A/N: Hey guys! So I'm really proud of this story, and I hope you guys like it! I'll be working on this at the same time as "Let Me Go", so no worries that story is still very much being done :). I really appreciate all your kind words, it always makes my day!
Yeah this chapter is short.
Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds and/or its affiliates. I simply enjoy torturing you all with it.
Jennifer Jareau pulled up to the elementary school, and smiled when she saw her daughter happily walking out to the car.
"Hey bunny rabbit! How was your day?" She asked as her little girl slid in.
"Hi mom! It was ok, I had my math test." Isabel Lamontagne-Jareau said as she plopped her backpack on the seat.
"Oh, how was it?" JJ tried not to sound too nervous, she knew Bell struggled with math, and she had been driving JJ and Will crazy with the amount of stress she'd been enduring.
"Good, just hard. I think I did well though. I don't like math." Isabel sounded confident, which comforted JJ.
"That's good, and I know. At least it's over for the year!"
"You're right! Oh good I feel better now."
JJ smiled when the change in her daughter's tone of voice became lighter.
"Good! Do you have any homework?"
"A little, I just need help for my language arts test tomorrow. Will you help me with spelling words?"
"Of course sweetie. Do you want to do anything after? Watch a movie, play soccer? I won't be called in for work, I promise." JJ had been anxious all day, she needed to spend quality time with her daughter.
"Can we take Lucy for a walk with Henry and then play cards?
"Okay!"
"Yay!"
They both laughed at Isabel's enthusiasm. JJ had always admired her daughter's spirit, and found it to be a large part of her source of inspiration.
"Is daddy home?" Isabel carried on.
Still chuckling to herself, JJ looked in the rearview mirror and said,
"Not yet, he's picking Henry up from daycare, but he should be home about fifteen minutes after us, okay?'
"Okay."
They pulled up to their large, historic, colonial-era home on Fort Belvoir, and JJ heard Isabel breathe a sigh of relief as she stepped out of the car and into the cool garage. JJ laughed at her daughter,
"Happy to be home?"
Isabel nodded furiously with a big smile on her face. As JJ watched her little firecracker dash into the house, she thought about how glad she was to spend time with her. Isabel was her little carbon copy, with the exception of one thing; her hair. While Henry had inherited JJ's long, golden-blonde hair, Isabel's was jet-black, much darker than even Will's medium-brown hair. Bell's hair was long, thick, and silky, and the source of envy of many of the other girls in Isabel's class, and their mothers. However, Isabel had the same bright blue eyes as JJ and Will, and they complemented her dark hair and porcelain skin beautifully. JJ and Will had both always known that their daughter would be exceptionally beautiful, and Henry was a handsome little boy. JJ let herself get lost in thought as she reflected on the past few months, and looked forward to the upcoming summer.
