I was going to be there for her. I wanted to be there for her. JJ was my best friend, we were best friends. But to me? It was so much more.
The sound of the coffee sizzling was all that Emily Prentiss heard as she collected her things and got ready to walk out the door to work. The unit chief position was hard to fill, but she was succeeding greatly. With the keys rattling in her hand, she tried to hold her holster still as she leaned over to fill Sergio, her cats, food bowl. As she lifted her head back up, the cat jumped at her. She dropped her keys and bag. "Shit." She said. "Sergio, what was that for?" She asked. She began picking up her things, and then went back to the counter to pour some coffee into her favorite cup. She hummed to herself as she poured a little bit of half and half,n and two spoonfuls of sweetener into the dark roast coffee, and then twisted the lid onto the portable coffee cup. Without another thought she walked out the door, and headed off to work.
The first sound she heard walking into work was Penelope Garcia, her chirpy coworker's, voice. "Emily! There you are." She said, smiling brightly. "Garcia. What's got you so happy? We have a case." She said, looking concerned. "I know we have a case. But that has nothing to do with why I'm smiling right now." She said while pulling out her bright pink, bedazzled tablet. "Well then, what is it?" She asked. "Luke and I are getting coffee tomorrow." Garcia said happily before sipping her coffee. "Oh. Alvez? I didn't know you two were a thing." Emily said, looking a little bit confused. "Oh. But Emily, we're not. We're barely even friends." Garcia smiled again. "Then…. What are you so happy for?" Emily asked, looking completely lost. "I don't know what I'm so happy for. I guess I'm just excited, that's all." Emily squinted, and tilter her head a little bit to the right. "Okay then. Let's get to work." Emily walked towards the briefing room confident as ever, ready to ruin everybody's mood with another one of their gruesome cases.
"Meet Camilla Wolfington. 22 year old single mom to three year old Jane Wolfington. Camilla's body was found in a junkyard two days ago." Garcia aimed the remote to the flat screen t.v. to show a picture of a beautiful blonde woman. Pictures of the woman with her smiling child at a park holding butterflies flooded the screen and before getting the chance to get to know the faces of the victim and her family, Camilla's body appeared in front of them. "The M.E. reports have not came back yet, but judging by her injuries, the cause of death is most likely the shallow stab wounds on the victims head and neck. Please direct your focuses to the images of the second victim, Lisa Hurley. Brunette single mom to 7 year old son James Hurley. Husband was killed by a drunk driver when James was 3 and moms been single ever since." Garcia looked down, obviously disgusted by the images that appeared behind her. "Her body was found yesterday by local shopkeeper John Winsley. His alibi checks out and as of right now he's not a suspect in either of the murders."
"Well do you have any other leads in the case? Do we know anything?" Reid asked. "We know the UnSub going to strike again." Emily cut in. "Wheels up in 30." She said, shuffling her papers and organizing her files before standing up and walking towards the doors. "Emily. Hold up." JJ said, walking towards the brunette looking a little bit frazzled and unorganized. "JJ? What is it?" Emily said, looking genuinely concerned. "How are you holding up? I heard about you and Joe and I just wanted to let you know that I'm there for you if you need something." Emily smiled slightly. "Yeah. Okay. Thanks, JJ." Re-opening the door, she walked out. "You coming?" She asked. JJ smiled and nodded and began to make her way back to her desk, which was covered in pictures of her and her family. "Do we know if there's any other victims?" Luke asked, leaning over her shoulder while she was sitting at her desk rubbing her head. "Hmm?" JJ asked. "I was wondering if there were any other victims besides the two Garcia told me about. But you're obviously in the middle of something. I can ask Lewis if you want." Luke said, getting ready to walk away from her. "No. No, that's okay, Alvez. I guess I'm just dealing with some personal problems, that's all." She smiled slightly. "Okay. Well let me know if you need anything, or if you need somebody to talk to." JJ laughed to herself. Luke cracked a confused smile. "What? What's so funny?" JJ started laughed harder."Nothing. Nothings funny. Its just- Its just that I just said the same type of things to JJ a couple of minutes ago, and here I am complaining because I'm attracted to somebody besides my own damn husband." Luke looked shocked, understandably. "W- Well…. Well I mean, I guess attraction is normal. You shouldn't feel guilty about about that." JJ looked suspicious. Oh really?" Luke squinted, shaking his head. "Yeah." "OH REALLY?" She looked angry, and impatient waiting for his response. "Yeah." He said, uncertain and hesitantly, tilting his head to the left. "Well what if I told you it was a woman?"
