I'll be honest, when I first got my pairing the little Garcia in my head stomped her foot and said no way in Hell. But after I patiently explained to her that this was for someone special she agreed to let me have at it. Heck, she even helped me write it. So….

This story is for ilovetvalot otherwise known as Tracia. I want to say a special thanks to her and her family. I know it is difficult having a family member away especially if they are in the service. My nephew is stationed in South Korea right now as well. I hope you enjoy the story with my own special little twist.

My pairing and prompts:

JJ/Rossi***Wonderful Tonight (Clapton); roses, a scented bubblebath, and a singing Valentin-o-gram (for those that don't know that's a singing telegram that you get on Valentine's Day - if it happens while JJ's in the bath, extra points!)

Dance With The Devil

Summary – JJ needs a date for Valentines Day and she only has a week to get the right guy, throwing caution to the wind she invites the Devil himself – David Rossi!

Chapter 1 Reluctant Romancers

Jennifer Jareau sighed as she rubbed her face tiredly. She picked up a sweat soaked glass sitting in front of her and took a long drink.

"You look like a woman with a problem," a voice said to her left.

She smiled as she put down the glass and turned to her friends. "It's about time you showed up!"

Emily Prentiss and Penelope Garcia both grabbed a chair and sat at the table. Emily waved down a passing waitress and ordered for the both of them.

"I'll take another as well," JJ said loudly as the waitress started to leave.

"Uh – oh," Garcia said in a staged whisper. "Someone definitely has a problem."

"You're not telling me anything I can't see for myself," Emily replied. "What's going on JJ?"

The slender blonde's shoulders slumped as she looked at her friends. "I need a date!"

"Welcome to the club," Emily stated.

"For Valentine's Day," JJ expounded.

"Something special going on?" Garcia inquired.

"The DoD is having a big shindig and I am 'required' to be there," JJ explained making quote marks with her fingers.

"What's the problem? Take Will," Emily said as the waitress set down the drinks on the table.

JJ took a long pull from her glass finishing the first one and pushing it to the center of the table. "Will is going to be watching Henry for me. Besides I would like the chance for a little romance that night if possible. And as you know, Will and I decided since we broke up that we would just be friends."

"Why don't you take Reid?" Garcia suggested. She twirled the straw in her glass before taking a sip. "He still likes you."

JJ glared at her.

"That would be a disaster," Emily laughed.

"Thank you," JJ conceded. "I like Reid but I don't want to be romantic with him. Besides I want someone a little more physically impressive. Don't get me wrong Reid's attractive but he's just not a head turner."

"Ok," Emily said. She looked thoughtful as she took a drink from her glass. "How about Morgan or Hotch?"

"Morgan is like a brother to me and I still think of Hotch as my boss," JJ groaned.

"You know what that means," Garcia said with a wink. "You have to ask Dave."

"Oh my God no," JJ cried.

"Oh yeah," Emily agreed. "He'd be perfect for you!"

"Are you kidding me?"

"Think about it," Emily pressed. "He's handsome, charming, sophisticated…"

JJ cut in. "Arrogant, overbearing, egotistical, fussy. Need I go on?"

"You forgot anal retentive and neat freak," Garcia said helpfully as she chewed on a piece of ice.

"I was getting to that," JJ said sounding exasperated.

"You can't tell me you don't want to find out how good a kisser he is," Emily teased.

JJ stared at her hard before relenting. "Well, yes, I would like to know that."

"And you have to give us all of the details," Garcia squealed.

"What makes you think he would want to go out with me?" JJ asked. "What if he already has plans?"

"Only one way to find out," Emily said with a smirk. JJ looked at her with wide eyes. "You need to call him."

Garcia reached across the table and grabbed JJ's purse. She rummaged around for a moment before pulling out JJ's cell phone. Garcia scrolled through the phone then put it on the table in front of JJ. It took JJ a moment to realize that her phone was on speaker and that it was ringing.

