THE TRUE MEANING OF FAMILY

AU. Criminal Minds and Rizzoli & Isles (Book version) Family & Suspense. Morgan and Hotch are still at the BAU. Story starts by establishing relationships while heading towards the suspense and intrigue of the BAU, Rizzles, and Interpol pursuing a diabolical mastermind.

CHAPTER 1 - MATT and HENRY

JJ parks and exits her car. She makes her way up the steps to Henry's preschool excited to see her son after being away for 8 days. Henry is expecting his grandma to pick him up. JJ can't wait to see the surprise and joy on her son's face. As she walks in his classroom she hears a squeal and the running of little legs across the floor.

"Mom! You're back!"

JJ bends down to catch her four-year old son, who is running towards her at a sprint. She closes her eyes and absorbs the feelings of love and peace that envelop her upon hugging and kissing her son. Henry is her utopia in a world where she is constantly dealing with serial killers, human traffickers, and all sorts of other perverts, psychopaths, sociopaths, and demons.

Henry wiggles out of his mom's embrace and pulls her towards a young boy his age. "Mom, mom, come quickly. I want you to meet my new friend Matt." JJ laughs at his exuberance as they make their way over to a young boy around Henry's age and height. The two little guys are adorable. Henry is a blond haired blued eyed male clone of his mother. Matt is raven haired with beautiful dark eyes and a gorgeous smile. Henry swings his arm around Matt's shoulder to introduce us.

"Mom, this is Matt my best friend."

Matt extends his hand to shake mine, "Matthew Prentiss ma'am, it's a pleasure to meet you."

JJ was very impressed with his manners, "I'm Ms. Jareau it is a pleasure to meet you also Matt. We will have to invite you over for a play date."

Matt and Henry both jumped up and down shouting, "YES!" JJ thought their reactions were just too cute. Matt looked behind JJ and screamed, "Mom!" He broke away from Henry to run towards a woman walking up to the group. As JJ turned around she gazes upon the beautiful woman and her world shifts.

Matt's mom is hot. Matt is the spitting image of her with identical gorgeous smiles.

Matt hugs and kisses his mom then grabs her hand to guide her to JJ and Henry, "Mom this is Henry's mom Ms. Jareau. Ms. Jareau may I introduce you to my mother Ms. Emily Prentiss."

Emily smiled at her son proud of his introduction and extends her hand, "Ms. Jareau, it is a pleasure to finally meet you, please call me Emily. Emily bent down on one knee, "Henry I'm waiting."

Laughing Henry runs up to Emily to give her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. JJ is charmed.

She doesn't see a ring on Emily's finger and definitely want to get to know her better. As Emily stands she turns to JJ. "Ms. Jareau, now that we have met I would love to invite Henry to our home for a play date and possible sleep over. I know you have been away and want to spend time with your son so whenever's a good time for you just let me know."

"Emily, please call me JJ or Jennifer. We were just discussing a play date before you arrived. Would tomorrow be to soon?"

"Tomorrow would be great. How about you guys come over around 10:00 am. I know you don't know me so we can get acquainted while the boys' play and have lunch together. If you feel comfortable you can leave him with us until you want him back." Emily whispers in JJ's ear, "Or you can allow Henry to sleep over. Whatever, works for you. Here's my card with my address and contact information."

JJ almost lost her shit when Emily whispered in her ear. She was seriously turned on. I am sure that Emily thinks I'm straight since she had to have met Will when picking up Henry. Only Garcia and a select few women know that I tend to follow wherever my attraction leads be it male or female. I tried a relationship with Will but I just don't love the guy. If I'm honest Henry was a result of loneliness, exhaustion, and alcohol. However, I would never regret Henry. He is my blessing.

Emily was thinking, Ms. Jareau is beautiful and roughly a couple of years younger than me. It is a shame she is straight because I'm definitely interested. I am having a pheromonal response to the attractiveness of her body, blond hair and blue eyes . Jennifer appears to have a very laid back air. I love that.

