Different Measures – Part Eleven
Authors Note: Not many people have been reviewing lately :[
If you read this, please take two seconds to review.
It encourages me to write.
I'm surprised with the reviews I even got, but they're starting to slack.
I feel like people don't like it anymore, I would like you to tell me whether or not you do.
Because I would like to make it better if it's not really good.
PEOPLE AREN'T REVIEWING. Come on guys. There are AT LEAST 48 people who visit this story A DAY.
And All I get is two reviews. Thanks to the people that reviewed, but COME ON GUYS.
You can do better than that.
Usually I'll go and comment you're stories, too if you have any. So Review this and I'll review one of your stories. Ok?
Anyway, here you go...
BY THE WAY- I was thinking of doing a One-Shot with ANY couple that YOU GUYS choose. It can be JJ/Spencer, JJ/Derek, JJ/Rossi, JJ/Hotch, Emily/Hotch, Emily/Spencer, Emily/Derek, Emily/Rossi. LET ME KNOW IN YOUR REVIEW.
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JJ let out a sigh and looked at him. "It's something that you don't have to worry about, Derek. It concerns me and no one else. I'll tell you when I have it situated, but for now, let's just leave it at that." JJ was only talking about the promotion she got offered with the Pentagon. She couldn't tell her about the other thing, just yet. JJ looked at him, hoping he would leave it at that.
Derek saw he expression on her face and nodded, he felt hurt, obviously. But knew that fighting it would only make everything worse, whatever it is; he knows it doesn't involve another guy or anything of that nature. He knew that it was just part of JJ's ways not to let people worry about things until she, herself, doesn't need to worry about it anymore. "Alright, JJ. I trust that you've got it under control. And if you don't, you know where I am." JJ smiled at him.
"I know. Thanks Derek." she said as she walked over to the desk. "How many cases did you look over?"
"20." he said as he stood up. "So you, my little J, are free to go." JJ raised her eyebrows. Little J?
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"So I was thinking that maybe tonight we could go out to eat, like on a real date." Derek said to JJ, it was the next morning. They were both making themselves coffee, JJ feeling sick to her stomach.
"Yeah," she said as she looked down at her coffee. "That sounds great."
"Morning." Rossi said as he walked into the room to get himself a cup of coffee.
"Morning, Dave." Derek said.
"Morning." JJ mumbled as she put her coffee cup down and rushed to the bathroom. Rossi looked up at Derek who was looking at JJ rushing to the bathroom, puzzled.
"Was it something I said?" Rossi asked him.
JJ let out a sigh and she wiped her mouth off and looked in the mirror while washing her hands. She dried her hands and let out a deep breath before opening the door. She walked out and saw Derek walking over to her, she cursed at him in her head.
"Are you feeling okay? You kinda rushed out of there?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just had to pee really bad, that's all." Derek nodded slowly, JJ hated lying to him, but that's all she could really do right now. "Where are you taking me tonight?" she asked after making sure no one could hear them.
"It's a surprise." he said with a smile. "I'll pick you up 7?" he asked, JJ nodded as they walked into their offices.
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The whole day JJ tried not to eat every muffin, doughnut, cheeseburger, sandwich, and even carrots in sight. Every time she opened the fridge to grab some water she almost started drooling. The same thing happened as she was out to eat with Derek.
JJ scanned the menu, everything looked delicious. She felt like she could eat everything... oh except Escargot, she tried that one time and she was not falling for that, no matter how exotic the name sounds. She ended up ordering a spaghetti and chicken pram dish with a side salad, which isn't usually part of her meals. She also ate about 6 pieces of bread. She didn't even realize it because they were talking, but noticed it was empty and cursed at herself in her head.
"I had a really great time tonight," JJ said as he walked her to her door and she opened the door. He smiled at her.
"I did too." he said as he leaned in to kiss her, JJ smiled and kissed him. A couple seconds later they pulled away. JJ smiled at him and pecked his lips once more.
"Bye." she said with a smile as she shut the door. She let out a breath and walked into the kitchen to get a snack.
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Derek got into work regular time and went through a few case files and answered emails and went on FaceBook in an hour. He went to get another cup of coffee and passed JJ's office on the way, she wasn't there. He raised his eyebrows and walked into Hotch's office, the door was open anyway.
"Where's JJ?" he asked Hotch who was looking through a case file.
"She had a doctors appointment or something. She said she'd be here by 10:30."
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JJ made her way into the office at 10:20, stopping in to see Penelope with her favorite drink.
"Hey there beautiful!" Penelope said as she walked in, JJ smiled at her and handed Penelope her drink. "Thanks JJ." she said with a smile as she took a sip.
"No problem. I'll see you later." JJ said as she walked out and went the punch in, then walked to Hotch's office. "I'm here, did you get any cases while I was gone?" she asked him.