The phone clicked and stopped ringing. "Rossi," a deep voice said through the speaker.

"Uh," JJ stuttered.

"Hello," Dave said loudly.

"Hi Dave," JJ said finally finding her voice. "How are you?"

"Who is this?"

Emily and Garcia were smirking as JJ covered her face in mortification. "It's JJ," she said quietly.

"JJ?" he repeated. There was a slight pause. "Oh yeah, JJ, how are you?"

She felt a flutter in her stomach as his voice dropped an octave. "I'm fine thanks, and you?"

"Kinda busy," he said airily. "What can I do for you?"

She picked up the phone and took it off of speaker. Holding it to her ear she continued the conversation.

"I was wondering if you had any plans for the 14th," she asked courageously. She didn't want to admit it out loud especially to Emily and Garcia but she really did want to go out with Dave. She had been attracted to the man since she had seen him at the bookstore when she was in college. However, their jobs and the fact that she had met Will kept her from doing anything about it until now.

"Not that I'm aware of," he replied. "Are you having a get together or something?"

She looked beseechingly at her two best friends whom were watching her intently. "Actually, there is this party at work that night and I was wondering if you would go with me."

Dave paused. "Wait. The 14th? Isn't that Valentines Day?"

"Yes. It is."

"Who else is going?" he asked.

"The entire department of defense," she replied cautiously. She crossed her fingers under the table hoping this wouldn't put him off.

"I mean from the BAU," he laughed.

"No one that I'm aware of."

The phone got silent for several seconds and she panicked thinking he had hung up on her.

"Dave? Are you still there?"

"Yeah," he said quietly. "Are you asking me out on a date?"

She laughed humorlessly. "If you have to ask then I'm not doing a very good job of it."

He didn't reply so she plundered on. "So what do you think, will you go with me?"

"You're the blond, right?"

"Dave! You are not seriously telling me that you don't remember me! I know you're getting older but…"

"Hey now," he cut in. "No low blows Jareau. I thought you were married by now or something. You still have a kid, don't you?"

"Yes," she replied steadily. "But Will and I are no longer together."

"I see."

"So?" she pressed.

Dave let out a sigh. "I'm really flattered JJ but I'm going to have to say no."

"Ok," JJ stated trying not to let the disappointment show in her voice. "Well maybe another time."

"We should do lunch or dinner," he suggested. "All of us together like we use to."

"Yeah," she agreed hastily. "Well, I'll let you go."

"Thanks for calling," he said absently.

"Bye," she said as she hung up the phone. She looked at her friends and slowly shook her head.

"He said no?" Emily vented.

JJ shrugged as she put the phone on the table. "He sounded like he didn't even remember me."

"What the hell," Garcia yelped. "There is something wrong here. I know for a fact that he had a thing for you."

Emily and JJ looked at Garcia. "And how do you know this?" JJ asked.

"My chocolate drop told me," she said with a smile. "Apparently Hotch wasn't too keen on the way Dave use to watch you in the office. They actually argued about it a few times."

"I never heard about that," Emily pouted.

"Morgan said they were arguing in the bathroom one day when he walked in on them," Garcia explained.

"Huh," Emily snorted.

"All of this is great but it doesn't help me," JJ reminded them. "I still need a date for the party."

"You need to keep working on Dave," Emily stated firmly as she smacked the top of the table with her hand.

"He said no," JJ said picking up her glass and taking a drink. She didn't want to admit defeat but she didn't know what to do.

"Ok," Emily said as she sat back. "You still have Will or… you could ask Reid."

JJ groaned and lowered her head into her hands again. "Those are not good options."

"You know what you need to do?" Garcia asked. JJ peered through her fingers at her friend. "You need to woo Dave."

"Hah," JJ barked just the thought of her chasing him scared the bejeezus out of her. What if she caught him? Then what?

"Ooh, good idea," Emily agreed. "I bet Dave has never been pursued before."

"He is definitely the pursuer type," Garcia said.