JJ snapped out of her reverie, "10:00 am tomorrow sounds great."

The boys gave each other hugs jumping up and down excited for tomorrow. Unknown to them their mother's were excited also.

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Upon arriving home JJ immediately called Garcia to invite her to dinner and asked her to bring her laptop. Henry was excitedly spoke of school and Matt. JJ thought it noteworthy that he didn't say anything about his dad. Garcia arrived less than 20 minutes later knowing something was up with her friend.

The ladies three ate dinner and afterwards played with Henry. JJ reminded Henry, "The quicker you sleep the sooner you go over to Matt's." That was all the incentive needed for Henry to go to bed.

Finally relaxing on the couch Garcia turns to JJ, "Okay my sexy friend what can I do you for?"

"Garcia I met a gorgeous woman at Henry's school. I have her card…here. Emily Prentiss, I like her a lot and wanted some background information on her. Henry has a play date with her son Matt tomorrow morning. Oh Pen you should see the boys together they are the cutest."

"How can I best say this? Matt's mother is classy and gorgeous, raven hair and dark mysterious eyes, I get turned on just thinking about her."

"Okay, okay I get the picture. You want the low low before you play on her carpet unless she has bare floors then that wouldn't be as cool…"

"Garcia!"

"Right…on it. Give me her card." Reading her card Garcia is impressed that Emily is Dr. Emily Prentiss, pediatrician. JJ hadn't read her card so she was also impressed with the news.

Garcia said, "Mary mother of Jesus. JJ this chick is awesome. I'm coming with you tomorrow. I won't take no for an answer. Henry is my godson. I may have to fight you for Emily and I don't even swing that way."

"What did you find out?"

"Dr. Emily Prentiss is the 39 year old daughter of Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss and father is listed as unknown. She was born in Italy. She's traveled the world extensively with her mother on diplomatic missions to the Middle East. She speaks fluent Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Greek, and German. She also speaks some Afrikaans and Chinese."

JJ was astonished, "Wow!"

Garcia continued, "I know right. She graduated from high school summa cum laude, obtained her BA and MD from Yale University. She was the Chief resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Fellow at Yale University. She's also obtained a MBA, Master's in Linguistics, Psychology and Criminal Justice."

"She has never been married. She recently relocated from London to DC. Matt was born in London with the father listed as unknown. She is a trust fund baby and very well off."

JJ was now apprehensive. This woman is out of my league.

Garcia saw the pensive look on JJ's face. "No, no we are not going there. That's probably why she is alone because everyone thinks she is over the top. You missy will be meeting her tomorrow and judging the person not all this other stuff."

"You're right Garcia. I will get to know the person."

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Emily wished to know more about Ms. Jennifer Jareau so she calls Clyde in London.

"Hi luv, is everything okay with you and Mathieu?"

"Yes Clyde your Emily and Mateo are just fine." She and Clyde had a running joke over the pronunciation of their names. Clyde's first language is French and Emily's first language is Italian.

With Clyde you have to be upfront and completely honest. "Clyde a woman has captured my interest her name if Jennifer Jareau and she works for the FBI. Can you check her out? Her son is the same age as ours and the boys have a play date tomorrow. Her son's name is Henry LaMontagne and his father is a police officer in DC named Will LaMontagne."

"I am loving the French surnames give me a couple of hours and I will have the information. Can I speak to Mathieu before he goes to bed?"

"Sure let me get him." Emily walks to Matt's room. "Matt your dad wants to speak to you."

Jumping excitedly he grabs the phone to speak to Clyde while Emily returns downstairs to clean the kitchen.

Later Clyde calls back. "Love, Ms. Jareau's background is as wholesome as American pie. She grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. She had a normal childhood with the exception of an older sister committing suicide and Jennifer finding the body. She attended college on a soccer scholarship, earned a degree in communications and graduated with honors. She was recruited by several top companies but choose to join the FBI. She works as a media and police liaison for the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), which is an elite unit of the FBI. She is not married and appears to be similar to you and swings both ways when it comes to relationships. Her son's father appears to be quite obsessed with her. She has ended the relationship but he refuses to let it go and uses every opportunity to imply that they are together."

