennifer Jareau than he could ever know. He followed her out of his office to brief the team before heading off to the small town in which JJ had grown up.