A/N: First off, I would just like to apologize on the last chapter being so short. I ended up writing most of this all at one time, and it really was the best place to put the chapter break. That being said, this chapter is a little longer to make up for it. Also, I would just like to thank everyone for all the follows and favorites this story has got so far.
So with that being said, read on and enjoy. And remember, reviews are always welcomed :)
Chapter Four
"Hey Em." JJ calls out.
"Hey JJ." Emily said. She glances at her watch and sees it is 5:45. "You got here earlier than you thought."
"Yeah, I kinda wanted to surprise Henry." JJ said. She reaches for the cake from Emily as they make their ways to the door. She turns back to Emily. "Wait here one sec." JJ said.
As JJ opens the door and walks through, and pushes it closed to where Emily can't be seen, only to hear Henry in the house.
"MOMMY!" he yells and then the pitter patter of running feet. Followed by the steps of someone who must be Will.
"Hey JJ" Will said.
"Hey" she said to Will as Henry wraps his arms around JJ's legs. "Hey baby, how was your day?" She asked. Will takes the cake, knowing Emily is standing outside and heads into the kitchen and sets it on the bar. He goes back to the door where Henry is telling JJ about everything.
"Sorry to interrupt you there buddy, but Daddy has to go." He kisses Henry on the head who turns and gives him a big hug.
"Bye Daddy." he said.
"See you in the morning Will." JJ said.
Will steps to the door and pulls it open in a way that prevents Henry from seeing Emily and steps outside pulling back to where it was.
Quietly Will says "Hey Emily, you guys have fun tonight. Have fun with Henry, he has been looking forward to this since you stayed the weekend."
"Sure thing Will. You take care of yourself." She said and steps up and hugs Will. Will hugs her back and makes his way to his truck and pulls out.
Emily turns her attention back to whats going on just inside the cracked door when she hears JJ say "Well I'm glad you had fun with Daddy."
"Emmy?" she heard Henry ask.
"Well baby, you know how I told you I would see but that I couldn't promise she would come?" JJ asked. Emily didn't hear a reply so she assumed Henry had nodded at that because JJ continues "I did ask here, and apparently she didn't have any plans and wanted to see you too. So why don't you go and check."
Emily hears JJ set Henry down and as she sees a little hand appear down the door she squats down to be closer to eye level just as the hand starts to pull the door back. Just as Emily sees Henry she said "Hey there Little Man." and opens her arms.
"EMMY" Henry said and throws himself into her arms.
She wraps her arms around him, picks him up and walks into the house. She makes her way to the kitchen where she saw JJ go. Henry is talking away telling her all kinds of stories that went on today.
"I heard that, did you have fun?" She asked. He nods. Emily turns to JJ "Need help with anything Jen?"
JJ heart starts to race. She is doing it again. "I wonder if she realizes it." she thinks to herself. She calms herself before answering "No I can take care of this. Why don't you and Henry go play in the family room or watch some TV or something. Dinner will be ready in about 40 minutes or so. I will let you know." She suggests.
"you want to go play or would you like to watch TV or a movie Little Man?" Emily asked Henry.
"Lan Afor Time" Henry said.
"Alright, The Land Before Time it is." JJ hears as Emily heads to the family room. JJ walks over and lifts the lid on the box to see what Emily brought. She is surprised at what she sees.
"Wow that looks absolutely delicious." JJ said.
"Yeah well you better not touch it until after dinner." She hears Emily call from the family room. JJ hadn't realized she had said that out loud.
"No promises." She hollers back.
Emily smiles at JJ response, and sets Henry on the couch, and walks over to put in the movie he wanted to watch. She starts it up and goes to sit on the couch with Henry. As soon as she sits down he climbs over into her lap and leans his head back to rest on her chest as she wraps one arm around him.
JJ finishes up in the kitchen, puts the lasagna in the oven to start cooking and starts the timer. She then goes ahead and cleans everything up and gets everything set up for dinner so all they have to do is sit down and start eating. She heads to the family room to sit with Emily and Henry. When she walks in she sees Emily laid out on the couch, one hand wrapped around Henry, the other running through his hair lovingly. She smiles, pulls out her phone, and takes a picture for herself.
"Any room for me?" She asked as she walks around the couch.
"Oh sorry Jen." Emily said as she pulls up her knees, careful not to disturb Henry, so JJ can sit at the other end of the couch.
"It's no problem. You want me to take him or do you got it?" She asked, already knowing the answer.
"No, I've got it." Emily replied with a smile.
"OK, dinner should be ready in about 20 minutes or so." JJ said. She watches Emily for a little bit longer and smiles.
Noticing JJ is watching her, she looks over and says "What?"
"Nothing." JJ replied. "I was just thinking, with how well you did with Henry this past weekend, and right now, that you will make a great mom some day."
"Thanks Jen." Emily said.
