Chapter 6

Emily opened her eye and instantly shut it again the light hurt her head. She opened her eyes again and slowly looked around wondering why everything was moving.

"Time to wake up, you have 5 hours to get yourself squared away before we land in Manchester. Look at yourself Emily you look pathetic. Do you want Jennifer to see you like this?" A very annoyed mother told her daughter.

"J-Jennifer, she wants to see me?" Emily asked curiously

"No Emily, I've brought you here so you can throw yourself at her mercy before you drink yourself to death. Let's say this is your Hail Mary pass. If your final plea to her fails you can sign your divorce papers." She abruptly told her daughter "This is my intervention to try and save YOUR MARRIAGE! I love Jennifer like a daughter." Snapped Elizabeth letting her mask slip

Emily walked unsteadily as she entered the shower to try and make herself presentable for her upcoming showdown with her wife.

EJ

Stephanie, Jennifer's Executive P.A walked into Her office

"Mrs Prentiss, The senior partners have requested you meet a VIP at the airport. They are flying in specially to meet with senior partners about a merger of some American assets. They would like you to deal with this personally. Here's all the details and the bio of the VIP." Stephanie told her boss

"Stephanie, In my office it's Jennifer. Clear my day for me." She politely asked

"Already done Mrs Pren…Jennifer."

JJ took the folder and a cup of coffee to her settee with her favourite view down to the canals and started reading the folder to prepare herself for the meeting in two hours.

Stephanie had cleared the week for JJ as she knew what was happening. Elizabeth Prentiss had arranged things with some senior members of staff at the European HQ of Prentiss Corp.

EJ

A refreshed and changed Emily sat opposite her mother on the Prentiss Corp jet. Emily started picking at her nails again as she got closer to the final showdown with her wife. Her normally well controlled thoughts were just swirling around like little tornadoes. Still unsure what to tell her wife.

"Apologies, and then throw yourself at her mercy. You didn't just hurt her Emily, you destroyed her. You promised never to hurt Jennifer. Perhaps these might come in handy." Elizabeth handed over a box

Emily opened the box and just looked at her mother

"Really! Boxing gloves."

Holding the boxing glove in her hand she thought to herself that it might not be such a bad idea.

EJ

JJ stood waiting for the arrival of her VIP's private jet dressed in an immaculate pants suit. The jet taxied over to the airports VIP terminal. She watched the air stairs being lowered from the jet and just gasped at the first passenger down

"Emily!" She gasped

Emily walked over to her wife ashamed. She stoped just short of JJ.

"Hi, I really need to talk to you, can we go somewhere private?" Emily asked very quietly not able to look her wife in the eyes.

"Take her to your penthouse Jennifer, everything has been arranged at the office. You need to hear her out." Elizabeth told the speechless blonde

JJ nodded her head and motioned for Emily to get into her Daimler.

Not a single word was uttered by either woman during the 40 minute drive from the airport.

"Thank you, Claire" JJ smiled as she slid out from the backseat of her Daimler.

Arriving in the penthouse JJ took Emily onto the penthouses balcony and sat down and just looked at Emily, her icy stare cutting into her heart. Emily realised she was waiting for her to start speaking first.

Emily sat down opposite JJ and took a nervous breath "Jennifer, …." Her mind went blank she was that nervous. Standing she started to pace trying to calm herself for the most important apology in her life.

"Jen, I am So! So! Sorry about my reprehensible comments about Rosalyn, I have no excuse other than I was so angry, I just hit out at the first thing I noticed." Emily indicated Rosalyn's necklace in JJ's hand "My heart will always be heavy with guilt and I will never forgive myself for causing you so much pain. I can only promise you it will never happen again if you manage to see fit to give me a second chance. I never meant to be so heartless and hurt you and your memories of your sister." Emily told her emotionless wife. Emily wiped the tears now free failing down her face.

The blonde just looked at her crying wife "You chose the BAU over me Emily." JJ angrily told her wife. JJ stood and walked to the edge of the balcony to watch the boats on the canal below. She lazily watched a colourful barge meandering along the canal below.

Emily joined JJ "So does that mean, it's over?" She asked timidly

JJ was running her pendant along her necklace thinking hard, she was unsure what to tell her wife.

"Yes! You promised you would never hurt me Emily. You crushed my heart using my dead sisters memory. Did you come to England by yourself or did Elizabeth force you somehow?" JJ asked emotionless

Emily knew she needed to answer her truthfully "I was arrested, mother used her connections to get me off the charges. I was that drunk she arranged for me to be taken to the jet. I woke up with a hangover over the Atlantic. When you filed for divorce it broke me." The now obviously broken profiler told her wife.

"Arrested! What for?" Asked a smirking blonde

"Drinking in a public park, drunk and disorderly. Not my finest moment." Sniffed Emily

JJ turned to face Emily "I filled for divorce as a final shot across your bow. I wanted you to be clear on the consequences of your decision, I hoped you would at least…..but obviously that backfired as you fell into a bottle. Drunk and disorderly, really?" JJ smirked a little, the thought of Elizabeth helping a drunk Emily.

"I'm starving, how about one last meal together and then I will sign the papers. if that is still what you want." Emily told her in a defeated voice wiping her eyes dry.

"I'd like that Emily." Smiled JJ

EJ

having decided on fish and chips JJ guided them to a local restraunt about 10 minutes walk from her penthouse. Walking side by side without speaking both women were lost in their own minds.

"Help me! Help me! Come here bitch!" Could be heard coming from an obvious derelict shop

The two Ex-FBI agents automatically ran towards the cry for help. They crossed the road and entered the derelict shop carefully. JJ dialled 999 for the police. The screaming had died down to a whimper as they could hear the ripping of clothes. Slowly and carefully they approached what looked like an old walk in fridge. Without thinking after years of working together the two women entered the fridge.

