The jet had just landed back in Quantico, and the team almost instantly split of to go to their individual vehicles, not wanting to risk sticking around any longer than they had to in case another case popped up. Garcia had already left so there was no need for any of them to enter the building and inform her they were back and alright. "See you guys tomorrow," Emily Prentiss called out as she got waves from the rest of the team, she spun around to face her beautiful blonde girlfriend who was stood behind her,
"I'll see you at home baby,"
"Hmm," the blonde hummed in response, leaning up to peck her girlfriend on the lips. They had driven separately to work, like usual, so they would travel back on their own and meet back at their home. Prentiss waited until she saw that Jennifer had pulled out of the parking bay before letting her head fall on the steering wheel, god she was exhausted. Her dark locks of hair fell around her face, and she let out a deep sigh, before sitting straight up and running her hand back through her hair. She could sleep when she got home for now, she had to keep her focus so she could get home safely. She let out one more sigh before turning on the engine and pulling out of the parking lot, time to go home.
She had only been five minutes behind her girlfriend, but when Emily arrived home JJ was already collapsed on the couch, changed into comfy clothes. Her bag and shoes strewn across the floor, which was the usual for the blonde. She may seem always put together but her personal space was always a war zone. "Hey, my love, do you want a tea?" JJ asked turning her head so the blue eyes could lock onto dark ones,
"Yes please, that would be wonderful," Emily sighed out, she was still slightly shocked that her girlfriend always seemed to know what she needed. Shaking the thought off the brunette set her shoes neatly next to the door along with JJ's before picking up the blondes bag and setting it down on a table near the door along with her own. Letting out a tired yawn the brunette rubbed at her face clumsily before stumbling towards her bedroom and pulling out some comfy clothes that she could change into. She picked up her own clothes and JJ's, which were all over the floor, and put them in the laundry basket in their bathroom before heading back out to the living room where JJ was placing two mugs of tea on the coffee table. "Thanks baby," the dark-haired agent mumbled out, her voice soft and quite due to her exhaustion.
"Of course, hun, are you alright?" she asked softly, concern gracing her features,
"Yeah, I'm good just tired you know. That was a long case." Emily told her girlfriend. JJ nodded her head in agreement, it had been a long case. Four days in New York and very little sleep in that time, as they were trying to catch a serial killer who was on a spree. The unsub was about to shoot Derek from behind when Emily had shot him down, ending the seemingly never-ending case.
"Well come here baby, you can relax now." The blonde spoke, dropping down onto the couch and holding her arm out, an invitation for the brunette to cuddle up close to her. Emily willingly sat into the seat next to her partner and cuddled up into her side, her head coming to rest on the blonde's chest. "Want to watch something?" Jennifer asked gently. The brunette nodded in response and JJ turned on the television, selecting a re-run of Friends to watch, choosing to pick something light-hearted that they had seen before, in an attempt to create a relaxing and calm atmosphere.
Two episodes of Friends and a cup of tea each later, Emily could barely keep her eyes open. She whined softly and rubbed her eyes, "I'm going to go to bed love," she informed the blonde, "Come with me?" she questioned gently, looking up from her position against the younger agent's chest, big brown puppy eyes were given to the blonde which rivalled Spencer's.
"Sure baby, let's go." Jennifer pushed her partner off her chest and gently tugged her to her feet, pulling her towards the bedroom. As soon as they entered the room, Emily dropped onto the bed, rolling over and pressing her face into the pillow. "Come on Em, you need to get into your pyjamas." The blonde urged her, giving her shoulder a small shake.
"Nooo," she whined, her answer drawn out.
"Fine, you leave me no choice," the blonde spoke, her voice low. It made Emily turn her head slightly so she could look at her girlfriend. Suddenly the shorter woman pounced on her tickling her sides, making her cry out in laughter,
"Stop, ha-ha, stop!" The brunette rolled over, and JJ stopped tickling her,
"Arms up," she instructed. Doing as she was told Prentiss raised her arms and JJ pulled her shirt off her and then reached down to pull off her pants, quickly replacing them with comfy pyjamas. She then spun on her heel and got changed herself swiftly before climbing into bed next to girlfriend and pulling the cover over the both of them. "Goodnight my love, sweet dreams," she spoke softly,
"Night JJ, I love you,"
"Love you to baby." The blonde then switched off the lamp that had been on, surrounding them in a comfortable darkness, before turning to cuddle her girlfriend from behind, and close her eyes. Slowly drifting off to sleep.
