So, this is a new idea that I had, so I need to know what do you think about it! This chapter is a little long because is like an introduction to what is going to happen. Please, read and review.
Sorry for any spelling mistakes, English is not my first language, and I'm not a doctor, so forgive me any medical mistakes.
I don't own Criminal Minds.
"I just talked to Strauss and she said that we are not getting any cases in the next 2 weeks. Paperwork is late so we need to finish it." Aaron Hotchner said, entering the briefing room of the BAU office in Quantico, Virginia. Around the table was gathered his whole team, Derek Morgan, David Rossi, Emily Prentiss, Spencer Reid and Penelope Garcia. Or almost his whole team.
"Sorry to disappoint you, Hotch." Morgan started. "But all the paperwork is a mess. None of us is being able to organize everything; JJ is the one that does it." Morgan finished, mentioning their 3 week absent media liaison, Jennifer Jareau.
"I'm starting to get worried, Boss Man! Penelope said. "It's been 3 week she took personal time and she didn't even call!"
"I talked to JJ last week and she asked one more week, so I hope that she will be back in the beginning of the next week." Hotch clarified.
"Do you think that something happened? With her or with Sophie?" Garcia asked, worried, mentioning JJ's 5 year old daughter, and Garcia's goddaughter.
"Of something happened, she would have called us, right?" Reid asked, starting to worry about his goddaughter too.
"Let's not take conclusions, ok? Maybe she is traveling, visiting her family or something." David spoke.
"Actually, Dave." Hotch started, making the team more worried. "JJ only had the right to 2 weeks vacations. The other 2 weeks that she is taking are being discounted on her salary." Everyone looked at each other. JJ was a private and stubborn person but she was never afraid of say or ask something when it came about her and her daughter. After she got pregnant and decided to raise her daughter by herself, her team always made sure to help her in everything she needed. The whole team was a family to JJ and Sophie.
"Maybe I should try calling her." Emily said but was suddenly interrupted.
"You don't need to." All the looks from the team turned to the blond standing at the door. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying, her hair was in a messy bun and she was closing her arms in her chest so strongly like that was her life line. "I need to talk to you." She said, staring at Hotch.
"You are not leaving this room if you don't talk to us!" Penelope ordered, getting up and walking till her friend. "We were worried like hell!" She hugged JJ, bringing the blonde to her. But the media liaison didn't hugged back. She just put her head in Penelope's shoulder, closing her eyes and letting some tears fall. All the team got up and assumed a protective position around the two. Emily went behind JJ and started to rub her back.
"Jay, talk to us." She said, in a sweet voice. JJ backed off cleaning some tears from her face.
"I need your help too." Her voice was almost a whisper.
"We are going to do anything in our power help you or Sophie, Cara. You know that." Dave said. He walked over her and leaded her to the couch, making her sit down. She didn't fight against it. He sat beside her, Morgan and Emily knelled in front of her and Hotch, Penelope and Reid just kept standing.
"Sophie is sick." She just said. No one knew what to say.
"How sick?" Emily asked.
"Three weeks ago she was running a fever and a headache. It lasted 2 days and nothing that I was doing was helping her. I took her to the ER and they ran some tests. She was anemic and her leukocytes counting were very high." No one really understood what she was talking about, with the exception of Reid.
"Fever, headache, anemia, and high counting of leukocytes? Please don't say what I'm thinking." He sent a worried glance at her.
"What are you talking about?" Garcia almost yelled. JJ continued to stare at Reid.
"I don't know how I wasn't capable of seeing the symptoms earlier."
"It's not your fault, Jay," Reid knelled at her level.
"The doctors said that she has a good chance of recovery but she's too weak to chemotherapy." JJ sobbed and everyone gasped.
"Chemotherapy?" Emily asked, with tears in her eyes, Garcia was already crying.
"She has acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She needs a bone marrow transplant. I'm not compatible, neither my mother nor my brother. I need to ask you to do some tests, because if any of you are compatible I would need to ask you to donate." She started crying again. David hugged her and she started sobbing. Emily sat at her other side.
"Where is Sophie?" She asked.
"In the hospital. She's been there for the last 3 weeks, since we found out. My mother is with her."
"Why you didn't tell us sooner?" Reid asked.
"I DON'T KNOW!" JJ yelled and everyone got shocked. SHE ONLY HAD A FEVER AND A HEADACHE! I TOOK HER TO THE HOSPITAL THINKING THAT SHE HAD THE FLU AND NEXT THING I KNOW THE DOCTORS ARE TELLING ME THAT MY DAUGHTER HAS LEUKEMIA!" She exploded. Garcia started sobbing in Morgan's shoulder and Dave hugged JJ again. "I'm sorry." She whispered. "I thought that everything was going to be fine but now I'm about to lose my little girl."
"You are not going to lose her." Hotch knelled in front of her, surprising everyone. "We are going to do these tests and if none of us are compatible, we are going to find someone, JJ."
"I need to resign." She said, starring at Hotch.
"What?" Morgan asked.
"I need to focus on my daughter and I can't ask for infinite personal time."
"I can talk to Strauss." David said and she sat, starring at him. "We could make some deal; you take some time for yourself without resigning, something like that."
"I don't know." She said, looking at her lap.
"Dave and I are gonna talk to Strauss." Hotch got up. "And the rest of you are going to the hospital to do the tests." Everyone nodded and went to the hospital.
