Chapter 5

Flashback

The three of them sat at Emily's kitchen table, a glass of wine in front of the two women and a beer for Derek. It was a fairly relaxed setting, one the couple had deliberately set not only to ease their own nervousness but also JJ's. No one was speaking, they all just sat in silence sipping at their respective drinks, JJ however could feel the undeniable tension within the air.

"So," she started, her cheeks blushing lightly when the intense gazes of both Derek and Emily turned to her, "What's going on? I may not be a profiler but there is something that you two aren't saying, aren't telling me," she continued, placing her wine glass down on the wooden table.

She watched as a look passed between Derek and Emily, a look she couldn't quite decipher. A thought niggled at the back of her mind, one she immediately tried to dismiss but the thought was too intoxicating to really ignore. She kept thinking they'd ask her to have sex with them and unlike what she'd always thought about threesomes the thought appealed to her; appealed to her more than she was really comfortable with.

She tried not to think about it though because both Derek and Emily were ridiculously private people and she was sure there was no way they'd share their sex life like that. She also knew that while neither of them was particularly religious in adulthood, they'd both grown up regularly attending church and Sunday school, which meant she was too sure about their feelings upon sexuality either. Having sufficiently dismissing the idea she was beyond surprised by the next words out of their mouths, having concluded that they would ask her to be a surrogate or something. Not that she thought they were trying for a child or anything, it was just a passing thought Garcia had put into her head.

"We've realised lately that things have been quite…intense, if you will, between the three of us," Emily started seemingly confident, although both JJ and Derek could tell it was a façade.

"What Emily is trying to say is that there's a tension between us. A romantic, sexual tension," Derek continued, knowing Emily for all her linguistic skills would end up rambling nervously about something completely unrelated to the issue at hand.

"By us you mean…?" JJ prompted, surprise evident in her voice, wondering if they'd noticed the way she'd started looking at them.

"Well between the three of us, if I'm not mistaken," Emily replied gesturing to all three of them awkwardly.

"You're not mistaken," JJ whispered, looking shyly at the both of them, "what did you want to do about it?" she asked boldly, contrasting greatly with the shy look she portrayed.

"Well Emily and I have talked about this quite a bit," he stopped to chuckle at the surprise on the blonde's face, continuing he said, "and we'd like for you to join us. We'd like to….date you."

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