*Okay as always I own nothing of Criminal Minds or Rizzoli & Isles just enjoying using the characters.
Maura came back to the table from covering Emily up on the couch and started clearing it of dishes. Pen watched for a few moments until she was about to pop. "Are you going to tell us or are we going to have to interrogate you?"
"Pen..." JJ scolded.
"Don't Pen me." She said louder.
"Shhh...you'll wake her." Maura scolded to which no one retorted back. "Give me a moment to clean up here and make sure she stays asleep and Jane and I will let you two know what is going on."
JJ and Pen looked over at Jane who was starring into her beer bottle dejectedly. She had felt so bad but she didn't know that Emily was in Maura's office when she planned her practical joke. "I didn't know she was there." Jane said just above a whisper.
"What did you say?" JJ asked in a kind tone.
Jane looked up, "I didn't know that Emily was in Maura's office when I hopped up on the autopsy table. It was just suppose to be a joke on Maur."
"Oh no..." JJ said realizing what might have happened.
"I covered up to my neck and closed my eyes thinking Maur was about to come out but it was Emily. It was darkish in the morgue and she came to the table I was on and she started talking to..."
"Kia..." JJ finished.
"Oh no..." Pen said breathing in deeply."
"Yes...She all of a sudden was in a whole other world. She came to me and kissed my cheek and brushed my hair. Then apologized for everything and said she would take care of Chessie."
"Jane... Don't leave out the other part." Maura said looking at her like "it's all good tell them."
"Your sure?" Maura shook her head yes.
"She started apologizing for not being able to give me more... me meaning Kia. She said that she gave her all the love she could. That she was sorry that she could never give her what she really wanted...her heart. She said that she had already given it to someone and that she had never wanted it back from the one she given it to but the love from that relationship is what allowed her to love her."
"Oh my...that's so sweet." Pen said and looked at Maura who was wiping a single tear from her cheek.
JJ sat there with her head down listening lost in her own thoughts. She realized that Emily was close to asking for her heart back from Maura so she could be with her before she left for London. She remembered so clearly giving Emily the ultimatum of buy a house and prove your staying here. Maura sensing JJ's thoughts came and stood behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder, "Jennifer..." was all that was said as the woman came up in tears and engulfed her friend.
"I'm so sorry Maura." She said as the other two just looked at them totally lost.
"Shhh...it's okay. When she speaks of her heart she is talking about the physical not our bond of soul mates. That can never change love."
"How is she and the baby doing?" She asked the woman in her arms.
"Well Dr. Kate isn't pleased with her not eating and sleeping patterns but they both are still really healthy."
"She's not sleeping?"
"Well between getting in a comfortable position to sleep, bathroom trips and nightmares...no." Maura said pulling out of the hug.
"I understand the first two." She said taking a deep sigh of understanding and rolling her eyes.
"Maur isn't getting much sleep either." Jane interjected into the conversation. JJ reached and pulled the woman in for another hug. "Is there anything we can do to help?"
"No...not at the moment. Wait maybe..." Maura said as a thought hit her, "...I have tried to get Kia's medical records but have hit all kinds of firewalls. Do you know anyone that could help?"
"I'm sorry Maura that is under British government rule but what are you thinking?"
"Chessie said something at the picnic about me reviewing her mum's records that it would help Emily to forgive herself."
JJ smiled remembering the comment too. "You have asked the wrong person Maura." She said looking at Pen who had already got up to get her babies from her bag.
"What?"
"Pen will have your information soon if she can."
"If I can...Please" Pen said as her fingers started flying over keys. "If I can't I'll call Xandy. We will have Emily's dead wife's files in front of us soon."
Jane came and stood by Maura, " You okay there Maur?' she asked concernedly.
"I am." She said and looked at all of them with love and hope back in her eyes. It had been a long past few days and she hated to admit it but she was tired. "I just wished I had thought of Pen at the start."
"Well she was moving here and everything and we didn't know she could hack the world." Jane said with a smirk.
"I can hack the universe if necessary for my family." She said as they all laughed and waited for Pen's babies to do their thing.
Okay I'm doing two series at one time... I'm busting up my chapters in this one more so I can post quicker. I'm a woman on a mission.
Now this series takes a little more time because of the dynamics of it and sometimes the research. So I will try to post at least twice a week on it. If I see that either stories are suffering I will slow that time line down.
Thanks for reading.