"I just got a call from the detective of the Police Station in Stafford. There have been two murders of a man and a woman in the town. I was just about to get the team together." Hotch said as he stood up and grabbed papers from the fax machine. "Read through this and make a presentation. You have 5 minutes." he said as he walked towards the door and walked out. JJ walked into her office and put a presentation together. She looked at the time, 7 minutes later. She groaned as she brought her computer in the conference room, everyone was settling in when she hooked the computer up to make the presentation. 10 minutes later everyone had the gist of the case, it was only 20 minutes away so they didn't have to go on a plane. Which JJ was thankful for. JJ rode in the car with Emily and Derek; Rossi, Hotch and Spencer rode in their own car.
"How did it go at the doctors?" Emily asked as JJ and her got into the car, JJ told Emily yesterday after they left she was going to the doctors, mainly because she needed to tell someone and Penelope would have freaked out about it. Derek got in the car and glanced at the two of them while starting the car.
"I'll tell you about it later." JJ said as she looked at Derek as he followed Hotch's car. She looked down at the case file and read it through again, making sure she knew every detail about it. This whole situation was completely awkward, they were sitting in silence.
"Do you really expect me to sit here in silence after you hiding that bit of information to me?" Derek cracked, he'd been thinking about asking her politely when they weren't in the car with Emily, but seeing as she already knew, he didn't hesitate. JJ and Emily both shot their attention to him. "You said yesterday it didn't involve me, JJ. If you're pregnant or something I think it involves me." JJ looked at him, she had been ask shocked as Emily was. Except JJ was shocked that he said that and Emily was shocked about what she was hearing, the fact that it would concern him if she was pregnant, then it all hit her. "Unless.." his voice trailed off not wanting to finish the sentence.
"Oh my god, Derek. Don't think that. I'm not a whore." JJ said to him, Derek was relieved. "I can't believe you'd bring any of this up right now. This is not the time and place."
"You lied to me yesterday." Derek said to her, knowing he should probably stop talking anyway.
"I wasn't even talking about that, Derek. I told you. This is not the time and place. We said we wouldn't talk about this stuff during work hours, and, guess what Derek. It's work hours and Emily is here." JJ said to him.
"I thought she knew..."
"Yeah, that I was pregnant. Not that it was yours." JJ said with a sigh. Derek looked out the window and focused on the road, he figured it would just do so much worse to continue talking. Emily looked at the two of them and then down at her cell phone. Is this seriously happening?
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After the news Derek got, he tried not to talk to JJ about it because it would take them away from their work. JJ was upset about how he found out, she knew he wasn't stupid. But she just wished they weren't in this situation. Emily decided it would be best not to even think about it, or tell anyone for that matter. But she knew she had to say something to them eventually, so they wouldn't think she was going to go tell everyone what they were dealing with. She waited until the her and JJ were alone at the police station in the room, Rossi and Hotch went to check out a crime scene, Derek went with Spencer.
"JJ..." she said, JJ looked up at her. "I just want to let you know that I wont tell anyone on the team, but you should tell them before they find out. I know it must be hard and I'll be here for you if you need me." JJ let out a half smile and nodded.
"Thanks, Em. I just don't know how this is going to work out." JJ said with a sigh as she put the pictures of the victims up on the board and wrote their names next to it.
"You'll be able to figure it out, you're such a strong person, JJ." Emily said to her, she didn't make it up either; she admired JJ's strength. JJ let out a smile and a laugh.
"Thanks." she said as she looked at the victims and the dates they were killed. She pondered the ideas flowing through her head, they were both done on the first Monday of the month, each exactly a month apart. Hotch called her 30 minutes later after gathering information from Derek and Spencer, telling her they had a profile for the unsub, when they got back JJ had already told the media about it and the team informed the officers about it, telling them what to look for. They talked to the victims family and friends, but couldn't find a connection.
After a few hours of more investigating, another couple was murder, which set their profile off because the unsub just murdered the past couple less than 24 hours ago. JJ and Derek went to the crime scene, which gave them time to talk.
"And don't try to protect me by making me stay at the station all the time, unless I want to." JJ said after they had an apology conversation and stuff. Derek smiled and shook his head as he pulled up to the crime scene.
Another Authors Note:
So I wanted to add this authors note to,
just because I didn't want to give anything away in the beginning.
I know this chapter sucked and I'm sorry.
But I have a question, I have a couple ideas on how this could go.
Either JJ has a miscarriage somehow if you don't like the way this is going.
And it can continue with the whole relationship thing(Which probably wont be as interesting AND
will end earlier)
OR
JJ wont have a miscarriage and she'll still have the baby.
Which means they'll have to tell the team, deal with Strauss, ect.
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