Arriving over there, JJ talked with the nurses and they took the whole team to do the tests. JJ went to see Sophie. She knocked on her daughter's room and entered. Her 5 year old daughter, a mini copy of herself was sitting, pouting, while her mother was sitting in the chair beside her.
"Hi baby girl." She said and Sophie smiled.
"Mommy." She stretched her arms to JJ and she went and hugged her. JJ could notice an untouched tray in front of Sophie. "Where is Aunt Penny?"
"Aunt Pen in talking to the doctor. Can you answer me why you were pouting and Nana seems upset?" She caressed her daughter's blond hair.
"I was saying to her that she has to eat her lunch or she will get weaker." Sandy Jareau told her daughter.
"Me not hungry, mommy!" Sophie said, pouting again.
"I know you are not. But Nana is right, you have to eat or the doctor will get mad at you. Remember mommy explained that you are sick and you need to eat so you can get strong?"
"But I want a burger!"
"You can't eat a hamburger, honey. But if you eat the chicken, I may talk to the doctor and ask if you can have mint chocolate chip ice cream." JJ smiled and Sophie's face brightened.
"Just the chicken?"
"The whole dish. And the juice." Sophie didn't fight against it; she quickly started to eat, with JJ sitting beside her, watching every movement of her. Half an hour after, Sophie ended up eating and the whole team entered her room, including Rossi and Hotch.
"Aunt Penny!" Sophie yelled, at the sight of her godmother carrying a big teddy bear.
"Hello, my lovely princess." She walked over her and put the teddy on the chair where JJ was previously sitting. Right now, she was standing up. "I heard that there is a lovely princess that is sick so we went here to make her feel better." Sophie giggled, for the first time in weeks and then JJ knew that her team was going to help her.
"Oh my god." Spencer said.
"What, Uncle Pence?" Sophie asked, staring at him. He walked over beside her.
" No one in this hospital is giving you a bath?" He asked Sophie.
"Of couse they are!" Sophie exclaimed.
"And how do you explain this?" Spencer asked, taking a coin from Sophie's ear. She giggled and the whole room laughed, infected by Sophie's giggle.
"Sophie." Hotch started. "Grandpa Dave and I need to talk to your mom. It that ok to you?"
"Only if you not traveling." She said serious and everyone laughed.
"We're just going in the corridor, baby." JJ kissed Sophie's forehead and went out with Hotch and Dave.
"We talked to Strauss." David started. "You can have as much time as you need." JJ simply stared at David.
"Before you had Sophie you never took vacations, so you have a lot of time to take. Your place is not being occupied and we are waiting till Sophie is better and you decide to come back." Hotch said.
"The bureau is maintaining your salary as normal and all your benefits, including the medical care so Sophie can be treated with the best." Rossi finished.
"I don't know what to say." JJ simply said.
"You stop to be so stubborn and let us help." Rossi smiled to her.
"Thank you. For everything." JJ hugged Dave.
"You are like a daughter to me, and if I remember very well, that little girl calls me Grandpa, so let us all help." JJ smiled and then the doctor came.
"Jennifer?" Doctor Stuart asked.
"Hey doctor."
"The nurses told me that your whole team did the compatibility test." The doctor smiled.
"Yes. Do you know when the results will be ready?"
"I put high alert on them, so they will be up in probably an hour."
"Thanks doctor." JJ smiled. "I need to ask you something."
"Of course."
"Does Sophie can have ice cream?"
"Let me guess, you promised ice cream if she eats lunch?" Stephanie asked and laughed.
"Yes, something like that." JJ smiled.
"Yes, she can. Actually is very good that she wants something, even ice cream."
"She wanted a hamburger." The doctor laughed.
"Let's get easy, right?" JJ, Dave and Hotch laughed.
"I imagined that." JJ smiled.
"Mint chocolate chip ice cream?" David asked.
"You read my mind." JJ answered and Dave went to get the ice had gave the whole team the rest of the day, so they spent the rest of the day sitting in Sophie's room talking and having ice cream, like a family. After almost 2 hours, the doctor appeared.
"Hi, Sophie." Doctor Stephanie entered the room.
"Hi, octor Tephanie." Sophie smiled.
"I see that you seems better today." She started to exam Sophie.
"Grandpa Dave brought ice cream!"
"Really? Well, if you promise me, your momma and your Nana that you are going to eat properly, you can have ice cream one day and another." Sophie smiled. "Jennifer, can I talk to you?" Stephanie turned to JJ. The blonde sighed and got up, following the doctor outside the room. She could hear everyone, including Sophie, laughing because of a joke made by Morgan.
"So?" JJ asked.
"None of them are compatible." JJ started crying. "But we are going to continue to look for a compatible person on the bank."
"Thank you doctor." Stephanie left and Sandy left the room, finding her daughter in the corridor.
"Honey?" Sandy asked her daughter.
"They are not compatible." JJ said and jumped in her mother's arms, crying.
"Everything is gonna be fine, baby girl. You are strong, Sophie is strong, and we are getting through this." JJ stepped back and looked at her mother.
"I need to solve this."
"What do you mean?"
"I need to find her father."
"Jennifer."
"I don't wanna ruin his marriage, mom. I don't want him to recognize her or anything, but if he is compatible, I want him to save my daughter's life."
"How you are gonna find him?"
"Penelope." JJ said, as matter of fact.
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