*Okay as always I own nothing of Criminal Minds or Rizzoli & Isles just enjoying using the characters.
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Emily and Jane walked into the exam room that already had Amy in it. Emily had called ahead and asked that the two girls be put in the same room. She had talked to Jessica on the way to the hospital and asked if she would be a buddy to Amy through the process and JJ had done the same thing with Amy. The thought behind it was that the two girls could help each other through their pain. It seemed to be working. The girls were going through the preliminary exam when their parents arrived at the hospital. Emily and Jane went to meet with them in the waiting room.
"Ms. Johnson... Mr. & Mrs. Thompson I am SSA Prentiss with the FBI and this is Detective Jane Rizzoli." She said introducing herself and Jane. "I know you are very anxious to see your daughters but I need a moment of you time first before you do." The parents seemed scared and impatient but stood still to listen.
"Your daughters have been through a traumatic time and are currently having preliminary exams done on them. They will under go further examination shortly. I would ask that you wait to see them after that time. They are scared and ashamed of what has happened to them and I believe your presence will only further ingrain those feels in them."
"How the hell do you know what our daughters are feeling and where do you get off telling me to wait to see my daughter. You have no idea what they feel or what we feel!" The man yelled at Emily.
Taking a deep breath Emily replied, "I assure you sir that I know exactly what the both of you and your daughters are feeling and much more. But I will not argue the matter... I will however give you my card and on it you will find the name of an amazing therapist written there that can help your daughters get back to a normal life. I hope you will use her." Emily said and walked off clinching her fist. The man started to follow when Jane stepped in front of him.
"You aren't going anywhere but to put your ass in that chair over there she said to him and all of them."
"How dare you talk to me that way!"
"How dare you talk to her that way!" She said pointing the way Emily had left. "You doubted that she would know your pain. Well let me tell you!" She said getting a breath for her spill. "That woman last year had the mother of her child shot execution style and her daughter a little younger than Jessica and Amy kidnapped by men like the men who kidnapped your daughters. She got herself taken shortly after so she could try and save her little girl and found them both locked in a basement. She managed to get her daughter out but couldn't save herself from the same fate. They found her a day later naked and thrown away in a dumpster left for dead." She paused as she let her words sink into the three parents.
"Now... she survived and got on a plane leaving her own daughter to come here and try and save yours this year. She saw something that none of us saw in Amy. She saw the same hollow look that she felt and she got that little girl to talk when no one else could and it was Amy that lead us to Jessica. Your daughter is alive and safe right now because that woman knew exactly what those girls feel. So I would suggest you start listening to her because Jessica didn't want to come back to you. She was afraid because she knew that you would be angry with her. The only way Emily got her off my leg and here is by telling that traumatize little girl that she would talk to you first before you saw her."
They heard clapping from a woman who was in the doorway listening. She was blonde wearing a deep blue dress and heels making Jane think she looked like JJ and Maura put together. "Sorry... Detective..." she paused so Jane could fill in the name.
"Rizzoli"
"Yes... Rizzoli" She said smiling then looking at the parents, "Is correct in everything she has said. I am Dr. Sharon Haywood. I believe Emily has given you my name already. Now Detective Rizzoli..." She said smiling at the woman again making her feel as though she had been just kissed, "I believe I can help these parents while you let Emily know that I am here."
"Yes ma'am." Jane said feeling dismissed but not minding it. "Damn... does Emily know anyone that isn't sexy as hell? I don't swing that way but... wow..." She thought to herself as she started to go and tell Emily the doc was there.
"Excuse me Doctor Haywood... I can't afford your services." Jane heard Amy's mother saying.
"That's all right Ms. Johnson... my services have already been paid for by the Bella Corporation."
"The who?" Mr. Thompson asked.
"The Bella Corporation." Was the last thing Jane heard as the doors closed behind her. She smiled knowing that the Bella Corporation was Emily's company.
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Morgan, Hotch, and Rossi had extracted full confessions from Cross and Stevens. The women had stayed with Amy and Jessica all through their rape kits, the initial meeting between Dr. Haywood and on into their parents being reunited with them. Afterwards they all went back to the hotel to check out and grab their bags. Then again back on the road heading to fly back to Boston by one am. They all were exhausted but sleep alluded them due to the thoughts of what the six year old girls had endured. Emily sat in her normal seat by the window and started starring out into the night until JJ came and sat beside her and patted her leg. She normally would have taken the woman's hand but it was still in a cast and couldn't. Emily turned and half smiled at her then back out into the night as the jet took off into the pitch blackness.
The flight was well into thirty minutes when JJ got up to check on something that Pen wanted to show her. Jane noticed that Emily stood and got something from her bag and went and got a bottle of water. She remember how soft and kind the woman was to both girls during the rape kit exam. How she distracted them by singing to them and cooing precious words to their souls. "She's gone through those exams," was running through her head when Emily returned and sat down. She noticed that the woman popped something in her mouth and wondered if it was Xanax. She could only imagine that they were... given all the stress of the day.