The blonde awoke suddenly, unsure of what woke her she turned to look at the clock. 2:46am. Confused, her first thought was to look at her phone in case she had been called or messaged about a new case. When her phone gave no answer, she realised there was soft crying coming from next to her, she was surprised to see Emily sitting up with her head in her hands, hiccupping sobs escaping her every few seconds and tremors racking her body.
"Emily? What's wrong sweetheart?" she whispered as she moved the brunette's sweaty hair out of her face and tried to get her girlfriend to look at her by placing her hand under the brunette's chin trying to tilt her head up. But this only succeeded in making the younger woman cry harder. JJ studied her girlfriend's face for a moment, her dark eyes were filled with tears threatening to spill over and her face contorted like she was in pain, her beautiful dark hair clinging to her face and her whole body was drenched in sweat, which caused her pyjamas to cling to her. "Baby, did you have a bad dream?" the blonde asked softly, slowly wrapping her arms around her girlfriend's body. Emily quickly spun around and leaned into her partner's side, her head turning to hide her face in the crook of the blonde's next. Tears made her neck sticky and Jennifer felt her heart shatter for her girlfriend.
"I'm s-sorry for w-waking you u-u-up." a small voice whispered; her words stuttered out due to the force of her sobs.
"Oh baby, it's all okay, I promise it's okay. Do you want to talk about it?" JJ asked as she brought them back against the headboard with Emily still clinging to her side. The taller woman didn't answer but a small whimper was answer enough. The blonde thought for a few moments then sliding down further and bringing the covers over them. She pulled Emily, so she was straddling her waist with her head lying on the blonde's chest. She smiled as the dark-haired agent's breathing became less heavy and the vice grip on her shirt became loose as Emily relaxed further. It was only then that JJ noticed the wet feeling on the top of her pants and the hem of her shirt. Her eyebrows furrowed for a moment in confusion before a feeling of realisation hit her. She patted Emily's bottom gently, before checking the side of the bed where her girlfriend had just been sleeping. "Em honey, did you have an accident?" There was silence for a moment before she froze and the tears picked up again, and sobs began to rattle the older woman's fame, "Love bug?" the blonde questioned softly. That seemed to trigger something inside the other woman because at once her body seemed to relax even though she didn't stop crying.
"Mama," she whined softly,
"Oh baby, I'm here pumpkin. Can you tell me what happened?" JJ asked gently. Prentiss nodded and took a couple of quick deep breathes before mumbling out her next few words,
"Had a b-bad dream mama. I w-wet. I no mean to, I'm s-s-sorry."
"Love bug, its okay. You don't have to be sorry. I promise it's fine. You can't control your accidents. Especially when you're little." The blonde told her, stroking her hair gently, not caring that she could now feel her own wet pyjamas clinging to her skin. The brunette let out another quiet sob, before completely giving in to her exhaustion and collapsing into her mama's embrace. JJ stroked her back a couple more times before gently pushing the girl off her, the other woman whined clearly wanting to be held, "I know baby, but we have to get you out of those wet clothes so you can go back to sleep." The blonde told her gently. A look of displeasure graced the dark-haired agent's features but didn't put up any form of resistance. Taking this as a good sign JJ hulled the girl onto her hip and stood up, quickly taking the two of them to the bathroom, she placed Emily down on the closed toilet, "I'm going to take off your wet clothes now love bug." She gave the girl some warning, knowing that in this state she tended to get startled easily. The blonde made quick work of stripping the clothes off the other woman and herself, before turning on the shower and fiddling with the temperature briefly, making sure it was perfect. "Come on pumpkin, we need to wash off quickly and then we can go back to bed." Prentiss didn't say anything but allowed herself to be tugged to her feet and lead under the spray of warm water. Swiftly, the blonde helped her partner wash and let her slump against her own body as she sorted herself out. When they were finished the shorter agent pulled out two big fluffy towels and wrapped her girl up first, before drying off herself and grabbing two more sets of pyjamas out of their shared closet. "Come on baby, let me help you get dressed then we can go back to bed and cuddle," she whispered to the girl. Emily beamed up at her caregiver, the idea of cuddling with her mama was exactly what she needed right now. Instead of being dead weight, she helped her mama dress her as best she could hold up her arms when she went to pull the shirt over the brunette's head and only grumbling slightly under her breathe when Jareau pulled the pull up onto her. It was only when JJ carried her back into the bedroom and placed her down on one of the chairs in the room and began to strip the bed that she started to make a fuss. All of the embarrassment from the accident and the fact that she was over tired, plus the images of the nightmare returning to her she whined loudly and broke down into exhausted sobs once again. Dropping what she was doing, the blonde swiftly made her way over to where her girlfriend was sobbing into her hands, she crouched down so she was eye level with her girl, "Oh baby, love bug, can you tell me what's wrong?" Pale hands tugged at the hands covering the brunette's face,
"S-sorry," Emily whimpered out, her hand pulling out of her caregiver's to point at the soiled sheets that JJ had dropped on the ground in her haste to get to her partner.