JJ smiles. "I want you to know, and you don't have stop if you don't want because honestly it doesn't bother when you do it, but you started calling me Jen again. I actually kind of like it. Reminds me of my sister. She was the first person to start calling me JJ, but then everyone else did too, so she went back to calling me Jen. After she died. I wouldn't let anyone else outside of my immediate family call me anything other than JJ."
"Oh Jayje. I didn't know that's why you avoided it and always insisted on JJ. Thanks for opening up like that. Well, if it makes you feel any better, I will be doing a little of that myself on Friday. I already told Pen I've got something I wanted to tell you two so, come Friday night, I will be doing some opening up myself." Emily tells her.
"You mean to tell me Pen has known something like this was coming and she hasn't bothered me to bother you to try to get it out?" JJ asked.
"Nope, I asked her not to bring it up at work. Doing just that would just cause me to close up and then nothing would get said and she knows that." Emily replied.
JJ nods understandingly. Emily being bothered about something is the fastest way to get her to put up her walls. She is pulled out of her thoughts by a timer going off in the kitchen. She gets up, and says to Emily on her way to the kitchen "I should have everything ready in just a few minutes. Can you get him in his chair and ready to eat?"
"Sure thing." Emily replies. She gives Henry a slight shake and asks "You ready to go and eat Little Man?" He nods his head yes. and she gets up and follows JJ into the kitchen hitting pause on the remote.
It doesn't take them long for them to eat. Henry of course wears just as much as he ate. Which causes JJ and Emily to laugh, which in turn causes Henry to make an even bigger mess. But they all enjoyed themselves and for the most part kept the conversation light. After they get most of the dishes cleaned up JJ looks at Emily and asks "So finish cleaning up in here, or get Henry cleaned up?"
"Well since you did all the cooking, I can clean everything up while you take care of Henry. Then we can go back and finish watching the movie with him while we have dessert." Emily said.
"Sounds good." She turns to Henry "Come on baby, let's go get your bath real quick so you can finish The Land Before Time." Henry cheers and claps which cause more sauce to splatter.
Emily gets the dishes cleaned up, washed and put away. She has sliced up the cake she brought and has a couple of pieces on plates ready to eat. Within a couple of minutes of her putting everything away, she hears JJ and Henry coming back from his bath.
When she catches sight of JJ, she just laughs. "Looks like you tried to take a bath with him. Next time you should try it without clothes. At least you could actually get cleaned yourself."
"Ha ha ha." JJ said sarcastically. "I'm going to go get changed real quick. Why don't you go ahead and take him back to the family room and start the movie again. I will be there in a few." JJ puts Henry down on the floor.
"Alright. Grab your dessert when you come back through. Lets go Little Man." Emily said to Henry, "Go hop on the couch." she is carrying her dessert with her.
Henry takes off towards the couch with Emily following, while JJ heads upstairs to get changed. Henry climbs up on the couch as Emily hits play on the movie. She sits down on the couch, this time pulling her feet up underneath her. As she does Henry moves over to her, so she picks him up and sets him in her lap where they are both comfortable, and she can feed him some of the cake.
It doesn't take JJ long to join them on the couch. "So Henry, how is the cake?" she asks him.
"Mmm" is all she gets out of him, which causes both the girls to laugh.
"Well then that's good enough for me." She said and takes her first bite. She closes her eyes and moans. "Ooo. Whats it called? Em, this is probably the best dessert I've ever tasted. "
"Its most commonly know as Better Than Sex Cake. And, I will pass on the complement. I went ahead and placed an order for some assortment platters to be delivered to my place for girls night. Its going to be great. Pen is going to love the stuff this guy makes. Everything is high quality restaurant desserts, without the price. He can do some extremely exotic desserts you've never heard of which are great. But he really does the more common desserts which your average customer can afford best. He does have some high standing clientele, like my mother for one. He does some other politicians as well. He isn't hurting for business, that's for sure." Emily explained.
"You are going to have to show me where this place is. I would love to go in there sometime and maybe order something. But as to it being better than sex, I don't know. If it's the right person, sex can be amazing." JJ said.
"Well, until you find the right person, it's a great substitute. I figured after Pen tries some of the stuff off the platters I will get Friday, I would have to show you both where it is." Emily said with a smile.
They sit in silence finishing the dessert and the movie. At the credits of the movie, JJ gets up and takes Emily's plate and heads to the kitchen to clean up the last couple of dishes. Emily takes Henry to stat playing with some of his toys to pass the time. JJ comes back and stands in the doorway watching how great Emily is with Henry. She was right earlier, Emily will make a great mother.
Considering some of the stories she has heard about Emily's childhood, it's kind of a wonder Emily even knows how to be a mother. Only explanation left for that is it had to be the hired help that taught her her mothering skills.
JJ watches as the two of the two of them building things from Henry's blocks, so he jump into the them and knock them over as he giggles up a storm, only to do it all over again. It doesn't take long before Henry starts to get tired.