Fifteen minutes later Jane's head lifted after hearing a stifled moan. Emily was still asleep but she could tell that the terrors had come to visit. She looked up and over the head rest and noticed JJ still in conversation with Pen. She looked back at Emily and noticed rapid eye movement and knew a scream or something was about to emerge from the woman. So she got up and stretched then sat in JJ's chair hoping no one noticed. She then prompted Emily to lay across the seat placing the woman's head on her shoulder. She then looked around and saw no one was watching so she took Emily's left hand and placed it in her shirt over her heart.
They were like that for awhile with out anyone noticing and Emily settled down into a deeper sleep. Pen laughed at something causing Morgan to open his eyes and turn to see what she was chuckling about. He then looked straight ahead at Jane and gave her a cheeky grin.
"What." She said gruffly.
"Nothing..." He said still smiling, "...I was just wondering if you have moved over to the other team?" He asked nodding towards her chest.
She looked at him with fire in her eyes, "Derek you can tease me all you want but when all is said and done you will not wake her or say a word that you even saw this. Do you understand me?" She asked through clenched teeth. By now JJ had stood up and realized what was going on and walked back to the seat beside Morgan but didn't sit.
"I didn't say a word."
"No... but you were going too. Do you not know what day it is?" He looked at his watch, "It's February 22..." He said shrugging his shoulders like "so."
"Yeah... it February 22..."
"Oh my God!" Pen said taking in a deep breath and covering her mouth with her hand realizing what Jane was saying.
"What's the big deal about the 22nd?"
"It's the day they found Emily in the dumpster last year." JJ said sadly.
"Exactly... now my best friend started this..." She said nodding down with her head at Emily, "...and this is the only way she can sleep without nightmares. I call her wonder woman even though I know she is human. But I truly wonder since I have seen her handle things that I do not think even a super hero could take." She said looking down at the brunette, "So to answer your question Derek... yeah tonight I bat for the other team because that is what my friend needs me to do so she can sleep!"
No one had seen Pen getting Maura on the computer screen, "Jane..."
The woman looked around knowing that it was Maura's voice but didn't know where it was coming from until JJ pointed up at the screen.
"Maura what are you doing up there?"
"Never mind that... Did Emily take anything?"
"I saw her take something about thirty minutes ago and she feel asleep about twenty."
"Jennifer look in her bag please. She has two prescriptions in there. They were full bottles when she left. Please count and tell me what is missing."
"Sure Maura."
"Are you thinking..."
Maura interrupted Morgan, "I am just checking to see. One of the medicine can put her out like that if she hasn't slept much."
"That would be the case then. She only slept about three hours since leaving Boston." Jane said.
"Maura there are two Xanax and one Ambien missing."
"Okay... I know she took a Xanax last night. If she took the Xanax and Ambien together then she will sleep the whole flight home if no nightmares occur and they won't if she stays where she is. Thank you Jane."
"I got her Maur." Jane said smiling at her best friend.
"If you do wake her up she my be sluggish and a little drunk. I will send Z-man with the Ambassador's car for you when you land."
"We can get her home." Morgan said looking at the screen.
"I appreciate that Derek but Z-man is the only one that I've ever seen her let carry her and it may come to that. If she was stressed enough to actually take medicine I know her levels are at there maximum and I do not want to add anymore stress."
"So... Z-man and Jaclyn are home now?" Rossi asked changing the subject.
"Yes and they aren't the only ones. I am sitting here having tea with someone else." She said and turned the screen so Frankie's face came on the screen. Pen let out a squel before even thinking about it causing Emily to turn and hit her feet trying to reach for her gun that wasn't there. Jane stood but JJ motioned for her to freeze. "Chessie! Chessie Honey Where Are You!" She yelled looking both ways.
"Bonjour jolie fille (Hello pretty girl.) Maura said trying to let Emily know where she was.
Emily stopped for a moment then looked around but still was in the grasp of the fog. JJ knew what Maura was doing and said, "Emily est moi Jennifer. (Emily it's me Jennifer.)"
The woman looked at her then at Jane, "Kia baby..."
Jane just held out her arms knowing that was the right move and Emily lunged into them holding her tightly. "I tried so hard love! I tried so hard..." Emily kept saying over and over until the words melted into deep sorrowful sobs. The sobs took the energy from Emily's legs as Jane allowed herself to be pulled to the floor with the woman sobbing into her shoulder. Finally Jane decided to sit and put her back up against the plane wall so Emily could lay against her chest as the sobs slowly faded and her breathing evened out signaling that she was asleep again.
JJ went and got a blanket and spread it over the two. She pointed at Derek to go sit with Pen and to be quite as she they all went to the front of the plane. "I think she will be okay Maura. She's sleeping on Jane's chest again."
Maura wiped her eyes, "Thank you Jennifer. Z-man will be waiting on you."
"Do you need me to call Will and let him know I'm need over there?"
"No... go see your family dear. She will sleep for a while grief has found it's comfort I believe." She said as they all looked at Emily at peace once again on Jane's chest.
Wedding week starts next chapter.