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Okay, so honestly I'm not completely satisfied with this chapter but after a little encouragement I decided to post it today anyway.

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Chapter 21

Emily didn't know what to say, she hugged Garcia back. How could she know we were into each other when we didn't even know? God! Does this mean the team knows as well?

She wasn't ready for the team to know about her and JJ yet. This was so new, in so many ways and she hoped it was only Garcia who knew for now. Emily drew back from the hug and picked up the plates and carried them into the living room, Garcia followed with the take outs.

" Pen... about me and Jennifer..." Emily started, her back turned toward the computer genius.

" She let's you call her Jennifer?!" Garcia asked surprised.

" It must be pretty serious" she continued with a smug smile.

Emily turned around and faced her friend.

" I... she... she don't seem to mind..." she said and silently wondered, What if she doesn't like that I call her Jennifer? Surely she would have said something if she did...

" For as long as I've known her she's never wanted me to call her Jennifer, from what I understand, she's never really liked her name. Don't know why though, Jennifer is a beautiful name. She must reeeally love you" Garcia said, the last sentence she said in a playful kind of way.

Emily chuckled as she sat down on the couch and looked at her hands . Penelope watched her and instantly realized that what she said as sort of a joke was far from it. She sat down next to the brunette and put her hand on her arm.

" Em... you and JJ..." Garcia started. Emily looked up and met Garcia's eyes, knowing what the blonde tech analyst was silently asking.

" I'm in love with her..." Emily said softly.

" And JJ's in love with you?..." Garcia asked. Emily nodded.

" Wow... I didn't realize you actually love each other... I mean I was just goofing when I said that... but you really do huh?..." Garcia said slightly surprised. Emily nodded again.

" Pen... the team..." Emily started.

" They don't know...and I'm not gonna tell them, what you and JJ do is your business" Garcia said and squeezed Emily's arm.

" Thank you..." Emily said and smiled.

" Do you have time to eat with me or do you need to get back?" Emily asked.

" The team is in the air as we speak and wont be in Portland for several hours, but I have about 45 minutes until I need to get back to Quantico to set everything up. So I'd love to eat with you miss Prentiss" Garcia answered with a big smile.

The two women ate and chatted about random things, Garcia sensed that Emily wasn't comfortable talking about her and JJ so Garcia let it be. Though there were many questions swirling around in her mind.

After dinner Penelope helped Emily change the dressing to her wound and then she had to get going. Emily was grateful she had stopped by.

" You know it isn't me you should thank, I was just following orders" Garcia said and winked. Emily smiled and gave Penelope a hug before she left.

She put on the TV and crawled up in the corner of the couch pulling a blanket over her legs. She missed Jennifer, she missed holding her.

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JJ felt completely drained when she closed the door to her hotel room. She checked her watch and it showed 9.35 PM. She wanted to call Emily but with the time difference she would probably be asleep by now, and JJ knew she needed her rest. She held her phone tight in her hand for a minute, then she pressed the speed dial button to Emily's number. She couldn't go to sleep without hearing her voice and she knew Emily would probably be disappointed if she didn't call.

She didn't have to wait long before Emily answered.

" Hey..." Emily said with a sleepy voice.

" Hey... Did I wake you?" JJ asked softly.

" It's okay... I was waiting for you to call" Emily said.

" I wanted to call you sooner but it has been totally chaos here" JJ said.

" That bad?" Emily asked.

" Yeah, it's a really awful case Em, 10 young children has been abducted and later found brutally murdered. Now we have two missing children and time is running out..." JJ said.

" Children? I hate cases with children involved. Just how many sick people are there out there...?" Emily said and sighed.

" I don't think we wanna know... It looks like we're gonna be here for a while though, Rossi is going to present a profile tomorrow but we don't have much to go by..." JJ finished and was silent for a moment before she said, almost like a whisper.

" I miss you..."

" I miss you too..." Emily said softly.

" Did Garcia stop by?" the blonde agent asked.

" Yes she did, she said she was ordered over here with food and medical services" Emily said and smiled to herself.

" Good. I'm glad I can still wave my little wand and she'll do as I say" JJ said with a smug.

" What did you do to the poor woman anyway? She made it very clear that she did not want to get on the wrong side with you." Emily said and chuckled

" It's a looong story, I'll tell you about it some other time. I should let you get back to sleep, you need to rest. I just wanted to hear your voice... " JJ said gently.

" No... don't hang up yet, I'm wide awake now and I...I need to ask you something..." Emily said.

" Okay...?" JJ said.

" Jennifer.... uhm JJ...I was...Do you..." Emily started but didn't know how to finish.

" What?" JJ asked slightly confused

" I... well....It's just... Is it okay that I call you Jennifer...? Garcia said that she never calls you by your name cause she thinks you don't like it and I can stop if you don't want me to call you that but I think your name is beautiful and " Emily was starting to ramble so JJ interrupted her.

" Emily... I don't mind if you call me Jennifer...in fact... I like it when you do..." JJ confessed.

" Oh... good " Emily said, to be honest she hadn't expected that answer from the blonde.

" It's not that I dislike my name it's just I've never felt it 'suited' me, you know. I've always felt more comfortable with people calling me JJ, it felt more like me. But with you... I remember the first time you called me by my name. When we went to talk to the wife of a possible unsub, and their little girl opened the door, you introduced me as Jennifer." JJ said.

" Yeah... I remember that..." Emily said.

" You don't know this but after that, every time we talked I silently wished you would call me Jennifer instead of JJ... No one has ever said my name the way you do and I wanted to hear you say it again..." JJ admitted softly.

" Well... you're gonna hear it now..." Emily said.

There was a moments silence.

" As much as I would love to talk to you for the rest of the night, it's getting late and even later in DC so I should let you sleep...you need to rest....I'll call you tomorrow, okay?..." JJ said.

" Yeah... and you should try to get some rest too Jennifer" Emily said. JJ smiled on the other side of the line.

" Good night Em..." JJ finished

" Good night..." Emily said and they both hung up their phones.

JJ leant back against the pillow on the hotel bed. A smile spread from ear to ear when she thought about Emily and how adorable she had been asking if it was okay if she called the blonde Jennifer. She prayed they would solve the case quickly so she could get back to Emily.

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Emily put her phone down on the bedside table and pulled the cover a little tighter around her body as she let sleep reclaim her. She drifted off to sleep with a smile on her lips and with beautiful images of Jennifer in her head...