A/N - Shall we just not? Oh, and this is your present by the way... Happy Reading ~ R.
Emily held her breath as she slid her fingers across the back of the wrapping paper. She teased the scotch tape sticking it together, and slowly started to peel it off and unfold the paper around her gift.
"Oh, Em, will you please just open it?" JJ blurted out finally. "I want to see you reaction already" The blonde tipped herself forward to plant a soft, wet kiss on her girlfriend's lips. Emily let out a breath that she didn't even know she was holding and smiled into another kiss.
"I'm sorry, baby, I just want to savor this. I know that it's not exactly the first gift that you've ever gotten me, but it's our first Christmas together, and I want it to be special." She said nervously, only to smile again when JJ nudged her with her shoulder. After a few moments of just looking lovingly at each other, Emily realized that she was still holding the unwrapped box in her hands. She turned it over, seeing the initials EP on it. She smiled, stroking the gold cursive. "I love you, Jennifer Jareau." She whispered, kissing the blonde's cheek. It was another velvet jewelry box. Small enough to be a - no, it couldn't be. With a deep breath, she opened the box, seeing a beautiful heart shaped sapphire pendant, surrounded by diamonds. She was truly taken aback by it. "Baby! This is too much... I feel awful now, I didn't get you anything as god as this." A smile lit her face, but there was a slight sadness behind her eyes that JJ didn't fail to take account of.
"You did - and even if you didn't, I have you don't I?"
"Always." The brunette answered simply, placing yet another kiss on her girlfriend's lips. "I love you so much." She took the necklace out of the box and unclasped the latch "Baby, will you please put this on for me?" She asked, handing the chain to the blonde.
"Of course I will." She moved so she was behind her girlfriend and clasped the necklace, eventually letting it fall so the pendant was hanging from the brunette's neck. "I love you too" She whispered as she drew her hands back across the milky white flesh of the other woman's neck. She slowly exhaled as she began to slide her fingers down her girlfriend's shoulders and arms, and finally down around her waist, linking her hands on the brunette's stomach. JJ inched forward slightly so she could rest her chin on her girlfriend's shoulder; their bodies so flush that not even a sheet of paper could fit between them. "Baby?"
"Yes, Jennifer?"
"What's making you sad?" She asked tentatively, placing a line of kisses on the other woman's neck
"I'm not sad. I'm happy - so happy." She smiled, craning her neck to kiss the blonde. "Why would I be sad?" She asked with another kiss.
"I don't know, baby, I just see something sad in you. Do you not like my gift? Did I do something wrong?" JJ asked nervously.
"No, Jennifer of course not." She pulled out of the other woman's embrace and took her hands into her own. "Now, come on, let's go check on the food okay?"
"Okay" JJ replied with a smile and a kiss, deciding to drop it - for now at least.
Later that evening, the two were snuggled up together on the couch, eating leftover gingerbread and candy canes, with their son tucked up warmly against JJ's legs. Emily flicked lazily through the channels on TV, finding only re-runs of old Christmas movies. She settled on Home Alone, which they must have watched together more than a million times over the years, and she half watched it, more preoccupied with stroking JJ's silky blonde hair. Something about this Christmas just seemed so right, holding her family close to her and being able to plant lazy kisses on her girlfriend's lips. She felt her eyes slowly beginning to droop as JJ snuggled her head further into Emily's thigh, the whole family fell peacefully asleep, contented with their full bellies and lives.
JJ woke up a few hours later to the shrill noise of her phone buzzing.
"Fuck. Not now. Not today." She cursed, picking up the offensive object. She answered it quickly, knowing that it must be important if she was getting a call on Christmas day. "Hello, Agent Jareau speaking." She said, listening to the details intently. "Okay, thankyou, I'll pass the information on to Agent Hotchner." She hung up and sighed heavily.
"Baby, what is it?" Emily asked sleepily, stroking JJ's hair behind her ears.
"I'm so sorry baby... but we have a case."
"Oh, right okay. Today? Okay. I'll call Garcia and ask her to take our boy." The brunette picked the infant up and carried him to his room, turning around when she reached the doorway. "Hey, Jennifer?"
"Yes, Em?"
"This was the best Christmas."
"I know."