Friends with Benefits – Part Eight
Authors Note: So the last part was more of a filler, I guess. The next part gets in the gritty stuff that we know and love... JJ/Morgan may get it on again, but you'll have to read and review in order to find out.
I usually get about 9 reviews each part, but the last two parts I haven't been getting as many reviews as I normally do, so can you guys please change that? I wanna know what you think! Thanks :]
"I think this is the only time we're allowed to consume alcohol while on the job," Emily mentioned as she walked behind JJ, who was grabbing a glass of wine from the bartender, JJ looked at her.
"Oh, I know right." JJ said as Emily told the bartender what she wanted. It was a much needed glass of wine though, JJ stressed with the situation, but she could handle it. Not to mention she's working on about 5 hours of sleep and has a pile of case files she is supposed to finish by the next morning.
"Just be careful, Hotch is watching us very closely." Emily reminded as she took the wine glass from the bartender and took a sip. "We should come to things like this more often. The wine is great." she said, JJ laughed and nodded. If the wine wasn't complimentary, they most likely wouldn't have been able to afford a glass.
"Well, if we do, I am not being Morgan's fake wife. Do you know how weird it is to have him flirt with me? It's like he's talking to Garcia, except less playful. I almost threw up." JJ scoffed as she took a sip of the wine, Emily laughed. JJ normally didn't mind him flirting, but Derek was doing it in a taunting way that was making her not like it that much. "Hotch keeping his hands to himself?" JJ asked with sarcasm in her voice, she knew Hotch was keeping his hands to himself, for the most part. He occasionally would put a hand on her shoulder when talking directly to her and he put his hand on her upper back, just to fit the part of a husband and wife.
"Barely." Emily said sarcastically, JJ smiled. "Well, Hotch told me to check up on you. I should probably get back to him. Tell your new husband I said hi." JJ rolled her eyes.
"Will do." JJ replied through her teeth, Emily smiled and put her hand on JJ's back to show a truths and that she meant well, even though JJ knew that. JJ smiled as Emily grabbed the other glass that was on the table and headed back to Hotch with both glasses of wine. JJ shrugged and headed towards Derek, who was in the middle of talking to a couple.
"Hey there..." JJ said as she walked over to them.
"Speaking of the devil..." Derek smiled as he looked at JJ. "This is my wife, Jennifer." he said, JJ smiled at them as they introduced themselves to her and then moved onto other people to mingle with, Derek glanced down at the glass JJ had in her hand.
"Oh, I'm sorry sweetie. Did you want one?" JJ taunted him with a big smile, Derek rolled his eyes and looked around the room. Derek put his hand on her right hip and pulled her to him, JJ's eyes widened and she became stiff.
"I think we found 'em." Derek whispered in her ear. "To your left. They're scoping everyone out here, trying to find someone of interest to them." he observed, JJ let out a small, unnoticeable sigh of relief as he guided her to their left. "Follow my lead." Derek told her as they walked over to the table where the finger foods were. "I know you don't want to put our money into anything, but I think it could be good for us in the future." Derek said, a little bit on the louder side, JJ narrowed her eyes at him; she figured out what he was doing, and as he asked, she followed along.
"I know that's what you think. But I don't know it's the right thing for us. It's a lot of money into one thing." JJ explained to him, in an annoyed tone of voice, the couple they spotted both looked over at them and look interested. "Whatever," She said as she shook her head. "I don't want to talk about this right now." JJ said as she took a sip of her drink. Derek shut his eyes and shook his head as he let out a groan.
"Find anything interesting?" the man mentioned as he walked over, it was obvious that he was trying to make it seem like he hadn't heard or seen anything. He was just trying to break the ice and figured asking if they found any of the lectures they just sat through interesting.
"Interesting?" JJ laughed with obvious sarcasm in her voice as she took a sip of her wine. Derek looked over at JJ and then to the man with a small smile.
"We have a few things to talk about." Derek said with a nod, the man nodded, understanding what he meant. JJ put her drink down.
"I'm gonna run to the bathroom." JJ said as she smiled at the man and then gave Derek a quick glance before heading to the bathroom. Derek could tell by the look on her face that she wasn't actually upset with him, like she pretended to be. Derek let out a groan and rolled his eyes as he looked over at JJ.
"Woman are..." the male began, being sure to catch Derek's attention before continuing. "So full of passion..." he reminisced with a smirk as he watched JJ walk away, Derek could see his eyes move up and down her body. Derek felt his teeth push together as he opened his mouth to let out a quiet sigh. "Sometimes I wish that passion stayed in the bedroom, though." he added, Derek raised his head slowly and nodded in agreement, all the while continuing to grit his teeth, being sure the man didn't take notice of his annoyance at the way he looked at JJ. If they weren't undercover or on the job and this guy said that while undressing JJ with his eyes, he'd be sure to talk some sense into him. But Derek kept his cool, knowing he just needed to start talking to him about something along the lines of investments, make a deal with him and his wife and they'd be locked up for life. Derek cleared his throat but the man didn't even hear him. Derek thought this guy was unbelievable, he was clearly checking JJ out with him right there. He had some nerve.
