Just A Jealous Guy
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Summary: A jealous Emily moves in with JJ and Dave when an old female friend of Hotch's re-enters his life.
A/N: A small series of oneshots involving jealousy.
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"If break ups never existed the music industry would go bankrupt." Author Unknown
Emily stood on the front steps, trying to control her breathing.
'Just breathe.'
Knocking on the door, Emily held her breath as JJ opened it with a wide smile on her face, but the smile faded when she saw Emily's.
"Oh no," JJ whispered, her face softening "What happened?"
"I'm leaving him," Emily sniffled, "I just couldn't take it anymore."
JJ moved over to allow Emily in, "Oh, Em."
Dave saw the brunette wander into the living room, "What happened?"
"She left him." JJ quietly answered, watching Emily take a seat on the couch.
"What did Hotch do?" Dave asked trying to control his temper.
"He was with her," Emily held back a sniffle as she said lightly, "He went to see Faith at her hotel."
JJ's eyes widened but said quickly "But Em, you know that doesn't mean anything... Hotch wouldn't do that."
"It's not him, I don't trust" Emily said, her mood changing, "It's her. I don't trust Faith."
Dave walked over to sit next to her, "Did you talk to him? Did you tell him that you didn't like him being near her?"
Emily looked over at Dave, "Dave, I've more than tried. He keeps saying that Faith is an old friend, and he doesn't have any feelings for her beyond friendship."
"Well at least you know how he feels." Dave offered but saw the look both JJ and Emily shot him "What?"
Emily looked at the table, "Sorry, I came at a bad time, you guys are sitting down to dinner."
JJ sighed "No, Em. It's fine. Where are you gonna be staying tonight?"
Emily shrugged "I don't know. A hotel maybe."
JJ shook her head, "Nonsense. You'll stay with us as long as you need."
JJ shot Dave a warning look, but he didn't seem to bothered by it.
"You know last night..." Emily sighed, "As soon as he got into bed, we argued about her."
"Oh, Emily" JJ said "What happened after that?"
"I don't know what happened after that..." Emily trailed off "I grabbed a blanket and slept in the guest bedroom."
Emily took the glass of scotch Dave held out to her, "You're his best friend, can't you talk to him?"
Dave looked from the blonde to the brunette "I can try, but I can't force him to do something he doesn't want to do."
"Are you on her side or not?" JJ asked.
"It's not a matter of sides" Dave said seeing the look both women but quickly added "I'll need to know if there's a reason to inflict great bodily harm on Aaron."
Emily sighed and all three were caught off surprise by her cellphone ringing.
"It's him" Emily said looking at her phone "What do I do?"
"Answer it" Dave said "Talk to him, see what he has to say?"
"What?" Emily said answering her phone.
"Where are you?" Hotch asked "I come back home and you're just gone?"
"Well..." Emily said "I told you that if you went to see her, that I'd leave. You saw her, I left."
"For how long?" Hotch asked sighing.
"I don't know" Emily said "Maybe forever."
"Emily..." Hotch groaned "Where are you?"
"I hope she was worth it, Hotch" Emily bit out his nickname "Because she just cost you your relationship."
"Emily..." Hotch said "Talk to me. I told you nothing was going on between me and Faith, this is stupid."
"Stupid?" Emily repeated "Well maybe I'm too stupid to stay with you. Goodbye, Aaron."
Emily ended the call, and looked at JJ, "I think I need to lay down for a while."
JJ and Dave watched Emily go to the guest bedroom, JJ turned to look at Dave.
"Look what your best friend did to my best friend" JJ grumbled, "What the hell is he thinking?"
JJ and Dave were startled by their own house phone ringing.
"Hello?" Dave answered.
"Is Emily there?" Hotch asked.
"Emily?" Dave repeated looking over at JJ, who shook her head, "What happened?"
"She left me" Hotch said "I can't believe. I just can't believe it. She left me because of my friendship with Faith."