Emily nodded. "You need to show him you're serious."

"I only want a date," JJ reminded them. "I don't want to marry the man."

"You guys would make beautiful babies," Garcia said wistfully. Emily's grin widened.

"Stop," JJ ordered trying to erase the sudden image of her and Dave making babies together. "Let's just work on getting me a date."

Emily grinned. "Are you ready to woo?"

"I know I'm going to regret this but what do you suggest?"

Dave walked into his office the next morning stopping mid-step as he acknowledged the vase of a dozen white roses setting on his desk. He walked around the desk keeping a wary eye on the flowers and carefully dislodged the small white envelope from the plastic holder. He opened the envelope and read the hand written note:

If you change your mind about the 14th – call me! I'll be waiting for you. JJ

"Not happening Jareau," he said to himself as he crumpled the note and threw it in the wastebasket. He picked up the vase of flowers and moved them to the table on the other side of the room.

JJ checked her phone for what felt like the hundredth time seeing that there still was no call from Rossi. She knew the man was stubborn and when he said no he meant it. But she was now equally determined that he would be her date as she really didn't want to spend the evening with Reid or her ex, Will. Besides she was curious to find out what it would be like to go on a date with the famous David Rossi.

She scrolled through her contacts list and punched ok when she reached his name. If the mountain would not move to Mohammed then Mohammed must move to the mountain, she thought.

"Rossi."

"Hi Dave," JJ replied with a smile.

"JJ."

"Did you get the flowers?" she asked without preamble.

Dave sighed. "I did."

She waited for him to continue and after a half a minute of silence she spoke. "If you already have a date just tell me. If not, then I would really like it if you would go with me."

"Why?"

It was her turn to sigh. "Because I like you, I always have and now that we are no longer working together I'd like to see if I have a chance."

"A chance," he repeated. "A chance at what?"

"Romance," she giggled. "Sex. Love. Any of those things. Or all of them if I'm lucky."

"JJ," he said softly. "I'm not the guy."

"How do you know?" she asked. "I know there is something between us Dave. I felt it the first time we met."

"The first time when you were in college or when we met at the BAU," he inquired. "Because honestly I don't remember you from when you were in college."

"You are such an ass!"

"What?" he asked with a hint of laughter in his voice. "What did I say?"

"Fine," she huffed. "When we met at the BAU and you wouldn't let go of my hand."

"You mean when you wouldn't let go of my hand," he corrected. "If I remember right you practically molested me, right there in front of Hotch."

"I did not," she said indignantly.

This time he did laugh. "You still want to go out with me?"

"Yes," she said firmly.

"No," he said just as firmly.

"Dave…"

"I have to go," he stated cutting her off. "Good luck with your date search."

"I'm not giving up," she warned.

"Then you are going to be very lonely on Valentines Day," he stated before he hung up the phone.

"This is going to be quite the battle," she muttered as she hit the speed dial on her phone. "I hope that it is worth it."

"Hello cupcake," Garcia answered. "Tell me he said yes!"

"He did not," JJ said tiredly.

"Don't you worry buttercup, the Queen of all things electronic is on the case," Garcia assured her. "I found the perfect offering for our Italian love stud."

JJ laughed. Garcia never failed to amuse her when it came to nicknames. "What is it?"

"A recently released video of Frank Sinatra in concert including backstage footage."

"He probably already has it," JJ said with a sigh.

"When I said recently I meant yesterday," Garcia said. "And it is only available over the internet."

"Perfect!"

"I know! I already ordered it for you and had it sent overnight priority. It will be on his desk tomorrow."

"His desk? Garcie I need to add a note," JJ panicked. "How will he know it's from me?"

"No worries mon ami, I took care of it for you," Garcia smiled.

JJ lowered her head to her desk and moaned quietly. She loved her friend very much but she knew that the other woman could get a little over the top when it came to romance and helping. She wanted to know what the note said but was afraid to ask. She could only hope that it would do more to help her cause than to hurt it.