"Whoa, man, what are you doin'?" Derek asked him as he put his hand on his shoulder and turned him towards him. The man turned around and looked at him. Derek then realized what was going on and stopped himself from saying anything more.
"I'm sorry, I didn't notice." he apologized. Derek let out a small sigh and shrugged. He didn't know what had gotten into him. He just didn't want anyone to look at JJ like she was a piece of meat. Derek knew he had to break the ice with him, even if he did have to push himself to. Across the room, Emily and Hotch both noticed Derek and JJ's little fight Hotch asked Emily to check in with JJ and see what was going on. Emily walked in the bathroom and headed to JJ, who was washing her hands.
"What's up?" Emily asked as she approached JJ and pulled her cellphone out, something she'd been dying to do for the past 3 hours.
"Morgan thinks we found them, but we still have to get them talking to make sure." JJ explained as she dried her hands, Emily smiled and laughed as she looked down at her phone. "Who's that?" JJ asked as she tossed the used paper towel in the trash
"Garcia." Emily saidas she shook her head. "She just says not to do anything naughty with our pretend husbands. Nothing that she wouldn't do anyway." Emily said as she texted back, JJ rolled her eyes and shook her head with a smirk. She wasn't really thinking about her and Derek's situation until then, it seemed to slip her mind for some reason they were pretending to be husband and wife. As awkward as it was... "I'll go let Hotch know..." Emily said as she headed out of the bathroom, JJ nodded as she watched her go, checked her appearance in the mirror before she left and headed back to where she left Derek.
"This is my wife, Jennifer." Derek said as JJ stood next to him, JJ smiled at them.
"I'm Chuck," he smiled as he grabbed her hand; JJ gave him a polite smile as he stared into her eyes. It made her uncomfortable, but she didn't let it show as she smiled and pulled her hand away. "And this is my wife, Sidney." he said pointing the woman at his side.
JJ turned her attention to the woman and shook her hand, and smiled as Derek shook hers too after.
"Chuck was just telling me about his and his wife's company, Powell Enterprise and how it's been very beneficial to their clients." Derek explained as he smiled at JJ, who raised her head and eyebrows as she nodded slowly. Derek laughed a little. "We'll have to talk about it." He said as he looked over at Chuck, who nodded and was about to go into details about his and Sidney's company when he was cut off by the event's emcee.
"At this time we'd like to start clearing everybody out. Thank you all for coming and have a good night." the same person who was running the event said into a microphone. Everyone started saying their goodbyes immediately after.
"Do you have a card or somethin', so we can get together and talk a little more about this?" Derek asked, he was almost sure that these people where indeed their unsubs, if they had more time to talk he'd know for sure that they were. JJ gathered that he thought they were the unsubs when he asked, otherwise he wouldn't have asked for a card.
"Of course," Chuck said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small card, he flicked his middle finger on it and handed it to him with a smile. JJ raised her eyebrows as he smirked at her. JJ knew he was trying to show off. JJ and Derek then both glanced towards the door, noticing Emily and Hotch heading out the door, Hotch nodding at both of them when they noticed him.
"Alright, thanks man." Derek said as he grabbed it and smiled. "Nice meetin' you." he said, Chuck nodded.
"It was nice to meet you too, Jennifer." He said as he reached his hand out, JJ smiled and grabbed onto it and shook it.
"Nice meeting you too." she said as he brought her hand up and kissed the top of it, JJ swallowed hard as she looked at him, feeling the corners of his lips turn into a smirk as he looked up at her. As JJ averted her gaze to Derek, he felt his hand clench into a fist. Thoughts about punching this guy in the face crossed his mind, but only for a second. Derek cleared his throat and Chuck let JJ's hand go.
"It was nice meeting you," Sidney said as she shook Derek and then JJ's hand.
"You too." JJ said as she casually wiped the back of her hand where Chuck had kissed it and glanced at Derek.
"See you guys soon." Derek said as he gave them a smile and wrapped his arm around JJ's waist to guide her towards the door. Both of them could hear Sidney's voice, lecturing her husband about his little kissing JJ on the hand trick. Once they were out of their eye line JJ pulled away and walked ahead of Derek, she just wanted to get out of there. One, her heals were killing her and two, Chuck had gone above and beyond both getting on her nerves and creeping her out. Sure, she was used to guys acting like that, but she'd rather it not happen on the job, or in front of Derek. It just made everything awkward. "Hey JJ.." Derek said as he caught up to her, touching her arm lightly, causing JJ to stop. "Are you okay?" he asked her in a concerned tone, JJ nodded.
