This is super short and I am so very sorry. I should have another – longer – one up either tomorrow or Wednesday, Thursday at the latest.
JJ wrung her hands together nervously. She paced once more outside of Morgan's apartment then knocked impatiently on the door. Henry was with his father for the weekend and JJ was sick of Emily ignoring her. She had called and informed Morgan that she was coming over and he had promised to make himself scarce to give them some time to talk to each other.
The door opened and Emily looked up at JJ in shock. It immediately disappeared from her face as the girl's compartments went up and her face went neutral. JJ wanted to slap her.
"Hello JJ, umm Morgan just left like a minute ago..." Emily began.
"I know, I told him to go for a run." JJ said coldly as she pushed inside past Emily. She heard the brunette close the door and turned around to face her. "You and I are going to talk. Face to face. It has been four days Em. You left. Without a single word you left and you've been ignoring me and you won't tell me why. You owe me that. I have no idea what I did to make you angry but you are going to talk to me about it."
"JJ...I..." Emily started to say, her voice sounding small.
JJ interrupted her. "No Em! I AM YOUR FRIEND! I came back to help save your life. I spent months lying to our friends, comforting them, trying to make them feel better because of you! Reid cried in my arms for weeks. I could have told him you were alive, I could have taken his pain away but I didn't, for you. I...I...you're my best friend and I love you and I have never been more angry at you in my life." JJ's voice broke and she wiped the tears out of her eyes angrily. She hadn't been looking at Emily's face, she knew it would only make her cry more; but now she looked down and met Emily's eye and it broke her heart.
The small girl had been silently sobbing the entire time.
"Em..." JJ bent down and pulled Emily into a hug, despite Emily's small protests, JJ held her tightly. After a second of resisting, Emily clung to JJ and wept. "You're okay Emily, you're okay." JJ murmured, rubbing Emily's back and hugging her. The two of them remained like that for a good twenty minutes, after it seemed like Emily was all cried out, she pushed away from JJ gently and stepped back, putting her arms around herself.
"I'm sorry." She whispered. "I'm not...I wasn't mad at you."
"Then...what is wrong Emily?" JJ asked, baffled. She remained crouched down in front of the small girl. Emily refused to met her eye and hugged herself, staring at JJ's shoes.
"I...it sounds stupid." Emily admitted. "Reid's been yelling at me for days to tell you but I just..." She trailed off, unsure of how to explain herself.
"Reid yelled at you?" JJ asked in half-amused disbelief. To her credit, it cracked a small smile out of Emily.
"Well, not yelled but you know what I mean."
"Whatever it is, I'm sure its not stupid, just tell me." JJ asked softly.
Emily took a deep breath and hugged herself tighter. "I just...I'm not really a kid and you treat me like...you look at me me the same way you look at Henry."
"Oh Em I wasn't trying to..."
"No! I...I like it." Emily admitted. "I...I don't mean like you're embarrassing me, or talking down to me that's not...that's not what I meant. I mean...I mean that I feel like, like I'm..." Emily choked back a sob and JJ reached out to hug her but Emily back away from the blonde. "I wished you were my mom and your not. I'm not a child. I don't need a mother but I love you anyway and its not real and I'm afraid that if I stay with you any longer that it will just make me feel worse when its over. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings JJ because I never want to do that. You're my best friend too and I'm so, so sorry." Emily tried to run into Morgan's room, desperate to be far away from JJ and alone. She was terribly embarrassed, but JJ caught her and pulled her in tightly.
"Emily..." JJ sighed and sat down onto the floor, pulling Emily onto her lap and kissing her temple. "I am so incredibly sorry that your mother didn't love you properly – if I ever have the pleasure of meeting her again, I have quite a few things to say to her – but you are a child right now. No matter what happens, when this all goes back to normal, I'm not going anywhere. You're my best friend and I love you, nothing is going to change that whether you look like a six year old or a forty year old. Loving someone should never make you embarrassed, and I know you don't like people taking care of you, or seeing you as weak, but...there is nothing wrong with that Emily. You're not weak, you're the strongest woman I know."
Emily wrapped her arms around JJ's neck and a whole knew wave of tears found them both. JJ rocked the little girl and rubbed her back; that was how Morgan found them when he returned from his run. Pulling his headphones off, he glanced down at them, grinned and announced he would be in the shower. Emily and JJ burst into laughter and were still giggling when he got out.
"So, you two have made up then?" He asked with a smirk. JJ pulled Emily up and the girl ran into Morgan's room to pack her things. "Am I getting my bed back!" Morgan asked happily.
"Yes." JJ said with a smile. She stepped forward slowly, her arms behind her back and her smile sliding into a glare which caused Morgan to back up warily. "And...if you ever leave Emily or Spence alone in their child forms for hours at a time ever again, I will personally put a bullet through your thick skull." JJ smirked, pecked Morgan on the cheek and beamed as Emily came out of his room with her bag. She took Emily's hand and lead her out of the apartment and into her car. Morgan looked like he might piss himself, but slapped on an apologetic smile as they left.