"Jordan come on." Emily laughed sitting on the tabletop next to where Jordan wrote. "Time to put the notebook down and come have fun." She grinned at the younger girl and Jordan nodded.

"All right what's up for tonight?" Jordan asked looking between Emily and JJ.

"Pen is planning on meeting us at my house to watch Children of the Corn." JJ giggled as Emily pulled her against her.

"Again?" Jordan laughed.

"It's a good movie!" JJ defended.

"Yeah a good movie that we've seen over 20 times." Jordan laughed.

"Well we need to go." Emily smiled at JJ.

"Right, I'll meet you there then I have to stop off at home."

"Ok, hurry though." JJ smiled as Jordan took off on foot to her house.

"Mom, I'm home." Jordan yelled as she walked in but when there was no answer she shrugged it off and grabbed a note pad to leave her family a notice of her whereabouts. She quickly wrote she'll be at JJ's till morning and found a magnet to hang it on the garage door for her parents. As she opened the door to walk out she came face to face with her father.

"I'm going to JJ's ok?" Jordan asked without making eye contact.

"I want you home tonight."

"Alright." Jordan sighed disappointed.

"Drop the attitude I let you do so much and you never thank me. Never like it." He yelled at her. Jordan stepped back in the house closing the door before facing her father.

"I know."

"Don't you walk away from me!"

"I'm just moving toward the kitchen I'm not leaving." She reassured and stopped moving anyway.

"You know what get out!" He pushed Jordan to the door and slammed it behind her. Jordan sighed and walked down the road to JJ's house.

"Learn to let yourself in." JJ's mother said smiling at Jordan. "You three are here enough to do so, your family."

"Hi Ms. Jareau." Jordan smiled back walking in. "Emily already here?"

"Does she ever leave?" JJ's mom rolled her eyes.

"Good point." Jordan laughed and headed up stairs to JJ's room.

"Eric stop you'll get her all wound up." JJ complained as her brother continued to poke Emily's arm waiting for her to actually hit him.

"She won't." Eric protested and Emily launched at him.

"Emily!" JJ yelled and laughed seeing Eric trapped tightly under Emily who had her arm wrapped around his neck and was pulling on his ear.

"Hey Jordan." Garcia greeted her warmly.

"Hey Pen!" Jordan smiled at her. "What'd I miss?"

"Well Eric poked at Emily till she jumped him and we all agreed that we should get candy corn for the movie."

"Children of the corn and candy corn how fitting." Jordan smiled taking a seat next to Garcia.

"Ok, Eric leave." Emily said pushing off the boy. He scrambled to his feet and ran out the door.

"Thank you." JJ grinned and kissed Emily.

"Any time. So now, on to the movie!" Emily smiled and laid on the bed pulling JJ down on top of her.

"Why do I get the feeling we'll be the only one watching it?" Jordan leaned over and asked Garcia.

"Because we will be the only ones watching."

x-x-x

"Emily! I got into the University of Pittsburgh!" JJ jumped up and down and into Emily's arms.

"Congratz Jay!" Emily smiled and kissed JJ swung her around.

"Where'd you get in?"

"Yale." Emily said quietly.

"Yale!" JJ squealed "Emily that's great!"

"Hey you two what's up?" Garcia smiled as she walked up to her two excited friends.

"We just got our college apps back!" JJ grinned. "I'm going to University of Pittsburgh! And Emily's going to Yale!"

"Guys that's great! I got into Caltech!"

"O no! So now you're going to be even better with computers?" Emily laughed.

"Yup!" Garcia smiled and hugged JJ and Emily. "I wonder what Jordan got into."

"Me? I got into U of M." Jordan smiled walking up she joined in hugging them all. "Sorry I'm late."

"It's ok." JJ smiled breaking away from the big hug only to have Emily wrap her arms around her.

"This is great! We all got into really good schools."

"Wait!" JJ gasped. "We all got into really good school, all across the country from each other."

"We'll stay in contact." Jordan nodded. "We love each other too much not to."

x-x-x

8 years later.

"Agent Jaraeu I'd like you to meet our newest member, Penelope Garcia." JJ turned around and ran over to Garcia.

"Penny!"

"JAY!" Garcia hugged her long lost friend. "It's been too long."

"Oh I know."

