A/N: Hey, so here's the third chapter. Hope you guys enjoy. :)

A/N 2: BustyAph, thank you so much for help me. You're saving me.


Chapter 3

Later that day, JJ couldn't be able to focus on whatever she had to do and all she could think about was Emily and their date. Ok, calm down, it is definitely not a date.

She did not know why she was referring to this dinner with Emily as a date. It was totally inappropriate. It would be only a dinner between two friends who have not seen each other in a long time. JJ still could hardly believe that Emily was back; she seemed to be so fine in London. But she would leave that issue for later, unless...

"Hey, Garcia. You got a minute?" JJ said opening the door just enough to let her head in.

Garcia jumped up and put her hand on her chest, trying to control her breathing after the scare. "My God, JJ!"

JJ stifled her laughter with her hand and entered completely into Garcia's office, closing the door behind her.

Garcia looked at her friend, gesturing to her to sit in the chair beside her and waited eagerly to hear what JJ wanted to talk.

"It's about Emily," JJ began, looking cautiously at the blonde in front of her. "Why did she come back, anyway?"

Garcia looked at the younger blonde beside her, studying her face; she was far from being a profiler but knew when something was wrong with her best friend.

"Well, I really have no idea, JJ." She answered honestly, because she really did not know; although she had some suspicions. "JJ, what's wrong?"

JJ took a deep breath and lowered her head. She did not know what was wrong. Perhaps she knew, but she did not want to think about it. However, in any case, she would not be able to manage to hide it from Garcia and she needed to talk to someone about it.

"JJ," Garcia called now a bit worried. "JJ, honey, talk to me."

JJ's blue eyes met those of her friend and she sighed.

"I'm in love with Emily." She said between sobs and Garcia really did not seem surprised. "What? Why are you looking at me like that? Did you hear what I said?" She asked almost angrily. Admitting this was worse than keeping inside.

Garcia took a deep breath and hugged her friend affectionately, stroking her back. "JJ, honestly, do you think the goddess of all knowledge does not know that?" JJ laughed amid the tears that was starting to fall and gently pulled back to look at Garcia. "Honey, I always knew. I'm not blind. All looks and touches. You returned to save her when you left the BAU and was always worried about her in a different way." She said softly.

JJ wiped her face with the back of her hands and sighed. "What am I supposed to do? My God, I thought I had forgotten that. We're friends, Garcia. But then she came back this time and helped save me and I don't even know what to think anymore. I even fantasized about her while I was in captivity. I imagined her coming to save me."

"And she did." Garcia completed with a broad smile on her face. "And JJ, deep down you know the answer to the first question you asked me when you arrived here."

JJ frowned and tried to think what her friend had just said, but she did not think could be possible.

"Kitty, you know you need to talk to her about it, right?" Garcia asked, her free hand holding JJ's. "It won't be that hard."

JJ's eyes widened and she laughed. "Oh, of course. I'll just say 'Hey Emily, good to have you back and by the way I'm in love with you. I've always been, but never wanted to ruin our friendship with one thing that I thought was silly but I just cannot stop thinking about you and don't know how I will act tonight.'" She said sarcastically.

"What do you guys have planned for tonight?" Garcia asked, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively.

JJ rolled her eyes.

"It's nothing; I just invited her to dinner at my house. I don't know what got into me."

"Oh, you do." Garcia smile and JJ couldn't contain her own. "Seriously baby, talk to her. I promise you it will be okay."

JJ gave Garcia a long hug before returned to her office. She stopped on the way to talk to Morgan and Reid who were at the coffee machine. Reid tried to leave quickly when he saw her approaching but Morgan laughed and put his arm around his neck, preventing him from leaving.

"Hey guys, what's up?" JJ asked smiling filling a cup with coffee.

Morgan and Reid looked at each other and she rolled her eyes.

"Ok, ok. Sorry about earlier today, Spence. I should not have acted that way." She said earnestly.

Reid pursed lips.

"It's okay, JJ. Statistically women at your age tend to-"

"What? From my age?" JJ countered incredulously and Morgan chuckled being hit with a punch in the chest by JJ. She turned and made her way to her office.

"Hey, calm down, I did nothing. I was just laughing." He said aloud amid laughter and stroking the affected part of your chest.

"What did I do wrong?" Reid asked confused.


