Hello again! Sorry these chapters are so short.

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Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~ Terri Guillemets

Hours later, JJ slumped in front of the kitchen sink with a couple of Advil. She tossed these into her mouth and chased them down her throat with a few gulps of water. Then, she slowly made her way into the living room, the glass of water still in her hand as she flopped down on the couch. The flowers she bought were planted in the pots she'd found and her gardening clothes were lying in the laundry.

Now, situated in jeans and a blue shirt, she just wanted to relax, may draw herself a bath. Afterwards, she'd probably watch a movie and go to bed early….

A crash of breaking glass forced her to jump. The glass of water fell from her hands and shattered on the floor at her feet. She leapt to her feet, stepped over the fragments without bothering to pick them up and crept from her perch to recover her gun from the inside of the drawer of the side table next to her. She darted back into the kitchen to find…

Nothing.

Well, there was a brick on the floor, surrounded by broken glass.

But where did it come from?

Crime was a rare occurrence in the neighborhood. I was why Will agreed to buy the property with her.

JJ sighed. More than likely, it was probably some neighborhood kids pulling a prank.

JJ skirted the glass and picked up the brick, turning back to the window….

And dropped it, screaming.

There, in the window, was a horrible stone face. Its mouth was open, showing bared stone fangs. The hands were claws that gripped the window sill as the creature prepared to climb in.

And then there was a hand on JJ's shoulder. She jumped in surprise.

"I got you," the voice said in a firm tone. "The other one's at the back door but he won't be coming in unless he can get through that dining table I put there."

JJ turned to see a young woman with very curly blonde hair standing next to her. She had a gun pointed at the angel in the window. She looked to be somewhere between Reid's age and Prentiss' age and wore a denim jacket, a white V-neck, jeans and a leather holster with leather boots.

"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" JJ yelped as the woman seized her elbow and dragged her from the kitchen and into the garage. As the door opened, JJ caught a glimpse of a stony arm reaching through the back door and trying to push the oak table away.

The woman didn't answer but pushed JJ toward the driver's seat of her car. "I'd drive, but this isn't my usual style and you know these streets better than I do."

"What are you talking about? You knew where I lived!"

"The only Washington DC I've been to was New Washington DC and the layout is completely different!" the woman snapped. "So unless you want to see tomorrow, DRIVE!"

JJ obeyed and seconds later her little blue Mazda tore from her driveway and down the street.

As soon as they were in the heart of the District, the woman handed JJ a piece of paper.

"We need to go there," she said. JJ noted that it was an address in DC, an apartment building in Georgetown. She plugged it into the GPS as the woman's phone began to ring.

She picked it up and answered. "Hello, Sweetie," she cooed into the phone. "My meeting ran later than usual, do you want me to stop and get Chinese?" There was a pause. "Yes, I got her. She's right next to me. They almost overran her but I got her out of the house." More silence. "Her husband is working late and her son is with his Godmother. I'm hoping our stony friends follow us instead of waiting for them." Another pause. "Well, you'd be shaken up too is a strange woman came into your house while killer angel statues were trying to get in. But you don't have a house, do you?" Another, even longer pause followed this statement. "Oh, don't get you screwdriver in a knot. We'll be there in ten." She turned off the phone and turned to JJ.

"Do you want Chinese?"

A/N:

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