A month had past since their last incident and JJ was back working away with her team. Will's arm was devoid of the sling and he too was back to his police work. Everything had been smooth sailing for the couple, until one morning the day before work started back up.
JJ was in the middle of taking a quick soothing shower after working up a sweat from her early jog around the neighbourhood. She loved to stand under the heavy stream as the feeling of the water ran down her skin and allowed her to just think…which reminded her that she needed to get a new floor mat. She had almost slipped when she went to place her shampoo bottle back down in the corner by the glass.
Just as she was rinsing off the conditioner in her hair, she felt a small burst of cold air fill the small space of the shower. She wiped her eyes as she turned her head to check that the shower door hadn't opened, which wouldn't normally happen, but instead found her husband.
"What are you doing up this early?" she asked him.
In order for her to get her morning jogs in, she usually had to get up before Henry woke so she'd have enough time to shower. It was around 7:30am now, which was unusual for Will to be up this early on a Sunday. Thankfully, their son loved his sleep, so she had another hour before she expected her mini-me to be up and running around the house.
"Heard you were up, so I thought I'd come join you" he answered with a cheeky smile on his face. He reached over JJ's shoulder to turn the water temperature down a notch before stepping under the warm spray "How you're able to withstand such hot water is beyond me Jay" he said close to her ear
JJ smiled back at him before she reached for the handle to the door behind Will "Well, I'm finished so you can have it all to yourself" she said with a hint of playfulness.
Before she could leave, she felt herself being pulled back under the water and against his chest "Hey, where you goin'?" he chuckled as his hands went to her hips. "It's not like we get a lot of time to ourselves now a days" He added as his lips grazed the top of her shoulder.
"Well, one of us has to be around in case Henry wakes up" she explained as she felt his lips make their way to the crook of her neck.
"I plugged the baby alarm in by the door, we'll hear if he calls" He mumbled as he continued his way up to her jaw.
JJ reached over and turned the temperature back to her preferred heat and then turned around to wrap her arms around his neck. "If you want me to stay in here, we're turning it back before I freeze" she explained, making him smile.
"Did anyone ever mention how stubborn you can be?" he joked as her hands slowly slid down to rest on his chest.
"Might have been brought up once or twice" she said, mimicking his tone, and then brought her lips to his. His hands rested on her hips, fingers splayed and pulling her closer to him. The warmth of the water had some sort of effect on both of them, heating their blood and the slow intimate kisses quickly turned to more hungry, passionate ones. They both took that last step towards one another which would remove the small bit of space between their bodies.
JJ felt one of his hands skim up along her back, while the other stayed at her hip and felt herself being backed up against the wall. Their mouths were still pressed against each other's so when she gasped from the cold feeling of the tiles, he heard her mumble the word 'cold', making him smile.
They broke away for some air, their chests rising and falling quickly. He zeroed in on the sensitive spot on her neck, below her ear, and lowered a hand to pull one of her legs up around his waist. Before they continued, she listened out for any signs of their son waking, but thankfully heard nothing of the sorts. She put her hands on his jaw and pulled his face back to hers, claiming his mouth again and ran her tongue along his bottom lip. He opened his mouth, meeting her tongue, and pushed her lower back more against the wall.
When he moved his hand from her hip to move it down her leg, he tapped his fingers against it as a sign to give him her other one. JJ tightened her hold around his neck and then hopped to wrap her other leg around his waist. What was supposed to happen was a smooth sailing from here on out, but of course things could never be easy for the pair. When JJ hopped up to wrap her legs around his waist, she may have put to much power into the jump, which caused the slight shift of Will's foot. This resulted in him slipping forward, his feet swept out from under him and bringing JJ with him. Thankfully their shower wasn't too tight a space, otherwise their injuries could have been much worse.
A small scream had left JJ's mouth as she bumped heads with her husband, and slid down the wall to land quite badly on her tailbone. Will on the other hand had enough time to brace himself against the wall, but took the fall to his knees. Other than a bump on the head and sore knees was he okay.
"Fuck" JJ winced loudly.
"You okay?" he asked her, which was a pointless thing to ask since she was clearly in pain. He tried to disentangle himself from her without bumping off her too much.
"God that hurt" JJ groaned as she slowly moved her leg from Will's waist but that small movement caused her let out a painful yelp.
"Don't move. Let me get up before you go tryin' to" he told her as he got to his feet. He turned the water off before he went to help her. "Here, give me your hand"
Her hands grabbed onto his forearms as he lifted her up and then helped her out of the shower. Both were soon wrapped up in some towels when they heard the familiar voice calling from the monitor "Mommy!"
