Gone
Summary: After Emily is killed during the car crash in 5x11, JJ decides to try to comfort Hotch and wonders if he can handle when both of the women he loved are gone? Very short oneshot.
Hotch was pacing the waiting room while JJ's eyes followed him. The rest of the team was stuck having to catch the UNSUB.
Emily had been in surgery for two hours and they hadn't heard anything from the doctors since they were told to wait.
Hotch stopped pacing and JJ looked up to see a man in scrubs approach them. They could already read him, she was gone. Hotch waited until the doctor told him to accept it.
All he said was "I'm sorry. There was nothing we could do, the damage was to extensive." He went to put a hand on Hotch's shoulder to reassure him but he shook it off and took a seat and stared into the floor.
Hotch continued to stare blankly at the floor as he had for the past hour. He couldn't move. He couldn't accept that she was gone.
He didn't get to confess his feelings. He didn't even get to say goodbye…
Tears began to form in his eyes and he let them fall. He knew tears were a sign of weakness but that was exactly what he thought he was, weak.
He wasn't there for her. He wasn't there for either of them. First Haley and now Emily. His tears sped down his face.
JJ just finished a phone call with Will informing him of Emily and she would be staying longer. Will comforted her through her sobbing and they exchanged an 'I love you' before she hung up.
She walked in to find Hotch, broken and alone, sitting in the same chair she left him in. She couldn't let him suffer like this so soon after Haley.
JJ walked over to him and sat beside him. She looked over at him and put a hand on his shoulder and this time he didn't shake it off. They sat silently for another hour.
Hotch leaned over and took JJ in an embrace and she let him. He was hurt and needed someone to hold him together. She knew he had to let out his feelings soon.
He knew he had to be strong for Jack, especially now, but he had to heal first. He didn't think he could but JJ's presence was reminding him that he still had family, the BAU family to help him through this. They were all hurting and he had to be strong for them.
He let go of JJ and gave her a small nod to tell her he would be okay, not now but eventually he would be.