"Faith?" Dave repeated "Well what happened?"
"I simply went over to Faith's hotel to say a quick hello, and she turned on me" Hotch said "It's not like we were doing anything. I don't even like her like that. We're barely friends. And plus she's leaving town, for a job transfer."
Dave sighed "Aaron, I don't want to hear the intricacies of Faith's life. Did Emily ask you to stay away from Faith?"
"Yeah." Hotch said.
"And did you?" Dave asked.
"No, but what does this..." Hotch said.
"Aaron, let me ask you a hypothetical question." Dave said "What would happen if an old friend of Emily's. A man we'll say came into her life, while she's with you and you didn't like it. Because he liked to flirt and you didn't like it. Would you want her to not have contact with the man?"
"Well, yeah but this is different Dave..." Hotch started then sighed "I don't like Faith."
"It's not just that, Aaron" Dave said "I've met that woman a total of three times, and each time I've seen her she's all over you like you were the last ice cream cone during a heat wave."
"No she hasn't" Hotch said "She's a little friendly but she's not all over me."
"She hates Emily too, you know." Dave added "She likes blatanly flirting with you in front of her."
Hotch sighed at this, while Dave continued "Hotch it's going to be ok. Just give yourself some cooling off time. Just take a little break from each other to sort this out."
"How can we take some cooling off time when we work together and raise Jack together?" Hotch asked "What am I going to tell my son? Sorry Jack, but Emmy needs some away time from daddy?"
"Jack can still see Emily..." Dave started.
"But just not me?" Hotch asked "God this is too hard."
"Aaron, just step back to give her some space" Dave said "She loves you, but you hurt her with your friendship with Faith."
Hotch sighed "Fine."
Emily woke up early the next morning and got dressed.
'This is ridiculous' Emily thought 'It's my own home, my almost stepson and my clothes are there.'
Emily saw JJ and Dave sitting in the kitchen, both agents turn to look at the brunette.
"How are you feeling, sweetheart?" Dave asked.
"I've had better days" Emily said "Can one of you drive me home? I've got to settle this face to face. I need to talk to Aaron."
JJ sparked up at that "You're going to try to work things out?"
"Couldn't hurt to try." Emily said, missing the relieved looks from Dave and JJ's faces.
Dave and JJ watched Emily get out of their SUV and walk up the steps towards her house.
"See honey," Dave said "I told you everything would work itself out."
"I'll believe it when I see it." JJ said watching Emily start to open the front door.
Everyone was shocked when the front door opened and out came Hotch and Faith.
"No" Dave stated in shocked.
"That son of a..." JJ started only to see Emily grab Faith by the arm and pushed her on to the grass, jumping on top of her.
"Told you this was going to be bad." JJ muttered as they got out the car to help separate the two fighting women.
"Emily!" Hotch said grabbing Emily to pull her off of Faith.
"Let go of my hair!" Faith shouted "Let go you bitch."
"Get your hands off of me." Emily said pulling herself free from Hotch.
Dave pulled Emily out of Hotch's hands, while JJ watched Faith get up without anyone helping her.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Faith said glaring at Emily "Are you insane?"
"Hotch" JJ said "What the hell is she doing here?"
"I'm getting a headache." Hotch muttered looking over at Emily "Are you coming back?"
Emily ignored him, turning to JJ "Let's go pack."
Faith smirked at that "Leaving so soon?"
Emily turned back around to charge at Faith but was held back by JJ "I should have scratched her fish eyes out, I should have kicked her in the face."
"There's plenty of time for that later." JJ muttered leading Emily into the house.
Hotch looked from the house to the messy woman huffing and glaring at Emily.
"Faith, I think it's time for you to head out." Hotch said.
"Aaron?" Faith said whining.
"You wouldn't want to miss your plane" Hotch said "And you might want to clean up that mud off of your ear."
Dave watched with great satisfaction as Faith got into her car and drove off.
Hotch turned around to look at Dave, "What the hell is going on here?"