"Have you heard from Emily, recently? Are you two still together?" Garcia grinned.

"Technically yes, but I haven't heard from her in a few months… Her mom got transferred again a few years ago…"

"Oh baby girl I'm so sorry." Garcia hugged JJ again.

"It's ok. What about you and Jordan? Hooking up right before going our separate ways. Scandalous!" JJ laughed.

"Jay, I haven't talked to her since my parents died."

"Pen! When did your parents die?"

"Right after school let out my freshman year, they were hit by a drunk driver."

"I'm so sorry, I should've been there for you."

"It's alright Jay, I had to do it myself."

"I wonder what she's been up to?"

"Knowing her? A lot." Garcia laughed.

x-x-x

Same time on the other side of the world.

"Mother! I'm done, I don't want to keep running around after you. Please, let me go home." Twenty-six year old Emily stood in-front of her mother tears streaming down her face. "Please mom, I miss JJ."

"Emily dear, you belong here with your family and a nice man to settle down with."

"Mom, I love JJ and it's killing me to be away from her. You wouldn't let me go to Pen's parents' funeral, or help Jordan when she called and needed help because her father was drinking again! Please let me go to JJ."

"I…Go." Elizabeth sighed as Emily ran out of her office and possibly out of her life.

x-x-x

A plane ticket and a few days later.

"Jordan Todd."

"Jordan you better open that door before I knock it down!" Emily grinned and Jordan threw the door open.

"Emily!" Jordan hugged her tightly. "Oh how I've missed you guys!"

"Don't get too excited just yet, I'm here to find the others."

"Well I haven't talked to them in years!" Jordan said.

"I have JJ's last known address but after that she like fell off the world."

"Same with Garcia. Oh, come in, I was just watching the news on some serial killer running lose in the Flint area."

"Oh that makes me feel so much safer."

"It should! We're in Ann Arbor, Flint is almost an hour and a half from here."

"Oh." Emily grinned sitting down on Jordan's couch. "Nice place you have…Jordan!"

"What?" Jordan came running into the room.

"Look! It's… it's!"

"JJ!" Jordan smiled, grabbing Emily's hand and pulling her out of the house. "I know where she is."

x-x-x

"Man." JJ flopped down in the chair next to Garcia. "Can you believe this? One killer sparked a whole gang up roar, now they've joined together to save their city."

"Well do you feel safer with this killer or a gang member on the lose?"

"Neither."

"Good point."

"I guess though it's good that they are joining together to protect the women of the city." JJ sighed closing her eyes. "They just need to stop killing the wrong people." She chuckled lightly.

"Very true."

"JJ, Garcia. You have a visitor…or two actually." Morgan said sticking his head in the door.

"Make them come back." JJ huffed.

"Oh I wouldn't be saying that if I was you." Emily smiled. JJ's eyes shot open and she stared at Emily.

"Dear god, tell me I'm not dreaming."

"Oh your not." Jordan stepped in behind Emily. JJ jumped up and ran to Emily jumping in her arms.

"I missed you so much!" JJ kissed her. "Don't you ever leave me again."

"Hi Garcia." Jordan smiled.

"Come here you!" Garcia grinned and Jordan went over to her. Garcia stood up and kissed Jordan. "God I've missed you so much too."

"Well if it wasn't for Emily sitting on my couch to see her goddess of hotness on the TV I'd never be here." Jordan smiled.

"Thank you Emily."

"Oh, no problem Garcia." Emily said between kisses.

"I have a place in Ann Arbor if you guys want to catch up…" Jordan smiled.

"We need to check with our boss…"

"Already done." Emily smiled. "Plus, welcome your two newest members."

"No!" JJ laughed. "Really?"

"Yuppers." Jordan smiled.

x-x-x

"So here comes JJ out of no where gun drawn and she yells at the top of her lungs to drop the gun. Morgan turns around drops the gun and JJ flushes looking at him, she was two seconds too late Morgan already had the unsub and now feared JJ was going to shoot him." Garcia explained to them as Emily held JJ tightly against her and Jordan leaned slightly into Garcia.

"I missed a lot didn't I?"

"Just a bit." JJ smiled. "But that's ok, we have our whole lives to make up for it."

"That's good."

"Hush it's starting!" Jordan whined as the orange sun peaked over the clouds on the TV.

