"Stay over."

Emily and JJ were consummate professionals at work. Sure, there were lingering touches, glances that lasted a little too long, but that was really no different than before they'd started dating. The biggest change between them was that they shared a bed every time they got paired up in a hotel room though they both agreed that they wouldn't do anything considered past second base while on a case. They had also agreed that when they were assigned separate rooms, they would stay separately for the night in an effort to keep work as work-like as possible.

This was why Emily was alone in her hotel room, staring glumly at the ceiling well after midnight. This case had been hard on all of them. Child cases usually touched a nerve with everyone, but it was different when you had a child. It was different when your kid fit the victimology. She knew logically, that Henry was okay. He was at home, safely asleep with Lenore watching over him but her mind couldn't stop replacing the lifeless faces of those little boys with Henry's.

Emily had actually burst into relieved tears when she'd heard Henry's voice that night after she called before he went to bed but that had been many hours ago and her initial relief had begun to wear thin. She sighed heavily and wiped a hand over her face. She wasn't going to make it, she decided, getting out of bed. Emily wasn't going to break the rules, not really, she'd go to JJ's room just to have the blonde near for a while, until she could calm her mind, and then she'd come back and get some sleep.

Nodding resolutely, Emily grabbed her keycard and left her room, blinking in the relatively harsh light of the brightly lit hallway as she walked purposefully to JJ's room. She had just raised her hand to knock softly when the door opened. JJ looked as tired as Emily felt and she could tell the case was weighing heavily on her as well.

"I was just about to come see you." JJ confessed, moving aside to let Emily in.

"Are you doing okay?" Emily asked unsurely, slipping into bed behind JJ and wrapping her arms around the blonde when she laid her head on Emily's chest.

"No." JJ said quietly, her voice pained. "Are you?"

"No."

"Stay over." JJ whispered after a few minutes of silence.

"You know I can't," Emily started to protest.

"They'll understand, Em. We need each other right now."

Emily sighed. "Okay." She agreed quietly, the fight having quickly gone out of her.