"I will be in DC on Sunday and would love to check out Ms. Jareau in person. You know that even though we are not in a relationship you and Mathieu are the most important people in my life."

"I know Clyde we have always had a special bond and trust each other explicitly. We are so in sync we both wanted a child and agreed if we didn't have one four years ago that I would carry your child. The best decision of my life and I hope yours too."

"It is luv, enough with the sappy happy. For you to be enamored I hope she is everything you desire."

"Thanks Clyde, I will talk to you later. I love you."

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Penelope pulled into the Prentiss's driveway. "Wow this house and community is really nice. With her money she could be very pretentious but this is a lovely area and did you notice the kids and security cameras in this community. Very nice."

Henry ran up to the front door and rung the bell before JJ and Penelope could catch him. Emily opened the door and knelt laughing while receiving her Henry hug and kiss. Matt eager to get to his friend knocked his mom over by accident.

Matt apologized and stopped immediately to help his mother right herself. Emily laughed and tickled her son. Matt turned giggling towards JJ, "Good morning Ms. Jareau. Thank you for allowing Henry to come over and play."

"You are most welcome Matt and please call me JJ. Emily and Matt this is my friend Ms. Penelope Garcia she's an Oracle and Henry's godmother. I hope it's okay that I brought her along she frequently picks up Henry from school when Will or I are unavailable."

Emily invited them inside, "No worries we are honored to have a prestigious Oracle grace us with her presence."

Pen was charmed by the Prentisses, and took a liking to them both immediately. "Hi Matt you shall be my minion along with Henry. Emily, please call me Pen. I apologize for intruding but I take my godparent duties seriously. I am the technical analyst for the BAU and I tend to be overly thorough in my protection of JJ and Henry. I want you to know that I ran a background check on you without JJ's knowledge and shared my findings."

"Emily, Pen is trying to cover for me. I asked her to check into your background. I take no chances with Henry's safety. I am sorry if this offends you and I hope we can get past this to move on to a friendship. If not I understand I only ask that the boys be allowed to see each other." JJ was praying that they would get beyond this because she really wanted to drag Emily to her bedroom and make love until they couldn't move.

Emily is the master of compartmentalizing and projected a calm exterior with no outward signs of surprise or anger. Internally she was laughing at the irony since she checked out Jennifer's background. I give them both kudos for their honesty and love for Henry. "Wow, I can't wait to get to know you both better if this is the level of conversation we have at the front door. Come in please so that we can get to know one another in person and not on paper."

Pen and JJ chose to sit on the couch and Emily sat across from them in an accent chair.

"Jennifer and Pen, I thank you for your honesty. Let me give you some additional background on me that you did not find. I hate politics because it robbed me of my childhood and my parents since their obligations were all over and I was paraded constantly in front of diplomats and taught how to comport myself accordingly. Matt's father is not unknown and very much a part of his life. In fact his dad and I designed this home. Please do not repeat what little I will tell you but Matt's dad is in Intelligence and his identity must remain so to protect us."

"Matt's dad and I have been friends since before high school. There is no one I trust more. We tried a relationship but we are more suited as close friends. I would be classified as bisexual though I prefer to say I don't discriminate against either sex." Emily looked JJ in the eyes. "I also had Matt's dad run a background check on you JJ, it was most thorough."

Penelope squawked, "What! That's not possible I would have been alerted."

"Matt dad's resources are very thorough. I am aware JJ that you are bisexual and Henry's dad refuses to move on and has commenced legal action for sole custody of Henry to get you to marry him. Will has a gambling habit, drinking problem and has recently been caught roughing up the criminals he arrests. He has been suspended from his job pending an investigation for over two months. He is living in DC with a teacher from Henry's school."

Pen and JJ were floored.

