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A/N: This is for Starrmyst =) None of the three prompts or song given are included until later chapters. I don't normally write Rossi/JJ so I hope you enjoy! Chapters should be regular and this should be finished before Christmas! Or so I hope!

For now enjoy!

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A Hero For Christmas -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

David Rossi never liked to see a woman crying. It was always one of those things that messed with his head. What were you meant to do with a blubbering woman? Hold her? Keep your distance? Were words enough in this day and age or were gentle hugs the way to solve these problems? He may have been a man of integrity, of intellect, of tradition and he should be able to console women with each of these, but he was at a complete loose end.

He had no clue.

Except when it came to Jennifer Jareau it seemed.

He was just locking his office ready to head home when he heard the near muffled sobs of JJ as they floated out of the gap between the office door and the doorframe.

He approached and made no delay in pushing the door open. "Jennifer?" Dave asked from the doorway, letting her know he was and not willing to just bypass the matter at hand and see if she was better the next day.

Watching her sit up, the sobs forgotten, she wiped her face and smiled at him. She had assumed everyone had gone home already, but it appeared she had been mistaken. "I thought everyone had left already," She mentioned and started to tidy her desk up, trying to distract from the state she must look. "Why are you still in?"

"I was catching up on some files. I was actually leaving when I heard you crying in here," He watched her go to explain and he shot her look to tell her not to argue with him. "Don't tell me you weren't, Kitten. I might have wasted three marriages, but I think I know when a woman needs a little comforting."

JJ shot him a warm, thankful smile.

"So," He said as he came into the room, shutting the door behind him, "What is a matter? I won't judge, you know that. I just don't like seeing you so upset like this."

Nodding, she knew he wouldn't let her leave without the truth being spoken. "W-Will," She hiccupped at him, "He left." JJ looked up at Rossi as he still stood before her. Her wide blue eyes seemed overtaken with a sea of tears, ones that just wouldn't relent in their onslaught.

"JJ," Rossi started as he went and sat on her side of the desk, giving her space to speak out. "It might be a temporary thing. You guys will sort this out." He tried to get her to see the benefit of the doubt.

"I don't think so. He seemed to be so sure this was it this time," JJ admitted to Rossi. She sniffed and tried to calm, but she felt like a part of her life was lying irreparable around her.

Rossi leaned in, his arms resting on his thighs as he rested on the edge of the desk, "What happened?" He asked and saw JJ look up at him, "What's different this time to stop him from coming back?"

"Since Kansas it's been really strained," She said as she used the pad of her finger to wipe the tears away as she prayed for some steady composure. "He held it against me that I couldn't get back for Henry when he really needed me and I feel guilty enough as it is, but I thought it was water under the bridge, you know?"

Rossi remained silent, allowing her to continue to tell him what had happened.

"He brought it up again when I was stuck on the case in Long Island. He then started to tell me that I should take the job back at the Pentagon, that way I'd have weekends off and would be in one place. I'd be reliable." JJ looked up at him, her eyes so full of tears and panic that they looked ready to burst any moment. "I thought he'd be supportive that I was happy again. I thought everything in my life was okay."

Still remaining silent, allowing JJ her time to talk this out, he gave a few gentle, comforting gestures telling her subliminally that it was all going to be okay.

"I love my family, I love Henry and Will, I love my job, but he left." JJ spoke up, her tone beginning to get heated that Will had just left her and Henry, that he had given up and passed the blame.

Rossi watched her, he could see her as she moved through the emotions with this new turn of events and even though she had every ounce of doubt weighing upon her, he knew she would survive this if the worst was to happen. For now, he would help her while she ran through the emotions.

Except the look she gave him when she rose her gaze again to meet his unnerved him a little.

"I'm scared he's going to take custody of Henry, Dave," JJ said fearful, her eyes now stolen with sheer terror instead of utter sadness. She now had a look like her life was about to stop with any given second. "And, I mean, what if I can't give Henry a proper Christmas without Will? Or I skip out on important details that Henry deserves? How unfit will that make me look exactly?" JJ asked him terrified, it might have been mid November and Christmas seemed to only be getting closer and closer, but she felt like Christmas would be her judgement call. It would be the one time of the year, apart from Henry's birthday, that would make her or break her.

Dave stepped in close then, he crouched in front of her, "He knows you love Henry. You're one of the best mothers I know. He would be an absolute fool to dispute that and I know he isn't going to be that stupid."

"But my work schedule?" She doubted Rossi's idea of soothing comfort.

"You won't be the first to make it work, Kitten and I'm sure you won't be the last," Dave told her confidently. "We'll sort something out. For Henry and for Christmas."

"We?" JJ asked the Italian confused. "This isn't your problem."

"You're my friend, Bella, so it is my problem. Plus Will seems to forget that you work with some powerful people. He wants to take full custody of Henry he's got a lot of problems heading his way." He watched her hiccup a laugh at that, "You know Garcia would make it almost impossible for him to get anywhere near taking that little boy away from you and Hotch knows people in high places. It wouldn't be easy." He stood up straight then and smiled at her, "I think you need to try again with Will. You love him, and he loves you which is why he is like he is. I went through it with Carolyn; just don't make it too late like I did."

"I can't choose though. He'll come back when I choose," JJ relented to tell him truthfully. "It's him or you. My family for my family," JJ hated herself for sounding so downright fragile and pathetic, but she hated choices and she hated them even more when it came down to people she loved the most.

How could she choose when she needed both to keep her happy?

"Whatever happens, Jennifer, I will support you all the way. I won't be alone either. You'll never be alone," Dave promised her. His tone soft, sincere and so believing that JJ knew that whatever path her life should take she wouldn't be left alone. She would always have him, always have the team.

Will had always been her hero, but looking at David Rossi, she realised she didn't know what a true hero was until today.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A Hero For Christmas -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-