At about thirty minutes to 8pm, Emily was still sitting in bed thinking about what to wear. It's just JJ, for God's sake, she thought. And this was precisely the problem. If it were anyone else, she would put the first clothes she saw ahead, but with JJ would obviously be different. Okay, I can do this; she said to herself and rolled the wardrobe again. As was it cold that night, Emily opted for a fairly comfortable gray sweater and black jeans. "I'm just going to dinner at my friend's house." She repeated it for the thousandth time that day.

At the same time she thought about how nice it would see JJ again, she also remembered what she had been thinking since JJ invited for dinner: Will LaMontagne would be there. Obviously, he was her husband. She had spent the entire afternoon thinking about how to tell JJ that she could no longer go to her house, but it would be silly. And she didn't want to hurt JJ, so she decided to go anyway. Maybe she liked to hurt herself, but to see JJ in that moment was more important.

Emily was feeling literally ridiculous. She was in her car a few meters from JJ's house. She sighed. She could see some toys in the garden and she smiled at the memory of the little boy who looked so much like JJ.

She walked through the garden and stopped on the front door. Biting her lower lip, she knocked twice and put her hands inside her pockets.

"I'm coming," she heard JJ's voice and miserably smiled. Shit.

But it was a small blond boy who opened the door. His smile faded when she saw Emily. "Mom, it is not Daddy," he said curiously checking Emily's face. "You... You're Auntie Emmie, aren't you?" Emily laughed and nodded. Henry hugged her waist and she was touched by the gesture.

"Henry, how many times have I told you not to open the door?" she scolded the boy, but when he saw Emily standing next to the door her eyebrows arched. "Oh, hey Em." JJ said smiling to Emily noting that Henry was now in her arms.

"I'm sorry, I thought it was Daddy." Henry apologized and jumped from Emily's hold to get back to playing with his toys on the living room floor.

Emily noticed that JJ was still in the clothes he had worn that morning; she probably just arrived, she thought.

"Hey," Emily said while JJ closed the door. "Where's Will?" she asked casually, trying to sound natural but she needed to know.

JJ sighed and remembered that she had not told Emily about Will, but she didn't want to talk about it at that time.

"He's at Subway but he will get Henry to spend the weekend with his parents," she said of course, hoping that Emily not notice anything wrong.

"Oh, good." Emily said awkwardly, but a little happy that it would only be the two of them that night.

"As you can see, I just got here," JJ said gesturing to the clothes and headed toward the kitchen with Emily behind. "But I'm about to prepare dinner,"

Emily looked around the kitchen and saw that it was still far from JJ actually being able to do anything. She thought the younger woman looked tired and that she should not worry about cooking that night.

"JJ, you don't need to worry about it. We can order something. Chinese, pizza or whatever you want."

JJ's heart seemed to jump out of her chest and she smiled. Emily was always so kind.

"You're trying to avoid my food, Prentiss?" She teased as her eyes analyzed Emily up and down.

That did not go unnoticed by Emily. "There's something wrong with my clothes?" she teased the blonde who blushed instantly.

"What? No! You just look good as always." JJ replied returning to the living room.

Emily was still standing there after hearing the praise of JJ. Am I am going crazy or did Jennifer Jareau just flirt with me?


JJ and Emily were sitting comfortably on the couch waiting for the pizza guy, while Henry continued playing with his toys on the mat. He and Emily were getting along so well, JJ could not be happier.

Suddenly, they heard a knock on the door and Emily volunteered to go meet, believing it was the pizza guy while JJ went to the kitchen for dishes and spoons. But what she saw was not quite what I was expecting.

"Will." she said in surprise. Why he knocked on the door instead of opening it with his key? He may have forgotten, Prentiss, stop analyzing everything.

"Hello, Emily." Will looked even more surprised to see her there in his old house. He had not much time to think about it because Henry came running toward him cheerfully. Will picked him up and tickled the little boy laughed and laughed.

Emily looked back and saw JJ stop and surprise. Something really strange was going on here.

"Are you ready to go, buddy?" Will asked his son who was still on his arms.

"Yes, daddy. I'm so ready." Henry said happily.

JJ watched Emily shut the door as Will came over to her, putting Henry on the floor. "Can you go get your stuff?" he asked Henry, the boy nodded and ran to the bedroom. "Hey, JJ." he greeted her with a hug and JJ watched Emily's features over Will's shoulder.

"Hey, how are you?" she asked politely loosening the grip of Will and going to deposit the dishes on the table.