"Yeah, Derek, I'm fine." JJ replied as she looked towards the room they had just come from and then back at him. "Can we just go?" she asked, Derek nodded and they resumed walking out of the building and towards the car. Derek thought there was something wrong, judging by her body language. He thought that maybe Chuck had gotten on her nerves, but he wasn't entirely sure. The car was already started when they walked up to it, both of them got into the back seat as Emily was already in the front passenger's seat.
"I see what you pulled on me there, Prentiss." Derek said as he got into the car, Emily laughed as JJ got in and shut the door.
"We all set?" Hotch asked as he looked behind him at Derek and JJ, who nodded at him so he put the car in reverse and pulled out of the parking lot. "How did everything go? You think they're the unsubs?" Hotch asked.
"I'm pretty sure..." Derek reported. "The male... Chuck is very confident and persuasive. He fits the type... He was quick to build rapport with me..." he then paused for a second. "Talking about women and their passion, him wishing it would stay in the bedroom." Derek explained, he stopped himself from thinking that maybe he shouldn't mention it or the next part in front of JJ but not reporting to Hotch what went down wouldn't benefit their profile. "And he was quick to take an interest in JJ, even though his wife was right there. It just fuels his ego, regardless of what she says to him about it afterword's." Derek explained. "Any luck with you guys?"
"Someone asked Hotch if he was my father." Emily said with the biggest smile, Derek laughed loudly and JJ smirked.
"What'd you say to that, Pops?" Derek asked with a smirk.
"Careful, he is your boss." Emily joked as she laughed and looked over at Hotch, who looked back at Derek through the rear-view mirror. Derek just smiled. "Don't worry, Hotch. That dude was just commenting on how young I look. Don't I look like I'm 20 years old again?" Emily said as she looked back at JJ, who laughed and shook her head.
"I'm pretty sure he wasn't." Hotch said in his usual serious tone, Emily dropped her jaw, but her eyes screamed excitement and JJ 'ooo'd and Derek chuckled.
"Whoa, Hotch, bringin' it back." Derek commented, causing Hotch to smile. He looked over at Emily, making sure that she was smiling. Emily knew he was joking, everyone knew Hotch's sense of humor. JJ's phone interrupted the laughter as she looked down at it.
"It's Reid..." JJ said as she pressed the touch screen where it said 'answer' and brought it to her ear. "Hey Spence..." JJ answered, she did wonder why Spencer called her, when he was with Rossi, who would usually call Hotch for anything.
"Hey, JJ. Uhm, I just wanted to let you guys know that Rossi and I are at the hotel... and normally I wouldn't be calling, but Rossi fell asleep and the concierge wont give me any of the keys.." Spencer explained, JJ squinted her eyebrows, at this point she was almost completely lost. She didn't understand why he was at the hotel. To her knowledge, they were going home.
"Oh... well, we should be back there in a few minutes... How come Rossi didn't let you in the room?" JJ asked curiously, she held back laughter in the beginning. Spencer just sounded so helpless on the other end of the phone, she didn't want to make him feel insecure. Derek and Emily were both eaves dropping, and they smiled to themselves; Derek letting out a small chuckle because it was just a typical Rossi thing to do something like that.
"He told me to go get the other keys and when I went back to tell him the concierge wouldn't give them to me because I don't have the credit card Hotch arraigned it with, the 'do not disturb' sign was on the door and when I knocked he told me he was sleeping." Spencer explained, JJ nodded while mumbling 'ah' as she began to understand. Although, she did wonder how Rossi got the key to that hotel room, but Rossi works in very mysterious ways.
"Just tell her you're FBI or something..." JJ told him as she looked over at Derek, who chuckled and shook his head.
"Hold on." Spencer said, JJ raised her eyebrows and waited as she heard Spencer start talking, explaining that he was with the FBI and didn't have the card information, JJ heard the woman apologize because she still couldn't give him the key. "She's being ridiculous." Spencer said into the phone, JJ scoffed.
"Show her your badge and don't be so nice." JJ said, Spencer let out a groan and walked back over to the front desk and grabbed his badge.
"Here is my badge, please give me the keys to the hotel room that Aaron Hotchner set up with you 5 hours ago. If you still don't believe me, I can happily get my boss on the phone right now and I'm sure he'd love to hear what this is about." Spencer explained with slight aggravation in his voice, but who wouldn't be aggravated? This woman was being completely unreasonable. JJ laughed a little, it was always exciting to see Spencer get angry like that.
"Of course, I'm sorry about the misunderstanding, sir." the concierge replied, JJ smiled. Spencer replied with a nice thank you, causing JJ to let out a small laugh.
"I see it worked." JJ smiled. Spencer raised his eyebrows as the concierge handed him the room cards.
"Yeah... Did Hotch tell you we only have 3 hotel rooms?"
