AN: Ok, so this started as an epic one shot that was supposed to be Dave vs. Jason, but it came out a lot longer than that. With the encouragement of my friend LacytheDemonicDuck, I turned it into my first multi-chapter Criminal Minds fic! The first chapter's short, but I'm starting the next one right now. Let me know what you think!
Disclaimer: I own nothing. The characters belong to CBS, the idea for Dave vs. Jason came from ilovetvalot, and another part came from and idea of Lacy's! Do I even own the plotline?
JJ sighed as she sat down at her desk. She smoothed down her black cashmere sweater. She didn't want it to be noticeable, but she also didn't want to make it look like she was hiding something. She sighed once again and fingered the butterfly necklace. The butterfly was made of two intertwined hearts, one made of rubies and the other out of diamonds. Dave had given it to her for their first month anniversary. She had told him how much she loved butterflies on their first official date. Around her wrist was the matching bangle bracelet. She was pulled out of her thoughts by a knocking on the door.
"Come on in" she called, pulling the first file off the top of her pile and opened it to make it look like she was working instead of thinking.
"Hey babe" David Rossi said as he walked in. JJ could see Dave's citrine ring shining in the light. He wore it as Henry's birthstone. He would have a new one to wear soon. "How are you this morning?" he asked as he sat down in one of the chairs across from JJ's desk. She smiled and leaned back in her chair.
"I'm good, we're good" she answered. Dave smiled as he glanced at her still flat stomach over her desk.
"I'm glad. You sure you don't want to tell the others?" he questioned. JJ smiled.
"Let's see how well their profiling skills are" JJ said smirking. Dave chuckled and leaned back in his chair. He loved seeing both JJ and Henry happy and healthy. He would do anything he could to make sure that his family always stayed that way. "Was Henry good for you?"
"Of course; once you left we got breakfast and dressed. He didn't even fuss when I handed him over to the daycare people" Dave said. JJ smiled. "He's always good for me."
"He's a daddy's boy" JJ replied. Dave smirked.
"And don't you forget it" he joked. JJ stuck out her tongue and threw her pen at him. "Hey, that's not a nice thing to do to your husband" he joked, feigning hurt.
"Right and I'm just going to ignore the last few minutes and pretend that you just said that Henry was an awesome boy for you. Now, I believe I left you a pile of cases to review and send back to the departments and I have all of these cases to review" JJ said waving at a stack of case file folders as tall as her computer. "Plus, I have to figure out how to distribute the rest of the files to the others teams as well as to the profilers" JJ finished looking around her office at the stacks and piles of files. She had a system, but everyone else on the team always teased her about the mess.
"Fine; I don't suppose I could…" Dave tried to suggest, but was quickly shut down by JJ's hand motion.
"No, absolutely not; when I let you bring your work in here nothing gets done and I would like to see my desk sometime in the next week" JJ responded. She opened the case file she had grabbed as a cover and flipped it open, signaling to her husband that the conversation was over.
"Fine, I'll see you around 11:30" Dave replied as he stood. JJ nodded not taking her eyes off of the file, trying to make sense of the words in front of her. Before Rossi could completely leave the room, JJ had grabbed her trashcan and emptied the contents of her breakfast into it. Dave rushed back into the room, holding JJ's hair away from her face while she finished getting sick. "Bella, what happened?" he anxiously called. JJ wiped tears from her eyes and used a tissue to wipe vomit from the corner of her mouth.
"Get Hotch" was all she managed to get out. Dave nodded and set the trashcan down before he jogged to get Hotch to the woman.
"Hotch!" Dave yelled running into the room. Aaron looked up from his paperwork to see a flustered Rossi standing at his door. He immediately stood to help his friend. "JJ needs to see you in her office now" Dave explained. Hotch gave him a confused look, but followed him to JJ's small office. He saw JJ resting her eyes while she waited for the two men, but they immediately opened once they had entered.
"Close the door. You both need to see this" she said holding out a fairly thick file folder for the two men to look over. Hotch could see into the trashcan and knew something was up besides just this case. JJ had seen as much as everyone else, but none of those cases made her sick, not even her first case. "East Lyme, Connecticut has had five murders within a week. All were young boys, age 5, were sexually assaulted and killed. They were all taken around eight in the morning and were killed around seven the next morning. They were all dumped on the baseball field of Flanders Elementary School." Dave and Hotch flipped through the file until the caught sight of the newest missing boy.
"Damn" the men breathed together as they looked at the picture.
So, what did you think? Please let me know!
