AN/ I'm still not sure which ship I'll be going with on this fic, so if you have a preference let me know and I might listen :)
"You know, Cassi, this was a fun 'Sister Friday Night'. Why don't we do this more often?" JJ laughingly asked her younger sister. They were having a night out on the town, her younger sister 'snatching' her from work and taking her out for a well needed release. Considering her condition, they had decided to just go shopping, which was a favorite of the two sisters.
"Because I live 2 hours away and you never come to see me. Listen, before we go in just know…uh…JJ you're gonna hate me." JJ's sister replied. At 26 Cassi was slightly taller than JJ with straight dark brown hair and the same piercing blue eyes as her sister.
"What are you talking about sis?" JJ asked as she and her sister carried her purchases to her front door.
"Just remember how much fun we had, and it's not my fault." Cassi added as JJ opened the door to what she expected to be her empty apartment.
"SURPRISE" Her female friends and family members shocked her. With 'It's a girl' banners and balloons they had decided to throw her a surprise baby shower.
"Well, Cass, you are right about one thing…I so hate you." She said sarcastically. Before she was able to sneak back out the front door, she was pulled in to her own home by her mom, aunts, cousins, and other relatives.
It wasn't that JJ didn't like her family; she just avoided spending time with them as much as possible. Somehow her mother had the uncanny ability to make her feel as though all of her accomplishments at school, at the academy, or at the Bureau, paled in comparison to the happy family life that her cousins and brothers all had. Luckily, she and Cassi were able to stick together and present a united front to the family. She didn't know how much longer that would last, and she was grateful that she was the one that had moved on and gotten a boyfriend. Honestly, she felt a little sorry for her little sister. But that ounce of pity for her sister was quickly washed away as JJ's mother was able to criticize everything in JJ's life from her hair color to the color of pillows on the couch.
Emily Prentiss and Penelope Garcia were laughing in the corner watching their coworker deal with her mother. JJ had always been the one who could articulately deal with hundreds of blood hungry reporters. Here, she was constantly interrupted and attention diverted. It was the one time they had seen the 'master manipulater' out of her element. Prentiss nudged Garcia and pointed to their friend trying to wave off the advances of her aunt threatening to do JJ's hair in a 'fashionable' style.
"Well, JJ seems to be enjoying herself as much as she'd enjoy a root canal" Garcia joked as Prentiss almost spit her punch all over JJ's white carpet. JJ was a little messy, but she was adamant about keeping a clean house. She would meticulously clean her home, knowing that she often wouldn't be home for days on end. It would do no good to have her pregnant friend ready to kill her for getting a stain on her new carpet.
"You can bet on that." Someone joked from behind them, startling the duo. They turned around to find a woman who was obviously JJ's sister smile in the direction of her mother and sister "JJ has always had issues with mom. The only woman she's ever really gotten along with was Aunt Jane back home…but you can tell that this is torture for her."
"Jennifer, don't you think you could set your sister up with a nice boy? I'm sure you meet a lot of men in your line of work." JJ's mother pleaded as she lovingly straightened the sleeve of her daughter's shirt.
"Yeah, serial killers." JJ muttered sarcastically. Honestly! Who did her mother think that she worked with all day long? Outside the team, there were the various police officers, reporters, and serial killers, all of whom were about the same level in JJ's book, outside of her own boyfriend, of course.
"Well, we do work with a smart guy named Spencer." Garcia suggested mischeviously.
"Oh! He sounds perfect!" JJ's mother interjected as Cassi leaned in close to Emily to whisper.
"Isn't he the one that took JJ to the 'Skins game?" Cassi asked. Emily slightly nodded in affirmation.
"I don't know why you wear your hair like that, it makes you look so young. You know, if you were to do it like this you would look a lot prettier. Do you…" JJ's mother continued.
RING JJ's phone rudely (or not so rudely in JJ's opinion) interrupted her mother's newest monologue.
JJ gratefully answered the phone and left the room, "Agent Jareau…..yes, ma'am. No. I reported that months ago. Well Ma'am, I would be willing to do whatever will help the Bureau. Yes, I will. Yes, I will meet you with the team in one hour. I can notify them. Yes. Thank you."
Prentiss, Garcia, and Cassi were laughing in the corner away from the craziness that was her mother and most of her aunts. "We've got a sticky one. The Section Chief is meeting us at the office in an hour. Garcia can you call Hotch and Morgan? Emily can you call Reid? I've gotta call Will."
Garcia and Prentiss quickly reached for their phones but quizzically looked at JJ. JJ sighed and explained, "It's an undercover assignment for the team."
JJ hurriedly grabbed her bags and gear and almost ran out of her home. "Thanks everybody! I was so glad to see you all. Thank you so much for coming to this surprise baby shower. Yes, I still don't know when, or if," she added under her breath "we're getting married, but I'll let you know. That was work and we've gotta go. You know the government. Bye!" Once outside the door, JJ stopped and sighed loudly.
"I have never been so glad to get a call about a case in my life."
"I never knew you had a sister, maybe we should set her up with Reid." Emily added.