"Oh baby, it's alright. You know I'm not mad or upset right? It was an accident, you didn't mean to, we both know that." The blonde was quick to reassure her. Prentiss sniffled and brought up the free hand to rub at her eyes tiredly,
"Tired mama," she whimpered.
"I know pumpkin, let me just put on fresh sheets and we can go back to bed alright?"
"Okay mama." The blonde got back to her feet and stood up straight before making her way to the bed and putting clean sheets on it, she hurried to the laundry room and tossed the soiled things in the wash and quickly started the overnight cycle.
"Hey baby do you want your bottle?" JJ questioned softly sticking her head out of the laundry room,
"Yes, please mama,"
"Alright baby, I'll go grab that for you quickly. Thank you for the lovely manners good girl." The brunette blushed deeply at the praise, smiling softly to herself.
After retrieving the bottle of warm milk, the blonde returned to their room where she found her girl in the same position she left her, just clearly more exhausted. "Come here baby." JJ spoke sitting down on the bed and resting up against the headboard, bottle in hand. "Let mama feed you." Not having to be told twice, Prentiss jumped out of her position in the chair and climbed onto the bed crawling to where Jareau sat. With obvious practice the blonde manoeuvred the two of them so Emily was sat in between the blonde's legs and her head was rested in the crook of her girlfriends arm so that the bottle could be fed to her. Prentiss hesitated for a moment then latched onto the nib of the bottle and began drinking it slowly. Basking in all the love and attention she was getting from her mama at the moment. The brunette let out a content sigh once she finished. The blonde pulled her girl up over her shoulder and patted her back before a small burp was released. The two remained in that position for a moment longer before JJ shifted so the two of them were lying in bed next to each other, Emily in her arms. The blonde pulled the covers over the two of them and turned off the light. They laid in silence for a minute before JJ spoke up. "Hey love bug, would you mind telling me about the nightmare you had now?"
Prentiss' face flushed and she pushed her head deeper into her caregiver's shoulder. "I um, it was about the unsub, you know. Just I didn't get there in time and it wasn't Derek who was shot. It was um, it was y-you." The brunette confessed, tears forming in her eyes.
"Oh honey, that must have been really scary for you sweetheart, but I'm here, I'm not going anywhere. I promise you." The blonde told Em, her voice full of raw emotion. Emily nodded into her shoulder and then pulled back a little, so she could tuck her head under the blonde's chin. JJ smiled softly at the action and ran her fingers underneath the brunette's shirt to gently rub her back, knowing that skin to skin contact was one of the best ways to comfort her girl. "Alright pumpkin, close your beautiful eyes for me, I'll be right here when you wake up, I promise love bug." she whispered. Doing as she was told, Emily closed her eyes and let the comforting feeling of the rhythmic movements on her back, help her drift off to sleep.
"I love you so much, love bug." JJ spoke gently, once she was sure her girl was asleep, before letting herself drift off once more.