A/N - Hey, thank you so much to everyone who has read and reviewed this story, it means a lot and I hope my awful writing is enough to satisfy you all. I'm hoping that I will be writing a lot of chapters over the next few days (Obviously excluding Christmas day, though you might get one in the evening if I feel inspired) to keep me occupied, as my schedule has recently *Ahem* Cleared up, so I may as well get my Jemily on. Thanks for reading, please remember to review and favourite, follow or PM me if you like it... On with the lesbianing. ~ R.
Time began to get away from Emily and JJ, at first it had been a week off, and then a power cut at the office, and then JJ's epileptic seizure. After a while it had all flooded together, and they found themselves almost a month down the line, having missed out on five cases and staring the Christmas break in the face. True, it was only a few days off, but it added to their already ginormous break from work, and both women were beginning to miss it.
After coming home from the hospital a week ago, Emily had put JJ to bed, and the blonde hadn't been allowed up since, save for showering and going to the bathroom. Emily had barely left the room anyway, choosing instead to perch herself on the corner of the bed they had come to share, and stroke her girlfriend's forehead as she led the blonde into hazy slumber. The brunette had also gone as far as to move Henry's bed into JJ's room for the first few days she was looking after the blonde, but JJ's loud and frankly impressively loud snoring was enough to force her to move the infant back into his own room again.
Emily sighed to herself as she sat at the kitchen island, in front of her was a tray holding pancakes with maple syrup and butter, bacon, eggs and a big glass of orange juice. Next to the food was a box of Eslicarbazepine acetate, JJ's epilepsy medication. The brunette lifted the box and held it in her hands for a few seconds, breathing heavily and feeling it's weight against her fingers. She exhaled dejectedly and threw the box gently back down. Emily had taken a few minutes to herself downstairs when JJ was sleeping, in order to clear her head and make her girlfriend some food. Emily had realized a little while ago that she had better had a serious conversation with her girlfriend about their living situation. As much as she hated the idea of inviting herself into the blonde's home, the lease on her apartment was coming to an end, and it wasn't as though JJ had allowed her to sleep there since they had come together - not that the brunette had any complaints about that. Emily had resolved to ask JJ about it that morning. With that, she took the tray in her arms and carried it upstairs to the sleeping blonde.
Placing the tray on JJ's bedside cabinet, Emily sat down next to her girlfriend and placed a hand gently on her shoulder.
"Jennifer, baby it's time to wake up" She breathed softly. After a few seconds of no response from her girlfriend, she tried again. "Jennifer, wake up baby." She shook the blonde's shoulder gently and huffed when the other woman didn't wake. "JENNIFER JAREAU." She almost shouted, still no response from the blonde. Emily moved slightly closer to the slumbering body, careful not to touch her girlfriend's ears. "Jennifer wake up." JJ still didn't respond. Emily huffed once more and turned to her last resort, leaning down and placing a passionate, deep kiss onto her girlfriend's lips. After a few moments, she felt the blonde's tongue slip between her lips and she smiled, pulling apart from the goddess of a woman before she was led to far down the path of sensuality, beyond the point of no return. "You're lucky that I'm in love with you" She chuckled, patting the blonde's thigh. "You are possibly the hardest person to wake up that I have ever met." She was met with a shrug from the other woman.
"Hey..." the blonde paused to wink at her girlfriend. "If you want me to wake up, you should try that every day." She clasped her hands onto Emily's pajama shirt and pulled the brunette down for another intoxicating kiss. Emily simply chuckled once more and pulled apart after several moments of breathless lip locks.
"Less of the sass, Jareau." She turned around and placed the tray onto her girlfriend's lap in one smooth, fluid motion. She watched in awe as JJ's hands grabbed her cutlery and she devoured the plate of food in close to a minute. "Don't forget your pill baby." She lent forward and placed a quick kiss on the blonde's nose. An uninterpreted sound came out of JJ's mouth, followed by a stream of crumbs and tiny saliva particles. "Nice... Real classy Jennifer."
"I said 'I won't'" JJ smiled between mouthfuls of breakfast. "You know you love it anyway." She winked, pausing for a few seconds and placing the cutlery back down on the tray, her gaze shifting to meet Emily's big brown eyes. "There's actually something important that I've been meaning to talk to you about..."
"Oh? There's something I have been meaning to talk to you about too." Emily smiled, taking the now empty tray from the blonde and placing it behind her on the bedside cabinet. "You go first." The brunette continued. JJ paused before speaking, sliding a hand beneath her pillow to retrieve the boxed key that she had collected from the mall nearly two weeks ago now, keeping it hidden beneath her pillow all this time, waiting for the right moment to invite her girlfriend to live with her.
"No, Em, please, you go first." She said finally.
"Oh-o-Okay." Emily took a deep breath and decided to lay down next to her girlfriend before she continued. She climbed into bed silently, draping an arm around JJ's body, and moving as close as she comfortably could, at a distance that she was still able to see the blonde's face. "I hate the idea of being presumptuous, you've already been so kind and so welcoming to me, I really don't want to take advantage of that." The usually calm woman could feel herself beginning to ramble, but couldn't quite seem to stop herself. It was as if she had suddenly come over with a particularly explosive case of verbal diarrhea.
"Em, stop. I think I know what you want to ask." JJ smiled, placing a fleeting peck on Emily's lips and palming the brunette's face. "I have something to give you." She pulled the velvet box finally from beneath the pillow and handed it to the beautiful brunette woman. "Will you please help me turn this house of mine into a home for our family?" Emily took the box and opened it slowly, small tears forming in her eyes as she came to the all too familiar conclusion that this woman before her was the one, and they just seemed to get eachother.
"I love you, Jennifer Jareau."
"I love you, Emily Prentiss." The blonde replied with a kiss, pulling the brunette into a warm embrace, kissing her hair as she thought of the life they would lead under this roof together; herself, her wonderful girlfriend and her son. No, Henry wasn't anymore her son than he was Emily's son. She corrected herself mentally. the life they would lead under this roof together; herself, her wonderful girlfriend and their beautiful son.