"You have feelings for a woman." He said, looking shocked. "You have feelings for a woman?" He said, repeating himself, sounding even more shocked than he did before. JJ smiled looking like a know-it-all, and nodded to him a little bit snarkily. "Yeah. A woman. But not just any woman. It's Emily." Luke stared at her, obviously shocked. "You- You have feelings? For Emily?" He stuttered. JJ nodded. "I have feelings. For Emily." JJ breathed a sigh of relief. She had been holding these feelings in for so long. It felt good to let them out, even if it was to the newbie. But Luke stared at her for a couple of moments, and not knowing what to say to him, she just stared back. They sat there for a while, just looking at one another, waiting for the other person to speak. But before one of them could, Reid came over to them.
"I hate to break up what looks like a very meaningful conversation, but we're leaving for Omaha in five minutes." He said, leaning over them. "Let's go." He said, walking away from his friends. "Oh! Umm…. We should probably get going." JJ said, shuffling the already organized papers and files on her desk. "Oh. Umm…. Yeah. Yeah, we should." Luke said, using his tan arms to lift himself back upwards from JJ's desk since he had been leaning over it for such a long time. He cleared his throat. "Well, I guess I'll see you on the plane." He said, visibly uncomfortable knowing this much information about his co workers personal life, knowing he was the only person that did. "Mhm." She nodded. "See you on the plane." She smiled politely, walking towards the doors of the BAU, without another thought.
Well not wanting to let Emily hear him, Luke approached JJ before takeoff and asked her to come with him to make coffee. Without even thinking she obliged, following him to the small mahogany oak counter and watched as he poured straight black coffee into a light blue mug with "Quantico, Virginia." engraved in black letters. "So are we gonna talk about what happened earlier?" He said, still emptying a packet of sugar into his steaming hot coffee. "What happened? I'm not gonna pretend like I was shocked when I heard you asked Penelope out but I-" She started rambling. "What? No, no. That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about how you- Wait a minute, how did you know that I asked Penelope out for coffee?" He asked, looking at her suspiciously. "Well I heard from Lewis who heard from Reid who heard from Emily who heard from Garcia. She was really excited about this, Luke." She smiled, smiling sympathetically. "I'm excited too, but that doesn't mean that I'm-" He stopped, obviously skeptical. "Wait a minute. I know what your doing. I know you're trying to distract me from asking you about Emily." He smirked. "Shh." She said, looking around worried. "Somebody might hear you." Luke laughed. "I know. But quite frankly, I dont give a damn." He said, pouring more sugar packets into his coffee. "Well I do, Alvez. I don't want her to know. I don't want anybody to know." Luke smiled looking down to his coffee, laughing to himself. "Okay, okay. I'm not gonna tell anybody. JJ I'm not a bad guy. I just find it interesting that it took you this long to admit you have feelings for her." He put down the empt bright pink packets and lifted this coffee cup to his lips. "What are you talking about? Did you- did you think I had feelings for her?" He smiled, putting his coffee to his lips and taking a couple of sips of his coffee.
I know that you think that you're all cool and calm and collected Jennifer Jareau, but I can see right through you." He smirked. "But you're just a newbie." She said, self-questioning, carefully considering everything he said to her. "Yup." He nodded. "I am just a newbie. But I'm also the newbie that figured out you had feelings for Prentiss a day after I joined the BAU. I'm also the newbie that figured out that you and your husband are really in love, but you discovering yourself and questioning your sexuality has caused to you to be more distant towards him, which is making the two of you grow apart. I also know that although all of the things you feel for your husband are real, you want to explore this new side of yourself, and you're not going to be happy until you do." He said, walking past her, leaving her alone with her thoughts. She stood there for a few moments, mouth agape, in shock. He was right. Newb- Luke- was right. She had feelings for Emily. She had feelings for Emily the first time she saw her. But then she fell in love with Will, and it made everything more complicated. She forgot about her feelings for Emily for a while. But they were always there. Lurking in the shadows, waiting to appear at just the wrong time. She knew what she wanted. She knew what she had to do to get it. But what she didn't know was how far she was willing to go to find out.