"Oh come on its not like we haven't seen it a million times." Emily said.

"No! Hush it's the new one!"

"Jordan…there's always a new one."

"But this one is children of the corn: 666: Isaac's return!" Jordan exclaimed throwing a pillow at JJ.

"That it is." Garcia laughed.

"New movies same old friends." Emily laughed, kissing JJ again.

"Why do I get the feeling that we're going to be the only ones watching this?" Jordan leaned over and asked Garcia.

"Because you are." Emily said laughing.

x-x-x

Jordan smiled at Garcia holding her hand as Emily waited patiently for JJ to appear at the end of the isle.

"Look at Hotch, sweating like a pig." Garcia smiled.

"Well two of his agents are getting married."

"And two weeks later two more will be getting married." Garcia grinned squeezing Jordan's hand.

"I can hear you, ya know." Hotch leaned forward to tell them.

"Hush you three." Emily scolded from her spot at the alter.

"Sorry." The girls blushed.

x-x-x

"So was it just the idea of getting back to what you wanted to be or?"

"If I couldn't get back to what I was before everything then I wanted to be something better than I was."

"So what is it?"

"Better than what I use to be."

"You ever want to explain what happened? You know when we were younger?"

"Pen." Jordan warned.

"Alright. Alright."

"Hey you two, what are you doing over here sitting all alone?" JJ sat down next to her two best friends.

"Just talking about how amazing you two are together." Garcia smiled. "Aw Jordan look at our babies all grown up and married."

"Aw you two are no less grown up than us." Emily said kissing JJ's neck. "Come on kido, Mom wants to talk to us again before we get to lost among others."

"Hmm…I could think of a few other things I'd like to do." JJ grinned.

"Oh gezz, you two." Jordan rolled her eyes.

"Hey now, just wait till you get married, then you have no room to speak."

"I know, I know."

"JJ hurry mom looks like she's ready to come over here!" Emily said pulling at JJ's hand like a little kid. JJ smiled and kissed Garcia's and Jordan's foreheads.

"I just wanted to make sure I said thank you, and I love you both."

"We know." Jordan smiled. "Now go." JJ took Emily's hand and they walked over to JJ's mother.

"Mom."

"JJ, Emily… Come with me." JJ and Emily exchanged looks and followed JJ's mother out of the hall and into the kitchen. "Emily, I've known you for 30 years, two weeks after you were born actually. I know I've told you already that I'm behind both of you both your lives. Just I wanted both of you to know, I love you, and I wanted you to have this." She handed over a small box sitting on the counter. JJ looked at the box and opened it up. Laying inside was a scrapbook with Emily's and JJ's wedding photo on the front. "I started this when you were very little JJ." She smiled. "I'm just glad that I was right with your soul mate." Emily looked at JJ holding the book as JJ flipped the pages. The first few were a young JJ and Emily. Then Jordan and Garcia showed up around their late toddler years. The first days of school, 2nd grade rock quarry trip, 3rd grade zoo trip with JJ, Emily, Jordan and Garcia sitting next to a wolf with it's trainer, the 4th grade overnight museum trip. The girls sharing a tent at the weeklong fifth grade camp, Emily and JJ hanging off the top bunk as Garcia and Jordan shared the bottom. The 9th grade rock quarry trip (same as the 2nd grade one but this time it was over night). The 11th grade trip to Europe in which the girls took off on their own, finding better ways to spend their time without the class. Graduation…and leaving for college.

"I kept all the pictures and noticed a pattern." She smiled as JJ flipped the next page. On the light brown paper brightly colored flowers swirled around. Pictures of Emily holding JJ at 9th grade homecoming, JJ watching Emily from across a room as JJ's older brother got married, JJ and Emily curled up when they we're 15 sleeping after a girls night in. JJ looked up at her mom tears in her eyes.

"Thank you." JJ smiled, hugging her mom.

"I have one for Jordan and Garcia to give to them in a few weeks, but I thought I'd give it to you two to add more memories."

"We will." Emily smiled wrapping her arms around JJ's waist. "Thank you. You have no idea how much this means to us."

x-x-x

a/n: This is to tide you over while I work long and hard on my other stories. It's older, like two years ago, which is actually important to know in a few of the stories I'll warn you again when they pop up. Do tell me what you think I'd love to know.