"I'll get him, just take it easy, ok?" he told her and then left the bathroom to go get Henry.
She tucked her hair behind her ear as she limped to the bed. She was lucky she could manage to walk, but not for long. That fall wasn't serious to break anything; she just had to stay off her feet for a bit until the pain eased. When she lowered herself onto the soft mattress, she bit down on her bottom lip and gasped from the sudden shock of pain she received.
At least I didn't break anything she thought, but man was she going to have one nasty black and blue patch on her ass. "Great" she muttered sarcastically. Back to work tomorrow. Forget about being able to kick down a door or chasing an UnSub, the main concern was tackling the simple task of sitting down. How the hell was she going to be able to sit comfortably on a seat when it felt incredibly painful on a soft bed? Well this is going to be embarrassing…
She did it. She made it to work. Coffee in hand, she made her way up to the round table for briefing. JJ had to admit that it was a bit of a challenge getting out of the bed this morning but thankfully Will was there to give her hand up, and reminded her to bring some ibuprofen to work on her way out the door.
Most of the team, bar Garcia and Hotch, were sitting at their usual spots also holding a cup of the warm beverage in their hands.
"Morning" she said to the team before placing her mug on the table and pulled out one of the empty chairs.
Rossi and Blake were deep in conversation, but paused to give a nod and a wave to the blonde, while Reid and Morgan returned the smile. She slowly lowered herself onto the seat without drawing any attention, like avoiding letting a wince slip out, or a pained expression cross her features...well she hoped, but then again she was in a room full of profilers.
"Good weekend?" Derek asked, but the sound of footsteps approaching stopped JJ from answering out loud. She glanced his way and shook her hand from side to side with a 'so so' meaning.
"Just got off the phone with the head detective in Atlanta, Georgia. Another body had been discovered early this morning, which is totalling the number of victims at 3." Hotch started while Penelope pointed the remote towards the screen to bring up the pictures.
As Hotch continued the briefing, JJ noticed Reid looking at her from the corner of her eye, but when she turned to meet his gaze, he darted his eyes to the front of the room.
What was that look for? She thought
The rest of the briefing flew by and was brought to a finish by the usual 'Wheels up in 30' order given by Hotch. She finished the last drop of coffee, closed her case file and then went to stand up, making sure to use the arm rests help her push off. The others had cleared out while Blake hung back when she noticed JJ moving slower than usual.
"Everything okay?" Blake asked as she waited by the door
"Hmm?" JJ played dumb, eyebrows raised slightly. She walked over to join the older profiler.
"You alright? You're usually first out that door after Hotch" Blake explained
JJ let out a small laugh "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little sore after the weekend" she told her, hoping the vague reply was enough.
"Must have been some weekend then" she said just as they walked off in different directions when they reached the bottom of the short set of stairs to the bullpen.
About 30 minutes after take off, JJ was making the familiar journey back to her seat with a cup of freshly brewed coffee in her hand. Everyone had started gathering around to start reviewing the case by now and was just waiting for her to return. Like this morning, she decided to go with the same approach: setting the coffee down first, then sit. Her hands gripped the armrests and as she started sitting down did turbulence start. The unexpected wobble caused her to fly back into her seat and whacking her bruised coccyx against it.
JJ gasped and her face scrunched up from the pain, drawing all eyes to her. Fuck that hurt
"JJ?" Hotch asked
She let out a breath and slowly eased back until her shoulder blades touched the leather. "I'm okay," she croaked and then cleared her throat "Just hit a bruise"
"On your ass?" asked Rossi, eyebrow raised and a slight smile on his face
"I slipped in the shower yesterday" JJ explained, of course leaving out what her and Will were doing…well about to do. A small blush started spreading across her cheeks.
"Must have been a bad fall if it's taking you longer than me to sit down."
Rossi joked, which got the team smiling, including JJ.
"I'll live" she responded before Reid interrupted her
"Did you know that 54% of all injuries that take place in the bathroom all occurred in the bath or shower, but that women were more likely to be hurt than men?" he informed the group
JJ tried to hide her smile and look like she was fascinated by the statistic "I did not, but, I do now"
"It's most likely to happen, especially to couples, that decide to have -" Reid started to add but was quickly stopped by the blonde who had a flushed a deeper shade of red
"Spence!" God, this was not happening… "Thanks" she muttered, praying to god that the team hadn't jumped to the same conclusions as Reid had, who had now flushed a similar shade as JJ
There was a moment of silence before the cabin was filled with Morgan's laughter after his attempt to hold it in failed. Wonderful she thought and then glanced at Reid who looked at her apologetically. This is going to be one long week.
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