100 Ways To Say I Love You

by PhoenixFalls

Each chapter is a sentence prompt from a tumblr post called "100 Ways To Say I Love You." Exploring Jemily from pre-relationship to marriage. Chapter length ranges from drabbles to longer. These all take place in a singular canon-divergent AU and are in chronological order to each other, so it's one continuous story. Major canon events are mentioned and some changed slightly

86. Chapter 86

"You're important too."

JJ was furious. Emily had gone into a hostage situation with no gun and had taken her Kevlar off once she had gone inside. Granted, she had managed to talk the unsub down and into releasing his latest hostage, but that didn't make JJ any less angry. Emily could tell JJ was mad; the blonde hadn't spoken to her since they'd gotten onto the jet back to DC and the silence in the car on their way home was stifling.

JJ parked in front of their house and got out of the car after turning it off without so much as a glance in Emily's direction. Emily winced when the car door slammed and slowly got out of the vehicle herself; not looking forward to whatever argument awaited her inside. She dawdled outside the front door for a few minutes before taking a fortifying breath in and going inside to face her girlfriend. JJ was leaning against the kitchen island with her arms crossed over her chest.

"I-" Emily started, her hands up in a placating gesture.

"Just tell me what the hell you were thinking!" JJ interrupted. Her voice was low but forceful. Emily would have almost rather she be yelling.

Emily shook her head. "I did what I had to do." She tried, tone frustrated.

JJ scoffed and her shoulders tensed. "You were reckless, Emily! Reckless and stupid. What if you hadn't been able to talk him down? What if he had shot you?"

"He didn't." Emily said with a helpless shrug. "And I did talk him down. I couldn't just let him leave with that little girl, JJ!"

"We wouldn't have let him! God, if something would have happened to you, I…" she trailed off and let out a loud breath, squeezing her eyes shut briefly. "What were you thinking?"

Emily moved so that she was invading JJ's personal space and gently tilted the blonde's head to look at her with both hands on either side of her face. "Honestly, I wasn't really thinking." She admitted. "I just acted on instinct I guess. That little girl was too important."

JJ reached up and covered Emily's hands with her own. "You're important too."

"I'm sorry, Jennifer." Emily whispered, kissing JJ softly.