She glances at her watch and realizes it already 8:30. "Alright baby." JJ says to Henry. "It's almost bedtime. Lets get your stuff cleaned up so we can go read you a story."
Everyone cleans up the toys. Well, not so much as clean up as to get everything out of the way for now. JJ picks up Henry and starts to the stairs. "M'on Emmy." Henry said waving his hand for her to follow. They all go up to Henry's room where he is tucked into bed. JJ grabs the book and sits down on one side of the bed and opens the book. Henry starts patting the other side of the bed. "Emmy" is all he says as she makes her way to that side and sits down.
Henry snuggles between the two women, holding on to both of them as JJ starts to read the story. It doesn't take long before Henry is starting to fall asleep. JJ keeps reading knowing it will take a little bit before Henry starts to relax into his sleep.
Emily realized just how tired she was when she starts to relax to the sound of JJ reading to him. The next thing she notices is that JJ stopped reading, and hasn't been for a few minutes now.
"When did you stop?" Emily asked.
"About 10 minutes ago." replied JJ.
"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked.
"Because you were too cute sleeping there protectively over Henry like he was your own." She couldn't help but say that with a smile, and a very seductive one at that.
"Well I guess I can head home, it is almost 9 and we both have work tomorrow." Emily said.
"OK. Let me walk you out." They both got up and headed down the stairs. "Did you want to take the cake with you? JJ asked.
"No, keep it. Enjoy eating over the next couple days." Emily said.
They make it to the door. But before Emily unlocks it and opens the door, she turns around. "Thanks for dinner. It was fun."
"Not a problem. Henry was really insistent, and you're so good with him. A natural really. I enjoyed sitting back watching the two of you play together. Or the way you held him watching the movie." JJ said.
"It was my pleasure. He is a great kid, and you're not too shabby as a cook." Emily said with a grin. "I've eaten a lot worse at 5 star restaurant or my mothers political gatherings."
JJ bursts out laughing "Gee thanks, I think."
"I'm serious. There's nothing I love more than simple elegance. And I apply that to all parts of my life, be it food, dating, friends, clothes, so on and so forth. Money and power are not the keys to my happiness." Emily explained. JJ knew this was the way it was for Emily, because of the way she lived. But she felt like Emily was talking about her personally, and she starts getting a bit nervous. She didn't even have time to try to get into media liaison mode. Emily did notice the change. "Jen whats wrong?" she asked.
"Em," JJ starts.
"Yeah Jen?" Emily said.
JJ steps up and hugs Emily. Emily hugs her back. JJ doesn't release the hug, but instead says barely louder than a whisper "Whatever happens next, don't think any less of me."
JJ pulls back and see a slightly confused look on Emily's face. JJ cups Emily's face ever so lovingly. "So beautiful." she murmurs. Slight recognition appears in Emily's eye, just as JJ pulls Emily into a kiss.
Needless to say, Emily was surprised, but she wasn't about to let this opportunity pass by. She allowed her hands to roam, one arm snaking around JJ's waist and pulling her closer. The other going up and into JJ's hair, allowing her deepen the kiss.
Emily's tongue brushed against the blondes lips, and JJ gave her access. Both giving and taking equally, neither trying to take complete control. Both wanting this kiss to last for eternity. Next thing Emily realizes is JJ's hand started to wonder. As one made it around her waist and grabbed her ass, the other stopped and was cupping her breast.
Emily couldn't help the moan that escaped her throat.
They both pull away, the only reason is because they needed to breath. JJ looks at Emily and asks "So?"
That one little word held so many different questions Emily answered the only way she could. "Tonight is way better than the girls night on Friday will ever be."
"Emily." She heard and all of a sudden it felt like she was being shaken. "Hey, Emily. Wake up."
Emily's eyes flutter open and she sees she is still in Henry's room and JJ is standing over her with her hands on Emily's shoulders. "Hey, you started moaning. And apparently you fell asleep while I was ready to Henry too. I decided to wake you up when you started that. Didn't know if you were having a nightmare or something." JJ said.
"Oh, yeah." Emily said, instantly deciding not to tell her what she had actually dreamt about. "What time is it?" she asked.
"Little after 9." JJ replied.
"Damn, I probably need to head home." Emily said.
"Come on then, I will walk you out." JJ said and leads the way downstairs.
Emily follows hoping this doesn't turn into a groundhogs day type reoccurring dream. That would just be too much for her. JJ gets to the door and opens it. As she steps aside, she puts a hand on Emily's shoulder and says "Thanks for coming for dinner. It means a lot to me that you would do it for Henry."
"Not a problem JJ. I will see you at work tomorrow." Emily said and step up, giving JJ a hug. JJ hugs her back briefly and then steps back. Emily then walks out the door and towards her car. JJ waits until Emily climbs in to close the door.