CHAPTER 8!

Author's Note: Hey guys! I don't even know how long it's been since I have updated…So I am just going to catch you up. I have been brainstorming some ideas for the Emily POV of this story starting with chapter 1. I just got so caught up in that I completely forgot I wasn't finished with this yet.

**JJ's POV**

Flashbacks in Bold

In the car I couldn't get what the unsub could have been doing to Emily out of my head. I felt sick to my stomach. I was shaking, nervous, praying that she was alive and well. Just please be alive. I don't know what I would do with myself if I never got to see her again.

"Pull over," I stated

"JJ we're almost-"

"Pull the fuck over!" I cut Gideon off.

When he pulled over I got out of the car and purged my lunch. I hadn't thrown up since I was in high school with the flu. Holy shit.

"You okay, kid?" he stepped out of the car.

"Yeah, get back in."

"Alright, let's go find your girl." He said with a wink.

We got back into the car, following the GPS directions. We came to a house. Hotch, Derek, and Spence were already there. Waiting for me and Jason. They hadn't looked around, they hadn't draw their guns, what the fuck?

"Why the hell haven't you gone in? She could be dead in there, I can't even believe-"

"Hey, hey JJ calm down. We couldn't go in yet without back up."

"I don't care! Emily is in there." I screamed getting loose from his grip and going into the house. Hotch tried to stop me, but I was already inside. They came in after me.

"Jareau, this isn't-"

"Clear!" I said. I wasn't going to let Hotch have his two cents. He wanted to find Emily just as much as I did.

I heard a sound coming from upstairs, "Cover me, Derek."

"You got it, Blondie"

We started upstairs and heard muffled sounds. It sounded like people talking, but I couldn't be sure. Time seemed like it was going in slow motion as I walked up to the second door upstairs, I looked through the crack of the door, I couldn't see anything. We didn't know anything about this unsub except for his last name. If he was in there and had Emily, I was going to kill him.

I walked all the way into the room and before I knew it I was being hit over the back of the head with a very hard object. The world started to spin. I lost my footing and fell down near the bedroom door, hitting my head on that too.

I was seeing triple of everything in front of me, and then I heard Derek's voice. I guess the team had found out his credentials, because I heard Derek call him Matthew.

"Matthew Rending you are under arrest for the kidnapping of a federal agent." I passed out before I heard Derek read him his rights.

All I remember after that is being carried off by paramedics.

I kept going in and out of consciousness in the ambulance, "Where's Emily?" is the only thing I said when I was awake.

Jason was in the ambulance with me. The only thing he said was "she's going to be fine." I didn't believe him. I may not be a profiler, but I do work with them every day. Some things you just pick up on.

My eyes were blinded by the grotesque bleached light above me. I tried to open my eyes, but failed. Shifting around I realized I couldn't. I finally got my eyes open and looked around. I had spent the night with numerous wires in bed with me. I had this wicked throbbing in my head that felt like someone was hitting me in the head continuously with a hammer. Duh, that's probably what the unsub hit me in the head with.

I looked to the chairs in the room. A sleeping Spencer and pacing Garcia were before me.

"Hey," I said with a new found rasp to my voice.

One head wiped around and another shot up when they heard my voice.

"JJ," Spence said with a smile and a warm hug. "How are you feeling?"

"Horrible, my head."

"Well honey, you did get hit in the head with a hammer and fell on a door frame." Pen said sitting next to me on my bed.

"Do I have a concussion?" I said, hoping it was a no.

"And a broken collar bone," came a voice from behind Spence.

Spencer moved to the side and I saw Hotch, "Hey, Boss."

"How are you feeling?"

"Does everyone want to know that?" I said chuckling. "So, um. How is Emily?"

The room immediately got tense, no one would look me in the eye, they wouldn't even look each other in the eye.

"JJ, she… she just got out of surgery. It's 50-50 right now. We won't know anything until tomorrow morning." Hotch stated.

I felt my cheeks get warm with fresh tears. Tonight I would do something I hadn't done since I was little, pray. Pray for Emily, pray for me and Emily.

"Okay close your eyes." Emily said as she led me into her living room.

It was my birthday and I was excited to see what my secret girlfriend had in store for me.

"Surprise!" my blindfold was undone and a warm fire and candle light dinner on the living room floor were in front of me.

"Em, it's perfect." I said smiling and giving her a kiss.

After we finished dinner and had our fill of wine. Emily disappeared for a moment and came back with a long red velvet box.

"Honey, I told you no presents."

"You were serious? Want me to return it?" she said giving me that sexy, Prentiss smile.

She handed me the box and gestured for me to open it. When I did I saw a beautiful diamond bracelet with my birthstone in the middle. I looked at her, and back down at the bracelet. She took it out of the box, took me hand and attached the clasps.

I lifted it up and looked at the engraved underside. "Happy Birthday, Jennifer. I love you. –Emily"

I gasped at the statement, "Em, I love you too." I pulled her into a profound loving kiss. We moved away from the wine glasses and plates and continued to kiss.

I let her touch me, but I couldn't do it. "Emily, stop." I said about to cry.

"Hey, hey stop. I understand. Remember what I said before, you could never ever disappoint me, JJ."

"I know, I just feel like I want you so bad. I can't follow through though. How can I love you so much, and not be able to show it?"

"Maybe you're scared?"

"Scared?"

"Scared of losing me if we do sleep together," she said her striking, russet eyes watching at mine. "Jen, I can see it in your eyes. You're scared. And I can wait until you aren't anymore."

Emily pulled me into a hug, "Thank you, Em."

She kissed the top of my head, "You're welcome, baby."

"Let's go to sleep. That case was fucking hell this week."

I broke from my dream to the smell of coffee and a one Emily Prentiss sitting beside my bed.

She opened her mouth and spoke, "hey, honey."

Ending Note: Thanks for reading and reviewing! New chapter soon!

XOXO,

Kendal