"I am aware of the BAU Hotchner, Rossi, Morgan, Dr. Reid, and Dr. Lewis. Pen, I am aware of you and Kevin's monthly appointment at 'The Table.'"

Pen turned a deep red and was speechless for the first time since JJ has known her.

Emily focused on JJ to make sure she understood her next words. "Jennifer I wish the same as you with respect to the backgrounds. I would like to get to know you, Henry, and Pen better. In addition, I would love to take you on a date."

JJ was done. She was ready to marry this woman. Down, JJ down. Will wasn't even a primary thought since Emily gave her enough ammunition to stop any custody dispute and to seek sole custody. Feeling an immediate weight lift from her shoulders JJ replied, "I would like that also Emily."

Pen having recovered, "We would love a tour of your home while we check on the boys."

Emily stood and blinded them both with her gorgeous smile. "My pleasure, follow me."

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The architectural style of Emily's home is contemporary. Emily guided them through 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, a media room, recreation room, breakfast area, dining room, family room, library study, office, a butler's pantry, gym, wine cellar, and panic room. There was also a pool, guest house, outdoor kitchen and dining area. They found the boys in the play area under the stairs having the time of their lives playing super heroes.

The ladies made their way back into the kitchen to have lunch. In setting out the food JJ and Pen were surprised by the homey house and how they were relaxed and in constant stitches from Emily's wit.

Pen reluctantly left after lunch since she had a previous engagement with Kevin. Emily volunteered to take JJ and Henry home. JJ told Emily that Henry could sleepover. She walked Garcia to her car so she could retrieve Henry's overnight bag. Garcia hugged JJ goodbye and said loudly, "If you don't, I will and I'm dead serious." JJ's laughter could not be contained.

Upon handing JJ a hot cup of coffee, Emily settled on the couch beside her. She switched to closed circuit TV to monitor the boys. I've never felt this attracted so quickly with anyone. I definitely want to explore what we could have together emotionally as well as physically. "Jennifer, tell me what I don't know about you."

Laughing, "There's not much more to tell. Henry of course is my world. My team at the BAU are my family. I trust each one of them with Henry and my life. I arrived here very worried regarding Will's custodial request, however you have set my mind at ease by what you told me earlier. I am close to my biological family which includes my mother, father, big brother and his wife and children. We love each other very much and they are supportive of my lifestyle. I am extremely attracted to you and would like to get to know you better."

Unconsciously, Emily modulated her voice to a soothing tone that she uses on her patients. However, it came across as extremely seductive to JJ. "Nothing is sexier than someone who wants you as much as you want them, Jennifer. I can't really explain what I feel for you right now. It's just you take me to a place where no one else has. I want to feel your lips, may I kiss you Jennifer?"

JJ couldn't trust her voice to make a sound so she leaned into Emily. The kiss started tentatively but after a few moments turned into a full-blown make-out session. Emily pulled away first knowing that things could escalate further and quickly. Both women were equally aroused. "Jennifer, I love the taste and feel of your kiss and wish for more. You have the power to touch me without using your hands. Matt and I are going to enjoy getting to know you and Henry better."

"I feel the same Em." This woman is sex on two legs. There is no doubt that this relationship is happening. "Before we combust let's talk and spend some time with the boys."

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I hope you enjoyed Chapter 1. I apologize for any errors in advance. I don't have a Beta and grammar and punctuation is a serious weakness so WYSIWIG.

This is my first Criminal Minds fanfiction. It combines Criminal Minds with Rizzoli and Isles the book series. I've loved Tess Gerritsen's books years before the TV series. One glaring difference between the books and the TV series is Dr. Maura Isles. Dr. Isles in the book series is a mysterious statuesque, raven haired, green eyed woman of regal bearing. Basically she looks very similar to Emily Prentiss.

This fanfiction is 22 chapters long and is complete. I will post two chapters daily. Please leave a constructive review. Anonymous reviews just for the sake of being a mean troll will be deleted.

Peace and blessings.