Hotch was awoken from his blasting alarm at 12pm. It was Monday but Hotch had given the team three days off to recover from the case. Hotch tried to wake JJ up but it was proving to be a difficult task.

"JJ honey time to get up" Hotch said gently

He had known JJ wasn't a morning person but it seemed that the child version of JJ was even worse with mornings.

Hotch tried to get up but JJ had different plans. She threw herself over his chest so he wouldn't move away.

Hotch chuckled and stroked her hair away from her face.

"Come on Jayge. I'll make you pancakes if you get up now" Hotch bribed

JJ shot up with an excited grin on her face.

"I'm up Hotchy." JJ said cutely.

"how about we go out for breakfast. Just me and you. Then later we can meet Emily and Penelope and they can we can take you shopping" Hotch asked

"Okay! Can we go now? I'm superrrrr hungry." JJ groaned.

"Okay your clothes are folded up on the chair in your room. Come back I when you're dressed and we'll sort this bee hive out' Hotch said as he tried to smooth down JJ's long blonde locks.

JJ ran off into her room to get changed and hotch put on some jeans and a brown sweater and grabbed his phone to call Emily

After 4 rings she answered

"hello?" Emily said

"Hi Emily it's me I was wondering if you and Garcia would meet me and JJ at around 2pm at the mall so we can take her shopping" Hotch asked

"Yeah sure. I know that Garcia is dying to meet little JJ. We'll be there" Emily said

"okay bye"

"bye" Emily finished and hung up just as JJ came running into his room with the same clothes as yesterday and her pink hairbrush in her hand.

Hotch sat down on his bed and motioned for JJ to come and stand in between his legs.

Hotch started brushing through the long hair being careful to get all the tangles out.

"okay what do you want me to do to your hair" Hotch asked

"umm can you French braid?" JJ said

"nope. How about I just put half of it up okay?"

Hotch got the top part of her hair and brushed it all into a pony tail smoothly. He struggled with the hair tie but eventually got it. He spun her around to look at her.

"all good. Right go and brush your teeth then we can get going okay?" Hotch said

Two minutes later hotch walked down the carpeted stairs to find JJ struggling with the buckle on her shoes.

"You need some help there?" Hotch asked humorously.

JJ looked up at him with cute evil eyes.

"They're too fiddly for me" She said annoyed.

Hotch knelt down in front of her and did up her buckles for her.

"Thank you" JJ said embarrassed that she couldn't do anything now.

Hotch noticed this sudden change in behaviour and gently cupped JJ's cheeks.

"Its going to be okay, sweetheart. I pinky promise." Hotch said as he pointed his pinky to her

JJ wrapped her much smaller pinky in his and kissed it and hotch did the same.

When they were ready to go, Hotch lifted JJ and put her on his hip. They walked out to the car and hotch placed the quiet JJ in Jacks car seat.

One thing that Hotch noticed was that JJ didn't like to speak much. She liked to be held and spoken to by other people but she didn't like speaking back to them.

Hotch had noticed the shyness in adult JJ when meeting new people. But she was polite and spoke to them.

Young JJ just didn't seem to want to talk to anyone.

"Are you excited to see Emily and Penelope?" Hotch asked, trying to get her to speak.

JJ shrugged her shoulders and looked and her small hands, avoiding eye contact with him.

Hotch decided to stop pushing JJ and the rest of the journey was done in silence.

When they arrived at the mall, Hotch parked up and got JJ out of the car.

He didn't know how she was going to react in such a crowded place as he had seen her get anxious around the team. And that was 5 People she knew.

Hotch picked JJ up and swung her onto his hip.

They walked to the small café that they were going to have brunch in and JJ was gripping on to the back of Hotch's sweater. Her eyes were scanning the crowded mall as if someone was coming to get her.

"you okay?" Hotch whispered in her ear.

JJ shook her head no and hid herself in the crook of Hotch's neck.

Maybe coming here wasn't the best idea.

Once they were sat down in the cosy café, Hotch looked at the menu to find something for JJ to eat.

"How about pancakes?" Hotch asked, already knowing the answer.

JJ nodded her head with a great big smile on her face.

"Okay you can have either blueberry, strawberry or chocolate chip. Which kind do you want?"

"Strawberry" JJ said excitedly.

"Hmm what a surprise. But you gotta promise to eat them all, okay?"

"Yep!" JJ said.

Once they had ordered and they were waiting for their food, Hotch heard JJ speak up, quietly.

"are you going to send me back to my parents?" Jj asked worriedly.

"No, sweetheart, you are going to stay with me until you're back to normal." Hotch said soothingly.

When their food came, Hotch cut JJ's 2 small pancakes into pieces for her and watched her start eating.

After she had eaten about 5 pieces, she put her fork down and started to sip her water.

"Can you eat some more for me please jj" Hotch asked.

" 'M not hungry." JJ moaned.

"my tummy hurts and I feel sick." She continued.

"Just a couple more bites then you'll be done." Hotch tried to negotiate

Hotch watched JJ pick up the smallest piece on her plate, then painstakingly slow, bring it to her mouth and chew it.

"Can I be done now please?" JJ asked with tears in her eyes.

"Okay but you eat a snack later okay?" Hotch said

"yeah." JJ said as she sat fiddling with her hands, waiting for hotch to finish his food.

Once they were done, Hotch got the bill and then they walked hand in hand to go and meet Emily and Penelope.

JJ's little hands were clammy and shaky in Hotch's big ones.

He knew she was nervous but he also knew that she had to get used to being around them a lot.

JJ and hotch made it to the meeting point before them so hotch knelt down in front of her.

"JJ anytime this all gets too much for you just tell me and we'll go straight home, okay?"

"k" JJ said

"Look there they are" Hotch said as he saw the girls in the crowds. Penelope looked very excited and she already had about 5 bags on her arms.

"Hello ladies." Hotch said as they approached.

"OH MY GOSH. JJ!" Penelope shouted as she enveloped JJ in a bone crushing hug.

"Garcia, I cant breathe." JJ said

"Oh sugarplum I cant help it you're just so adorable."

JJ was gripping Hotch's hand as they spoke about what stuff they needed to buy.

This was going to be a long couple of hours for her.