I know I made a story like this a little while ago, it's the same story line, same title and everything. But the way I wrote it, something about it bothered me. I wanna take my time with this and that first chapter just felt a little rushed. So I started over, re did it. Let me know what you think.
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"..what happen, w-who did this to you?" Reid questioned softly.
JJ sat on her way friends couch, a blanket warmed her. It was late, maybe 1:00 AM. She didn't answer. She was gazing off into space, miles away. Her eyes wide with fear.
"Jennifer?" He asked again trying to get her back.
"JJ." His finger came up and lifted her chin so she'd look at him. He got her attention. She locked eyes with him, saw the concern, the worry. Yet still, words couldn't be brought together to explain her troubles.
She was bruised, cut, clearly beaten. He needed to know who did this. What had happen. Nobody was gonna go unpunished for doing this to her. Not only that. If she didn't feel safe, if she was in distress in any way, he wanted to fix it, make her better.
"JJ please." He begged in a whisper.
She swallowed, her eyes left his and returned to their place on the floor where they'd been gazing off to before.
"He came home drunk again." She said simply. Her voice shaky and meek.
"Who Jayge? Please tell me." He asked again.
She sniffled, fighting hard to stop more tears from flowing. If that was even possible. She'd cried so much she felt as though no tears were left. But never the less, a tear dropped and rolled down her cheek.
Reid sighed as the puzzle came together in his head,"W-was it Will?" He questioned.
No words came out. No words were needed. He got his answer. She closed her eyes as more tears came streaming down. Reid scooted closer, wrapping his lanky arms around her and held her close.
"Shh." He hushed soothingly. His hand stroking her head gently. She cried into his shoulder. "It's okay. You're okay now."
Once she finally stopped crying they say on the couch. Reid was cleaning the cut on her head. All was quiet.
She inhaled forcefully as he cleaned it as a burning sting took over.
"Sorry. I should've told you that would sting. But I'm all done." He said in a hushed tone as he placed a bandage over the cut.
"I'm so sorry." She said apologetically
He looked at her with confusion. "What for?"
"Coming here. Troubling you with all this." She explained
He shook his head immediately after the words filled his ears,"No. No JJ you're not troubling me I'm glad you came here, I'm glad your safe. I'm always here for you, okay?" He asked tucking her hair behind her ears and away from her face.
She swallowed the lump in her throat and looked up at the young doctor,"Thank you." She whispered
"JJ?"
She was snapped back from her thoughts and turned to see Reid standing not far from her place at the window inside the BAU.
"You okay?" He questioned and came over to join her.
She nodded,"Yeah." Offering a smile, she got one in return,"I'm okay."
His smile grew,"Good."
"Everyone was looking for you." He explained.
"Well, wouldn't wanna keep them wondering." She smiled.
And the two walked back into Hotch's office where the rest of the team was gathered. They walked in to find Morgan with his arm around Garcia on the couch. Hotch was sitting on the other side with Emily beside him. And Rossi was in the chair. JJ and Reid sat down in the other two chairs that they'd brought in.
"How much longer are we gonna be stuck here?" Morgan questioned, looking around for an answer.
"Till the storm passes." Hotch answered.
"And that's not until late afternoon tomorrow." Emily concluded.
Morgan sighed,"It's Christmas Eve and we're stuck in the bureau. What are we suppose to do?"
"I'm sure we can think of something. We got a whole box of decorations and a tree waiting for us outside. There's food and drinks. We have each other to talk to. We'll be fine." Rossi explained.
"I'm always up for decorating." Garcia smirked.
Rossi smiled,"how 'bout it?" He asked.
They all agreed. They went out into the bullpen and started to decorate the bare tree.
"Aw look at this!" Emily grinned.
It was a picture frame ornament, inside the festive frame was a picture of the team. They all looked at the picture and smiled.
"Back in your baby boy days huh Reid?" Morgan teased as he ruffled his long hair.
They laughed as Reid fixed his hair.
"There's a lot of those." Garcia marveled. As they hung the ornaments they looked at the pictures. There were a few of Hotch and Emily, Morgan and Garcia, JJ, Reid and Rossi.
A few strands of tinsel were thrown around at one other. Morgan took the mistletoe he'd found and hung it over him and Garcia and they both went in for a kiss, smiling as the separated. He hung it above the door that lead into the conference room.
Hotch took the false red Garland by both ends and looped it over his girlfriend's head, pulling Emily in closer to him. They laughed as a kiss was shared.
After the tree was done they got paper plates and filled their plates with the dinner that was brought to the bureau for their annual Christmas party that just the team started having 3 years back. Nobody was normally their Christmas Eve.
Before they ate Rossi made a small little speech.
"While this isn't the most ideal Christmas, and it certainty wasn't one we intended on having, it's not a bad one. But it will definitely be a memorable one. But christmas isn't about where you are, or the food you eat, it's about family. And it may not look like it, but we're a family." He concluded with a smile. They all returned a genuine smile and they dug in.
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So I hope you all enjoyed. I'm pretty satisfied with this so far, hopefully all goes well as I continue and it doesn't crash and burn like many of my stories have. I do feel the need to burn my self at the stake though for making JJ's whole situation the way it was hehe, I mean I hate seeing bad things like this happen to our sweet little JJ but with this I can also bring a lot of good out of it, so stay tuned good is a comin' and I have a lot planned for you my dearies. PLEASE REVIEW
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