"You know how I am," he said intentionally low so that Emily could not hear. JJ rolled her eyes and sighed. "Ok, I won't talk about it." he said to JJ before he turned to Emily and walk near the couch where she was sitting. "So Emily, how are you? I did not know you were back."

Emily raised an eyebrow and looked at JJ who was running her fingers through her hair. "Oh, yeah, I got back yesterday and I'm fine." she replied politely.

"Very good." he said burying his hands in his pockets. He looked back at JJ and they got into an awkward silence. Will would always be grateful to Emily; she had saved him and JJ, but that did not make him like her entirely. He knew how Emily looked at JJ was much more than a friend look. He wasn't stupid.

Henry ran back to the living room with a backpack and a puppet of the Iron Man in one hand. "Bye Mom, bye Auntie Emmie." he said quickly and ran to the door waiting for his father.

"Hey, aren't you forgetting something?" JJ asked the little boy amid laughter. Henry ran up to his mother and jumped into her lap. "Calm down, you're not a baby anymore." she said carrying her son and kissing his cheek.

"Yes, I am." Henry countered crossing his arms.

"Oh, so you're a baby, huh?" Emily teased the little boy who stuck his tongue out at her and saw the two women laugh.

Will cleared his throat and the two women looked at each other.

"Time to go, buddy." he said and Henry dropped of JJ's arms, giving Emily a hug before meeting his father at the door.

"Love you, Mommy. Bye Auntie Emmie." he said waving.

"Love you too baby, take care of yourself." JJ said to Henry.

"Bye, ladies." Will said awkwardly to the two women and he and Henry departed.

Just in time, the pizza guy arrived and Emily paid the bills before JJ could say anything.


"Okay, that was weird." Emily said putting the pizza boxes on the table.

"What, the pizza guy?" JJ laughed, but she knew that Emily was not referring to that.

Emily rolled her eyes and grabbed JJ's arm gently, feeling her own body rise with the simple touch with the younger woman.

"JJ, you know what I'm talking about. You and Will... What's happening?"

JJ sighed. The time had come and she would have to confess everything to Emily.

"We got divorced." She simply said trying not to make eye contact with Emily.

Emily's eyes widened. She had heard right? JJ and Will had separated? How was that possible?

"What? How so? What happened?" She asked worriedly.

JJ laughed.

"Can we eat before I tell you everything?" she asked, her blue eyes shining adorably and Emily could not deny her request.

They both ate and talked happily. Some looks lingering a little too much for simply two friends, but neither seemed to mind, which gave the other even more security to continue. Always been so; looks and touches directed to another that said more than words like: I'm here. I worry about you. Are you okay?

After a while, Emily placed the dishes in the sink along with the silverware while JJ filled their glasses with wine again. Emily returned to the room and leaned against a wall to watch JJ. She could not understand how a woman could be so beautiful. JJ approached her with a shy smile in the corner of the lips and gave her cup with wine.

"What you looking at?" She took a sip of wine and pulled Emily to sit beside her on the couch.

"JJ, we need to talk." Emily didn't want to wait another minute.

"Okay, but let me speak first." JJ said, Emily nodded and she continued. "Well, I broke up with Will because I couldn't stand it. He always wanted me to quit the FBI and stay at home with Henry, which was out of the question, but after what happened to me he got mad and said he wouldn't stay by my side anymore to see me die." She laughed sarcastically. "Em, I couldn't give up my job. I fought hard to get where I am." She looked down and Emily didn't hesitate to pull her closer. JJ was surprised by the sudden gesture, but didn't pull away and laid her head on Emily's shoulder. "I guess I never really liked him, at least not as I should... I love him for who he is; he is a good father to Henry and has always been a good friend, but I can't love him." She said honestly and lifted her head to look in Emily's brown eyes, those eyes that she knew and loved. "Maybe because I've always loved someone else." She said breathlessly with her face closer from Emily.

JJ's phone started ringing and Emily cursed mentally for that. JJ has considered the possibility to let it ring, but with the work that they had, she could not afford to let it play. She sighed and got up to get the cell phone that was on the table. Emily watched her brief conversation with someone on the other side of the line and while half-listening to it, she tried to pass everything that JJ said. JJ liked someone else? But who? That question would ruin her.

JJ returned equally frustrated by their conversation was ruined, "Sorry Em, we have a case."