Awake

Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds.

A/N: This takes place after the whole Doyle incident. So, Hotch and Prentiss arent together, they just have feelings that they won't admit for each other. Also Will and JJ don't have Henry yet. They're only in a relationship. Remember, reviews are love.

Chapter One

Jennifer Jareau stared towards the bed where her best friend slept, wishing that she would wake from her slumber. JJ wanted to tell someone something, a secret that had been burning away inside of her for the past six weeks, the only person that she wanted to tell was Emily Prentiss, and she needed to tell her first. JJ considered Emily as her sister and it was sisters that got to hear happy news first.

In the year and one week that they had not seen each other, many things had changed, JJ now realized that she didn't belong in New Orleans with Will. Even if she loved him, she had realized that it was back in Quantico where she belonged. She had found a home at the BAU, all of them had. The past year Emily had been in Italy on an assignment from Interpol, the whole team had split up and traveled. Hotch had went to Afghanistan, Morgan went to Chicago after he found that his mother was diagnosed with MS. Reid had stayed in Quanitco to teach seminars with Rossi and Garcia had traveled to Paris with Kevin. Now the whole team was back... Or almost.

She smiled at her friend, even she looked different than she had the last time JJ had seen her. She had grown out her bangs, cut off her hair and it now framed her tanned but pale face, she looked calm as she slept, her chest rising and falling every few seconds, an action that made JJ calm and believe that she would soon wake up, what had not changed was the realization of how much JJ cared for Emily and how lucky she was to have her as a friend. JJ was desperate to have 'girl talk', she had missed it so much over the past year, she needed to have her friend wake up and talk to her.

JJ watched as Emily's calm face moved into a smile, which it had done a few times in the day that JJ had been beside her. JJ wondered what she was dreaming of, wondered of what was making her smile. JJ sighed and leaned back into the uncomfortable hospital chair, her eyes closed slowly and without realizing, she fell into a listless sleep, until she heard a familiar voice.

"JJ, you okay?" said the quiet voice of Derek Morgan, as he gently tapped her on the shoulder.

"Huh, what?" JJ replied sleepily, before jumping up from her chair, "Emily, is Emily okay?"

"She's fine, she's still asleep." Morgan replied, sitting on the edge of the chair which JJ had jumped up from, he patted her back and she sat back down, her pulse returning to normal.

"They gave me this when I came today, they meant to give it to us earlier but with all the confusion, they forgot. Morgan continued as he handed JJ a brown and dirty satchel bag, "Apparently it's hers. She packed it for her assignment and she forgot it in Italy. They realized it was hers and sent it back here, it's apparently everything that she would need."

JJ took the satchel from her friend and placed it on her own lap, "Do you think I should look inside?" she questioned quietly.

Morgan smiled and looked towards Emily, "I don't think she is going to notice," he said with a small laugh, "and besides we ALL know that if you don't, then I will. Plus you are a very curious woman and I am sure that you are dying of curiosity to know what is in that bag."

JJ smiled sadly before nodding, Morgan did indeed know her too well, almost as well as she knew herself. She reached into the satchel, her hand searching for something that she didn't know she was looking for, eventually her hand hit something hard and She pulled it out. It was Emily's diary, more worn than JJ had ever seen a diary of Emily's, but as she turned the pages, the inside was neat as always.

With curiosity in her mind, JJ flipped the pages until she was at today's week and she was surprised by what she found. Written delicately in the familiar handwriting she knew so well, was at 11am Emily had written 'Meet Hotch.' She turned her head to look at Morgan, who had closed his eyes and was humming a tune to himself, one that She didn't recognize.

"Morgan, we've got a problem." She said softly, before pointing down at the diary appointment.

"We do?" The agent questioned, as he opened his eyes and began to read, "Oh," he replied before agreeing with the blonde, "I guess we do."

JJ looked up at the clock opposite her still sleeping friend, it was already 9:50am, she didn't like her chances of Emily making her appointment.

"Do we know where they were to meet?" Morgan questioned, as he tried to think carefully of possible places. He exhaled softly and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"It doesn't say here." JJ replied, the only other words on that week were also on today's date. 'Arrive home.' was pencilled in for 9am. JJ smiled a wistful smile, Emily was already home, she'd arrived two days ago, one before JJ arrived home. As soon as they had landed JJ's phone had been clogged with messages from The hospital, telling her that Emily was in the hospital in Washington. JJ had come straight from the airport to see her friend, and had hardly left her side in the twenty something hours since. Suddenly JJ was worried, did Hotch know that Emily had been injured, did he even know that she was in the hospital? She sighed once more, "It could be anywhere," she eventually replied, "And who knows if he's even been told that Emily is already back."

Morgan patted JJ on the back once more as she continued, "There are so many places, the bar, Founding Fathers, the Bullpen, the airport, either one of their apartments and we don't have time to check them all, it will take too long and we could miss seeing him." JJ finished worriedly.

"It'll be okay JJ, we will find him." Morgan replied, seeing the tension and worry crease across his friend's forehead, he stood up from the chair and leant down and spoke softly to her forehead before pressing a kiss there. "I'll call Garcia, see if she knows when Hotch lands, you keep reading the diary, there could be anything in there, a clue perhaps." And with that final sentence Morgan left the room, leaving JJ with questions that still only one person could answer.

A/N: So Emily is in the hospital and we don't know how she got there and her friends can't work out where Hotch is going to be, if you'd like to read more, please leave a review.

-CriminallyCastle