"Stop! Leave the girl alone." Shouted Emily to the three men.

One man laid on top of the scantily clad women, her clothes ripped around her. He instantly smashed the terrified woman's head into the concrete floor, knocking her unconscious. He stood up shoulder to shoulder with his two friends facing Emily and JJ

"Fresh meat lads." Smiled the tubby man.

"Turn her on her side, so she doesn't swallow her own tongue. You don't want a dead woman unless you like sex with dead women." Emily asked ignoring the fat man

With that slight on them all three men charged at the women, the fat man just fell behind his friend allowing him to attack the blonde first.

"I've got the brunette mouthpiece, you two take the blonde!" Shouted the obvious leader.

He ran at Emily expecting her to run away from him. Emily widens her stance ready to receive the charging man. The tall ginger man reaches Emily just as she turned her body. The charging man was surprised by the speed of her reactions.

Emily slammed her left fist into the mans kidney causing him to scream in pain, forcing him to crouch on the ground. Forgetting about her injury to her left thigh she kneed the crouched man in is temple. The ginger haired man crumpled to the floor unconscious.

"Damn!" Screamed Emily as the pain shot through her injured left thigh. She glanced across at JJ.

"Jennifer! Look out!" She screamed

JJ managed to take the first man down to the floor with ease and turned him over onto his front. She had lost sight of his friend in the first seconds of the fight. His small pot bellied friend wisely allowed his friend to fight the blonde woman. He had found a piece of scrap pipe on the floor and approached JJ from behind to hit her in the head to even things up. He waited for the right moment.

JJ turned her head towards Emily's voice in time to see the small fat man swinging something towards her head. She moved slightly trying to take the hit on her shoulder it was the only thing she had time to do.

"Arghh!" Screamed Emily and collapsed to the floor her hand twisted at an unnatural angle.

Emily's left forearm audibly snapped from the impact of the metal bar. Emily had ran across ignoring the pain in her left thigh. She raised her left arm in an attempt to protect JJ's head. Before Emily's assailant could run JJ tripped the plump man up and turned him onto his front just as three police officers arrived from the greater Manchester police. They quickly took the three men into custody after JJ had explained exactly what had happened.

EJ

Emily had been taken straight to the operating theatre to have her badly broken arm fixed. JJ sat in the waiting room by herself.

"Jennifer! Look out!" Repeats in her head with the 'crack' she heard as Emily's arm bent in a very unnatural position as the metal bar made contact.

"She saved me, Emily just saved me after all the crap I have thrown at her. No hesitation she protected me. As she always has, I've been such a nasty bitch." She told herself like she had just had an epiphany.

Sat playing with her necklace she lost track of time while she sat replaying Emily saving her ass.

"Mrs Prentiss?" The surgeon asked

"Yes, that's me." Smiled JJ

"I have realigned her Radius and Ulnar bones and secured them with internal plates and screws on her ulnar. Her radius has a nail down the centre of the bone. Once healed it will be much stronger. She has a fibreglass cast on her arm for the next 6 weeks. She has been taken to a private room. I will get a nurse to take you up when your are ready. Any questions?" The surgeon asked

"Thank you, No, I appreciate everything you've done for Emily." JJ shook the surgeons hand

JJ followed the nurse to Emily's room and waited outside composing herself. She pushed open the door to see Emily asleep her left arm supported by pillows. JJ sat down on the right side of the bed and took her hand. Linking her fingers with Emily's she just waited for her to wake.

"Jennifer, water please." Croaked Emily

JJ placed a straw into her mouth and let her drink as much as she wanted. Emily nodded indicating she had enough.

"Jennifer, are you ok?" Asked Emily much to JJ's surprise

With all the turmoil swirling around JJ's mind all she can do is nod to Emily. Then suddenly she smiles and crashes her lips hungrily onto Emily's. They break apart resting their foreheads together.

"Emily, you don't have to be so extreme next time to remind me how much you love me. I've been like a petulant child with my behaviour and running away. You hurt me Emily, but I said some nasty things to you as well." JJ smiled and kissed her again.

"Does this mean I'm not getting a divorce? I kinda liked being young free and single without a job." Smirked Emily

JJ playfully punched Emily in her right shoulder.

"Hey! That's my only uninjured bit up here." Smiled Emily.

"Unemployed?" Asked a surprised JJ

"Yeah, kinda quit just after Hotch gave his Wheels up speech. Kinda walked out leaving a few open mouths." Emily smiled as she told her wife.

"Drama Queen." Laughed JJ

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Emily sat on the penthouse balcony with her mother and JJ enjoying a nice lunch. Elizabeth and JJ laughing at Emily as she tried to cut her ham with only one hand. Determination on her face too proud to ask for help.

"For gods sake woman, just ask for help." Laughed JJ

"Fine, please will you cut this for me?" Asked a contrite brunette

"Emily have you decided what you going to do now you don't work for the FBI?" Elizabeth asked

"House wife." Joked Emily

"Work for me with Jennifer here in Manchester." She asked

"Mother, I am a profiler not media trained." Replied Emily

"I want to use your profiling skills during certain business meetings and contract negotiations." She answered "I have been appointed as U.S ambassador to the UK. We could spend some time together if you would like. I know it's not chasing serial killers." Elizabeth finished.

"I owe you mother for kicking my ass to get this beautiful woman back." Smiled Emily "plus I like this view."

"Remember dear, Prentiss Corp have strict policy's about being arrested in parks whilst drunk." Smirked Elizabeth

JJ and Elizabeth both burst out laughing at the red faced Brunette.