JJ had a busy morning, getting things ready for work. She had a lot to do today, they had to write up the case they'd just completed, and she knew she had a full day of work ahead of her. She had loaded the car and came back in to take Henry out, ready for to take him as part of her routine now. She'd almost made it out the door, when she heard a knock. Peeking out, she seen it was Will. Sighing, she opened the door, not standing back to let him in.
"Hi Will", she said in what she hoped was a calm tone.
"JJ, aren't you going to let me in? We have some things to talk about."
"I'm running late for work, Will. Henry and I were just leaving, and I don't have time right now."
"You see, JJ, that's always been the problem. You never have time. Always having to run off to work, leaving us behind." he commented, giving JJ that look that told her she needed to get out of there, or this was going to be an hour long diatribe about her work.
"Well, Will, it's called earning an income. I have to work to support my son. And you aren't going to make me late. If you want to talk later, discuss some kind of visitation schedule, come by tonight. I'll give you a call when I'm headed for home, we can talk then.", JJ compromised, just wanting him out of here.
Surprisingly, Will agreed to it, which surprised the heck out of JJ. Picking up his son to give him a kiss, Will said goodbye to both of them. It was things like that that made JJ see the old Will, the one who didn't complain all the time, the one she had fallen in love with. Placing Henry into his car seat, she grabbed her purse and headed out the door.
Arriving at the FBI daycare, she deposited her son, kissing him goodbye. She headed up to the BAU, determined to get to work. Stopping for coffee first, she ran into Emily Prentiss, who had arrived shortly before her. Smiling and chatting as they got their coffee, JJ was in an extraordinarily good mood. Emily eyed her suspiciously, because she knew JJ usually needed at least 2 cups of coffee in the morning to get to this level of goodness. JJ headed to her office, Prentiss took a seat at her desk, eying the closed door of the media liason. Derek Morgan arrived shortly thereafter, and Emily decided to ask him if he knew anything.
"What's up with Miss Mary Sunshine in there? It's like she's been taken over by something! She's quite happy and smiling today, it's been a long time since we've seen JJ like this. What did I miss? What happened with her?" Emily questioned the just arrived agent.
Derek chuckled, setting his stuff down before heading to get his morning cup of coffee. Coming back and settling in, he leaned forward to talk to Emily.
"I have it on good authority that JJ broke up with Will. That might explain the good mood and cheerfulness." he told her.
"Really? Wow, I can't believe that. She's so happy about it. How did I not notice she was having problems with Will?" Emily pouted.
"Um, don't you remember all the phone calls while we were on this case? Rossi sniping at her, and Hotch laying into both of them? What kind of profiler are you?" Morgan laughed.
Throwing a pen at him, Emily just snorted. "Well, ditching your baby daddy doesn't account for it all. JJ's remarkably happy given the fact she kicked her man out. Something else is up, and I for one, will find out what it is."
"Prentiss, just leave it alone for now. The woman is the most relaxed we've seen since she had Henry. Just let her enjoy herself for now."
Just then, David Rossi arrived in the BAU. The two agents kept up their line of talk though, saying to Rossi that their media liason appeared to be in a terrific mood, and wondered why, give how miserable she'd been in the past few months.
Rossi chuckled to himself, thinking he just may have had a little to do with JJ's improved mood, but instead he played along.
"I don't know, I just know she broke up with Will, that's about it. I was always happy after my breakups with my ex. You'd be surprised how much better you feel when you aren't being told on a continual basis what a bad person you are for doing your job." he told them.
Morgan and Prentiss stared at him, wondering how he'd gotten that piece of information. Morgan spoke first "You mean to say that Will was telling her she was a bad mom? Is that what you are getting at?"
"Something along those lines. All those phone calls that I finally got upset about, it was him telling her to come home, that the job was making her a bad mom for being away from Henry."
Prentiss spoke next. "How long was that going on? Why would he do that to her?"
Rossi let out a sigh, he wasn't going to tell anything else, so he simply stated "It's not my place to say anymore. I guess JJ just snapped while we were in Colorado and told him enough was enough. Any other details, you are going to have to go to her for."
Taking his leave of the two agents, Rossi entered his office and settled in. Thinking of the blonde beauty in the nearby office, he thought that maybe he would go over and find out why she was in such a good mood today, hoping he might have something to do with it. First though, he had some work to do, and as much as he would like to question JJ, he thought he should get some stuff done first. When it came to her, he knew she wouldn't appreciate any deviation from the normal, because he'd been told that things were to be quiet between the two of them.
As he sat there, he also realized that look in Prentiss' eye when they'd been chatting. Prentiss was not convinced it was just the breakup making JJ happy, and he had a feeling that JJ was going to be questioned and prodded by the dark-haired profiler. At least he could give her a heads up on that, and decided to call JJ to his office to chat. He got up to look down on the team, first though, to see where they were. Seeing Prentiss wasn't down there, and that Morgan was on the phone, he closed his blinds, then he picked up the phone. If nothing else, at least maybe he could figure out why she was in such a good mood on this particular day.