"Emily was going to come back until she saw that Faith come out of her own house with you." Dave said "Now Aaron why don't you tell me, what the hell is going on with you and her?"
"Dave" Hotch said sighing "As I've said repeatedly she was just a friend, nothing more."
"Then what in God's name was she doing here?" Dave asked, trying to calm his rising temper.
"She was here to say goodbye" Hotch said "She's transferring to Bureau in Colorado."
"And you didn't think to... I don't know mention this to Emily?" Dave said "I saw that woman, how she looked at Emily with contempt and hate while she was wrestling around with Emily in their fight."
"I know" Hotch said "I didn't know until just now that Faith didn't like Emily."
"And what are you going to do about this?" Dave said "To fix this situation with Emily?"
Hotch looked over at his front door "I have to talk to her."
"Emily?" JJ said to the bathroom door "Are you alright in there?"
"Fine" Emily muttered changing her clothes "Just got to wash the mud off my face then we can go. I'll check into a hotel."
"Emily you don't have to..." JJ started.
"Jayje" Emily said "As much as I love you, Dave and Henry, you're a family you need your space."
"You're family too" JJ said.
"Thanks for that" Emily replied opening the door "But I need alone time to figure out what to do with my life."
Hotch walked into the room, "We need to talk."
"What about your little girlfriend out there?" Emily muttered.
"If you're referring to Faith, she's not my girlfriend" Hotch said sighing "You are. And Faith left to go clean up before she catches her flight to the Colorado Bureau."
"Colorado?" JJ said looking over at Emily, "So what she's leaving?"
"Transferred to the Counter Terrorism division there." Hotch said "Can we talk?"
"About what?" Emily said walking to her suitcase "There's nothing to discuss, I'll be packing up my stuff and leaving."
"You still want to leave?" Hotch asked shocked "Because of Faith? I didn't know she had those kind of feelings for me and I had no idea she didn't like you."
"You had no idea about either of those things?" Emily repeated "Jesus, Aaron. The day we went public with our relationship at the Bureau she made snide comments and insinuated that I was trying to sleep my way up to the top."
"What?" Hotch and Dave both said.
"What you didn't know that about your little friend?" Emily said "Well then I guess not."
Emily zipped her suitcase closed "Goodbye, Aaron."
Hotch watched her walk towards the front door when JJ shoved him.
"If you let her walk out of this house then you're an even bigger idiot." JJ said.
Hotch rushed over to her as she made her way towards her own car.
"Emily" Hotch said grabbing her arm "Stop. Don't go."
"Why?" Emily said "This was never about me not trusting you, I never trusted her."
"I should have listened to you" Hotch said "I hate not believing the best about everyone and I thought that Faith was..."
"You thought she was you friend..." Emily said "You didn't want to believe that..."
"Yeah" Hotch said "Emily, I'm so sorry."
"I know" Emily said not meeting his eyes.
Hotch saw the trepidation in her eyes and hated himself for putting it there "Please... look at me."
Emily looked into Hotch's eyes, "I am so sorry, Emily. I love you, and I should have trusted you and your instincts. I'm so sorry about... "
Emily placed her fingers on his lips, "Shhh."
"But..." Hotch started.
"Shhh." Emily repeated "You don't have to apologize for her, just please listen to me the next time. Because it more along the lines of my feelings being hurt and made me feel jealous. It was never that I didn't trust you, it was her I didn't trust."
Hotch bent down and kissed Emily, "I promise from now on I will, never do anything that will make you feel like that again."
JJ looked out the window "They're kissing, do you think this will stick?"
"It better, for our sake." Dave said "Because as much as I love those two, I really didn't want to punch out my best friend."
"Ah" JJ said "Wouldn't be cool to punch out your best friend who also happens to be your boss..."
"I mean how the hell would we be able to explain that?" Dave asked.
"I don't know how to not love you, I only know how to not let you go." Author Unknown
To Be Continued...
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